Alexander Calder

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025
  Wonders in Color: Art by Alexander Calder & Others, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, US
  
  2024
  Solid Gold, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  Art in Life, Life in Art, D Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
  Sky Gazing, ARoS, Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
  Quiet Elegance: A Remarkable Bequest, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, US
  Tragic Depictions: Negative Emotions in the Visual Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, US
  Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder, Di Donna Galleries, New York, US
  
  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, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  Tout n’est qu’influence, Perrotin, Paris, France
  Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
  Georgia O’Keeffe, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
  Richard Misrach: At the still point of the turning world, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Motion: Auto, Art, Architecture, Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  Calder–Miró bajo la mirada de un fotógrafo español, Galería BAT, Madrid, Spain
  Entre chien et loup, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
  Giants, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  America: Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
  Au coeur de l’abstraction: Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
  Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, US
  
  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
  Still Life, Almine Rech, Paris, France
  Faces and Figures, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US
  Lost in Italy, Luxembourg & Co., London, UK
  Portable Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
  Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, US
  Five Years, Olivier Malingue, London, UK
  Calder-Picasso, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Work in Progress, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
  Calder X Mies: Reflections on Alexander Calder and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Kicken Gallery, Berlin, Germany
  The Bridge V, The Bridge, Bridgehampton, New York, US
  Parisian Abstracts: Abstraction-Création, MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary
  The Point of Sculpture, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
  Saul Steinberg: Milano New York, Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy
  Modern Life: 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Daegu Art Museum, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  Calder-Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
  Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  
  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
  Entre actes: Obres mestres conegudes, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
  Sound Lasting and Leaving, Luxembourg & Dayan, 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
  Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, US
  Braque, Miró, Calder, Nelson: Varengeville, un atelier sur les falaises, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
  Calder Crags + Vanuatu Totems from the Collection of Wayne Heathcote, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
  Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
  Calder-Picasso, Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain
  Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  Calder / Saraceno, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
  Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Constructed Worlds. A Choice of Sculptures from the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Metz, France
  The Fabric of Modernity: Matisse, Picasso, Miró…and French Tapestries, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
  Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’Art: The Archaic Turn, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
  
  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
  Vis-à-vis II. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
  Calder / Rickey, Davidson Gallery, New York, US
  Action–Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  Calder/Kelly, Lévy Gorvy, New York, US
  
  2017
  7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, ‎Denmark
  Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, London, UK
  Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, US
  Imaginary Ancestors, Almine Rech, New York, US
  Vis-à-vis I. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
  Alvar Aalto: Art and the Modern Form, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  Alexander Calder/David Smith, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
  The Art of Movement: Alexander Calder, George Rickey & Tim Prentice, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, US
  Calder on Paper: 1960–1976, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder and Cady Noland, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
  
  2016
  Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
  Calder and Brazilian Art, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
  The Calder Prize 2005–2015, Pace Gallery, London, UK
  From Kandinsky to Pollock, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  Musicircus: Œuvres phares du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Metz, France
  Above, Before & After, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Biennale des Antiquaries, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
  Designing Chessmen: A Taste of the Imagery of Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri, US
  Calder and Picasso, Almine Rech, New York, US
  
  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
  American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collections, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
  Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Futurs. De la ville aux étoile: Matisse, Miro, Calder.., Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
  Transparence: Calder / Picabia, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland 
  Calder/Dubuffet: Between Sky and Earth, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
  Tutto é felice nella vita dell’arte: Omaggio a Giovanni Carandente, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy
  
  2014
  Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
  Black / White, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, US
  Carte Blanche, Pace Gallery at Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Switzerland
  Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, US
  Alvar Aalto: Second Nature, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhien, Germany
  Miró/Calder, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
  
  2013
  Le Surréalisme et l'objet, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
  In the Round: A Collection of Domestic-Scaled Sculptures from Rodin to Kapoor. A Selling Exhibition, Sotheby’s S2, New York, US
  A Passion for Jean Prouvé from Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
  Perspectives Atmosphériques: Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Malingue, Paris, France
  New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919–1939, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Calder / Prouvé, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, in collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
  Arp, Calder, and Miró: Modern Masters from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, US
  Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky, Ronchini Gallery, London, in collaboration with Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive / Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy
  Davant l’horitzó, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
  Dada and Surrealist Objects, Blain Di Donna, New York, US
  Calder / Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, France
  Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles, Salon 94, New York, US
  Now and Then: Contrasting Approaches to Key Themes of Modernism (An 80-Year Survey), LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard, Santa Fe, US
  
  2012
  Masterworks: From Degas to Rosenquist, Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York, US
  Il Guggenheim: L’avanguardia Americana 1945–1980, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
  Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
  Mythology, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Great Masters of the Avant-Garde: Miró, Mondrian, Calder and the Guggenheim Collections, Arca Di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy
  House of Cards, The Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK
  Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
  Encounters with the 1930s, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  The Nemesims, Team Gallery, New York, US
  American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  
  2011
  Spotlight on the Collection–Artists in Depth: Arp, Miró, Calder, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US
  Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, US
  Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
  Gli Anni Folli. The Paris Years of Modigliani, Picasso and Dali: 1918–1933, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
  Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
  Afinidades selectivas, Galería Manuel Barbié, Barcelona, Spain
  Surrealism in Paris, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
  Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
  Burning Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Modern Masters: Paris & Beyond, Hammer Galleries, New York, US
  
  2010
  Tanguy Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction, L&M Arts, New York, US
  Calder–Miró: Una Experiència de Respecte i Amistat, Centre Cultural Caixa Terrassa, Spain
  The View From Here: Storm King at 50, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US
  Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  50 Years at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US
  
  2009
  For a New World: Georges Vantongerloo and His Environment from Piet Mondrian to Max Bill, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
  
  2008
  Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
  Calder–Nakashima, Vintage20 / Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
  Expo 58, l’Art Contemporain à l’Exposition Universelle, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
  You & Me, Sometimes…, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US
  
  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 Publications

• 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.
   

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Art Institute of Chicago
  Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
  Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
  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
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  Seattle Art Museum
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
  Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
  University of California, Berkeley Art Museum ＆ Pacific Film Archive
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven