GYORGY KEPES BIO

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          Academy of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1924-1928

S O L O  E X H I B I T I O N S

          Alpha Gallery, Boston, 2012, 2005, 2000, 1998, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1986, 1983, 1979,
          1977, 1974, 1972, 1970
          Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 1991
          Clarence Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 1989
          Vigado Galeriaban, Budapest, 1986
          Eger Museum, Hungary, 1986
          Szomnathely Muzeum, Hungary, 1986
          M.I.T. Museum, Hungary, 1986
          Saidenberg Gallery, New York, 1980, 1972, 1968, 1966, 1963, 1960
          Wichita Art Museum, 1979
          Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA (retrospective), 1978
          Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, St. Louis, 1978
          Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, 1978
          Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, 1977
          Bauhaus fur Gestaltung, Berlin, 1977
          Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, 197
          Galerie Moos, Montreal, 1968
          Southern Methodist University, Dallas, 1967
          Marion Koogler McNay Institute, San Antonio, TX, 1966
          Phoenix Art Museum, 1966
          Swetzoff Gallery, Boston, 1959-1967
          Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1959
          Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, 1959
          Baltimore Museum of Art, 1959
          The New Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 1959
          Centro Culturale Olivetti, Ivrea, Italy, 1958
          Galleria de Via Montenapoleone, Milan, 1958
          Galleria il Numbero, Florence, 1958
          Gallerie L'Obelisco, Rome, 1958
          Margaret Brown Gallery, Boston, 1957, 1953, 1951
          Emerson Museum of Art, Syracuse University, NY, 1957
          DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 1953
          Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1952
          San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, CA, 1952
          Currier Gallery of Art, Manchaster, NH, 1951
          Art Institute of Chicago, 1944
          Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago, 1939

S E L E C T E D  G R O U P  E X H I B I T I O N S

          Manna: Masterworks from the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection, Tufts University Art
          Gallery, Medford, MA, 2014
          Abstract Photography in the Permanent Collection, accompanying "Luminous Forms,"
          deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, 2004
          "Gyorgy Kepes and Colleagues: Photographs from the 1930s to the 1980s," Alpha Gallery,
          Boston, MA, 2003
          "Then and Now: Celebrating Fifty Years of the Cambridge Art Association," Cambridge Art
          Association, Cambridge, MA, 1994
          "Light-Space-Time: CAVS/MIT - 25 Years," MIT Museum and Center for Advanced Visual
          Studies, Cambridge, MA, 1994
          "Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues," Dallas Museum of Natural History, 1993 - 1994
          "Multiple Interaction," San Fransisco Exploratorium, 1973
          "Bienal Coltejer III," Medillin, Columbia, 1972
          "Hungarian Art, the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde," Indiana University Art Museum,
          Bloomington, 1972
          "Multiple Interaction," Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, 1972
          "Bienal Coltejer,' Medillin, Columbia, 1970
          "Hungarian Art," National Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
          "Electromagica,' Tokyo, 1969
          "Exploration," National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC, 1968
          "Exploration II," Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1968
          "Art of the U.S. Embassies," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1966
          "Art of U.S.A.," International Traveling Exhibition, Tokyo, Dublin, Rome
          "Art in Science," Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 1965
          "Photography in America 1850 - 1965," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1965
          "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
          Champaign, 1965
          "Twenty-ninth Biennial Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1965
          "Restraint and Restless Forms of Art," Cleveland Museum of Art, 1965
          "Pittsburgh International," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1964
          "159th Annual Exhibition," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1964
          "Twenty-Eighth Biennial Exhibition," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1963
          "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
          Champaign, 1963
          "The Dana Collection," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1962
          "Ideas in Images," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1962
          "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
          Champaign, 1961
          Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1961
          Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1960
          "Selection," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1960
          "Sixty-Fourth American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, Whitney Museum of
          Contemporary Art, New York, 1960
          Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, 1959
          "Pittsburgh International," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1959
          Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, 1959
          Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1958
          "Sixty-Third Annual Exhibition," Denver Art Museum, 1957
          "Cross-Currents," Time, Inc., New York, Stanford Art Academy, Palo Alto, CA, 1956
          Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1956
          "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
          Champaign, 1955
          "Pittsburgh International," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1955
          "Gyorgy Kepes, Geo Ponti," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1954
          "International Secession," Staedtisches Museum, Leverkusen, West Germany, 1954
          "Sixty-first American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1954
          Art Institute of Chicago, 1953
          "Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois,
          Champaign, 1952
          "Morris Graves, Gyorgy Kepes, Mark Tobey," Mayo Hill Galleries, Wellfleet, MA, 1952
          San Fransisco Museum of Art, 1952
          "Artists of the Graduate Center, Harvard University: Arp, Bayer, Miro, Lippold, Kepes,"
          Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, MA, 1951
          Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1951
          "Collage,' The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1948
          The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1947
          "Design with Light," Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1946
          "Modern Art in Advertising," Designs for the Container Corporation of America,
          Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1946
          "Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States," Cincinnati Museum; Denver Art Museum;
          San Francisco Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum; Seattle Art Museum, 1944
          "Exhibition of the Advance Guard of Advertising Artists," Katherine Kuh Gallery, Chicago,
          1941
          "Paintings and Sculptures in Illinois 1820 - 1945," Traveling exhibition organized by Illinois Art
          Council, 1941
          "American Abstract Art," Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1940
          "Helion, Kepes, Moholy-Nagy," Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1939
          "Artist New Society," K.U.T., Budapest, 1929

S E L E C T E D  C O L L E C T I O N S

          Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
          Albany Institute of Art and History
          Albright Knox Art Gallery
          Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
          American Telephone & Telegraph, NY
          Anderson Industries, Rockford, IL
          Art Institute of Chicago
          Bank of America, San Francisco
          Bauhaus Museum of Gestaltung, Berlin
          Boston City Hall, Mayor's Office
          Brooklyn Museum of Art
          Chase Manhattan Bank
          Cleveland Museum of Art
          Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
          Cranbrook Academy of Design
          Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
          DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
          Des Moines Art Museum
          First National Bank of Boston
          Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
          Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
          Heron Museum of Fine Arts, Indianapolis
          Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
          Houston Museum of Fine Arts
          Indianapolis Museum of Art
          Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem
          Janus Pannonius Muzeum, Hungary
          Johnson Foundation, Racine, WI
          Kansas City Art Institute
          Kepes Museum, Budapest
          Krannert Art Gallery, University of Illinois, Urbana
          Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
          Museum of FIne Arts, Boston
          Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
          Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
          Museum of Modern Art, New York
          National Collection of Fine Arts, Budapest
          Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase
          Phoenix Art Museum
          Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
          San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, CA
          San Francisco Museum of Art
          Shawmut Bank, Boston
          Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
          Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
          St. Louis Art Museum
          Szekesfehervari Muzeum, Hungary
          Tufts University, Medford, MA
          U.S. Department of State, Embassy Collection, Washington, DC
          Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
          Wellesley College Museum of Art, Wellesley, MA
          Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
          Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA