Artist's Page

Paul Mogensen

Born in Los Angeles, CA, 1941

Lives and works in New York, NY 

One-Person Exhibitions

2021
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

2018
Karma, New York, NY

2016
Painting, Del Deo & Barzune, New York

2012
Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2001
Brazos Exhibition Space, Houston, TX

1997
Art et Industrie, New York, NY

1994
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1987
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1981
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1980
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
 
1978
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1977
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1976
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

1975
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1969
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1968
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1967
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2021
13 Artists: A Tribute to Klaus Kertess' Bykert Gallery 1966-75, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

2019
2019 Ceremonial Exhibition: Work By New Members and Recipients of Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2018
Project 12: Steven Parrino and Paul Mogensen, OV Project, Brussels, Belgium
Color, Shape & Form: 1960-2008, W. Alexander, Brooklyn, NY
Pastels du 16e au 21e Siècle: Liotard, Degas, Klee, Scully..., Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland

2017
To The Point, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

2015
Zero to One on Paper, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA

2014
Jennifer Melby Editions: 18 Years of Intaglio Prints, Norte Maar/Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational, New York, NY
Summer Invitational, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Ambach & Rice Presents: 40 Years at the Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Kunst Museum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

2009
Paul Mogensen and Stephen Rosenthal, BLT Gallery, New York, NY
Nueva York: El papel de las últimas vanguardias, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain

2004
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2003
Mogensen Woodblock Prints, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany

2002
Robert Mapplethorpe - “Polaroids” / Paul Mogensen, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; traveled to Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL

2000
Deep Field Painting, Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA

1997
Square Painting. Plane Painting., Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

1994
Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria

1992
Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

1991
Paintings and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Bennington College, Bennington, VT
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY

1989
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
New Editions, Simmelink Sukimoto Editions, Los Angeles, CA

1988
Abstractions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY

1986
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

1984
A Decade of American Painting, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1983
Woodblock Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings by 4 Artists, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY

1980
Repeated Image, Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Five Artists, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1979
Bell Gallery Invitational, List At Center, Brown University, Providence, RI

1978
Gold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art of the 60s and 70s, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
Geometry of Color, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York, NY

1977
View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Eleven Artists, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

1976
Contemporary American Painting, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

1975
Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
22 Artists, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY
Twentieth Century Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas

1974
Paul Mogensen and David Novros, Bkyert Gallery Downtown, New York, NY
Various Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Bykert Gallery Downtown, New York 

1972
A Decade of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1970
Modular Painting, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1968
Cool Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
New York Now, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1967
Structural Art, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
A Romantic Minimalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY
Serial Art, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Serielle Elemente, Studio Galerie, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

1966
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

Awards and Grants
 
2019
Arts and Letters Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Catalogues

2019
Paul Mogensen – Steven Parrino. Text by Bob Nickas. New York, NY: Karma, 2019.

2018
Early 1968. New York, NY: Karma, 2018.
Paul Mogensen. New York, NY: Karma, 2018.

Articles and Reviews

2021
Friedman, Julia. “A Cleaner Slate.” Newcriterion.com, March 5, 2021.

2019
“32 Artists on View at the American Academy of Arts and Letters.” Hyperallergic.com, March 6, 2019.
"Artnews in Brief: Paul Mogensen Is Now Represented by Blum & Poe—and More from November 22, 2019." Artnews, November 18, 2019. 

2018
Barcio, Phillip. “The Systematic Paintings of Paul Mogensen.” Ideel Art (blog), November 7,
2018.
Cascone, Sarah. “Editors’ Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet News, September 25, 2018.
Gratz, Dan. “In Conversation: Paul Mogensen with Dan Gratz.” Brooklyn Rail, October 2018.
Neuendorf, Henri. “12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week.” Artnet News, September 25, 2018.
Smith, Roberta. “What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week.” NYTimes.com, October 31, 2018.
Yau, John. “The Spiraling Logic of Paul Mogensen’s Paintings.” Hyperallergic.com, October 21, 2018.

2016
Lindquist, Greg. “Paul Mogensen Painting.” Brooklyn Rail, July-August 2016.

2014
Malone, Peter. “Profaning Geometry, Venerating Uncertainty.” Hyperallergic.com, July 11, 2014.

2009
Long, Jim. “Paul Mogensen and Stephen Rosenthal, Jump: Selected Paintings.” Brooklyn Rail, May 2009.

1979
Tatransky, Valentin. “Paul Mogensen: Rectangles.” Arts Magazine, May 1979.

1978
Moser, Charlotte. “Color and Form.” Houston Chronicle, November 12, 1978.

1975
Derfner, Phyllis. “Paul Mogensen at Bykert.” Art in America, July 1975.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. “Paul Mogensen.” Artforum (Summer 1975).

1969
Rosenstein, Harris. “Reviews & Previews.” Artnews, April 1969.

1967
Andre, Carl. “New in New York: Line Work.” Arts Magazine, May 1967.
Lippard, Lucy R. “Rebelliously Romantic?” New York Times, June 4, 1967.
Rose, Barbara. “Brice Marden, David Novros, Paul Mogensen, Ralph Humphrey and Peter Gourfain at Bykert Gallery.” Artforum (November 1967): 59-60.
Rosenstein, Harris. “Total and Complex.” Artnews, May 1967.

Museum and Public Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Harvard Art Museums, the Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kunst Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

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