Lives and works in New York, NY, USA
1972 MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
1968 BFA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO, USA
1966 Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, USA
1946 Born in Philadelphia, PA, USA
2021 ‘How Black is that Blue’, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2020 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
‘No to Prison Life’, Lisson Gallery, Online Exhibition
‘FOCUS: Stanley Whitney’, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
2019 ‘Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2018 ‘Stanley Whitney: In the Color’, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Stanley Whitney, Paintings’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
2017 ‘Focus – Stanley Whitney’, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA
2016 ‘Here Comes the Sun’, Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Radical Times’, Lisson Gallery, London
2015 ‘Dance the Orange’, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA
‘Stanley Whitney: Paintings’, Lisson Gallery, Milan, Italy
‘Stanley Whitney’, Karma, New York, NY, USA
‘Team Colors’, Team (bungalow), Venice, CA, USA
'Paintings’, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway
2013 ‘Other Colors I Forget’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Goya’s Lantern’, Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
2012 ‘Yellow, Noon and Night’, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
‘Left to Right’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Six Paintings’, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY, USA
2010 ‘Untitled 10’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2009 ‘I remember Clifford, still’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2007 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Galleria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, Mexico
‘bluetopic’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
‘Stanley Whitney’, Lagorio Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
‘Stanley Whitney’, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2006 ‘Colori al quadrato’, Galleria Carlina, Torino, Italy
‘Breathing Sound’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005 ‘New Paintings’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004 ‘Stanley Whitney: Recent Works’, A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2001 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
1991 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USA
1990 ‘Stanley Whitney’, fiction/nonfiction gallery, New York, NY, USA
1987 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Peg Alston Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
1986 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
1985 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
‘Stanley Whitney’, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1984 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
1983 ‘Stanley Whitney’, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY, USA
1972 ‘Stanley Whitney’, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI, USA
2021 ‘Selected Works,’ Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020 ‘Call and Response’, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
‘Horizon,’ Lisson Gallery, London, UK
‘Reframing Minimalism: McArthur Binion and his Contemporaries in New York, 1973 – 1992’, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Painting the Essential: New York, 1980 – Present’, Online Exhibition, Timothy Taylor Gallery
2019 Yves Klein/Stanley Whitney: This Array of Colors’, Galería Cayón, Madrid/Minorca, Spain
‘It’s Urgent! – Part II’, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Painter’s Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now’, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air)’, Lévy Gorvy, New York, NY USA
‘The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction', DC Moore Gallery , New York, NY, USA
‘Playing Art’, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
‘Blue is the color of your eyes’, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden
2018 ‘Abstraction Today—Mapping the Invisible World’, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich, Switzerland
‘Inherent Structure’, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA
‘Spheres of Influence: Al Held, Michael Craig-Martin, Judy Pfaff, and Stanley Whitney’, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2017 Documenta 14, Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany
2016 ‘Making and Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu’, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
‘bisou magique’, Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
‘Paper in Practice’, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA, USA
‘Nice Weather’ curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York, NY, USA
2015 ‘For Troedsson Villa’, Troedsson Villa, Nikko, Japan
‘The Painter of Modern Life’, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Nero su Bianco’, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2014 ‘Szalon’, Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
‘Paintings on Paper’, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA
‘More Material’, Salon 94, New York, NY, USA
‘This One’s Optimistic: Pincushion’, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, USA
‘Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy Today’, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
‘Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2’, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, USA
2013 ‘Come Together: Surviving Sandy’, Industry City, New York, NY, USA
‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA
2012 ‘Awakening the Night. Art from Romanticism to the Present’, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
‘Predicting Memories’, Ehemaliges K.K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna, Austria
‘The Annual: 2012’, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
‘Pillow Talk’, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY, USA
2011 ‘Reverie’, Salon Zurcher, New York, NY, USA
‘Two Colors’, Kathleen Cullen, New York, NY, USA
‘Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
‘bodybraingame’, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
‘The Venetians’, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
2010 ‘2010 Ceremonial Exhibition’, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
‘Ecstatic Structure’, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA
‘The Jewel Thief’, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
2009 ‘Cave #1’, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY, USA
‘Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunie Sugiura, Stanley Whitney’, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY, USA
‘Einarsson, Rhodes, Whitney’, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008 ‘Present Tense’, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY, USA
‘Sparks’, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
2007 ‘The Color Line’, Luanda Triennial, Luanda, Angola; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY; Centre international d'exposition de Larouche, Québec, Canada; Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa; Galerie Fokus Wien, Kunstraum, Innsbruck, Austria
‘Horizon’, EFA Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Something About Mary’, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA
‘Paintings of Color’, Tribes, New York, NY, USA
‘Matt Connors, Ryan McLaughlin, Shannon Mustipher, Stanley Whitney’, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
‘Music to My Eyes’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘ArteFiera’, Esso Gallery, Arte Fiera, Bologna, Italy
2006 ‘I Was a Sunbeam: Eleven Works on Paper’, David Krut Projects, New York, NY, USA
‘Ten Years of Esso Gallery’, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2005 ‘Esso Gallery on Stage’, Nomadic Space, Turin, Italy
2003 ‘Utopia Station’, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Stanley Whitney / Andreas Reiter Raabe’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2002 ‘Quiet As It’s Kept’, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
‘The Annual: 2002’, National Academy Museum, New York, NY, USA
2000 ‘Gallery Artists’, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Universal Abstraction’, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
1999 ‘Drawings’, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA
1998 ‘Crossing Lines’, Art in General, New York, NY, USA
‘Bang on a Can’ (benefit), GAGA Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997 ‘Colorflex’, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA
1996 ‘Deliberate Hand’, The Banyan Tree, New York, NY, USA
1995 ‘Lines of Force’, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘The Joy of Painting’, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY, USA
1994 Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Stanley Whitney and David Hammons’, Vera Vita Gioia Gallery, Naples, Italy
1993 Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Rosenberg & Kaufman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992 ‘African-American Artists in the 20th Century’, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA, USA
‘Painting Self Evident: Evolution in Abstraction’, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC, USA
1991 ‘Inaugural Exhibition’, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1990 Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA, USA
1989 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
1988 fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY, USA
1986 Harris Brown Gallery, Boston, MA, USA
Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
1985 ‘Master Contemporary Drawings’, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
1984 Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
‘Drawings Show’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1983 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1982 Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1981 ‘New York Artists Group Show’, Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA
Cinque Gallery, New York, NY, USA
‘Post-Modernist Metaphors’, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, USA
‘Enroute: Six Contemporary Artists’, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA
Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL, USA
‘Drawing Show’, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1980 ‘The Page as Alternative Space’, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, USA
1979 ‘Drawing Show’, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA, USA
1978 ‘Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, USA
1977 ‘Christine Jordan and Stanley Whitney: Abstract Paintings’, SoHo Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
1976 ‘Arts of Our Time’, Passaic, NJ, USA
‘Contemporary Reflections’, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1975 ‘Exhibition for Artist’s Rights’, The Town Hall, New York, NY, USA
1972 ‘Group Painting Show’, University of Rhode Island, Newport, RI, USA
Yale Summer School of Music and Art, Norfolk, CT, USA
1971 ‘Black American Artists ’71’, Lobby Gallery, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Chicago, IL, USA
2017 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
2011 Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, New York, NY, USA
2010 Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
2006 Great Teacher Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
1996 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, USA
A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA
The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL, USA
The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
The Long Museum, Shanghai, China
The Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA
Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA
The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA
The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA