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1941
Born Glendale, California

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1985
“Don Van Vliet: Sechs Bilder” (catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Don Van Vliet”, Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York

1986
Waddington Galleries, London (catalogue)

1987
“Don Van Vliet: Zehn Bilder”(catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Brinkmann, Amsterdam

1988
“Don Van Vliet: Neun Bilder” (catalogue); Galerie Lelong, Zurich

1989
“Don Van Vliet: New Work”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

1990
“Don Van Vliet: Ten Paintings” (catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Don Van Vliet: 1986/89”, Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt A.M. (catalogue); “Don Van Vliet: New Paintings”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Don Van Vliet: Paintings and Drawings”(catalogue), Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica

1991
“Don Van Vliet”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York (catalogue); Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark

1993
“Don Van Vliet”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1994
“Don Van Vliet: Stand Up To Be Discontinued” (catalogue), Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton

1995
“God’s Empty Socks and Other Paintings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Don Van Vliet”, Galleri Stefan Andersson, Sweden; “Don Van Vliet”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio

1996
“Don Van Vliet”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (catalogue)

1998
“Don Van Vliet: New Work” (catalogue), Knoedler & Co., New York

1999
“Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York

2000
“Don Van Vliet”, The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta

2001
“Paintings from the Eighties”; Michael Werner Gallery, New York, “Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper”, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia

2007
“Don Van Vliet”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Anton Kern Gallery, New York; “Don Van Vliet: Paintings”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper”, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

2008
“Don Van Vliet“, Galleria dell’Arco, Palermo


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982
“Performance Video”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985
“From Organism to Architecture”, New York Studio School, New York; “The Chi-Chi Show”, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York; “Factura”, Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York

1987
“Byars, Chamberlain, Salle, Fischl, Lasker, Van Vliet”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1988
“A la surface de la Peinture: Les Années 80”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint André; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1989
“Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Frakmet in der Kunst seit 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt am Main; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1990
“Bilder des Rocks”, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense

1993
Michael Werner Gallery, New York

1994
Michael Werner Gallery, New York

1995
“Couplet 5: Dancing Girls, In Honor of Gustav Mahler, Along the Edge of Expressionism”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; “Major Works by Baselitz, Byars, Kirkeby, Lüpertz, Polke and Van Vliet”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York

1996
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

1998
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; “Baselitz, Broodthaers, Byars, Immendorff, Leroy, Lüpertz, Penck, Van Vliet”, Michael Werner Galery, New York; “Works on Paper”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York

1999
Michael Werner Gallery, New York

2000
“Nature. Contemporary Art and the Natural World”, Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton

2001
“Rock and Art”, Cultureel Centrum Stedelijke Musea, Sint-Niklaas

2002
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York

2003
Artists Ink Editions, a division of Rhino Entertainment, releases a box set devoted to the art and music of Don Van Vliet. Limited to an edition of 1,500, each set includes a catalogue of drawings and paintings; a book of texts, photographs and ephemera from the artist’s music career; a CD of recent spoken word material; and an original color etching signed by the artist.

2005
“Bilder aus den sechziger Jahren”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne

2006
“Black and White: Drawings for Summer”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York; “Music is a Better Noise”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York

2007
“Selection”, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;

2008
“Serial Works on Paper”, Julius Werner Berlin, Berlin;
“Series Drawings”, Michael Werner Gallery, New York


Don Van Vliet lives and works in California