Born in Berkeley, California, 1934
California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, 1957-62, 1964-65
Lives and works in New Mexico
Solo Exhibitions
2010
David Zwirner, New York NY
2009
White Columns, ‘Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information’, New York NY
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, ‘John McCracken: Landing’, Edinburgh, Scotland
2008
David Zwirner, New York NY
2006
David Zwirner, ‘John McCracken: New Work’, New York NY
2005
Galerie Hauser & Wirth Zürich, ‘John McCracken / Paul McCarthy’, Zurich, Switzerland
David Zwirner, New York NY
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘Early Sculpture / John McCracken’, New York NY
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, ‘John McCracken EIGHTIES’, Milan, Italy
2004
SMAK – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
David Zwirner, ‘John McCracken: New Sculpture’, New York NY
2003
L.A. Louver, Venice CA
2002
Lisson Gallery, London, England
2001
L.A. Louver, Venice CA
Lisson Gallery, London, England
2000
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘John McCracken – Stainless Steel Sculptures’, New York NY
L.A. Louver, ‘New Sculptures’, Venice CA
Gallery Almine Rech, ‘John McCracken, Recontres 4’, Paris, France
1999
James Kelly Contemporary, ‘John McCracken: Sculpture 1987-1999’, Santa Fe NM
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
Galerie Art & Public, ‘Flourescent Works’, Geneva, Switzerland
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy
A Arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy
1997
Lisson Gallery, London, England
David Zwirner Gallery ‘John McCracken: Sculpture’, New York NY
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘New Dimensions’, Venice CA
1996
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France
1995
Galerie Tanit, ‘John McCracken – Skulpturen’, Munich, Germany
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Protoplast (mit Gerhard Merz)’, Switzerland
L.A. Louver, Venice CA
1994
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘New Sculpture’, Venice CA
Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1993
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘Paintings’, Venice CA
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
1992
Sonnabend Gallery, New York NY
Dorothey Goldeen Gallery, ‘Monochrome’, Santa Monica CA
1991
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France
1990
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Wolff Gallery, ‘Drawings and Sculpture’, New York NY
Galerie Nordenhake, ‘Skulptur’, Stockholm, Sweden
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1989
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1988
Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1987
University of California/Newport Harbor Art Museum, ‘Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken’, Irvine/Newport Beach CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1986
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken’, Long Island City, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
1985
Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1982
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara CA
1980
Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1979
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago IL
1978
Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1976
University of California, Santa Barbara CA
1975
University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV
1974
Seder-Criegh Gallery, Coronado CA
1973
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York NY
1972
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York NY
Douglas Galllery, Vancouver, Canada
1971
Pomona College, Pomona CA
1970
Sonnabend Gallery, New York NY
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1969
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘Sculpture 1965-1969’, Toronto, Canada
1968
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York NY
1967
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York NY
1966
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York NY
1965
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Group Exhibitions
2010
Galerie Almine Rech, ‘Wall & Floor’, Paris, France
David Zwirner, ‘Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970’, New York NY
National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, ‘Take Me to Your Leader: The Great Escape into Space’, Oslo, Norway
Galerie Almine Rech, ‘Wall & Floor’, Paris, France
2009
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years’, Los Angeles CA
Hamburger Bahnhof, ‘Die Kunst ist super!’, Berlin, Germany
David Zwirner, ’6 works, 6 rooms’, New York NY
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, ’1968. The Great Innocence’, Bielefeld, Germany
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, ‘Themes & Variations. From the Mark to Zero’,
Venice, Italy
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘1969’, Long Island City NY
Fredericks & Freiser, ‘Anish Kapoor, John McCracken, David Rabinowitch, Rachel Whiteread’, New York NY
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ‘California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Part II’, Santa Barbara CA
Mamco – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Genève, ‘cycle rolywholyover 7: JEFFMUTE’, Geneva, Switzerland
White Columns, ‘Looking Back – The 4th White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information’, New York NY
Armand Bartos Fine Art, ‘Rip-Off: Between Appropriation and the Appropriated’, New York NY
2008
L&M Arts, ‘The Complexity of the Simple’, New York NY
Moderna Museet, ‘Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968’, Stockholm, Sweden
Daimler Contemporary, ‘Private/Corporate V’, Berlin, Germany
Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, ‘Call it what you like!’, Silkeborg, Denmark
David Zwirner, ‘The Gallery’, New York NY
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs’, Zurich, Switzerland
David Zwirner Gallery, ‘Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs’, New York NY
Barbican Art Gallery, ‘Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art’, London, England
MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’, Sydney, Australia
Galeria Fortes Vilaça, ‘God is Design’, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Vilma Gold, ‘The Skat Players’, London, England
De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, ‘Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Body and Soul. Selections from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson’, Santa Clara CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art’, Los Angeles CA
Maison populaire, ‘Mitim, dans le cadre du cycle neutre Intense’, Montreuil, France
Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, ‘If Everybody had an Ocean’, Bordeaux, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Moderna Museet, ‘Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968’, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, ‘Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles’, Munich, Germany
LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection’, Los Angeles CA
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Shapes of Space’, New York NY
University Art Museum, University of California, ‘Flashback’, Santa Barbara CA
Studio La Città, ‘… e Ricomincio da Tre’, Verona, Italy
MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, ‘Tomorrow Now: Design & Science Fiction’, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Whitney Museum, ‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Galerie Almine Rech, ‘Grotjan / Andre / McCracken / Turrell / Palma’, Paris, France
Oakland Museum of California, ‘CCA: 100 Years in the Making’, Oakland CA
Tate St. Ives, ‘If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson and Art Exhibition’, Cornwall, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Krannert Art Museum, ‘An Architect Collects: Robert D. Kleinschmidt and A Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions’, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign IL
Bellwether Gallery, ‘Aspects, Forms and Figures’, New York NY
Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, ‘paint it blue’, Bremen, Germany
Musée département d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, ‘Début de siècle’, Rochechouart, France
La Planta, Arte Contemporaéneo Omnilife, ‘Yäq’, Guadalajara, Mexico
James Kelly Contemporary, ‘Sculpture’, Santa Fe NM
Galerie Tanit, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, Munich, Germany
2006
American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture’,
New York NY
John Berggruen Gallery, ‘Donald Judd & John McCracken: Selected Sculpture’, San Francisco CA
Orange County Museum of Art, ‘California Modern’, Newport Beach CA
Foundation 20 21, ‘Invisible Might’, New York NY
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, ‘New Presentation’, Canada
ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ‘FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Galerie Patrick Seguin, ‘Galerie Patrick Seguin invites HAUSER & WIRTH’, Paris, France
Zwirner & Wirth in Chelsea, ‘Outdoor Sculpture’, New York NY
Ingleby Gallery, ‘Thread’, Edinburgh, Scotland
Nyehaus, ‘Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, ‘La Dolce Vita. Selections from the Ruth and Murray A. Gribin Collection’, San Diego CA
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Los Angeles, 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital’, Paris, France
L&M Arts, ‘Elemental Form’, New York NY
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era’, Vienna, Austria (Travelling Exhibition)
Las Vegas Art Museum, ‘Southern California Minimalism’, Las Vegas NV
2005
San Diego Museum of Art, ‘Tracking and Tracing – Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2005’,
San Diego CA
Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, ‘Fast Nichts: Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof’, Berlin, Germany
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Bridge Freezes Before Road’, New York NY
Galerie Christian Roellin, ‘The Dazzling Show: Rolf Ricke’, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Art Gallery of Ontario, ‘The Shape of Colour’, Toronto, Canada
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, ‘Private View 1980-2000’, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Lelong, ‘Spectrum’, New York NY
Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Joan T. Washburn Gallery, ‘Wilder. A Tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery Los Angeles, 1965-1979’, New York NY
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, ‘Extreme Abstraction’, Buffalo NY
Godt-Cleary Projects, ‘Turrell + McCracken’, Las Vegas NV
Tate Liverpool, ‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era’, Liverpool, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Schirn Kunsthalle, ‘Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era’, Frankfurt, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
ZKM – Museum für Neue Kunst, ‘EXIT. Ausstieg aus dem Bild’, Karlsruhe, Germany
Modern Art, ‘The The’, London, England
2004
Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Determined Pursuit: Highlights from the Longstaffe Collection’,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Sammlung Essl, ‘Visions of America’, Klosterneuburg, Austria
LA LOUVER, ‘Sculpture’, Venice CA
Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, ‘Minimalism and After III’, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968’, Los Angeles CA
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art From 1951 to the Present’, New York NY
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, ‘Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston’, Houston TX
2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Basic Instinct: Minimalism’, Chicago IL
SMAK – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Gelijk het leven’, Ghent, Belgium
Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, ‘Private / Corporate II’, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Rolf Ricke, ‘Der Weite Blick’, Cologne, Germany
Lucas Schoormans Gallery, ‘The Exquisite Object’, New York NY
McClain Gallery, ‘Space Vehicles: Allusion Objectified’, Houston TX
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design ‘Back to the Present: Minimalist Works from the Museum’s Collection’, Providence RI
The Norton Museum of Art, ‘Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection’, West Palm Beach FL
2002
Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘Multiples Objets de Désir’, Nantes, France
CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, ‘Les années 70: l’art en cause’, Bordeaux, France
L.A. Louver, Venice CA
Mary Boone Gallery, ‘Surface to Surface’, New York NY
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, ‘Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth’, Zurich, Switzerland
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Cleveland OH (Travelling Exhibition)
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, ‘Pièces de Collection/Œuvres Contemporaines’, Nîmes, France
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, ‘The House of Fiction’, St.Gallen, Switzerland
Gavin Brown’s enerprise, ‘big brown bag’, New York NY
National Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Seoul, Korea (Travelling Exhibition)
2001
Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, ‘Sammlung Hauser and Wirth/Part 2/Alternating Current’, St.
Gallen, Switzerland
Artline 5 Borken, Borken, Germany
Grazer Kunstverein, ‘Timewave Zero/The Poitics of Ecstasy’, Graz, Austria
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, ‘Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume’, St.Gallen, Switzerland
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘Sculpture’, Los Angeles CA
Zwirner & Wirth, ‘I ♥ NEW YORK’, New York NY
National Museum of Modern Art, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Kyoto, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
Fukuoka Art Museum, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Fukuoka, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
2000
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ‘extra super meta’, San Francisco CA
Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Elysian Fields’, Paris, France
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, Wichita KS (Travelling Exhibition)
MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, ‘Open End’, New York NY
Aargauer Kunsthaus, ‘Das Gedächtnis der Malerei’, Aarau, Switzerland
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, South Hadley MA (Travelling Exhibition)
Cranbrook Art Museum, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Bloomfiled Hills MI (Travelling Exhibition)
Fuller Museum of Art, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Brockton MD (Travelling Exhibition)
St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Halifax, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
University of Maryland, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Baltimore MD (Travelling Exhibition)
Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oaklahoma, ‘Painting Zero Degree’, Norman OK (Travelling Exhibition)
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000 (part 2)’, New York NY
Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, ‘6th International Triennial the Ecology and the Art: “American Dreams”’, cur. Nancy Buchanan, Maribor, Slovenia
Espace de l’Art Concret Château de Mouans-Sartoux, ‘art concret’, Mouans-Sartoux, France
1999
Turner & Runyon Gallery, ‘Tang’, Dallas TX
Espace de l’Art Concret Château de Mouans-Sartoux, ‘La nature imite l’art’, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Site Santa Fe, ‘Postmark: An Abstract Effect’, Santa Fe NM
University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, Rohnert Park CA (Travelling Exhibition)
University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, Las Cruces NM (Travelling Exhibition)
Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, Las Vegas NV (Travelling Exhibition)
David Zwirner, ‘Gallery Artists Summer Show’, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (part 2)’, New York NY
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Bremen, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
CGIAC Santiago de Compostela, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Chiba City Museum of Art, ‘MINIMAL-MAXIMAL’, Chiba, Japan (Travelling Exhibition)
1998
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
University of California/Armand Hammer Museum of Art, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
University of North Texas Art Gallery, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, Denton TX (Travelling Exhibition)
UTSA Art Gallery, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture’, San Antonio TX (Travelling Exhibition)
David Zwirner Gallery, ‘Five Years, 1993-1998’, New York NY
Steffany Martz Galley, ‘Elevator’, New York NY
Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, ‘Pop/Abstraction’, Philadelphia PA
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘Group Show’, Venice CA
Whitechapel Art Gallery, ‘Speed’, London, England
1997
Louisiana Museum for moderne Kunst, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Humlebaek, Denmark (Travelling Exhibition)
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, ‘Radicaal-beeld’, Shiedam, Netherlands
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Wolfsburg, Germany (Travelling Exhibition)
Castello di Rivoli, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Turin, Italy; (Travelling Exhibition)
Hayward Gallery, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, London, England, (Travelling Exhibition)
Haus der Kunst, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Munich, Germany; (Travelling Exhibition)
Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Miami Art Museum, ‘Continuity and Contradiction’, Miami FL
Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, ‘Skulptur. Projekte in Münster’, Münster, Germany
1996
Gallery Seomi, ‘Black and White’, Seoul, Korea
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, ‘Chimériques Polymeres’, Nice, France
Galerie Art & Public, ‘Squares or Lines’, Geneva, Switzerland
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘Painting Outside Painting. 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting’, Washington DC
1995
University of California/Newport Harbor Art Museum, ‘Object and Image’, Irvine/Newport Beach CA
California State University, ‘Shape: Forming the L.A. Look’, Fullerton CA
Louisiana State University, Museum of Art, ‘Charles E. Craig, Jr. Multicultural Art Collection’, Baton Rouge LA
Muckenthaler Cultural Center, ‘From Behind To Orange Curtain’, Fullerton CA
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘Summer Exhibition’, Venice CA
L’Espace de l’Art Concret, ‘Vue du Collectionneur’, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Corcoran Gallery of Art, ‘Painting Outside Painting: 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting’, Washington, D.C.
1994
Galerie Sophie Ungers, ‘Dear John’, Cologne, Germany
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Geneva, Switzerland
L’Espace de L’Art Concret, ‘Vue de Collectionneur’, Chateau de Mouans, Côte d’Azur, France
Art & Public, ‘Playoff’, Geneva, Switzerland
Mark Moore Gallery, ‘Clarity’, Santa Monica CA
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘New Sculpture’, Venice CA
Herbert Palmer Gallery, ‘Basic Black & White’, Los Angeles CA
1993
Galerie Froment & Putman, ‘Mariusz Kruk, John McCracken, Robert Therrien’, Paris, France
The Works Gallery, ‘Tony Berlant, John McCracken, Ed Moses’, Costa Mesa CA
Lisson Gallery, ‘Out of Sight, Out of Mind’, London, England
Boritzer/Gray Gallery, ‘In Context’, Santa Monica CA
1992
Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York NY
Galerie Nordenhake, ‘Mnemosyne’, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, ‘La collection: tableau inaugural’, Montreal, Canada
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘Bestände Onnasch’, Bremen, Germany
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries Inc. Fred Hoffman, ‘Selections from Salander-O’Reilly & Fred Hoffman Galleries’, Beverly Hills CA
Château de Mouans-Sartoux, ‘Espace de l’Art Concret’, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Galerie Gérard Delsol & Laurent Innocenzi, ‘John McCracken, Nicolas Rule’, Paris, France
Galerie Froment & Putman, ‘Group Exhibition’, Paris, France
Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, ‘LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition’, Los Angeles,
California
1991
Carnegie Museum of Art, ‘Carnegie International 1991’, Pittsburgh PA
Denver Art Museum, ‘Visions/Revisions’, Denver CO
University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, ‘Fetish Finish: L.A.‘s Cool School’, Los Angeles CA
James Corcoran Gallery, ‘L.A. When It Began’, Los Angeles CA
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, ‘Monochrome’, Santa Monica CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Selections from the Permanent Collection: Pop Art and Minimalism 1960-1975’, Los Angeles CA
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, ‘Fetish Finish: L.A.’s Cool School’, Los
Angeles, California
1990
Gallery Paule Anglim, ‘John Baldessari, Tony Cragg, John McCracken’, San Francisco CA
Persons & Lindell Gallery, ‘Bridges: Anttila, Charlton, Gudmundsson, Mangold, McCracken, Rückriem, Kirschenbaum, Uglow, Umberg, Quaytman’, Helsinki, Finland
Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, ‘The Future of the Object! A Selection of American Art. Minimalism and After’, Antwerp, Belgium
Nicola Jacobs Gallery, ‘Minimalism’, New York NY
Cirrus Gallery, ‘Minimal Art 1960-1990 Los Angeles’, Los Angeles CA
Newspace, ‘Early On: Robert Irwin, John McCracken et. al.’, Los Angeles CA
Wolff Gallery, ‘Ericson & Ziegler: Proposals and John McCracken: Drawings and Sculpture 1965-71’, New York NY
Stuart Regen Gallery, ‘Tribute to Nicholas Wilder’, Santa Monica CA
1989
Fred Hoffman Gallery, ‘Sculpture: Andre, Heizer, Judd, Knoebel, Lewitt, McCracken, Nauman, Rückriem, Serra’, Santa Monica CA
Blum Helman Gallery, ‘Group Sculpture’, New York NY
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, ‘Minimalist Group Show’, New York NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism in America’, New York NY
Anders Torberg Gallery, ‘Object of Thought’, Lund, Sweden
Terrain Gallery, ‘John McCracken, Olivier Mosset, Stephan Westfall’, San Francisco CA
Marc Richards Gallery, ‘Simple in Appearances’, Los Angeles CA
Galerie Nordenhake, ‘Sculpture: Fulton, Genzken, Gudmundsson, Iglesias, Knoebel, Lewitt, McCracken, Ortwed, Uglow’, Stockholm, Sweden
Pence Gallery, ‘Year 1: A Survey’, Santa Monica CA
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘ LXXXVII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
1988
Musée St. Pierre d’Art Contemporain, ‘La Couleur Seule, l’expérience du Monochrome’, Lyon, France
Marc Richards Gallery, ‘Visual Silences’, Los Angeles CA
Rhode Island School of Design, The Museum of Art, ’1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections’, Providence RI
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, ‘One of a Kind: Contemporary Serial Imagery’, Los Angeles CA
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Collezione Sonnabend’, Trento, Italy
1987
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, ‘Collección Sonnabend’, Madrid, Spain (Travelling Exhibition)
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Collección Sonnabend’, Rovereto, Italy (Travelling Exhibition)
Wolff Gallery, ‘New Locations’, New York NY
Burnett Miller Gallery, ‘Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Douglas Wheeler’, Los Angeles CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ‘Diverse Directions: A Collectors’ Choice. Selections from the Charles Craig Collection’, Santa Barbara CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, ‘Sculpture of the Sixties’, Los Angeles CA
Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, ‘Primary Structures’, Paris, France
1986
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
Baskerville Watson Gallery, ‘Modern Objects’, New York NY
Asher/Faure Gallery, ‘Selections from the Collection of Sterling Holloway’, Los Angeles CA
1985
Saatchi Gallery, ‘The Saatchi Collection’, London, England
1984
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ‘Art of the States’, Santa Barbara CA
La Biennale di Venezia, ‘XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte’, Venice, Italy
1983
The Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘The First Show’, Los Angeles CA
Contemporary Arts Forum, ‘Black on Black’, Santa Barbara CA
1981
L.A. Louver Gallery, ‘California: A Sense of Individualism’, Venice CA
California State University, ‘California Innovations’, Fullerton CA
Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, ‘Abstraction in Los Angeles 1950 – 1980, Selections from the Murray and Ruth Gribin Collection’, Northridge CA and Irvine CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, ‘California Innovations’, Palm Springs CA
1978
California State University, ‘California Perspective: Light and Space’, Fullerton CA
1975
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla), ‘University of California, Irvine 1965-75’, San Diego CA
1972
documenta V, Kassel, Germany
1971
Ace Gallery, ‘Five Man Show’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Edmonton Art Gallery, ‘Five Man Show’, Alberta, Canada (Travelling Exhibition)
1970
The Pace Gallery, ‘A Decade of California Color’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Permutations: Light and Color’, Chicago IL
Art Institute of Chicago, ‘69th American Exhibition’, Chicago IL
Pasadena Art Museum, ‘West Coast 1945-1969’, Pasadena CA
Van Abbemuseum, ‘Kompas 4-West Coast USA’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1969
Tate Gallery, ‘Art of the Real. An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968’, London, England (Travelling Exhibition)
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Contemporary American Sculpture’, New York NY
University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Between Object and Environment’, Philadelphia PA
Museum of Modern Art, ‘Art of the Real. An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968’, New York NY (Travelling Exhibition)
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, ‘Kompas 4–West Coast USA’, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Pasadena Art Museum, ‘West Coast 1945-1969’, Pasadena, California
1968
Musée National d’Art Moderne, ‘Art of the Real. An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968’, Paris, France (Travelling Exhibition)
The Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Los Angeles Six’, Canada
Milwaukee Art Center, ‘Options’, Milwaukee MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Whitney Annual’, New York NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Options’, Chicago IL
1967
Washington Gallery of Modern Art, ‘A New Aesthetic’, Washington DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘American Sculpture of the Sixties’, Los Angeles CA (Travelling Exhibition)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, ‘American Sculpture of the Sixties’, Philadelphia PA (Travelling Exhibition)
Musée de l’Art moderne de la ville de Paris, ‘Fifth Paris Biennale’, France (Travelling Exhibition)
Pasadena Art Museum, ‘Fifth Paris Biennale’, Pasadena CA (Travelling Exhibition)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition’, New York NY
1966
Jewish Museum, ‘Primary Structures’, New York NY
University of California, Irvine, ‘Five Los Angeles Sculptors’, Irvine CA
Seattle Art Museum, ‘Ten From Los Angeles’, Seattle WA
University of California, ‘Five Los Angeles Sculptors’, Irvine CA
1965
San Francisco Museum of Art, ‘Arts of San Francisco’, San Francisco CA
Awards and grants
1968
National Award for the Arts
