william n. copley (cply) selected solo exhibitions

 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]