1941 Born in Lake Charles, LA
Lives and works in New Mexico
Education:
1964 BFA, Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA
Lynda Benglis has received numerous grants and awards.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 New Ceramic Work, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2013 Everything Flows, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
Part One: New Works on Paper, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil, Germany
2011 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Traveling Show
2010 Michael Janssen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2009 New Work, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2008 Lynda Benglis as Printmaker: A 30-Year Retrospective of Editions and
Monotypes, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2007 Wax Paintings & Ceramic Sculptures, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2006 Lynda Benglis: Pleated, Knotted, Poured..., Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 A Sculpture Survey 1969-2004, Cheim & Read, New York, NY
2002 Ceramic Sculpture, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Stacked, Forced, Pinched: Clay and Bronze Works by Lynda Benglis, Meadows
Museum, Shreveport, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY
1998 New Sculpture and a Screening of ‘Female Sensibility’ from 1973,
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
1997 Selected Wall Reliefs, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
Lynda Benglis – Glass, Fred Dorfman Gallery, New York, NY
Hidden Agenda, Gallery Chemould, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
1995 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Recent Wall and Glass Sculpture, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994 Wax Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, The Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, NM. Traveling Show
1993 Clothed and Unclothed: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
From the Furnace, Auckland City Art Center, Auckland, New Zealan
1991 Dual Natures, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA. Traveling Show
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
1985 Works in Glass, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1981 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
1980 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
1975 The Kitchen, New York, NY
1974 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
1970 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Galerie Hans Muller, Cologne, Germany
Lynda Benglis has been featured in numerous group exhibitions
Selected Museum Collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY