Born: Lakewood, OH, 1924

Education: Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
Art Students League, New York
Columbia University, M.A., 1975
University of Iowa, B.A., 1947

Died: Paris, 2014

2024

Zip Zap!, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

2022

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, London
Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

2020

Ça va aller, Air de Paris
Peder Lund, Oslo
SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin

2019

Bethlehem Hospital, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
MEMES, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles

2018
I Am Never Am the Other, Power Station, Dallas
Vice Versa, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

2017

Undeniable Allusion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2016

Drawings: 1964-1994, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Gober Partially Buried Sinks, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
KILL STUPIDITY, Air de Paris

2015

The House of Horrors (le Train fantôme), Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
Sturtevant Sturtevant, Madre, Napoli (catalogue)

2014

Drawing Double Reversal, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. Traveled to Albertina, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (catalogue)
Double Trouble, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Number Eight: Sturtevant, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
Reloaded, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2013

Finite / Infinite, 365 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles
House of Horrors, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
Leaps Jumps and Bumps, Serpentine Galleries, London

2012

Image over Image, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Traveled to Kunsthalle Zürich
L'abécédaire de Deleuze, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Rock and Rap / C Simulacra, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

2010

Elastic Tango, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (catalogue)
Vertical Nomad, Galerie Neu, Berlin

2009

Blow Job, Air de Paris

2008

Vertical Monad, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Sturtevant, Le Consortium, Dijon

2007

Raw Power, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
RE-Run, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

2006

Cold Fear, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Dillinger Running Series, Site Galerie, Düsseldorf
Digital Click, Art Unlimited, Basel

2005

Push and Shove, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (catalogue)

2004

The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. Traveled to the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

2003

Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
The Dark Threat of Absence, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
The Sixties: Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Galerie Daniel Blau, Berlin (catalogue)

2002

I love Arlette, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Shifting Mental Structures, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (catalogue)
Work on paper 1965/66/69, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

2001

Ça va aller, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin
Dillinger Running Series, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2000

Copy without Origins: self as disappearance, École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes

1999
Duchamp 1200 Coal Bags, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Geneva
Sturtevant. 1225 Objects, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain (catalogue)

1998
Ça va aller, Air de Paris
Int./Ext. Visibilities, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

1997
Stella Paintings and Photos, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

1996

Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France

1995

Powerful Reversals, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

1994

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

1993

Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
Stux Gallery, New York
Works from 1964–1992, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

1992

Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. Traveled to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Villa Arson, Nice.

1991

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (catalogue)

1990

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)

1989

Art Basel 89, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich
Werke aus 25 Jahren, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (catalogue)

1988

Drawing 1988–1965, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1987

Paintings and Objects 1965–1973, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1986

White Columns, New York

1974

Various Studies for Beuys Actions, Objects and Films, Onnasch Gallery, New York

1973

Studies for Warhols' Marilyns, Beuys' actions and objects Duchamps' etc. including film, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (catalogue)

1971

Studies done for Beuys' Action objects and drawing, Reese Palley Gallery, New York

1970

Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

1969

Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

1967

Picabias’ Ballet Relâche, School of Visual Art, New York
The Store of Claes Oldenburg, 623 East, New York

1966

America America, Galerie J, Paris

1965

Bianchini Gallery, New York

2024

Among the Invisible Joins: Works from the Enea Righhi Collection, MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

2023

Repetition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

2022

ERNSTHAFT? Albernheit und Enthusiasmus in der Kunst, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
Faking the Real, Kunsthalle Graz
Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá and Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá
Somewhere Downtown, UCCA Museum, Beijing
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2021

Amazons of Pop! Women artists, icons, superheroines 1961–1973, MAMAC, Nice. Traveled to Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Carte blanche à Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (catalogue)
Sturtevant & Tina Braegger: Curiosity Killed the Cat, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice
Zeros and Ones, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2020

30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Pantin, France
No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern
Retail apocalypse, ETH Zürich
Risquons-tout, WIELS, Forest, Belgium
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP, MAMAC, Nice

2019

Food, Yoshii Gallery, New York
Ikonen, Kunsthalle Bremen
Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Luogo e segni, Punta della dogana, Venice
More, Air de Paris
Straying from the line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

2018

33rd Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
Art & Entertainment, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
DRAG: Self-portrait and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
Faithless Pictures, National Museum of Norway, Oslo
Fake as More, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
Other Mechanisms, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)

2017

I am a Problem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
If Not Apollo, the Breeze, Kadist, San Francisco
Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Screen Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London
Sturtevant and the Salon Pour Rire, Chewday's, London
The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

2016

Foot Foraine, Grande Halle La Villette, Paris
Images, Fridericianum, Kassel
Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2015

Open Source: Art at the eclipse of capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi – Palazzo Reale, Milan
The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris,

2014

69 / 96., Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland
In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

2013

Ausweitung der Kampfzone. Die Sammlung. 1968–2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Des images comme des oiseaux, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
Pop Art Design, Barbican Centre, London
Second reflection / Symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS, Chelsea Space, London (catalogue)
Virginia Dwan, Filmmaker, Videographer, and Film Producer, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York

2012

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2011

ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, 54th Biennale di Venezia (catalogue)
In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice
The Personal is Political: Women artists from the collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Role Models and Role Playing, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

2010

Seconde main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Pop Life, Hamburger Kunsthalle

2009

Die Kunst ist Super!, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
The Quick and The Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)
Pop Life, Tate Modern, London
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
VOID, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Fare Mondi, 53rd Biennale di Venezia

2008

Set 5, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (catalogue)
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
The Archer and the Goat, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Exposing Flesh, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2007

Début de siècle, Musée départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart
it (is not) a fake, Galerie Sho Tokyo, Tokyo
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Ten Curators, Colette, Paris
Good Morning Midnight, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Steven Parrino – La Marque, Noire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Group Show, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

2006

Domino, Air de Paris
Faster! Bigger! Better! Zentrum für Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
The Gold Standard, MoMA PS1, New York
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

2005

Homage to the Square, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain
Just Do It! Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
Peter Blake, Sylvie Fleury, Malcolm Morley, George Segal, Sturtevant: Vis-à-vis 1, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
Spirit of…DADA, Galerie Hervé Bize
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum, Vienna
Truer than the Truth, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

2004

20 Jahre / 20 Years, 1984–2000, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
About Painting, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Before the End, Le Consortium, Dijon
Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no?, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille

2003

Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-war and Contemporary American Art, Dickinson Roundell, New York
Das Lebendige Musuem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (catalogue)
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Une Collection de 'Chefs d'oeuvre' – emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations, FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges
Un tableau dans le décor, Peintures 1970–2000, Musée des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes

2002

Iconoclash: Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschalft, Religion und Kunst, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Werserburg, Bremen
Min Marilyn, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
Manifeste oder Ergriffenheit – Was ist das, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
Minimalism and After, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Private/Corporate: Works from the Daimler Art Collection and the Paul Maezz Collection: A Dialogue, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

2001

Candice Breitz, Claude Closky, Elaine Sturtevant, Martin Walde, Erwin Wurm, Gallery Mezzanin, Vienna
Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna
La Bretagne collectionne l'art de notre temps: les vingt ans du Frac Bretagne 1981–2001, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes. Traveled to Manoir de la Grande Cour, Taden; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan; École supérieure d'art de Lorient, Lorient; Domaine de Trévarez, Saint-Goazec; Le Quartier – Centre d'art contemporain, Quimper, France (catalogue)
Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-Western, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
Répertoire (Replay) 'Oh cet écho!' (Duchampiana) 2, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
Répertoire (Replay) 'ce qu'il plait 2', Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
Trade-Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel Heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

2000

Copy Right/Copy Wrong, École des beaux-arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes
Protest & Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London (catalogue)
The 100 Smiles of Mona Lisa, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. Traveled to the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; and Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima (catalogue)

1999

Air de Paris
Apropos of Marcel: The Art of Making Art after Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Original. Echt/Falsch, Neues Museum, Bremen
Patchwork in progress 5 'Oh cet écho !' (Duchampiana), Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna
Werke aus der Sammlung FER, Froelich, Grässlin, Weishaupt, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe

1998

Auffrischender Wind aux weschselnden Richtungn. Internationale Avantgarde seit 1960. Die Sammlung Paul Maenz, Neues Museum, Weimar
Das Jahrhundert der Kunslerischen Freiheit, Vienna Secession. Traveled to Rudolfinum, Prague and City Art Museum, Helsinki
Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
Sequence, Edition Schellmann Munich, New York
Upfreshing Wind from Changing Directions, Weimar Neues Museum

1997

From One Point to Another, L'Atelier Soardi, Nice
Galerie von Lintel, Munich
Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

1996

Color Fields: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Family, Nation, Tribe, Community, SHIFT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (catalogue)
Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
La Criée, Centre d'Art, Rennes, France (catalogue)
L'Art du Plastique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Magritte, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Now/Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark

1994

“Et qui Libre?” Hommage a Marcel Duchamp, École des beaux arts, Rouen, France
Leap into the Void, Tsentral'ny dom khudozhnika / Central House of Artists, Moscow
Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

1993

Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Stux Gallery, New York
Zentrum Paris, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria

1992

Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
Galerie Six Friederich, Munich

1991

(Art)²: Art Appropriates Art, California State University, Fullerton, California (catalogue)
Aspect de l'art du XXéme siécle, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac, France (catalogue)
Das Goldene Zeitalter, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (catalogue)
Denk-Bilder, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifstun, Munich. Traveled to the Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (catalogue)
Hybrid Abstraction, Bennington College, VT
Objects for the Ideal Home, Serpentine Galleries, London (catalogue)

1990

Charade of Mastery. Deciphering Modernism in the Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art (catalogue)
Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Spellbound, Mark Richard Gallery, New York

1989

A Decade of Drawing, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
D&S Ausstellung, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (catalogue)
Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein (catalogue)
The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (catalogue)

1988

Complexity & Contradiction, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Hommage-Demontage, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen. Traveled to Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Stadtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; Provinciaal Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue)
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
Vraiment Faux, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France (catalogue)

1987

A Different Corner: Definition and Redefinition, Painting in America, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador (catalogue)
Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
The Glittering Prize, Stux Gallery, New York

1986

Investigations, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Production Re:Production, Gallery 345, New York

1985

The Art of Appropriation, Alternative Museum, New York (catalogue)

1969

Salon de mai, Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris

1968

Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York

1967

Art in the Mirror, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Mansfield Fine Arts Guild, Ohio; San Francisco State College; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; State University College, Oswego, NY (catalogue)

1966

The Other Tradition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)

1960

New Names: A Guest Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

2013

College Art Association, Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work
Kurt Schwitters Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Sprengel Museum, Hanover

2011

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 54th Biennale di Venezia

2008

Greenburger Award, New Museum, New York

2006

Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Paris

2005

Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Sturtevant: The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

2004

Art Award (best exhibition of the year), Paris