STEPHEN MUELLER back

BFA University of Texas, Austin, 1969    

MA Bennington College, Vermont, 1971     

Visiting Lecturer, Four Painters Program, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1995  

Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1999 and 2000

Lives and works in New York

One-Person Exhibitions:

2003  Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

2001  Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

2000  Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

1997  Indian Science, Stone Road, Wainscott, New York

1996  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1995  Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida

      Texas Gallery, Houston

Watercolors, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

1994  Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago

      Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1993  Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

1992  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

      James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1990  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

      Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1989  Gallerie Specht, Basel

1988  Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles

      New Gallery/Bemis Project, Omaha, Nebraska

      Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1987  Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden

      Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1986  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1985  Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1984  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

      North Store Gallery, New York

1982  Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

      Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden

1980  Mary Boone Gallery, New York

      D. Clayton & Co. Gallery, Houston

1977  Watson/de Nagy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery, Houston

      Lubin House Gallery of Syracuse University, New York

1976  J. H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery, New York

1975  Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

      Bennington College Art Gallery, Vermont

1970  Richard Feigen Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2003 The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor, New York

Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York

2002  Zenroxy, von Lintel Gallery, New York

Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery

2001  50th Anniversary Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Some Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

2000  Glee: Painting Now, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (travels to Palm Beach Institue of Contemporary Art)

Drawings & Photographs, Benefit Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1999  Om, Dorsky Gallery, New York

Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1998  6 Painters, (Baroque Geometry), Marborough Chelsea Gallery, New York

Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art

1997  Out There, Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston

Nirguna/Saguna, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India

1996  Champions of Modernism - Art of Tomorrow/Art of Today, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York

1995  Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

Transatlantica - The American-Europa Non-Representativa, Fundacion Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,Venezuela

Pure Painting, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado

1994  Works on Paper: Selections From the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York

Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina

Paintings from New Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit

1993  Tesors de Voyage, Monastero dei Padri Mechitaristi dell’Isola di San Lazzaro degli Arrneni, Venice (under the patronage of the 45th Venice Biennale)

Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

      Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

Quotes from Past Exhibitions, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

      Texas Gallery, Houston

Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana

Small Format Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York

Reveillon ‘94, Stux Gallery, New York

Isn’t It Romantic?, On Crosby Street, New York

In the Spirit of Things, Stux Gallery, New York

Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1992  Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

Slow Art, P. S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York

Emerging New York Artists: An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Collection of Phil Schrager, The College of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska at Omaha

1991  Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

1989  Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1987  The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Painting Invitational, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York

Selected Bibliography:

. 47th Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, 1983

Adams, Brooks. Stephen Mueller, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, 1990

Adams, Brooks. “Quadrilateral Drift,” Art in America, May 1989

Adams, Brooks. “Stephen Mueller at Annina Nosei,” Art in America, December 1982

. “Artist Project,” Bomb Magazine, Spring 1996

. Bomb Magazine, November 1986

Brenson, Michael. Review, The New York Times, December 28, 1984

Cameron, Dan. Review, Art News, May 1985

Cohen, David. “Summer Color at Elizabeth Harris,” The New York Sun, July 3, 2003

Cotter, Holland. Stephen Mueller, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, 1987

Cotter, Holland. Review, Flash Art, No. 132, February-March 1987

Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, Art in Review, February 18, 1994

Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, Art in Review, May 19, 2000

Dailey, Megan. “Glee; Painting Now”, Artforum, December, 2000

. Review, Details, January-February 1985

. Review, Details, May 1984

Domingo, Willis. “Color Abstractionism,” Arts Magazine, December 1970

Feinstein, Rochelle. “Stephen Mueller,” Arts Magazine, March 1987

Fleming, Lee. Review, The Washington Post, August 7, 1993

Fleming, Lee. “Stephen Mueller at Baumgartner,” The Washington Post, January 8, 1994

Fyfe, Joe. “Stephen Mueller,” Bomb Magazine, Spring 2002

Fyfe, Joe. Stephen Mueller, exhibition catalogue, Joslyn Art Museum, introduction by Klaus Kertess, September 2003

Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Review, Arts Magazine, January 1974

Guyn, Peter. Arts Review, London, November 1987

Hassebroek, Ashley. “Mueller Exhibit Underscores Egalitarian Approach to Color,” World-Herald, October 5, 2003

Heartney, Eleanor. Review, Art in America, February 1987

Heartney, Eleanor. Review, Art News Magazine, February 1989

. House and Garden, July 1998

Kent, Bill. See Cruise, Art and Antiques, June 1997

Kertess, Klaus. Painting as Landscape: Views of American Modernism, 1984-85

Kertess, Klaus. “Another Kind of Light: The Art of Stephen Mueller,” Artforum, November 1993

Kertess, Klaus. “Painting Metaphorically,” Artforum, October 1982

Kertess, Klaus. “Serendipitous Elegance,” Elle Decor, April-May 1994

Lambarelli, Roberto. Stephen Mueller, Annina Nosei Gallery, 1986

Lambarelli, Roberto. “Stephen Mueller,” Sunstorm, December-January 1986-87

Leffingwell, Edward G. About Place: Contemporary American Landscape, Institute for Art and Resources, New York, 1986

Liebmann, Lisa. Interview, October 1990

Liebmann, Lisa. Review, “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, May 18, 1992

Lyttelton, Art. Tattler, March 1997

McWilliams, Martha. “Significant Something,” Washington City Paper, July 30, 1993

Merlin, James. “Enthusiastic Underwriting,” London Magazine, 1988.

Morera, Daniela. L’Uomo Vogue, November 1995

Morgan, Stuart. Review, Artscribe, September-October, 1990

Newhall, Edith. “Hello, Old Paint,” New York, February 14, 1994

Newhall, Edith. Review, Artnews, February 1991

. New York Magazine, May 1, 2000

Paglia, Michael. “Pigments of the Imagination,” Westword, September 6-12, 1995

Ratcliff, Carter. “Painterly Versus Painted, Painterly Painting,” Art News Annual, No. XXXVII, 1970

. “Reviews in Brief,” The New York Review of Art, Volume I, No. 2, April 1994

Saltz, Jerry. “Let us now praise artist’s artists,” Art & Auction, April 1993

Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life of Painting,” Art in America, October 1994

Schmerler, Sarah. “Stephen Mueller at Bill Maynes,” Art in America, November 2000

. The Sciences, October 1997

Silverthorne, Jeanne. Review, Artforum, January 1983

Smith, Roberta. “Everyman’s Land,” The Village Voice, October 26, 1982

Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, November 14, 1986

Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, May 8, 1992

Stanfill, Francesca. “The World of Mary McFadden,” Architectural Digest, May 1980

Stockwell, Craig. “Glee”, ART New England, 2000

Tatransky, Valentin. “Group Show,” Arts Magazine, October 1979

Tatransky, Valentin. Review, Arts Magazine, January 1983

. The First Fifty Years, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 2000

Van Baron, Judith. Review, Arts Magazine, December 1973

Wei, Lily. Art in America, June 1994

Weinstein, Matthew. Review, Artforum, October 1992

. Whitney Biennial, April 1987

Yau, John. Interview with Stephen Mueller, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, 1985

Yau, John. Artforum, February 1991

Yau, John. “Stephen Mueller,” Tema Celeste, October-November 1988

Yoskowitz, Robert. “Group Show,” Arts Magazine, December 1979

Zimmer, William. “Serious Abstract Paintings With a Nonserious Message,” The New York Times, December 31,2000

Awards:

Pollack-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2000

National Endowment for the Arts, 1994

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 1993

CAPS, Individual Fellowship, 1987

Public Collections:

William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut

Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The Brooklyn Museum

The Denver Art Museum

Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York

Southwestern Bell

Goldman-Sachs

Progressive Corporation, Ohio