Lucas Samaras
Born: Kastonia, Macedonia, Greece 1936
Lives and works: New York, NY
Education
1959
Columbia University, New York, NY (Woodrow Wilson Fellowship)
1955-19
59 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
One-Person Exhibitions (selected)
2007
Lucas Samaras: Sculptures, Pastels and Photographs, Russell Bowman Art Advisory,
Chicago, April 13–June 9, 2007.
2006
Lucas Samaras: iMovies, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, September
12–October 7, 2006.
2005
Lucas Samaras: A Retrospective, National Gallery of Greece, Alexandros Soutzos
Museum, Athens, April 6–June 30 (extended through July 31), 2005. (Catalogue)
Lucas Samaras: PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z), Pace/MacGill
Gallery, New York, April 8–April 30, 2005. (joint catalogue with PaceWildenstein)
Lucas Samaras: PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z), PaceWildenstein,
534 West 25th Street, New York, April 8–May 7, 2005. (Catalogue; text by Lucas
Samaras)
2004
Lucas Samaras: Photofictions, Waddington Galleries, London, March 23–April 17,
2004. (Catalogue; text by Lucas Samaras)
Lucas Samaras, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, October 21–November 27,
2004.
2003
Lucas Samaras Photofictions, PaceWildenstein, November 11, 2003–January 10,
2004. (Catalogue; text by Lucas Samaras)
Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, November 13, 2003–February 8, 2004. (Catalogue; texts by Donald
Kuspit and Marla Prather)
2002
Lucas Samaras: Mutations, Galerie Xippas, Paris, November 7–December 14, 2002.
(Catalogue)
2001
Lucas Samaras: Paint, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, November
14, 2001–January 5, 2002. (Catalogue; text by Lucas Samaras)
2000
Lucas Samaras: Sittings 1978–1980, Galerie Xippas, Paris, May 4–June 10, 2000.
(Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras, la beauté donnée à voir,” by Catherine Francblin)
1999
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions, Jay Grimm, New York, March 11–April 17, 1999.
1998
Lucas Samaras: Gold, PaceWildenstein, New York, November 18, 1998–January 2,
1999. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras: Against the Grain,” by Barbara Rose)
1997
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations 1973–1976, Galerie Xippas, Paris, April
19–June 21, 1997. (Catalogue; “Qui va là? Pantelant, grossier, mystique, nu…,”
by Régis Durand)
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, July 31–September
20, 1997.
1996
Lucas Samaras: Kiss Kill—Perverted Geometry—Inedibles—Self-Absorption, PaceWildenstein,
New York, October 24–November 30, 1996. (Catalogue; reprint of “Waitingman,”
by Lucas Samaras)
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations 1973–1976, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene
Street, New York, November 8–December 14, 1996. (joint catalogue with Lucas
Samaras: Kiss Kill—Perverted Geometry—Inedibles—Self-Absorption)
Lucas Samaras: Pastels, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, November 14, 1996–January
11, 1997.
1995
Lucas Samaras, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, South Korea, February–March, 1995.
1994
Lucas Samaras: Cubes, Pragmata and Trapezoids, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street,
New York, October 21–November 26, 1994. (Catalogue; “Prima Facie Anomalies:
Cubes, Pragmata + Trapezoids,” by Jan Avgikos)
The Photographs of Lucas Samaras: Selections from a Recent Gift, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York, August 29–December 1, 1992.
1991
Lucas Samaras—Self: 1961–1991, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan, October 13–December
15, 1991. Traveled to: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan,
Recent Works, Hokin Gallery Inc., Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, 1991.
Lucas Samaras, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, February 28–March 30, 1991. (Catalogue;
“The Wizard in the Tower,” by Peter Schjeldahl)
Lucas Samaras, Galerie Renos Xippas, Paris, September 14–October 19, 1991.
Lucas Samaras: Slices of Abstraction, Slivers of Passion and/or Mere Decor,
The Pace Gallery, New York, October 25–November 30, 1991. (Catalogue; Autointerview
by Lucas Samaras)
April 11–May 24, 1992. (Catalogue; essays by Taro Amano, Sae Hayashi, Shino
Kuraishi, Kim Levin and Hiroshi Miyatake)
1990
Lucas Samaras, Waddington Galleries, London, June 20–July 14, 1990. (Catalogue;
“Unrequited dreams, signs and insignia,” by Lynne Cooke)
Lucas Samaras, Waddington Galleries, London, June 20–July 14, 1990. (Catalogue;
“Unrequited dreams, signs and insignia,” by Lynne Cooke)
1989
Samaras: Photographs, 1969–1987, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, October 1–November
26, 1989.
Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects 1969–1986, Denver Art Museum, Colorado,
May 7–July 10, 1988. Traveled to: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., August 12–October 16, 1988; High Museum of Art,
Atlanta, November 26, 1988–January 22, 1989; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami,
March 6–April 30, 1989; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, June 13–August
13, 1989; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 20–November 12, 1989. (Catalogue;
essays by Donald Kuspit, Thomas McEvilley and Roberta Smith)
1988
Lucas Samaras: Boxes and Mirrored Cell, The Pace Gallery, New York, October
28–November 26, 1988. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras,” by Germano Celant)
Lucas Samaras: Figures and Still Life, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, October
27–Novemebr 26, 1988. (Catalogue)
1987
Lucas Samaras: Chairs and Drawings, The Pace Gallery, New York, February 6–March
7, 1987. (Catalogue; “Poetic Injustice,” by Gary Indiana)
1986
Lucas Samaras: Panoramas and Adjustments, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, February
20–March 22, 1986.
Lucas Samaras, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, March 27–April 19, 1986.
Lucas Samaras, Serpentine Gallery, London, September 6–October 12, 1986.
Lucas Samaras: Spectators, Pastels, and Panoramas, The Mayor Gallery, London,
September 9–October 3, 1986.
1985
Lucas Samaras: Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 18–November 16,
1985. (Catalogue)
1984
Lucas Samaras: Chairs Heads, The Pace Gallery, New York, January 13–February
11, 1984. (Catalogue; “Shiftings: Things Beside Himself,” by Douglas Blau)
Lucas Samaras: Panoramas, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, January 13–February
11, 1984. (joint catalogue with Lucas Samaras: Chairs Heads)
1983
Lucas Samaras: Photos Polaroid Photographs, 1969–1983, Organized by the Polaroid
International Collection. Traveled to: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, September 21–November 27, 1983; Musée d'Art et d'Histoire,
Fribourg, Switzerland, December 16–January 29, 1984; Frankfurter Kunstverein,
Frankfurt, April 13–May 20, 1984; International Center of Photography, New York,
July 13–August 19, 1984; University of Arizona, Tucson; Phoenix Art Museum,
Phoenix, January 13–February 10, 1985; Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois;
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Serpentine Gallery,
London; Kennedy Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Photographic Research Center,
Boston; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. (Catalogue; essays by William
A. Ewing, Marcel Marcel Mayou, Alain Sayag and Peter Weiermair)
Lucas Samaras, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, December 7, 1983–January 14, 1984.
1982
Lucas Samaras: Pastels and Bronzes, The Pace Gallery, New York, February 19–March
20, 1982. Concurrent with: Richard Gray Gallery, February 5–March 6, 1982; The
Mayor Gallery, London, March 2–April 7, 1982. (Catalogue; “Samaras Winged and
Wingless, Celestial and Demonic, Anointed and Demented,” by Donald B. Kuspit)
1981
Samaras Pastels, Denver Art Museum, Denver, October 3–December 27, 1981. Traveled
to: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, January 27–March
7, 1982; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, March 21–May 9, 1982; Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 27–August 22, 1982; Portland Art Museum,
Portland, Oregon, September 15–October 31, 1982; Art Museum of South Texas,
Corpus Christi, Texas, November 29, 1982–January 1, 1983; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, January 18–March 20, 1983; Wildenstein and Company, New York, January
18–March 2, 1984. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras: The Pastels,” by Peter Schjeldahl)
Samaras, Galerie Watari, Tokyo, May 20–July 7, 1981.
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions, Photo-Transformations, The Pace Gallery, Columbus,
Ohio, November 29, 1980–January 5, 1981.
Lucas Samaras: Sittings 8 x 10, The Pace Gallery, New York, December 15, 1980–January
10, 1981. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras,” by Carter Ratcliff)
1980
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April 18–May
17, 1980.
Current: Lucas Samaras Reconstructions 1979–1980, St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri,
August 15–October 12, 1980.
Lucas Samaras: New Reconstructions, The Pace Gallery, New York, November 29,
1979–January 5, 1980. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras: The New Reconstructions,”
by Kim Levin)
1979
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, May 5–June 6,
1979.
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions and Photo-Transformations, Akron Art Museum,
Akron, Ohio, December 9, 1978–January 28, 1979.
1978
Samaras: Reconstructions, The Pace Gallery, New York, February 18–March 18,
1978. (Catalogue; “Barbara Rose Interviews Lucas Samaras,” interview by Barbara
Rose)
Lucas Samaras, The Mayor Gallery, London, March 2–April 1, 1978.
Lucas Samaras, Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, May 10–June 17, 1978.
Viewpoints, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, December 17, 1977–January
15, 1978.
1977
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations with Polaroid SX-70, Zabriskie Gallery,
Paris. November 29–December 21, 1977.
1977
Lucas Samaras: Phantasmata Photo-Transformations, The Pace Gallery, New York,
December 4, 1976–January 8, 1977. (Catalogue; “Phantasmata,” by Lucas Samaras)
1976
Lucas Samaras: Himself and Others, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, November
10–30, 1976.
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations, University Art Museum, California State
University, Long Beach, November 17–December 14, 1975. Traveled to: University
of North Dakota Art Gallery, Grand Forks, February 17–March 10, 1976; Wright
State University Art Gallery, Dayton, Ohio, April 4–25, 1976; Institute of Contemporary
Art, Boston, May 7–June 7, 1976; Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum, June
18–July 18, 1976; A.C.A. Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada, August
15–September 15, 1976. (Catalogue; “Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations,” by
Arnold B. Glimcher)
1975
Samaras 1974, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 3–April 13, 1974. (Catalogue;
“First Try, Second Try, Third Try,” by Lucas Samaras)
Lucas Samaras, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, May 5–31, 1975. (Catalogue)
Samaras and Some Others, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 25–November 27,
1975. (Catalogue)
1974
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations, The Pace Gallery, New York, March 23–April
27, 1974. (Catalogue; text by Arne Glimcher)
1973
Lucas Samaras: New Chicken Wire Boxes, The Pace Gallery, New York. December
2, 1972–January 3, 1973.
Lucas Samaras, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 18, 1972–January
7, 1973. (Catalogue; statements by Lucas Samaras)
1972
Lucas Samaras: AutoPolaroids, Boxes, Chairs, Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston,
January 11–February 12, 1972.
1971
Lucas Samaras: Auto-Polaroids, The Pace Gallery, New York, September 25–October
14, 1971.
Lucas Samaras: Stiff Boxes, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 16–December
31, 1971.
Lucas Samaras: Boxes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 30–December
12, 1971. (Catalogue; “On Peering into Lucas Samaras’ Boxes,” by Joan C. Siegfried)
Lucas Samaras, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, October 30–December 12, 1971.
1970
Lucas Samaras: Chair Transformations, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 3–31,
1970. (Catalogue; statement by Lucas Samaras)
Lucas Samaras, Kunstverein Museum, Hannover, 1970.
1969
Lucas Samaras: Book, Sachs Print Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
August 4–September 10, 1969.
Lucas Samaras, Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, 1969.
1968
Lucas Samaras: Boxes/Transformations, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 12–November
12, 1968.
1966
Samaras: Selected Works, 1960–1966, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 8–November
5, 1966. (Catalogue; essay by Lawrence Alloway, statement by Lucas Samaras)
1965
Lucas Samaras: Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, November 24, 1964–January 3,
1965.
1964
Lucas Samaras, Green Gallery, New York, September 16–October 10, 1964.
1962
Lucas Samaras, Sun Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, Summer 1962.
1961
Lucas Samaras, Green Gallery, New York, December 5–23, 1961.
1959
Lucas Samaras, Reuben Gallery, New York, November 6–26, 1959.
1958
Lucas Samaras, Art House, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, March
1958.
1955
Scholarship Exhibition, Art House, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey,
Fall 1955.
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2007
Ithaca Regained: Greek Artists in New York, Kouros Gallery, New York, April
14–May 19, 2007.
Vertigo: Il secolo di arte off-media dal Futurismo al web, Museo d'Arte Moderna
di Bologna, Italy, May 5–November 4, 2007.
Light Time and Three Dimensions, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New
York, June 28–August 24, 2007.
2006
Odyssey: Greek Art from the Last Fifty Years, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurichm June
11–July 15, 2006.
Modern and Contemporary Master Drawings, Connaught Brown, London, June 15–July
31, 2006.
Dereconstruction, Gladstone Gallery, New York, June 29–August 18, 2006.
Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, June 29–September 3, 2006.
New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography
and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, July 14–September 10, 2006.
The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960, Museum Ludwig,
Cologne, August 19–November 12, 2006.
The Alpha Bank Collection: Greek Art from 1920 Until Today, Macedonian Museum
of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, November 9, 2006–January 14, 2007.
Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art, Frist Center for the Visual
Arts, Nashville, November 10, 2006–February 11, 2007.
Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, December 20–March 11, 2007.
2005
Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, May 27–September
25, 2005. Traveled to: Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, November 2, 2005–February
12, 2006; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, May 24–September 16, 2007.
2004
Summer 2004, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 8–September 10, 2004.
Arti & Architettura 1900–2000, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, October 2, 2004–January
9, 2005.
Contemporary Art: Floor to Ceiling, Wall to Wall, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum
of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, October 31, 2004–April 24, 2005.
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, July 15–October
2, 2005. (Catalogue; essay by Claire Schneider)
Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, September 8–October 1, 2005.
2003
The Nude Ideal and Reality, Galeria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, January 22–May
9, 2004.
A Happening Place, The Gershman Y, Jewish Community Centers of Greater Philadelphia,
April 28–June 30, 2003.
Me, Myself and I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York, June 24–August
1, 2003.
Summer Travels, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 1–August 28, 2003.
Global Village: The 1960s, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, October 2, 2003–January
18 (extended through March 7), 2004.
2002
American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational of Painting and Sculpture,
New York, March 7–April 7, 2002.
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, June 27–September 22, 2002.
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, October
24, 2002–January 26, 2003.
2001
Self Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, April 4–May 5, 2001.
Summer In The City, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 1–September 12, 2001.
Heritage of Genius: Master Quilts Past and Present, exhibition in three locations:
Quilts Now: Old Medium Modern Message, Condé Nast Building, Times Square; Ecstatic
Geometries: Quilts from the 20th Century, 1155 Avenue of the Americas; and Quilts
Beyond the Rules, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York, November 29, 2001–January
31, 2002.
The Cultural Desert: Art, Medicine & Environment, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, November29,
2001–April 22, 2002. Companion exhibition: Inside Contemporary Sculpture, Scottsdale
Museum of Contemporary Art, January 19–21 April 2002.
2000
Summer 2000, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 19–August 31, 2000.
The International Festival of Contemporary Sculpture of Monaco: Contemporary
American Sculpture, July 26–October 31, 2000.
American Art Today, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami,
September 15–November 5, 2000.
About Collage, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, April 7 2000–March 4, 2001.
Art in America: 2000, Art in Embassies Program, Slovak Republic, September 2000–March
2001.
1999
Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–1963, The Newark Museum,
Newark, New Jersey, February 18–May 16, 1999.
Coming to Life: The Figure In Contemporary Art, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle,
February 25–June 13, 1999.
20th Century Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, March
28–May 31, 1999
House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, May 23–August 8,
1999.
Summer ‘99, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 9–August 13, 1999.
1999
Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of
Art, Queens, New York, October 6, 1999–January 30, 2000.
The American Century: Art & Culture 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, September 26, 1999–February 13, 2000.
1998
Sculpture, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, September 3–October 3, 1998.
1997
Inside, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, April 13–June
29, 1997.
The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties, University Art Museum,
California State University, Long Beach, August 26–October 26, 1997.
A Survey of Twentieth Century Sculpture, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan,
April 12–May 3, 1997.
The Pop ‘60s: Transatlantic Crossing, Fundacao das Descobertas/Centro Cultural
de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal, September 11–November 17, 1997.
Winter Group Show, PaceWildenstein, New York, December 19, 1997–January 24,
1998
Winter Group Show, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York, December 19,
1997–January 24, 1998
1996
Ivan Karp: The Face of Contemporary Art, A Celebration of Forty Years of Fine
Arts Dealership, Norton Center for the Arts, Danville, Kentucky, January 16–March
29, 1996.
Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York, February 10–May 21, 1996.
Fifteen Degrees from Rutgers, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School for the
Arts, New Brunswick, New Jersey, February 28–March 31, 1996.
Twentieth American Sculpture, Part IV, The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington,
D.C., April 12–September 26, 1996. Curated by Marcia Tucker.
Boxes, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, May 5–June 23, 1996.
Summer group show, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, June 8–July 20, 1996.
Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, June 28–September 4, 1996.
Pastels by Ten Contemporary Artists, DC Moore Gallery, New York, September 10–October
5, 1996.
48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts
and Letters, New York, November 4–December 1, 1996.
1995
Summer 1995, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 28–August 31, 1995
Summer Academy 2, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 28–September 23, 1995
47th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, November 6–December 3, 1995
Of the Human Form, Waddington Galleries, London, closed December 22, 1995
1994
Transparency and Metaphor, California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, February
26–April 10, 1994.
Ho Gallery, Hong Kong, November 11–December 10, 1994.
Sculpture, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
30 YEARS—Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964–1994,
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
White Works, PaceWildenstein, New York.
Worlds in a Box, City Art Centre, Edinburgh; traveled to Graves Art Gallery,
Sheffield; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich;
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
Facts and Figures: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Collection, Lannan
Foundation, Los Angeles.
Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York.
1993
Table Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, June 15–July 14, 1993.
Summer group show, The Pace Gallery, New York, June 28–September 10, 1993.
Materia, Imagen y Concepto: Un Recorrido por el Arte Contemporáneo Internacional,
Galería Namia Mondolfi, Caracas
International Critics' Choice, The Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst, Mount Vernon,
Illinois; traveled.
Manhattan Breeze–Five Contemporary Artists, Takashimaya, Tokyo, April 22–27,
1993. Traveled to: Takashimaya, Osaka, April 29–May 4, 1993; Takashimaya, Kyoto,
May 13–18, 1993; Takashimaya, Yokohama, June 10–15, 1993.
1992
Arte Americana 1930–1970, Lingotto, S.r.l., Turin, Italy, January 8–March 31,
1992.
The Endowed Chair, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, March 14–April 18, 1992.
Le Visage, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, June 18–October
4 (extended though October 25), 1992.
Summer group exhibition, The Pace Gallery, New York, June 5–September 11, 1992.
Masquerade (Body Double), Postmasters Gallery, New York.
Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London.
Mixed Media, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe.
Concurrencies, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, December 9, 1992–January
9, 1993.
1991
Visions/Revisions: Selections from the Contemporary Collection, Denver Art Museum.
Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.
Masterworks of Contemporary Sculpture, Painting and Drawing, the 1930's to the
1990's, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe.
Photography 1980 to 1990, Ginny Williams Gallery, Denver/Aspen.
Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller, New York.
Baselitz, Close, Dine, Flanagan, Morley, Oldenburg, Samaras, Schnabel, The Pace
Gallery, New York.
Small Sculpture in an Inner Space, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe.
The Chair: From Artifact to Object, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina, October 3–November 10, 1991.
Sculptors' Drawings, Bellas Artes, Santa Fe.
1990
Photographic Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery Collection, National
Portrait Gallery, Washington.
Fabric: A Chosen Medium—Robert Rauschenberg/Lucas Samaras, Textile Arts International,
Inc., January 20–February 24, 1990.
Hellenikon, City Gallery, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New
York, May 1–June 1, 1990.
Portrait of an American Gallery, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels.
Large-Scale Works by Gallery Artists, The Pace Gallery, New York.
Exposed, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York.
42nd Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute
of Arts and Letters, New York.
Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967–1988, Independent Curators
Incorporated, New York; exhibited at Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., New York,
January 12–February 28, 1990; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri,
April 5–June 3, 1990; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, February
8–April 7, 1991.
1989
*The Box Transformed, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris, New York,
February 14–April 25, 1989.
*The Junk Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950’s and Early 1960’s, Whitney Museum
of American Art, Fairfield County, Connecticut, April 7–June 14, 1989. Traveled
to: Whitney Museum of American Art, Equitable Branch, June 22–August 23, 1989.
Boite Alerte; 1989, Renée Fotouhi Fine Art, New York, October 17–December 3,
1991.
Art; What thou Eat, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College.
Tools as Art; The Hechinger Collection, National Building Museum, Washington.
Big little Sculpture, Plymouth State College Art Gallery, Plymouth, New Hampshire.
Traveled to New Britain Museum of American Art, New BritianConnecticut; Middlebury
College, Middlebury, Vermont; St. Paul's School, Art Center in Hargate, Concord,
New Hampshire.
The Face, The Arkansas Arts Center.
The Linear Image; American Master Works on Paper, Marisa del Re Gallery, New
York.
Drawings of the Eighties, Arts Club of Chicago.
Human Concern/Personal Torment Revisited, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York.
Framing Four Decades: The University Art Museum Celebrates The Collections 1949–1989,
The University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach.
Alumni Faculty Exhibition, Brooklyn College, New York, October 31–December 14,
1989.
Vanishing Presence, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, January 29–April
16, 1989. Traveled to: Winnepeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, May 13–July 30, 1989;
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, August 27–October 22, 1989; High Museum
of Art, Atlanta, November 13, 1989–January 5, 1990; Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, January 30–March 27, 1990; Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, April 24–June 17, 1990.
1988
Collage, Assemblage and Found Object in Twentieth Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, March 29–May 22, 1988.
Sixteen Cubes, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 9–October 21,
1988.
Recent American Pastels, Christian A Johnson Memorial Gallery, Middlebury College,
Vermont.
Contemporary Artist Self Portraits', Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas.
Alternative Image 3: Visual Paradox, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
First Person Singular: Self Portrait Photographs, High Museum of Art, Atlanta.
Contemporary Masters, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles.
Contemporary Art from New York, Ho-Am Art Hall, Seoul, Korea; traveled to Seibu
Museum, Tokyo.
American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, December 8, 1988–January
5, 1989.
Enigmatic Objects; Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York.
Identity; Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum Downtown at Federal Reserve
Plaza, New York.
1987
Cast in Bronze, University of Missouri Gallery of Art, Kansas City, January
15–March 10, 1987.
Chairs as Art, Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois, September 14–October 31, 1987.
1986
Reality Remade, Kent Fine Art, New York.
1985
Offset: A Survey of Artists' Books, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts
at Amherst.
37th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York.
Forty Years of Sculpture, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Not Just Black and White, Organization of Independent Artists, The City Gallery,
New York.
Painting as Landscape, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena.
Primitivism in 20th Century: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern, The Museum
of Modern Art, New York.
Big Portraits, Jeffrey Hoffeld & Co., New York.
75th American Exhibitions, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Nude, Naked, Stripped, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge.
1984
BLAM: The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York.
Investigations, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Pieces Sewn, Jamaica Art Center, Jamaica, New York.
36th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York.
Viewpoint: the Artist as Photographer, The Summit Art Center, New Jersey, November
4–December 30, 1984.
Flower as Image in Contemporary Art, Wave Hill, New York.
1983
*Day In, Day Out: Ordinary Life as a Source for Art, Freedman Gallery, Albright
College, Reading, Pennsylvania, March 14–April 17, 1983.
All That Glitters, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, New Jersey, May 11–June 18, 1983.
Arranged Image Photography, Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho.
Anxious Interiors, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California.
Invention and Allegory, Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York.
Sculpture: The Tradition in Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn
Harbor, New York.
Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptor’s Drawings 1882–1982, Ceolfrith Gallery,
Sunderland Arts Centre, England. Traveled throughout England through March 1984.
1982
Art Grec contemporain, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, October 31–November
28, 1982.
Artist Photographers, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkhill, New York.
Recent Color, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
New York School: Four Decades, Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Artists’ Photographers, SVC/Fine Arts Gallery, University of South Florida,
Tampa, November 7,1981–January 6, 1982
1980
Aspects of the 70’s: Mavericks, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham,
Massachusetts, May 22–June 29, 1980.
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
American Drawing in Black and White, The Brooklyn Museum, New York.
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, U.S. Pavilion; traveled to
museums in Spain, Portugal, and Norway until June, 1981.
Invented Images, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California.
Ten American Artists From The Pace Gallery, Wildenstein, London.
All in Line: An Exhibition of Linear Drawing, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery,
Syracuse University, New York, November 23, 1980–January 18, 1981. Traveled
to: Terry Dintenfass, Inc., January 31–February 27, 1981.
*Art In Our Time: HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art, Inc., Milwaukee Art Museum,
Wisconsin, October 9–November 30, 1980. Traveled to: Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, January 15–March 1981; Columbus Art Museum, Ohio, June 6–July 19,
1981; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, September 1–October 11, 1981;
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, November 15–December
31, 1981; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, January 23–March 7, 1982; University
of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, April 4–May 31, 1982; Brooks Memorial Art
Gallery, Memphis, July 8–September 5, 1982; University Art Museum, University
of Texas, Austin, November 5–December 19, 1982.
1979
The Decorative Impulse, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia.
East Side-West Side: New York Photography, Roanoke College, Roanoke, Virginia.
Self as Subject/A Direction in Contemporary Photography, University Art Galleries,
University of New Hampshire, Durham.
Sculptor's Photos, The Hunter Gallery, Hunter College, New York.
Exploration of a Medium, photographic exhibition organized by Polaroid Corporation.
Chiesa, Isola San Giorgio, Venice; traveled internationally through 1989.
Photographic Surrealism, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Ohio State University,
Cleveland, October 3–November 24, 1979. Traveled to: Dayton Art Institute, Ohio,
February 29–April 13, 1980; Brooklyn Museum, New York, May 17–July 13, 1980.
1978
Grids: Format and Image in 20th-Century Art, The Pace Gallery, New York, December
16, 1978–January 20, 1979. Traveled to: Akron Art Institute, Ohio, March 24–May
6, 1979. (Catalogue)
Manipulative Photography, Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond.
American Painting of the 1970s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Traveled
to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, California; Oakland Museum; Cincinnati Art Museum;
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Krannert Museum, University of Illinois,
Champaign.
1977
*Neomata: Contemporary Greek-American Artists, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Community
Gallery, New York, May 1–June 5, 1977.
Pace Group Show, The Pace Gallery, New York, Summer 1977.
Contemporary Color Photography, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington.
Documenta 6, Kassel, West Germany.
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
The Dada/Surrealist Heritage, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown,
Massachusetts.
Group Exhibition, The Pace Gallery, New York.
1976
*The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876–1976, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., May 20–October
20, 1976.
Pace Group Show, The Pace Gallery, New York, Summer 1976.
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York.
1975
Hayward Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, London.
Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Photo-Transformations (organized by Polaroid Corporation), International Center
of Photography, New York; traveling exhibition.
*Sculpture: American Directions , 1945–1975, National Collection of Fine Arts,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 3–November 10, 1975. Traveled
to: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, January 7–February 29, 1976; New Orleans Museum
of Art, Louisiana, April 1–May 16, 1976.
1974
Painting and Sculpture Today 1974, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, May
22–July 14 1974. Traveled to: Contemporary Art Center and Taft Museum, Cincinnati,
September 12–October 26, 1974. (Catalogue)
The Twentieth Century: 35 American Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York.
71st American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago.
Monumenta, Newport, RI.
1973
Pace Group Show, The Pace Gallery, New York, Summer 1973.
1972
Recent Painting and Sculpture, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art,
Utica, New York.
Pace Group Show, The Pace Gallery, New York, June 15–September 19, 1972.
Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany.
1971
The Mind's Eye, Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Rosc 71, Dublin, Ireland.
1970
Exhibition of Living American Art, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul-de-Vence, France,
June 16–September 3, 1970.
String & Rope, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
American Art Since 1960, The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey.
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1969
Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Drawings, Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas.
One Man's Choice, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
1968
The Obsessive Image, Institute of Contemporary Art, London.
Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage, The Museum of Modern Art,
New York.
Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany.
Untitled, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1967
Highlights of the '66–67 Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
Connecticut.
L.A.-N.Y. Drawings of the 60's, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder.
American Sculpture of the 60's (Corridor #1), Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles.
Mixed Masters, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas.
Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation, The Art Institute of Chicago.
7 for 67, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri.
The 180 Beacon Collection of Contemporary Art, Boston.
1966
Contemporary American Sculpture, Selections, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York.
The Object Transformed, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The Harry N. Abrams Collection, The Jewish Museum, New York.
Eight Sculptures: The Ambiguous Image, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
1965
Eleven from the Reuben Gallery, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Contemporary Erotica, Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York.
The Richard Brown Baker Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Young America 1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Pop and Op, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York.
Sculpture from The List Family Collection, New School for Social Research Art
Center, New York.
Contemporary Wall Sculpture and Boxes, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence.
1964
Recent American Drawings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Bianchini Gallery, New York.
Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, February 2–29, 1964. (Catalogue; Walter Hopps)
Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1963
Green Gallery, New York.
28th Biennial Exhibition, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Ten-Man Show, Preston Gallery, New York.
Drawings, Washington Gallery of Modern Art.
Mixed Media and Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo.
46 Works from New York, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco.
1962
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francsico.
Green Gallery, New York.
New Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Lettering by Hand, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
American Figure Painting, Finch College Museum, New York.
1961
Green Gallery, New York.
The Art of Assemblage, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2–November
12, 1961.
1960
New Forms, New Media, Part II, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York.
1959
Hansa Gallery, New York.
Reuben Gallery, New York.
Books, Catalogues and Brochures (selected)
1961
Seitz, William C. The Art of Assemblage. New York: The Museum of Modern
Art, 1961. Exhibition catalogue.
1963
Mixed Media and Pop Art. Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1963.
Exhibition catalogue.
1964
Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture. New York: Whitney
Museum of American Art, 1964. Exhibition catalogue.
Recent American Drawing. Introduction by Thomas H. Garver. Waltham, Massachusetts:
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1964. Exhibition catalogue.
1965
Eleven from the Reuben Gallery. Edited by Alice Hildreth, text by Lawrence
Alloway. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1965. Exhibition catalogue.
Young America 1965: Thirty American Artists Under Thirty-Five. Foreword by LloydGoodrich.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1965. Exhibition catalogue.
1966
Samaras: Selected Works 1960-1966. New York: Pace Gallery Publications,
1966. Exhibition catalogue.
1970
Lucas Samaras: Chair Transformations. New York: Pace Gallery Publications,
1970. Exhibition catalogue.
1971
Samaras, Lucas. Samaras Album. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
and Pace Editions, 1971. Exhibition catalogue.
Seigfried, John C. Lucas Samaras' Boxes. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art,
1971. Exhibition catalogue.
1972
Lucas Samaras. Edited, with foreword, by Robert Doty; text by Lucas Samaras.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972. Exhibition catalogue.
1973
Hunter, Sam and John Jacobs. American Art of the Twentieth Century. New
York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1973.
1974
Samaras, Lucas. Photo-Transformations. New York: The Pace Gallery, 1974.
Exhibition catalogue.
1975
Beaton, Cecil, and Gail Buckland. The Magic Image. Boston: Little, Brown
& Company,1975.
Glimcher, Arnold B. Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations. Edited by Constance
Glenn, New York: California State University, Long Beach, and E. P. Dutton,
1975. Exhibition catalogue.
Levin, Kim. Lucas Samaras. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1975.
Lieberman, William S., and Lucas Samaras. Samaras 1974. New York: The Museum
of Modern Art, 1975. Exhibition catalogue.
Sculpture of the 60s. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975. Exhibition
catalogue.
1976
Haskell, Barbara. Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture. New York: Whitney
Museum of American Art, 1976. Exhibition catalogue.
McCabe, Cynthia. The Golden Door: Artist-Immigrants of America, 1876-1976. Washington,
D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 1976.
Exhibition catalogue.
Samaras, Lucas. Phantasmata: Photo-Transformations. New York: The Pace Gallery,
1976. Exhibition catalogue.
Three Decades of American Art: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American
Art. Tokyo: The Seibu Museum of Art, 1976. Exhibition catalogue.
1977
Coleman, A.D. The Grotesque in Photography. New York: Summit Books, 1977.
Pincus-Witten, Robert. Postminimalism. New York: Out of London Press, 1977.
1978
Design and Art of Modern Chairs. Osaka: National Museum of Art, 1978. Exhibition
catalogue.
Lipman, Jean, and Richard Marshall. Art About Art. Introduction by Leo Steinberg.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978. Exhibition catalogue.
Rose, Barbara. Barbara Rose Interviews Lucas Samaras. New York: Pace Gallery
Publications, 1978. Exhibition catalogue.
Schiff, Gert. Images of Horror and Fantasy. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978.
Szarkowski. John. Mirrors and Windows: American Photography Since 1960. New
York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1978. Exhibition catalogue.
1979
Cummings, Paul. Artists in Their Own Words. New York: St. Martin's Press,
1979.
Diamonstein, Barbaralee. Inside New York's Art World. New York: Rizzoli International
Publications, 1979.
Kardon, Janet. The Decorative Impulse. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary
Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1979. Exhibition catalogue.
One of a Kind: Recent Polaroid Color Photography. Preface by Belinda Rathbone;
essay by Eugenia Parry Janis. Boston: David R. Godine, 1979.
Sims, Patterson. The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s. New York:
Whitney Museum of American Art, 1979. Exhibition catalogue.
1980
Ratcliff, Carter. Lucas Samaras: Sittings 1979-1980. New York: Pace Gallery
Publications, 1980. Exhibition catalogue.
Samaras, Lucas. Crude Delights. New York: Pace Gallery Publications, 1980. Exhibition
catalogue.
Ten American Artists From Pace. London: Wildenstein & Co. and Pace Gallery,
1980.
1981
Hughes, Robert. The Shock of the New. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Lucas Samaras: The Pastels. Foreword by Thomas P. Maytham; introduction by Dianne
P. Vanderlip; essay by Peter Schjeldahl. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 1981. Exhibition
catalogue.
Margaret Wharton. Text by Mary Jane Jacob. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art,
1981: 6, 7, illustrated. Exhibition catalogue.
1982
Ashton, Dore. American Art Since 1945. New York: Oxford University Press,
1982.
Kuspit, Donald B. Samaras: Pastels and Bronzes. New York: Pace Gallery of New
York, 1982. Exhibition catalogue.
Schwartz, Sanford. The Art Presence; Painters, Writers, Photographers, and Sculptors.
New York: Horizon Press, 1982.
1983
Brown, Julia and Bridget Johnson. The First Show: Painting and Sculpture
from Eight Collections 1940-1980. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art,
1983. Exhibition catalogue.
Parente, Janice and Phyllis Stigliano. Sculpture: The Tradition in Steel. Roslyn
Harbor, New York: Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, 1983. Exhibition catalogue.
Sayag, A. and R. Marcel Mayou, P. Weiermair, W.A. Ewing. Lucas Samaras: Photos
Polaroid Photographs 1969-1983. Paris: International Center of Photography,
Center Georges Pompidou, 1983. Exhibition catalogue.
Smagula, Howard. Currents: Contemporary Directions in the Visual Arts. Englewood
Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983.
1984
Blau, Douglas. Samaras: Chairs, Heads, Panoramas. New York: Pace Gallery
Publications, 1984. Exhibition catalogue.
Glimcher, Arnold B. Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations. New York: The Pace
Gallery, 1984. Exhibition catalogue.
Haskell, Barbara. BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1984. Exhibition catalogue.
Robins, Corinne. The Pluralist Era; American Art, 1968-1981. New York: Harper
& Row, 1984.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Lucas Samaras," Art of Our Time; The Saatchi Collection,
Vol. 2. London: Lund Humphries London, 1984.
Viewpoint (exhibition catalogue). Essay by Pat Kettering and Ann Kent. Summit,
New Jersey: Summit Art Center, 1984: 12, illustrated.
1985
L'Autoportrait. Lausanne: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1985. In French.
Exhibition catalogue.
Nude, Naked, Stripped. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Hayden Gallery, List Visual
Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985. Exhibition catalogue.
1986
Baur, John I. H. 29 Sculptures from the Howard and Jean Lipman Collection.
Mountainville, New York: Storm King Art Center, 1986. Exhibition catalogue.
Davvetas, Demosthenes. Dialog/Dialogue. Edited by Elizabeth Kaufmann. Baden-Baden:
Kronen-Druck, 1986. In German and English.
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986. Introduction
by Julia Brown Turrell. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1986. Exhibition
catalogue.
Kuspit, Donald D. Lucas Samaras's Death Instinct. Athens: Jean Bernier Gallery,
1986. Exhibition catalogue.
Reality Remade. New York: Kent Fine Art, 1986. Exhibition catalogue.
1987
Chairs as Art. Text by Denise Domerque. Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1987.
Exhibition catalogue.
1988
Boxes and Mirrored Cell. Text by Germano Celant. New York: The Pace Gallery,
1988. Exhibition catalogue.
Contemporary Art from New York, Ho-Am Art Hall, Seoul, Korea, and Seibu Musuem,
Tokyo, 1988. Exhibition catalogue.
Figures/Still Lifes. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1988. Exhibition catalogue.
Lifson, Ben. Samaras: Photographs, 1969-1986. New York: Aperture, 1988.
Lucas Samaras: Objects and Subjects, 1969-1986. Texts by Dianne P. Vanderlip,
Thomas McEvilley, Donald Kuspit and Roberta Smith. New York: Abbeville Press,
1988. Exhibition catalogue.
1989
Framing Four Decades: The University Art Museum Celebrates the Collections
1949-1989.Introduction by Constance Glenn. Long Beach: the University Art Museum,
California State University, 1989. Exhibition catalogue.
1990
Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967 - 1988. Text by Donna
Stein. New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1990. Exhibition catalogue.
Friedman, Martin. Walker Art Center: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection.
New York: Rizzoli International Inc. in conjunction with the Walker Arts Center,
Minneapolis, 1990.
Lucas Samaras. Essay by Lynne Cooke. London: Waddington Galleries, 1990. Exhibition
catalogue.
1991
The Chair: From Artifact to Object. Text by Trevor Richardson. Greensboro,
North Carolina: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at
Greensboro, 1991. Exhibition catalogue.
Lucas Samaras. Text by Peter Schjeldahl. New York: Pace/MacGill Gallery, 1991.
Exhibition catalogue.
Lucas Samaras—Self: 1961–1991. Texts by Taro Amano, Sae Hayashi, Shino Kuraishi,
Kim Levin and Hiroshi Miyatake. Yokohama: Yokohama Museum of Art, 1991. Exhibition
catalogue.
Lucas Samaras: Slices of Abstraction, Slivers of Passion and/or Mere Decor.
Auto-interview by the artist. New York: The Pace Gallery, 1991. Exhibition catalogue.
1992
Sculpture. London: Waddington Galleries, 1992. Exhibition catalogue.
1993
Lucas Samaras: Pastels. Text by Mildred Glimcher. New York: The Pace Gallery,
1993. Exhibition catalogue.
Manhattan Breeze - Five Contemporary Artists. Text by Tadao Ogura. Tokyo: Takashimaya,
1993. Exhibition catalogue.
Materia, Imagen y Concepto: Un Recorrido por el Arte Contemporáneo Internacional.
Introduction by Namia Mondolfi and text by Adolfo Wilson. Caracas: Galería Namia
Mondolfi, 1993. Exhibition catalogue.
1994
Lucas Samaras: Cubes, Pragmata and Trapezoids. Text by Jan Avgikos. New
York: PaceWildenstein, 1994. Exhibition catalogue.
Worlds in a Box. London: The South Bank Centre, 1994. Exhibition catalogue.
1996
Homebodies (exhibition catalogue). Charlotte, North Carolina: LaSaller Partners,
1996: 20, 21, illus.
Lucas Samaras (exhibition catalogue). New York: PaceWildenstein, 1996.
1997
Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations 1973-1976. Essay by Regis Durand. Paris:
Galerie Xippas, 1997. Exhibition catalogue.
The Pop ‘60s: Transatlantic Crossing. Lisbon, Portugal: Fundacao das Descobertas/Centro
Cultural de Belem, 1997, curated by Marco Livingstone. Exhibition catalogue.
1998
Lucas Samaras: Gold. Text by Barbara Rose. New York: PaceWildenstein, 1998.
Exhibition catalogue.
1999
The American Century: Art & Culture1950-2000. Text by Lisa Phillips. New
York: Whitney Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue.
Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions. Interview with the artist by Todd Hignite. New
York: Jay Grimm, 1999. Exhibition brochure.
McEvilley, Thomas. Sculpture in the Age of Doubt. New York: Allworth Press,
1999.
Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963. Edited by Joan
Marter; with essays by Simon Anderson et al. Newark: The Newark Museum, 1999.
Exhibition catalogue.
Strousa, Efi. The Emfietzoglou Collection: Modern and Contemporary Greek Art.
Athens, Greece: P.S. Emfietzoglou, 1999: 171–175, illustrated.
Tobler, Jay, ed. The American Art Book, London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1999.
2000
Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo: Sculpture Américaine
Contemporaine. Monte Carlo: Marlborough Gallery, 2000.
Lucas Samaras: Sittings 1978–1980 (exhibition catalogue). Essay by Catherine
Francblin. Paris: Galerie Xippas, 2000.
2001
The Cultural Desert. Scottsdale: Bentley Gallery, Mayo Clinic, Scottdale
Museum of Contemporary Art, 2001. Exhibition catalogue.
Lucas Samaras: Paint. Text by Lucas Samaras. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2001.
Exhibition catalogue.
2002
Lucas Samaras: Mutations. Paris: Galerie Xippas, 2002. Exhibition catalogue.
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940–2001.
New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.
2003
Heller, Nancy G. Why A Painting Is Like A Pizza: A Guide to Understanding
and Enjoying Modern Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002: 119, discussed;
114; plate 61, illustrated.
Lucas Samaras Photofictions. Text by Lucas Samaras. New York: PaceWildenstein,
2003. Exhibition catalogue.
Prather, Marla. Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras. Essay
by Donald Kuspit. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003. Exhibition
catalogue.
2004
Lucas Samaras Photofictions. Text by Lucas Samaras. London: Waddington Galleries,
2004. Exhibition catalogue.
The Nude Ideal and Reality. Bologna: Galleria d’Arte Moderna, 2004, illus. p.
186.
2005
Bishop, Claire. Installation Art: A Critical History. London: Tate Publishing,
2005: 27–29, 83, 91–92.
Bits and Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center
Collections. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Walker Art Center, 2005: 498, illustrated.
Lucas Samaras: A Retrospective. Athens, Greece: J.F. Costopoulos Foundation,
2005. Exhibition catalogue.
Lucas Samaras: PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z). Text by Lucas
Samaras. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2005. Exhibition catalogue.
Perl, Jed. New Art City. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: 513, illustrated.
Extreme Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Essay by Claire Schneider. Buffalo,
New York: Albright-Knox Gallery, 2005: 45, illustrated.
2006
The Alpha Bank Collection: Greek Art from 1920 Until Today (exhibition catalogue).
Texts by Irene Orati and Denys Zacharopoulos. Athens, Greece: Alpha Bank, 2006:
120, illustrated.
Celant, Germano and Lisa Dennison. New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture,
Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Skira
Editore S.p.A., 2006: 346–347, illustrated.
Ocvirk, Otto G. et al. Art Fundamentals: Theory and Practice. 10th edition.
New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 2006: 312, 313, illustrated.
Wagner, Frank, Kasper K"nig and Julia Friedrich, eds. The Eighth Square: Gender,
Life and Desire in the Arts since 1960 (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Museum
Ludwig, 2006: 117, illustrated.
2007
Ithaca Regained: Greek Artists in New York (exhibition catalogue). Text
by Irving Sandler. New York: Kouros Gallery, 2007: 30, 31, illustrated.
Ravenal, John B. Modern & Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007: 14, illustrated.
Works in Public Collections (selected)
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
General Services Administration, Fine Arts Collection, Hale Boggs Federal Court
House,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana
International Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
National Bank of Greece, Athens, Greece
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, New Jersey
The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
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