Alexander Calder

• (1898-1976)
  
  Born in 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania
  Died in 1976, New York, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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  For a comprehensive list of exhibitions and publications, see www.calder.org
  
  2023
  Calder/Tuttle: Tentative, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, US
  Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
  Spotlight: Alexander Calder, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, US
  Alexander Calder: Shaping a Primary Universe, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
  Alexander Calder: A Balancing Line, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  CALDER, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
  
  2022
  Calder: Unfolding, Almine Rech, Paris, France
  Alexander Calder: A Universe of Painting, Heather James Fine Art, California, US
  Alexander Calder: Painting the Cosmos, Heather James Fine Art, California, US
  Calder: Gouaches, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US
  
  2021
  Dissonant Harmony, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  Calder: Great Yellow Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
  Special Guest: Calder BMW Car, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
  Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  Alexander Calder: Bold Gouaches, Heather James Fine Art, New York, US
  Alexander Calder (1898–1976), Tapisseries, Galerie Alexandre Guillemain, Paris, France
  Calder, Pace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Calder: 1975 and “Flying Dragon,” Gagosian Gallery, rue de Castiglione, Paris, France
  Calder, Gagosian Gallery, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, France
  Calder: Dimensions, Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, US
  Calder Tower, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, US (permanent exhibition)
  Calder Hillside, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, US (permanent exhibition)
  Calder Gallery, Palazzo Collicola - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy (permanent exhibition)
  
  2020
  Calder from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, White Plains, US
  
  2019
  Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
  Elemental Calder, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, US
  Calder on Paper, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Alexander Calder: The Magic of a Sculptural Movement, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
  Calder Stories, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain
  Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and Other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids, Art Museum, Michigan, US
  Alexander Calder: Works on Paper, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK
  Calder. Gouaches, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
  Calder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Calder, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland
  
  
  2018
  Alexander Calder: Theater of Encounters, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
  I mondi di Calder: Opere, tracce e memorie di un grande artista a Spoleto, Palazzo Medici Riccard, Florence, Italy
  Calder: La Geometria del Color, ARTALROC, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
  Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
  Calder: Nonspace, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, US
  
  2017
  Calder: Hypermobility, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Calder: Forgeron des géantes libellules, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France
  Alexander Calder: Scaling Up, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  An Outburst of Color, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
  Alexander Calder: La Gouacherie, Musée Zervos, Vézelay, France
  Calder: Monumental, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, US
  Calder: Constellations, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016
  Alexander Calder: Motion Lab, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Alexander Calder, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
  Calder in the Alps, Hauser & Wirth, Gstaad, Switzerland
  The Boldness of Calder, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London, UK
  Alexander Calder: Sharing Negative Space, Dean Borghi Fine Art, New York, US
  
  2015
  Calder: Discipline of the Dance, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
  Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
  Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, Tate Modern, London, UK
  Frammenti Expo 1967: Alexander Calder e Emilio Vedova, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy
  
  2014
  Alexander Calder at the Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Calder: Jewelry, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Ugo Mulas "Circus Calder", Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano, Italy
  
  2013
  Calder, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, US
  
  2012
  Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
  Calder Noir, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011
  Calder's Portraits: A New Language, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US
  
  2009
  Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
  Calder: Sculptor of Air, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  
  2008
  Calder Jewelry, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, US
  Alexandre Calder en Touraine, Château de Tours, France
  Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  2006
  Calder no Brasil, Pinacoteca do Estato de São Paulo, Brazil
  
  2005
  The Surreal Calder, Menil Collection, Houston, US
  
  2004
  Calder: Poetry in Motion, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2003
  Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia, Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
  
  2001
  Grand Intuitions: Calder’s Monumental Sculpture, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US
  
  2000
  Calder in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, US
  Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan
  
  1998
  Alexander Calder: 1898–1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US
  
  1997
  Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder, San Jose Museum of Art, California, US
  Calder, Fundacío Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
  
  1995
  Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  
  1993
  Calder: Mobiles, stabiles, gouaches, bijoux . . ., Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi, Antibes, France
  
  1991
  Celebrating Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  1989
  Calder Intime, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
  
  1986
  Alexander Calder: An American Invention, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US
  
  1983
  Calder: Mostra retrospettiva, Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy
  
  1976
  Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  1975
  Calder, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
  
  1974
  Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925–1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, US
  
  1973
  Alexander Calder: Retrospektive, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland
  
  1972
  Calder's Circus, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  1970
  A Salute to Alexander Calder, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1969
  Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  
  1967
  Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1964
  Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  
  1962
  Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, UK
  
  1959
  Alexander Calder, Stabilen, Mobilen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  1957
  Alexander Calder, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  
  1956
  Calder, Perls Galleries, New York, US
  
  1955
  Exposiciòn Calder, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
  
  1953
  Alexander Calder Mobiles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  1952
  Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, US
  
  1950
  Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
  Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US
  
  1948
  Alexander Calder, Ministerio da Educaçao e Saude, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
  1946
  Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France
  
  1944
  Recent Work by Alexander Calder, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, US
  
  1943
  17 Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, US
  Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1941
  Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Stabiles and Jewelry, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, US
  
  1940
  Calder Jewelry, Willard Gallery, New York, US
  
  1938
  Calder Mobiles, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, US
  
  1937
  Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
  
  1935
  Mobiles by Alexander Calder, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois, US
  
  1934
  Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, US
  
  1932
  Calder: ses mobiles, Galerie Vignon, Paris, France
  Calder: Mobiles/Abstract Sculptures, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, US
  
  1931
  Alexandre Calder: Volumes–Vecteurs–Densités/Dessins–Portraits, Galerie Percier, Paris, France
  
  1929
  Sculptures bois et fil de fer de Alexander Calder, Galerie Billiet-Pierre Vorms, Paris, France
  Alexander Calder: Skulpturen aus Holz und aus Draht, Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany
  Alexander Calder: Paintings, Wood Sculpture, Toys, Wire Sculpture, Jewelry, Textiles, Fifty-Sixth Street Galleries, New York, US
  
  1928
  Wire Sculpture by Alexander Calder, Weyhe Gallery, New York, US
  
  1927
  The Galleries of Jacques Seligmann and Company, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2023
  Shapes On Paper, Phillips Paris, Paris, France
  Uncanny Objects, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, US
  Vanuatu Totems & Calder Gouaches, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
  Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960, Bruce Museum, Connecticut, US
  Giacometti and the Artists of the Grande Chaumière, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, North Carolina, US
  Mirrors of the Portrait, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
  Among Friends: The Generosity Of Judy And Ken Dayton, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, US
  Joan Miró & Alexander Calder: Space in Motion, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
  Miró & Calder, Maruani Mercier, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
  From Crisis To Color: Derrière Le Miroir/Behind The Mirror, Mystic Museum of Art, Connecticut, US
  MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
  No Feeling is Final: The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
  Decades: The Art of Change 1900–1980, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
  The Inner Island, Villa Carmignac, Hyères, France
  
  2022
  Pierre Matisse: An Art Dealer in New York, Musée Matisse, Nice, France
  Facing the Sun, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
  Friendships In Art: Collective Works, Mucem, Marseille, France
  Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
  Calder + Miró, Casa Roberto Marinho, Brazil
  
  2021
  Picasso and Artist’s Jewelry, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
  Calder / Moore, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, US
  Mechanical and Technical Imaginaries in the IVAM Collection, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
  Calder-Picasso, de Young Museum, San Francisco, US
  Moving Vision, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, US
  
  2020
  Unfinished Business, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Disonata: Art in Sound up to 1980, Museo Nacional-Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  Calder, Callahan, and the Intensified Image, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  
  2019
  The Shape of Time: Highlights from the Centre Pompidou Collection. Vol. 1, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
  Vis-à-vis III. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
  Calder-Picasso, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
  
  2018
  Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, US
  Selected Works by 20th Century Masters, Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York, US
  
  2017
  7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, ‎Denmark
  
  2016
  Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
  Calder and Brazilian Art, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
  
  2015
  Calder Lightness; Richard Tuttle Wire Pieces; Fred Sandback 64 Three–Part Pieces, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, US
  Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C, US
  
  2013
  Le Surréalisme et l'objet, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  
  2007
  Kukje Gallery: 25 Years, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2004
  Calder–Miró, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
  
  1993
  Picasso and the Age of Iron, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  
  1968
  The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  
  1953
  Alexander Calder: Mobiles/Naum Gabo: Kinetic Constructions and Constructions in Space, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US
  
  1952
  XXVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
  
  1949
  Third International Exhibition of Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, US
  
  1947
  Alexander Calder/Fernand Léger, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  1942
  First Papers of Surrealism, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York, US
  
  1936
  Cubism and Abstract Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
   

Selected Awards

• 1977       
  Presidential Medal of Freedom
  The Goslar Kaiserring Award for Modern Art
  
  1975
  Honorary Fellow, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague
  United Nations Peace Medal
  
  1974
  Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
  Citoyen d’Honneur, City of Saché
  Official Mayoral Decree of “Alexander Calder Day in Chicago” for 25 October; Honorary Citizen of Chicago
  Le Grand Prix National des Arts
  
  1971
  Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters
  
  1970
  University of California, Honorary Doctorate
  University of Glasgow, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws
  
  1969
  Stevens Institute of Technology, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Engineering
  Key to the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan
  
  1966
  Harvard University, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Arts
  
  1964
  Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters
  
  1963
  President’s Medal, The Art Directors Club of New York
  
  1962
  Art in America Annual Award for an Outstanding Contribution to American Art
  Creative Arts Awards, Sculpture Medal, Brandeis University
  
  1968
  Officier de la Légion d’honneur
  
  1961
  Fine Arts Gold Medal for Master of Sculpture, The American Institute of Architects
  
  1960
  Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters
  Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture, Architectural League of New York
  
  1952
  Grand Prize for Sculpture, XXVI Biennale di Venezia

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Institute of Chicago
  University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
  Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  Moderna Museet, Stockholm
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
  Philadelphia Museum of Art
  Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
   

Selected Monographs

• Sweeney, James Johnson. Alexander Calder. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
  Calder, Alexander, and Jean Davidson, ed. Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. 
  Arnason, H. Harvard, and Pedro E. Guerrero. Calder. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1966.
  Calder, Alexander, James Johnson Sweeney, and Daniel Lelong. Calder, l'artiste et l'oeuvre. Archives Maeght, no. 1. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1971.
  Arnason, H. Harvard, and Ugo Mulas. Calder. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
  Bruzeau, Maurice. Calder à Saché. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1975. 
  Hayes, Margaret Calder. Three Alexander Calders, A Family Memoir. Middlebury, Vt.: Paul S. Eriksson, 1977.
  Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: La sculpture en mouvement. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard/Paris-Musées, 1996.
  Carandente, Giovanni. Teodelapio: Alexander Calder. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1996.
  Rower, Alexander S. C. Calder Sculpture. New York: Universe, 1998.
  Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.
  Stern, H. Peter, David R. Collens, and Alexander S. C. Rower. Calder: Storm King Art Center. Mountainville, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center, 2003.
  Calder Jewelry. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower. New York: Calder Foundation, 2007.
  Mulas, Ugo, Alexander Calder, and Giulio C. Argan. Ugo Mulas/Alexander Calder. Milan: Officina Libraria, 2008.
  Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: Mouvement et Réalité. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2009.
  Calder by Matter. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 2013.
  “Calder in France.” Cahiers d’Art, no. 1 (2015). Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower.
  Perl, Jed. Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.