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  Selected Group Exhibitions
 
  2006

"Gardens"
The Drawing Room; East Hampton, NY

"Italia"
National Academy Museum; New York, NY

"Guild Hall Collects: Gifts in Honor of the 75th Anniversary"
Guild Hall; East Hampton, NY

"America / Americas"
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art; Austin, Texas

"Drawings"
Kalfayan Fine Arts; Athens, Greece

"Memory"
Hellenic Academy of Modern Art; Athens, Greece

"New Perspectives / New Visions: Collecting the New"
The Newark Museum; Newark, NJ

"Anatomy of a Dream"
curated by Vicki Politis; Kalfayan Galleries; Salonika, Greece

"Disegni"
curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi; Studio Trisorio; Naples and Rome, Italy

"Drawings"
The Drawing Room; East Hampton, NY

"Works by Peloponnesian Artists"
curated by Irini Orati; Alpha Bank Cultural Center; Nafplion, Greece

"The Alpha Bank Collection: Greek Artists from 1920 to Today"
curated by Irini Orati; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Salonika, Greece

 

  2005-06

"The Years of Defiance / Art of the 1970s in Greece"
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

 

  2005

"Columns and Pillars " Ministry of Culture; European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi, Greece.

"Light Waves" Kalfayan Galleries; Athens.

"The Marzona Collection" Museum Moderne Kunst; Vienna, Austria

"Drawings" Neue National Galerie; Berlin, Germany

"Notes for the 60s from the Collection of Leonida Beltsios" curated by Manos Stefanidis; Hellenic American Union; Athens, Greece

 

  2004

"Maestri Mediterrani: Antonakos, Burri, Klein, Tapies" Museo dell' Academia Ligustica di Belle Arte; Genoa, Italy.

"Arti + Architettura 1900-2000" Palazzo Ducale; Genoa, Italy. Curated by Dr. Germano Celant.

"Infinite Possibilities / Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings" Davis Museum and Cultural Center; Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA.

"179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art" National Academy of Design; New York.

"7 + 7: " From the Collections of EMST" The National Museum of Contemporary Art; Athens, Greece.

"Five Artists / Five Faiths" Ackland Art Museum; Univ. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill.

"Disegnare il Marmo" curated by Marisa Vescovo; Comune di Carrara; Settore Cultura; Carrara, Italy

 

  2003

"Recent Acquisitions" National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece.

"New Acquisitions" Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika.

"A Happening Place "
The Galleries at the JCC's Gershman Y, Philadelphia.

"The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial" Tsumari, Japan.

"Free Transit" curated by Nadia Argyropolou; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hellenic Presidency Bueau; Zapion Megaron; Athens, Greece

"Xartaetoi" (Kites) curated by Antonia Dimitrakopoulou-Triandafillou; Astrolavos Gallery Dexameni; Athens, Greece

 

  2002

The Magic of Light; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y.

Architectures for One; Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Ad Infinitum; (Serial Drawings) Werner A. Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York, NY.

"There is a Light that Never Goes Out" Chiostro dell'ex Convento di San Francesco; Pordenone, Italy

"In Situ" City of Bari, Italy.

"Oi Protoporoi" (Collection Beltsios) Center for Contemporary Art; Trikala, Greece.

"Unforgettable" Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York.

 

  2001-02

Contemporary Drawings; Galerie Denise Rene, Paris. (rue Charlot Gallery).

 

  2001

Manin Villa Manin: una collezione d'arte; Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy (in collection with the Venice Biennale)

Im Spiegel der Freiheit: Tsarouchis, Antonakos, Hadjimichalis; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, organized by Dr. Hellmut Th. Seemann.

Book Theologies; Contemporary Greek Artists; Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany.

Collection Marzona; Hamberger, Banhoff, Berlin, Germany.

Extra Art: A Survey of Artists' Ephemera, 1960-1999, curated by Steven Lieber; California College of Arts and Crafts; San Francisco, CA

Glossalgia, curated by Manos Stefanidis and Nadia Argyropoulos; Hellenic American Union; Athens, Greeece

 

  2000-01

Neons; Galerie Denise Rene, Paris.

 

  2000

Betsios Collection; Trikila, Greece

Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages; Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida.

(e cosi via) (and so on): 99 Artists from the Marzona Collection: arte povera_minimal art _ land art, curated by Mario Codognato and Ester Coen; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea; Rome, Italy

Different Strokes, Fine Arts Center; University of Massachusetts; Amherst, MA

neon neons, Galerie Denise Rene Rive Gauche; Paris, France

 

  1999

Hot Glass, Flat Glass, and Neon, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. (curated by Gary E. Baker).

The Light at the Top of the Chimney, the Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv. (curated by Dr. Michael Levin).

Modern Odysseys, curated by William Vallerio; Queens Museum of Art; Queens, NY
Second venue: State Museum of Contemporary Art; Salonika, Greece

Posters Exhibition, Lawrence Markey Gallery; New York, NY

Greek Suite, Wigmore Fine Art; London, England

 

  1998

Building the American Collections, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville.

"Paper +" Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York. Curated by Jacqueline Brody.

Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, Calif.

 

  1997

Sex/Industry, Stux Gallery, New York (curated by John Yau).

Neuberger Biennal for Public Art, Neuberger Museum, S.U.N.Y., Purchase, New York.

Montrouge - Athens, 42nd Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France.

Raum Zeichen Licht, Kartner Landesgalerie, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Bozen, Germany.

 

  1996

Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art, 1969-1996, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, CA

 

  1995

Ten Artists' Drawings, The Century Association, New York (curated by Paul Cummings).

Time Is a Child Playing and Throwing Dice..., to the Child Belongs the Power, Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece. Traveled to Patras, Volos, Santorini, Rhodes, Larnaca.

 

  1994

Antonakos and Takis, European Union Hall, Zappeion, Athens (curated by Zoe Kozmidou).

 

  1992

Challenge and Response, The New Technology, Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, Ohio.

Metamorphoses of the Modern, Alexandros Soutsos Museum, National Gallery, Athens. (curated by Anna Kafetsi).

 

  1991

A Touch of Switzerland, Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland.

 

  1990

Kamaruka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.

Second Minos Beach Art Symposium, 1990, Crete, Greece.

Opening Exhibition, Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gaineville, Florida.

Neon Panels, Fawbush Gallery; New York, NY

Ultreluce: Metafore e forme della luce, 1960-1990, Museo d'Arte Moderna; Bolzano, Italy

 

  1989

Artec, International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan.

pas à coté /pas n' importe où 4
, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Fawbush Gallery, New York

Light and Art, Part 2, Flavin, Kosuth, Kowolski, Antonakos.

Mediterraneo: Per l'art contemporanea, curated by Efi Strousa; Fiera del Levante Expo Arte; Regione Puglia Assessorato alla Culture; Bari, Italy

Light Materials: Works in Radiance: Antonakos, Flavin, Marcheschi, Sonnier, ” Phyllis Rothman Gallery; Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ

American Rainbow, Galerie 1900-2000/Galerie de Poche; Paris, France

 

  1988

Art et Nouvelles Technologies, Montreal, Quebec.

Architectural Art, American Crafts Museum, New York (traveling in America in 1989 and 1990).

Local Color: Selections from Contemporary Collectors, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California (selected by Hugh M. Davies).

Artists of the Book: A Facet of Modernism, A Traveling Exhibition of the New England Foundation for the Arts; The Boston Atheneum; Boston, MA

Projects and Proposals: New York City’s Percent for Art Program, curated by Jennifer McGregor Cutting; City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs; New York, NY

 

  1987

10th Anniversary Exhibition, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.

19th Sao Paulo International Biennial, Sao Paulo
American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Minimal Art, Galerie Kunigk, Munich, Germany.

Mathematik in der Kunst der Letzten Dreissig Jahre, curated by Bernhard Holeczek; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum; Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

Neon: New Artistic Expressions, curated by Nancy Hall-Duncan; Bruce Museum; Greenwich, CT

 

  1986

Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum (curated by Barry Walker).

Public Art: Our Commonwealth, Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, Massachusetts.

American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, curated by Edward J. Nygren and Linda Crocker Simmons; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services and the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Washington, DC

 

  1985

Minimal Prints and Sculpture, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (curated by Naila Kunigk).

10th Year Anniversary, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Diversity--New York Artists, curated by Jane Logemann; Main Gallery; University of Rhode Island; Kingston, RI

The Greek Month in London, Institute for Contemporary Arts; London, England

The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, curated by Linda Weintraub; Edith C. Blum Art Institute; Milton and Sally Avery Center for the Arts; Bard College Center; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

 

  1984

Intermedia Space - Space Between Painting and Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

Connections: Science Into Art, curated by Anne Kent and Perijane Zarembok; Summit Art Center; Summit, NJ

The Success of Failure, Diane Brown Gallery; New York, NY

 

  1983

Electra, Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris.

29th Festival of Atlanta, Piedmont Park; Atlanta, GA

 

  1982

Europalia - Hellas 1982, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.

Drawing: An Exploration of Line, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland.

Murs / tension / lumiere, American Center; Paris, France

 

  1981

Projects at the Precinct, Old First Precinct Building, New York (organized by Creative Time, Inc.).

Summer Light, Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York Group Show, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York.

Neon Fronts, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Group Show, P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources; Long Island City, NY

 

  1980

Aspects of the Seventies - Site Work, Large Incomplete Circle, Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

The Eleventh International Sculpture Conference, Apex Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. (Curated by David Furchgott).

Other Works, Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia (opening in conjunction with the permanent Antonakos installation).

Arts on the Line - Art for Public Transit Spaces, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Committee on the Visual Arts, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Arte Americana Contemporanea, Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia e Arte; Instituto per l'encyclopedia del Friuli Venezia Giulia; Comune d'Udine; Venice, Italy

Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture; Audience, curated by Janet Kardon; Institute of Contemporary Art; Philadelphia, PA

 

  1979

The Minimal Tradition, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (organized by Dorothy Mayhall).

Drawings, Galerie Nancy Gillespie-Elisabeth de Laage, Paris.

 

  1978

Recent Works, John Weber Gallery, New York.

Painting and Sculpture Today, 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indianapolis, IN

Aspects of Minimalism, Julian Preto Gallery; New York, NY

 

  1977

Documenta 6, curated by Manfred Schneckenberger; Kassel, Germany

Drawings, Galerie Nancy Gillespie / Elisabeth de Laage; Paris, France

Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture, curated by Susanna E. Singer; John Weber Gallery; New York, NY
Second venue: Mead Art Museum; Amherst College; Amherst, MA
Third venue: University of California Art Galleries; Santa Barbara, CA
Fourth venue: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, CA
Fifth venue: Hayden Gallery; Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Collection in Progress, Moore College of Art Gallery; Philadelphia, PA

Time, curated by Jane Kardon; Philadelphia College of Art; Philadelphia, PA

 

  1976

Line, Visual Arts Museum, New York, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (organized by Janet Kardon).

Rooms, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York.

Private Notations: Artists' Sketchbooks,
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia (organized by Janet Kardon).

Soho - Downtown Manhattan, 26th Fall Arts Festival, West Berlin (organized by Rene Block).

Discussions: Works / Words, curated by Alanna Heiss; The Clocktower; New York, NY

 

  1975 USA Zeichnungen 3, Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany.

Art in Landscape, Washington, D.C. (organized by Independent Curators).

Monumental Sculpture, Monumental Sculpture Appreciation Association, Inc., Houston, Texas.

Eight Artists / Eight Attitudes / Eight Greeks, ” curated by Christos Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal; Institute for Contemporary Arts; London, England

Light Sculpture, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center; University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, NC

Painting, Drawing, and Sculplture of the '60s and '70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art; Philadelphia, PA
  1974

New Acquisitions, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California.

Paintings and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.

Illuminations and Reflections, Whitney Museum of American Art; New York, NY

Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art; Ridgefield, CT

 

  1973

Works in Spaces, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California (organized by Suzanne Foley).

American Drawings 1963-73, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (organized by Elke Solomon).

Sculpture off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan.

 

  1972

Drawings, Anne-Marie Verna Gallery, Zurich.

Paintings and Sculpture, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York (organized by Dorothy Mayhall).

Drawings by Sculptors, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

Drawings in Space: Nineteen American Sculptors, Katonah Gallery; Katonah, NY

Light and Motion, Art Department; University of Nebraska; Omaha, NE

 

  1971

Light, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine (organized by John Halverson).

What's Happening in SoHo, curated by Marchal E. Landgren; Art Gallery; University of Maryland; College Park, MD

A New Consciousness: The Ciba-Geigy Collection, Hudson River Museum; Yonkers, NY

 

  1970

American Sculpture, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska (organized by Norma A. Geske).

Annual Exhibition - Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Kinetics, Arts Council of Great Britain, London (organized by Robin Campbell).

Continuation of 1969 Sao Paulo Biennial, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (organized by Gyorgy Kepes).

Editions in Plastic, curated by Marchal E. Landgren; Art Gallery; University of Maryland; College Park, MD

 

  1969

Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (organized by Robert Doty).

Drawings, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, Texas (organized by Henry T. Hopkins).

Drawings, Heiner Freidrich Gallery, Munich, Germany.

Light Sculpture, Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey (organized by Samuel Miller).

Inaugural Exhibition, University of Nebraska, Hastings, Nebraska (organized by Norma A. Geske).

Superlimited: Books, Boxes, Things, The Jewish Museum; New York

 

  1968

Light, Object and Image, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York (organized by Robert Doty).

Inaugural Exhibition, Hilles Room, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.

Annual Exhibition - Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Soft Sculpture, American Federation of Arts, Travelling Exhibition (organized by Lucy R. Lippard).

Light as Art, curated by Nelson Howe; Newark College of Engineering; Newark, NJ

The Magic Theater, curated by Ralph T. Coe; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art/Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts; Kansas City, MO
Second venue: City Art Museum; Saint Louis, MO
Third venue: Toledo Museum of Fine Arts; Toledo, OH
Fourth venue: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal, Canada
Fifth venue: Automation House; New York, NY

 

  1967

American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of the Arts, Los Angeles, California and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (organized by Maurice Tuchman).

Light, Motion, Space, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota and Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Winconsin
(organized by Robert Murdoch).

Focus on Light, The New Jersey State Museum, Cultural Center, Trenton, New Jersey.

Sculpture in Environment, curated by Irving Sandler; sponsored by the New York City Administration of Recreation; New York University; Loeb Center; New York, NY

Visual Assault, curated by William Paul; Georgia Museum of Art; Athens, GA

Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; Pittsburgh, PA

Light and Motion, curated by Leon Shulman; Worcester Art Museum; Worcester, MA

Art on Paper, curated by Gilbert Carpenter; Weatherspoon Art Gallery; University of North Carolina; Greensboro, NC

Luminism, Artists' Club; George Washington Hotel; New York, NY

 

  1966

Sound, Light, Silence - Art That Performs, Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (organized by Ralph T. Coe).

Contemporary American Sculpture - Selection I, Assembled by the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Annual Exhibition - Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Kunst - Licht - Kunst, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (organized by Jan Leering).

Current Trends in American Art, Westmoreland County Museum of Art; Greenburg, PA

Art in Process -- The Visual Development of a Structure, curated by Elayne H. Varian, Finch College Museum of Art; Contemporary Wing; New York, NY; Second venue: Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery; Boston, MA

New Acquisitions, Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Wing; New York, NY

Flint Invitational, Flint Institute of Arts; De Waters Art Center, Flint, MI

Faculty Show, Brooklyn Museum Art School; Brooklyn, NY

 

  1965

The New American Realism, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts.

Contemporary Erotica, Van Bovenkamp Gallery; New York, NY

65 Self Portraits, Visual Arts Gallery; New York, NY

100 Artists, PVI Gallery; New York, NY

 

  1964

100 American Drawings, Byron Gallery, New York

All Fur Art, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

Around Travel, PVI Gallery; New York, NY

 

  1963

Group Show, Byron Gallery, New York.

 

  1962

Nuts and Bolts, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

 

  1961

Group Show, Allan Stone Gallery, New York.

 

  1960

New Forms-New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (organized by Steve Joy).

New Forms-New Media II
, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York (organized by Steve Joy).

 

  1957-58

Collages, Avant-Garde Gallery, New York & Miami.

 

     


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