
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
