Tàpies was born in the bosom of a bourgeois Catalan family of booksellers. With an indefatigable artistic career extending over more than six decades, his production arose in a convulsive historical moment. Between 1936 and 1939, Spain lived immersed in a Civil War that birthed a dictatorship lasting until 1975. For Catalonia – a territory in the northeast of the Peninsula which speaks a different language and contains cultural and historical differences – the new political regime implied limitations on their freedoms. For him and his family, who during the sociopolitical conflict had positioned themselves on the side of the defeated, it represented a turning point that would mark both the artistic and vital trajectory of young Antoni. Since then, he became concerned with social struggles and his work acquired a denouncing and critical tone that he never abandoned.
Practically self-taught, his first works were influenced by magical surrealism as seen in the work of artists such as Joan Miró, Paul Klee and Max Ernst. In his early years, he participated in the founding of the avant-garde magazine and movement Dau al 7, led by the poet Joan Brossa and linked to the surrealism and the Dada.
The decade of the fifties, parallel to the new European currents, gave way to the informalist styles in which materiality was gaining prominence. His particular alphabet came to be in this time where each one of his signs acquired a concrete meaning. The A and T refer to his initials but also to those of his name and that of his wife, Teresa. The X helped him to cross out and indicate enigmas. The cross transcends its Christian connotation to unite shamanism, Hindu cultures and/or Egyptian mythology. Over the years, Tàpies was constantly renewing his artistic methodology. Yet his underlying concerns stayed consistent, with small variations, throughout his career.
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2010 Awarded the noble title “Marquis” by the Spanish King Juan Carlos I. Awarded by the 5th International Graphic Arts Biennial Douro, Portugal
2005 Receives the Italian Lissone Prize for his complete works
2003 “Premio Velázquez de las Artes Plásticas” from the Spanish Ministerio de Educación y Cultura
2002 “Premio Nacional de Grabado y Arte Grafico” of the Calcografia Nacional and the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
1998 Honorary doctorate from the Budapest Academy of Fine Arts
1996 Cross of the Order of Santiago of the Portuguese government
1993 Picasso Medal of the UNESCO
1992 Honorary member of the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass
1991 “Premio Tomás Francisco Prieto” of the Fundación Cultural Casas de la Moneda
1990 Honorary doctorate from the Universities of Glasgow and the Balearic Islands
1988 Honorary doctorate from the University of Barcelona. “Commendeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” of the French government. Honorary member of the Austrian Society of Fine Artists
1985 “Prix international de peinture” from the French government. Appointed member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden
1984 Peace Prize of the Spanish Society for the United Nations
1983 Rembrandt Prize of the M. Töpfer Foundation, Hamburg
1982 Prize of the Wolf Foundation, Jerusalem (together with Chagall)
1979 Literature Prize of the City of Barcelona for his autobiography
1974 Receives the Stephan Lochner Medal of the City of Cologne
1972 Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen
1967 Grand Prize of the Ljubljana Graphic Art Biennale
1966 Grand Prize of the VI Biennale di Mentone
1964 Prize of the Guggenheim Foundation, New York
1960 Prize of the International Biennale of Graphic Arts in Tokyo
1958 First Prize of the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2024
Antoni Tàpies Retrospectiva, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Antoni Tàpies: Art i activisme en l’obra d’Antoni Tàpies, Museo d’Historia de Catalunya, Barcelona
Antoni Tàpies: The Practice of Art, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
2023
Antoni Tàpies zum 100. Geburtstag, Kunstsammlungen am Theaterplatz, Chemnitz
Exposición: Antoni Tàpies. La práctica del arte, Museum Reina Sofía, Madrid
Tàpies/Miró – Welt auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster
The Practise of Art, Bozar – Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Antoni Tàpies, Timothy Taylor, London
Antoni Tàpies, Galerie Thomas, Munich
2022
Little Things. Parts I & II, Pace, Geneva
Antoni Tàpies: Transmaterial, Pace Gallery, New York
Antoni Tàpies, Galerie Boisséree, Cologne
Antoni Tàpies: Challenged Artworks: Breaking, Matter And Gesture In 20th Century Avant-Garde, Galeía Leandro Navarro, Madrid
Antoni Tàpies: Creus, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris
Tàpies. Melancholia, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Bercelona
2021
Tàpies: Foregrounding Reality, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
2019
Antoni Tàpies, Pace Gallery, Geneva
Tàpies Today, Galería Mayoral, Barcelona
2018
Antoni Tàpies: Political Biography, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
2017
Antoni Tàpies: Temps, matère, mémoire, Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris
Antoni Tàpies: Paintings, 1970–2003, Nahmad Contemporary, New York
Antoni Tàpies: Revulsion and Desire, Timothy Taylor, London
2015
Tàpies. From Within, PAMM Miami, Florida
Antoni Tàpies: 1923 – 2012, Pace, New York
2014
Collection, #8, Fundacion Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
2013
Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao
Fundació Antonie Tàpies and Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
2012
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
Fundació Cristino de Vera, Tenerife
The Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Antoni Tàpies. Bild, Körper, Pathos, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
2011
Galerie Lelong, Paris
2010
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
Waddington Galleries, London
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
The Pace Gallery, New York
2009
Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York
Museo delle Arti Catanzaro MARCA, Catanzaro, Italy
Galerie Pierre Levy, Paris
2008
Waddington Galleries, London
Galeria Toni Tapies, Barcelona
Galerie Lelong, Zurich; touring to Galerie Lelong, Paris
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
2007-08
Museum Schloss Moyland
2007
Gana Art Gallery, Seoul
EMMA-Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
Kunsthalle Talstrasse, Halle (Saale), Germany
2006-08
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to Instituto Cervantes, Madrid; Museu Valencià de la Il·lustració i de la Modernitat (MuVIM), Valencia; Instituto Cervantes de Toulouse, Toulouse; Instituto Cervantes de Praga, Prague; Instituto Cervantes de Berlín, Berlin
2006-07
Galleria Tega, Milan
2006
Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto
Waddington Galleries, London
PaceWildenstein, New York
Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
Galerie Lelong, París
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen
Galleria d’arte il gabbiano, Rome (in collaboration with Galerie Lelong)
2005
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
Fundacion Caixa Galicia, Ferrol, Spain
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Waddington Galleries, London
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone
Galerie Daniel Tanner Gmbh, Basel
Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
Cajalón, Zaragoza
Centro de Exposiciones y Congresos, Zaragoza
2004
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid touring to Fundació Caixa Galicia
ANTONI TÀPIES. Bilder und Vorstellungen, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nürnberg
Museo Patio Herreriano, Valladolid
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
Fundación Marcelino Botín, Santander
Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan
Galeria Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
2003-2004
Kunsthalle in Emden; touring to Sinclair-Haus ALTANA Kulturforum, Bad Homburg
2003
PaceWildenstein, New York
Waddington Galleries, London
Galería Toni Tàpies, Barcelona
Galerie LeLong, Paris
2002
Musée Picasso, Antibes
2001
Ameringer Howard, Boca Raton, Florida
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
Waddington Galleries, London
2000
PaceWildenstein, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Retrospective exhibition organized by Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Haus der Kunst, Munich
1999
Cantro Cultural Casa del Cordon, Burgos
Pelaires, Centro Cultural Contemporani, Mallorca
Serge Sorokko Gallery, San Francisco
1998–99
Galeria Toni Tapies Editicions T, Barcelona
Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
1998
Fundacio Antoni Taopes, Barcelona
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Citta di Locarno, Musei e cultura, Pinacoteca di Casa Rusca, Switzerland
PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles
1997–98
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover; touring to Kunsthalle Krems, Austria
1997
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Christian Stein, Milan
Sala de Exposiciones Banco Zaragozano, Zaragoza, Spain
Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto, Portugal
1996–97
Edicions T Galleria D’Art, Barcelona
1996
Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan; touring to Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata; The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma; Kirik Art Space Harajuku, Tokyo
Auditoria de Galicia, Santiago do Compostela
Waddington Galleries, London
1995–6
Villa Wessel, Iserlohn, Germany
PaceWildenstein, New York
1995
Mary Anthony Galleries, New York
PaceWildenstein Soho, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Edicions T Galleria D’Art, Barcelona
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Pace Prints, New York
Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Berlin
Musée d’Art Moderne, Céret, France
1994
Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Escola Pia Balmes, Barcelona
Associated American Artists, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Waddington Galleries, London
Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona
1993–94
Lunds Konsthall, Lund, Sweden; touring to Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm
1993
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts
Pace Gallery, New York
Spanish Pavilion, XLV Biennale de Venezia, Venice
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Galerie Hete A.M. Hünermann, Düsseldorf
1992–93
Museum of Modern Art, New York; touring to The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
1992
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia; Serpentine Gallery, London
Associated American Artists, New York
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1991–94
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona; touring to Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz; Manchester City Art Galleries
1991–93
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City; touring to Long Beach Museum of Art, California; Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Florida International University Art Museum, Miami; Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas
Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; touring to Fundaçao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Centro de Arte Moderna, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon; Pabellón Mudéjar, Seville; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Rekalde Ikustaretoa, Bilbao; Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
1991–92
Galerie Lelong, Paris
1991
Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo
Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona
Galerie Lelong, New York
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Waddington Galleries, London
1990–91
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; touring to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
1990
Galerie Lelong, New York
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Kunstverein Bayreuth, Germany
1989
Galerie Lelong, New York
Elkon Gallery, New York
Art Gallery of China, Beijing
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
1988–89
Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Maine; touring to Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia; University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire; David Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Musée Cantini, Marseilles
Erker Galerie, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1988
Galerie Lelong, Paris
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
Annely Juda Fine Art, London
Saló del Tinell, Barcelona; touring to Llotja, Palma de Mallorca
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Cleto Polcina Arte Moderna, Rome
1987
Galerie Lelong, Zurich
Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona
1986–87
Galería Theo, Madrid; touring to Galería Theo, Barcelona; Galería Theo, Valencia
Galería Carles Taché, Barcelona
Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Coral Gables, Florida
1986
Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain
Gesellschaft bildender Künstler Österreichs, Künstlerhaus, Vienna; touring to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York
Galeria Theo, Madrid, Spain
Abbaye de Montmajour, Arles, France
Dau al Set, Barcelona
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris
1985
Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Helsinki
Palazzo Reale, Milan
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Musée d’Art Moderne, Brussels
Galerie Adrien Maeght, Paris
1984–85
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris
1984
Galerie Brusberg, Berlin
Museo Municipal de San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain
Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Zurich
Galería Antonio Machón, Madrid
1983–84
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona
1983
Galerie Marika Marghescu, Hannover, Germany
Universitat de Barcelona, Facultat de Belles Arts, Barcelona
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Abbaye de Sénanque, Gordes, France
Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris
Städtische Galerie im Prinz Max Palais, Karlsruhe, Germany
1982–83
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
1982
Palacio de la Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain
Marisa del Re Gallery, New York
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Scuola di San Giovanni Evangelista, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Studoo Dueci, Rome
1981
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona
Gallery Ueda, Tokyo
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Fondation du Chateau de Jau, Cases de Pene, France
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
M. Knoedler & Co, New York
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
1980–81
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
1980
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
Studio Dueci, Rome, Italy
Museo Español de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1979–80
Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; touring to Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang-Gurlitt-Museum, Linz, Austria
1979
Galeria Punto, Valencia, Spain
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1978–79
Galerie Isernhagen, Germany
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona
1978
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galeria Sen, Madrid
Musée de l’Abbaye Sainte-Croix, Les Sables d’Olonne, France
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
Galeria Artema, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1977–78
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany; touring to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
1977
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, Texas; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal
1976
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France; touring to Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
1975
Galerie Maeght, Barcelona
La Mulassa, Vilanova i la Geltru
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Ruth S Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1974
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Hayward Gallery, London; touring to Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
Galería Juan Martín, Mexico City
Gallery Moos, Toronto
1973–74
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; touring to Musée Rath, Geneva; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Galería Juana Mordó, Madrid
1973
Jodi Scully Gallery, Los Angeles
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1972
Städtische Galerie im Haus Seel, Siegen, Germany
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1971
Galerie Maeght, Zurich
Galleria Il Collezionista d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Sala Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Galerie Börjeson, Malmö, Sweden
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
1970
Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Galerie Bleue, Stockholm
1969
Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
Galerie van de Loo, Munich
Galerie Stadler, Paris
Galerie Maeght, Paris
Gallery Moos, Toronto
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
1968
Museum des 20 Jahrhunderts, Vienna; touring to Kunstverein Hamburg; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Galeria Schmela, Düsseldorf
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1967
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Galerie Maeght, Paris
1966
Galerie Biosca, Madrid
Galerie Stadler, Paris
Galerie Jacques Verriere, Cannes
Galerie Buren, Stockholm
1965
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
Galerie van de Loo, Munich
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
1964
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
La Tartaruga, Galleria d’Arte, Rome
Cacharreria del Ateneo de Madrid, Madrid
Galerie Stadler, Paris
Gallery Moos, Toronto; touring to Galerie Agnès Lefort, Montreal
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
1963
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Berggruen, Paris
Galerie Im Erker, St. Gallen, CH
Notizie, Turin, Italy
1962–63
Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas; touring to Phoenix Art Center, Arizona; Pasadena Art Museum, California; Felix Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
1962
Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; touring to Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Galeria Il Segne, Rome, Italy
1961
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York; touring to Gres Gallery, Washington D.C.
Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Essen, Germany
Galerie Stadler, Paris
1960
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Blanche, Stockholm, Sweden
1959 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Stadler, Paris
1958
Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan
1957
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
Galerie Stadler, Paris
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
1956
Galerie Stadler, Paris
1955
Sur, Galeria de Arte, Santander, Spain
1954
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona
1953
Museo Municipal, Mataro, Sapin
Marshall Field & Company, Chicago
Galeria Biosca, Madrid
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1952
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona
1951
Casino de Ripoll, Ripoll
1950
Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona
2023
Tàpies / Miró – Welt auf Papier, Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, Germany
2022
International Artists: Made In France Viii, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Mixed Double: The Lambrecht-Schadeberg Collection, Mgksiegen, Siegen, Germany
2021
Personae. Masks Against Barbarism, Es Baluard, Museum Of Modern & Contemporary Art, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art, Hollis Taggart, New York
Little Things: Parts I & II, Pace Gallery, Geneva
Jours blancs, Galerie Kamel Mennour, Paris
2017
Three Decades of Modern and Contemporary Masters: 50’s, 60’s, and 70’s, The Elkon Gallery, New York
MACBA Collection. Beneath the Surface, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The Space of Dreams, Galeria Mayoral, Cadaqués, July 21–August 15, 2017. Travelled to: Galeria Mayoral, Barcelona
Large Format, The Elkon Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, The Elkon Gallery, New York
Louise Nevelson/Antoni Tàpies: Above the Surface, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
2016
Talking on Paper, Pace Beijing
Press Art. Die Sammlung Annette und Peter Nobel Vol. II, Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana (MASILugano), Switzerland
2015
The Wounded Canvas, Helly Nahmad Gallery, New York
Picasso and the 20th Century Art: Masterpieces from the Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
2014
On The Road / En el camino, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Europe 1900–1975: Selections from the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2013
Hantaï, Hartung, Soulages, Tàpies, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Davant l’horitzó, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
SEHNSUCHT ICH, Essl Museum – Kunst der Gegenwart, Vienna
A Visit to the Romanesque: In the Company of Antoni Tàpies, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Image and Abstraction, Pace Gallery, 510 West 25th Street, New York
Collection Renard, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen
2012
Fortuny and Wagner, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Masterpieces from the Berardo Collection, Gary Nader Art Centre, Miami
Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949–1962, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 6, 2012–January 14, 2013. Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Panza Collection and Selections from Major Gifts of Beatrice and Philip Gersh, Rita and Taft Schreiber, and Marcia Weisman, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Auf Augenhöhe: Meisterwerke aus Mittelalter und Moderne, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Art as Magic: Visionary Artists and Their Inner Supernatural World, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
2011
Beijing Voice: Leaving Realism Behind, The Pace Gallery, Beijing
Tàpies—Louise Bourgeois, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
TRA-The Edge of Becoming, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Un corps inattendu: Carte blanche Jean-Louis Prat, Le FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Antoni Tàpies and Louise Bourgeois, Galerie Lelong, Paris
2010
Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2009
In-Finitum, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Abstraction + Warhol, Woxart, Prague
Fautrier, Wols, Tàpies, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Berlin, February 16–April 25, 2009. Traveled to: Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen
2008
Summer Exhibition, Waddington Galleries, London
20th Century Spanish Drawings: Dibujos Españoles del Siglo XX, Brass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
The Hands of Art, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2007
Anywhere Out of This World: Postwar Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Col·lecció, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
The 239th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Artempo: Where Time Becomes Art, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
2006
Between Picasso and Dubuffet, Works from the Planque Foundation. Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin. Traveled to: Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
Postwar Directions: Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Le Noir est Une Couleur: Hommage Vivant à Aimé Maeght, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Homage to Chillida, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Paper Works by Abstract Masters, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo
The 237th Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London
2004
Summer 2004, PaceWildenstein, New York
Art and Utopia. Action Restricted, Museu d’Art contemporani de Barcelona
The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
2003
Esquire Show House, Trump World Tower, New York
2002
Artespañol del Siglo XX, Galería Guereta, Madrid
2001
Claude Monet… up to digital impressionism, Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Glossalgia, Hellenic American Union Galleries and the Frissiras Museum, Athens
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2000
Preview of the Season, Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, Boca Raton
00: Drawings 2000 at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Summer 2000, PaceWildenstein, New York
High Lights, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Encounters: New Art from Old, National Gallery of Art, London
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York
1999
Panza: The Legacy of a Collector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ragtime, Estudio Helga De Alvear, Madrid
Powder, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Berardo Collection 1917–1999, Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal
1998
Joan Miró, Antoni Tàpies, Francisco Toledo, Associtated American Artists, New York
Group Show, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles
1997
Winter Group Show, PaceWildenstein, 142 Greene Street, New York
Inaugural Exhibition Ace Gallery Mexico, Ace Gallery, Mexico
The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
Arte vivo: Los pintores de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
1996
Después de Goya: Una Mirada Subjetiva, Palacio de la Lonja; Sala Luzán, Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada; and, Palacio de Montemuzo
Chimeriques Polymeres: Le plastique dans l’Art du Xxeme siecle,Promenade des Arts, Nice
75 Jahre Graphisches Kabinett: Jubliaumsausstellung Teil III, Nach 1940: Dubuffet, Fontana, Giacometti, Tapies, Wols, Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner KG, Bremen
1995
Summer 1995, PaceWildenstein, New York
Regards croisés, Fondation “la Caixa,” Barcelona
1994
fragmentos para um museu imaginário, Fundação de Serralves, Porto
Dream of the Absolute, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
The Art of Assemblage: Early Works, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Gaudi to Tapies: Catalan Artists, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory Universtiy, Atlanta
The Brushstroke and its Guises, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York
Obra Sobre Papel, Galería Elvira González, Madrid
Kounellis, Serra, Tàpies, Turrell, Galería Joan Prats, Barcelona
1992
Conversation, Galerie Kaj Forsblom, Zurich
Homage to Francis Bacon, Beyeler Gallery, Basel
Repetición/Transformación, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Transform: BildObjektSculptur im 20. Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum und Kunsthalle Basel
Summer show, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Summer group exhibition, The Pace Gallery, New York
Opere di Collezione 2, Cleto Polcina Artemoderna, Rome
Sculpture, Waddington Galleries, London
Arte en España: 1920–1990, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
1990
Inaugural Exhibition: One Hundred Years of American and European Art, Adelson Galleries, New York
High & Low, Modern Art and Popular Culture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 7, 1990–January 15, 1991. Traveled to: Art Institute of Chicago, February 20–May 12, 1991, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Informalisme a Catalunya. Pintura, Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, Barcelona
Exposition Inaugurale, Musee Temporaire, Fondation Daniel Templon, Frejus, France
Segno, gesto, materia. Protagonisti dell’Informale europeo, Arte 92, Milan
Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967–1988, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
1988
Les années, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth-Century Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
20 Años Theo: Gran Formato, Pequeño Formato, Galería Theo, Madrid
La Colección. Telefónica–España, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona
1987
L’art moderne en Europe. Les années décisives 1945–1953, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Étienne, France
Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection. Painting Since World War II, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Le siècle de Picasso, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1986
Spagna: 75 anni di protagonisti nell’arte, Villa Malpensata, Lugano
Referencias. Un encuentro artístico en el tiempo, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Pintar con papel, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
1985
Un art autre: Tachismus, Informel, Lyrische Abstraction, Galerie Heseler, Munich
Black and White (From Manet to Kiefer), Galerie Beyeler, Basel
1984
La Grande Parade, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Textura, color y materia en la pintura, Sala de Exposiciones Juan de Villanueva, Aranjuez, Spain
El arte del siglo XX en un museo holandés: Museo Municpal Van Abbe de Eindhoven, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, February–March 1984. Traveled to: Museo de Albacete, Albacete, Spain
1983
Written Imagery Unleashed in the 20th Century, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York
Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Projectes i realitzacions del Monument a Picasso, de Tàpies, Saló del Paranimf, Universitat de Barcelona
1982
Blau, Sala d’Exposicions de l’Obra Cultural de la Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona
L’Univers d’Aimé et Marguerite Maeght, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Portraits et figures, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
1981
Paris–Paris. Créations en France, 1937–1957, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
1980
Zeichen des Glaubens–Geist der Avantgarde. Religiöse Tendenzen in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Schloss Charlottenburg, Berlin
1979
Weich und Plastisch. Soft-Art, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
1978
Katalanische Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin
The Silent Dialogue. The Still Life in the 20th Century, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
1977
Spagna. Avanguarda Artistica e realtà sociale (1936–1976), Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1976
Crónica de la pintura española de post-guerra 1940–1960, Galería Multitud, Madrid
Autres dimensions, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Gran formato, Galería Theo, Madrid
1975
L’homme et son empreinte, Château de Sainte-Suzanne, Mayenne, France, June 8–September 1, 1974. Traveled to: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, September 20–November 17, 1974; Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France
1973
Poems from the Catalan. Brossa / Tàpies, Dau al Set, Galeria d’Art, Barcelona
1972
From Venus to Venus, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Immagine per la Citta’, Palazzo dell’Accademia, Palazzo Reale, Genova, Italy
Concept & Content: Cage, Thompson, Tàpies, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1971
Aspetti dell’Informale. Mostra Storica Internazionale, Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari
1969
Artistes espagnols. Gris, Picasso, Miró, Tàpies, Chillida, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Art espagnol d’aujourd’hui, Musée Rath, Geveva
1968
Peintures Européens d’aujourd’hui/European Painters Today, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, September 27–November 17, 1968. Traveled to: The Jewish Museum, New York, January 21–March 16, 1969; National Collection of Fine Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 9–June 1, 1969; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 5–September 8, 1969; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, September 28–October 26, 1969; Dayton Art Institute, November 17–December 14, 1969
L’art vivant, 1965–1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Menschenbilder, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt
1967
Spanische Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg
VII. Mednarodna Graficna Razstava, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
Vom Bauhaus biz zur Gegenwart. Meisterwerke aus deutschem Privatbesitz, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Dix ans d’art vivant, 1955–1965, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
1966
Tradition und Gegenwart, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Aspekte, Galerie Beyeler, Basel
1965
‘Novel–la’ de Joan Brossa i Antoni Tàpies, Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
Weiss–Weiss, Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
40 Key Artists of the mid-20th Century, The Detroit Institute of Arts
International 4. Burri, Nevelson, Tàpies, Van Leyden-Collages & Constructions, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
1964
Métaphysique de la matière, Galerie Stadler, Paris
Cinquante ans de ‘collages’. Papiers collés, assemblages, collages, du cubisme a nos jours, Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Sant-Étienne, France
Intuiciones y realizaciones formales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Documenta III. Internationale Ausstellung, Kassel
Painting & Sculpture of a Decade, Tate Gallery, London,
Exposición de pintura española del s. XX, Claustre del Monestir de Sant Esteve, Banyoles, Spain
1963
Önskemuset. The Museum of Our Wishes, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Dunn International. An Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, New Brunswick, September 7–October 6, 1963. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London
1962
Modern Spanish Painting, Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Pintura catalana, Casón del Buen Retiro, Madrid
Paris–Carrefour de la peinture–1945–1961, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
Strutture e stile, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin
1961
4 evidencias de un mundo jóven en el arte actual, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Arte e contemplazione, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
1960
New Forms–New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
New Spanish Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Before Picasso, After Miró, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Neue Malerei. Form, Struktur, Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie, Munich
Jonge kunst uit de collectie Dotremont–Brussel, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
La nueva pintura en España. Ten Contemporary Spanish Painters, Arthur Tooth and Son, Ltd., London
1959
Kunstsammler am Rhin und Ruhr. Malerei 1900–1959, Städtische Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
4 Maler. Tàpies, Alechinsky, Messagier, Moser, Kunsthalle, Bern
II. Documenta ’59. Kunst nach 1945. Internationale Ausstellung, Kassel
Saura–Tàpies. Ölbilder, Galerie van de Loo, Munich
Arte nuova, Circolo degli Artisti, Palazzo Granieri, Turin
15 Maler in Paris, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
1958
Nouvelle École de Paris. Französische Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle, Mannheim
The 1958 Pittsburgh Bicentennial International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
L’art du XXime siècle, Palais des Expositions, Charleroi, Belgium
XXIX Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice
Neue Malerei in Frankreich, Städtische Kunstsammlungen, Soest, Germany, April 13–27, 1958. Traveled to: Fritz-Henssler-Haus, Dortmund, May 6–25, 1958; Städtisches Gymnasium, Siegen, Germany, June 1–16, 1958; Deutsches Klingenmuseum, Solingen
The Exploration of Form, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Ltd., London
1957
Pentagone, Galerie Arnaud, Paris
IV Bienal do Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paolo
Otro Arte. Exposición Internacional de Pintura y Escultura, Sala Gaspar, Barcelona
1956
Recent Abstract Painting, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, England
III Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte, Palacio Municipal de Exposiciones, Barcelona
Expressions et structures (Appel, Arnal, Delhaye, Guiette, Riopelle, Serpan, Tàpies), Galerie Stadler, Paris
1955
Isern–Tàpies–Tharrats, Sturegalleriet, Stockholm
The 1955 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Innaugural Exhibition, Galerie Stadler, Paris
Quincena de Arte. Exposición de Pintura, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Palacio de la Magdalena, Santander
Phases de l’Art Contemporain. Première confrontation Internationale d’Art Expérimental à Paris, Galerie R. Creuze, Paris
1954
Nebraska Art Association Sixty-Fourth Annual Exhibition, University Galleries, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1953
Exposición del retrato actual, Real Círculo Artístico, Barcelona
1952
The 1952 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
XXVI Biennale di Venezia, Venice
I Bienal Hispanoamericana de Arte. Exposición antológica, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona
1950
Un aspecto de la joven pintura. Tàpies-Cuixart-Ponç
The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
Séptimo Salón de los Once, Galería Biosca, Madrid
Tàpies–Cuixart–Ponç, Galerías Sapi, Palma de Mallorca
1949
II Saló d’Octubre, Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona
1948
I Saló d’Octubre, Galeries Laietanes, Barcelona
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
Galleria d’Arte Moderna Ca’ Pesaro, Venice
Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Instituto di Tella, Buenos Aires
IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstmuseum Basel
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Musée Cantini, Marseilles
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca, Spain
Museo de Arte Moderna de São Paulo
Museo Nacional, Bogota
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Reed College, Portland, Oregon
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Saison Museum of Art, Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan
Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Portugal – The Berardo Collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Städtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate, London
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Washington University Gallery of Art, St Louis, Missouri
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts