Mel Kendrick

1949

Born in Boston, Massachusetts

1971

B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

1973

M.A., Hunter College, New York, New York

Currently lives and works in New York City.

2008

Francis J. Greenburger Award

2002

Recipient of Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts & Letters

1994

National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship

1981

National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship

1978

National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship

1974

CAPS Grant

2011-12

jacks, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY

2011

jacks, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Works from 1995 to Now, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

2009-10

Markers, Madison Square Park Installation, New York, NY

2008

Loopholes, Dieu Donné, New York

Sculptures, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO

2007

Red Blocks, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2003

Drawings in Wood, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

2002

Core Samples, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

1999

Monumental Prints, Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa, FL

1997

Parallel Structures, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1996

Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO

1995

John Weber Gallery, New York

1994

Black Oil Works: Sculpture and Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

John Weber Gallery, New York

1993

Black Oil Works, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

John Weber Gallery, New York

1992

John Weber Gallery, New York

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Black Oil Works: Sculpture & Drawings 1991-92, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

1991

Galerie Carola Mosch, Berlin

1990

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1989

John Weber Gallery, New York

Salama- Caro Gallery, London

1988/90 Essays: Small Wood Works, traveling exhibition: Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH

1988

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Forum Kunstmesse, Hamburg, at John Weber Gallery

1987

John Weber Gallery, New York

Currents 34: Mel Kendrick, St. Louis Art Museum, MO

1986/7

Recent Sculpture, traveling exhibition: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Newberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

1986

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

1985

John Weber Gallery, New York

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1983

John Weber Gallery, New York

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1982

Carol Taylor, Art, Dallas, TX

1981

Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs

1980

John Weber Gallery, New York

1979

A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York

1974

Mel Kendrick: Sculpture, Artists Space, New York

2012

Large Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York

Reinventing Landscape, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY

You Would, Kathleen Cullen, New York

2010

Marker III at The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi Art, Ghent, NY

Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY

The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, NY

2009

Woodcuts Now, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

2008

A Rolller Coaster In the Dark, Galeria Janet Kurnatowski, Brooklyn, NY

2006

Turning Point, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2005

Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2004

9th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Art and Design, New York

Raoul de Keyser, Suzan Frecon, Mel Kendrick, Uwe Kowski, Thomas Nozkowski, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, NY

Drop Out, Photography Show, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Perspectives@25 - A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

2003

Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

2002

Sitelines, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1998

Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

1997

New Installations, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

1996

Aspects of Abstraction: Albers, Gabo, Judd, Kendrick, McLaughlin, Pollack, Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Drawings by Sculptors, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1995

Addison Gallery, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

News, Surprise, and Nostalgia, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York

1994

Eight Contemporary Sculptors: Beyond Nature, Wood into Art, curated by Josephine Gear, Low Art Museum, University of Miami, FL

Low Tech, curated by the Center for Research in Contemporary Art,

The University of Texas, Arlington

Some Like it Cool, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Mel Kendrick/Richard Prince, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY

First Fundraising Benefit American Fine Arts, American Fine Arts, New York

1993

Drawings, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York

1992

A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

Show of the Year, John Weber Gallery, New York

Volume 6, Contemporary Sculptors, Guild Hall Museum, New York

A Selection of Recent Work, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

1991

Dead Horses, Disfigured Love, Lawrence Monk, New York

ARCO, Madrid

American Abstraction at the Addison, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

Large Scale Sculpture, John Weber Gallery, New York

A Bestiary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Sculpture Exhibition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Prints, John Weber Gallery, New York, New York

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

1990

Editions Ilene Kurtz and Other Prints, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California

Funf Jahre Zeitgenossische Kunst, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich

Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Summer Exhibition, John Weber Gallery, New York

Baltimore Collects Painting & Sculpture, 1960-1990, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD

Budapest Triennial: Nancy Graves, Mel Kendrick, Joel Shapiro, curated by Joan Simon, Budapest

Prints & Multiples, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA

1989

4 Americans: Aspects of Current Sculpture, The Brooklyn, Museum, New York

American Sculptures: New York - Los Angeles, Kamakura Gallery, Japan

Artists of the 80's: Selected Works from The Maslow Collection, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Out of Wood: Recent Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York 5 Americans, Galerie Marie-Louis Wirth, Hochfelden, Zurich

1988

Lynda Benglis John Chamberlain Joel Fisher Mel Kendrick Robert Therrien, Magasin 3, Stockholm

Art of the 80's, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1987

1987 Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT

Joel Fisher Robert Lobe Mel Kendrick, Blum Helman Gallery, New York

1986

Sculpture: Ahearn Duff Hunt Kendrick Otterness Shapiro Zadikian,

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York

1985

Newman Dunham Kendrick Richter Artschwager, International With Monument, New York

1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1984

An International Survey of Recent Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

Concepts in Construction: 1910 - 1980, traveling exhibition: Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Australian National Gallery. Canberra, Australia

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York

Centro Cultural Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York

New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Storm King Art Museum, Storm King, New York

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida

The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut