Born in 1941 in New York, USA
Works and lives in New York, USA

EDUCATION

1964
B.A. Sculpture, New York University, New York City, USA

1969
M.A. Sculpture, New York University, New York City, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019
Joel Shapiro : Plaster Sculptures 1971-2014, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, USA

2018
Joel Shapiro : The Bronzes, Madison MoCA, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Splay, Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Joel Shapiro, Kasmin Sculpture Garden, New York, USA
Joel Shapiro, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA

2017
Joel Shapiro, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Joel Shapiro. Floor Wall Ceiling, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2016
Joel Shapiro
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA

2015
Paintings and Sculpture, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
Construction/Destruction, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris

2016
Nasher Sculpure Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Sculpture in the Garden, Berggruen Gallery, St Helena, California, USA

2014
Joel Shapiro, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
Joel Shapiro, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Wood Plaster Paint, Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France
Works on Paper 2011-2013, The Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Joel Shapiro : Prints 1975-2011, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferdnale, USA
Joel Shapiro, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Joel Shapiro, Museum of Modern Art, Saint Etienne, France

2013
Joel Shapiro, L.A Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
Sculpture and drawings, 1969-1972, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, USA

2012
Joel Shapiro, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
Joel Shapiro: Up Down Around, Gemini G.E.L at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA
Joel Shapiro: New Installation, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA
Joel Shapiro: New Sculptures and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2011
Joel Shapiro, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Joel Shapiro, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, USA
Joel Shapiro: Five Recent Sculptures, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, USA
Joel Shapiro, Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2010
Joel Shapiro: Works 1969–1979, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, USA
Joel Shapiro: New Work, The Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York City, USA
Joel Shapiro: Skulptur, Karsten Greve Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2009
Works on paper, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
Shaping Reality: Geometric Abstraction after 1960, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minneapolis, USA
Joel Shapiro, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
Joel Shapiro: Sculpture, Karsten Greve Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Boat, Bird, Mother and Child: Joel Shapiro at Gemini, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA

2008
Joel Shapiro – Sculpture, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York City, USA
Joel Shapiro, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea

2007
Joel Shapiro: New Sculpture, PaceWildenstein – New York City, USA

2006
Joel Shapiro, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Joel Shapiro, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, USA

2005
Joel Shapiro, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Joel Shapiro: Work in Wood, Plaster, and Bronze: 2001-2005, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

2004
Art Now, Sculpture of Joel Shapiro, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, USA
Joel Shapiro. Small Scale Sculpture, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
Joel Shapiro, Recent Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, USA

2003
Joel Shapiro, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Joel Shapiro, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainsville, USA

2001
Joel Shapiro: Sculpture, Middleton Place, Spoleto Festival USA, Charleston, USA; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Joel Shapiro, Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris, France
Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Joel Shapiro on the Roof, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA

2000
Joel Shapiro, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Joel Shapiro: Sculpture and Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Painted Wood, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Joel Shapiro on the Roof, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA

1999
Joel Shapiro: Recent Sculpture, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, USA
Joel Shapiro, Roma, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Joel Shapiro Sculpture, New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Roche Court Wiltshire, UK
Joel Shapiro Sculptures 1974-1999, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

1998
Joel Shapiro: Sculpture in Clay, Plaster, Wood, Iron and Bronze,1971- 1997, Addison Gallery, Andover, USA
Joel Shapiro: Skulpturen 1993-1997, Haus der Kunst, Munich ; Barlach HALLE K, Hambourg, Germany
Joel Shapiro: New Wood & Bronze Sculpture, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

1997
Joel Shapiro, Jamileh Weber, Zurich Gallery, Switzerland
Joel Shapiro Drawings, Biedermann Gallery, Munich, Germany

1996
Joel Shapiro: New Etchings and Painted Wood Sculptures, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014
Sam.St.Moritz Art Masters 2014, St. Moritz Art Center, St Moritz, Switzerland
Toriawase, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, USA
Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FARE) Exhibition, Guild Hall, New York, USA
Art on Color, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA
Cross-Cuts: Joel Shapiro and Richard Nonas, Clocktower / Knockdown Center, Maspeth, New York, USA
Print // Line, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
From Picasso to Jasper Johns. Aldo Crommelynck’s Workshop, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Grounded, Pace Gallery, New York, USA

2013
Sculptor on paper, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, USA
Holiday Pop-up, Shop-Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Ambach & Rice Presents, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, USA
Repetition II, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Repetition: 1965-1975, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Industry City, New York, USA
Kiasma Hits: Kiasma Collections, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Image and Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Drawing Line into Form: Works on Paper by Sculptors from the Collection of BNY Mellon, Tacoma Art Museum, Washington, USA

2012
Building a Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Drawings, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, USA
Sculpture, Karsten Greve Gallery, Paris, France
When Does Something Become Something Else? Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Selected Works, John Berggreuen Gallery, New York, USA
What’s the point? Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, USA
Inside Out, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Rodin to Now: Modern Sculpture, Palm Spring Art Museum, Palm Spring, USA
Art: The language of Less, Castellani Art Museum, Lewinston, New York, USA
Post War American Art, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, USA

2011
Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Surfaces of Everyday Life: Post war and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore
The Art of Climbing Mountains, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

2010
Group show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Works on Paper, Danese, New York, USA
On the Square, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
Andre, LeWitt, Shapiro, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
3 x 3: Minimal Sculpture and Painting, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, USA
Devotion, Zürcher Gallery, New York, USA
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, 545 West 22nd Street, New York, USA
Five on Paper, Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, USA

2009
KölnSkulptur 5, Skulpturenpark, Cologne, Germany
La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM – IVAM – Modern Art Institute of Valencia, Valencia, Spain
Nueva York – El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardias, Contemporary Art Museum Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
New York/New Drawings 1946–2007, Contemporary Art Museum Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain
A Matter of Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Preview for Upcoming Exhibitions, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zurich, Germany
Sculpture and Drawings, Danese, New York, USA
A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein, Pace Wildenstein, New York, USA
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, USA

2008
SARAH BRAMAN AND JOEL SHAPIRO, A project inspired by dialogue between Rita Ackermann and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, USA
Philadelphia Collects: Works on Paper, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts – DCCA, Wilmington, USA
En perspective, Giacometti – Fine Art Museum of Caen, Caen, France
Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, Part II, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Sculpture, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection, UBS Art Gallery, New York, USA
Geometry as Image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
The Hague Sculpture 2008: Freedom–American Sculpture, The Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague, The Netherlands
Summer in the City 2008, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2007
Arco 2008 Preview, Edward Tyler Nahem, New York City, USA
Works on Paper, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
Lugares e materiais: colecção da fundação de Serralves, Museu Serralves, Contemporary Art Museum, Porto, Portugal
Small Is Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Sculpture, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA
KölnSkulptur 4, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, USA

2006
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Group Sculpture, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Seven Rooms Seven Artists, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
The New Landscape / The New Still Life, Soutine and Modern Art – Cheim & Read, New York City, USA
American Matrix: Contemporary Directions for the Harn Museum Collection Part II, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, USA

2005
Highlights, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Highlights, New Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Domicile/Privee-Public, Modern Art Museum of Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
line.form.space, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, USA
Correspondances Musée d’Orsay / Art contemporain, Orsay Museum, Paris, France
Major Prints, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2004
Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, USA
The Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery – New York, New York City, USA
Summer 2004, PaceWildenstein – 32 East 57th Street, New York City, USA
Art, Artists, and the Addison, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
From House To Home, MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA
Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, USA

2003
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, USA
Small Bronzes, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
Summer Travels, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York City, USA
Masterworks on Paper from the Edward R. Broida Collection, MFAH – Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA
Group Show, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

2002
All American, Part II, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, USA
Time Space Motion, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery – Salzburg, Salzburg, Germany
Judd, LeWitt, Mangold, Martin and Shapiro, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
American Beauty, Annely Juda Fine Art, London, UK
Selected Works – A Collection, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Happy New Year! PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York City, USA
A Silent Poetry, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2001
The Human Figure in Modern Sculpture, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Sculpture: Figure in Motion, Kent Gallery, New York City, USA
KölnSkulptur 3 – Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Summer in the City, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, USA

2000
KölnSkulptur 2, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Percepciones en transformación: La Colección Panza del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum of Modern and contemporary Art, Bilbao, Spain
Summer Group Exhibition 2000, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York City, USA
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection – Queens Museum of Art, New York City, USA
Afterimage – Drawing Through Process – Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Works on Paper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

1999
25 Jahre – 25th anniversary, Jamileh Weber Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
Head to Toe, Impressing the Body, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, USA
Drawing is Another kind of language, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, USA
Summer 99, PaceWildenstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York City, USA
Summer ’99, PaceWildenstein, Greene St. (closed space), New York City, USA
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

1998
Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

1997
Winter Group Exhibition, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Pace Wildenstein, New York City, USA
A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift , The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Summer Show ’97, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

1996
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, PaceWildenstein, New York City, USA

1995
Bestandsaufnahme XII, m Bochum Gallery, Bochum, Germany
Pop Art and Minimalism from the Louisiana and the Moderna Museet, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden

1994
From Minimal to Conceptual Art, The National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA

1993
On the Road: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, USA

1991
Vision of Space, Gmurzynska Gallery, Köln, Cologne, Germany
Bestandsaufnahme VIII, m Bochum Gallery, Bochum, Germany

1988
BIG little Sculpture, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA

1984
The Meditative Surface, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1983
The Sixth Day, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1982
Documenta 7, Documenta, Kassel, Germany

1977
Documenta 6, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1976
Ideas on Paper 1970-1976, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

1970
1970 annual exhibition Comtemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, USA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
The Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, USA
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, USA
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, USA
Ball State University Museum of Art, Muncie, Indiana, USA
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, USA
BILBAO Ría 2000, Lasesarre Park, Barakaldo, Spain
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, USA
British Museum, London, UK
Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
The Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, USA
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Communaute de Communes de L’Agglomeration Orleanaise, Orléans, France
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Davidson College, North Carolina, USA
The Denver Art Museum, Colorado, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, USA
Embassy of the United States, Ottawa, Canada
Embassy of the United States, Vienna, Austria
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M. H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation for Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, USA
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan
Harvard Business School, Boston, USA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA
Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
International Sculpture Collection Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Israel Musem, Jerusalem, Israel
IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Kanton of Aargau, Aarau, Switzerland
Kansas City International Airport, Missouri, USA
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA
Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebaek, Denmark
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, USA
The Menil Collection, Houston, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, USA
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
The Museum of Fine Arts, The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, Friuli, Italy
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, USA
National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australie
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, USA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Nykytaiteen Museo, Helsinki, Finland
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA
The Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA
The Principal Riverwalk, Des Moines, Iowa, USA
The Rachofsky House, Dallas, USA
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, USA
Rockefeller University, New York, USA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri, USA
Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, USA
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, USA
University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA