Jiri Svestka Gallery  

SIAH ARMAJANI

Born 1939
in Teheran, lives and works in Minneapolis.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008
Dialog with Democracy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO.

2007
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
Centro de Arte Y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
Fundacion CesarManrique, Lanzorate, Canary Is.
Artium de Alava, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

2005
Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

2003
Glass Room for an Exile and Related Works, Senior & Shopmaker
Gallery, New York

2002
Glass Front Porch for Walter Benjamin, JIRI SVESTKA GALLERY, Prague

2000
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Cristal, Madrid
(catalogue)

1998
Dictionary for Building, The Matthew Architecture Gallery, University of
Edinburgh
Siah Armajani Park Furniture, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1997
Musterwohnen: Siah Armajani, Room Furniture 1. A Chair for Gropius,
Berlin

1996
The Customs House, Newcastle
The Staten Island Ferrz Pedestrian Bridge and Other Works, Snug
Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Street and Streer Corners, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Espacios de Lectura, Museu D´Art Contemporani, Barcelona
Anarchistic Contributions, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum
Johanneum, Graz

1995
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneve

1994
Street Corners I, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Anarchistic Contributions 1962 – 1994, Villa Arson, Nice (catalogue)
Sculpture and Public Art Projects, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (catalogue)
New Furniture for the Villa, Villa Merkel, Galerie der Stadt,
Esslingen, (catalogue)

1993
Streets, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Streets, Storm King Art Center, New York
Common Houses, Swiss Institute, New York
Recent Works, Wright Museum, Beloit, Wisconsin

1992
Streets: Sculptures and Notations, Chicago Arts Club, Chicago
(catalogue)
Recent Works, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles

1991
Elements, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1989
Elements, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1988
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts

1987
Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Münster (Portikus, Frankfurt)
Galerie Ghislaine, Hussenot, Paris
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
Elements, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1985
Bridges, Houses, Communal Spaces, Dictionary for Building, Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
Dictionary for Building, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1984
Dictionary for Building II, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

1982
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Poetry Lounge, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena (catalogue)

1981
Dictionary for Building I, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York (catalogue)
1980
Newsstand, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Reading Garden 2. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, (catalogue)

1979
First Reading Room, Max Protetch Gallery, New York; New Gallery of
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio; Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
Reading Room 2, Sullivan Hall Gallery, Ohio State University,
Columbus

1978
Red School House for Thomas Paine, Philadelphia College of Art,
Philadelphia
Project for PCA: Red School House for Thomas Paine, Philadelphia
College of Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008
Artists and War, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks,
North Dakota

2007
Onamatterpoetic, Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneve

2006
LESS – Alternative living strategies, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea,
Milan

2004
Arts and Architecture, Palazzo Ducale, Genova
Far Near Distance: Contemporary Positions of Iranian Artists, House of World
Cultures, Berlin
Symmetries: Armajani, Artschwager, Le Va, LeWitt, Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York

2002
Between Word and Image: Modern Iranian Visual Culture, Grey Art Gallery,
New York University, New York
Doors: Image and Metaphor in Contemporary Art, New Jersey Center
for Visual Arts

2001
Art Unlimited: Art 32 Basel
New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection, Addison Gallery, Andover
Follies: Fantasy in the Landscape, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
2000
Sculptor´s drawings, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia

1999
Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists, Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York

1998
The Last Room for Noam Chomsky, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York

1997
Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art,
Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt
National Airport Artists on Paper, Numark Gallery, Washington DC

1996
Monument et modernité: État des lieux: commandes publiques
á France, 1990-1996, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris
The House Transformed, Barbara Mathias Gallery, New York

1994
New Furniture for the Villa, Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen

1993
Differentes Natures: Visions de l´Art Contemporain, Place de la Defense,
Paris
Unpainted to the Last: Moby Dick and the Visual Arts, Spencer Art
Museum, University of Kansas, Kansas
Outdoor Sculpture Displayed Indoors, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Inside and Out, Ranoke College, Salem, Virginia

1992
Like Nothing Else in Tennessee, Serpentine Gallery, London
The Open Work, John Good Gallery, New York
Century of Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam y Nieuwe Kerk
Foundation, Amsterdam

1991
Height, Width, Length, Contemporary Sculpture, Weatherspoon
Collection, Greensboro, North Carolina
Enclosures and Encounters, Storm King Sculpture Center, New York
20th Century Art, Museum Modernen Kunst, Frankfurt

1990
Culture and Commentary: An Eighties Perspective, Hirshorn Museum
and Sculpure Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

1988
View Points: Post-War Painting and Sculpture, Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

1987
Computers and Art, Everson Museum, Syracuse
Documenta 8, Kassel
Skulptur Projekte Münster 87, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster
Emerging Artists 1978-1986: Selections from the Exxon Series,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles

1986
The Artists as Social Designer: Aspects of Public Urban Life Today,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Window in Twentieth Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State
University of New York at Purchase
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Second Sight: Biennial IV, San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem
Bridges, Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge
An American Renissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940,
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1984
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington

1983
Objects, Structures, Artifice: American Sculpture 1970-1983,
University of South Florida at Tampa
New Art, The Tate Gallery, London
The House That Art Built, Visual Arts Center, California State University
at Fullerton
Habitats, Klein Gallery, Chicago
Habitats, The Institute for Contemporary Art, The Clocktower, New York
Directions 1983, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institutions, Washington
Connections: Bridges, Ladders, Ramps, Staircases, Tunnels, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Beyond the Monument, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge (Mandeville Art gallery, University of California
at San Diego)

1982
74th Annual American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
Postminimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
The Monument Redefined, Gowanus Memorial Artyard, Brooklyn, New York
Form and Function: Proposal for Public Art in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Beyond Measurement, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln Park, Massachusetts

1981
Metaphor: New Project by Contemporary Sculptors, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (Fort Worth Art
Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; University of South Florida at Tampa;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio)
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists´ Gardens and Parks, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)

1980
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, 39th Venice Biennial, Pavilion
of United States ( Henie-Onstad Museum, Oslo; Biblioteka Nacional,
Madrid; Museo Gulbekian, Lisboa; Kunstforeningen Museum,
Copenhagen; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
Architectural Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1979
The Artist‘s View, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
Art and Architecture: Space and Structure, Protetch-McIntosh,
Washington

1978
Young American Artists, Exxon National Exhibition, Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Indoor-Outdoor Sculpture, The Institute for Contemporary Art,
P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
Dwellings, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia
Architectural Analogues, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1977
Thomas Jefferson´s House; 19 Projects/4 Artists, Wright State
University, Dayton, Ohio (Installations in Courthouse Square, Dayton;
Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; University of Kentucky at Lexington;
California State University at Long Beach)
Scale and Environment: 10 Sculptors, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1976
Commissioned Video Works: Skylight at Monticello, University Art
Museum, Berkeley

1975
Sculpture for a New Era, Federal Center, Chicago

1974
Discussions: Works /Words, The Institute for Contemporary Art,
The Clocktower, New York

1972
Operations Vesuvius, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
at Seattle (Galleria d´Arte, Il Centro, Napoli)

1971
The Boardwalk Show, Convention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey
Works for New Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1970
9 Artists/9 Spaces, Minnesota State Arts Council, Minneapolis
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art In the Mind, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin

1969
Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
Towers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (Finch College
Museum of Art, New York; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills,
Michigan)


Major Permanent Projects in Public Spaces

2006
The Chess Garden, Des Moines, Iowa

2005
Floating Poetry Room, Ijborg, Amsterdam

2003
Poetry Plaza, Ohio University, Ohio
Glass Bridge, Chekwood Museum and Garden, Nashvile, Tennesee
George Simmel Footbridge, Strasbourg

2001
Gazebo, Village Shalom, Overland Park, Kansas
Mural, The Sosland Foundation, Kansas City

2000 Gazebo with Picnic Table, Strasbourg
Bridge for Iowa City, Iowa
Mesa de Picnic, Valle de Pineta, Bielsa

1999
Lannan Poetry Garden 2, Beloit College, Beloit, Wisconsin

1997
Garden Part III, Museum Villa Arson, Nice
The Beloit Fishing Bridge, Beloit, Wisconsin
Three Skyway Bridges for the City of Leipzig, Leipzig
Bow-Front Balustrade for Washington, D.C. National Airport, Arlington
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room 4, Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, Strasbourg

1996
Post Office Pocket Park, Wayzata
The Lighthouse and Bridge, New York
Bridge, Tower, Cauldron, Cenntenial Olympics, Atlanta

1995
Garden Part II, Museum Villa Arson, Nice

1994
Bridge/Ramp, City Center-Sudwest LB Lautenschlagerstr., Stuttgart
Garden, Museum Villa Arson, Nice

1993
The Gazebo for the Irene Whitney Hixon Bridge, Loring Park,
Minneapolis
Gazebo for two Anarchists: Gabriella Antolini and Alberto Antolini,
Storm King Art Park, Mountainville, New York

1992
Poetry Garden, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Yamashita Pier Project, Yokohama Urban Ring Project, Yokohama

1991
Bandstand, Hitchcock Park, Mitchell
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room 3, Museum of Modern Art, Frankfurt

1990
Covered Walkway, General Mills, Minneapolis

1989
SkyBridge 2, Minneapolis
Battery Park City, New York (in collaboration with Scott Burton, Cesar
Pelli and Paul Friedberg)

1988
Humphrey Garden, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs,
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
SkyBridge 1, Minneapolis
The Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge, Minneapolis

1987
Münster Garden, Münster

1985
Garden, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

1983
NOAA Bridges, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Seattle

1982
The Louis Kahn Lecture Room, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial,
Philadelphia

1980
Reading Garden 1, Roanoke College, Roanoke

1979
Reading House, Lake Placid, New York
Reading Room 2, Ohio State University, Columbus

Major Temporary Projects

1998
Room for Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist, Long Island City, New
York

1991
Gazebo for One Anarchist: Emma Goldman, Storm King Art Center,
Mountainville, New York (Beloit College, Beloit)

1990
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room 4, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington

1988
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Roon 3, Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Sacco and Vanzetti reading Room 2, Massachussetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge

1987
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room 1, Kunsthalle, Basel ( Stedelijk Museum,
Westfalische Landesmuseum, Münster;Portikus, Frankfurt)

1985
Back Porch with Picnic Table, Institute of Contemporary Art, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

1982
Picnic Garden, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Poetry Lounge, Baxter Art gallery, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena

1981
Hirshorn Employee Lounge, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington
Office for Four, Hudson River Museum, New York

1980
Reading Garden 3, State University of New York at Purchase,
New York
Reading Garden 2, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Meeting Garden, Art Park, Lewiston, New York
Newsstand, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati

1979
Reading Room 3, University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Chicago
Fifth Bridge, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York
First Reading Room, Max Protetch Gallery, New York (Landmark
Center, St. Paul, Minnesota)

1978
School House 2, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Red School House for Thomas Paine, Philadelphia College of Art
(Dayton, Ohio)
Lissitzky´s Neighborhood: Center House, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York

1977
Thomas Jefferson¶ House: West Wing, Sunset House, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis

1976
Thomas Jefferson´s House: East Wing, Night House, Dayton, Ohio

1975
Fourth Bridge, Chicago Illinois
House 5, Minneapolis

1974
House 4, Minneapolis
House 2, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, The Clocktower, NY

1972
Sunset Bridge, Stamford Township, Minnesota

1970
First House, White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Bridge Over a Tree, Minneapolis

1968
First Bridge, White Bear Lake

Siah Armajani is represented by the Jiri Svestka Gallery
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