Mark di Suvero

1933 Born in Shanghai, China

1941 Emigrates to United States, settling in San Francisco, California

1953–54 Studies at San Francisco City College, California

1956 Receives Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley

1957 Moves to New York, New York

1960 First solo exhibition, at Green Gallery, New York

1962 Establishes Park Place Gallery, New York

1963 Included in exhibition, Annual exhibition, at Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

1964 Included in exhibition, Recent American sculpture, at Jewish Museum, New York

1965 Included in exhibition, Contemporary American Sculpture, at Musée Rodin, Paris, France

1966 Included in exhibitions: Contemporary American sculpture section I; Art of the United States 1670–1966; Annual exhibition, all at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1967 Included in exhibitions: Sculpture international, at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; American sculpture of the sixties, at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

1968 Included in exhibitions: Documenta 4, Kassel, West Germany; Annual exhibition, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1969 Teaches at University of California, Berkeley

1970 Included inexhibition, Annual exhibition, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1971–75 Moves to Europe as a protest against the Vietnam War; lives between the Netherlands, France and Italy

1971 Included in exhibition, 11th Biennale, at Middelheim Sculpture Garden, Antwerp, Belgium

1972 Solo exhibition at Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands; completes multiple, Untitled, at Gemini GEL, Los Angeles

1973 Included in exhibition, American drawings 1963–1973, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1975 Included in Venice biennale, Italy; retrospective exhibition, Mark di Suvero, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; solo exhibition at Jardin des Tuileries, Paris

1976 Completes editions of Jak, Afterstudy for Marianne Moore, For Rilke, Centering, Centering state I and Tetra at Tyler Graphics, Bedford Village, New York; included in Biennale of Sydney, Australia; included in exhibition, California painting and sculpture: the modern era, at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Founder of the Athena Foundation, New York

1977 Included in exhibition, Art off the picture press, at Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hampstead, New York

1980 Included in exhibitions: Homage to Picasso, at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; American sculpture: gifts of Howard & Jean Lipman, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Urban encounters: art, architecture, audience, at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1983 Solo exhibition at Oil & Steel Gallery, New York and Long Island City, New York; included in exhibition, The first show: painting and sculpture from eight collections 1940–1981, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1984 Included in exhibitions: Prints from Tyler Graphics, at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Drawings by sculptors: two decades of non-objective art from the Seagram Collection, at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Quebec; Forms that function, at the Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York

1985 Solo exhibition, Mark di Suvero: Twenty-five years of sculpture and drawings, at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York; included in exhibitions: International exhibition VII, at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; 50 years of American drawings 1930–1980, at Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; establishes Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island, New York

1986 Included in exhibition, An American renaissance: painting and sculpture since 1940, at Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

1987 Solo exhibition at Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1988 Included in exhibition, Aspects of collage, assemblage and the found object in the 20th century, at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York; included in Venice biennale, Italy; solo exhibition, Mark di Suvero, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, West Germany

1991 Retrospective exhibition, Mark di Suvero: sculptures 1960–1991, at Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France

1993 Included in exhibition, The second dimension: twentieth century sculptors. drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, at Brooklyn Museum, New York

1994 Solo exhibition, Mark di Suvero, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain

1995 Included in exhibition, Twentieth century American sculpture II, at the White House, Washington, DC; included in Venice biennale, Italy

1998 Included in exhibition, 100 years of sculpture: from the pedestal to the pixel, at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

2000 Included in exhibition, Renzo Piano, at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

2005 Receives Heinz Award in Arts and Humanities

2006 Included in exhibition, Whitney Biennial, at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; sculpture, Joie de vivre, installed permanently in Zuccotti Park, New York. Mark di Suvero currently lives and works in Long Island City, New York, and Petaluma, California.

Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Kate Buckingham, 2006
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.