Martin KLINE
Works Collections Exhibitions Publications Press
Born 1961, Norwalk, Ohio.
Lives and works in Milan, New York and New York City.
Education
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Works
Collections
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Atlantic Pacific Fellowship, Miyakonojo, Japan
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Kennedy Museum, Ohio University, Athens OH
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NY
Triton Foundation, Belgium
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
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Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2015
London, Thomas Agnew’s Gallery, Dreams of Venice
Boston, Gallery Naga, Dreams of Venice
2013
Geneva, Gowen Contemporary, Tabula Rasa
Houston, Meredith Long Gallery, Recent Work
2012
New Britain Connecticut, New Britain Museum of American Art, Martin Kline:Romantic Nature (Retrospective)
Nassau County Museum of Art, Martin Kline: Excerpts in Encaustic
2011
Houston, Meredith Long & Co., Excursions with Martin Kline
Geneva, Gowen Contemporary, Abstraction Rooted into the World
2009
Houston, Meredith Long & Co., Nature into Structure
2008
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Monochrome
2007
Milwaukee, Haggerty Museum of Art, Martin Kline, Nature and Culture
2006
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Made in Japan
2005
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Truth Awakens as Fiction: The Art of Martin Kline Copenhagen, Jason McCoy Inc., Copenhagen Suite, New Oilstick Paintings
2004
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Stainless Steel Painting
2002
New York, Marlborough Chelsea, Painting Sculpture
2000
New York, Marlborough Gallery, New Works
1996
New York, Gagosian Gallery 65 Thompson Street, Grids
Columbus, Ohio, Allez les Filles Gallery, Martin Kline
1995
Zurich, ACP Gallerie, Large Watercolors
1994
New York, Stephen Mazoh, Yuccas
1993
Zurich, ACP Gallerie, 17 Drawings
1992
New York, Stephen Mazoh, Recent Drawings
1985
Portland, Oregon Information Technology Institute, Drawings
1984
Portland, Sumus Gallery, Egyptian Themes
1983
Athens, Ohio, Small Space Gallery, Line Drawings
Group Exhibitions
2013
Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, Sackler Museum, Wax Works
2011
New York, Marlborough Chelsea, Powders, a Phial and a Paper Book
Mexico City, Isabel la Catolica, Piel/Skin
2010
New York. Lehman Maupin, Painting and Sculpture at Lehmann Maupin
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., I am Nature
West Palm Beach, Eaton Fine Art, Inc., Anti Icon
2007
New York, Paula Cooper Gallery, Grids: Carl Andre, Jennifer Bartlett, Martin Kline, Sherrie Levine, Sol LeWitt, Atsuko Tanaka, John Trembley, Dan Walsh, Jackie Winsor
2006
New York, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Head Over Hand
2005
New Paltz, State University of New York, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Encaustic Works New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Summer Exhibition: Gallery Artists
2004
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Los Monocromos
Cambridge, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance
2003
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawing Modern, Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Process and Possibility: Contemporary Drawing in the Museum of Fine Arts Collection
New York, Marlborough Chelsea, Group Exhibition
Atlanta, Marcia Wood Gallery, Encaustic Now/ Series 2
Chicago, Flatfile Contemporary, Inaugural Exhibition
Chautauqua, NY, Chautauqua Center for Visual Art, Al Held, Martin Kline, Kim Anno: Watercolors
2002
Connecticut College, New London, Cummings Art Center, Encaustic Painting
New York, Marlborough Chelsea, Sculpture, Gallery Artists
New York, Paul Rodgers / 9W Gallery, Mono-Chrome
New York, Chambers Fine Art, Rocks and Art, Nature Found and Made
2001
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Gallery Artists
Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Art Museum, SUNY College at Fredonia, NY
Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, Youngstown, OH, Butler Institute of American Art, Wayne, NJ, William Patterson University, Ben Shahn Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Watercolor: In The Abstract
2000
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Gallery Artists
2000
New York, Gagosian Gallery, Chelsea Art
New York, Matthew Marks Gallery, Drawings and Photographs
1999-2000
Montclair, The Montclair Art Museum, and Knoxville Museum of Art
Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America
1999
New York, Marlborough Gallery, Summer Exhibition: Gallery Artists
1998
Annandale- on-Hudson, Bard College, Trace
New York, James Graham & Sons, Drawings
New York, Jason McCoy Inc., Summer Group Show
1997
New York, Robert Steele Gallery, and Union, New Jersey, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery of Kean University, Intimate Universe (Revisited)
New York, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, Purely Painting
1996
Bad Ragaz, Grand Hotels Resort, Ornamente und Strukturen
1995
Kornwestheim, Germany, Galerie der Stadt Kornwestheim, Ornamentale Tendenzen:
Martin Kline, Claude Sandos, Susanna Taras
1994
Portland, Butters Gallery, October Group Show
1993
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Drawings, 30th Anniversary Exhibition
Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and New York, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Drawing the Line Against AIDS
Paramus, Bergen Museum of Art and Science, A Moment Becomes Eternity: Flowers as Image
1992
New York, Metro Pictures Gallery, Freedom of Expression '92
1991
New York, Lorence Monk Gallery, Drawings
New York, Michael Walls Gallery, Entr'Acte
1990
New York, Michael Walls Gallery, The Summer Exhibition 1990: Thirty Artists
1987-89
Sarasota, Jack Voorhies Gallery, Group Exhibitions
1986
Pocatello, Idaho State University, Big Sky Biennial IV
Portland, Art in the Mayor's Office
Coos Bay, Oregon, Coos Art Museum, Gary Forner, Martin Kline, Nan Yragui
1985
Stockton, California, Stockton National Print and Drawing Exhibition
Salem, Oregon State Fair, All Oregon Art Annual
Portland, Portland Art Museum, and Coos Bay Art Museum, Oregon Biennial
Condon, Oregon, Summit Spring's Art Slate '85
1984
Portland Art Association, Gallery Artists
Salem, Oregon State Fair, All Oregon Art Annual
Publications
2016
Rose, Barbara. Paul Rodgers /9W, "Inside Out: Martin Kline and Melissa Kretschmer", New York, NY
2012
Price, Marshall N. Hudson Hills Press, “Natural Phenonmenon,” Martin Kline: Romantic Nature, Manchester and New York
2011
Kelly, Ciindy. The Johns Hopkins University Press, "Outdoor Sculpture in Baltimore, A Historical Guide to Public Art in the Monumental City," Baltimore
2011
Heartney, Eleanor. Meredith Long & Co., Excursions with Martin Kline, Houston
2010
Rankin, Lissa. Encaustic Art, The Complete Guide to Creating Fine Art with Wax, Watson-Guptill, New York
2010
Rose, Barbara. Eaton Fine Art, Anti Icon, West Palm Beach
2009
Greene, Alison De Lima. Meredith Long & Co., Nature into Structure, Houston
2009
Kline, Martin. “A Few Notes About Scholars Rocks,” Chambers Fine Art, Art and Rocks: Nature Found and Made, Salt Point, NY
2008
Rosenthal, Nan. Jason McCoy, Inc., Monochrome, New York
2008
Eshoo, Amy, ed., 560 Broadway; A New York Drawing Collection at Work, (Werner Kramarsky) 1991-2006, New Haven and London: Yale University Press
2007
Carter, Curtis L. The Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University,
Martin Kline: Nature and Culture, Milwaukee
2006
Kline, Martin. Jason McCoy Inc., Made in Japan, New York
2005
Ratcliff, Carter. Jason McCoy Inc., Truth Awakens as Fiction: The Art of Martin Kline, New York
2004
Rose, Barbara. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Monochromes: From Malevich to the Present
2004
van Zuylen, Marina. Jason McCoy Inc., Oilstick Paintings, New York
2003
Foster, Carter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, October 26, 2003 – January 1, 2004
2002
Norden, Linda. Marlborough Chelsea, Painting Sculpture, New York
2002
Cummings Art Center, Hot Wax, Connecticut College, New London
2001
Mattera, Joanne. The Art of Encaustic Painting, Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax, Watson-Guptill, New York
2001
Watercolor in the Abstract, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
2001
Scogin, Hugh T. Jr. Chambers Fine Art, Rocks and Art, Nature Found and Made, New York
2000
Rose, Barbara. Marlborough Gallery, Martin Kline: New Works, A Conversation with Barbara Rose, New York
1999
Stavitsky, Gail. The Montclair Museum of Art, Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America
1996
Rose, Barbara. 65 Thompson Street, Life Enhancing Art, New York
1995
Kraubig, Dr. Jens. Galerie der Stadt Kornwestheim, Ornamentale Tendenzen, Kornwestheim, Germany
1994
Geldzahler, Henry. Stephen Mazoh & Co., Inc., Yuccas, New York
1993
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice and New York, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, Drawing the Line Against AIDS
Press
2011
Dumont, Etienne. “Les Cinq Meilleures Par Etienne Dumont,” La Tribune Genève, Geneva, March
2011
Buhmann, Stephanie. "Die Verbindung der Abstrakten Kunst mit der Natur," Art Collector, Basel
2011
Britt, Douglas. Houston Chronicle, Houston, May 24th
2011
Dupree, Michael. “Mysterious Skin,” Paper City, May, Houston
2010
Sjostrum, Jan. "'Anit-Icon' aims to reclaim serious side of art," Palm Beach Dalily News. February 17
2009
Britt, Douglas. “Martin Kline,” Houston Chronicle, Houston
2007
Wei, Lilly. “Martin Kline: Made in Japan,” Artnews, February
2007
Schumacher, Mary Louise. “Kline at the Haggerty,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee
2006
“Made in Japan,” Asian Art News, November/December
2006
Rose, Barbara. “A New Iconography for Abstract Art,” Art & Antiques, December
2005
Glueck, Grace. “Martin Kline: Truth Awakens as Fiction,” The New York Times, November 25
2004
Leffingwell, Edward. “Martin Kline,” Art in America, June
2003
Hall, William. "From China to Chelsea, Chambers Fine Art," Chinese Art News, Taipei, September
2003
Halasz, Piri. “Technique and Ambition,” NY Arts, January
2002
Ho, Christopher K., “Mono-Chrome,” Modern Painters, Autumn
2002
Reichek, Elaine. “Stitch and Pixel,” Tate International Arts and Culture, London, September/October
2002
Zhou, Liben. “Transcending Past and Present, East and West: Chambers Fine Art Arrives in New York with the Spirit of the East,” Art and Collection, Taipei, March
2002
Shulman, Ken. “Thorns and All,” Art & Antiques, March
2000
Everett, Deborah. “Martin Kline,” NY Arts: International Edition, vol. 5, no. 2
1996
Heartney, Eleanor. “Martin Kline at 65 Thompson,” Art in America, December
1995
Szabo, Julia. "Regarding Henry" (Geldzahler), New York Magazine, January 16th.