Artist
Dan Flavin
Artist
Part of events on ArtRabbit in: Berlin, London, Paris
Flavin was born in 1933 in New York City, where he later studied art history at the New School for Social Research (1956) and Columbia University (1957–59). His first solo show was at the Judson Gallery, New York, in 1961. Flavin made his first work with electric light that same year and he began using commercial fluorescent bulbs in 1963. Major exhibitions of Flavin’s work include those at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1967), the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1969), and the Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden (1989). In 1983, Dia opened the Dan Flavin Art Institute. In 1992, Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He died in 1996, leaving designs for a light installation for Milan’s Chiesa Rossa that was realized posthumously with Dia’s support. In 2004, Dia Art Foundation and the National Gallery of Art organized a major touring retrospective of Flavin’s work; venues included the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris.
Exhibitions and Events
Currently on show
2018
2017
