Born 1944 in Herington, KS. Died 2005 in Shelter Island, NY.
EDUCATION
63-66 Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
66-67 University of Maine, Summer Theater Workshops
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Alan Shields, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2022 Alan Shields: Sandbar 12, Galerie Bernhard, Zürich, Switzerland
Alan Shields: Tweaking the Grid, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Alan Shields: Of His Time and Ahead Of His Time, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2020 Alan Shields: Worms with Bedroom Eyes, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
Alan Shields: Fan Dance, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2019 Alan Shields: Where Art Life Met Island Life, Shelter Island Historical Society, Shelter Island, NY
Alan Shields, Pace Prints, New York, NY
Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2018 Alan Shields: The International Teddy Bear-Prints from the 1970s, Galerie
Bernhard, Zürich, Switzerland (through 2019)
Alan Shields Rolling Orbit: Prints from the 1970s, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2017 Alan Shields: Common Threads, The Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
Alan Shields: A Different Kind of Painting, Beeler Gallery at Columbus College of Art & Design,
Columbus, OH
2016 Alan Shields: Space Sisters work from the 1970s, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
Alan Shields: Protracted Simplicity (1966-1985), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2015 Alan Shields Traveling Rug Salesman, Galerie Bernhard, Zurich, Switzerland
2014 Alan Shields: In Motion, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (through 2015)
Alan Shields: Maze/ Stephen Petronio Dance Company: Into the Maze, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2013 SITElab 3: Alan Shields:Maze/ Stephen Petronio Dance Company: Into the Maze, SITE Santa Fe,
Santa Fe, NM (through 2014)
Alan Shields, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, CA (through 2014)
Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Inventive Editions 1973-2001, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2012 Alan Shields: Maze, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Alan Shields: Something Goin’ On & On, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Canvas and Constructions 1973-2003, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2008 Dieu Donné Papermill, New York, NY
2007 Alan Shields (1944-2005): Selections from the Jones Road Print Shop, 1971-1978,
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
Alan Shields: Stirring Up the Waters, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1999 Alan Shields: A Survey, The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Nicholas Davies and Company, New York, NY
1998 Alan Shields: Images in Paper, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphic Archive
Collection, Fukushima, Japan
1997 Wainscott Gallery, Wainscott, NY
1996 Art Powerhouse, Cleveland, OH
Ann Harper Gallery, Amagansett, NY
Marc Miller Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1995 Ann Harper Gallery, Amagansett, NY
1994 Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Works on Canvas and Paper, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Alan Shields: Big and In Between, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
Charting New Paths, Lakeside Gallery, Richard College, Dallas, TX
1987 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1986 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Arts, Cleveland, OH
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1985 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
1983 Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
New Works on Paper, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1968-1983: The Work of Alan Shields, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; traveled to
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gable, FL; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
1982 The Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL Johnson Gallery of Middlebury College,
Middlebury, VT
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Alan Shields: Dimensions of a Cherrystone, Fine Arts Center, State University of New York,
Stony Brook, NY
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1981 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Alan Shields: Painting and Prints, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1980 Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Gimpel-Hanover Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie André Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Williams College Museum of Art, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
1978 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Galerie Munro, Hamburg, Germany
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Barbara Okun Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
1977 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
1976 Musée d’Art et Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1975 Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Dootson-Calderhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
E.G. Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1974 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL Phoenix Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1973 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
Madison Arts Center, Madison, CT
Galerie Aronwitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
1972 Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. NY
1971 The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
1970 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1969 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Convergence: Artists of Long Island’s East End, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
23-24 imaginary i, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2023 Tales of Brave Ulysses, Van Doren Waxter & Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, Rockford Art Museum, Riverfront Museum Park, Rockford, IL
Ecstatic: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Artists Choose Parrish, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
The Feminine in Abstract Painting, Milton Resnick and Pat Passloff Foundation, New York, NY
The Holographic Principle, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Abdolreza Aminlari | Polly Apfelbaum | Marilyn Lerner | Fanny Sanin | Alan Shields, Van Doren Waxter,
New York, NY
Pizza, Kate Werble Gallery, New York
2022 Threading the Needle, The Church, Sag Harbor, NY
Once On This Island, Shelter Island Historical Society, Shelter Island, NY Basel Social Club,
Basel, Switzerland
Stitched, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2021 Sonia Louise Davis Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts,
at Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
On and Off the Grid: paintings, works on paper & mixed media 1950 – 2021, The
Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2020 Breaking Boundaries: The Vision of Jaqueline B. Holmes, Museum of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
2019 Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950-2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (through 2022)
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, Museum
of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; traveling to Hessel
Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY (exhibition through 2020)
Chroma, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY (through 2020)
2018 Pattern, Decoration, & Crime, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (through 2019)
The Fabricators, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (through 2019)
Ben Estes, Alan Shields, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Outliners and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art (curated by Lynne Cooke), Washington, DC;
Traveled to High Museum of Art, Atlanta, June 24– September 30, 2018; Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, November 18, 2018– March 18, 2019
Experiments in Form: Sam Gilliam, Alan Shields, Frank Stella, Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
Paper/Print: American Hand Papermaking, 1960s to Today, International Print Center New York, NY
Alan Shields Project, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
2017 The Objectness of Paper, Albert Merola Gallery (curated by Richard Tinkler), Provincetown, MA
Lynda Benglis, Alan Shields, Peter Young, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2014 The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art,
curated by Laura Hoptman, New York, NY (through 2015)
Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Moira Dryer, Elizabeth Murray, Alan Shields, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition Part II, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
Summer Group Exhibition: Part I, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY
Thread Lines, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Fiber: Sculpture 1969-present, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA; Traveled to: Wexner Center for
the Arts, Columbus, OH; Des Moines Art Center,IA; and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2013 39greatjones, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland
2012 The Spirit Level, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
2011 Old Legs, New Shadow, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
Jennifer Bartlett, Mel Kendrick, Alan Shields, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2008 Eat the Document, The Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Alan Shields (1944-2005): Prints from the Jones Road Print Shop, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2006 High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, Independent Curators International, New York, NY
2005 Ruth Lingen: Collaborative Prints and Books, Donald Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2004 Print Matters: The Kenneth Tyler Gift, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, UK
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (catalogue)
1995 Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960 – 1990, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery,
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, curated by David Mickenberg; traveled to The Jane Voorhees
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ; The Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Re:Fab: Painting Abstracted, Fabricated, and Revised, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, curated by
Shirley Kaneda and Rochelle Feinstein; traveled to Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community
College, Miami, FL; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1994 Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration and Experimentation, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Wearable Art, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
1993 25 Years: A Retrospective, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
20th Internation Biennial of Graphic Art, International Center of Graphic Art, Ljubijana, Slovenia
25 Years, Part II, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Innovation in Collaborative Printmaking: Kenneth Tyler, 1963 – 1992, Yokohame Museum of Art, Yokohume,
Japan; traveled to Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art, Wakayama, Japan;
The Tokushima Modern Art Museum; and Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art
1990 Concept Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70s, Nahan Contemporary, New York, NY (catalogue)
1989 First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN;
traveled to Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD;
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
1988 The Cutting Edge: New Directions in Handmade Paper, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI;
traveled to Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Shreveport Art Guild, Meadows Museum
of Art, Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, LA; Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI;
Bergstrom Mahler Museum, Meehah, WI
1987 Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (through Sept. 1988)
Color Pure and Simple, Stamford Museum, Stamford, CT
1986 Connecticut Collects: American Art Since 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art/Fairfield County,
Stamford, CT
Made in India, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
70s Into 80s: Printmaking Now, The Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Art on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Works from the Paula Cooper Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Made in India, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (through Jan. 1986)
Paperworks, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Geometric Abstractions: A Decade of Selections, 1975 – 1985, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
A New Beginning: 1968 – 1978, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
First Shows – New Dialogues, Dracos Art Center, Athens, Greece
The Maximal Implication of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Milton and Sally Avery Center for
the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1984 About Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and Michael Torf, Williams College
Art Museum, Williamstown, MA
Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Viewpoint ’84: Out of Square, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Eight Artists from Paula Cooper Gallery, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu, Tokyo, Japan
1983 Paper as Image, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, United Kingdom; traveled to Sunderland Arts Centre;
Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; University Gallery, Bangor; Midland Group, Nottingham; Southampton
Art Gallery; Gardner Centre; Brighton; Crafts Council, London
The Permanent Collection: Highlights and Recent Acquisitions, Grey Art Gallery, New York University,
New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Jones Road Print Shop and Stable: 1971 – 1981, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1982 Handmade Paper, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Americans: Collage 1950 – 1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Recent American Woodcuts, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Paper: The Continuous Thread, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Cloth Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Block Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1981 Variants: Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Contemporary Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
New Directions in Drawing: 1950 – 1980, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Handmade Paper: Prints and Unique Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY;
traveled to General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
Druckgraphik: Wandlungen eines Mediums seit 1945, Kupferstichkabinnett, Berlin; traveled to
Staatliche Museen, West Berlin, Germany
U.S. Art Now, Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, Sweden; traveled to Goteborgs Kunstmuseum,
Gothenburg, Germany
Fabric Into Art, State University of New York Alfred, Alfred, NY; traveled to SUNY Brockport, Brockport, NY;
SUNY Albany, Albany, NY
1980 Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, United States Pavilion, 39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Art of the 70s: Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
Paula Cooper at Yvon Lambert, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Perceiving Modern Sculpture: Selections for the Sighted and Non-Sighted, Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York, NY
The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fabrications, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL
1979 Alan Shields/Billy Al Bensingston, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales: Accroage 2, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Soft Sculpture – Fabric Painting I, Kunshaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
1979 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings about Drawing: New Directions in the Medium, 1968 -1978, Ackland Memorial Art Center,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
New York Now, Pheonix Art Museum, Pheonix, AZ
Painting in Environment, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
20th Century Recent Acquisitions, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Masks Tents Vessels Talismans, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Art From Paper, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Recent Drawings by Younger Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Art for Corporations,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Paintings of the 1970s, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; traveled to Newport Harbor
Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Cincinnati Art Museum,
Cincinnati, OH; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Disseminazione, Musei Civici, Villa Mirabello, Varese, Italy
Point, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Special Project (Winter 1978), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1977 Drawings of the 70s, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
American Art in Belgium, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Paper Forms/Handmade Paper Projects, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, MA
Drawing and Collage, The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
American Postwar Painting from the Guggenheim Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY
Prints of the Seventies, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Master Drawings and Prints, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
American Drawing 1927 – 77, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Art I, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Patterning and Decorating, The Museum of the American Federation for the Arts, Miami, FL
FIAC 77, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Spectrum 1977, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Recent Works on Paper by American Artists, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1976 Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
International Tendencies, 1972 – 76, American Pavilion, 37th Biennale, Venice, Italy
30 Years of American Printmaking, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
American Art Since 1945 from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Art in Atlanta Collections, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Handmade Paper Prints and Unique Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Print Making, New Forms, Whitney Museum of American Art/Downtown Branch, New York, NY
1975 Image Color and Form: Recent Painting by Eleven Americans, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
New Directions in Printmaking, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
New Editions ‘74/’75, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY SoHo Scene, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Drawings, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Selections from the Collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, The Clocktower, The Institute of Art and Urban
Resources, New York, NY
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the 60’s and 70’s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; traveled to The Contemporary Art
Center, Cincinnati, OH
Primitive Presence in the 70’s, Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Museum Collection: Recent American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Artists Make Toys, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1974 Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; traveled to The Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Printed, Cut Folded, and Torn, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tenth Anniversary, Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
Artists Make Toys, The Clocktower, New York, NY
1973 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
8e Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
New American Graphic Art, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Soft As Art, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (catalogue)
On Paper, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
American Art 1948 – 73, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
New York Avant-Garde 74, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montréal, Canada
Contemporary American Watercolors, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1972 Unique/Multiples: Scuplture/Photos, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (through Jan. 1973)
Grids, The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
12 Statements Beyond the 60s, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (catalogue)
10 From New York, Festival of Art, Perth, Australia
American Art Since 1945, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Documenta V, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
Painting and Sculpture 1972, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Eight New York Painters, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
70th Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
New American Abstract Painting, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
1971 Recent Acquisitions IX, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (through Jan. 1972)
Depth and Presence, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Prints and Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Highlights of the Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Works on Paper: 31st Annual Exhibition of the Society for Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Young American Artists, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970 Group Exhibition and Small Works, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
30th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Two Generations of Color Painting, The Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA
Popular Mechanics in printmaking, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Young American Artists, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Paperworks, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New York Regional Drawing Exhibition, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
New Work: New York, American Federation of Arts, New York, NY
1969 New Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Drawings and Watercolors of the Museum Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Soft Art, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
AWARDS
1973 Guggenheim Fellowship
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
American University Museum, Washington DC
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Darien Library, Darien, CT
Ewing Museum, Illinois State University, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Staatliche Museum, Berlin, Germany
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ
Tate Britain, London, UK
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2016 Camhi, Leslie, “ People Are Talking About,” Vogue, October.
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Travers, Andrew, “Alan Shields’ art in motion at the Aspen Art Museum, The Aspen Times, July 7.
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Rosenberg, Karen, “All Nooks, Crannies, Bedrooms and Trees are Backdrops for Art,”
The New York Times, August 7.
Kuspit, Donald, “Alan Shields / Greenberg Van Doren Gallery,” Artforum, September, Vol. 50,
No. 1, p. 345-55 (illus.).
MacAdam, Barbara, “Alan Shields,” ARTnews, September, p. 114 (illus.).
2010 “Gifts of Art: Contemporary Prints,” Preview Newsletter, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, p. 10.
Landes, Jennifer, “Reimagining Art,” The East Hampton Star, June 17, p. C1, C4.
D’Haene, Elise, “The Art Scene,” The East Hampton Star, May 27.
2008 O’Neill-Butler, Lauren, “Eat the Document,” Time Out New York, February.
“Eat the Document,” The New Yorker, February 25, 2008.
2007 Budick, Ariella, “A Strong Hand with a Soft Touch,” Newsday, October 28, p. C12-13.
Gemmochio, Benjamin, “Deconstruction Zone,” The New York Times, November 11.
Rubinstein, Raphael, “Annals of Painting: It’s Not Made By Great Men,” Art in America,
September, p. 60-66 (illus.).
Goleas, Janet, “Larger Than Life: Alan Shields Tore Painting Out of 2D,” The East Hampton Star,
October 24.
2006 Carrier, David, “High Times, Hard Time,” artUS, Vol. 16, January/February, p. 49.
2002 Ruyak, Jacqueline, “Dieu Donné: Paper Art Exhibition Traveling,” FiberARTS, Vol. 29, No. 3.
2001 Brody, Jacqueline, “Paper Today and Forever,” Dieu Donné Quarterly Newsletter, April/May/June, p. 6-7 (illus.).
Dannatt, Adrian, “Choice of New York contemporary and modern galleries,” The Art Newspaper, October.
Goodman, Jonathan, “Alan Shields at Paula Cooper and Nicholas Davies,” Art in America,
January, p. 116-117 (illus.).
Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill, New York: Dieu Donné Papermill,
p. 17, 33, 38, 40-41, 44-45 (illus.).
2000 Dannatt, Adrian, “Good things come in threes,” The Art Newspaper, October, p. 78.
Johnson, Ken, “Luscious,” The New York Times, January 14.
Johnson, Ken, “Alan Shields,” The New York Times, September 22, p. E34.
“Alan Shields,” New York, October 2, p. 114 (illus.).
Wellish, Marjorie, “Alan Shields,” ARTnews, December, p. 156 (illus.).
Art on Paper, December 2000 edition, “Alan Shields:Initimate Details/New Paper”, Dieu Donné Papermill
2000, p. 30 “Alan Shields: Drawings and Constructions” running concurrently at Paula Cooper
2000, p. 156
1999 Cotter, Holland, “Alan Shields: The Worm Re-Turns (to the Big City),” The New York Times,
February 19, p. E37.
Morgan, Robert C., “Alan Shields,” Review, February 15, p. 30-31, 35.
Brown, Glen R., “Alan Shields: The Beach Museum of Art Kansas State University,” New Art Examiner,
Vol. 26, No. 10, July/August.
Griffin, Tim, “Alan Shields at Nicholas Davies,” Art in America, October.
1998 Wolberg Weiss, Marion, “Art Commentary,” Dan’s Papers, April 17, p. 40.
Cotter, Holland, “A Tour Through Chelsea, The New York Center for Gravity,” The New York Times,
May 15, p. E29, E33.
Braff, Phyllis, “Paper-Loving Culture Welcomes a Master’s Work,” The New York Times (Long Island Edition),
December 13.
“The Joe Wilfer Show: Collaborations in Paper and Printmaking,” Published by Plattsburgh Art Museum,
State University of New York, Feb. 14 to March 30, 1998, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of
Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 21, 1998 to Jan. 17, 1999, p. 9
1997 “New Grounds: Prints and Multiples,” (C) 1997 University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum,
Jan. 11 – March 8, 1997, Curator: Hank Hine and Margaret Miller, p. 34
1995 Wright, Jeff, “Alan Shields,” Cover, March, p. 48.
Feinstein, Rochelle, “Re:(Manufacturing) Fab,” in Re: Fab. Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised,
Tampa: Contemporary Art Museum, p. 11-15 (illus.).
1994 “Alan Shields, Deep Inner Self Series...,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, May/June, p. 69.
1993 Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, June 11, p. C17.
1992 Brown, Elizabeth A., “The Living Object,” The Art Collection of Ellen H. Johnson, Catalogue
no. 68, p. 115 (illus.).
Cotter, Holland, “Art in Review: Then and Now,” The New York Times, May 29, Section C, p. 24.
1991 “Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, February 25, p. 16.
Harrison, Helen A., “Wide-Ranging Drawing Styles,” The New York Times, September 1, p. 14.
“Aspects of Collage,” Guild Hall Museum, 158 Main St., East Hampton, NY, May 5 through June 9, 1991
1990 “Concept Décoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of 70s,” Nahan Contemporary, 380 West Broadway, New York, NY,
Jan. 5 through Jan. 27, 1990, p. 26
1989 David, Esther, “Eye-Catching Exhibition,” The Times of India, April 4, p. 12. 1988
Welish, Marjorie, “Alan Shields,” ARTnews, April, p. 144 (illus.).
Lettie, Tamara, “Alan Shields,” A Journal of Art, July, p. 13 (illus.).
“The Cutting Edge: New Directions in Handmade Paper,” Published by Kalamazoo Institute of Arts,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, March 18 – May 1, 1988, Muskegon Museum
of Art, Muskegon, Michigan, May 14 – June 16, 1988, The Shreveport Art Guild, Meadows Museum
of Art Centenary College of Louisiana, Sept. 1 – Oct. 10, 1988, The Midland Center for the Arts,
Jan. 21 – Feb. 26, 1989.
1987 Braff, Phyllis, “Guild Hall Features New Faces,” The New York Times, July 26, p. 22.
Silvka, Rose, “From the Studio,” The East Hampton Star, July 23.
Raynor, Vivien, “The First Rule is to Break the Rules,” The New York Times, October 11.
1986 “On Location: Alan Shields’ Work on Paper,” Artforum, March, p. 4-5 (illus.).
“Prints and Photographs Published,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. 17, No. 1,
March/April, p. 18, 23 (illus.).
Cotter, Holland, “Alan Shields,” Arts Magazine, April, p. 142-143 (illus.).
Cohen, Ronny, “Alan Shields at Paula Cooper,” ARTnews, May, p. 127-128 (illus.).
“Alan Shields Print Retrospective,” Dialogue, May/June, p. 62 (illus.).
Walker, Barry,” Public and Private: American Prints Today,” 1986, The 24th National Print Exhibition, Published
by The Brooklyn Museum, printed by Thorner-Sidney Press, Inc., Buffalo, NY. The Brooklyn Museum,
New York/Feb. 7 – May 6, 1986, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan/July 28 – Sept. 7, 1986,
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island/Sept. 29 – Nov. 9, 1986, Museum of Art,
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania/Dec. 1, 1986 – Jan. 11, 1987, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, Minnesota/ Feb. 1 – March 22, 1987, p. 116
“Pintar con Papel: Círculo de Bellas Artes,” Círculo de Bellas Artes, 1986, Exhibition dates: Jan. 23 –
March 14, 1986, p. 152-153
1985 “Paperworks; Paperworks from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center”, (C) 1985 Walker Art Center, Cover,
Santa’s Collar, 1981, Foreword by Amy Reigle Newland. T.V Rerun-C, 1978, Guardian Mole, 1978,
Box Sweet Jane’s Egg Triumvirate – Moose Set, 1978, Treasure route II, 1980, Rickshaw Radar,
1980, Soft Action, 1980, Alice in Grayland, 1980, Santa’s Collar, 1981, The Castle Window Set,
1981-Jason’s Rabbit Holler with Flying Rabbits,Fire Escape Plan, Chicago Tenement, Ahmadabad
Silk, Plastic Bucket, Fran Tarkenton’s Tie, Kite Riddle, Fences and Gates, 1984 - Gas-Up,
Bull-Pen, Milan-Fog, Odd-Job
Cohen, Ronny, “The Medium Isn’t the Message,” ARTnews, October, p. 74-81 (illus.).
“Ten,” (C) 1985, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Sept. 14 – Oct. 25, 1985,
Curator: Betsy Siersma, p. 24
1984 Avgikos, Jan, “Alan Shields,” Art Papers, May/June, p. 2 (illus.).
“Prints and Photographs Published,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. 15, No. 3, July/August, p. 107.
Hoffman, Donald, “Multiple Viewpoints: Painter Alan Shields Seeks Clarity of Vision Through Abstraction,”
Kansas City Star, July 15, (illus.).
Ferruzza, Charles, “The Cut and Paint World of Alan Shields,” The Sun Newspapers, July 25, (illus.).
Hoffman, Donald, “The ‘Avant-Garde’ Isn’t, Expert Says,” Kansas City Star, August 5.
“Daniel Zimmerman un Alan Shields in Zurich,” Zurichsee Zeitung, October 22.
“Schweizer und Amerikaner,” Neue Zurcher Zeitung, October 23.
“Zwischen den Fronten,” Die Weltwoche (Switzerland), November 8, p. 56 (illus.).
“Komplexe Einfachfeit,” Zurich News, November 10-16, p. 10.
Noland, Gary, “The Art of the 70’s,” Forum, November, p. 10-11 (illus.).
“Of, On or About Paper – III: USA Today” (Assuming exhibition held at USA Today/Gannett corporate
headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.),October 1983 – April 1984
“New American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener,” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,
College of Fine Arts, The University of Texas, Austin. Jan. 12 – March 5, 1984,
Curator: Andrea S. Norris
1983 Saint-Gilles, Amaury, “Art: People and Places,” Mainichi Daily News (Japan), April 9, (illus.).
Tully, Judd, “Paper Chase,” Portfolio, May/June, p. 75-85 (illus.).
Glueck, Grace, “Review: Alan Shields,” The New York Times, June 24, p. C22.
Hughes, Robert, “Revelations of Summertime,” Time, July 11, p. 62-63.
Cohen, Ronny, “Paper Routes,” ARTnews, October, p. 79-85 (illus.).
Blanchard, Cayce, “Art in the Material World,” Memphis, Vol. 8, No. 9, p. 82-83 (illus.).
“Works of Paper,” (Exhibition presumably held at Sioux City Art Center.) Jan. 16 – March 7, 1983
Foreword by Marilyn Laufer
1982 Avgikos, Jan, “Interview: Alan Shields,” Art Papers, May/June, p. 1-4 (illus.).
McCann, David, “Alan Shields’ Blessing of the Fleet,” Art Papers, May/June, p.4 (illus.).
LaBadie, Donald, “Alan Shields ‘perspective’ in the work for Brooks,” Commercial Appeal (Memphis), June 27.
Kalil, Susie, “American: The Collage,” The Houston Post, July 18.
In Our Time 1948-1982, Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum.
Webb, Sheila, “Paper: The Continuous Thread,” Published by The Cleveland Museum of Art with Indiana
University Press, Exhibition held at The Cleveland Museum of Art, Aug. 31 - Oct. 24, 1982, p. 38-39
“New American Graphics 2: An Exhibition of Contemporary Prints,” (C) 1982, Madison Art Center, Madison,
Wisconsin, March 13 – April 25, 1982, p. 48 B/W photo
1981 “Prints and Photographs Published,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, September/October, p. 113.
Fox, Catherine, “Pack Rat Artist in Expert at Innovation,” The Atlanta Constitution, October 11, p. E2.
Artist and Printer: Six American Print Studios, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota., Dec. 7, 1980
through Jan. 18, 1981, p. 12, text, P. 30
Morris, Robert, “American Quartet,” Art in America, December, p. 93-105.
“Twenty-Second National Print Exhibition,” (C) 1981 The Brooklyn Museum, Oct. 3, 1981 toFeb. 3, 1982,
Curator: Gene Baro, p. 79
1980 “Review: Alan Shields,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, July/August, p. 10 (illus).
Wooster, Ann-Sargent, “Alan Shields at Paula Cooper,” Art in America, October p. 131-132 (illus.).
Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman, “Aspects of the 70’s: Painterly Abstractions,” Exhibition was held at Brockton Art
Museum-Fuller Memorial, Brockton, Mass. From May 3 through Aug. 24, 1980. p. 2, 16
1979 “Prints and Photographs Published,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, March/April, p. 21.
Henry, Gerrit, “Paper in Transition,” Print Collector’s Newsletter, March/April, p. 83-86.
Rickey, Carrie, “Art of Whole Cloth,” Art in America, November, p. 72-83.
King, Mary, “New Gallery’s Show: Refreshing Variety,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, December 27.
“Ateliers Aujourd’hui: Euvres contemporaines des collections nationales Accrochage II”, Musée National d`Art
Moderne: Centre Georges Pompidou, Feb. 7 through April 2, 1979.
“The Art Collection of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson”, 1979-80
1978 Albrecht, Herbert, “Viel Selbstgeschopftes Papier,” Die Welt, February 23.
Mecklenburg, Karin, “Kunst: Alan Shields,” Szene in Hamburg, February.
Winter, Peter, “Zwischen Klee und Quilts,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 28.
Casimoro, Xavier de Mendonca, “Alan Shields, Estimulando os Sentidos,” Jornal da Tarde
(Sao Paulo), March 29.
de Aquino, Flavio, “Do Requinte ao Brutalismo,” Manchete (Rio de Janeiro), April 8, p. 100.
Russell, John, “Works at Paula Cooper Gallery,” The New York Times, June 2.
Ashbery, John, “Emblazoned Shields,” New York, June 12, p. 97-99. 1977
Loring, John, “American Prints from Fuses to Fizzles,” Art in America, January/February, p. 31-34.
“Prints and Photographs Published,” The Print Collector’s Newsletter, No. 6, January/February, p. 182.
Heller, Jules, “Paper-Making,” 1978 Watson-Guptil Publications, Chapt. 8, p. 119
“American Painting of the 1970s,” Published for Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, copyright The
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1978, p. 57
1977 “Recent Works on Paper by American Artists,” Copyright 1977 by Recent Works on Paper Seminar, University
Wisconsin-Madison, The Madison Art Center from Dec. 4, 1977 to Jan. 15, 1978
1976 Ratcliff, Carter, “New York Letter,” Art International, April/May, p. 54.
Rubinfien, Leo, “Reviews,” Artforum, May, p. 68-69.
Lubell, Ellen, “Arts Reviews,” Arts Magazine, May, p. 27.
Glueck, Grace, “Bring Back the Biennale,” The New York Times, May 2.
Bourdon, David, “Pulp Artists’ Papers, MoMA,” The Village Voice, August 23.
“75 76 77 Painting 75 76 77,” (C) 1976 Sarah Lawrence College, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Bronxville,
New York Feb. 19 – March 10, April 2 – 20, 1977, The American Foundation for the Arts, Miami,
Florida / April – July, 1977, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio / August – Sept., 1977
1975 Heinemann, Susan, “Reviews,” Artforum, January, p. 65.
Pindell, Howardena, “Tales of Brave Ulysses: Alan Shields interviewed by Howardena Pindell,” The Print
Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 6, January/February, p. 137-143.
Robinson, Walter, “Review of Exhibitions: Alan Shields at Paula Cooper,” Art in America, March/April, p. 86-87.
Abadie, Daniel, “Alan Shields et l’Envers de l’Oeil,” Art Press, 20, September/October, p. 20-21 (illus.).
Goldin, Amy, “Patterns, Grids and Painting,” Artforum, Vol. 14, No. 1, September, p. 53 (illus.).
“American Art Since 1945: From the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art,” (C)1975 by The Museum of
Modern Art. Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. /Oct. 20 – Nov. 30, 1975, Toledo Museum of
Art, Toledo, Ohio / Jan. 10 – Feb. 22, 1976, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado / March 22 –
May 2, 1976, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, Calif. / May 31 – July 11, 1976, Dallas
Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas / Aug. 19 – Oct. 3, 9176, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska /
Oct. 25 – Dec. 5, 1976, Greenville County Museum, Greenville, S.C. / Jan. 8 – Feb. 20, 1977, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia / March 14 – April 17, 1977, p. 77.
Ratcliff, Carter, “On Contemporary Primitivism,” Artforum, November, p. 57- 65.
1974 The Print Collector’s Newsletter, Vol. 5, No. 2, May/June, p. 42. Kelder, Diane, “New Editions,” ARTnews,
September, p. 52.
Russell, John, “Constructions by Alan Shields at Paula Cooper Gallery,” The New York Times, October 26.
Bourdon, David, “Crags & Critters, Ragbag Panache, & Photomutations,” The Village Voice,
October 31, p. 58-59.
Hess, Thomas B., “The Rules of the Game,” New York, November 4, p. 92.
Lubell, Ellen, “Arts Reviews,” Arts Magazine, November, p. 9.
Lubell, Ellen, “Arts Reviews,” Arts Magazine, December, p. 11.
1973 Welish, Marjorie, “New York Letter,” Art International, January, p. 74-75.
Freed, Eleanor, “The Ugly and the Beautiful,” The Houston Post, May 6.
Kelder, Diane, “Alan Shields’ Things with Printmaking Techniques,” Art in America, May/June, p. 86-88.
Collins, James, “Reviews,” Artforum, June, p. 89-91.
Stitelman, Paul, “Suggesting a Transference: Alan Shields, Harmony Hammond, Rosemayer Mayer, Jud
Fine,” Arts Magazine, September/October, p. 28-32.
“Contemporary American Art: 1973 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
Jan. 10 through March 18, 1973, p. 16, artist/work listing, Hey Mom, How Do I get Down, or,
Who’s that Dude with the Stripe Up His Ass
1972 Hafif, Marcia, “A Fusion of Real and Pictorial Space,” Arts Magazine, March, p. 33-35.
Frankenstein, Alfred, “Good Art from New York,” San Francisco Chronicle, May 25.
Borden, Lizzie, “Reviews,” Artforum, December.
“Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, December.
Levin, Kim, “In the Galleries,” Arts Magazine, December.
“Seventieth American Exhibition: The Art Institute of Chicago,” June 24 through Aug. 20, 1972, p. 42
1971 Ratcliff, Carter, “New York Letter,” Art International, January, p. 26.
Siegel, Jeanne, “Reviews and Previews,” ARTnews, January, p. 26.
Wasserman, Emily, “A Talk With Alan Shields,” Artforum, Vol. 9, No. 6, February, p. 58-64.
Gleeson, James, “A New Kind of Establishment,” The Sun (Sydney, Australia), July 28.
Thomas, Daniel, “Plugged Into the Big World,” The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney, Australia), August 1.
Elwyn, Lynn, “Out of the Boondocks,” The Sydney Bulletin (Sydney, Australia), August 7.
Smith, Terry, “Lyrical Abstraction,” The Sunday Australian (Sydney, Australia), August 8.
1970 Ratcliff, Carter, “The New Informalists: Young New York Painters,” ARTnews, Vol. 68, No. 10, February.
Glueck, Grace, “Art Notes,” The New York Times, November 28.
Glueck, Grace, “From Master to Modular/New York Gallery Notes,” Art in America,
November/December, p. 169.
“American Painting of the 1970s,” Published for Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, copyright The
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1978, p. 57
1969 Pomeroy, Ralph, Art and Artists, Vol. 4, No. 2, May, p. 28.
Wasserman, Emily, “New York,” Artforum, May, p. 64-65.
Kertess, Klaus, “Reviews and Previews,”ARTnews, Vol. 68, No. 7, November.
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery,” Art International, November, p. 71.
Pincus-Witten, Robert, “New York,” Artforum, December, p. 69.
SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2018 Longwell, Alicia G., Alan Shields Common Threads, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2016 Brienza, Jill, Halbreich, Kathy, Ratcliff, Carter, Shields, Jason Weslek, Victoria and Zuckerman,
Heidi, Protracted Simplicity (1966-1985), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2011 Nickas, Bob, Alan Shields: Something Goin’ On & On, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Brienza, Jill, Alan Shields: A Survey, The Beach Museum of Art, Kansas State University,
Manhattan, KS
1998 Alan Shields: Images in Paper, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive
Collection, Fukushima, Japan
1986 Cohen, Ronny, Alan Shields: Print Retrospective, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1983 Emont-Scott, Deborah, Alan Shields, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Chiba, Shigeo, Alan Shields, Gallery Ueda, Tokyo, Japan
1982 Alan Shields: Dimensions of a Cherrystone, Fine Arts Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook,
Stony Book, NY
1977 Sims, Patterson, Alan Shields, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Alan Shields, Musée d’Art Moderne de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
1976 alan shields, Musée d’art et d’industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
1973 Ratcliff, Carter, Alan Shields, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Alan Shields, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1972 Rezzori, Gregor von, Alan Shields: Artist, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2020 Doherty, Caitlín, Haskell, Preston, Drake, Elizabeth Mullikin, Pickney, Connell
Mullikin, Rouse, Ylva, Dickler, Shana, Breaking Boundaries: The Vision
of Jaqueline B. Holmes, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL p. 50 (illus).
2018 Cooke, Lynn, Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C. p. 261(illus.).
2015 Adamson, Glenn, Parrish, Sarah, Porter, Jenelle, and Smith, T’ai Fiber:
Sculpture 1960-Presnt, ICA Boston, MA, p. 228-229 (illus.).
2008 The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States, The
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C., p. 118 (illus.). 2006
Siegel, Katy, High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975,
Independent Curators International/D.A.P., New York, NY
2005 Prints and Books: Artist Collaborations with Printmaker Ruth Lingen, Donald
Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
2004 Print Matters: The Kenneth Tyler Gift, Tate Modern and Tate Liverpool, Tate
Publishing, London, United Kingdom
Longwell, Alicia G., North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, The Parrish Art
Museum, Southampton, NY
1995 Hansen, Trudy V., Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses
1960-1990, Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University,
Evanston, IL; Abrams, New York, NY
1994 Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration and Experimentation, Elvehjem
Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
1993 Gotz, Stephen, American Artists In Their New York Studios: Conversations
About the Creation of Contemporary Art, Center for Conservation
and Technical Studies, Harvard University Art Museums; Daco-Verlag
Gunter Blase, Stuttgart, Germany, p. 133-138.
Jacobson, Marjorie, Art For Work: The New Renaissance in Corporate
Collecting, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA, p. 102.
1991 Aspects of Collage, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, p. 3 (illus.). 1991
Acquisitions, The Hallmark Art Collection, Kansas City, MO, p. 4.
1990 Morgan, Robert C., Concept---Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70s, Nathan
Contemporary, New York, NY, p. 26 (illus.).
The 26th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
Greensboro, NC, (illus.).
1989 Armstrong, Elizabeth; McGuire, Sheila, First Impression: Early Prints by Forty-six
Contemporary Artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Ken Tyler: 25 Glorious Years, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden,
p. 15 (illus.).
First Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, p. 62-63 (illus.).
1988 Kotik, Charlotta, The Cutting Edge: New Directions in Handmade Paper,
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
1987 Armstrong, Elizabeth, The Extended Image, Tyler Graphics: New York, NY
Artistas da Paula Cooper Gallery, Galeria EMI Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon,
Portugal, (illus.).
1986 Pintar Con Papel, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain, p. 153 (illus.).
Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, PA, p. 77 (illus.).
Elliot, James, Works from the Paula Cooper Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery,
San Francisco, CA, p. 28 (illus.).
1985 Newland, Amy Reigle, Paperworks from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
Tompkins, Calvin, Artists and Architects Collaborate: Designing the Wiesner
Building, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Milton and Sally Avery Center
for the Arts, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-
Hudson, NY, p. 80 (illus.).
A New Beginning: 1968-1978, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY,
p. 68-69 (illus.).
Ten, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, p. 24 (illus.).
Lucie-Smith, Edward, American Art Now, William M. Morrow, New York, NY,
p. 74 (illus.).
Castleman, Riva, American Impressions: Prints Since Pollock, Alfred A. Knopf,
New York, NY, p. 124 (illus.).
1984 Viewpoint ’84: Out of Square, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum,
Bloomfield Hills, MI, (illus.).
New American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M.
Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas College of Fine Arts, Austin, TX, p.
15 (illus.).
Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Modern Art of the Print: Selections from the Collection of Lois and
Michael Torf, Williams College Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston, Williamstown, MA.
Robins, Corinne, The Pluralist Era: American Art 1968-1981, Harper and Row,
New York, NY, p. 196-198 (illus.).
Eight Artists from Paula Cooper Gallery, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Seibu,
Tokyo, Japan
Dracos Art Center: Opening Exhibition, Dracos Art Center, Hacienda Heights,
CA, p. 48-49 (illus.).
1983 Carthcart, Linda L., The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX
Loring, John, David Acton and Thomas H. Garver, Jones Road Print Shop and
Stable: 1971-1981, Catalogue Raisonné, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Turner, Silvie and Birgit Skiold, Handmade Paper Today, Lund Humphries,
London, United Kingdom, p. 104, 114, 231, 241 (illus.).
Art on Paper 1983: The 19th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition, The University
of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1982 Webb, Sheila, Paper: The Continuous Thread, The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH, p. 39 (illus.).
Cloth Forms, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, p. 19 (illus.).
Johnson, Ellen, ed., American Artists on Art: From 1940-1980, New York, NY
Cathcart, Linda, The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum,
Houston, TX, p. 92 (illus.).
1981 New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Duckers, Alexander, Druckgrafik: Wandlungen eines Mediums seit 1945,
Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Berlin, Germany
Hinson, Tom E., Contemporary Artists, The Cleveland Museum of Art,
Cleveland, OH
The Castle Window Set and Santa’s Collar, Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford, NY
Deschamps, Madeleine, La Peinture Americaine, Editions Denoul, Paris,
France, p. 269, 294 (illus.).
Variants: Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice
University, Houston, TX
U.S. Art Now, Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 39 (illus.).
Contemporary Artists, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, p. 39-40 (illus.).
1980 Fabric into Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, State University of New York, Old
Westbury, NY
Hoffman, Marilyn Friedman, Aspects of the 70’s Painterly Abstraction,
Brockton Art Museum/ Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA
Kardon, Janet, Drawing: The Pluralist Decade, 39th Venice Biennale, Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Perceiving Modern Sculpture: Selections for the Sighted and Non-Sighted,
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, p. 64-65 (illus.).
1979 Billeter, Erica, Soft Sculpture-Fabric Painting, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Masks, Tents, Vessels and Talismans, Institute of Contemporary Art, University
of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1978 Cathcart, Linda, American Painting of the 1970’s, Albright Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
Kardon, Janet, Point, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Disseminazione, Villa Mirabello, Musei Civici, Varese, Italy
Daniel Templon: Dix Ans, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France, p. 62-63, (illus.).
1977 Painting 75-76-77, Sarah Lawrence Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Patterning and Decoration, Museum of the American Foundation for the
Arts, Miami, FL
Halbreich, Kathy, Paper Forms Hand-Made Paper Projects, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, MA
New Ways with Paper, National College of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
American Art in Belgium, Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Perspective 1976, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1976 Baro, Gene, 30 Years of American Printmaking, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
La Biennale di Venezia, Vol. 2, Venice, Italy
The Book as Art, The Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Duval, Jean-Luc, Skira Annuel 1976: Art Actuel, Editions Skira et Cosmopress,
Geneva, Switzerland, p. 75, 122 (illus.).
1973 Amaya, Mario, Soft as Art, The New York Cultural Center, (illus). 1972
Szeeman, H; Amman, J.C., Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
Lippard, Lucy, Grids, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Koibert, Frank, 12 Statements Beyond the 60’s, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969 Bauer, John I.H., Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY