solo shows
Exhibitions including solo works by Mel ZIEGLER are marked (MZ)
2020
- Mel Ziegler: Flag Exchange, Frist Art Museum, Texas, USA (MZ)
2019
- 1000 Portraits, Perrotin, New York, New York, USA (MZ)
2018
- 1000 Portraits, Bibliowicz Family Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (MZ)
2017
- A Living Thing: Flag Exchange, Federal Hall, New York, New York, USA (MZ)
- A Living Thing, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, USA (MZ)
2016
- A More Perfect Union, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA (MZ)
2015
- Sticks and Stones May Break my Bones, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France (MZ)
- Grandma’s cupboard, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA (MZ)
2014
- Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler, Galerie Perrotin, New York, New York, USA
- Remembering Loaded Text, Museum of Durham History, Durham, North Carolina, USA
2013
- An American Conversation, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Nebraska, USA (MZ)
- Taking Note, Permanent public art commission for City of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (MZ)
- 1000 Laughs, Trahern Art Gallery, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA (MZ)
2010
- Smell The Flowers, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, USA (MZ)
2008
- America Starts Here, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
2007
- America Starts Here, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- America Starts Here, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, USA
2006
- America Starts Here, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
2005
- America Starts Here, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- Breathe In, Breathe Out, Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas, USA (MZ)
2004
- Hold Your Breath, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA (MZ)
2003
- Stuffed, Secession, Vienna, Austria (MZ)
2001
- 1301 PE projects and editions, Santa Monica, California, USA Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
2000
- Drawings by Mel Ziegler, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York, USA (MZ)
1999
- Mel Ziegler, Artspace, San Antonio, Texas, USA (MZ)
1998
- Come and Go, Project commissioned for the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, USA (MZ)
1994
- Lisson Gallery, London, England
1993
- Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler, Metropolitan Galleries, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
- Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler, James Hockey Gallery, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, England
- Stir From Time to Time, Michael Klein Inc., New York, USA
1992
- Kate Ericson & Mel Ziegler, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France
- Anybody Can Make History, Michael Klein Inc., New York, USA
- Wall of Words, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
1991
- Peaks and Valleys, Capp Street Project, San Francisco, California, USA
- Exported Pallet, Cultural Fundição Progresso Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1990
- Feed and Seed and Weeds or Wild owers, Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens Fellowship Exhibition, The Picture Gallery at the Saint- Gaudens National Historic Site, Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
- The Wellesley Method, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
- Viaduct Gateway (subsequently renamed Viaduct Garden), a design team project for The Hidden City Revealed Masterplan, sponsored by the Committee for Public Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Proposals, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA
1989
- Loaded Text, Public installation, Durham Arts Council, Durham, North Carolina, USA
- College Ivory, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, California, USA
- Hollow Oak Our Palace Is, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Walls Have Tongues, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA
- The Lighting Specialists, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
1988
- Projects 14: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Investigations 24, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler: WORKS, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
- Dark On That Whiteness, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA
1987
- If Landscapes Were Sold: An Installation by Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas, USA
- Time The Destroyer Is Time The Preserver, Loughelton Gallery, New York, USA
- Half Slave, Half Free, artist-initiated project with private homeowner, Hawley Pennsylvania, USA
1986
- Stones Have Been Known To Move, White Columns, New York, USA
- If You Would See The Monument, Look Around, Central Park, New York, USA
- House Monument, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California and Costa Mesa, California, USA
1985
- Garden Sculpture, project sponsored by Artists Representing Environmental Arts (A.R.E.A.), Ward’s Island, New York, USA
- Traveling Stories, project for Downtown Seattle Transit Arts Program, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Unplanted Landscape, artist-initiated project with private homeowner, Bellport, New York, USA
group shows
2017
- In Around Beyond, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francico, California, USA
- Real Estate Dwelling on Contemporary Art, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA
2016
- Brain Multiples at 25, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
- New to the Cantor, Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, California, USA
2015
- Paris Holidays, Galerie Perrotin, New York, USA
2014
- Country living, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA
2013
- Happy Birthday Galerie Perrotin/25 ans, Tripostal, Lille, France
- The Symbolic Landscape: Pictures Beyond the Picturesque, UC Irvine University Art Galleries, Irvine, California, USA
2012
- Loughelton Revisited, Winkleman Gallery, New York, USA
2002
- Domestic: Artists Transforming the Everyday, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, USA
2001
- Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
- The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art + Science, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
- Museum as Subject, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2000
- Museum as Muse: Artists Re ect, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA
- Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA
1999
- Museum as Muse: Artists Re ect, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
- Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1998
- Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, USA
1997
- Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
1996
- The Bare Wall!..., Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
- Food for Thought, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA
1995
- WoodWorks, Michael Klein Inc., New York, USA
- KunstKabinett, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington, USA
- Mapping: A Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts, Co., and Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, USA
1994
- Tony Oursler, Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
- L’object: du magasin au musée, Villa du Parc à Annemasse, Geneva, Switzerland
- Debut: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- The Body As Measure, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA
- House Rules, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Die Orte de Kunst: Der Kunstbetrieb als Kunstwerk, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany
- Old Glory: the American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- An American Landscape, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
- Group Show, Ma Galerie, Paris, France
- Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
1993
- Money/Politics/Sex, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
- Living With Art, The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, USA
- Kurswechsel, Michael Klein Inc. at Transart Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany
- Integral, Kunstprojekte, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
- Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem, Netherlands
- Projet Unite, Firminy, France
- Myths and Legends as Told and Retold, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Naming of the Colors, White Columns, New York, USA
- Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shif er, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Nature, Memory, Strength, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
1992
- Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
- Translation, The Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
- anomie, Patent House, London, England
- Teamwork, Lintas Worldwide, New York, USA
1991
- Glass: Material in the Service of Meaning, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington, USA
- Preview, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
- From the Train, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
- Beyond The Frame: American Art, 1960-90, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
- Beyond The Frame: American Art, 1960-90, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
- Beyond The Frame: American Art, 1960-90, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
- Anninovanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
- Mud, or, How Can Social and Local Histories Be Used as Methods of Conservation?, Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro, Wisconsin, USA
- Places With a Past: New Site-Speci c Art in Charleston, Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Charleston, South Carolina, USA
1990
- 15 Years of RAW, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Team Spirit, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York, USA
- Team Spirit, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
- Team Spirit, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
- Team Spirit, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA
- Team Spirit, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
- Team Spirit, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa, USA
- Team Spirit, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- Preview, Michael Klein, Inc., New York, USA
- Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Notes on the Margin: A Framework in Focus, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA
- (A) Selection (of) Selections: An Exhibition of 1989 NYFA Fellows, Parsons School of Design, New York, USA
1989
- Contemporary Sculpture ‘89: Works by Fellowship Recipients of the New York Foundation for the Arts, University Art Museum, Albany, New York, USA
- Here and There - Travel Series Part Four, The Clocktower, New York, USA
- Ten Years, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
- Horn of Plenty: Sixteen Artists from NYC, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Monochrome, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
1988
- Collaboration, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Paci c Corporation, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Equation, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Group Exhibition, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
- Public Discourse, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Home Show, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Detail in the Cottage, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Democracy/Politics and Election, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
- La Nature des Choses, ‘Cinquieme Ateliers Internationaux des Pays de la Loire, Fondation Regional d’Art Contemporain, La Gerenne Lemot, Clisson, France
- Group Exhibition, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Temporary Public Art: Changes and Interventions, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
- CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, USA
1987
- CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Nature, Feature Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Private Visions/Public Spaces, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, USA
- Real Pictures, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA
- Of Ever-Ever Land i Speak, Stux Gallery, New York, USA The Errant Sign, Milford Gallery, New York, USA
- Walk Out To Winter, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, USA
1985
- Art and The Environment, organized by A.R.E.A., Lever House, New York, USA
- Highlights from the Kansas City Art Institute Alumni, Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
1984
- Selections from the artists File, Artists Space, New York, USA