Biography
Alexander Calder
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(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
2026
Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan, Seattle Art Museum, US
Calder. Rêver en Équilibre, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2025
High Wire: Calder's Circus at 100, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2024
Calder: at home, among friends, San José Museum of Art, San José, US
Calder. Sculpting Time, MASI Lugano LAC Venue, Lugano, Switzerland
Calder: Un effet du japonais, Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Alexander Calder, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, US
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, Palm Desert, US
Alexander Calder: Painting the Cosmos, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
Calder: Gouaches, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US
2021
Alexander Calder: 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
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, D.C., 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
Alexander Calder: Bold Gouaches, Heather James Fine Art, New York, US
Alexander Calder (1898–1976), Tapisseries, Galerie Alexandre Guillemain, Paris, France
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
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2026
MUSEUMS WITHOUT BORDERS, Frac Grand Large, Dunkirk, France
2025
Colours!, Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monaco
Network Paris: Abstraction-Création 1931–1937, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany
Wonders in Color: Art by Alexander Calder & Others, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, US
Animal!?, Fonds Hélène & Édouard Leclerc pour la Culture, Landerneau, France
Modern and Contemporary, The Menil Collection, Houston, 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
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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
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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
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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
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