Lee Lozano
The work of Lee Lozano (b. 1930, Newark, NJ; d. 1999, Dallas, TX) is of striking range and complexity. Her paintings, drawings, and performative projects display a notable vitality, dynamism, and persistence in their scrutiny of socialized gender and body politics, and energetically critiqued norms of respectability and behavioral customs. Lozano strove to maintain her artistic integrity and critical focus amid the detached and esoteric conceptualisms that were fashionable in her time. Her provocative early illustrations depicted anthropomorphized, cartoonish body parts; sexual organs; building tools; household articles; and mechanical devices arranged in facetious poses. Later “wave” paintings embraced the minimalism of contemporaries such as Sol LeWitt, Dan Graham, and Carl Andre. Lozano’s conceptual pieces and written proposals evidence her constant engagement with her political reality. Her “Dropout Piece,” in which she disengaged from the New York art world, and her “Boycott of Women,” in which she ceased contact with all women until her death, reacted against socio political structures, and embodied what curator Lucy Lippard terms true “life-as-art.”
Recent solo exhibitions include Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK (2020); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2018); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (2017); Karma, New York (2016); and Hauser & Wirth, New York (2015). Lozano’s work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge; Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C.; and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, among others.
© Estate of Hollis Frampton
Born 1930 Newark, New Jersey
Died 1999 Dallas, Texas
EDUCATION
1951
B.A. University of Chicago
1960
B.F.A Art Institute of Chicago
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Karma, New York, Lee Lozano: Drawings 1959-64 (forthcoming)
2020
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, United Kingdom
2018
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh,Lee Lozano: Slip Slide Splice
2017
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Hauser & Wirth, London, Lee Lozano – c. 1962
2016
Karma, New York, Lee Lozano – c. 1962
2015
Hauser & Wirth, New York, Lee Lozano. Drawings & Paintings
2011
Hauser & Wirth, New York, Lee Lozano Tools
2010
Ratio 3, San Francisco, Lee Lozano: Notebooks 1967-70
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Lee Lozano: Retrospective
2008
Hauser & Wirth, Zürich
2007
Hauser & Wirth, London, No Title. 1969
2006
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Win first dont last/Win last dont care
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Dorothy Iannone und Lee Lozano
2005
Studio B, Los Angeles, Lee Lozano: Work on paper from the 1960’s
2004
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Lee Lozano: Drawn from Life 1961-1971
871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, Lee Lozano: paintings and drawings
2001
Büro Friedrich, Berlin, Language Pieces
2000
Van Liere Fine Arts, New York, A wave painting and some drawings
1998
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Lee Lozano/Matrix:135
Mitchell Algus GallerY, New York, Early 60s
Rosen & van Liere, New York, Tool Paintings
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, Minimalism
1995
Rosen & van Liere, New York
1988
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Lee Lozano: the Sixties
1971
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, California, Lee Lozano: Infofiction
Lisson Gallery, London, Infofiction II
1970
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969
Galerie Ricke, Cologne
1966
Bianchini Gallery, New York
The New Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Zeros and Ones
Fondazione Prada, Venice, Stop Painting
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Sammlung
2020
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, In aller Munde. Von Pieter Bruegel bis Cindy Sherman
nGbK neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Radikale Passivität: Politiken des Fleisches
Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven, Netherlands, Yael Davids: A Daily Practice
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New Images of Man, curated by Alison M. Gingeras
Punta della Dogana, François Pinault Foundation, Venice,Untitled, 2020, curated by Caroline Bourgeois, Muna El Fituri and Thomas Houseago
K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany, I’M NOT A NICE GIRL!, curated by Isabelle Malz
2019
Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, United Kingdom, Unconscious Landscape. Works from the Ursula Hauser Collection
Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland, Material Actions
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Open House: Elliot Hundley
Centre de la photographie Geneve, Geneva, OSMOSCOSMOS
Punta delle Dogana, Venice, Luogo e Segni
Mimosa House, London, Do you keep thinking there must be another way
Museion, Bolzano, Italy, DOING Deculturalization
Schinkel Pavillion e.V., Berlin, Straying from the line
Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Luogo e Segni
2018
Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg Museum, Derneburg, Germany, Für Barbara, curated by Leo Koenig
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Walking Point
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo, Happy Mind – Natural High
2017
Celaya Brothers Gallery, Mexico City, Postcards from America
Peter Freeman, Inc, New York, Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Masterworks from MoMA. Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2018
Pilar Corrias, London, Adult Swim
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, Minimal Art from the Marzona Collection
The British Museum, London, The American Dream. Pop to the Present
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, Works on Paper: 1813-2016
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery
The Met Breuer, New York, Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980
2016
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery 1959-1971
Transmission, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Don’t Tred on Me
Galerie Patrick Segin, Paris, Olympia
Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Karma, Amagansett, New York, Landscape I
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Inventing Downtown
LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster, Germany, Homosexualitäten
Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, In Place Of
Site 131, Dallas, Dropout: Regarding Lee Lozano
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt ; Centre Pompidou Metz, France, An Imagined Museum
mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, HOMOSEXUALITÄT_EN / HOMOSEXUALITY_IES
2015
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, An Imagined Museum
Ballroom Marfa, Texas, Äppärät
Kunsthalle Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Gestures of Disappearance
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, The Word is Flat
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, America Is Hard to See
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Sense (Un)Certainty: A Private Collection
Villa Merkel, Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany, Better than de Kooning
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway, Gestures of Disappearance
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
CAM St. Louis, St. Louis, Occupational Therapy
Palazzo Reale, Milan, The Great Mother
Punta della Dogana – François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Slip of the Tongue
White Columns, New York, White Columns Annual
Petzel Gallery, New York, A Machinery for Living
Gucci Museo, Florence, Feminilitá Radicale
Ancient & Modern, London, Jan Pleitner
Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland, 69 / 96
2013
SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana, To melt, trustingly, without reproach
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Das Beste vom Besten. Vom riskanten Geschäft der Kunst
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany, Continental Drift. Conceptual Art in Canada: The 1960s and 70s
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Now Here is also Nowhere
2012
The Box Gallery, Los Angeles, Painting
The Whitney Museum, New York, Sinister Pop
Vancouver Gallery, Vancouver, Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980
Seventeen Gallery, London, A Plea For Tenderness
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Materializing ‘Six Years’: Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art
2011
Parra & Romero, Madrid, Ventajas de Viajar en Tren
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Day of the locust
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Personal is Political: Women Artists from the Collection
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, The Collectors Show
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, MMK 1991 – 2011: 20 Years of Presence
David Zwirner, New York, Proofs and Refutations
Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, Massachusetts, Seductive Subversion: Woman Pop Artists 1958 – 1968
Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Barely There Part II
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Absentee Landlord
2010
Reedstudio, New York, Working drawings
The Jewish Museum, New York, Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York, Seductive Subversion: Woman Pop Artists 1958-1968
Haus der Kunst, Munich, less is more. Pictures, Objects, Concepts from the Collection and Archive of Herman and Nicole Daled. 1968-1978
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, Joint Dialogue: Lozano / Graham / Kaltenbach
The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Beyond the Surface: Women in Pop Art 1958-1968
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Compass in hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
2009
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Face Up
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection
MARRES Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Netherlands, Depression
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Works on View
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-1978
Palazzo Grassi / Punta della Dogana, Venice, Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Mind Expanders
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany, Pop-Up!
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Yellow and Green: Positions from the collection of the MMK
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Mind Expanders
2008
Michele Maccarone and Gavin Brown, New York, Pretty / Ugly
The Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia
Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Revolutions 1968
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, Solitaire: Lee Lozano, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Joan Semmel
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City; Vancouver Art Gallery, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965–1980
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975
2007
Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf, Short Distance To Now
Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, StoneFace I
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, Don’t Look. Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin), class of 1958
David Zwirner, New York, A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Das Kapital
documenta 12, Kassel, Germany
Gagosian Gallery, New York, Beneath the Underdog
Rowley Kennerk Gallery, Chicago, Sam Durant, Robert Heinecken, Lee Lozano, Cady Noland and Richard Prince
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, 1965–1980
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Mixed Signals
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Into Me / Out of Me
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; The National Academy Museum of Rine Arts, New York, High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975
2006
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Konzept. Aktion. Sprache
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, Into Me / Out of Me
Daniel Weinsberg Gallery, Los Angeles, BLOCK PARTY: An Exhibition of Drawings
Tang Art Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, Twice Drawn
Solo Projects. Studio B, Los Angeles, Nineteen Sixty-Eight
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, Exquisite Corpse – Cadavre Exquis: a game played between Mitchell Algus and Bob Nickas
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, Motore Immobile
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina; American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967-1975
2005
Andrea Rosen, New York, Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper
Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseuem, St. Gallen, Switzerland, Sweet Temptations. Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Drawing from the Modern, 1945-1975
2004
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Collection (or How I Spent a Year)
MUMOK – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Kurze Karrieren
Dinter Fine Arts, New York, Word of Mouth. A Selection: Part I
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Work Ethic
2003
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, Drawings, drawings, drawings
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, Karaoke Death Machine
Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria, Chocolate, what else: The Rolfe Ricke Collection
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas, Austin, Transgressive Women: Yayoi Kusama, Lee Lozano, Ana Mendieta and Joan Semmel
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, I can’t be you
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Work Ethic
2002
Galerie der Hochschule für Grafik und Design / Academy of the Visual Arts, Leipzig, Kunst verlassen
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Einfach Kunst: Sammlung Rolf Ricke
2001
Carpenter Center for the Visual Art & Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Extreme Connoisseurship
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Non-composition: 15 case studies
Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, Miss World 1972
2000
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Afterimage
Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Worthless (Invaluable)
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, Painting of the Sixties and Seventies
1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Afterimage: Drawing Through Process
Queens Museum, New York, Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s
1998
Ubu Gallery, New York, The Sixties in the Seventies
1996
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
Lawrence Markley, New York, Graphite: Lee Bontecou, Helmut Federle, Lee Lozano, Robert Moskowitz, Cary Smith, Myron Stout, Robert Therrien
1994
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 1969: a Year Revisited
1991
Art Basel (Margarete Roeder Gallery), Basel, Switzerland
1983
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, Art on Paper
1982
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources Inc., New York, Abstract Art: 1960-1969
1970
Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany
Neue Galerie im alten Kurhaus, Aachen, Germany, Klischee + Antiklischee: Bildformen der Gegenwart
Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, Some New York Painting
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Bilder, Skulpturen, Objekte & Zeichnungen
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Drawings
University Arts Museum, The University of Texas, Austin, Art and Things: Painting in the Sixties from the Michener Collection
1969
Dwan Gallery, New York, Language III
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Number 7
New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre, New York, Art / Peace Event
Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., 31st Biennial Exhibition
Galerie Ricke, Cologne
Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, 8 Painters
Gallery of the Art Resources Center, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Drawings
1968
The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Gordon, Lozano, Ryman & Stanley
1967
Old Dominion College, Norfolk, Virginia, Contemporary Paintings from the Michener Foundation Collection
1966
Noah Goldowsky & Richard Bellamy, New York, From Arp to Artschwager Show, I
Bianchini Gallery, New York
The Lannis Museum of Normal Art, New York, Normal Art
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, New Acquisitions 1963-1966: The James A. Michener Foundation Collection
1965
Green Gallery, New York
Sheldon Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, 74th Annual Exhibit
1964
Green Gallery, New York
Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, Contemporary Erotica
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, California, The New Art
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, UNCG, Greensboro, North Carolina
Corcoran Museum, Washington DC
James Michener Collection, University Art Museums, The University of Texas, Austin
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
