Alan Saret

1966
Bachelor Architecture, Cornell University
1967
Postgraduate study in Fine Arts at Hunter College
1968
Mountains of Chance, Documents of Ruralism – one person exhibition at Bykert Gallery, NYC. First major showing of abstract sculpture using flexible material. Three Young Americans Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College
1969
Castelli Warehouse Show nine sculptors at Castelli Gallery
1970
Began an architecture/Architectural sculpture mode with Spring Street Flexible Truss Stair and Triple Cornice one person exhibitions of sculptures in the studio, visionary and representational gouaches at Bykert Gallery.
Alan Saret'sStudio Exhibition Artforum, March 1970 A Synthesis Artforum, May 1970
1971
Built The India Ramp for second Indian Triennale, New Delhi. Travel and study in India to 1974.
1974
One-person exhibition, Clocktower, NYC
Founded ALAEL, dedicated to exhibition of art in a sacred context at the artist's studio. Works included Bi-Column Temple and Water Arrangement and Apature with Sun Chart.
1975
The Installation for Man, interview, Avalanche The Ghosthouse of Alael at Artpark, writing Art-Rite Folding Glade acquired and exhibited at MoMA, NYC
Ghosthouse wire mesh architecture, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
1977
Alan Saret by Jonathan Crary, Arts Magazine One-person at And/Or and Seattle Art Museum
1978
Artist-in-residence and exhibition at UC Irvine
1979
One-person exhibitions at UC Berkeley and SITE, SF Stair, Water and Canopy Structures, Hayden Gallery, MIT
1980
Built hand-dug wells on land in Arkansas One-person exhibition at Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC
1981
One-person exhibition at Rudolf Zwirner Gallerie Koln Developments in recent Sculpture, Whitney Museum of Art
1982
Matter into Aether, one-person exhibition at Newport Harbor Art Museum
1983
Built The Arkansas Stair, megalithic fieldstone structure. One-person exhibition at Albright-Knox Art Gallery
1984
John Chamberlain/Alan Saret exhibition, UC Santa Barbara Arithmetic/Harmonic, a computer drawing project
1985
Proposals for Metro: Downtown Seattle Transit Project Working in Brooklyn The Brooklyn Museum
1986
Images of the Unknown P.S. 1, LIC, NY
Natural Forms and Forces MIT Gallery & Bank of Boston
Between Geometry and Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-1975
Spanish Ministry of Culture exhibition in Madrid
Drawings by Sculptors Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1987
Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum, NYC Computer and Art IBM Gallery and traveling
1988
Organic Abstraction Group show, Whitney Museum, NYC
1990
Retrospective Exhibition P.S.1, LIC, NY
1992
Home and Away floor mosaic at arrivals terminal, Greater Pittsburgh International Airport
1995
Sculptor's Drawings MoMA, NYC
1999
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2007
Gang Drawings at The Drawing Center, Drawing Papers 73, curated by Joao Ribas
2008
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual selected by Jay Sanders," White Columns, New York, NY
2009
Shaping Space James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Early Years (1970-1974), David Zwirner Gallery
2014

Cornell Johnson Museum group show, Forest Close sculpture exhibited

2018

MoMA, Thinking Machines DEREC.PAS

2019

ZMK | Center for Art and Media, April 5th, Karlsruhe DE, "Negative Space"

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