William Anastasi
WORKS
Burst (Black/White), 2017
Weiße Wachskreide auf Fotokarton / White wax crayon on photo carton
152,5 x 161,5 cm
Burst (Yellow), 2014
Gelbe Wachskreide auf Fotokarton / Yellow wax crayon on photo carton
152,5 x 163,5 cm
whowasit youwasit propped (formerly „Untitled“), 1965/2019
Tannenholz Balken / Fir beam
300 x 7,5 x 7,5 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
Issue, 1966/2019
Putzentfernung von Wand / Wall removal
Höhe variiert / Height varies
Foto: Simon Vogel
What was real in the world, 1964/2019,
112 Ziegelsteine / 112 bricks
81 x 58 x 48 cm
READING A LINE ON A WALL, 1967/2019,
Helvetica auf Wand / Helvetica on wall
8,5 x 150 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
Free Will, 1968/2019
Videokamera und Bildschirm / Video camera and monitor
34 x 22 x 25 cm
Incision, 1966/2019
Wandentfernung / Wall removal
43 x 35,6 cm
Foto: Simon Vogel
Pocket Drawing 2.8.12, 2012
Bleistift auf Serviette des Restaurants The Modern im MOMA / Pencil on napkin of the Restaurant The Mordern in the MOMA
42,8 x 45 cm
Walking Drawing (1.25.10 Laporte), 2010
Schwarzer und gelber Tintenschreiber auf Papier / Black and yellow ink pen on paper
19,6 x 29,6 cm
Walking Drawing (8.9.13), 2013
Bleistift und Tuschestift (violett und rot) / Pencil and ink pen (purple and red)
19 x 28,4 cm
Bababad Drawing, m 1.31.97, 1997
Buntstift und Bleistift auf Papier / Colored pencil and pencil on paper
25,4 x 21,2 cm
Bababad Drawing, gh 2.19.97, 1997
Buntstift und Bleistift auf Papier / Colored pencil and pencil on paper
25,4 x 21,2 cm
MEDIA
EXHIBITIONS
BIOGRAPHY
1933 geboren in Philadelphia / born in Philadelphia
lebt und arbeitet in New York, NY / lives and works in New York, NY
Stipendien und Preise / Scholarships and Awards
2010
John Cage Award, Foundation for Contemporary Art
Einzelausstellungen / Solo Shows (Auswahl / Selection)
2021
William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
Hers and His, Galeria Mascota, New York, NY (USA)
2019
William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
Blind Drawings 1963–2019, Marlborough Gallery, London (GB)
2018
William Anastasi – Three Conic Sections, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (FRA)
2017
William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
William Anastasi, Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2015
William Anastasi. Puzzle, Sandra Gering Inc., New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi – Continuum, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (FRA)
William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
2014
William Anastasi – The Bababad Paintings, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi – Art Cologne Collaborations, Thomas Rehbein Galerie / Stalke Galleri, Kirke Saaby (DK)
2013
Sound Works, 1963–2013, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY (USA)
2012
William Anastasi, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (FRA)
2010
William Anastasi, Drawings, Gering & López Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi, Isabelle Du Moulin und Nils Borch Jensen Galerie, Berlin
2009
William Anastasi, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg (DK)
William Anastasi, Emilio Mazzoli Gallery, Modena (IT)
2008
William Anastasi. opposites are identical, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi – New works, Stalke Galleri / Stalke Up North / Stalke Out Of Space, Kirke Saaby (DK)
2007
William Anastasi – Raw, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi. Paintings and drawings, Michael Benevento, The Orange Group, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2006
William Anastasi, You’re Through, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi: Works from the 60’s to the present, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2005
William Anastasi – Blind, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg
William Anastasi – Ohne Titel, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
Anastasi- Drawings 1970–2005, Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
2004
William Anastasi, SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
2003
Blind, The Annex, New York, NY (USA)
2002
William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
2001
William Anastasi. A Retrospective, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen (DK)
Willam Anastasi, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
2000
William Anastasi, Werkschau 1966–2000, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg
Niels Borch Jensen. Verlag und Druck, Berlin
White Box Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
End Papers: Drawings 1890–1900, 1990–2000 kuratiert von / curated by Judy Ollisehan, The Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
Sirius Art Center, Artist in Residence, Statens værksteder for Kunst, Kopenhagen (DK)
1999
Drawings, Gary Tatinsin Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
William Anastasi „Perfect“, Stalke Galleri und Galleri Specta, Kopenhagen (DK)
…vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert, Landes Museum, Linz (AUT)
1998
I Am A Jew, The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
1997
The Painting of the Word Jew, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Hubert Winter Gallery, Wien (AUT)
Martin Lawrence Gallery, Beverly Hills Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Spring Benefit Reffle, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (USA)
1996
Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund (SWE)
1995
The Pier Gallery, Orkney, Schottland (GB)
Ten manuscript pages from me innerman monophone: Jarry in Joyce (shown alternating with first ten manuscript pages and James Joyce’s Ulysses), Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
William Anastasi: A Retrospective (1960–1995), Moore College
Abandoned Paintings, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1994
Krista Fahl Gallery, Stockholm (SWE)
me innerman monophone, oevre conceptuellee (exhibition and lecture on the original manuscript and paper given on Jarry in Joyce at the Sorbonne), Paris (FR)
1993
Du Jarry and me innerman monophone (exhibition of original manuscripts), Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Drawing Sounds: An installation in Honor of John Cage, The Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
1992
Works 1963–1992, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund (SWE)
1991
Sink, Trespass, Issue, Incision, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1990
Incidents and Coincidents, Ball State University, Muncie, IN (USA)
1989
A Selection of Works from 1960 to 1989, The Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
W. A. Works, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
1988
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
1987
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1982
Diary Paintings, Ericson’s Gallery, Des Moines, IA (USA)
1981
Coincidents, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Collapse, Sculpture for a Public Space (commissioned by the museum, exhibited at the Lincoln Center Complex), the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY (USA)
1979
Re-visions: Perspectives and Proposals in Film and Video, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Coincidents, Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
Max Hetzler, Stuttgart
1978
Terminus, The Hudson River Museum, New York, NY (USA)
1977
P. S. 1 Museum, The Institute of Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY (USA)
1973
O. K., Harris Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1970
Continuum, works from ’68, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1967
Six Sites, works from ’66, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1966
Sound Objects, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1965
Witherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, NC (USA)
1964
Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Gruppenausstellungen / Group Shows (Auswahl / Selection)
2021
Sound and Silence, Kunstmuseum Bonn
… Lines as Thought, Lines as Universe …, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg (AUT)
2020
Wände | Walls, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Remember Art Cologne | AC-D-020, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
All of a Sudden, Galeria Mascota, Ciudad de México (MEX)
2019
Camera Lucida, Das Weiße Haus, kuratiert von Enar de Diaz Rodriguez, Wien (AUT)
Memento Mori, Daniel Marzona, Berlin
Tanz. Bewegung. Geste. Bild., Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
2018
Backstage – die Rückseite – the rear side, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
Inbox: Joyce in Art, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen – MuHKA, Antwerpen (BEL)
Ogni storia d’amore una storia di fantasmi, Galleria Tiziana di Caro, Naples (IT)
2017
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles (USA)
Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice (IT)
The transported man, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing (USA)
2016
Sammlung Opitz-Hoffmann, Kunstsammlung Stadtmuseum Jena, Jena
Notes on Gesture – I,II,III kuratiert von / curated by Jeremy Millar, Siobhan Davies Studios, London (UK)
Through the listening glass…, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul (KOR)
Drawing Dialogues: selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York (USA)
CAMÉRA(AUTO)CONTRÔLE, Centre de la photographie Genève, Genf (CH)
La Boîte de Pandore: une autre photographie par Jan Dibbets, Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris – MAM, Paris (FRA)
Mirror Images in Art and Medicine, Museum of Medical History, Charité & Schering Foundation Project Space, Berlin
Portrait de l’artiste en Alter, FRAC Haute Normandie, Sot te ville-lès-Rouen (FRA)
Art in an Airstream, Cade Tompkins Projects, New York, NY (USA)
2015
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: La Valse Des Pantins – Acte II, Centre d’art contemporain de la Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (FRA)
Drawing. The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K., Gent (BEL)
tout le monde, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine (FRA)
„highlights“ Anastasi/Bradshaw/Gefeller/Hemsworth/Hendricks/Houlihan, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
Grey is the Color, if I had a Heart kuratiert von / curated by Tim Hawkinson, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Paper and Performance: The Bent Page, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas (kuratiert von / curated by Katie Anani) Text efter Tekst, Den Frie, Kopenhagen (DK)
Passion.Group show: William Anastasi, Francisco Tropa, Christoph Weber, Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (FRA)
Phase I: Reconaissance, Théatre des Opérations, Genf (CH)
2014
For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Gallery, Stary Browar, Poznan (POL)
2013
„no emotion“ Drawings from William Anastasi, Jochem Hendricks and Mel Chin, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Bruxelles (BEL)
Quelque chose de plus qu’une succession de notes, Bétonsalon, Paris (FRA)
One View # 3, Stalke Galleri, Stalke Out of Space, Kirke Saaby (DK)
A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris (FRA)
Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II, Henry Art gallery, Seattle, WA (USA)
The Forgotten Instinct, Labor, Mexico City (MEX)
2012
Graphology, Drawing Room, London (UK)
2011
Lonely at the Top. Graphology, Chapter 1, MuHKA, Antwerpen (BEL)
‚Anti-Photography‘ kuratiert von / curated by Duncan Wooldridge, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex (UK)
Farbe im Fluss, Weserburg, Bremen
What is contemporary art? kuratiert von / curated by Sanne Kofoes, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
2010
LIGHT UP. 12 Annual Benefit, White Box, New York, NY (USA)
The Moon is an Arrant Thief, The David Roberts Art Foundation, London (UK)
ON PAPER, Stalke Galleri, Kirke Sonnerup (DK)
Early Conceptualists kuratiert von / curated by Eril Verhagen und / and Jocelyn Wolff, Joycelyn Wolff Gallery, Paris (FRA)
Biennial Winter Salon kuratiert von / curated by Bjorn Ressler, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia 1860–1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (USA)
The Winter Salon – Works on Paper, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
One more, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
CHOOSING, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
No Regrets Sam Jedig, Stalke Up North, Kopenhagen (DK)
2008
ONE MORE. In Memorian: Sol LeWitt, Esbjerg Museum, Esbjerg (DK)
Five Americans, Borup Art Center, Kopenhagen (DK)
Choosing, Andreé Sfeir-Semler Gallery kuratiert von Robert Barry, Hamburg
The Title of This Show Is a List That Includes The Dates in Which Each of the Exhibited Works Were First Made, The Dates In Which Some of Them Were Remade By The Artists And The Dates In Which They Were Last Shown kuratiert von / curated by Mario Garcia Torres, Jan Mot (BEL)
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
A Matter of Time, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2007
Group show, Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
Slought in New York, ZONE: Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York, NY (USA)
One, In memoriam: Sol LeWitt, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Benefit for the Museum of Contemporary Art, LAMOCA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Le cinque anime della scultura, Cesac – Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (IT)
Slought in Berlin: The New Epistemology, Galerie Heike Curtze Berlin, Berlin
WallCeilingFloor: Works by William Anastasi, Donald Judd and Fred Sandback, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (USA)
Anastasi–Bradshaw, Galleri 360, Tokyo (JPN)
2006
Out of Time – A Contemporary View, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
Portraits of Artists, works from Rex Capital, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (USA)
Selections From The Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (USA)
Locus, Björn Ressle Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2005
Anastasi, Bradshaw, Cage, Cunningham, University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, San Diego, CA (USA)
The Photograph in Question, Lintel Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Reality, Stalke Galleri / Stalke Up North / Stalke Out Of Space, Kirke Saaby (DK)
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Benefit for the Museum of Contemporary Art, LAMOCA, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Edge Level Ground: William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Ulrigh Erben, Jack Sal, Christian Sery, Stephanie Hering Gallery, Berlin
William Anastasi / Dove Bradshaw, Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA (USA)
Poles Apart, Poles Together, 51te Venice Biennale, Venedig (IT)
2004
Marilyn – From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Joyce in Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (IRL)
View point – works from the museum collection, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (DK)
Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art (kuratiert von / curated by Helen Molesworth) / Des Moines Art Center, IA (USA) / Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, OH (USA)
Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, CT (USA)
Opening Celebration of the Rubin Museum of Art, The Museum of Tibetan Art, The Flag Project at the invitation of the museum and Kiki Smith, New York, NY (USA)
Infinite Possibilities: Serial Immagery in Twentieth Century Drawings kuratiert von / curated by Anja Chavez, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (USA)
Stereognost & Propriocept kuratiert von / curated by Koan Jeff Baysa und / and Donald Kunze Dennis Oppenheim, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
2003
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (USA)
Potential Images Of The World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (USA)
Unexpected Dimensions – Works from the Lewitt Collection, Davison Art Center, Middletown, CT (USA)
The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, New York
Davidson Art Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (USA)
Works from the LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain
White Box Benefit Auction, Cohan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Potential image of The World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY (USA)
2002
One Hand Clapping, Smack Mellon Gallery, Brooklyn New York, NY (USA)
Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (USA)
20 years in Danish Art, Stalke Galleri / Stalke Up North / Stalke Out Of Space, Kirke Saaby (DK)
Jesus_C_Odd_Size, Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Kopenhagen (DK)
Memorial Concert For John Cage, 1912–1992, Performances: William Anastasi, Ledger, Dove Bradshaw, Fire, Garry Tatinsian Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Charles Carpenter Collection kuratiert von / curated by Richard Kline, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT (USA)
blobs, wiggles and dots, webs and crustillations kuratiert von Lucio Pozzi, The Work Space, New York, NY (USA)
Mattress Factory 25th Anniversary Auction, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (USA)
Whitebox Benefit kuratiert von / curated by Juan Puntes, Whitebox Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Collaborations, Dieu Donne, New York, NY (USA)
2001
Visions From American Art: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940–2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977 kuratiert von / curated by Chrissie Iles, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Anastasi, Bradshaw, Cage, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
William Anastasi, A Retrospective, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen (DK)
2000
Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (SWE)
New Works, Stalke Galleri / Stalke Up North / Stalke Out Of Space, Kirke Saaby (DK)
Topology, White Box, New York, NY (USA)
Destruction / Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Photogravüre, Niels Borch Jensen Galerie & Verlag, Berlin
…vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert – Positionen zeitgenössischer Kunst zur Erinnerung, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz (AUT)
This is What It Is, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York, NY (USA)
The American Century 1950–2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
End Papers, Drawings 1890–1900, 1990–2000, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (USA)
Photographic Re-View, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1999
Merce Cunningham, La Fundacio Antonio Tapiés, Barcelona (ES)
The American Century: 1950–2000, Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde (DK)
Afterimage: Drawings Through Process, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA) / Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (USA) / Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA (USA); (kuratiert von Connie Butler) / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Manna Benefit for the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibet kuratiert von / curated by Elizabeth Rogers, White Box Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Benefit, Sculpture Center, New York, NY (USA)
1998
Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American drawings from a New York private collection, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen
RE: Duchamp/Contemporary Artists Respond to Marcel Duchamp’s Influence, Abraham Lubelsky Gallery, New York, NY (DK)
New Works, Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
Pieces, 128 Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1997
Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American drawings from a New York private collection, Harvard University, Sackler Gallery, Cambridge (UK)
From Time to Time, Iris and B. Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester (UK)
Word to Word, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
10th year anniversary group show, Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
1996
Hubert Winter Gallery, Wien (AUT)
Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Drawing on Chance (ausgewählte Arbeiten aus der Sammlung), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
Timewise, The Swiss Institute, New York, NY (USA)
Charles Carpenter Collection kuratiert von / curated by Mark Francis, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (USA) / The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
1995
Joyce and the Visual Arts, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
Dark Room, Stark Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
The Photography Show 1995 kuratiert von / curated by Baryy Singer, AIPAD, New York, NY (USA)
Sound Sculpture: Music for the Eyes, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz
1994
Drawings mit / with Dove Bradshaw, Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY (USA)
Autobodyography, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1993
Rolyholyover: A Circus Wanderausstellung, kuratiert von / curated by John Cage und / and Julie Lazar, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (USA) / Le Centre Pomidou, Paris (FRA) / The Guggenheim Museum, NY (USA) / The Philadelphia Museum of Art (USA) / Mito Art Tower, Mito (JP)
The Return of the Cadavre Equis kuratiert von / curated by Anne Philbin, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (USA) / Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (USA) / Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (USA) / Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO (USA) / The American Center, Paris (FRA)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company Benefit, Cunningham Dance Foundation, New York, NY (USA)
Concurrrencies II kuratiert von / curated by Lucio Pozzi, William Patterson College, New Jersey, NJ (USA)
1992
Concurrencies, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1991
Imitating nature in her manner of operation… mit / with Dove Bradshaw, John Cage, Tom Marioni, Rober Rauschenberg, Mark Tobey, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
How to Use Small Areas in a Dozen Different Ways to Bring a Room to Life kuratiert von / curated by Bogdan Perzryuski, Arte Museum, Austin, TX (USA)
1990
Casino Fantasma kuratiert von / curated by Allana Heiss, Winter Casino, Venedig (IT)
William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Tobey, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1989
Benefit for the Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Chaos kuratiert von Laura Trippi, The New Museum, New York, NY (USA)
1988
Benefit for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
The Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Stalke Galleri, Kopenhagen (DK)
Brigitte March Galleri, Stuttgart
Espace des Concept Art, Chalon sur Saone (FRA)
Re-opening of the Jewish Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (USA)
Stux Gallery, Boston, MA (USA)
1987
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Reading Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (USA)
On Line, An Exhibition of Drawings, City Without Walls, Newark, New Jersey, NJ (USA)
Benefit for AIDS kuratiert von / curated by Susan Lorence und / and Bob Monk, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1985
Science Museum, Koran-Sha Company, Tokyo (JPN)
1983
Film as Installation II, The Clocktower, New York, NY (USA)
Benefit for Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1982
Annual Award, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (USA)
Exhibition in Honor of John Cage, The American Centre, Paris (FRA)
Biennial ‘81, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
1981
8 Painters kuratiert von / curated by Dove Bradshaw, Künstler / Artists: Jon Abbot, William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, Dana Gordon, Bruce Halpin, Carl Kielblock, Theodoros Stamos, Douglas Vogel, The Ericson Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1980
Film as Installation, The Clocktower, New York, NY (USA)
Für Augen und Ohren, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Ecoute par les yeux, Musee d’Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris (FRA)
1979
Sound, P.S 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, NY (USA)
Terminus, The Hudson River Museum, New York, NY (USA)
Benefit for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1978
Paul Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Anna Canepa, Video Distribution, New York, NY (USA)
Couples , P.S 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, NY (USA)
Art For Jimmy Carter, The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
1977
Projects for the Seventies, Institute for Art and
Urban Resources, Travelling exhibition / Wanderausstellung: Lissabon, Warschau, Ankara, Tel Aviv, Bukarest, Madrid, Reykjavik, Ottawa
1976 – 77
Open to New Ideas: Art for Jimmy Carter, Georgia Museum’s permanent Collection, Georgia (USA)
1972
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1970
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne (CH) /
Musee D’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
E.A.T. Benefit, Paris (FRA) / Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1967
Language, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1964
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Sammlungen / Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (USA)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (USA)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (USA)
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, ILL (USA)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (USA)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY (USA)
The Georgia Museum of Art, GA (USA)
The Phoenix Museum of Art, AR (USA)
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA (USA)
The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (USA)
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (USA)
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK (USA)
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI (USA)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (USA)
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA (USA)
Museum for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (DK)
Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf
Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (SWE)
Musee Moderne, Stockholm (SWE)
Museum for Samtidskunst, Roskilde (DK)
Statens Museum for Kunst, Kopenhagen (DK)
Museum Ludwig, Köln
SELECTED PRESS
Catalogues and Publications
Selection
2021
Booklet – William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
2020
Sound and Silence – Der Klang der Stille in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Wände / Walls – Ausstellungsführer, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2019
Booklet – William Anastasi, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
William Anastasi – The Blind Drawings 1963–2018, Marlborough Gallery, London (UK)
2016
Drawing: The Bottom Line, Ausst.-Kat., S.M.A.K., Museum for Contemporary Art, Gent (BEL)
2012
Graphology – drawing from automatism and automation, Ausst.-Kat., Drawing Room, London (UK) / ARA.MER, Gent (BEL) / MHKA, Antwerpen (BEL)
2011
Farbe im Fluss – Zum 20-jährigen Bestehen der Weserburg, 10. September 2011 – 29. Januar 2012, Museum Weserburg / Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen
2009
William Anastasi – Paintings, Small Works, drawings, Ausst.-Kat., Galleria d’Arte Contemporaena, Modena (IT)
2007
Wall Ceiling Floor: An Exhibition of Works by Anastasi, Judd and Sandback, Ausst.-Kat., Birmingham Museum of Art
2005
William Anastasi – Copenhagen, Cologne, Hamburg, Ausst.-Kat, Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen / Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln / Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg
McEvilley, Thomas – The Triumph of anti-art: conceptual and performance art in the formation of post-modernism, Kingston New York, NY (USA)
Anastasi Bradshaw Cage, Ausst.-Kat., University Art Museum, University of Virginia at Charlottesville
2004
Infinite Possibilities – Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings, Ausst.-Kat., Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (USA)
2001
Into the light: The projectexd image in American art – 1964–1977, Ausst.-Kat., Whitney Museum of American Art
William Anastasi: a retrospective, Ausst.-Kat., Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Kopenhagen (DK)
Anastasi Bradshaw Cage, Ausst.-Kat, Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Roskilde (DK)
1997
JEW – William Anastasi, Ausst.-Kat., Stalke Out of Space, Copenhagen (DK) / Sandras Gehring Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1995
William Anastasi – Works from 1961 to 1995, Ausst.-Kat., Pier Gallery, Stromness (GB-SCT)
Hanhardt, John, Eileen Neff, William Anastasi: A Retrospective (1969–1995), Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA (USA)
1992
Anastasi, William – me innerman monophone, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund (SWE)
1991
William Anastasi, Ausst.-Kat., Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1990
William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage u.a., Ausst.-Kat., Sandra Gehring Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
1989
William Anastasi – A selection of works from 1960–1989, Ausst.-Kat., Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY (USA)
Concept Art, Ausst.-Kat., Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen (DK) / Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart / Espace des Arts, Chalons/Saône (FRA)
1987
Post-abstract abstraction: William Anastasi… (et. al.), Ausst.-Kat., Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (USA)
Artikel / Articles
Auswahl / Selection
Styrie, Hanna: Stahlplatte darf Wasser trinken – Galerie Thomas Rehbein zeigt Konzeptkunst von William Anastasi, in: Kölnische Rundschau, 05.06.2019, S. 5
Horvitz, David: David Horvitz on Pocket Drawings by William Anastasi, in: Katalog Draw Art Fair, London 2019, S. 141
Imdahl, Georg: Früh dran – William Anastasi bei Thomas Rehbein in Köln, in: FAZ, 25.05.2019, S. 17
Hess, Barbara: William Anastasi, in: Stadtrevue, Mai 2019, S. 62
Raumentdecker Galerien: William Anastasi, in: stadtzauber kulturmagazin, Mai/Juni 2019, S. 52
Braitinger, Philipp: Eine Reise in die Grenzregion der Künste, in: Stuttgarter Zeitung, 23.01.2019
Wenn die U-Bahn den Zeichenstift führt, in: Kölnische Rundschau, 03.01.2017, S. 12
William Anastasi, in: Stadtzauber Kulturmagazin, September/Oktober 2017, S. 52
Hildebrandt, Toni: Entwurf und Entgrenzung: Kontradispositive der Zeichnung 1955–1975, Paderborn 2017, S. 148–150 und 191–197
Marino, Vivian: A Downtown Vibe, in: The New York Times, 13.05.2016
Styrie, Hanna: Wenn Zeit sichtbar wird – Thomas Rehbein zeigt Arbeiten von Stammkünstlern, in: Kölnische Rundschau, 22.07.2015
Douglas, Sarah: William Anastasi at Stellan Holm, in: Art News, April 2015
For Each Gesture Another Character, in: www.e-flux.com, 09.01.2014
Corwin, William: William Anastasi – Sound Works, 1963–2013, in: www.brooklynrail.org, 05.11.2013
Gründler, Hana / Hildebrandt, Toni / Pichler, Wolfram: Zur Händigkeit der Zeichnung, in: Rheinsprung 11. Zeitschrift für Bildkritik, 03.05.2012
Kröner, Magdalena: Galerierundgang-Pulsschlag in New York, in: www.faz.net, 02.10.2011
Hess, Barbara: Eine gute Idee, in: Stadt Revue. Das Kölnmagazin, Februar 2009
Imdahl, Georg: „One More“ bei Thomas Rehbein – Familiär in die Ecke geschmiegt, in: artnet.de/magazine/reviews, 23.01.2009
Imdahl, Georg: Wenn die Bienen ausschwärmen, in: ksta.de, 21.01.09
Boucher, Brian: Rereading Anastasi, in: Art in America, Dezember 2006
Kisters, Jürgen: Die Kamera und der freie Wille, in: Kölner Stadtanzeiger, 02.06.2005
Puvogel, Renate: William Anastasi, in: Kunstforum Bd. 177, September–Oktober 2005
Boecker, Susanne: Auf Dadas Spuren, in: Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, 10./11.08.2002
Anastasi, William, Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp e Cage, 1993/2000, in: www.toutfait.com
Anastasi, William, Alfred Jarry and l’accident of Duchamp, 1999, in: www.toutfait.com
Lillemose, Jacob: Avantgarde og afgangs-elever, in: Information Tirsdag, 13.04.1999
Stuckey, Charles F.: Monet Water Lilies, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc, NY, 1988
Temin, Christine: Drawing their own conclusions, in: Boston Globe, 21.01.1998
McEvilley, Thomas: William Anastasi – A Retrospective in Prints, in: Art on Paper, November–Dezember 1998, S. 39–43
McDonough, Tom: William Anastasi at Sandra Gering, in: Art in America, Mai 1998, S. 127
Mendelsohn, John: Three-Letter Word, in: Jewish Week, 14.11.1997
Cunningham, Merce: Fifty Years, Aperture Foundation, New York, 1997
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Harvard University Art Museum, 1997, S. 24–25
Cohen, Mark Daniel: William Anastasi: The Painting of the Word Jew At Sandra Gering, 01.11.1997
Newman, Elizabeth: William Anastasi: The Painting of the Word Jew at Sandra Gering, 01.11.1997
Rugoff, Ralph: Scene of the Crime, in: The MIT Press, 1997
Hofleitner, Johanna: William Anastasi at Hubert Winter, in: Flash Art, Oktober 1997
Morgan, Robert C.: Between Modernism and Conceptual Art, McFarland & Company, in: Inc. Publications, Jefferson / London 1997, S. 156–159
Kyander, Pontus: William Anastasi: Anders Tornberg Gallery, in: Journal of Contemporary Art No. 29, Sommer 1996
McLead, Duncan: Change and Decay: Review of William Anastasi and Dove Bradshaw, in: Scottish Press, September 1995
Morgan, Ann Barclay: Interview: William Anastasi, in: Art Papers, November/Dezember 1995
Anastasi, William with Michael Seidel, Jarry in the Joyce: A Conversation, Joyce Studies Annual, in: University of Texas Press, 1995
Karmel, Pepe: Also of Note, in: The New York Times, 24.03.1995
Schwabsky, Barry: William Anastasi – Sandra Gering Gallery, in: Artforum, Mai 1995
Sozanski, Edward J.: Aesthetics by chance: Heads it’s art, tails it’s not, in: The Philadelphia Inquirer, 07.06.1995
Wasserman, Burton: Anastasi exhibit to be experienced, not explained, in: Art Matters, Juli/August 1995
Ritchie, Matthew: The Word Made Flesh, in: Flash Art, Mai/Juni 1994
Rubinstein, Raphael: William Anastasi at Sandra Gering, in: Art in America, April 1994
Anastasi, William, Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp e Cage (essay commissioned for, translated and published in the Catalogue of the Venice Biennale), 1993
Tallmer, Jerry: Rebuilt museum resumes ist tale of Jews‘ journey, in: New York Post, 19.06.1993
Morgan, Robert C.: Enviroment, Site, Displacement, After the Deluge: Essays on Art in the Nineties, in: New York: Red Bass, 1993, S. 72
E.H.: William Anastasi – Sandra Gering Gallery, in: ARTnews, Dezember 1991
Kalina, Richard: William Anastasi: Deadpan Conceptualist, in: Art in America, Januar 1990
Garrels, Gary: The Work of Andy Warhol, in: Dia Art Foundation, 1989
McEvilley, Thomas: William Anastasi – A Selection of Works from 1960 to 1989, New York, 1989
Hjort, Øystein: Lyd transformeret til billeder, in: Politiken, 3.05.1988
McEvilley, Thomas: William Anastasi – Bess Cutler Gallery, in: Artforum, Mai 1987
O’Doherty, Brian: Inside the White Cube, in: Lapis Press, 1986
McEvilley, Thomas: I Think Therefore I Art, in: Artforum, Sommer 1985
Anastasi, William, Artist’s Pages: The Creative Process, in: Vantage Point, September/Oktober 1984
Battcock, Gregory / Nickas, Robert: The Art of Performance – A Critical Anthology, in: Dutton, NY, 1984
Gerrit, Henry: William Anastasi at Ericson, in: Art in America, September 1982
Review of Exhibitions, in: Art in America, September 1982
Video, The American Federation of Arts Newsletter, Winter 1982
Battcock, Gregory: Breaking the Sound Barrier, in: Dutton, NY, 1981
Battcock, Gregory: Why Art: Casual Notes on the Aesthetics of the Immediate Past, in: Dutton, NY, 1977
O’Doherty, Brian: Inside the White Cube: Notes on the Gallery Space, in: Artforum, März 1976
Battcock, Gregory: Idea Art – A Critical Anthology, in: Dutton, NY, 1973
Battcock, Gregory: Wall Paintings and the Wall, in: Arts, December 1971
Battcock, Gregory: Four Artists Who Didn’t Show in New York This Season, in: Arts, Summer 1968
Battcock, Gregory: Minimal Art – A Critical Anthology, in: Dutton, NY, 1968
Brown, Gordon: Light: Object and Image, in: Arts, Sommer 1968
Battcock, Gregory: In the Galleries, in: Arts Magazine, Sommer 1967