Born 1944, New York

Died 2026, Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

1967

Postgraduate study, Fine Arts, Hunter College, New York

1966

BA, Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025

Karma, New York, Galacticonexus

2024

Karma, New York, The Rest of Me

2022

Karma, New York, Allies

2007

The Drawing Center, New York, Alan Saret: Gang Drawings

2004

James Cohan Gallery, New York, Hiraki Sawa and Alan Saret

2001

James Cohan Gallery, New York, Carl Andre and Alan Saret

1990

MoMA PS1, New York, Alan Saret: Retrospective

1989

Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, Alan Saret: Angle & Axis

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, Sol LeWitt and Alan Saret: Recent Drawings

1987

Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

1984

University of California, Santa Barbara, John Chamberlain and Alan Saret: Arithmetic/Harmonic

1983

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York

1982

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, Alan Saret: Matter into Aether

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1981

University of Rhode Island, Kingston

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Alan Saret: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen

1980

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1979

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, MATRIX 18

Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, Sculpture and Drawings

1978

University of California, Irvine, Visionary Drawings, Energy Fields, Sculpture

1977

Seattle Art Museum, Mesh Work Architecture and Dragon’s Tooth Casting

SITE, San Francisco 

1975

597 West Broadway, New York

1974

The Clocktower Gallery, New York, Alan Saret: Drawings and Sculpture

54 Leonard Street, New York

Rosa Esman Gallery, New York

1971

Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York

1970

Bykert Gallery, New York

Spring Palace, New York

Bennington College, Vermont, Alan Saret: Watercolor Drawings

1968

Bykert Gallery, New York, Mountains of Chance, Documents of Ruralism . . . Changing Manufactures

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, University of California, Irvine, The Inoperative Community: Exhibition X Practice, UC Irvine 1965–2025

2024

Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Rome, in collaboration with Aïshti Foundation, Day for Night: New American Realism, curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori

Menil Drawing Institute, Houston, Out of Thin Air: Emerging Forms, curated by Kirsten Marples

2023

Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Colección Jumex: Everything Gets Lighter

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida, A Walk on the Wild Side

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Long Story Short

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Collection 1940s–1970s: Touching the Void

Griffin Art Projects, North Vancouver, Canada, Per Diem Part II

2022

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Joan Didion: What She Means

The Church, Sag Harbor, Threading the Needle

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, From the Collection: Three Alumni Artists

Centre Pompidou, Paris, Worlds of Networks

2020

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, Drawing Connections

2019

ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, Negative Space

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, One Hundred Drawings

2018

University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Restricted

David Nolan Gallery, New York, Drawing Space: 1970–1983—Darboven, Le Va, Rockburne, Sandback, Saret, Sonnier

2017

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989 James Cohan Gallery, New York, Sculpture: Works by Nahum Tevet, Richard Long, Alan Saret

Jean-Paul Najar Foundation for Contemporary Art, Dubai, Artist Run New York: The Seventies

2016

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner

MoMA PS1, New York, FORTY

2015

David Zwirner, New York, Selections from The Kramarsky Collection

Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni

2014

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Color Shift

2013

Fondazione Prada, Venice, When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, curated by Germano Celant

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, Ambach & Rice Presents: 40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery

2012

Inman Gallery, Houston, Paper Space: Drawings by Sculptors

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Intimate Intensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection

2011

Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Der Raum der Linie: Amerikanische Zeichnungen und Skulpturen ab 1960 (traveled to Museum Wiesbaden, Germany)

David Zwirner Gallery, New York, 112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970–1974)

2010

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, James Siena: From the Studio

Dallas Museum of Art, Re-Seeing the Contemporary

2009

James Cohan Gallery, New York, Shaping Space

Texas Gallery, Houston, Suspect Traces: A Summer Group Show

2007

James Cohan Gallery, New York, The Summer Show

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Uncontained

Cook Fine Art, New York, AROUND 1984

2006

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, A Measure of Time: American  Art 1900 to the Present

2003

James Cohan Gallery, New York, A Simple Plan

2002

David Nolan Gallery, New York, 5 Sculptors: Drawings from the 1970’s-—Richard Artschwager, Barry Le Va, Sol LeWitt, Alan Saret, and Richard Tuttle

2001

Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, Bruce Conner, Agnes Denes, Alan Saret: Early Drawings

2000

Museum of Modern Art, New York, MoMA2000: Making Choices

Queens Museum of Art, New York, Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

1999

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

1997

The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Reopening: Installations and Projects

1995

Museum of Modern Art, New York, American Sculptors in the 1960s: Selected Drawings from the Collection

1994

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection

1993

Brooklyn Museum, The Second Dimension: Twentieth-Century Sculptors’ Drawings from The Brooklyn Museum

1991

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Between Geometry and Gesture: American Sculpture 1965–1975 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, The Margins of Minimalism

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Immaterial Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum

1990

University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, A Collection of Original Works by Seven Young Artists Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, John Cage, Alan Saret, Richard Tuttle

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Out of Site

1989

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Experience of Landscape: Three Decades of Sculpture

1988

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Organic Abstraction

BlumHelman Gallery, Santa Monica, Questioning the Givens

University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 24 Cubes

1987

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial 1987

IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, New York Computer and Art

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Contemporary Works from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Drawing since 1940

1986

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Images of the Unknown

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Natural Forms and Forces: Abstract images in American Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sculptors’ Drawings

Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, Richard Artschwager, Alan Saret, and Pat Steir

Brooklyn Museum, National Print Exhibition, 24th Biennial: Public and Private: American Prints Today

1985

Brooklyn Museum, Contemporary American Prints: Recent Acquisitions

Brooklyn Museum, Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Made in India

1982

Nationalgalerie, West Berlin, Germany, Kunst Wird Material

Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, Drawing Invitational 1981

1981

Whitney Museum of Art, New York, Developments in Recent Sculpture

William Paterson College Gallery, Wayne, New Jersey, 112 Greene Street Revival

1980

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Watercolors

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Sculpture at the Coliseum

Venice Biennale, Drawings: The Pluralist Decade

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Drawing/Structures

Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado, Beyond Object

Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, 10 Abstract Sculptures, American and European, 1940–1980

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Architectural Sculpture

Wave Hill, Bronx, Temporal Structures

1979

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of  Modern Art

Artists Space, New York, Artists Draw

1977

University of Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Open to New Ideas

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Whitney Biennial 1977

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, New York Avant-Garde/Works and Projects of the Seventies

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Open Studios

Museum of Modern Art, New York, American Drawn and Matched

Institute d’Art Contemporain de Montreal and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 03 23 03

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, View of a Decade, 1967–1977

1976

P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Rooms

The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, The Magazine Show

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, American Art of the 20th Century

Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Soho Downtown Manhattan

1975

The Clocktower Gallery, New York, Collectors of the Seventies, Part I: Dorothy and Herbert Vogel

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Materials and Manipulations

1974

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Works on Paper

1973

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Drawings, 1963–73

1971

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Six Sculptors: Extended Structures

Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, India

1970

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Paperworks

1969

Kunsthalle Berne, Switzerland, When Attitudes Become Form, curated by Harald Szeemann

Steinberg Hall Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Here & Now

1968

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, 3 Young Americans: Krueger, Nauman, Saret

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture

Castelli Gallery, New York, Nine in a Warehouse

Bykert Gallery, New York

SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS AND INSTALLATIONS

1992

Pittsburgh International Airport Arrival Terminal, Pittsburgh

1985

Brooklyn Museum, Proposals for Metro: Downtown Seattle Transit Project Working in Brooklyn

1975

Artpark, Lewiston, New York, Ghosthouse

1971

Second Indian Triennale, New Delhi, India, The India Ramp 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts 

Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York 

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin 

Brooklyn Museum

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine 

Dallas Art Museum

Davidson College, North Carolina 

Denver Museum of Art

Detroit Institute of Arts 

Fondation Cartier, Paris 

Glenstone, Travilah, Maryland 

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 

Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge 

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 

High Museum of Art, Atlanta 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis 

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas

MoMA PS1, New York 

Morgan Library & Museum, New York

Museo Jumex, Mexico City 

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City 

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Saint Louis Art Museum

Syracuse Art Museum, New York

University Museum at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

PUBLICATIONS

2024

See & Be

Karma, New York

2022

Alphabetaka

Karma, New York

Matter Into Aether

Karma, New York

1982

Alan Saret: Matter into Aether

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California

1999

Afterimage: Drawing Through Process

MOCA, Los Angeles, and MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts

1979

Artists Draw: Donald Sultan, Tom Martin, Auste Peciura, Alan Saret, Patti Smith, Nancy Spero

Artists Space, New York

1985

Gerard McCarthy

Abstract Forms: The Sculptures of Alan Saret and John Duff

Syracuse University, New York

1978

Donald John Evans

The Problem of Environment in the Work of Alan Saret

University of Texas at San Antonio