WILLIAM N. COPLEY (CPLY) Born in New York, 1919 Died in Key West, 1966 Educated at Phillips Academy and Yale University SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 “Finally We Laugh,” GALERIE LINN LUHN, Düsseldorf “Confiserie Copley,” BASEL ART FAIR, Basel “Patriotism of CPLY,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York “Copley,” MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA, Baden Baden; MAX ERNST MUSEUM BRÜHL DES LVR, Bruhl; STIFLUNG AHLERS PRO ARTE/KESTNER PRO ARTE, Hanover “William N. Copley: Works 1948 – 1983,” GALERIE VON BRAUNBEHRENS, Munich SADIE COLES HQ, London “X-Rated,” PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York GALERIE KLAUS GERRIT FRIESE, Stuttgart EL SOURDOG HEX, Berlin LINN LÜHN, Cologne LINN LÜHN, Cologne NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York GALERIE MANUS PRESSE/KLAUS GERRIT FRIESE, Stuttgart GALERIE ONRUST, Amsterdam GALERIE DANIEL BLAU, Munich MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE ET CONTEMPORAIN, Geneva NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York “Easy to Read Storybook,” BAWAG FOUNDATION, Vienna JOHANN KÖNIG, Berlin “Drawings 1956-1994,” GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York BONNEFANTEN MUSEUM, Maastricht PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich L.A.C., LIEU D’ART CONTEMPORAIN, Sigean, France GALERIE DANIEL BLAU, Munich HERNING KUNSTMUSEUM, Herning, Germany GALERIE LELONG, Zurich GALERIE ONRUST, Amsterdam NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York ULMER MUSEUM, Ulm, Germany GALERIE KURT SCHÄFER, Berlin NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1988 1987 1986 1985 1983 1982 1981 1980–81 1979 1978–79 “William N. Copley: Heed Greed Trust Lust,” KESTNER-GESELLSCHAFT, Hamburg (retrospective) GALERIE LELONG, Zurich GALERIE KURT SCHÄFER, Berlin GALERIE ZELL AM SEE, Schloss Rosenberg, Austria GALERIE MICHAEL, Heidelberg GALERIE BRIGITTE IHSEN, Cologne NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich GALERIE KLEWAN, Munich GALERIE HEIKE CURTZE, Vienna GALERIE ZELL AM SEE, Schloss Rosenberg, Austria HAUS AM LÜTZOWPLATZ, Berlin GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich GALLERIA PECCOLO, Livorno GALLERIA MILANO, Milan DAVID NOLAN GALLERY, New York GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York and Chicago GALERIE KLEWAN, Munich GALERIE KLEWAN, Munich PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, Chicago GALERIE 1900/2000, Paris KEWENIG GALERIE, Frechen-Bachem, Germany PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York “The Tomb of the Unknown Whore,” NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, New York (installation) PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York THE QUAY GALLERY, San Francisco GALLERIA MONTENAPOLEONE, Milan “Post-Raphaelite Painting,” REINHARD ONNASCH AUSSTELLUNGEN, Berlin PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, Chicago GALERIE KLEWAN, Munich KÜNSTLERWERKSTATT LOTHRINGERSTRASSE, Munich PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, New York BROOKS JACKSON GALLERY, New York BADISCHER KUNSTVEREIN, Karlsruhe, Germany (traveling retrospective) STEDELIJK VAN ABBEMUSEUM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands MUSÉE NATIONAL D’ART MODERNE, CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU, Paris KUNSTHALLE BERN, Bern BROOKS JACKSON GALLERY, New York “CPLY: Reflections on a Past Life,” INSTITUTE FOR THE ARTS, RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston “CPLY / X-Rated Paintings,” GALERIE FASSBENDER, Munich “Variations on a Theme by Francis Picabia,” DAVID STUART GALLERIES, Los Angeles ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1973 1972 1971 1970 1969 1968 1967 1966 1965 1964 1963 1962 1961 1960 GALERIE RUDOLF ZWIRNER, Cologne GALERIE FASSBENDER, Munich GALERIE SPRINGER, Berlin ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York PHYLLIS KIND GALLERY, Chicago WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION, Washington, CT DAVID STUART GALLERIES, Los Angeles ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York ERIK NORD GALLERY, Nantucket, MA “Western Songs,” GALERIE ONNASCH, Cologne ONNASCH GALLERY, New York MOORE COLLEGE OF ART, Philadelphia “CPLY/X-RATED,” NEW YORK CULTURAL CENTER, New York GALLERIE IL FAUNA, Turin GALLERY SUZANNE SAXE, San Francisco GALERIE IOLAS, Milan and Paris ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York DAVID STUART GALLERIES, Los Angeles GALERIE MICHAEL WERNER, Cologne GALERIE ASPECTS, Brussels GALERIE DU DRAGON, Paris “Nouns,” ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALERIE ASPECTS, Brussels GALERIE NEUENDORF, Cologne GALERIE SPRINGER, Berlin “Ballads,” GALERIE IOLAS, Geneva GALERIE DE LEONE, Venice MERIDA GALLERY, Louisville, KY GALERIE SPRINGER, Berlin GALERIE NEUENDORF, Hamburg BODLEY GALLERY, New York “Homage to Robert W. Service,” ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALERIE IOLAS, Paris “Copley: Entertainment for Men,” STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam GALERIE IOLAS, Paris ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York ALLAN FRUMKIN GALLERY, Chicago SOUTHWESTERN COLLEGE, Chula Vista, CA LOUISIANA GALLERY, Houston DAVID STUART GALLERY, Los Angeles ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York “Les Suffragettes Erotiques de Bill Copley,” GALERIE IRIS CLERT, Paris HANOVER GALLERY, London GALLERIA ARTURO SCHWARZ, Milan INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS, London ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALERIE IRIS CLERT, Paris GALLERIA CAVALLINO, Venice 1959 1958 1956 1954 1953 1951 GALLERIA D’ARTE DEL NAVIGLIO, Milan ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALERIE FURSTENBERG, Paris ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALERIE DU DRAGON, Paris ALEXANDER IOLAS GALLERY, New York GALLERIA MONTENAPOLEONE, Milan NINA DAUSSET, Paris ROYER’S BOOK SHOP, Los Angeles SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2006 “Pop Abstraction,” FREDERICKS AND FRASER GALLERY AND GARTH GREENAN GALLERY, New York “Re-view,” HAUSER AND WIRTH GALLERY, London “Gang Bust: William Copley & Big Fat Black Cock Inc.,” VENUS OVER MANHATTAN, New York “Masculin/Feminine,” MICHAEL FUCHS GALERIE, Berlin “Interiors,” ANDREW KREPS GALLERY, New York “After Shelly Duval ’72 (Frogs on the High Line),” MACCARONE GALLERY, New York “William N. Copley and Andreas Slominski – X-Rated,” ME COLLECTORS ROOM, Berlin THE ADAA ART FAIR, New York “And Other Essays,” BARD COLLEGE, Annandale-on Hudson, New York “Exile on Main St.,” BONNEFANTENMUSEUM, Maastricht, The Netherlands “Jr. and Son’s,” ZACH FEUER GALLERY, New York “Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit,” MUSEUM KUNST PALEST, Düsseldorf “Karl Bohrmann - William N. Copley,” GALERIE KLAUS GERRIT FREISE, Stuttgart “Carte Blanche III: Gedichte der Fakten,” GALERIE FUR ZEITGENÖSSISCHE KUNST, Leipzig “Liebe, Love, Paare,” GUSTAV-LÜBCKE-MUSEUM, Hamm MUSEUM IM KULTURSPEICHER, Würzburg ULMER MUSEUM, Ulm “Mirror, Mirror,” EDWARD THORP GALLERY, New York “Deutsche und Amerikanische Malerei,” MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA, BadenBaden “Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection,” MUSEUM FOLKWANG, Essen “Sixties! Art, Fashion, Design, Film and Photography,” GEMEENTEMUSEUM DEN HAAG, The Hague “AFFINITIES” DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM, Berlin “Die anderen Bilder,” MUSEUM DER STADT, Ratingen “Ele-Mental,” DAVID NOLAN GALLERY, New York “Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten,” KUNSTMUSEUM Bern, Bern “Models and Prototypes,” MILDRED LANE KEMPER ART MUSEUM, Saint Louis “L’Amateur d’estampes,” MUSÉE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Tourcoing 2005 2004 2003 2001 2000 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1989 1988 1987 1986 “Collage Effect,” 1301PE, Los Angeles NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York “Internationale Zeichner,” GALERIE BIEDERMANN, Munich “Bilderwechsel III: Amerikanische Malerei,” MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA, BadenBaden “FUNNY CUTS: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössische Kunst,” STAATSGALERIE, Stuttgart “Eröffnungsausstellung Sammlung Frieder Burda,” MUSEUM FRIEDER BURDA, Baden-Baden “Sammlung Frieder Burda- Eröffnungsausstellung,” STAATLICHE KUNSTHALLE BADEN-BADEN, Baden-Baden “Christmas Art Gifts,” ARTISCOPE, Brussels “Baume,” GALERIE BIEDERMANN, Munich “Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI, Miami “Kunst Sammeln I: Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus den Sammlungen von Cramm,” FALCKENBURG, KALKMANN, KUNSTVEREIN BAD SALZDETFURTH, BODENBURG MUSEUM UNSERER WUNSCHE, MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne “Prints,” NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York “Im Gegenüber: Landschaften, Stilleben, Portraits,” GALERIE VON BRAUNBEHRENS, Munich “Summer Group Show,” NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York “Imagined World,” DAVID NOLAN GALLERY, New York “Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20,” JAHRHUNDERTS, STAATSGALERIE, Stuttgart “Spiral Village,” BONNEFANTENMUSEUM, Maastricht “Hommage a Copley,” GALERIE FRED JAHN, Munich “Think,” GALERIE BRIGITTE IHSEN, Cologne “Disegni americani degli anni ottanta: 15 artisti,” GALLERIA MILANO, Milan “Bunnies - A Group Show,” NOLAN/ECKMAN GALLERY, New York “Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present,” SOUTHAMPTON CITY ART GALLERY, Southampton, England; MANCHESTER CITY ART GALLERIES, England; FERENS ART GALLERY, Hull, England; WHITECHAPEL ART GALLERY, London “Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art,” CLEVELAND CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, Cleveland “Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960,” MUSEUM LUDWIG IN DEN RHEINHALLEN DER KÖLNER MESSE, Cologne “Gran Pavese, The Flag Project,” MUHKA MUSEUM VOOR HEDENDAAGSE KUNST ANTWERPEN, Antwerp “Roger Brown, William Copley, Duncan Hannah,” GLORIA LURIA GALLERY, Miami “The Amused Eye: A National Sampling of Humor in Art,” THE EVANSTON ART CENTER, Evanston, IL “Column,” GALERIE JULE KEWENIG, Frenchen-Bachem, Germany “Europa/Amerika: die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940,” MUSEUM LUDWIG, Cologne 1985 1984 1983 1982 1981 1980 1978 1977 1976 1975 1974 1972 1971 1970 1967 1966 1965 “Cinquante ans de dessins americains, 1930–1980,” ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Paris “Paravents,” SCHLOSS LORSFELD, Kerpen, Germany “Auto and Culture,” MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES; DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS “Looking at Women,” ARTEMESIA GALLERY, Chicago “Festival of the Arts,” MUHLENBERG COLLEGE, Allentown, PA “Contemporary Paintings from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery,” UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA at Greensboro “The Last Laugh,” SOUTHERN OHIO MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER, Portsmouth DOCUMENTA 7, Kassel, Germany “The Erotic Impulse,” ROGER LITZ GALLERY, New York “Westkunst,” MUSEEN DER STADT KÖLN, Cologne “American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real, Ideal and the Fantastic,” WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York (and other venues) “The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of Art,” WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, New York “Aspekte der 60er Jahre: aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch,” NATIONALGALERIE, Berlin “American Nude,” HAROLD REED GALLERY, New York “Box Museum,” COOPER HEWITT MUSEUM, New York “Artist’s Renderings of Paintings,” PINOTECA DI BRERA, Milan, MUSÉE DU LOUVRE, Paris “The Dada/Surrealist Heritage,” STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE, Williamstown “Bad Painting,” THE NEW MUSEUM, New York “The William Seitz Memorial Exhibition,” PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, Princeton “Three Generations of the American Nude,” NEW YORK CULTURAL CENTER, New York “Seventy-First American Exhibition,” ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago DOCUMENTA 5, Kassel, Germany “Erotic Art,” THE ART CENTER OF THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH, The New Museum, New York “Hot Show,” CORDIER & EKSTROM GALLERY, New York “Copley, Brauner and Magritte,” LOUISIANA GALLERY, Houston “Box Top Art,” ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY, Bloomington “Around the Automobile,” MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, New York “Mixed Masters,” UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMAS, Houston “Hommage à Caissa: Exhibition for the Chess Foundation of the Duchamp Fund,” CORDIER & EKSTROM GALLERY, New York “Surrealist Exhibition,” UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Santa Barbara “Le Portrait,” GALERIE CLAUDE BERNARD, Paris “25 Years of Art in San Diego,” LA JOLLA MUSEUM OF ART, La Jolla “Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme,” PALAIS DES BEAUX-ARTS, Brussels “Surrealist Exhibition,” BYRON GALLERY, New York 1964 1963 1962 1961 1959 1957 1956 1954 “Visiting Artists at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop,” OTIS ART INSTITUTE, Los Angeles “Group Show,” DWAN GALLERY, Los Angeles “Whence Pop,” HECKSCHER MUSEUM OF ART, Huntington “Selections from the L. M. Asher Collection,” UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque “New Directions in American Painting,” ROSE ART MUSEUM, Brandeis University, Waltham “Nieuwe realisten,” HAAGS GEMEENTEMUSEUM, The Hague “The Maremont Collection,” WASHINGTON GALLERY OF MODERN ART, Washington, D.C. “Le Surrealisme: Sources, Histoire, Affinities,” GALERIE CHARPENTIER, Paris “Pop Art USA,” OAKLAND MUSEUM OF ART, Oakland “XIX Salon de Mai,” MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris “18 Salon de Réalitiés Nouvelles,” MUSÉE MUNICIPAL D’ART MODERNE, Paris “Paris Lettriste,” GALERIE SCHMIDT, Paris “Collage out of California,” PASADENA ART MUSEUM, Pasadena “Antagonismes 2: L’objet,” MUSÉE DES ARTS DECORATIFS, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris “Surrealismus: Phantastiche Malerei der Gegenwart,” KÜNSTLERHAUS, Vienna “XVIII Salon de Mai,” MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris “XVII Salon de Mai,” MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris “Bewogen beweging-Rorelse i Konsten,” STEDELIJK MUSEUM, Amsterdam MODERNA MUSEET, Stockholm “XVI Salon de Mai,” MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris “Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme,” GALERIE DANIEL CORDIER, Paris “Arte Fantastica,” MUSEO DE CASTILLO DI SAN GIUSTO, Trieste “The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design,” ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AT CROWN HALL, Chicago “Verzameling Urvater,” RIJKSMUSEUM KRÖLLER-MÜLLER, Otterlo; THE MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, Leicester; CITY OF YORK GALLERY, York; THE TATE GALLERY, London “XV Salon de Mai,” MUSÉE D’ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS, Paris “Exposition Internationale de l’art actuel,” NAGAOKA MUSEUM, Nagaoka, Japan “Americans in Paris,” GALERIE ARTHUR CRAVEN, Paris SELECTED PRESS 2010 Sarah P. Hanson. “Naked Truth.” Art+Auction. November 2010 Roberta Smith. “Playing the Renegade with Eroticism or Rage.” The New York Times. November, 12, 2010. William N. Copley: ‘X-Rated.’ The New York Times. November 19, 2010. “Goings On About Town: Art.” The New Yorker. November 2010. “In Living Color.” Vogue. November 2010. Jerry Saltz. “William N. Copley: ’X-Rated’” New York Magazine. December 6, 2010. “William N. Copley: ’X-Rated’” Time Out New York. December 9-15, 2010. 1995 William N. Copley, Bilder 1951-1994 / mit Beiträgen von Johannes Gachnang ... [et al.] ; herausgegeben von Carl Haenlein = William N. Copley, paintings 1951-1994 / with contributions by Johannes Gachnang ... [et al.] ; edited by Carl Haenlein. Copley, William Nelson, 1919Hannover : Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1995 1991 CPLY : William N. Copley. Copley, William Nelson, 1919New York, N.Y. : David Nolan Gallery, c1991. 1983 Post-Raphaelite paintings by William N. Copley : Ausstellung vom 3. Mai bis 11. Juni 1983 Reinhard Onnasch Ausstellung und / [Katalog, Ilona Lindenberg ; Übersetzung, David Bean]. Copley, William Nelson, 1919Berlin : Die Ausstellungen, c1983. 1980 William N. Copley : Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 26 novembre 1980-11 janvier 1981 / [exposition organisée par la Kunsthalle Berne ; rédaction du catalogue, Marianne Schmidt, Johannes Gachnang]. Copley, William Nelson, 1919Paris : Centre Georges Pompidou, [1980] Peter Schjeldahl. Art in America. v. 62 (May 1974) 108-9. JQN 05-26 v. 62 (1974) [P. .108-109] William Copley : an exhibition of the artists [sic] work from 1946-1974 / coorganized by Onnasch Galerie, New York and Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia ; Onnasch Gallery 30 March-25 May 1974 ; Moore College of Art 13 September-11 October 1974. Copley, William Nelson, 1919[S.l. : s.n.], 1974. CPLY X-rated : an exhibition of new paintings and drawings : this show may travel / with an interview by Sam Hunter. Copley, William Nelson, 1919[New York, N.Y.] : New York Cultural Center in Association with Fairleigh Dickinson University, [1974]
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