Dan Flavin
Dan Flavin was an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1933. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Lenbachhaus in Munich and will be on exhibit at Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln on January 25, 2022. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Gagosian Gallery, New York (Park & 75th) have featured Dan Flavin’s work in the past.Dan Flavin’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $50 USD to $3,077,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $3,077,000 USD for ALTERNATE DIAGONALS OF MARCH 2, 1964 (TO DON JUDD), sold at Sotheby’s New York in 2014. Dan Flavin has been featured in articles for The National, Ocula and The Hürriyet. The most recent article is Chinati Weekend Open House Returns Oct. 8-10 written for Glasstire in October 2021. The artist died in 1996.
Past exhibitions
Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
- Dan Flavin: Untitled (For Ksenija), Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
- Dan Flavin, Gagosian Gallery, New York (Park & 75th), Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Dan Flavin: «Monument» for V. Tatlin, 1969, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (rue du Pont de Lodi), 6e, Paris, France
2019
- Dan Flavin, David Zwirner, Paris, 3e, Paris, France
- Dan Flavin: For Prudence, Galerie Bastian, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Dan Flavin, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Little Haiti, Miami, Florida, USA
2018
- Dan Flavin: Fluorescent Light 1964-1995, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Dan Flavin: Untitled (For Ksenija), Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
- Dan Flavin: Dedications To Artists, Galería Cayón, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Dan Flavin: in daylight or cool white, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
2017
- Dan Flavin, Espace Louis Vuitton Tokyo, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, Japan
2016
- Dan Flavin: It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2015
- Dan Flavin: Corners, Barriers and Corridors, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
- Dan Flavin: icons, Dia: Bridgehampton, Bridgehampton, New York, USA
2014
- Untitled (For Ksenija), Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2013
- Dan Flavin: Lights, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- “monument” on the survival of Mrs. Reppin: An Artwork by Dan Flavin, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California, USA
2012
- Dan Flavin: Simply I love to draw again and again (my holy compulsion)., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
- Dan Flavin: An Installation, Galerie Perrotin, Paris (Turenne), 3e, Paris, France
2010
- Dan Flavin, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (534 W 21st), Chelsea, New York, USA
2009
- Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions, David Zwirner, New York (525 W 19th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Dan Flavin, Donald Young Gallery, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Dan Flavin, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2008
- Dan Flavin (To Don Judd, colorist) 1-7, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Dan Flavin, David Zwirner, New York (519 W 19th Street), Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Dan Flavin: The 1964 Green Gallery Exhibition, Minus Space , Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Dan Flavin: Constructed Light, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
- The Scene Changes: Sculpture from the Collection, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
2021
- Espace Libéré, EAC, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans-sartoux, France
- Minimalism: Flavin Judd LeWitt, Sotheby’s East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
- Lightness of Being. Perspective of the collection, Fondation CAB Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Saint-paul-de-vence, France
- Collection 3: Between Visible and Invisible, National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan), Osaka, Japan
- This is where I travelled. David Zwirner, Tarmak22, Saanen, Switzerland
- Papierarbeiten V, Galerie MaxWeberSixFriedrich, Munich, Germany
- Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Sandback, David Zwirner, New York (525 W 19th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Sandback, David Zwirner, New York (533 W 19th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Art Finds a Way, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2020
- ONLINE: Into the LIght, Galerie Bastian, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Parallax, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Bending Light, Pace Seoul, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
- Monochrome No.2, Ordovas Gallery, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Jellyfish, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2019
- Opulent Minimalism, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert, Palm Desert, California, USA
- Third Dimension: Works from The Brant Foundation, The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, New York, Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Five Decades Of Minimalism, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, USA
- Grids & Structures, Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
- Minimalismo, posminimalismo y conceptualismo / 60′ – 70, Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Color, Form and Light, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
- Königsklasse IV. Contempotary Art at Herrenchiemsee Palace, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- Fresh, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA
- Mere Constructions, KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels, Belgium
- Monumental Minimal, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Pantin), Paris, France
2018
- Salm Modern #1: Dimensions of Dialogue, National Gallery Prague, Salm Palace, Prague, Czech Republic
- Minimalism: Space. Light. Object, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
- Group exhibition, David Zwirner, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Shaping light, Fondation CAB Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
- Monumental Minimal, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Pantin), Paris, France
- Flat Out: Works on Paper, 1960–2000, Mana Contemporary Jersey City, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
- 50 Years: An Anniversary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (524 W 26th Str), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Sublime Hardware, Luxembourg + Co., London, London, UK
- The Times They Are A-Changin’, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- American Masters, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
- Critical Dictionary, Gagosian Gallery, Paris (rue de Ponthieu), 8e, Paris, France
- The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes, National Museum of Art, Osaka (Kokuritsu Kokusai Bijutsukan), Osaka, Japan
- Königsklasse IV, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- Just so. Stories 1978 – 2018, Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
- Reds, Mnuchin Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- A Luta Continua. The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 22nd Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Expanding Narratives: The Figure and the Ground, The Logan Center, University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- In Tune with the World. Works from the Collection, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, France
- Sexy & Cool: Minimal goes emotional, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany
- Conceptual Feedback, Honor Fraser, Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Walking Point, Greene Naftali, New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Principia Mathematica, Pace New York (32 East 57th Street), 57th Street, New York, USA
- The New York Collection for Stockholm Portfolio, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt: Early Works, Mignoni Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York (533 W 19th Street), New York, USA
2017
- Dan Flavin, to Lucie Rie and Hans Coper, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- On With The Show, Galerie Hammelehle und Ahrens, Nrnberg, Germany
- Beyond Generations (DDW). Traces #1, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Minimalism & Beyond, Mnuchin Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc., Soho, New York, USA
- Group Exhibition, Galerie Bastian, Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Thirty Works for Thirty Years, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- To the Racy Brink, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- The Way Beyond Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Anselm Kiefer. The Michael & Eleonore Stoffel Foundation acquires five works by Anselm Kiefer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- Serielle Formationen. 1967/2017, Daimler Contemporary, Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- Found in America: Chamberlain, Flavin, Indiana, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
- Minimal Art from the Marzona Collection, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Hommage à Picasso, Robilant+Voena, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
- L’emozione dei COLORI nell’arte, GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
- The Beginning of Everything: Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2016
- 間 (jiān), Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Collective Conversation, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
- From Rodin to Bourgeois: Sculpture in the 20th century, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands
- Cloud & Crystal. The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection, K20, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
- Rhona Hoffman, 40 Years: Part 1, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Aspects of Minimalism, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, USA
- The Language of Things, Lower Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
- Between Structure and Matter: Other Minimal Futures, Aicon Gallery, New York, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, Soho, New York, USA
- An Imagined Museum: Works from the Pompidou, Tate and MMK collections, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Objects and Bodies at Rest and in Motion, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
- Structure + Space, Christie’s New York, Midtown, New York, USA
- Between the Eyes, Sotheby’s London, London, UK
- Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties, Lévy Gorvy, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Arrangements, Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, Soho, New York, USA
2015
- Collective Conversation, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, USA
- A Sense of Place: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, USA
- Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism, The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece
- Black Sun, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Space Age, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (Pantin), Paris, France
- Going Public: INTERNATIONAL ART COLLECTORS IN SHEFFIELD, Museums Sheffield, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
- Carl Andre: In His Time, Mnuchin Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
- Let There Be Light … From the Impressionists to Thomas Edison, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
- Additive Logic, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Will Brown: Matrix 259, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Will Brown – Matrix 259, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Double Eye Poke, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris (rue Saint-André des arts), 6e, Paris, France
- Images Moving Out Onto Space, Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, UK
- Artist Rooms, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
- Brancusi: Pioneer of American Minimalism, Kasmin Gallery, New York (515 W 27th Str), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Selections from The Kramarsky Collection, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
- Light Show, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Sydney, Australia
- What’s New is New Again, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, 57th Street, New York, USA
- American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 8e, Paris, France
- La Luce Vita: 87, Galerie Kreo, Paris, 6e, Paris, France
- Accrochage, Friedman Benda, New York, USA
- La Luce Vita: 86, Galerie Kreo, Paris, 6e, Paris, France
- The New York School, 1969, Kasmin Gallery, New York (293 10th Av), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (521 W 21st Str), Chelsea, New York, USA
2014
- P 79, Galerie MaxWeberSixFriedrich, Munich, Germany
- ghost outfit, Team Gallery, Grand Street, Soho, New York, USA
- Kiasma Goes Taidehalli, Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
- Experiments with Truth: Gandhi and Images of Nonviolence, The Menil Collection, Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- Art=Text=Art: Private languages/Public Systems, UB Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
- Christian Capurro: Slave, ACCA, Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
- Gorgeous, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, Union Square, San Francisco, California, USA
- Print // Line, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Illusion of Light, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
- Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Logical Guesses, Driscoll Babcock, Midtown, New York, USA
- Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 18th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Group Show: Prints Flavin, Judd, Sandback, David Zwirner, New York (20th Street), New York, USA
2013
- Light: Dan Flavin, Francois Morellet, Keith Sonnier, Galerie Thomas / Thomas Modern, Munich, Germany
- 40 Years at The Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Ambach & Rice, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Serial Attitudes, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
- Extra Muros: Upside Down, S.M.A.K. Ghent, Gent, Belgium
- Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Hauser & Wirth, London, Mayfair, London, UK
- Dan Flavin / Donald Judd, Galería Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
- Piet Mondrian – Barnett Newman – Dan Flavin, Kunstmuseum Basel, Hauptbau & Neubau, Basel, Switzerland
- Junkies’ Promises, Kasmin Gallery, New York (515 W 27th Str), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Group Exhibition: In Parts, Whitney Museum of American Art, Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Sculpture After 1945: The Curator’s choice, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
- Dan Flavin and Donald Judd, David Zwirner, New York (525 W 19th Street), Chelsea, New York, USA
- Light Show, Southbank Centre, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2012
- Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Ronald Bladen in Context, Loretta Howard Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, Art from the 1960s, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
- Martin Visser: Collector, Designer, Free Spirit, Bonnefanten Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
- Dan Flavin: Drawing, The Morgan Library, Murray Hill, New York, USA
- Group Show, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Spirits of Internationalism 6 European collections, 1956 – 1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2011
- Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago De Compostela, Spain
- Dan Flavin: Three Works, L & M Arts, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Line and Space: American Drawings and Sculpture Since 1960, From a Private Collection, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
- Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Blink! Light, Sound & The Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Sun Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York (980 Madison Avenue), Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Abstract Now and Then , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA
- Contemporary Collecting: The Judith Neisser Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, 26th Street, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Cabinet (NGC Toronto), MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2010
- Sculpture, Waddington Custot, Mayfair, London, UK
- Artists at Max’s Kansas City: 1965–1974 Hetero-Holics and Some Women Too, Loretta Howard Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- With a Probability of Being Seen: Dorothee and Konrad Fischer: Archives of an Attitude, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- El Gabinete Blanco, Museo Jumex, Santa Maria Tulpeltac, Mexico City, Mexico
- Play Van Abbe: In-between Minimalisms, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Modern Times: Responding to Chaos, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
- Functions of Drawing: Conceptual Art on Paper from the MMK Collection, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Dan Flavin & Scott Lyall, Le Commissariat, Paris, France
2009
- Strange and Close (Play Van Abbe), Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
- Castellani / Flavin / Judd / Uecker, Haunch of Venison, London, London, UK
- Young Classics – Chapters From The Contemporary Art Collection, Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
- Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Ryman, Andrea Rosen Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
- Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy
- Dan Graham Presents New Jersey, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
- Dan Graham Presents New Jersey, National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Athens, Greece
- Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
- The Minimalist Site, Barbara Mathes Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Yellow and Green, MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
- Robert Mangold: X, Plus and Frame Paintings, Parasol unit, London, UK
- “Dialogues”: Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, John MCracken, Frank Stella and Vija Celmins, GRIFFIN LA, Santa Monica, California, USA
2008
- made in munich editions 1968–2008, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- DAN FLAVIN: Monument to Vladimir Tatlin, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA
- “Progress”, Whitney Museum of American Art, Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Ultimate Collection Show, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
- Turned on, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK