Pat Steir

Biography

Born

Newark NJ, 1938

Education

Studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 1956 – 1958

Studied at Boston University, Boston MA, 1958 – 1960

Studied at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 1960 – 1962

Received BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 1961

Received Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 1991

Received Alumni Honoree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 2002

Received Alumni Honoree from Boston University, Boston MA, 2002

Solo Exhibitions

2024

Fonds de Dotation Lee Ufan Arles, 'Pat Steir. Light on Water', cur. Alexis Lowry, Arles, France

Hauser & Wirth, 'Painted Rain', West Hollywood CA

2023

Pace Prints, 'Pat Steir', New York NY

Locks Gallery, 'Snow and Waterfall', Philadelphia PA

Group Exhibitions

2025

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 'Brand X: Innovation in Screenprinting', Philadelphia PA

2024

James Fuentes, 'A Study in Form (Chapter Two)', cur. Arden Wohl, New York NY
Guangdong Museum of Art, 'A Constellation of Cities: Contemporary Art and Experiment in Southern China and Beyond', Guangzhou, China

Awards & Grants

2025

Action Maverick Award, STREB, New York NY 

2017

National Medal of Arts

Lectures & Talks

2020

Robert Rosenblum Lecture Series, Guggenheim Museum, 'Pat Steir in Conversation with Mickalene Thomas', New York, NY (screened online)

2019

NYPL, 'Panel on Sol LeWitt', New York NY

Academy of Arts and Letters, 'Agnes Martin Tribute', New York NY

Selected Public Collections

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin OH 

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL 

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD 

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick ME 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY 

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo NY 

Chase Manhattan Bank, New York NY 

Colby College Art Museum, Waterville ME  

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati OH 

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville AR 

Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas TX 

de Young Museum, San Francisco CA 

Denver Art Museum, Denver CO 

Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France 

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France 

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC 

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu HI 

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH 

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

J. Patrick Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe NM 

Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville FL

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE 

Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland 

La Domaine Kergheinnec, Brittany, France

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA 

Long Museum, Shanghai, China 

Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden

MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art, Rome, Italy 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 

MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville FL 

Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon, France

Musée d’art de Toulon, France 

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami FL

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston MA 

The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY 

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City MO 

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans LA 

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL 

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando FL 

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA 

The Phillips Collection, Washington DC 

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix AZ 

Pola Museum of Art, Hakone, Japan 

Powerlong Art Museum, Shanghai, China 

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton NJ 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA 

Shah Garg Foundation, CA 

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC 

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York NY 

Tate, London, UK 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond VA 

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN  

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro NC 

The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg PA 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY 

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven CT 

Bibliography

Monographs

2024

Hauser & Wirth (ed.), 'Pat Steir. Painted Rain', New York: Hauser & Wirth, 2024, ill. (exh. booklet)

2023

Ratcliff, Cater, Tillman, Lynne, 'Pat Steir: Snow and Waterfall', Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2023, ill. (exh. cat.)

Publications

2025

Beckwith, Naomi, Karnes, Andrea (eds.), 'Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers', New York: Guggenheim New York, 2025, p. 65, ill.
Marchesano, Louis (ed.), Dobrovskaya, Em, Friedman, Emily (et al.), 'Brand X Editions. Innovation in Screenprinting', Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2025, ill. (exh. cat.)
Baskind, Samantha, Cohen, Jennifer R., Hanson, Kristan M. (et al.), 'FAMM. Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, France', Mougins: FAMM - Female Artists of the Mougins Museum, London/New York: Merrell, 2025, ill.

2024

Zuckerman, Heidi, 'Why Art Matters. The Bearable Lightness of Being', Costa Mesa CA: OCMA Press, 2024, p. 318
Campbell, Karin (ed.), Farber, Janet L., Brummel, Kenneth (et al.), 'The Phillip G. Schrager Collection at the Joslyn Art Museum', Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2024, ill.
Andera, Margaret, Grabner, Michelle (eds.), '50 Paintings', Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2024, pp. 136-137, 160, ill. (exh. cat.)

Press

2024

Casadio, Mariuccia, 'Glianni d'oro', in: Harper's Bazaar Italia, September 2024, pp. 268-273, ill.
Luzi, Irene, 'Lee Ufan Arles Center's Fall Program, Featuring Pat Steir and a Major Constructivism Exhibition', on: artslife.com, 8 September 2024, ill.
___, 'Flaunt Magazine. 25th Anniversary: Under the Silver Moon', in: Flaut Magaizne, Los Angeles, 2024, cover, ill.

2023

Walczuk, Niko, 'Rodrigo Valenzuela at the Print Center, Temple University MFA Thesis exhibitions, Everyday Futures Fest kicks off, Please Touch Museum workers unionizes, Hot Bed Philly Summer 2023 Open Call, plus more opportunities and exhibitions', on: theartblog.org, 28 March 2023, ill.

Giordano, Rita, 'Gravity, nature, and paint: See Pat Steir’s revolutionary works', on: inquirer.com, 10 March 2023, ill.

Villa, Angelica, 'At the Hammer, Hilton Als Presents a Remembrance to Joan Didion, in the Form of a "Visual Equivalent of Essay Writing"', on: artnews.com, 15 February 2023