Zig Zag Wandering
1941 Nato a Glendale, vive e lavora in California
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
- 1985
"Don Van Vliet: Sechs Bilder" (catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; "Don Van Vliet", Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York
- 1986
Waddington Galleries, London (catalogue)
- 1987
"Don Van Vliet: Zehn Bilder"(catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Galerie Brinkmann, Amsterdam
- 1988
"Don Van Vliet: Neun Bilder" (catalogue); Galerie Lelong, Zurich
- 1989
"Don Van Vliet: New Work", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
- 1990
"Don Van Vliet: Ten Paintings" (catalogue), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; "Don Van Vliet: 1986/89", Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt A.M. (catalogue); "Don Van Vliet: New Paintings", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; "Don Van Vliet: Paintings and Drawings"(catalogue), Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica - 1991
"Don Van Vliet", Michael Werner Gallery, New York (catalogue); Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark - 1993
"Don Van Vliet", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne - 1994
"Don Van Vliet: Stand Up To Be Discontinued" (catalogue), Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld; Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense; Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton - 1995
"God's Empty Socks and Other Paintings", Michael Werner Gallery, New York; "Don Van Vliet", Galleri Stefan Andersson, Sweden; "Don Van Vliet", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio - 1996
"Don Van Vliet", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne (catalogue) - 1998
"Don Van Vliet: New Work" (catalogue), Knoedler & Co., New York - 1999
"Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper", Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 2000
"Don Van Vliet", The Lowe Gallery, Atlanta - 2001
"Paintings from the Eighties"; Michael Werner Gallery, New York, "Don Van Vliet: Works on Paper", Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia - 2007
"Don Van Vliet", Michael Werner Gallery, New York, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
Selected Group Exhibitions
- 1982
"Performance Video", The Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1985
"From Organism to Architecture", New York Studio School, New York
"The Chi-Chi Show", Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
"Factura", Gallery Schlesinger-Boisanté, New York
- 1987
"Byars, Chamberlain, Salle, Fischl, Lasker, Van Vliet", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
- 1988
"A la surface de la Peinture: Les Années 80", Centre d'Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint André; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
- 1989
"Bilderstreit. Widerspruch, Einheit und Frakmet in der Kunst seit 1960", Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Galerie Frank Hänel, Frankfurt am Main; Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne - 1990
"Bilder des Rocks", Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense - 1993
Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 1994
Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 1995
"Couplet 5: Dancing Girls, In Honor of Gustav Mahler, Along the Edge of Expressionism", Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam;
"Major Works by Baselitz, Byars, Kirkeby, Lüpertz, Polke and Van Vliet", Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 1996
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne - 1998
Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
"Baselitz, Broodthaers, Byars, Immendorff, Leroy, Lüpertz, Penck, Van Vliet", Michael Werner Galery, New York;
"Works on Paper", Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 1999
Michael Werner Gallery, New York - 2000
"Nature. Contemporary Art and the Natural World", Contemporary Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton - 2001
"Rock and Art", Cultureel Centrum Stedelijke Musea, Sint-Niklaas - 2002
Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York - 2003
Artists Ink Editions, a division of Rhino Entertainment, releases a box set devoted to the art and music of Don Van Vliet. Limited to an edition of 1,500, each set includes a catalogue of drawings and paintings; a book of texts, photographs and ephemera from the artist's music career; a CD of recent spoken word material; and an original color etching signed by the artist. - 2005
"Bilder aus den sechziger Jahren", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne - 2006
"Black and White: Drawings for Summer", Michael Werner Gallery, New York
"Music is a Better Noise", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens, New York - 2007
"Selection", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne;
"Don Van Vliet", Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Anton Kern Gallery, New York
"Don Van Vliet", David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles