TOM WESSELMANN
Born: 1931, Cincinnati, Ohio
Died: 2004, New York City, New York
EDUCATION
1956 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
1959 Cooper Union, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Tom Wesselmann Collages 1959-1964¸David Zwirner, London, UK
2015 Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective, The Cincinnati Art Museum, traveling to the Denver Art Museum and the Dallas Museum of Art
2013 Tom Wesselmann Retrospective, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, USA
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
Tom Wesselmann, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2012 Tom Wesselmann Retrospective: Beyond Pop-Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Canada
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie de Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada
Tom Wesselmann, David Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Objects of Desire, Davidson Contemporary, New York, USA
2011 Tom Wesselmann Draws, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, USA
2010 David Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann, Works, 1958 – 2004, Haunch of Vension, London, UK
Tom Wesselmann, Flowers, Galerie Klaus Benden, Cologne, Germany
Tom Wesselmann, Plastic Works, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann Draws, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
2009 Journey into the Landscape-steelcuts, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Tom Wesselmann: Pictures on the wall of your heart, Städtische Galerie
Ravensburg, Germany Tom Wesselmann draws, Haunch of Venison, New
York, USA
Tom Wesselmann-Works on Paper, Burkhard Eikelmann Classics, Düsseldorf, Germany
2008 Tom Wesselmann, Faces 1963-1993, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne & Viersen, Germany
Tom Wesselmann, Journeys into the Landscape, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
Tom Wesselmann –Pop Art, Städtische Galerie Ravensburg, Ravensburg, Germany
Tom Wesselmann,Mitterrand and CramerFine Art, Geneva, Switzerland
Tom Wesselmann,Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2007 Tom Wesselmann: Drop-Out, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann, Columns Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Dessins, gouaches, maquettes et peintures, JGM Galerie, Paris, France
Tom Wesselmann–Nudes, LipanjePutin Artecontemporanea, Rome, Italy
2006 Tom Wesselmann: Liquitex –drawings -Steelcuts,
Andipa Gallery, London, UK
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Tom Wesselmann –Abstracts 1997-2002, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tom Wesselmann -Works from 1960 to 2004, Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel, Nürnberg, Germany
Tom Wesselmann, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann –The Sixties, L&M Arts, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Hass & Fuchs, Berlin, Germany
Blue Nudes 1999-2001, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany
2005 Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (MACRO), Rome, Italy
Work on paper: Retrospective, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
2004 Tom Wesselmann: Works on Paper: Retrospective 1960-2004, Maxwell Davidson Gallery New York, USA
Marcel Strouk / Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen, Germany
2003 Tom Wesselmann: Black Metal Work, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany Tom Wesselmann, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA
University of California, Long Beach, USA
Galleria Flora Bigai, Venice, Italy
2002 Works on Paper, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen, Germany
2001 Paintings and Metal Works, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Viersen, Germany
2000 Tom Wesselmann: Blue Nudes, Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann, JGM Galerie Paris, France
Abstract Maquettes, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany
1999 Tom Wesselmann: Small Survey: Small Scale, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York,USA Wesselmann : Maquettes and Nude Cut-Outs, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1998 Wetterling Gallery Stockholm, Sweden Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Tom Wesselmann, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne, Germany
1996 Larger than Life: Two Paintings by Tom Wesselmann, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Tom Wesselmann Lasers and Lithos, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA Paper Maquettes, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann: A Survey (1959-1995), Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Tom Wesselmann, Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Larger than Life: Two Paintings by Tom Wesselamnn, Kunsthal, Rotterdam Tom Wesselmann, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida, USA
1994 Tom Wesselmann: Recent Works, Galerie Beatrice Wassermann, Munich, Germany Travelling retrospective (1959-1993), Institut für Kulturaustausch, Tübingen, Germany touring to Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels,Belgium, Altes Museum, Berlin, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Germany, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Palais de la Virreina, Barcelona,Spain, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal and the Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1993 Tom Wesselmann: New Cut Outs and Drawings, Wassermann Galerie Munich, Germany New Metal Paintings, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann: A Retrospective Survey 1959-1992, Shimbun Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, touring to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, and the Museum of Art, Kintetsu, Japan
1991 Tom Wesselmann: Black and Gray, Edward Totah Gallery, London, UK
Tom Wesselmann: Recent Still Life and Landscape, Galerie Tokoro, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann: Laser Nudes, Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy
Wesselmann: Graphics/Multiples Retrospective 1964-1990, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, USA
1989 Blum Helman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA Galerie Joachim Backer, Cannes, France
1988 Wesselmann Recent Works, Tokoro Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Mayor Gallery, London, UK Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
Tom Wesselmann Retrospective: Graphics & Multiples, Stein Bartlow Gallery, Chicago, USA (travelling exhibition)
1987 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, USA
Galerie Esperanza, Montreal, Canada Galerie de France, Paris, France
The Cooper Union, New York, USA
1986 Cut-Outs, Galerie Denise René Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1985 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1983 New work by Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1982 Recent Work by Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
The Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1980 New Sculpture and Painting by Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1979 Galerie Serge di Bloe, Brussels, Belgium Ehrlich Gallery, New York, USA
1977 American Art since 1945, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1978 Tom Wesselmann: Graphics 1964-1977, The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston, USA
1976 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Galleria Giò Marconi, Milan, Italy
1974 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France Wesselmann: The Early Collages 1959-1962, California State University, Long Beach, California, USA
1972 Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
1971 Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, California, USA
1970 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA Early Still Lifes 1962-1964, Newport Harbor Art Museum, California, USA
1968 Retrospective, Dayton’s Gallery, Minneapolis, USA Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
An Exhibition of New Work by Tom Wesselmann, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1967 Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France Dayton's Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
1966 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1962 Green Gallery, New York, USA
Tanager Gallery, New York, USA
1960 Judson Gallery, New York, USA
1959 Judson Gallery, New York, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main National Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Neue Galerie, Aachen Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, St. Etienne, France
Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain (MAMAC), Nice, France
Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
SMuseo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Hakone Open Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Hiroshima Profectural Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Iwaki City Museum of Modern Art, Iwaki, Japan
Kawamura Museum of Art The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, Tokushima, Japan
Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
Artsonje Museum of Contemporary Art Kyungju City, South Korea
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, USA
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture, Washington, D.C., USA
MOMA, New York Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Princeton University of Art, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington D.C., USA
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tom Wesselmann was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on February 23, 1931. After receiving a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1956, Wesselmann moved to New York City to pursue his interests in fine art. After graduating from Cooper Union in 1959, Wesselmann went on to become one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s rejecting abstract expressionism in favor of the classical representations of the nude, still life, and landscape. He created collages and assemblages incorporating everyday objects and advertising ephemera in an effort to make images as powerful as the abstract expressionism he admired. He is perhaps best known for his Great American Nude series with their flat forms and intense colors. Wesselmann worked in New York City for more than four decades. He lived in New York City with his wife, Claire, daughters Jenny and Kate, and son Lane. He died there on December 17, 2004.