Donald Judd

1928 Born in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, United States of America

1946-47 Serves in the U.S. Army in Korea

1948 Registers at the Art Student League, New York; transfers to College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia

1949 Studies Philosophy at Columbia University, New York; studies painting at the Art Student League, New York

1957 First solo exhibition, Don Judd, Panoramas Gallery, New York. Studies Art History at Columbia University, New York, under Rudolf Wittkower and Meyer Shapiro

1959 Begins writing for journal, Art News

1960 Works as contributing editor of journal, Arts Magazine; works as reviewer for journal, Art International

1961-63 Begins producing woodcuts, his first attempt at the print medium; produces a series of twenty six woodcuts, Untitled

1962 Begins producing relief prints as his painting develops into low reliefs, high reliefs and then to free standing sculpture; wall pieces and floor pieces are made of precise geometric forms without bases. Receives Masters of Fine Arts from Columbia University, New York

1962-4 Teaches at Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, New York

1963 Solo exhibition, Don Judd, Green Gallery, New York

1965 Publishes essay, Specific Objects in Arts Yearbook 8. Receives travel grant from the Swedish Institute

1966 First in a series of extended solo exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; visiting artist at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire

1967 Teaches at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut as instructor of sculpture; receives grant from National Endowment for the Arts

1968 Solo exhibition, Don Judd, at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; received grant from John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1968-69 Produces his second group of woodcuts, Untitled

1970 Solo exhibition, Don Judd, at Stedlijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Holland

1971 Creates multiple Untitled, at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles; participates in the Guggenheim International Award exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1972 Moves to Marfa, Texas

1974-79 Produces a series of eighteen aquatints, Untitled; included in exhibition, Dan Flavin/Donald Judd/ Sol LeWitt, at Galleria La Bertesca, Milan, Italy

1975 Publishes Completed Writings 1959-1975 (Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design), his first of two volumes of theoretical writing on Minimalism

1976 Baldwin Professor, at Oberlin College, Ohio; receives grant from the National Endowment for the Arts; solo exhibition, Skulpturen, at Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland

1980 Participated in the Venice biennale, Italy

1982 Participates in Documenta, Kassel, West Germany

1983 Begins lecturing at various universities across the Untied States, Europe and Asia on art and architecture

1983-85 Produces a series of twenty seven etchings, Untitled

1986 Produces a series of four woodcuts, Untitled. Included in exhibition, Qu’est-ce que la sculpture, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France. Opens the Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati, Marfa

1987 Solo exhibition, Donald Judd, Stedlijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, travels to Düsseldorf, Paris, Barcelona and Turin
Publishes, Complete Writings, 1975–1986 (Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum), his second volume of theoretical writing on Minimalism. Receives the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture by the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Mayne, Canada; receives the Brandeis University Medal for Sculpture from Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

1988 Travelling exhibition, Donald Judd, organised by The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, travels to Texas
Begins operation of El Taller Chihuahuense, factory for sculpture in Marfa

1990 Establishes studio in Cologne, Germany

1991 Founds publishing company, Der Zweite Pfeil, with Marianne Stockebrand

1992 Receives award from Stankowski Foundation, Stuttgart, Germany

1993 Solo exhibition, Donald Judd, prints 1951-1993, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland; solo travelling exhibition, Kunst + design, originates at Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany. Receives award from the Sikkens Foundation, Sassenheim, Holland

1994 Donald Judd died in New York

Compiled by Simeran Maxwell, 2007

This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime. It builds upon the biographical information published in Donald Judd: prints and works in editions: a catalogue raisonné (New York, Edition Schellman, 1993); Donald Judd (London: Tate Publishing, 2004); and on the Guggenheim website.