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Portrait of the artist © Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Portrait of the artist © Joseph Cornell Study Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum

The US-American artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1972), who lived a reclusive life in New York State, is known for his sculptural assemblages and experimental films, which secured him a place in the canon of 20th century art. As self-taught artist, Cornell created collages using photographs and found objects – ephemeral and everyday objects that he gathered together, classified and arranged according to his own personal criteria, which were then transformed into box assemblages. Cornell classified the objects he collected with the help of dossiers he kept on a broad variety of subjects, which served as inspiration for his work. Cornell was also inspired by contemporary artists including Max Ernst and Rene Magritte: as a result, his work has been associated with the Surrealist movement, though the artist avoided categorising his own style.

Cornell’s artistic career took off following his solo show at the Charles Eagan Gallery in 1949. His work was met with enthusiasm, and his box assemblages came to define his oeuvre. His work is represented in numerous private and public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm. Joseph Cornell died in 1972 in New York.

Publications

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
2018
From the Archives - Magical Illusion: A Selection of Joseph Cornell Materials from the Papers of Robert Motherwell

Dedalus Foundation, New York, USA
 

2018
Joseph Cornell: The Saint-Exupéry Dossier

The Morgan Library, New York, USA

2015-16
Joseph Cornell. Fernweh

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

2014-15
Joseph Cornell. Wanderlust

Royal Academy of Arts, London

2014
Joseph Cornell and Surrealism

The Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

2013
Joseph Cornell and Surrealism in New York

Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

2007
Navigating the Imagination

Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, USA

2007
Joseph Cornell

Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, USA

2006
Eleven Collages by Joseph Cornell

The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

2006
Andromeda Hotel - The Art of Joseph Cornell

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, USA

2006
Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

2003
Joseph Cornell - Collages

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2002
The Spirit of Joseph Cornell

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

2002
Joseph Cornell - Collages

L&M Arts, New York, USA

1997
Joseph Cornell: Private Constellations

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA

1996
Joseph Cornell: Box Construction and Collages

L&M Arts, New York, USA

1996
Joseph Cornell

Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

1993-94
A View to the Future: Recent Acquisitions

David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

1993
Joseph Cornell

Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan

1992
Joseph Cornell: 1903 - 1972

Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany

1989
Joseph Cornell - Box Constructions and Collages

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1989-90
Joseph Cornell - Collages

Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1989
Joseph Cornell

Galerie 1900 - 2000, Paris, France

1984
Joseph Cornell

Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain

1984
Joseph Cornell

Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

1982
Joseph Cornell

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

1981
Joseph Cornell

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

1981
Joseph Cornell

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

1980
Joseph Cornell

MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1979
Joseph Cornell / MATRIX 30

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA

1978
Joseph Cornell - Collages 1931 – 1972

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1977
Joseph Cornell – Scatola

Galleria L'Attico, Rome, Italy

1976
Joseph Cornell

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

1968
Joseph Cornell

The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

1967
Joseph Cornell

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1965
Joseph Cornell

Allan Stone Gallery, New York, USA

Group exhibitions
2021
Artist to Artist

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA
 

2020
Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona, États-Unis

2020
Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
 

2019
The Art of Collage and Assemblage

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
 

2018
Birds of a Feather: Joseph Cornell's Homage to Juan Gris

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
 

2017
Mad About Surrealism

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2017
Dioramas

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
 

2016
Das Abenteuer unserer Sammlung I

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
 

2013
Nouvelles Impressions de Raymond Roussel

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

2012
Frameworks

Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, USA

2012
Micro Mania

Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France

2011
The Unfinished Film

Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA

2011
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams

Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

2011
Fragments 1915 - 2011: Modern and Contemporary Collage

ACA Galleries, New York, USA

2011
Midnight Party

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

2011
One, Another

FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

2010
Welten in der Schachtel: Mary Bauermeister und die experimentelle Kunst der 1960er Jahre

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

2010
Art of Modern Japan

National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

2009
Museums in Miniature: Works by Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA

2008-09
Karsten Greve, 20 ans à Paris

Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France

2008
COMING OF AGE. Arte americana dal 1850 al 1950

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

2008
Selections from the Collection of Helga & Walther Lauffs

Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

2008
Lights, Camera, Action: Artists’ Films for the Cinema

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2008
Modernidad americana. Obras de la Corcoran Gallery of Art

Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain

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