Larry Zox

In Memoriam

The New York Times Obituary: “Larry Zox, 69, Abstract Painter of Dynamic, Geometric Works, Dies,” by Grace Glueck

Recent Solo Exhibitions

2011	Larry Zox: Collage Paintings from the 1960s Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2010	Larry Zox, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2008	Larry Zox: Paintings 1962 - 2006, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Larry Zox, DTR Modern Galleries, Boston, MA
2007	Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Rocket Gallery, London
2006	Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2005	Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Selected Group Exhibitions

2012	Paper Rocks Scissors Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2011	Painterly Abstraction (curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Megan Fontanella) Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Color in Flux: 20th Anniversary of the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art Weserburg, Bremen, Germany Blast From the Past: 60s and 70s Geometric Abstractions Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Spectrum Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Color Field Revised Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY American Art: Andy Warhol, Larry Zox, Jasper Johns… Museum Gallery of Modern Art, Sofia, Bulgaria
2010	Color Fields (Curated by Richard Armstrong) Deutsche Guggenheim Museum, Berlin, Germany Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY Nexus Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Vogel 50 x 50 Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV Artists at Max’s Kansas City: 1965-1974 Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY
2009	In Context, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY The Point of Convergence, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Expanding Boundaries: Lyrical Abstraction: Selections from the Permanent Collection Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL Continuum, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2008	Recently Acquired: New Art in the Collection University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY Confluence, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks, New York, NY Constant Aesthetic 2008, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2007	50 Years of American Art: 1957-2007, DTR Modern Galleries, Boston, MA Color!, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY Out of Oklahoma: Contemporary Artists..., Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK
2006	ART20 2006, The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY Visual Impact, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH Guild Hall Collects...75th Anniversary, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY Solstice, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY
2005	Focal Point, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Terrain Gallery, New York, NY Big is Beautiful, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Narrative Abstraction, Stephen Haller Gallery, New York, NY

MUseums Collections

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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The Empire State Art Collection, New York, NY
The Fred Jones Jr Museum of Art, Norman, OK
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AK
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Bibliography

2011	Evolving Patterns, Taylor Ruby ARTslant, July 2011 Color in Flux: 20th Anniversary of the Weserburg Exhibition Catalogue, Peter Friese, Raiman Strange, Guido Boulboulle Kerber Verlag, hardcover, 208 pages, bilingual, September, 2011
2010	Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll, Steven Kasher Abrams Image, hardcover, 160 pages, September, 2010 Color Fields, Exhibition Catalogue, Richard Armstrong, David Anfam Deutsche Guggenheim, 80 page, bilingual, October 2010
2008	The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection catalogue The National Gallery of Art, December, 2008
2007	Hard-Edged Visual Pleasure, Jennifer Riley The New York Sun, February 8, 2007 Larry Zox, ARTWORLD, David Ebony Art in America, February 2007 Larry Zox: A Life in Art The Week Magazine, February 23, 2007 Triple Vision, Clive Joinson Art Galleries, London, September 2007
2006	Larry Zox, 69, Abstract Painter ... Dies, Grace Glueck The New York Times, December 20, 2006 Larry Zox, 69, Color Field Painter Famed in 60s, Stephen Miller The New York Sun, December 20, 2006 Symmetry and its Violations, John Goodrich The New York Sun, April 20, 2006 Goings On About Town The New Yorker, May 1, 2006 Fogg Acquires Zox Works... Building Our Future, Vol. VI, No. 3, Summer 2006 No. 67: Holding High the Standard, Piri Halasz From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 15, 2006
2005	Larry Zox: ‘Five Decades’, Grace Glueck The New York Times, March 11, 2005 Larry Zox at Stephen Haller, Edward Leffingwell Art in America, October 2005 Larry Zox, Domenick Ammirati ARTFORUM, Summer 2005 Larry Zox, Robert Ayers ARTnews, Summer 2005 Quantity or Quality, Piri Halasz NY Arts, Vol. 10, No. 7/8, 2005 Larry Zox: ‘Five Decades’, Reuben Baron Artcritical.com, March 2005 Quantity or Quality, Piri Halasz No. 60: 15 April 2005 (An Appropriate Distance) From the Mayor’s Doorstep, April 15, 2005

Awards & Grants

1985	Esther and Adolph Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1969	National Council of the Arts
1967	John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

EDUCATION

1956	Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa Des Moines Art Center - Studied with George Grosz
1955	University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK

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