Öffentliche Sammlungen (Auswahl)
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
Biographie
am 6. Juni 1907 in South Bend (Indiana) geboren
1928 - 1929 Besuch der Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford, England
1929 - 1930 Studienaufenthalt an der Académie L’hote und der Académie Moderne in Paris
1942 Eintritt in die Army
1945 - 46 Studium der Kunst an der New York Unsiverstiy
1948 - 50 Lehraufenthalt am Instiute of Design in Chicago
1964 - 68 nimmt an der documenta III & IV in Kassel teil
Am 17. Juli 2002 verstibrt George Rickey in Saint Paul, Minnesota
Öffentliche Sammlungen (Auswahl)
Albertina Museum, Wien
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, United States
Am Justizzentrum, Köln
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Bayerische Hypotheken-und Vechsel-Bank, AG, München
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, München
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Henkel GmbH, Düsseldorf
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., United States
Hyogo Prefectural Museum, Kobe, Japan
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, California, United States
Kansai University, Osaka, Japan
Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Kunsthalle der Stadt, Berlin
Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States
Moderne Galerie (Joseph Albers Museum), Quadrat-Bottrop, Bottrop
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Niederlande
Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Museum of Art, Long Beach, California, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, United States
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Neu Perlach, München
Neubau des Physikzentrums, Kiel
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States
Neues Medizinsches Institut, Heidelberg
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, United States
Olympiad of Art, Olympic Center, Seoul, South Korea
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, United States
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Niederlande
Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, München
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, United States
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, United States
Shizuoka Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts, United States
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., United States
Snite Museum, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, United States
Tate Gallery, London, England
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, United States
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, United States
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, United States
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, United States
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, United States
Williams College Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts, United States
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Einzelausstellungen (Auswahl)
2010 George Rickey: Important Works from the Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009 A Life in Art: Works by George Rickey, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
2009 – 2010 George Rickey: Arc of Development, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, United States.
2008 George Rickey, Kinetic Sculpture: A Retrospective, The McNay, Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
2008 George Rickey: An Evolution, Arts Council of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
2008 George Rickey: Selected Works from the George Rickey Estate, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2007 – 2009 George Rickey Sculpture: A Retrospective, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, United States. traveled to Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
2006 Deux Américains à Paris: Sculptures de George Rickey et Kenneth Snelson, Palais Royal, Paris, France.
2006 George Rickey Sculptures, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2006 George Rickey, in conjunction with the group exhibition, Momentum: Selections from the Kinetic Art Organization, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey, United States.
2004 George Rickey: Retrospective, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2003 George Rickey - Kinetische Skulpturen, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.
2003 Kinetische Skulpturen 1956-2000, Verlag der Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany.
2002 Kunstpreis Finkenwerder 2002 - George Rickey, Airbus, Hamburg, Germany.
2001 George Rickey: A Tribute, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States..
2001 George Rickey: Defining the Fourth Dimension, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
2000 George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 George Rickey: A Retrospective 1958-2000, Soma Gallery, La Jolla, California, United States.
2000 Installation of Annular Eclipse V, organized by the City of New York Parks & Recreation, Park Avenue Malls Planting Projects, New York, New York, United States.
1999 George Rickey: Maquettes and drawings related to Crucifera IV, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
1998 George Rickey, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium.
1997 George Rickey - Motion and Silence, Galerie Dr. István Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland.
1997 George Rickey: Master of Kinetic Sculpture - In Celebration of His 90th Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
1997 Important Early Sculptures 1951-65 - In Recognition of His 90th Year, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1995 George Rickey: Recent Sculpture - In grateful memory of Edie Rickey, 1924-1995 – generous friend, gentle mentor, and humorous humanist, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1994 Rickey: Sieben Kinetische Skulpturen, Galerie Utermann, and Harenberg Verlag, Dortmund, Germany.
1993 A Dialogue in Steel and Air: George Rickey, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, Florida, United States.
1993 George Rickey in Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States.
1992 George Rickey in Berlin l967-l992, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
1992 George Rickey: In Celebration of his 85th Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, California, United States.
1991 George Rickey: Art of Movement, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, United States.
1990 George Rickey - Kinetic Sculptures, Galerie Utermann, Dortmund, Germany.
1990 George Rickey - Sculptures l955-l990, Artcurial, Paris, France.
1989 George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan.
1989 George Rickey - Important Sculpture, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1989 George Rickey: Two Exhibitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, United States.
1989 In Celebration of Three Breaking Columns at Rotterdamse, Schouwburg, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
1988 3 Skulpturen von George Rickey in Köln, Moderne Stadt, Cologne, West Germany.
1988 George Rickey - Indoor/Outdoor Sculptures, Veranneman Foundation, Kruishoutem, Belgium.
1987 George Rickey zum 80. Geburtstag, Galerie Pels Leusden, West Berlin, Germany. West Berlin, Germany; traveled to Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1987 George Rickey, In Celebration of his Eightieth Year, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, California, United States.
1987 George Rickey: Projects for Public Sculpture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States.
1987 Two Lines Excentric Jointed with Six Angles, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, West Berlin, Germany.
1986 George Rickey in Bryant Park, concurrent exhibitions at Maxwell Davidson Gallery and Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1985 George Rickey in South Bend, Art Center of South Bend, Indiana University of South Bend, Saint Mary's College, and the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, United States.
1984 George Rickey, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1984 George Rickey Kinetische Freiplastiken 1972-1984, Bauhaus-Archiv, West Berlin, Germany.
1984 George Rickey Recent Sculptures, Inkfish Gallery, Denver, Colorado, United States.
1984 Zeit und Bewegung im Werk von George Rickey, Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop, Bottrop, Germany.
1982 George Rickey - Kinetic Sculpture on Clydeside, Custom House Quay, St. Enoch Exhibition Centre and Carlton Place, Glasgow, Scotland. with the support of the Scottish Arts Council and Glasgow District Council; traveled to Yorkshire Sculpture Park,Yorkshire, England; Manor House, Ilkley, England.
1982 George Rickey, New Orleans Plus 30, Art Gallery, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleands, Louisiana, United States.
1982 George Rickey: 30 Years of His Art, Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1981 George Rickey, Gimpel-Hanover+Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zürich, Switzerland.
1981 George Rickey, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
1980 George Rickey at Makler Gallery, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
1979 George Rickey - Retrospective Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, United States.
1979 Skulpturen Material Technik, Amerika Haus, Berlin, West Germany.
1978 George Rickey, Gallery Kasahara, Osaka, Japan.
1978 George Rickey - Mobile Skulpturen, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland.
1977 George Rickey, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, New York, United States.
1977 George Rickey - Kinetische Skulpturen, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, West Germany.
1976 George Rickey - Kinetische Objekte Material und Technik, Kunsthalle der Stadt, Bielefeld, West Germany.
1975 George Rickey, Fordham University Plaza at Lincoln Center and Staempfli Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1974 George Rickey, Galerie Espace NV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1974 Sculpture of George Rickey, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
1973 George Rickey, Galerie Buchholz, Munich, Germany.
1973 George Rickey, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany.
1973 George Rickey, Nationalgalerie, West Berlin, Germany.
1972 Sculpture by George Rickey, shown in conjuction with the exhibition, Constructivist Tendencies, Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States.
1971 George Rickey Retrospective Exhibition 1951-71, UCLA Art Council and UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, California, United States. (traveling exhibition)
1970 Recent Kinetic Sculpture by George Rickey, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, United States.
1969 George Rickey, Haus am Waldsee, West Berlin, Germany.
1968 Mack Rickey, Halfmannshof, Gelsenkirchen, Germany.
1967 Recent Kinectic Sculpture, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.
1966 George Rickey: Sixteen Years of Kinetic Sculpture, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States.
1964 George Rickey: Kinetic Sculptures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
1963 George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
1962 George Rickey, Düsseldorf Kunsthalle, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
1961 George Rickey: Kinetic Sculpture, Kraushaar Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
1960 Kinetic Sculpture: George Rickey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, United States.
1956 Kinetic Sculpture and Machines, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
1955 George Rickey: Machines Kinetic Sculptures Mobiles, Kraushaar Galleries, New York, New York, United States.
1953 Mobile Sculpture, John Herron Art Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
1935 Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, United States.
1933 Caz-Delbo Gallery, New York, New York, United States.
Gruppenausstellungen (Auswahl)
2009 Art in the Garden, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, United States.
2009 As Time Goes By, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
2009 Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York, United States.
2009 Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York, United States.
2009 The Art Show, rganized by the Art Dealer’s Association of America, Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, United States. (with Maxwell Davidson Gallery)
2008 – 2009 Sculpture from the Mouse House: The Olga Hirshhorn Collection at the Corcoran, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., United States.
2008 Shanghai Art Fair 2008, Shanghai MART, Shanghai, China. (with Marlborough)
2008 Yaddo: Making American Culture, The New York Public Library, New York, New York, United States.
2005 Collection, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, United States.
2004 Around the World in Forty Years, Department of States, Washington, D.C., United States.
2004 Sculptors Guild 2004-05, White Plains Library Plaza, White Plains, New York, United States.
2004 Works and Days, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk, Denmark, United States.
2003 Ein Rückblick als Stiftung, Galerie Schoeller, Düsseldorf, Germany. Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany.
2003 Interact/react, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States.
2002 Paarungen - Künstlerische Positionen im Dialog, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Hand Hollow Fellows, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States.
2001 Modern Sculptures, Gallery Kasahara, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 Art & Mathematics 2000, The Cooper Union, Humanities Gallery and Brooks Design Center, New York, New York, United States. traveled to Koussevitzky Art Center, Berkshire Community College, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States.
2000 Crossroads of American Sculpture, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States.
2000 Form and Movement in the 20th Century – Homage to Denise René, Tsukuba Museum of Art, Tsukuba, Japan.
2000 International Sculpture Festival: Contemporary American Sculpture, Casino Gardens, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
2000 Welded Sculpture of the 20th Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States.
1999 Celebrating Sculpture – Personal Visions and Universal Themes: Aspects of American Sculpture Since 1945, The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States.
1999 World Artists At The Millennium, The United Nations Visitors Lobby, United Nations, New York, New York, United States.
1998 Sculpture in the Garden 1998, The Renaissance Guild, The Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge, Massachusetts, United States.
1997 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York, United States.
1997 Schwebend - Heiter, Galerie Pels Leusden, Kampen/Sylt, Germany.
1996 Lumiere et Mouvement, Galerie Denise René, Paris, France.
1995 Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House: a Southeast Region Exhibition, The White House, Washington, D.C., United States.
1994