BORN 1937, Kansas
EDUCATION
1964 MFA, University of Arizona, Arizona
1961 BA, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, Kansas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
"On Redtail Pond: Paintings from the Summer," Galerie Lindner, Schmalzohofgasse, Wien
“Paintings from the Autumn . . . ” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California (catalog)
2006
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (catalog)
2005
Museum CHasa Jaura, Val Chava, Switzerland
“Nero Avorio,” Art Antica e Contemporanea a Confronto, Crocisso in Avorio / Dippinti di Max Cole, Milan, Italy (catalog)
2004
Kolumba, Erzbischöfliches Diözesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
“Max Cole: Toward Infinity,” Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland (catalog)
Galerie Linder, Vienna, Austria
“Max Cole: Paintings and Drawings,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg (with Jean Maboules) Frankfurt, Germany (catalog)
Galerie Walter Storms, Munich, Germany
2001
I-8 Galeria, Reyjavik, Iceland
871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000
Haus für Konstructive und Kondrete Kunst, Zürich, Switzerland (catalog)
Galerie Belvedere, Milan, Italy
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
1999
Gudrun Spielvogel Gallery and Edition, Munich, Germany
Galery Schlegl, Zürich, Germany
Galerie Ludke, Cologne, Germany
1998
“Intimate Abstractions,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Museum of Moderner Kunst, Otternddorf; Landkreis Cuxhaven, Sammlung Konkreter Kunst, Germany,
(catalog)
1997
Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
Galerie Appel und Fertsch, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Ludke, Cologne, Germany
1996
"Max Cole: Painting,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
Stark Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1994
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1993
Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (catalog)
"Max Cole: Recent Drawings,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1992
Museum Folkwang, Graphics Cabinet, Essen, Germany
Galerie Kunstraum/Kassel, Kassel, Germany
Galerie Schoppmann, Dusseldorf, Germany
1991
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
1990
"Max Cole: Recent Paintings", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
1988
Galerie Helene Grubair, Miami, Florida
1987
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York
1986
Ocscarsson-Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York
1984
Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1983
LA Louver, Los Angeles, California
1980
Miami/Dade College Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
LA Louver, Los Angeles, California
1979
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
LA Louver, Los Angeles, California
1977
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
1976
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1972
Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1964
Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
1963
261 Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 1984)
2008
“Fundamentals of Abstraction II: In memory of Kim Wauson,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
"On Paper," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006
“Director’s Choice,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Touche,” Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
2005
“3 New York Artists,” Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
“ Director’s Choice: Contemporary Art with Objects from Asia,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Minimalism and After IV,” Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
“Ad Infinitum II: the Aesthetics of Repetition II,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004
“Je ne Regrette Rein,” Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
“On Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Kunstraum Alexander Burkle, Freiburg, Germany
2003
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Museum of Modern Art, Rovereto, Italy
“Works on Paper,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Lines,” Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, California
2002
“Fifteen – 15th Anniversary Exhibition,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2000
American Academy in Rome, “Art of the 80's and 90's,” Panza di Biumo Collection, Rome Italy (catalog)
Panza Collection, de Villa Menafoglio Litta Panza, Fondo per L’Ambiento Italiano, Permanent Collection,
Varese, Italy (catalog)
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy. Two-person with Julia Mangold
1999
“Radical Past,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California (catalog)
“Invitational ’99,” Knoedler Gallery, New York, New York
1998
“Reflections,” Gallery Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
Drawing exhibition, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
“Obsession + Devotion”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
MANIF 97, Manifestation d’Art Nouveau International et Forum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea (catalog)
1996
Panza Collection Exhibition, "Art of the 80’s and 90’s,”Museum of Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy (catalog)
“Einblick,” Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany
“Concrete Reality and Reflection, Part II,” Galerie Schlegl, Zürich, Switzerland
"Acquiring Minds, Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections," Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara,
California
"Karo Dame," Aargauer Kunsthaus, Switzerland (catalog)
1994
Drawing exhibition, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Pen and Ink," Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1992
“Artists for Amnesty”, Foundational Nationale des Arts, Paris, France (catalog)
"Intimate Abstraction,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Paradox: The Artist's Mind Through Time," Museum of Fine Art of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Drawings,” Proctor Art Center and the New York Studio School, New York, New York
1989
"Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction," traveling exhibition in Southeast Asia: Chosum Ilbo Gallery,
Seoul, Korea; Dowse Art Museum, Wellington, New
Zealand; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North, New Zealand; Bishop Sutter
Gallery, New Zealand; Manila Art Museum, The Philippines; National Art
Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; National Museum Gallery, Singapore
“Abstract Painting”, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Visions of Inner Space: The Action Mark in Contemporary American Painting," Wight Art Gallery, University
of California at Los Angeles and National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
"Ad Infinitum," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987
"Rigor," John Good Gallery, New York, New York
"Trends in Geometric Abstract Art," Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Years of Passage,” Fresno Art Center, Fresno, California
"The Severe and the Romantic: Geometric Humanism in American Painting 1950-1980,"
Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, New York
"Spirit Tracks," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, New York
"Absolutes Defined: Line, Light and Surface: Max Cole, Milton Resnick and Frederick Matys Thursz,"
Oscarsson-Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York
1985
"Abstract Painting Redefined,” traveling exhibition in United States (catalog)
“Exceptions 3 - Paperworks,” Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, New York
“Santa Barbara Collects,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1984
"In Celebration of Women, Part II,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
"Painting, Drawing and Sculpture: American and European,” LA Louver, Los Angeles, California
"Post-War American Purism,” Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, New York
"The California Connections: Sixteen Paintings from the Gifford and Joann Phillips Collection", Museum of
Fine Arts of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1982
“LA - NY,” Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Shift LA/NY,” Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY & the Newport Harbor Museum (catalog)
1981
“Dark Thoughts: Black Paintings,” Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, New York
“Abstraction in Los Angeles 1950-1980: Selections from the Gribin Collection,” Fine Arts Galleries of
California State Universities at Northridge and Irvine
“Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies,” Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (catalog)
1980
“Seven Decades of Modern Art: Sidney Janis Collection,” La Jolla Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art,
California
“Constructivism and the Feometric Tradition,” McCrory Collection, Albright-Knox Museum, Dallas Museum, La Jolla Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle M useum (catalog)
1979
“Aspects of Abstract,” Crocker Museum, Sacramento, California (catalog)
“Black and White are Colors,” Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California (catalog)
1978
“Shades of Gray,” Malone Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount, Santa Monica, California
“A Contemporary Masters Show,” Libra Gallery, Claremont, California
1977
“Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors,” College of Creative Studies, University of
California, Santa Barbara, California (catalog)
“Less is More,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York (catalog)
“Thirty-Fifth Biannual,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalog)
1977
“Private Images: Photographs by Painters,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1976
“New Abstract Painting,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Max Cole, James Hayward, John M. Miller and
Margit Omar, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
“Southern California Artists,” Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
1975
“Market Street Program,” three person exhibition, Venice, California
“Twenty-one Artists: Invisible/Visible,” Long Beach Art Museum and Mills College, Oakland, California
(catalog)
“Drawing Show,” Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Color, Form and Surface,” Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
(catalog)
“Eight Los Angeles Painters,” Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, California
“Biannual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
New York (catalog)
“The Classic Revival,” traveling exhibition to eight mid-western museums
1974
Womanspace, Los Angeles, California. Two person show: Martha Alf and Max Cole.
1968
“West Coast 1968,” E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California
“California Painters: A Survey of California Painters in the Decade, “ Tampa Bay Art Center; Ringling Museum of Art; Galleries of Florida State University (catalog)
“Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign,
Illinois (catalog)
1966
“Annual,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
“Annual Exhibition of West Coast Painting, Frye Museum, Seattle, Washington
“Texture and the Tactile Surface,” traveling exhibition to the Western Museums Association
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
Whiteside, Amber. “ Max Cole and Candace Plummer Gaudiani at Haines Gallery,” Artweek, May Volume 38,
Issue 4.
2006
Madesani, Angela. “Max Cole,” ArtForum, November 2006.
2001
Van Proyen, Mark. “Max Cole at Haines and 871 Fine Arts,” Art in America, November, p. 156.
Bonnetti, David. “Max Cole at Haines,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 3, 2001.
Bonnetti, David. San Francisco Chronicle, April 20, 2001.
1999
Ermen, Reinhard. "The Power of Concentration: On the Paintings of Max Cole," Kunstforum, March-April
Kraft, Martin. "Organic Orders," review, Handelszeitung, May
1997
Oner, Ali, "Die New Yorker Kunstlerin Max Cole", Article Neve 'Bildende Kinst, December
"The Panza di Biumo Collection - Some artists from the 80s and 90s", published by Electa, Milan, Italy
1996
Reinhard, Ermen, “Max Cole”, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, February.
1994
Cutajar, Mario, "Drawn and Flattened," Visions, Winter
Greene, David A., Art Issues, March-April
Knight, Christopher, "The Highs were High and the Lows were Low," Los Angeles Times, January
Pagel, David, "Hypnotic Dances," Los Angeles Times, October 6.
Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, August 4.
1994
Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, November 18.
1992
Kampmann, M. von, "Pulsierende Lineatur," Soest Auszieger, April.
Schwarze, Dirk, "HNA Algemeine, " Kassel, January 16.
1994
Stecker, Raimund, "Kassel/Essen: Max Cole," Kunst Bulletin, Switzerland, April
Wortz, Melinda, "New Editions,"Art News, September.
1991
Crockett, Tobey, "Painting the Town," Venice Magazine, November.
Hemmerdinger, William, "Max Cole," Art Scene, Los Angeles, May.
Kimura, Aya, Review, Nikkei Art Magazine, Japan, July.
1990
Bohnen, Uli, "Cosmopolitan Folk Art or Different Local Times on One Canvas", (catalogue), Galerie Schroder,
Monchengladbach, Germany
1990
Kimura, Aya, Nikkei Art Magazine, Japan, July.
West Deutsche Zeitung, Monchengladbach, Germany, January 30.
Rapko, John, "The Drama of Visibility: Max Cole at Haines Gallery," Artweek, October.
Stecker, Raimund, "You See What You See, but You Don't Only See What Is," catalogue essay,
Galerie Schroder, Monchengladbach, Germany.
Rheinishe, Post, Monchengladbach, Germany, January 30.
1988
Ahlander, Leslie Judd, The Miami News, January 22.
1998
Allen, Lois, "Visions Exhibition: Inner-Experience Legacy," The Oregonian, January 20.
Cameron, Dan, "In the Realm of the Hyper Abstract", Arts Magazine, February.
Baker, Kenneth, San Francisco Chronicle, February 26.
Curtis, Cathy, "The Expressive Gesture," Los Angeles Magazine, January 16. Times of India, March 12
"Visions of Inner Space," The Statesman (India), March 12.
Jelenfy. "Max Cole", Rant, San Francisco, May.
1987
Dubin, Zan, "Exhibit of 'Just Let it Happen' Works," Los Angeles Times, December 20
Thompson, Walter, “Max Cole at Zabriskie”, Art in America, November.
Erman, Dr. Reinhard, "Visual Music: Rhythm in the Paintings of Max Cole," catalogue, Museum Folkwang,
Essen, Germany
Brensen, Michael, New York Times, August 28.
1986
Brensen, Michael, New York Times, April 25.
Cameron, Dan, "In the Realm of the Hyper Abstract," Arts Magazine, November.
Mahoney, Robert, "Absolutes Defined", Arts Magazine, November.
Gimblett, Max, catalogue introduction, "Spirit Tracks," Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York.
1985
Gleuck, Grace, "Abstract Painters Regain Old Charisma," New York Times, March 8.
Stapen, Nancy, "Taking a New Look at Abstract Painting", Boston Herald, July 28
Westfall, Stephan, review, Art in America, January.
Lipson, Karen, "Big Abstractions Form a Varied Lot", News Day, New York, December 27.
1984
Auer, James. "Looking at Art", review. Milwaukee Journal, November 25.
Westfall, Stephan, "Post-War American Purism", Art Magazine, November.
Zimmer, William, "Before and After Look from the Coast", New York Times – Westcheste edition, October 30.
1980
Muchnic, Suzanne, Art Walk, Los Angeles Times, September 20.
Muchnic, Suzanne, "Sidney Janis' Traveling Art Show," Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1980.
Mallinson, Constance, "Music for the Eyes", Artweek, October 11.
HONORS AND GRANTS
2005 Artist in Residence, Albers Foundation
1988 Research Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission, U.S. Dept. of State for travel in India
1987 Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1986 Pollock / Krasner Foundation Grant
1983 Visual Artists Fellowship, The National Endowment for the Art
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
The American Center, New Delhi, India
Chait Foundation Collection, New York, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Diozesan Museum, Cologne, Germany
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York, New York
Erzbischofliches Diozesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
FAI – Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano, Villa Menafoglio, Varese, Italy
Grunwald Center for Graphic Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Kramarsky Collection, New York, New York
Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle Collection, Freiburg, Germany
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Lembach Haus, Munich, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst des Lendkreises Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany
Museum fur Konkrete Kunst, Ingolstadt, Germany
Miami/Dade College Art Gallery, Miami, Florida
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
The Panza di Biumo Collection, Varese, Italy
Rossi/Mattioli Collection, Milan, Italy
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Sweet Briar College Galleries, Sweet Briar, Vermont
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
Van Der Heyht Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensborough, North Carolina
