STEPHEN MUELLER
Born in Norfolk, Virginia, 1947
BFA University of Texas, Austin, 1969
MA Bennington College, Vermont, 1971
Visiting Lecturer, Four Painters Program, School of The Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, 1995
Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard
University, Cambridge, 1999 (Spring), 2000 (Fall), and 2005
(Spring)
Part Time Instructor, Dept of Art and Art Professions, New York
University, New York, 2002
Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Visual Arts,
Princeton University, 2004-5 (Fall), 2005-6 (Fall)
Lives and works in New York
One-Person Exhibitions:
2003 “Stephen Mueller”, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha Nebraska
2001 Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
2000 Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
1997 Indian Science, Stone Road, Wainscott, New York
1996 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1995 Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
Texas Gallery,
Houston
Watercolors,
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
1994 Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago
Annina Nosei
Gallery, New York
1993 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
1992 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
James Corcoran
Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Fabian Carlsson
Gallery, London
1989 Gallerie Specht, Basel
1988 Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles
New
Gallery/Bemis Project, Omaha, Nebraska
Annina Nosei
Gallery, New York
1987 Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden
Fabian Carlsson
Gallery, London
1986 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1985 Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London
1984 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
North Store
Gallery, New York
1982 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Art Now Gallery,
Gothenberg, Sweden
1980 Mary Boone New York Gallery,
D. Clayton &
Co. Gallery, Houston
1977 Watson/de Nagy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery, Houston
Lubin House Gallery
of Syracuse University, New York
1976 J. H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery, New York
1975 Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
1971 Bennington College, Usdan Gallery,
Bennington, Vermont
1970 Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005 Beyond Representation: Abstract Art in the South, Gibbes
Museum of Art, Charleston, SC
Anniversary
Exhibition:25, Baumgartner Gallery, New York
“Fabulous”,
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
2004 Stephen Mueller/ Rob Wynne, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus
Ohio
“The Flag
Project”, The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, New York
2003 “Vessels”, Greenwich House, New York. (curated by Joe Fyfe)
Winter
Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
“Summer Color”,
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
“The Invisible
Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art”, Newhouse Center For
Contemporary Art ,Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
“Size Matters”,
Texas Gallery, Houston
Stephen
Mueller & Arlene Shechet, Van Brunt Gallery, New York
(December)
2002 Summer Group Show And Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery
“Watercolor”, New
York Studio School
“Zenroxy”, Von
Lintel Gallery, New York
2001 “Some Paintings”, Texas Gallery, Houston TX
Works on
Paper, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
2000 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy
Gallery, New York
Glee: Painting
Now, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
(travels to Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art)
Drawings &
Photographs, Benefit Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1999 Om, Dorsky Gallery, New York
American
Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American
Academy of Arts and
Letters
1998 6 Painters, (Baroque Geometry), Marborough
Chelsea Gallery, New York
Cleveland Collects
Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
1997 Out There, Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang
Gallery, Boston
Nirguna/Saguna, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India
1996 Champions of Modernism - Art of Tomorrow/Art of
Today, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle. New York
1995 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
The Whitney
Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Annina Nosei
Gallery, New York
Transatlantica
- The American-Europa Non-Representativa, Fundacion Museo Alejandro
(Oterro, Caracas, Venezuela)
Pure Painting,
The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,
Colorado
1994 Works on Paper: Selections From the
Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art a Philip
Morris, New York.
Art on Paper, The
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Paintings from New
Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit
1993 Tresors de Voyage, Monastero dei Padri
Mechitaristi dell’Isola di San Lazzaro degli, Arrneni Venice
(under
the patronage of the 45th Venice Biennale)
Marguerite
Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
Baumgartner
Galleries, Washington, DC
Quotes from
Past Exhibitions, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery,
Houston
Marguerite
Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
Small Format
Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York
Reveillon ‘94,
Stux Gallery, New York
Isn’t It
Romantic?, On Crosby Street, New York (curated by Michael Walls)
In the Spirit
of Things, Stux Gallery, New York
Abstract Works
on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1992 Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Slow Art, P.
S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
Emerging New
York Artists: An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Collection of
Phil Schrager,
The College of
Fine Arts, University of Nebraska at Omaha
1991 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
1989 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on
Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
1987 The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
Painting
Invitational, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York
1986 Annie Plumb Gallery, New York
About Place:
Contemporary American Landscape, The Institute for Art and
Urban Resources, New York
Works on
Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
1985 Paintings as Landscape: Views of American
Modernism, Parrish Art Gallery, Southampton and Baxter Art Gallery,
Pasedena
(curated by
Klaus Kertess)
1984 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Organic
Abstractions, H. F. Manes Gallery, New York
New York Scene
1984, Cologne Art Fair (curated by Rudolf Zwirner)
1983 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
Perspectives,
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
47th Annual
National Mid-Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown
1982 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
The Abstract
Image, Pat Hamilton Gallery, New York
Two Painters
on Paper, Art Gallery M. I. T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1981 Committed to Paint, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas
1980 Watercolors, The Institute of Art and Urban
Resources, Long Island City, New York
1979 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
From Allen to
Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston
1978 Shape and Field, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New
York
Works on
Paper, D. Clayton & Co. Gallery, Houston
Sarah Rentschler
Gallery, New York
1973 Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston
1971 Young American Artists, Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati
Contract
Graphics Gallery, Houston
Selected Bibliography:
47th Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Butler
Institute of American Art, 1983.
Adams, Brooks. Exhibition catalogue, Fabian Carlsson Gallery,
London, 1990.
Adams, Brooks. “Quadrilateral Drift,” Art in America, May 1989.
Adams, Brooks. “Stephen Mueller at Annina Nosei,” Art in America, December
1982.
. “Artist Project,” Bomb Magazine, Spring 1996.
. Bomb Magazine, November
1986.
Brenson, Michael. Review, The New York Times,
December 28, 1984.
Cameron, Dan. Review, Art
News, May 1985.
Cohen, David. “ In Minimalism’s Wake”, The New York Sun, May 25,
2006
Cotter, Holland. Exhibition catalogue, Fabian Carlsson Gallery,
London, 1987.
Cotter, Holland. Review, Flash Art, No. 132,
February-March 1987.
Cotter, Holland. The
New York Times, Art in Review, February 18, 1994.
Cotter, Holland. The
New York Times, Art in Review, May 19, 2000.
Peggy. Review, Arts
Magazine, February 1989.
. Review, Details, January-February
1985.
. Review, Details, May 1984.
Domingo, Willis. “Color Abstractionism,” Arts Magazine, December
1970.
Feinstein, Rochelle. “Stephen Mueller,” Arts Magazine, March 1987.
Fleming, Lee. Review, The
Washington Post, August 7, 1993.
Fleming, Lee. “Stephen Mueller at Baumgartner,” The Washington Post,
January 8, 1994.
Fyfe, Joe. Catalog Essay, “Stephen Mueller”, Joslyn Art Museum,
Omaha, NB, 2003
Fyfe, Joe. “Stephen Mueller”, interview. Bomb Magazine, Spring 2002
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Review, Arts Magazine, January 1974.
Group Show, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, 1983.
Guyn, Peter. Arts
Review, London, November 1987.
Heartney, Eleanor. Review, Art in America, February
1987.
Heartney, Eleanor. Review, Art News Magazine, February
1989.
. House and Garden, July 1998.
Johnson, Ken. Review, The
New York Times, October 19, 2001
Kent, Bill. See Cruise, Art
and Antiques, June 1997.
Kertess, Klaus. Painting as Landscape: Views of American
Modernism, exhibition catologue, 1984-85.
Kertess, Klaus. “Another Kind of Light, The Art of Stephen
Mueller,” Artforum,
November 1993.
Kertess, Klaus. “Painting Metaphorically,” Artforum, October 1982.
Kertess, Klaus. “Serendipitous Elegance,” Elle Decor, April-May 1994.
Lambarelli, Roberto. Exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery,
1986.
Lambarelli, Roberto. “Stephen Mueller,” Sunstorm,
December-January 1986-87.
Leffingwell, Edward G. About Place: Contemporary American
Landscape, catalogue text,
Institute for Art and Urban
Resources, New York, 1986.
Lew, Irvina. “The Artful Lodger”, Art and Antiques.
Summer-2005.
Liebmann, Lisa. Interview,
October 1990.
Liebmann, Lisa. Review, “Goings On About Town,” The New Yorker, May 18,
1992.
Lyttelton, Art. Tattler,
March 1997.
McWilliams, Martha. “Significant Something,” Washington City Paper, July
30, 1993.
Merlin, James. “Enthusiastic Underwriting,” London Magazine, 1988.
Morera, Daniela. L’Uomo
Vogue, November 1995.
Morgan, Stuart. Review, Artscribe,
September-October, 1990.
Newhall, Edith. “Hello, Old Paint,” New York, February 14, 1994.
Newhall, Edith. Review, Artnews,
February 1991.
. New York Magazine, May 1,
2000.
Paglia, Michael. “Pigments of the Imagination,” Westword, September 6-12,
1995.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Painterly Versus Painted, Painterly Painting,”
Art News Annual, No.
XXXVII, 1970.
. “Reviews in Brief,” The New York Review of Art, Volume I, Number 2, April
1994.
Saltz, Jerry. “Let us now praise artist’s artists,” Art & Auction, April
1993.
Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life of Painting,” Art in America, October
1994.
Schmerler, Sarah. “Stephen Mueller at Bill Maynes,” Art in America, November
2000.
. The Sciences, October 1997.
Silverthorne, Jeanne. Review, Artforum, January 1983.
Smith, Roberta. “Everyman’s Land,” The Village Voice, October
26, 1982.
Smith, Roberta. Review, The
New York Times, November 14, 1986.
Smith, Roberta. Review, The
New York Times, May 8, 1992.
Stanfill, Francesca. “The World of Mary McFadden,” Architectural Digest, May
1980.
Tatransky, Valentin. “Group Show,” Arts Magazine, October 1979.
Tatransky, Valentin. Review, Arts Magazine, January 1983.
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, The First Fifty Years, catalogue, 2000.
Van Baron, Judith. Review, Arts Magazine, December
1973.
Wei, Lilly. Review, Art
in America, June 1994.
Weinstein, Matthew. Review, Artforum, October 1992.
Whitney Biennial catalogue, April 1987.
Yau, John. “Interview with Stephen Mueller,” exhibition
catalogue, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, 1985.
Yau, John. Review, Artforum,
February 1991.
Yau, John. “Stephen Mueller,” Tema Celeste,
October-November 1988.
Yoskowitz, Robert. “Group Show,” Arts Magazine, December
1979.
Awards:
2005 Francis J. Greenburger Award
2004 Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, 2002
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2000
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Support Grant 1994
The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 1993
CAPS, Individual Fellowship, 1987
Collections:
William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut
Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum
The Denver Art Museum
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York
Southwestern Bell
Goldman-Sachs
Progressive Corporation, Ohio
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska