Sherrie Levine
(Born 1947)
Sherrie Levine was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1947. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. Since the 1980s, Levine has been known for her work with appropriation of widely known photographs or paintings. Other artists of the time such Robert Longo, David Salle and Cindy Sherman made use of existing imagery from traditional artworks and popular culture to challenge widely accepted modernist notions of meaning, originality and autonomy of the art object. She is famous for her 1981 series of photographs entitled After Walker Evans, in which she made photographic replicas of Evans’s work. In this manner, Levine’s use of images created by another artist becomes poignant commentary about artistic genius, originality, and even the role of the male artist within contemporary culture. Levine also made painted copies of works by painters such as Piet Mondrian and El Lissitzky, as a means to explore the role of artistic predecessors on contemporary artists from a feminist perspective.
Sherrie Levine has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held in institutions such as the Museum Haus Lange, Krefelder Kunstmuseen in Krefeld, Germany in 2011, the Mueum of Modern Art in San Francisco in 2009, and the Georgia OʼKeefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2007. She has also participated in exhibitions in major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and the Tate Gallery in London. Levine has participated in several international biennials, and her work has been featured in multiple publications. Sherrie Levine lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
1965-73 University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.F.A. 1969; M.F.A. 1973)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Sherrie Levine, David Zwirner, New York
2015
Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
African Masks, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
African Masks After Walker Evans, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014
Red Yellow Blue, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Sherrie Levine: Seriality, Marc Jancou, Geneva, Switzerland
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
Jablonka Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2012
A Dazzle of Zebra, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2011
The Desert, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Mayhem, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sherrie Levine: Crystal Skull, Jablonka Galerie, Bohm Chapel, Hurth Kalscheuren, Germany
Sherrie Levine: Selected Works, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
2010
Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Pairs and Posses, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Sherrie Levine: Crystal Skull, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
2009
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Equivalence : Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art, MFAH- Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
2008
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Moretti Fine Art, Ltd., London, United Kingdom
Focus: Sherrie Levine Permanent Collection, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
2007
Living Artists of Distinction: Sherrie Levine, Abstraction, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York,
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Nyehause, New York
2006
Men, Women and Dogs, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sherrie Levine: Abstraction, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2004
Loulou, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
Mourning Mirrors, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Faggionato Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
2003
Selected Early Paintings, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
2002
Skulls, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Mamco –Musee D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Jablonka Galerie, with Joost van Oss, Cologne, Germany
MAMCO, with Joost van Oss, Geneva, Switzerland
Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Paula Cooper Gallery, with Joost van Oss, New York
1998
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Mamco, Musse d’Art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva
1996
Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
South London Gallery, London, England
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Newborn, galerie deux Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
1994
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992
Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Hôtel des arts, Paris, France
1991
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
1990
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1988
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1987
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1986
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985
Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York
Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1984
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
A and M Artworks, New York
Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ace, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1983
Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1982
A and M Artworks, New York
1981
Metro Pictures, New York
1979
The Kitchen, New York
1978
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1977
3 Mercer Street, New York
1974
De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2015
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sherrie Levine & Joseph Montgomery: Dolls, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
2014
2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York
Take It or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2013
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
Sherrie Levine/August Sander, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2011
Elemental, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
The Indiscipline of Painting, curated by Daniel Sturgis, Sarah Shalgosky and Martin Clarke, Tate St Ives, travelling to Mead Gallery, United Kingdom
Still Life, curated by Polly Staple, Lismore Castle, Waterford, Ireland
Anti-Photography,” curated by Duncan Wooldridge, Focal Point Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010
C’est la vie! Vanites, Musee Maillol, Paris, France
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
If My Soul Had A Shape, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2009
Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitao, Spain
Cezanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art, MFAH- Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
2008
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Wood, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Biennal 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art of this Century, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York
The Cult of Personality – Portraits and Mass Culture, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Facebook : Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
REAL- Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ-BANK, Stadel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, New York
Meet Me Around the Corner – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnaly Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Germany
35% Vrai 60% Faux, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, United Kingdom
Entre Temps, FRAC – Poitoux-Charentes, Angouleme
Art Metropole : The Top 100, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2007
Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, curated by Janet Bishop, Mills College of Art Museum, Oakland, California
Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Living in the Material World – ‘Things’ In Art of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Real Life Magazine, curated by Kate Fowle, Artists Space, New York
What does the jellyfish want? Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Still Life & Kicking, a collaboration with Vogue, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
From Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art – Beijing, Beijing, China
Fit To Print : Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery – Madison Avenue, New York
Face to face, The Daros Collections, Part 1, Daros Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland
More Than the World – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
A New Reality : Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Sculpture, James Kelly, Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Theme and Variations in painting and Sculpture, MFAH – Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
Someone else with my Fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Rocker Island – Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Scenes and Sequences – Peter Blum Edition, New York, Aagauer kunsthaus, Aarau
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Al Otro Lado del Espejo, CEART, Centro de Arte Tomas y Valiente, Madrid, Spain
Half Square Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
REALLIFE 1979-1990, Artists Space, New York
2006
The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, curated by Carlo McCormick, The Grey Art Gallery, New York
Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive 1980-1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, organized by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Seeing Double, The Art Galleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago
Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Freud and Contemporary Art: The Collection of The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Gold Standard, organized Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
On Second Thought, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Quartet – Barney, Gobert, Levine, Schutte, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Show of Prints, James Kelly – Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magritte and Contemporary Art : The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art- LACMA, Los Angeles, California
The Gold Standart, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Egon Schiele, Vorbild und Widersacher in der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Nach Schiele, Augarten Contemporary (vormals Atelier Augarten), Vienna, Austria
2005
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, curated by
Carlo McCormick, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin,Texas
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York
Seeing Double, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Quarter: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Flashback – Revisiting The Art of The Eighties, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Emmanuel Hoffman- Stiftung Dessins de la Collection, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
For Representation and Display – Some Art of The 80’s, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
The Last Picture Show – Artists using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
Just do it!, die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Mienhof, Lento Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Atlantic and Bukarest, Photography, Films and Video : New Acquisitions, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004
Off the Wall: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
About Painting, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Spring, New York
The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque,curated by Robert Storr, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
La Lettre Volée, F.R.A.C. Franche-Comté Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Last one on is a soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Wide Open Spaces, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
VIP 2 Die Neuen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Close Up – Contemporary US Art, Listasafn Reykyavik Art Museum, Reykyavik, Iceland
Support – Die Neue galerie als Sammlung 1950 Heute, Neue galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
The Reality of Things, Triple Candie, New York
Singular Froms (Sometimes Repeated)- Art from 1951 to the present, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2003
After Shock, Dickison Roundell Inc., New York
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude (Toward an Understanding of Transgenerational Dialogue as a Gift Economy), M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Politics in US Art of The 1980s, CAC, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Women in Italian Collections, Fondazione sandretto rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
The Real Thing, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, California
Everyday Aesthetics-Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo
Accessoiremaximalismus, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany
American Tableaux – Many voices, Many Stories, MAM, Miami Art Museum, Miami
ReProduktion 2, Georg Kargl Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
2002
But is it real?, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
New Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Painting on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
Regarding Landscape II, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
System Order Nature, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Living Room, Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Cologne, Germany
Andy Warhol – Portrait Drawings/Sherrie Levine – Skulls, Jablonka Galerie-Koln, Cologne, Germany
Photography Transformed, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2001
As Painting: Division and Displacement, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Postmodern Americans: a selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf Museum of Our Whishes, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
About Face, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Parkett Collaborations, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection and Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Pictures at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Sculpture Prototypes, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Beautiful Productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
A Work in Progress – Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum Contemporary Art, New York
Greed and Other Recent Acquisitions, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York
Pictures, Artists Space, New York
2000
Séquences, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 – 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
One Thing after Another, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Actual Size, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Aspectos de la Colección, Fundation “La Caixa” Madrid, Spain
Around 1984, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Century of Innocence - The History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum-Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Peter Halley/Alex Katz/Sherrie Levine, galerie Wilma Tolksdorf – Frankfurt/Main
Veronica’s Revenge, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney
Around 1984 – A look at Art in the Eighties, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Art at Work : Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queen Museum of Art, New York
150 Years of Photography, Davison Art Center, Middletown
Fact/Fiction – Contemporary Art That Walks the Line, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Careless Exhibition of Twentieth Century Product design, LAC, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles
Rot Grau-Basler Malerei, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
1999
The American Century, Part Two,The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art at Work, Forty Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Wallworks, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Sightgags: Humor, Satire and Grotesque in Modern Art and Contemporary Drawing,Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Veronica’s Revenge,Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse, Casino Luxembourg et Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
Die Erste Sammlung zu Gast, Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Austria
Hamburg, Germany
Careless Exhibition of Twentieth Century Product Design / Poetic Installation of Works by Constantin Brancusi, Ann Hamilton, Bertrand Lavier, Sherrie Levine and Haim Steinbach, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art After Marcel Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
Apro Pos of Marcel the Art of Making Art After Marcel Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Originale echt falsch: Nachahmung, Kopie, Zitat, Aneignung, Fälschung in der
Gegenwartskunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.
Not There, Rena Bransten Gallery, New York
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Original echt/falst,Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss – New Sculpture- 1996-1999, Mamco, Musee d’Art “Moderne et Contemporain,” Geneva
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss, Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Cologne
Tete a tete-Face to face, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
Art at Work – Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
1998
100 Years of Sculpture, From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Collection, un autre regard, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
The Art of the 80’s,Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Centenial Exhibition, Vienna Secession, Vienna; Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Take Two, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sammlung Goetz, Emotion, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Parkett-Kunstlereditionen, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Recycling Art History,Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Painting – Now and Forever, Part 1, Mattew Marks Gallery, New York
Tilbaka till Attiotalet- Redan? Isn’t It Too Early for the Eighties yet?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Stockholm
Fast Forward-2, Abschnitt : FFWD Trade Marks, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
L’Hypothese du Tableau Vole, Mamco, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Fast Forward-1 Abschnitt : FFWD image, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1997
Mutiple Identity: Amerikanische Kunst 1975-1995 Aus Dem, Whitney Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; Museo d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Views from Abroad, American Realities, Tate Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Homage to George Herriman, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California
Gerrit Rietveld and Sherrie Levine, Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne, Germany; "Foundation for the Arts,” Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
Modernist French Design and Sherrie Levine, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Maxwell’s Demon, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Critique of Pure Abstraction, Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
1996
Rational and Irrational, Whitney Museum, New York
Abstraction, Pure and Impure, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Private Passions, City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Everything New, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
New Art on Paper 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Vitale, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Painting into Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Face and Figure, Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Making Pictures, Women and Photography, 1975 – Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
L’Oeil du Collectionneur, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Womens’s Work, The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1995
Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; The Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
L’Immagine Reflessa, Centro per l’Arte Contemperanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum, New York
25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Album: The Photographic Collection of museum Bojimans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Museum Bojimans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1994
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
Group Exhibition, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
The Ruse of the Aura, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
Die Erste Sammlung, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
Duchamp’s Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
25 Years: an Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1993
The Elusive Object, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
Konstruction/Zizat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Photoplay, Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leòn, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1992
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Inscapes, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Repetition/Transformation, Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1991
The Picture After the Last Picture, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960–1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japon; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Aspects de l’art du XXe siècle: le chef–d’oevre à l’épreuve de sa copie, Abbaye Saint–André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oeuvres originales, F.R.A.C. de Pays de la Loire, Gétigné–Clisson, France
Work on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
Transendent Pop, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990
Culture and Commentary, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut
Life Size, The Readymade and After, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Un art de la distinction? Abbaye Saint–Andre, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Affinitées selectives V: Sherrie Levine/Bertrand Lavier, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Charade of Mastery, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
Feux pâles, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Tryk ok Multiples,Gallerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989
Prospect 89, Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Cologne, Germany
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
What is Contemporary Art? Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wittgenstein: The Play of the Unsayable, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
1988
Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation, Deka Foundation of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
L’objet de l’exposition, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Hover Culture, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1987
New York Art Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Photography and Art 1946-1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Post–Abstract Abstraction,Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1986
The Sixth Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York
Political Geometries, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
As Found, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Tableaux abstraits, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, ICA, Boston, Massachusetts
Europa-Amerika, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, Fondació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
Sherrie Levine and Haim Steinbach, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York,
Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1985
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondences, La Fôret Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Talking Back to the Media, Foundation de Appel, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
Repetitions: A Postmodern Dynamic, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
Progressive Collecting, The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, California
1984
Difference: On Sexuality and Representation, The New Museum, New York; Renaissance Society, Chicago; ICA, London, United Kingdom
Ailleurs et Autrement, ARC Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Between Here and Nowhere, Riverside Studios, London, United Kingdom
Artists Space Tenth Anniversary Show, Artists Space, New York
Hirshhorn Tenth Anniversary Show, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Drawings After Photography, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Mannerism: A Theory of Culture, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Image Scavengers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art and Politics, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1983
Seventy–Fourth American Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Art and Social Change, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Mannerism: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1981
Inespressionismo Americano, Museo di S. Agostino, Genoa, Italy
Couches, Diamonds and Pie, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Erweiterte Fotografie, 5. Wiener Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Photo, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1980
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York
Remembrances for Tomorrow, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Horror Pleni, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Open group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1977
Pictures, Artist Space, New York
(Born 1947)
Sherrie Levine was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania in 1947. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1969. Since the 1980s, Levine has been known for her work with appropriation of widely known photographs or paintings. Other artists of the time such Robert Longo, David Salle and Cindy Sherman made use of existing imagery from traditional artworks and popular culture to challenge widely accepted modernist notions of meaning, originality and autonomy of the art object. She is famous for her 1981 series of photographs entitled After Walker Evans, in which she made photographic replicas of Evans’s work. In this manner, Levine’s use of images created by another artist becomes poignant commentary about artistic genius, originality, and even the role of the male artist within contemporary culture. Levine also made painted copies of works by painters such as Piet Mondrian and El Lissitzky, as a means to explore the role of artistic predecessors on contemporary artists from a feminist perspective.
Sherrie Levine has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of her work have been held in institutions such as the Museum Haus Lange, Krefelder Kunstmuseen in Krefeld, Germany in 2011, the Mueum of Modern Art in San Francisco in 2009, and the Georgia OʼKeefe Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2007. She has also participated in exhibitions in major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and the Tate Gallery in London. Levine has participated in several international biennials, and her work has been featured in multiple publications. Sherrie Levine lives and works in New York.
EDUCATION
1965-73 University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.F.A. 1969; M.F.A. 1973)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Sherrie Levine, David Zwirner, New York
2015
Sherrie Levine: African Masks After Walker Evans, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
African Masks, Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
African Masks After Walker Evans, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2014
Red Yellow Blue, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Sherrie Levine: Seriality, Marc Jancou, Geneva, Switzerland
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
2013
Jablonka Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2012
A Dazzle of Zebra, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2011
The Desert, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Mayhem, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sherrie Levine: Crystal Skull, Jablonka Galerie, Bohm Chapel, Hurth Kalscheuren, Germany
Sherrie Levine: Selected Works, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
2010
Sherrie Levine, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Pairs and Posses, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Sherrie Levine: Crystal Skull, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
2009
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Equivalence : Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art, MFAH- Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
2008
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Moretti Fine Art, Ltd., London, United Kingdom
Focus: Sherrie Levine Permanent Collection, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
2007
Living Artists of Distinction: Sherrie Levine, Abstraction, Georgia O’Keefe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York,
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Nyehause, New York
2006
Men, Women and Dogs, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Sherrie Levine: Abstraction, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
2004
Loulou, Faggionato Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
Mourning Mirrors, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Faggionato Fine Arts, London, United Kingdom
2003
Selected Early Paintings, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Skarstedt Fine Art, New York
2002
Skulls, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Mamco –Musee D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Jablonka Galerie, with Joost van Oss, Cologne, Germany
MAMCO, with Joost van Oss, Geneva, Switzerland
Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Paula Cooper Gallery, with Joost van Oss, New York
1998
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Mamco, Musse d’Art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva
1996
Galerie Deux, Tokyo, Japan
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
South London Gallery, London, England
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1995
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Newborn, galerie deux Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
1994
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
1993
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992
Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Hôtel des arts, Paris, France
1991
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
1990
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1988
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1987
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1986
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985
Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York
Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1984
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
A and M Artworks, New York
Yajima Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ace, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1983
Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1982
A and M Artworks, New York
1981
Metro Pictures, New York
1979
The Kitchen, New York
1978
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1977
3 Mercer Street, New York
1974
De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
2015
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sherrie Levine & Joseph Montgomery: Dolls, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
NO MAN'S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
2014
2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art at the Center: 75 Years of Walker Collections, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
No Problem: Cologne/New York 1984-1989, David Zwirner, New York
Take It or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2013
Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
Sherrie Levine/August Sander, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2011
Elemental, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Rebus, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
The Indiscipline of Painting, curated by Daniel Sturgis, Sarah Shalgosky and Martin Clarke, Tate St Ives, travelling to Mead Gallery, United Kingdom
Still Life, curated by Polly Staple, Lismore Castle, Waterford, Ireland
Anti-Photography,” curated by Duncan Wooldridge, Focal Point Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2010
C’est la vie! Vanites, Musee Maillol, Paris, France
Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
If My Soul Had A Shape, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2009
Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitao, Spain
Cezanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Pictures Generation, 1974 – 1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Equivalence: Acts of Translation in Contemporary Art, MFAH- Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
2008
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Prefab, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Wood, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Biennal 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art of this Century, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art, International Center of Photography, New York
The Cult of Personality – Portraits and Mass Culture, Galerie Erna Hecey, Brussels, Belgium
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Facebook : Images of People in Photographs from the Collection, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
REAL- Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ-BANK, Stadel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, New York
Meet Me Around the Corner – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnaly Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Blasted Allegories – Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Germany
35% Vrai 60% Faux, Simon Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican, London, United Kingdom
Entre Temps, FRAC – Poitoux-Charentes, Angouleme
Art Metropole : The Top 100, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2007
Take 2: Women Revisiting Art History, curated by Janet Bishop, Mills College of Art Museum, Oakland, California
Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Living in the Material World – ‘Things’ In Art of the Twentieth Century and Beyond, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Real Life Magazine, curated by Kate Fowle, Artists Space, New York
What does the jellyfish want? Fotografien von Man Ray bis James Coleman, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
Still Life & Kicking, a collaboration with Vogue, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
From Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art – Beijing, Beijing, China
Fit To Print : Printed Media In Collage, Gagosian Gallery – Madison Avenue, New York
Face to face, The Daros Collections, Part 1, Daros Exhibition, Zurich, Switzerland
More Than the World – Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
A New Reality : Black and White Photography in Contemporary Art, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Sculpture, James Kelly, Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Theme and Variations in painting and Sculpture, MFAH – Museum of Fine Art Houston, Houston, Texas
This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
Someone else with my Fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Rocker Island – Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany
Scenes and Sequences – Peter Blum Edition, New York, Aagauer kunsthaus, Aarau
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York
PURE, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
Al Otro Lado del Espejo, CEART, Centro de Arte Tomas y Valiente, Madrid, Spain
Half Square Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France
REALLIFE 1979-1990, Artists Space, New York
2006
The Downtown Show, The New York Art Scene 1974-1984, curated by Carlo McCormick, The Grey Art Gallery, New York
Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive 1980-1994, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, organized by Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Seeing Double, The Art Galleries, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey
Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago
Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Glass: Material Matters, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Freud and Contemporary Art: The Collection of The Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Gold Standard, organized Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
On Second Thought, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Quartet – Barney, Gobert, Levine, Schutte, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
A Show of Prints, James Kelly – Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magritte and Contemporary Art : The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art- LACMA, Los Angeles, California
The Gold Standart, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Egon Schiele, Vorbild und Widersacher in der Zeitgenossischen Kunst, Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Nach Schiele, Augarten Contemporary (vormals Atelier Augarten), Vienna, Austria
2005
The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, curated by
Carlo McCormick, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Suspended Narratives, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin,Texas
Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York
Seeing Double, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Quarter: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Flashback – Revisiting The Art of The Eighties, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Emmanuel Hoffman- Stiftung Dessins de la Collection, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
For Representation and Display – Some Art of The 80’s, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
The Last Picture Show – Artists using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, Florida
Just do it!, die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Mienhof, Lento Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Atlantic and Bukarest, Photography, Films and Video : New Acquisitions, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2004
Off the Wall: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut
About Painting, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Spring, New York
The Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque,curated by Robert Storr, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
La Lettre Volée, F.R.A.C. Franche-Comté Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Last one on is a soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Wide Open Spaces, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
VIP 2 Die Neuen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Close Up – Contemporary US Art, Listasafn Reykyavik Art Museum, Reykyavik, Iceland
Support – Die Neue galerie als Sammlung 1950 Heute, Neue galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
The Reality of Things, Triple Candie, New York
Singular Froms (Sometimes Repeated)- Art from 1951 to the present, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Last Picture Show – Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2003
After Shock, Dickison Roundell Inc., New York
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude (Toward an Understanding of Transgenerational Dialogue as a Gift Economy), M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Living with Duchamp, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York
Stranger in the Village, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Crimes and Misdemeanors – Politics in US Art of The 1980s, CAC, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
The Unhomely, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Women in Italian Collections, Fondazione sandretto rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
The Real Thing, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, California
Everyday Aesthetics-Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Modern Kunst, Oslo
Accessoiremaximalismus, Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian Albrechts Universitat, Kiel, Germany
American Tableaux – Many voices, Many Stories, MAM, Miami Art Museum, Miami
ReProduktion 2, Georg Kargl Fine Art, Vienna, Austria
2002
But is it real?, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
New Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Painting on the Move, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel, Switzerland
Regarding Landscape II, Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal, Canada
System Order Nature, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
Living Room, Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Cologne, Germany
Andy Warhol – Portrait Drawings/Sherrie Levine – Skulls, Jablonka Galerie-Koln, Cologne, Germany
Photography Transformed, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2001
As Painting: Division and Displacement, The Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Postmodern Americans: a selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Picturing Media: Modern Photographs from the Permanent Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Recent Acquisitions, Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf Museum of Our Whishes, Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
About Face, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Parkett Collaborations, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Permanent Collection and Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Pictures at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Sculpture Prototypes, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Beautiful Productions, art to play, art to wear, art to own, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Bogus: Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
A Work in Progress – Selections from the New Museum Collection, New Museum Contemporary Art, New York
Greed and Other Recent Acquisitions, ICP – International Center of Photography, New York
Pictures, Artists Space, New York
2000
Séquences, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Marseille, France
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
The American Century, Art & Culture 1900 – 2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York
One Thing after Another, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Actual Size, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Aspectos de la Colección, Fundation “La Caixa” Madrid, Spain
Around 1984, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Century of Innocence - The History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum-Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Peter Halley/Alex Katz/Sherrie Levine, galerie Wilma Tolksdorf – Frankfurt/Main
Veronica’s Revenge, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney
Around 1984 – A look at Art in the Eighties, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
Art at Work : Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queen Museum of Art, New York
150 Years of Photography, Davison Art Center, Middletown
Fact/Fiction – Contemporary Art That Walks the Line, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Careless Exhibition of Twentieth Century Product design, LAC, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles
Rot Grau-Basler Malerei, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
1999
The American Century, Part Two,The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art at Work, Forty Years of The Chase Manhattan Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Wallworks, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich
Sightgags: Humor, Satire and Grotesque in Modern Art and Contemporary Drawing,Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Veronica’s Revenge,Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse, Casino Luxembourg et Musée National d’Histoire et d’Art, Luxembourg
Die Erste Sammlung zu Gast, Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Austria
Hamburg, Germany
Careless Exhibition of Twentieth Century Product Design / Poetic Installation of Works by Constantin Brancusi, Ann Hamilton, Bertrand Lavier, Sherrie Levine and Haim Steinbach, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art After Marcel Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York
Apro Pos of Marcel the Art of Making Art After Marcel Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Originale echt falsch: Nachahmung, Kopie, Zitat, Aneignung, Fälschung in der
Gegenwartskunst, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany.
Not There, Rena Bransten Gallery, New York
Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Original echt/falst,Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss – New Sculpture- 1996-1999, Mamco, Musee d’Art “Moderne et Contemporain,” Geneva
Sherrie Levine/Joost van Oss, Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Cologne
Tete a tete-Face to face, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
Art at Work – Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston
1998
100 Years of Sculpture, From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Collection, un autre regard, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
The Art of the 80’s,Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal
Centenial Exhibition, Vienna Secession, Vienna; Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Take Two, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sammlung Goetz, Emotion, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Parkett-Kunstlereditionen, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Recycling Art History,Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Painting – Now and Forever, Part 1, Mattew Marks Gallery, New York
Tilbaka till Attiotalet- Redan? Isn’t It Too Early for the Eighties yet?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Stockholm
Fast Forward-2, Abschnitt : FFWD Trade Marks, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
L’Hypothese du Tableau Vole, Mamco, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Fast Forward-1 Abschnitt : FFWD image, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1997
Mutiple Identity: Amerikanische Kunst 1975-1995 Aus Dem, Whitney Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece; Museo d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
Views from Abroad, American Realities, Tate Gallery, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Homage to George Herriman, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, California
Gerrit Rietveld and Sherrie Levine, Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne, Germany; "Foundation for the Arts,” Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria
Modernist French Design and Sherrie Levine, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Maxwell’s Demon, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Critique of Pure Abstraction, Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
1996
Rational and Irrational, Whitney Museum, New York
Abstraction, Pure and Impure, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Private Passions, City Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
Everything New, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
New Art on Paper 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Vitale, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Painting into Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
Face and Figure, Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Making Pictures, Women and Photography, 1975 – Now, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
L’Oeil du Collectionneur, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Womens’s Work, The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
1995
Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; The Lowe Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
L’Immagine Reflessa, Centro per l’Arte Contemperanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Temporarily Possessed, The New Museum, New York
25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Album: The Photographic Collection of museum Bojimans-van Beuningen Rotterdam, Museum Bojimans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1994
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington
Group Exhibition, Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
The Ruse of the Aura, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
Die Erste Sammlung, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna, Austria
Duchamp’s Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
25 Years: an Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1993
The Elusive Object, Whitney Museum of Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut
Konstruction/Zizat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
Photoplay, Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leòn, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venezuela; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
1992
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Inscapes, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Repetition/Transformation, Centro Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1991
The Picture After the Last Picture, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960–1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japon; Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Aspects de l’art du XXe siècle: le chef–d’oevre à l’épreuve de sa copie, Abbaye Saint–André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oeuvres originales, F.R.A.C. de Pays de la Loire, Gétigné–Clisson, France
Work on Paper, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
Transendent Pop, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990
Culture and Commentary, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
With the Grain: Contemporary Panel Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Connecticut
Life Size, The Readymade and After, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Un art de la distinction? Abbaye Saint–Andre, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Affinitées selectives V: Sherrie Levine/Bertrand Lavier, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
The Charade of Mastery, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
Feux pâles, capc Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Tryk ok Multiples,Gallerie Susanne Ottesen, Copenhagen, Denmark
1989
Prospect 89, Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Bilderstreit, Rheinhalle, Cologne, Germany
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Confronting the Uncomfortable: Questioning Truth and Power, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
What is Contemporary Art? Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Wittgenstein: The Play of the Unsayable, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
1988
Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation, Deka Foundation of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
L’objet de l’exposition, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Hover Culture, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1987
New York Art Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Photography and Art 1946-1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Post–Abstract Abstraction,Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1986
The Sixth Biennial, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Abstract Appropriations, Grey Art Gallery, New York
Political Geometries, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
As Found, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Tableaux abstraits, Villa Arson, Nice, France
Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Endgame: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, ICA, Boston, Massachusetts
Europa-Amerika, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective, Fondació Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain
Sherrie Levine and Haim Steinbach, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York,
Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1985
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Correspondences, La Fôret Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Talking Back to the Media, Foundation de Appel, Amsterdam, The Nederlands
Repetitions: A Postmodern Dynamic, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
Progressive Collecting, The Photography Gallery, La Jolla, California
1984
Difference: On Sexuality and Representation, The New Museum, New York; Renaissance Society, Chicago; ICA, London, United Kingdom
Ailleurs et Autrement, ARC Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Between Here and Nowhere, Riverside Studios, London, United Kingdom
Artists Space Tenth Anniversary Show, Artists Space, New York
Hirshhorn Tenth Anniversary Show, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Drawings After Photography, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Mannerism: A Theory of Culture, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Image Scavengers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Art and Politics, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
1983
Seventy–Fourth American Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Art and Social Change, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Mannerism: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1981
Inespressionismo Americano, Museo di S. Agostino, Genoa, Italy
Couches, Diamonds and Pie, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Erweiterte Fotografie, 5. Wiener Biennale, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Photo, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1980
Pictures and Promises, The Kitchen, New York
Remembrances for Tomorrow, New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Horror Pleni, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Open group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1977
Pictures, Artist Space, New York