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Gary Kuehn

Gary Kuehn (b. 1939, Plainfield, NJ) is an American artist who pioneered the Postminimal and Process Art movements of the 1960s. His work has been exhibited at the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal (1971), Kunstverein Stuttgart (1972), the Portland Art Museum (1975), the New Jersey State Museum, Trenton (1977), PS1, Long Island City (1978), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1980), Hamburger Kunsthalle (1986), Kölnischer Kunstverein (1989), Kunsthalle Bielefeld (1990, 2001), Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (1991), Le Syndicat d’Initiative, Cluis (1995), National Building Museum, Washington, DC (1997), Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2000), Bergen Kunstmuseum (2001), Neues Museum in Nürnberg (2002), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (2004), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2007, 2010), Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf (2008), Weserburg Museum, Bremen (2012), Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford (2014), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2014), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2015), the Museum Ludwig, Cologne (2017), and GAMeC—Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo (2018).

Born 1939
Hometown Plainfield, NJ
Lives and Works New York and Wellfleet
Permanent Collection

Albertina, Vienna, Austria

Bonn Städtisches Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Corporation

Continental Corporation, New York, New York and Cranbury, NJ

Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO

First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN

Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Chicago, IL

Kröller-Müller, Otterloo Museum, Germany

Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein

Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

Mark Twain Bancshares, St. Louis, MI

Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador

Museum Ludwig, Cologne

MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany

Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany

New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ

Newark Museum, Newark, NJ

Sammlung Fried, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany

Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany

Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Von Der Heydt Museum, Germany

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U.N.C., Greensboro, NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY