Irving Kriesberg

Born 1919, Chicago, Illinois
Died 2009, New York City


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Ciba-Geigy Collection
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Jerusalem Municipality, Israel
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Polk Art Museum, Lakeland, FL
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Saint Louis Museum of Art, MO
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY


SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2008
Irving Kriesberg: Early to Recent, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2004
Irving Kriesberg: Changeable Paintings, 1956-68, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2002
Paintings, Peter Findlay Gallery, New York

2000
Irving Kriesberg: Sculpture: 1985-1999, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York

1998
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York

1997
Peter Findlay Gallery, New York

1996
Rich-Perlow Gallery, New York

1994
Rich-Perlow Gallery, New York

1992
Rich-Perlow Gallery, New York

1990
Scheele Gallery, Cleveland, OH

1987
Graham Modern Gallery, New York

1985
Graham Modern Gallery, New York

1983
Jack Gallery, New York

1982
Washington University Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Zenith Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

1981
Rose Art Museum, Boston, MA
Fiedler Gallery, Washington, DC
Jack Gallery, New York City

1980
Everon Museum, Syracuse, NY
Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Galerie Elizabeth, Chicago, IL

1979
Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978
Dintenfass Gallery, New York
Ingber Gallery, New York

1967
Yale Museum of Art, New Haven, CT

1966
Kumar Gallery, Delhi, India
Kasie Gallery of Art, Detroit, MI

1962
Graham Gallery, New York

1961
Jewish Museum, Retrospective, New York

1959
Duveen-Graham Gallery, New York

1957
Duveen-Graham Gallery, New York

1956
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO

1955
Curt Valentin Gallery

1954
Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

1946
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007
Anniversary: Ten Years of Gallery Art and Artists, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2006
Clay: Four Artists, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2005
In Black and White, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2004
Inaugural Exhibition, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

2001
Drawings and Sculpture, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York

1996
National Academy of Design, New York

1995
National Academy of Design, New York

1994
National Academy of Design, New York

1987
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
The Inner Self, Montclair Art Museum, NJ

1986
Diptychs, Triptychs, & Polyptychs, Graham Modern Gallery, New York
Emotional Impact, New York School Figurative Expressionism, curated by April Kingsley, circulated by the Art Museum Association of America, San Francisco, CA, to: Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainsville, FL; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK; Beaumont Art Center, Beaumont, TX; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Summer Yellows, Graham Modern, New York

1985
Drawing 1985, Ingber Gallery, New York
Contemporary Images, Realities of Eye and Mind, curated by Carola van den Houten, Mendik Company, New York

1984
Collectors Choice, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

1978
Aspects of the Figure, Landmark Gallery, New York

1972
Ten Independents, Guggenheim Museum, New York

1969
Human Concern, Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1967
Options: An Exhibition of Changeable Art, traveling exhibition curated by Lawrence Alloway

1964
Multiples, Graham Gallery, New York

1962
New Forms, New Media II, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1961
New Forms, New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York

1959
Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, PA

1956
Three Americans, Museum of Modern Art European Tour, New York

1953
Group exhibitions circulated to: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI; Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1952
Fifteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York


COMMISSIONS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2001
Pollock-Krasner “Lifetime Achievement” Award

2000
Pollock-Krasner Award

1993
Pollock-Krasner Fellowship

1983
New York City Cultural Center, 40 Foot “Peace Dove” Banner

1981
National Endowment for the Arts Award

1980
MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1979
MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1977
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Memorial Award

1976
Yaddo Art Colony Fellowship

1974
New York State Creative Artists Public Service Award
Murals, Beth Emet Temple, Evanston, IL

1973
State University of New York Research Fellowship

1972
New York State Creative Artists Public Service Award

1971
MacDowell Colony Fellowship

1962
22 Small Bronzes, Collection of Horace Richter, New York

1965-66
Fulbright Fellowship to India

1964
Ford Foundation (painting Purchase Award)

1955
Ford Foundation Grant, Looking at Pictures, College Text


EDUCATION

University of Chicago and Chicago Art Institute, B.F.A.
Escuela de Artes Plasticas, Mexico City, 3 years
New York University, New York City, M.A.