William Anastasi

born 1933, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2007 Retrospective, Drawing Center, New York
2006 Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Bjorn Ressle Fine Arts, New York
White Box, New York
2005 Blind, art agents gallery, Hamburg
“Ohne Titel” Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln
“William Anastasi” Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen
2003 “Blind” The Annex, New York
2001 “William Anastasi: A Retrospective” Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
2000 William Anastasi, art agents gallery, Hamburg
1999 “...vor mehr als einem halben Jahrhundert,” Landes Museum, Linz
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York
1998 “I Am A Jew,” The Philadelphia Museum of Judaica, Philadelphia
1997 “The Painting of the Word Jew,” Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1996 Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen
1995 The Pier Gallery, Orkney, Scotland
“William Anastasi: A Retrospective (1960-95),” Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
1994 Kristal Fahl Gallery, Stockholm
1993 “Du Jarry,” exhibition of original manuscript, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
“Drawing Sounds: An Installation in Honor of John Cage,” The Philadelphia Museum of Art
1992 “Works 1963-1992,” Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1991 “Sink, Trespass, Issue, Incision,” Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
1990 “Incidents and Coincidents,” Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
1989 “A Selection of Works form 1960 to 1989,” The Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh
1988 Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
1982 “Diary Paintings,” Ericson Gallery
1981 “Coincidents,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1979 “Re-visions: Perspectives and Proposals in Film and Video,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Coincidents,” Kunstmuseum, Dusseldorf
Max Hetzler, Stutttgart
1978 “Terminus,” The Hudson River Museum, New York
1977 P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute of Art and Urban Resources, New York
1970 “Continuum,” Dwan Gallery, New York
1967 “Six Sites,” Dwan Gallery, New York
1966 “Sound Objects,” Dwan Gallery, New York
1965 Witherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina
1964 Washington Square Gallery, NY



GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selection)

2007 Live/ Work, Performance into drawing, MOMA, New York
Out of Time, A contemporary view, MOMA, New York
Anastasi/ Judd/ Sandback, Museum of Art, Birmingham
2006 Collection Kramarsky, Museum of Art, Birmingham
Looking at words, Andrea Rosen, New York
Portraits of Artists, works from Rex Capital, Luhring Augustine, New York
2003 The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, New York
Davidson Art Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Works from the LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain
2001 Visions From American Art: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940- 2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; curated by Chrissie Iles
2000 The Century of Innocence: The History of the White Monochrome, Rooseum Museum of Art, Malmo, Sweden
Topology, White Box Gallery, New York
This is What It Is, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, NY
Destruction/Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York
“The American Century, 1950-2000,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1999 Merce Cunningham: Fifty Years, La Fundacio Antoni Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain
Afterimage, curated by Connie Butler, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998 Drawing is another kind of language: Recent American drawings from a New York private collection, Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany
Re: Duchamp/Contemporary Artists Respond to Marcel Duchamp’s Influence, Abraham Lubelsky Gallery, NY
1997 From Time to Time, Iris and B. Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
Word to Word, Linda Kerkland Gallery, New York
10th year anniversary group show, Stalke Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Drawing on Chance (Selections from the Collection), Moma, New York
Timewise, The Swiss Institute, NY
1995 Sound Sculpture: Music for the Eyes, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
Joyce and the Visual Arts, The Rosenbach Musuem & Library, Philadelphia, PA
Dark Room, Stark Gallery, NY
1994 Drawings, Werner H. Kramarsky, NY, with Dove Bradshaw
Autobodyography, Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, with Dove Bradshaw
1993 Rolyholyover: A Circus, MOCA, LA, Le Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
1992 Concurrencies, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY
1991 William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage, Tom Marioni, Robert Rauschenberg & Mark Tobey “imitating nature in her manner of operation...,” Sandra Gering Gallery, NY
1990 Casino Fantasma, Curated by Allana Heiss, Winter Casino, Venice, Italy
1989 The Leo Castelli Gallery, Performing Arts Benefit
1988 Benefit for Contemporary Peformance Arts, Inc., Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
The Cunningham Benefit Art Exhibition, Blum Helman Gallery, NY
Stalke Galleri, Copenhagen
The Jewish Museum, NY
Stux Gallery, Boston
1987 Bess Cutler Gallery, NY
Reading Art, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York