Lynda Benglis

Art Basel Online Viewing Room

Outdoor Sculptures & Commissions 

Thomas Dane Gallery presents work by artists who are challenging the meaning and emphasis of producing sculpture in the public realm.

Featuring works by: Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Alexandre da Cunha, Anya Gallaccio, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Phillip King and Jean-Luc Moulène. 

Preview: 17 June, 1pm CET through 19 June, 1pm CET

Public Days:  19-26 June 2020 

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Thomas Dane Gallery at Frieze LA 2020

Drawing(s)
Thomas Dane Gallery 
Stand: C08

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Walead Beshty, Lynda Benglis, Cecily Brown, Anya Gallaccio, Arturo Herrera, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Michael Landy, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Lari Pittman, Amy Sillman, Caragh Thuring and Akram Zaatari.

Preview: 13 February 2020
Public days: 14-16 February 2020

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NEON presents

Lynda Benglis: In the Realm of the Senses, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens

Curated by Dr. David Anfam
The exhibition is organised and commissioned by NEON

Devoted to Lynda Benglis’s prolific output in diverse media, this is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in a country that has played a major role in her life and vision: Greece. Spanning half a century from 1969 onwards, the select survey of thirty-six sculptures—amounting to a concise retrospective—will occupy the intimate spaces of the Stathatos Mansion, displaying a wide spectrum of Benglis' materials, imagery and ideas.

Private view: 21 November, 7pm 
Exhibition dates: 22 November 2019 - 15 March 2020

Museum of Cycladic Art | Stathatos Mansion

Vasilissis Sofias ave. & 1

Irodotou str.

Athens

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Lynda Benglis and Catherine Opie: Honoured, Hirshhorn Gala, New York 

For its fifth New York annual gala, the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden present 'Artist x Artist', celebrating 42 artists including Lynda Benglis and Catherine Opie. 

Monday 4 November 2019

6:30-11:00pm

David Geffen Hall

Lincoln Center Plaza

New York

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Lynda Benglis: Lynda Benglis in Conversation with Kimberly Drew, Stanford University 

For the final installment of Artists on the Future, Lynda Benglis will be in conversation with curator and writer, Kimberly Drew. 

Tuesday 22 October 2019 

6:00pm

Stanford University

CEMEX Auditorium

655 Knight Way

Stanford CA 94305 

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Lynda Benglis: Honoured, Annual Gala, Storm King Art Center, New York

Lynda Benglis will be honoued at the Annual Gala alongside Nancy A. Nasher at Storm King Art Center. 

Tuesday, 15 October, 6:30pm

Storm King Art Center

1 Museum Road
New Windsor, NY 12553

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Art Basel - Stand: R18

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, John Gerrard, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Barbara Kasten, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Caragh Thuring, Kelley Walker, and Akram Zaatari. 

Preview: 11-12 June 2019 
Public days: 13-16 June 2019

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Art Basel Hong Kong - Stand: 1C02

Featuring works by: Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Arturo Herrera, Phillip King, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Bob Law, Glenn Ligon, Jean-Luc Moulène, Xie Nanxing, Albert Oehlen and Akram Zaatari. 

Preview: 27-28 March 

Public days: 29-31 March 

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Lynda Benglis: Quartered Meteor, Tate Liverpool  

Tate Liverpool

Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Liverpool L3 4BB

This display opens 16 February 2019 

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Frieze LA - Stand: C8

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Bruce Conner, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Luisa Lambri, Michael Landy and Marisa Merz. 

Preview: 14 February 

Public days: 15-17 February 

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Lynda Benglis: Bird's Nest, The Harwood Museum of Art 

Caroline Lee and Bob Ellis Gallery 

The Harwood Museum of Art

238 Ledoux Street

Taos, New Mexico 

9 February - 12 May 2019 

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Lynda Benglis: Face Off, 2018

Unveiled on 27 May, 2018

Kistefos Museum, Norway

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Lynda Benglis: Defining Post-Minimalism, 1968-1990

Cheim & Read and Thomas Dane Gallery

Frieze Masters

Booth: F6

5 - 8 October, 2017

Lynda Benglis will also be in conversation with Eike Schmidt (Director of the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence and recently announced Director of Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna) as part of Frieze Masters Talks - a series of conversations between international curators and artists, curated by Tim Marlow. 

Frieze Masters Auditorium

5 October, 3pm

Free (Seats can be reserved from 11am on the day, at the auditorium)

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Lynda Benglis: On Screen

PRAXES, Bergen Assembly

Opening: 17 June, 8pm

Exhibiton dates: 17 June - 4 September, 2016

On Screen is an exhibition that presents three of Lynda Benglis' video pieces, made in the early 1970s. This is a rare opportunity to view works made during her four year intense experimentation period with moving image, after which she never returned to the medium. These films highlight Benglis' ongoing exploration of sexuality and identity play.

PRAXES features a year-long investigation of Lynda Benglis at the Bergen Assembly, with independent work constellations hosted by changing venues in Bergen from February to December, 2016.

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Bergen Assembly 2016

Bergen, Norway

1 September, 2015 - 1 October, 2016

LYNDA BENGLIS 

Primary Structures (Paula’s Props)   |   February 6–28, KODE, Grand opening February 6, 5pm

Glacier Burger, Ceramic works   |  April 9–May 1, Bergen School of Architecture

Slithering Green, Ceramics Conference  |  April 30, Bergen School of Architecture

Double Albatross, Paper works  |  April 30–May 15, Kunstgarasjen

Raptor, Pleats   |   June 17–September 4, Entrée

Adhesive Products, Pours  |   September 2–October 16, Bergen Kunsthall

Secrets   |   October 28–November 14, KODE

Is It Now?, Video works   |   December 6–9, Private homes

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Lynda Benglis

23 April - 30 October, 2016

Aspen Art Museum

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Dhaka Art Summit 2016

5 - 8 February

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh

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Painting 2.o:Expression in the Information Age

14 November, 2015 - 30 April, 2016

Museum Brandhorst

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Events

Lynda Benglis in Conversation with Griselda Pollock

Friday 6 February, 5-6pm £8 (£6)

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Our congratulations to Lynda Benglis on the occasion of her being honored at the 2014 New Museum Annual Spring Gala. 

New Museum Annual Spring Gala 

Cipriani, New York 

April 1, 2014

The Institute of Fine Arts is pleased to announce the September 2013 debut of The Great Hall Exhibitions, an exciting new initiative that will present two exhibitions per year showcasing prominent contemporary artists. Taking place in the fall and spring semesters, the expansive great hall of the Duke House, a historic landmark building, provides an impressive setting for displaying seminal contemporary art in the center of the IFA’s academic home and community.

The IFA’s inaugural Great Hall Exhibition will feature the work of American sculptor Lynda Benglis.

One of the foundational figures in twentieth-century feminist art, Lynda Benglis has been creating works that explore the ways in which the body, in both its physical and cultural extensions and constraints, interacts with the world around it. Benglis first received international attention in the late 1960s for a series of works in which she poured brightly colored bands of liquid polyurethane foam and pigmented latex directly on the gallery floor. With their unconventional palette and materials and their ambiguous identity between painting and sculpture, these works initiated Benglis’s career-long project of questioning and expanding the boundaries of artistic media, materials, and form. Her works’ radical aesthetic innovation coupled with their overt critique of dominant modes of artistic practice—from modernist painting to minimalist sculpture—suggest alternative ways of seeing and being unburdened from the repressive verities and traditions of the past. This motivating dichotomy of Benglis’s art is perhaps most evident in her consistent engagement with the ostensibly antagonistic processes of creative amalgamation and material degradation, figured through the works’ invocation of melting, dripping, and deformation. This ruin-like aspect of many of Benglis’s works reveals currents of classicism and romanticism running through her oeuvre, albeit deeply informed by feminist critiques of historical continuity and expressive individualism. As such the Institute of Fine Arts provides an ideal intellectual and architectural milieu in which to examine the complex interplay between innovation and tradition that motivates a great deal of Benglis’s art.  On view at the IFA will be four artworks, two of which are seminal “pours” from the late 1960s.

This inaugural Great Hall Exhibition is organized by Professor Robert Slifkin and PhD candidate Jeffrey Uslip.

Congratulations to Dr. Susan Richmond, of Georgia State's Welch School of Art & Design, upon the publication of her new book Lynda Benglis: Beyond Process (I.B. Tauris)! This book is the first major scholarly monograph on Benglis, a somewhat controversial artist who gained recognition the U.S. art scene in the late 20th century.

Benglis was the subject of a recent exhibition at the New Museum in New York City. You can check out some images from the exhibition here. The Library also has some exhibition catalogs that show Benglis' body of work.

Dr. Richmond will be discussing the book at an upcoming event at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center on May 30. Full event details can be found here.