Martin KLINE

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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

2016
New York, Paul Rodgers / 9W, Inside Out: Martin Kline and Melissa Kretschmer Baltimore Museum of Art, New Arrivals: Gifts of Art for a New Century

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.