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==Exhibitions== In 1968, Heizer was included in ''Earth Works'', the influential group show at [[Virginia Dwan]]'s gallery, and then in the [[Whitney Museum]] painting annual in 1969, where his contribution was a huge photograph of a dye painting in the desert.<ref name="cowboy">[[Michael Kimmelman]] (February 6, 2005), [https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/06/magazine/06HEIZER.html Art's Last, Lonely Cowboy] ''[[The New York Times]]''.</ref> For his first one-person show, at the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich in 1969, he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create ''Munich Depression''. In 1977, he was included in ''[[Documenta|documenta 6]]'', Kassel. Major exhibitions of his work have been staged at institutions such as the [[Museum Folkwang]], Essen (1979), the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]] (1984), and [[Fondazione Prada]], Milan (1996).<ref>[http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/artistbio/83 Michael Heizer] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120628013751/http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/artistbio/83 |date=2012-06-28 }} Dia Art Foundation.</ref> Recent gallery exhibitions have been held at [[Gagosian Gallery]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gagosian.com/artists/michael-heizer/artist-exhibitions |title = Michael Heizer {{!}} Gagosian| date=April 12, 2018 }}</ref> ===Selected solo exhibitions=== *1971 ''Michael Heizer: Photographic and Actual Work.'' [[Detroit Institute of Arts]], Detroit *1979 ''Michael Heizer.'' [[Museum Folkwang]], Essen. Travelled to [[Rijksmuseum]] Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands. *1984 ''In Context: Michael Heizer: 45°, 90°, 180°/Geometric Extraction.'' [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]] *1985 ''45°, 90°, 180°: A Sculpture for Rice University.'' Farish Gallery, School of Architecture, [[Rice University]], [[Houston]] *1985 ''Michael Heizer: Dragged Mass geometric.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York *1988 ''Michael Heizer: New Sculptures.'' Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo *1996 ''Michael Heizer: Negative – Positive +.'' [[Fondazione Prada]], Milan *2010 ''Michael Heizer: Works from the 1960s and 70s.'' [[David Zwirner]], New York *2012 ''Michael Heizer: Actual Size.'' [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], Los Angeles *2015 ''Michael Heizer: Altars.'' [[Gagosian Gallery]], New York *2016 ''Michael Heizer.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York *2018 [[Le Bourget]], Paris<ref name="gagosian.com">[https://gagosian.com/media/artists/michael-heizer/Heizer_Michael.pdf Heizer, Michael] gagosian.com</ref> ===Selected group exhibitions=== *1966 ''The Annual Invitational Exhibition.'' [[Park Place Gallery]], New York *1968 ''Earthworks'' Dwan Gallery, New York *1968 ''1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York *1969 ''New Media: New Methods'' [[Montclair Art Museum]], Montclair, NJ; Organised by [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York. *1969 ''Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren (Square pegs in round Holes).'' [[Stedelijk Museum]], Amsterdam. Travelled to: ''Verborgene Strukturen.'' [[Museum Folkwang]], Essen. *1969 ''Live in Your Head: When Attitudes Become Form.'' [[Kunsthalle Bern]], Bern, Switzerland. Travelled to: Museum Haus Lange, Krefield, West Germany; [[Institute of Contemporary Arts, London]]. *1969 ''Land Art: Long, Flanagan, Oppenheim, Smithson, Boezem, Dibbets, De Maria, Heizer.'' Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum, Berlin. Televised April 15, 1969. *1969 ''1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York *1970 ''XXXV Esposizione internazionale d’arte di Venezia'' Venice *1970 ''Information.'' [[Museum of Modern Art]], New York *1971 ''Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition.'' [[Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum]], New York *1971 ''VII Biennale.'' Parc Floral de Paris, Paris *1973 ''American Drawings 1963-73.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York *1976 ''Drawing Now.'' [[Museum of Modern Art]] *1977 ''Biennial Exhibition.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York, NY. *1977 ''[[Documenta]] 6.'' Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany. *1980 ''L'Amérique aux Indépendants, 1944-1980 : 91ème Exposition, Société des Artistes Indépendants.'' [[Grand Palais]], Paris, France. *1984 ''Collectie Becht. De verzameling Agnes en Frits Becht.'' [[Stedelijk Museum]], Amsterdam, Netherlands. *1986 ''Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986.'' [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]], CA. *1987 ''American Drawing and Watercolors of the Twentieth Century. Selection from the Whitney Museum of American Art.'' [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.; traveled to [[The Cleveland Museum of Art]], Cleveland, OH.; Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; [[Arkansas Arts Center]], Little Rock, AR; [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], Stamford, CT. *1987 ''Photography and Art: Interactions since 1946.'' [[Los Angeles County Museum of Art]], Los Angeles, CA; traveled to The Museum of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, *1988 ''Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection.'' Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, NY *1989 ''20 Jahre Internationale Kunstmesse Basel.'' Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany. *1990 ''Pharmakon ’90.'' Nippon Convention Center, [[Makuhari Messe]], Tokyo, Japan. *1997 ''47th International Art Exhibition – [[La Biennale di Venezia]].'' Venice, Italy. *2009 ''Photoconceptualism, 1966–1973.'' [[Whitney Museum of American Art]], New York, NY. *2010 ''The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today.'' [[The Museum of Modern Art]], New York, NY; traveled to [[Kunsthaus Zürich]], Zurich, Switzerland. *2013 ''When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013.'' Ca’ Corner della Regina, [[Fondazione Prada]], Venice, Italy.<ref name="gagosian.com"/>
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