- Group Exhibition »ORTHODOX ABSTRACTION (and of course there was poetry)« Berlin, 2020
- »Fool's Gold - Pirate, Paintings from the Eighties« Berlin, 2019
- Group Exhibition »Be Nice To Me« Berlin, 2011
- »Works on Paper« Stockholm, 1996
- Group Exhibition »Art against AIDS« Stockholm, 1991
- »Harvey Quaytman« Stockholm, 1990
- »Harvey Quaytman« Stockholm, 1987
- »Harvey Quaytman« Malmö, 1986
- »Harvey Quaytman« Malmö, 1981
Installation view »Fool's Gold - Pirate, Paintings from the Eighties«, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2019
Harvey Quaytman
Harvey Quaytman was born in 1937 in Far Rockaway, NY, where he died in 2002. He lived and worked in New York City throughout his life, maintaining a studio on the Bowery. After his first solo exhibition in London in 1962, he had more than sixty solo exhibitions in the United States, Europe and Australia as well as group exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (1967); the Jewish Museum, New York (1970); Art Institute of Chicago (1971/1972); Grand Palais, Paris (1980); Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (1987); the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1987) and PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (1999). In 2018 the Berkeley Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) organized the first retrospective exhibition of his work. His works are represented in public and private collections worldwide, including MoMA, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark; Malmö Konsthall; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; and Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
Among the honours Quaytman received are two Guggenheim fellowships (1979 and 1985), and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997). Harvey Quaytman’s showed with Galerie Nordenhake during his lifetime in 1981, 1986, 1987, 1990 and 1996.
Installation view »Fool's Gold - Pirate, Paintings from the Eighties«, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2019
The Fire This Time, 1986, acrylic and steel on canvas, 73 x 73 cm
Installation view »Fool's Gold - Pirate, Paintings from the Eighties«, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2019
What if?, 1987, acrylic and rust on canvas, 71 x 71 cm
Scorch, 1987/88, acrylic and ground glass on canvas, 94.5 x 94.5 cm
Harvey Quaytman. Pompeian Step, 1984
Acrylic on canvas. 176.5 x 182 cm | 69 1/2 x 71 2/3 in
Installation view: Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, Oct 17–Jan 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography
Installation View: Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, October 17–January 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography
Installation View. Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, October 17–January 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography
Time Square, 1987, acrylic and ground glass on canvas, 71 x 71 cm
For Kenneth Martin, 1989, acrylic and ground glass on canvas, 96.5 x 96.5 cm
Installation View: Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, October 17–January 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography
Untitled, 1978, charcoal and gouache on paper, 103 x 73 cm
Harvey Quaytman, Gr/BL, BL/-Y, 1980, Acrylic on canvas, 170 x 60 cm
Installation View, Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, October 17–January 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography
Gamboge Hart, 1980, acrylic and acrylic varnish on canvas, 91 x 76 cm
Installation View, Harvey Quaytman: Against the Static, October 17–January 27, 2019; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). Photo: JKA Photography