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Alexander Calder

American, 1898-1976

Biography

Alexander Calder

  • (1898-1976)

    Born in 1898, Lawnton, Pennsylvania
    Died in 1976, New York, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions


  • For a comprehensive list of exhibitions and publications, see www.calder.org

    2024
    Calder: at home, among friends, San José Museum of Art, San José, US
    Calder. Sculpting Time, MASI Lugano LAC Venue, Lugano, Switzerland
    Calder: Un effet du japonais, Azabudai Hills Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

    2023
    Calder/Tuttle: Tentative, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles, US
    Calder: In Motion, The Shirley Family Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
    Spotlight: Alexander Calder, Mobile Museum of Art, Alabama, US
    Alexander Calder: Shaping a Primary Universe, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
    Alexander Calder: A Balancing Line, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
    CALDER, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Alexander Calder: Collaborative Creations, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US

    2022
    Calder: Unfolding, Almine Rech, Paris, France
    Alexander Calder: A Universe of Painting, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
    Alexander Calder: Painting the Cosmos, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, US
    Calder: Gouaches, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
    Intricate: Calder and the Poetry of Science, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US

    2021
    Alexander Calder: Dissonant Harmony, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Alexander Calder: Minimal / Maximal, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Calder: Great Yellow Sun, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
    Special Guest: Calder BMW Car, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, US
    Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    Calder, Pace Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Calder: 1975 and “Flying Dragon,” Gagosian Gallery, rue de Castiglione, Paris, France
    Calder, Gagosian Gallery, rue de Ponthieu, Paris, France
    Calder: Dimensions, Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, US
    Calder Tower, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US (permanent exhibition)
    Calder Hillside, Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, US (permanent exhibition)
    Calder Gallery, Palazzo Collicola - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy (permanent exhibition)

    2020
    Calder from the Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, White Plains, US
    Alexander Calder: Bold Gouaches, Heather James Fine Art, New York, US
    Alexander Calder (1898–1976), Tapisseries, Galerie Alexandre Guillemain, Paris, France

    2019
    Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
    Elemental Calder, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, US
    Calder on Paper, K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
    Alexander Calder: The Magic of a Sculptural Movement, Art Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
    Calder Stories, Centro Botin, Santander, Spain
    Alexander Calder: Pour La Grande Vitesse and Other Works on Paper, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Michigan, US
    Alexander Calder: Works on Paper, Huxley-Parlour Gallery, London, UK
    Calder. Gouaches, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
    Calder: Small Sphere and Heavy Sphere, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Calder, Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz, Switzerland


    2018
    Alexander Calder: Theater of Encounters, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
    Alexander Calder: Radical Inventor, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec, Canada
    I mondi di Calder: Opere, tracce e memorie di un grande artista a Spoleto, Palazzo Medici Riccard, Florence, Italy
    Calder: La Geometria del Color, ARTALROC, Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra
    Calder: From the Stony River to the Sky, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK
    Calder: Nonspace, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, US

    2017
    Calder: Hypermobility, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Calder: Forgeron des géantes libellules, Musée Soulages, Rodez, France
    Alexander Calder: Scaling Up, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    An Outburst of Color, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US
    Alexander Calder: La Gouacherie, Musée Zervos, Vézelay, France
    Calder: Monumental, Denver Botanic Gardens, Denver, US
    Calder: Constellations, Pace Gallery, New York, US

    2016
    Alexander Calder: Motion Lab, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    Alexander Calder, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
    Calder in the Alps, Hauser & Wirth, Gstaad, Switzerland
    The Boldness of Calder, Louisa Guinness Gallery, London, UK
    Alexander Calder: Sharing Negative Space, Dean Borghi Fine Art, New York, US

    2015
    Calder: Discipline of the Dance, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
    Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
    Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture, Tate Modern, London, UK
    Frammenti Expo 1967: Alexander Calder e Emilio Vedova, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy

    2014
    Alexander Calder at the Rijksmuseum, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Calder: Jewelry, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
    Ugo Mulas "Circus Calder", Kunst Meran/Merano Arte, Merano, Italy

    2013
    Calder, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Alexander Calder: Avant-Garde in Motion, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
    Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, US

    2012
    Alexander Calder: De grote ontdekking, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
    Calder Noir, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2011
    Calder's Portraits: A New Language, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US

    2009
    Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act, Seattle Art Museum, Washington, US
    Calder: Sculptor of Air, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

    2008
    Calder Jewelry, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, US
    Alexandre Calder en Touraine, Château de Tours, France
    Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926–1933, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    2006
    Calder no Brasil, Pinacoteca do Estato de São Paulo, Brazil

    2005
    The Surreal Calder, Menil Collection, Houston, US

    2004
    Calder: Poetry in Motion, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2003
    Calder: Gravedad y la Gracia, Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain

    2001
    Grand Intuitions: Calder’s Monumental Sculpture, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US

    2000
    Calder in Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, US
    Alexander Calder: Motion and Color, Iwaki City Art Museum, Japan

    1998
    Alexander Calder: 1898–1976, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., US

    1997
    Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder, San Jose Museum of Art, California, US
    Calder, Fundacío Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

    1995
    Alexander Calder: Retrospective, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

    1993
    Calder: Mobiles, stabiles, gouaches, bijoux . . ., Musée Picasso, Château Grimaldi, Antibes, France

    1991
    Celebrating Calder, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1989
    Calder Intime, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France

    1986
    Alexander Calder: An American Invention, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, US

    1983
    Calder: Mostra retrospettiva, Palazzo a Vela, Turin, Italy

    1976
    Calder's Universe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1975
    Calder, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

    1974
    Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Work from 1925–1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, US

    1973
    Alexander Calder: Retrospektive, Galerie Maeght, Zurich, Switzerland

    1972
    Calder's Circus, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    1970
    A Salute to Alexander Calder, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1969
    Calder, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France

    1967
    Calder: 19 Gifts from the Artist, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1964
    Alexander Calder: A Retrospective Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

    1962
    Alexander Calder: Sculpture–Mobiles, Arts Council of Great Britain, Tate Gallery, London, UK

    1959
    Alexander Calder, Stabilen, Mobilen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1957
    Alexander Calder, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    1956
    Calder, Perls Galleries, New York, US

    1955
    Exposiciòn Calder, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela

    1953
    Alexander Calder Mobiles, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
    II Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil

    1952
    Alexander Calder: Gongs and Towers, Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, US

    1950
    Calder: Mobiles & Stabiles, Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
    Calder, New Gallery, Charles Hayden Memorial Library, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, US

    1948
    Alexander Calder, Ministerio da Educaçao e Saude, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    1946
    Alexander Calder: Mobiles, Stabiles, Constellations, Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France

    1944
    Recent Work by Alexander Calder, Buchholz Gallery/Curt Valentin, New York, US

    1943
    17 Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, US
    Alexander Calder: Sculptures and Constructions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1941
    Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Stabiles and Jewelry, San Francisco Museum of Art, California, US

    1940
    Calder Jewelry, Willard Gallery, New York, US

    1938
    Calder Mobiles, George Walter Vincent Smith Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, US

    1937
    Calder: Mobiles and Stabiles, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK

    1935
    Mobiles by Alexander Calder, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois, US

    1934
    Mobiles by Alexander Calder, Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York, US

    1932
    Calder: ses mobiles, Galerie Vignon, Paris, France
    Calder: Mobiles/Abstract Sculptures, Julien Levy Gallery, New York, US

    1931
    Alexandre Calder: Volumes–Vecteurs–Densités/Dessins–Portraits, Galerie Percier, Paris, France

    1929
    Sculptures bois et fil de fer de Alexander Calder, Galerie Billiet-Pierre Vorms, Paris, France
    Alexander Calder: Skulpturen aus Holz und aus Draht, Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany
    Alexander Calder: Paintings, Wood Sculpture, Toys, Wire Sculpture, Jewelry, Textiles, Fifty-Sixth Street Galleries, New York, US

    1928
    Wire Sculpture by Alexander Calder, Weyhe Gallery, New York, US

    1927
    The Galleries of Jacques Seligmann and Company, Paris, France

Selected Group Exhibitions

  • 2024
    Quiet Elegance: A Remarkable Bequest, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, US
    Tragic Depictions: Negative Emotions in the Visual Arts, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, US
    Enchanted Reverie: Klee and Calder, Di Donna Galleries, New York, US

    2023
    Shapes On Paper, Phillips Paris, Paris, France
    Uncanny Objects, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, US
    Vanuatu Totems & Calder Gouaches, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
    Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960, Bruce Museum, Connecticut, US
    Giacometti and the Artists of the Grande Chaumière, Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, North Carolina, US
    Mirrors of the Portrait, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
    Among Friends: The Generosity Of Judy And Ken Dayton, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, US
    Joan Miró & Alexander Calder: Space in Motion, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
    Miró & Calder, Maruani Mercier, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
    From Crisis To Color: Derrière Le Miroir/Behind The Mirror, Mystic Museum of Art, Connecticut, US
    MOMAT Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
    No Feeling is Final: The Skopje Solidarity Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria
    Decades: The Art of Change 1900–1980, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
    The Inner Island, Villa Carmignac, Hyères, France

    2022
    Pierre Matisse: An Art Dealer in New York, Musée Matisse, Nice, France
    Facing the Sun, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
    Friendships In Art: Collective Works, Mucem, Marseille, France
    Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
    Calder + Miró, Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    Tout n’est qu’influence, Perrotin, Paris, France
    Chromophilia, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland
    Georgia O’Keeffe, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
    Richard Misrach: At the still point of the turning world, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Motion: Auto, Art, Architecture, Fundación del Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
    Calder–Miró bajo la mirada de un fotógrafo español, Galería BAT, Madrid, Spain
    Entre chien et loup, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
    Giants, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
    America: Between Dreams and Realities: Selections from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada
    Au coeur de l’abstraction: Collection de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
    Every Kind of Wind: Calder and the 21st Century, Nahmad Contemporary, New York, US

    2021
    Picasso and Artist’s Jewelry, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, Spain
    Calder / Moore, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, US
    Mechanical and Technical Imaginaries in the IVAM Collection, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
    Calder-Picasso, de Young Museum, San Francisco, US
    Moving Vision, Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma, US
    Still Life, Almine Rech, Paris, France
    Faces and Figures, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, US
    Lost in Italy, Luxembourg & Co., London, UK
    Portable Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
    Invisible Sun, The Broad, Los Angeles, US
    Five Years, Olivier Malingue, London, UK
    Calder-Picasso, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
    Work in Progress, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Palazzo Collicola, Spoleto, Italy
    Calder X Mies: Reflections on Alexander Calder and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Kicken Gallery, Berlin, Germany
    The Bridge V, The Bridge, Bridgehampton, New York, US
    Parisian Abstracts: Abstraction-Création, MODEM Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Debrecen, Hungary
    The Point of Sculpture, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
    Saul Steinberg: Milano New York, Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy
    Modern Life: 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Daegu Art Museum, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
    Calder-Picasso, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US
    Calder Now, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    2020
    Unfinished Business, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
    Disonata: Art in Sound up to 1980, Museo Nacional-Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    Calder, Callahan, and the Intensified Image, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Entre actes: Obres mestres conegudes, Fundació Suñol, Barcelona, Spain
    Sound Lasting and Leaving, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, US

    2019
    The Shape of Time: Highlights from the Centre Pompidou Collection. Vol. 1, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China
    Vis-à-vis III. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
    Calder-Picasso, Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Massachusetts, US
    Braque, Miró, Calder, Nelson: Varengeville, un atelier sur les falaises, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France
    Calder Crags + Vanuatu Totems from the Collection of Wayne Heathcote, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US
    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, US
    Calder-Picasso, Museo Picasso, Málaga, Spain
    Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
    Calder / Saraceno, Galerie Natalie Seroussi, Paris, France
    Artist’s Choice: Amy Sillman—The Shape of Shape, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Constructed Worlds. A Choice of Sculptures from the Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Metz, France
    The Fabric of Modernity: Matisse, Picasso, Miró…and French Tapestries, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
    Christian Zervos & Cahiers d’Art: The Archaic Turn, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece

    2018
    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, US
    Selected Works by 20th Century Masters, Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York, US
    Vis-à-vis II. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
    Calder / Rickey, Davidson Gallery, New York, US
    Action–Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Calder/Kelly, Lévy Gorvy, New York, US

    2017
    7 X SPACE X TIME, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, ‎Denmark
    Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, London, UK
    Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, US
    Imaginary Ancestors, Almine Rech, New York, US
    Vis-à-vis I. Fernand Léger et ses ami.e.s, Musée National Fernand Léger, Biot, France
    Alvar Aalto: Art and the Modern Form, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
    Alexander Calder/David Smith, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland
    The Art of Movement: Alexander Calder, George Rickey & Tim Prentice, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania, US
    Calder on Paper: 1960–1976, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
    Heaven and Earth: Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
    Kinetics of Violence: Alexander Calder and Cady Noland, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, US

    2016
    Alexander Calder & Fischli/Weiss, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
    Calder and Brazilian Art, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil
    The Calder Prize 2005–2015, Pace Gallery, London, UK
    From Kandinsky to Pollock, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
    Musicircus: Œuvres phares du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Metz, France
    Above, Before & After, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
    Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Biennale des Antiquaries, Grand Palais, Paris, France
    Art Revolutionaries. Homage to the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic, 1937, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Barcelona, Spain
    Designing Chessmen: A Taste of the Imagery of Chess, World Chess Hall of Fame, St. Louis, Missouri, US
    Calder and Picasso, Almine Rech, New York, US

    2015
    Calder Lightness; Richard Tuttle Wire Pieces; Fred Sandback 64 Three–Part Pieces, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, US
    Marvelous Objects: Surrealist Sculpture from Paris to New York, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., US
    American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collections, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Paris, France
    Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
    Futurs. De la ville aux étoile: Matisse, Miro, Calder.., Centre de la Vieille Charité, Marseille, France
    Transparence: Calder / Picabia, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland 
    Calder/Dubuffet: Between Sky and Earth, Opera Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
    Tutto é felice nella vita dell’arte: Omaggio a Giovanni Carandente, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy

    2014
    Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France
    Black / White, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, US
    Carte Blanche, Pace Gallery at Chesa Büsin, Zuoz, Switzerland
    Casting Modernity: Bronze in the XXth Century, Mnuchin Gallery, New York, US
    Alvar Aalto: Second Nature, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhien, Germany
    Miró/Calder, Mayoral Galeria d’Art, Barcelona, Spain

    2013
    Le Surréalisme et l'objet, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
    In the Round: A Collection of Domestic-Scaled Sculptures from Rodin to Kapoor. A Selling Exhibition, Sotheby’s S2, New York, US
    A Passion for Jean Prouvé from Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, Italy
    Perspectives Atmosphériques: Oeuvres sur papier, Galerie Malingue, Paris, France
    New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919–1939, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Calder / Prouvé, Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, in collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
    Arp, Calder, and Miró: Modern Masters from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Tampa Museum of Art, Florida, US
    Calder & Melotti: Children of the Sky, Ronchini Gallery, London, in collaboration with Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive / Museo Carandente, Spoleto, Italy
    Davant l’horitzó, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
    Dada and Surrealist Objects, Blain Di Donna, New York, US
    Calder / Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, Le Bourget, Paris, France
    Show and Tell: Calder Jewelry and Mobiles, Salon 94, New York, US
    Now and Then: Contrasting Approaches to Key Themes of Modernism (An 80-Year Survey), LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard, Santa Fe, US

    2012
    Masterworks: From Degas to Rosenquist, Acquavella Galleries Inc., New York, US
    Il Guggenheim: L’avanguardia Americana 1945–1980, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
    Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
    Mythology, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Great Masters of the Avant-Garde: Miró, Mondrian, Calder and the Guggenheim Collections, Arca Di San Marco, Vercelli, Italy
    House of Cards, The Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, UK
    Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
    Encounters with the 1930s, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
    The Nemesims, Team Gallery, New York, US
    American Legends: From Calder to O’Keeffe, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US

    2011
    Spotlight on the Collection–Artists in Depth: Arp, Miró, Calder, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US
    Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California, US
    Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, US
    Gli Anni Folli. The Paris Years of Modigliani, Picasso and Dali: 1918–1933, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy
    Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US
    Afinidades selectivas, Galería Manuel Barbié, Barcelona, Spain
    Surrealism in Paris, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
    Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
    Burning Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Modern Masters: Paris & Beyond, Hammer Galleries, New York, US

    2010
    Tanguy Calder: Between Surrealism and Abstraction, L&M Arts, New York, US
    Calder–Miró: Una Experiència de Respecte i Amistat, Centre Cultural Caixa Terrassa, Spain
    The View From Here: Storm King at 50, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York, US
    Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
    Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
    50 Years at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, US
    Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, US

    2009
    For a New World: Georges Vantongerloo and His Environment from Piet Mondrian to Max Bill, Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

    2008
    Miró, Calder, Giacometti, Braque: Aimé Maeght and His Artists, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
    Calder–Nakashima, Vintage20 / Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
    Expo 58, l’Art Contemporain à l’Exposition Universelle, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium
    You & Me, Sometimes…, Lehmann Maupin, New York, US

    2007
    Kukje Gallery: 25 Years, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea

    2004
    Calder–Miró, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland

    1993
    Picasso and the Age of Iron, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US

    1968
    The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

    1953
    Alexander Calder: Mobiles/Naum Gabo: Kinetic Constructions and Constructions in Space, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, US

    1952
    XXVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

    1949
    Third International Exhibition of Sculpture, Philadelphia Museum of Art in collaboration with Fairmount Park Art Association, Philadelphia, US

    1947
    Alexander Calder/Fernand Léger, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1942
    First Papers of Surrealism, Coordinating Council of French Relief Societies, Whitelaw Reid Mansion, New York, US

    1936
    Cubism and Abstract Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
    Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
     

Selected Awards

  • 1977       
    Presidential Medal of Freedom
    The Goslar Kaiserring Award for Modern Art

    1975
    Honorary Fellow, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, The Hague
    United Nations Peace Medal

    1974
    Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur
    Citoyen d’Honneur, City of Saché
    Official Mayoral Decree of “Alexander Calder Day in Chicago” for 25 October; Honorary Citizen of Chicago
    Le Grand Prix National des Arts

    1971
    Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters

    1970
    University of California, Honorary Doctorate
    University of Glasgow, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws

    1969
    Stevens Institute of Technology, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Engineering
    Key to the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan

    1966
    Harvard University, Honorary Degree, Doctor of Arts

    1964
    Elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters

    1963
    President’s Medal, The Art Directors Club of New York

    1962
    Art in America Annual Award for an Outstanding Contribution to American Art
    Creative Arts Awards, Sculpture Medal, Brandeis University

    1968
    Officier de la Légion d’honneur

    1961
    Fine Arts Gold Medal for Master of Sculpture, The American Institute of Architects

    1960
    Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters
    Gold Medal of Honor in Sculpture, Architectural League of New York

    1952
    Grand Prize for Sculpture, XXVI Biennale di Venezia

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • Art Institute of Chicago
    Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris
    Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
    Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
    Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
    Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
    The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
    Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
    Philadelphia Museum of Art
    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Seattle Art Museum
    Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
    Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
    Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
    University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive
    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
     

Selected Monographs

  • Sweeney, James Johnson. Alexander Calder. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1951.
    Calder, Alexander, and Jean Davidson, ed. Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures. New York: Pantheon Books, 1966. 
    Arnason, H. Harvard, and Pedro E. Guerrero. Calder. New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1966.
    Calder, Alexander, James Johnson Sweeney, and Daniel Lelong. Calder, l'artiste et l'oeuvre. Archives Maeght, no. 1. Paris: Maeght Editeur, 1971.
    Arnason, H. Harvard, and Ugo Mulas. Calder. New York: Viking Press, 1971.
    Bruzeau, Maurice. Calder à Saché. Paris: Éditions Cercle d'Art, 1975. 
    Hayes, Margaret Calder. Three Alexander Calders, A Family Memoir. Middlebury, Vt.: Paul S. Eriksson, 1977.
    Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: La sculpture en mouvement. Paris: Découvertes Gallimard/Paris-Musées, 1996.
    Carandente, Giovanni. Teodelapio: Alexander Calder. Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1996.
    Rower, Alexander S. C. Calder Sculpture. New York: Universe, 1998.
    Guerrero, Pedro E. Calder at Home: The Joyous Environment of Alexander Calder. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1998.
    Stern, H. Peter, David R. Collens, and Alexander S. C. Rower. Calder: Storm King Art Center. Mountainville, N.Y.: Storm King Art Center, 2003.
    Calder Jewelry. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower. New York: Calder Foundation, 2007.
    Mulas, Ugo, Alexander Calder, and Giulio C. Argan. Ugo Mulas/Alexander Calder. Milan: Officina Libraria, 2008.
    Pierre, Arnauld. Calder: Mouvement et Réalité. Paris: Éditions Hazan, 2009.
    Calder by Matter. Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower. Paris: Cahiers d'Art, 2013.
    “Calder in France.” Cahiers d’Art, no. 1 (2015). Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower.
    Perl, Jed. Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
     

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Selected Press

2021-07-06 The Atlanta Journal Constitution
2021-07-05 The Magazine Antiques
2021-04-00 The Brooklyn Rail
2021-02-18 The Atlanta Journal Constitution
2020-06-22 The New York Times
2015-10-00 TATE ETC.
2015-01-00 PUBLIC ART
2014-11-00 PUBLIC ART
2014-09-00 미술시대
2014-08-00 PRIVILEGE
2014-08-00 AVENUEL
2013-08-00 HEREN
칼더부터 이우환까지, 보이지 않는 세계   pdf Harper's Bazaar
Alexander Calder's mobiles form dialogue with Lee U-fan's stones at Kukje Gallery   pdf The Korea Times
이우환· 칼더 두 거장, 같은 공간 다른 울림   pdf 헤럴드경제
동서양 거장의 美, 동시에 품다   pdf 문화일보
칼더의 동적인 조각, 이우환의 정적인 작품 … 동서양의 '대화'   pdf 매일경제
See the Modernist Masterpieces That Have Returned to View at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin After a Six-Year Hiatus for Renovation   pdf Artnet news
Calder and Picasso rarely spoke, but their art converses at the High   pdf The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Current and coming: High Time for Picasso and Calder   pdf The Magazine Antiques
Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start   pdf The Brooklyn Rail
Alexander Calder, MoMA's Household God, Still Holds Sway   pdf The New York Times
Calder and Picasso: 100 works from two giants coming to High Museum   pdf The Atlanta Journal Constitution
From Celine, a Pendant Designed by a Sculptor   pdf The New York Times
The Calder Mobiles that Asked to be Touched   pdf Art & Object
[정윤아의 ‘컬렉터의 마음을 훔친 세기의 작품들’] 칼더 | 바람 따라 춤추네…모빌 조각의 아버지   pdf 매경Economy
The Man Who Made Modern Art Move   pdf TATE ETC.
Cover Artist 100: Alexander Calder   pdf PUBLIC ART
Alexander Calder   pdf PUBLIC ART
알렉산더 칼더전   pdf 미술시대
ALEXANDER CALDER'S WEARABLE ART   pdf PRIVILEGE
Contemporary Art   pdf AVENUEL
[아트 갤러리] 알렉산더 칼더 '목걸이'   pdf 서울경제
[국제갤러리 ‘움직이는 작업’ 전시] 알렉산더 칼더 보석전   pdf 국민일보
착용 가능한 예술… ‘알렉산더 칼더’의 주얼리展   pdf 헤럴드경제
[박현주의 아트톡]'움직이는 조각 모빌' 칼더의 목걸이 브로치는 누가 살까?   pdf 아주경제
The Great Calder   pdf HEREN