Born in Brooklyn, NY, 1942
Lives and works in New York City & Stone Ridge, NY

EDUCATION
San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A., 1967
Pratt Institute, New York, NY, 1964
Art Students League, New York, NY, 1961
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1961 

AWARDS AND HONORS
American Academy of Arts and Letters
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts
The New York Arts Foundation

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Solo shows:

2023

Gary Stephan Recent Paintings, David Cohen "Raw House Pop Up", Jersey City, NJ

2022

This There, Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT

2022

This There, Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal, Germany

2019

The Machine in the Ghost, Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, IL.

2017

The Future of Reading, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany.

2016

Susan Inglett Gallery. New York, NY.

2015

George Lawson Gallery San Francisco, CA.

2014
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY.
Recent Work, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO.

2013
New Work, T-Space, Dutchess County, NY.

2012
The Story of What Happens, Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, IL.

2010
The Kleinert / James Arts Centre, Woodstock, NY
Eisbox, Brooklyn, NY

2009
Reading and Unreading, Galerie Kienzle and Gmeiner, Reading and Unreading, Berlin, Germany

2006
Ways To Make Things, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Between The Window and The Wall. St. Michael's College, Burlington, VT
New Sculptures and Paintings, Domo Gallery, Summit. NJ

2002
Nine Paintings, Myers Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH

2001
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY

1999
Same Body, Different Day, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor ME

1998
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
University of Alabama, AL
10 Year Survey, Butler Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

1997
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1996
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

1995
Revolution Gallery, Detroit, Ml
Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
Galería Siboney, Santander, Spain

1993
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Architectures Without Archeologies, Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy

1992
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC

1991
Galeria Fernand Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain

1990
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC

1989
Galeria Lino Silverstein, Barcelona, Spain

1988
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
New Abstract Paintings. Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

1986
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1984
Marlborough Gallery, New York NY
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rl
Portico Row Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1983
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1981
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX

1980
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1979
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1978
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Arnold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

1977
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1976
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1975
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1974
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1973
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Galleri Ostergren, Malmö, Sweden
Fabian Carlson Gallery, Goteborg, Sweden
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1972
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Köln, Germany
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

1971
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY

1970
David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

"Untitled (show of ten)" - The Alice Wilds - MWK, WI - December 2 - January 20, 2024

The Alice Wilds, 900 South 5th Street, MWK, WI

"GEOMETRIC SHAPES AND COLOR: IN SERVICE TO FORM, MOTION, PATTERN, DEPICTION, MEMORY, AND ABSTRACTION" - David Richard Gallery - October 16 - November 17

2023

"The New Math: Geometric Plasticism, Ideal Visions, and the Reductive Impulse" - Equity Gallery - May 4 - June 4

2023

"Outside The Lines" - Texas Gallery - February 17 - March 23

2023

 "The Searchers" - Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philidelphia, PA

2023

"Come a Little Closer" - DC Moore Gallery - New York, NY

 2022

"Rotating / Axis", Furnace Art on Paper Archive, Falls Village, CT

2022

"The Fiction of Property" Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany

2021
 
"The Subject is The Line", Thompson Giroux Gallery, New York, NY
 
2021
 
"Social Photograph IX", Carriage Trade Gallery, New York, NY

2021

"Multilayer - Vision 20/20", Museum Wilhelm Morner, Soest, Germany

"Ulteriors", Massismo De Carlo Gallery, VSPACE Virtual Show

"I Was Looking At the Black and White World", ASHES/ASHES, New York, NY

2020

"Multilayer - Vision 20/20", Museum Wilhelm Morner, Soest, Germany

2018

"The Thick Lines Between Here and There", Owen James Gallery, New York, NY

"Warm Front", May 19th - June 10th, 2018, Tokyo, Japan

"Unlikely Representation", May 18th - June 17th, 2018, Studio 10, Brooklyn, NY

"When Geometry Smiles", March 3rd - April 8th, 2018, Oretega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2017

The Spirit of Abstraction, November 17, 2017, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO

Kienzle Collection, October 27, 2017- February 11, 2018, Kunst Museum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

INCIDENT REPORT, September 2nd- October 15th, 2017, September Art Gallery, Hudson, NY.

>> after all <<, September 2nd- October 15th, 2017, Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal, Germany. 

"GARY STEPHAN", Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany.

"8", Elizabeth Houston Gallery, New York, NY.

"Rafael Vega, Dennis Hollingsworth, Gary Stephan", Hionas Gallery, New York, NY.

"7UP", Grölle Pass Projects, Wuppertal, Germany 

"The State of New York Painting", Kings Borough Community College, Brooklyn, NY.

2016

Grand Vista at Noyes Museum, Arts Garage at Noyes Museum, Atlantic City, NJ.

Construction Site, McKenzie Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY. 

Stan Allen/Gary Stephan, Incident Report: Viewing Station, Hudson, NY. 

This and Something Else / Dan Devening + Gary Stephan, Galerie GRÖLLE pass:projects, Wuppertal, Germany.

Big Art/Small Scale, The Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO. 

Paint Heads, Jeffrey Leder Gallery, Long Island City, NY.

Gary Stephan/Alina Tenser, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY.
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY.

How To Be Unique, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany.

2015 

Novella “Geometric Abstraction,” New York, NY

2013
Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Curated by Phong Bui, Industry City, Brooklyn, NY.
Art for Art's Sake, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.
Keine Parole, Aktion-Malerei-Konzept, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany.
Unhinged, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY.
Reinventing Abstraction, Cheim & Read, New York, NY.
Season Review, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY.
Abstraction Advanced, Edward Thorp Gallery,New York, NY.

2012
Around the Corner, Terras Gallery, New York, NY.
Broken/Window/Plane, Tracey Williams LTD. Gallery, New York,NY.
Humus Redux: Landscape Painting Across a Spectrum of Abstraction, The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminister, New Jersey.

2011
Refocusing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
A Disease of the Oyster, The Pearl Lounge, New Orleans, LA.
Humus: A Collaboration of 21st Century Painters, John C. Hutcheson Gallery, James D. Hughes Center, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN.

2010
Power to the People, Feature Inc., New York, NY.
Gary Stephan, with Richard Rezac, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL
False Friends, False Friends, Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
Chautauqua: A Continuum of Creativity, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
Non Objective or Not: Dialogues in Modernism, Wendt Gallery, New York, NYUp to the Edge. – Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
Painting And, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
WAAM Woodstock Artists Association & Museum

2009
Eye World, Triple Candie, New York City, NY
Jettison: New Ideas in Abstraction, Trahern Gallery, Austin Pegy State University, Clarksville, TN
Unlikely, Kunstverein Konstanz e.V., Konstanz. Germany
Champions of Modernism III, Wendt Modern, Laguna Beach, CA
Ewing Gallery of Art, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
To Have it About You : the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collection, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN

2008
Unlikely, Stadtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Germany
Unlikely, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
Short Distnace To Now, Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf, Germany

2007
International Art Show on Paper, Col Patrocino dell'Assessorato alla Cultura del Comune di Cesena, Cesena, Italy
Unlikely, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
Unlikely, Picture Party, Brooklyn, NY
Short Distance To Now, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
Short Distnace To Now, Galerie Thomas Flor, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Recognitions, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Unfathom, Max Protetch, New York, NY

2006
Exquistite Abstraction, White Space, Atlanta, Georgia Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Still Missing, The Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
American Art in Swiss Collections, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
Oliver Kamm, New York, NY
Leslie Heller, New York, NY
A Drawing and a Painting no.1, Temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, NY
Transmutations, SICA, Long Branch, NJ
The Failure of the Social, SVA Gallery, New York, NY
War is Over, Sideshow, Brooklyn, NY

2005
After all that can be said, Kienzle-Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
I am a Child of Divorce, Give me a Break, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
Vision and Re-vision, Domo Gallery, Summit NJ

2003
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Transcendent and Unrepentant, Rosenwald-Wolff Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Ball Point, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
177th Annual: Invitational, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
A Response, Exit Art,New York, NY
Rebuilding Hope, One Block at a Time, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2001
Vermont Studio Center Press, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Vermont

2000
Substance, Neo Images, New York, NY
Almost Something: Depictive Abstraction, Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
Sensibilities, Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI

1999
Xthetic, Curated by Giles Lyon,Angstrom Gallery, Dallas,TX
Stefenelli Exhibition Space, New York, NY
Size Matters, Curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
A Room with a View, Curated by Mike Weiss, Sixth at Prince, New York, NY

1998
Debs & Co., New York, NY
Evergreen Review Exhibition, Curated by Richard Milazzo, New York, NY
Masters of the Master: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH
Hey, You Never Know, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY
Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
Galeria Siboney, Spain
GlyphRiff2, Curated by Max Henry, New York, NY

1997
Leap of Faith:Amenoff, Heilman, Stephan, and Volonakis, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Arbeiten Auf Papier, Andrea Pintsch, Munich, Germany
Lasker, Nozkowski, Stephan, Baumgartner Galleries, New York, NY
Set OffView, Room Exhibitions, New York, NY
Revolution Gallery, Detroit, Ml
Attitudes, S.O.M.A Gallery, San Diego, CA
Alternative Art Show, Pierogi 2000, New York, NY

1996
Highlights From The Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
Champions of Modernism:Art of Tomorrow/Art of Today, College of New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Bentley Terrace Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1995
Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
25th Anniversary; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Romantic Impulse, O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY

1994
Positions:Attitudes & Arrangements, Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flooding Camera, The Work Space, New York, NY
East/West, J.S. Vandam, New York, NY
Abstract Painting, Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo, NY
Personal Heroes, Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Actual Painting, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Stux Gallery, New York, NY

1993
The Single Frame, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
The Intimate Universe:Paintings by 26 American Artists, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY / Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
The Retum of The Exquisite Cadaver, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1992
Intimate Universe, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY

1991
The Figure in the Landscape, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Painting on Paper, James Nares, Peter Schuyff, Gary Stephan, Marc Richard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Figuring Abstraction, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Rope, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
La Metafisica Della Lee, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
The Landscape in Prints, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Abstract Painting in the Nineties, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

1990
Spellbound, Marc Richard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Token Gestures, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York,NY
Vertigo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1989
Land Scope, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Painters in Residence, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Collapsing Light, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
A Decade of American Painting:1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
Joan Nelson/Gary Stephan Landscape Painting, University Art Galleries,Wright State University, Dayton, OH

1988
Kent State University Art Museum, Kent, OH
The Image of Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Gallerie, Malmo, Sweden
Hybrid Neutral:Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Independent Curator Incorporated, New York, NY

1987
The Antique Future, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Abstract-Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1986
An American Renaissance, Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Time After Time, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collections of Douglas S. Cramer, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Amenoff, Mc Laughlin, Stephan, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

1985
Paul Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Paravision, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Style, Wolf Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Abstract Painting, John Good Gallery, New York, NY

1984
Work From the Johnson Atelier, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Fact and Fiction, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Five Painters in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,NY
An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Currents 6:New Abstractions, Milwaukee Museum, Milwaukee, Wi

1983
Recent Acquisitions:Works on Paper, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Drawing it Out, Baskerville-Watson Gallery, New York, NY
ArtisVCritic, White Columns, New York, NY
Portico Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Mary Boone and Her Artists, Siebu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Language, Drama, Source, and Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY
New York, New York, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle, England

1982
SweetArt, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
The Abstract Image, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
Early Work, The New Museum, New York, NY
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Selected Drawings, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
Postminimalism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA

1981
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Painting Invit?tional, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, NJ
Drawings, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY

1980
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
American Paidting:Today, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
Colorand Sufface, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1979
The Altered Photograph:20 Walls, 20 Curators, Institute for Art and Urban Resources / PS 1, New York, NY
From Allan to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
American Painting:The Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY

1978
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Black and White on Paper, Nove Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Show, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

1977
Painting 75, 75, 77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
11 Artists in New York, Galerie Loyse Von Oppenheim, Nyon, Switzerland
Painting, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Painting, Institute for Art and Urban Resources/PS 1, New York, NY
Selected Prints, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

1976
Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Ten Painters, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1974
Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Now '74, Washington, DC
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Works from the Collection, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1973
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Choice Dealers, Dealer's Choice, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Recent Abstract Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, NY

1972
New York Painting, American Federation of the Arts (Traveling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1971
Contemporary American Painting, The Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970
New Work: New York, American Federation of the Arts, New York
Young American Artists, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

1969
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1968
Paintings and sculpture by Peter Gourfain, Steve Conley, Gary Stephan, Phil Wofford, Richard Van Buren, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

1966
Hansen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1965
Systematic Art, Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA