Nasce nel 1921 a Chicago, Illinois, da genitori ebrei polacchi. Studia con Mies van der Rohe all'Armor Institute of Technology e durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale presta servizio nell'aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti. Successivamente, si forma all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze e all'Accademia di Belle Arti di Parigi. Dal 1948 al 1956 vive a Parigi. Rientra negli Stati Uniti nel 1956. La sua carriera è segnata da numerosi cambi stilistici, una profonda comprensione dell'arte e della storia dell'arte, un vivo interesse per l'etica dell'astrazione gestuale e dell'espressionismo astratto.
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI PERSONALI
1957
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery
1958
Los Angeles, Paul Kantor Gallery
1959
Milano, Galleria del Naviglio
1960
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery
1961
Torino, Galleria Notizie
1962
New York, David Anderson Gallery
1963
Zurigo, Galerie Semiha Huber
Parigi, Galerie Anderson-Mayer
1964
Bruxelles, Galerie Smith
1965
Parigi, Galerie Anderson-Mayer
1968
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1969
Washington, The Corcoran Gallery of Art
1970
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1972
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
1974
Venezia, Palazzo delle Prigioni Vecchie
Milano, Galleria Il Cerchio
Milano, Galleria Rotta
1975
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1976
Houston, Contemporary Art Museum
1982
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1985
Los Angeles, Herbert Palmer Gallery
1986
New York, Washburn Gallery
1987
Clinton (NY), Emerson Gallery, (itinerante) Norman Bluhm. Works on pape, 1947-1987
1988
Parigi, Galerie Stadler
1989
New York, Washburn Gallery
1990
New York, Washburn Gallery, Works from the 1950’s
Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Selected Works, 1954-1960
1991
New York, Washburn Gallery, Works from the 1960’s
1992
Livorno, Galleria Peccolo, Works on paper, 1967-1991
Buffalo, The Anderson Gallery
1994
New York – Los Angeles, Ace Contemporary Gallery
1995
Livorno, Galleria Peccolo, Opere 1993-1995
Milano, Galleria Blu
1996
Milano, Studio d’Arte Zanoletti, Opere 1993-1995
1998
Livorno, Galleria Peccolo, Works from the 1950’s and 1960’s
2002
Worcester, Worcester Art Museum, Norman Bluhm Drawings
New York, Gary Snyder Fine Art, Ideal Abstraction, 1955-1965, Karl
Benjamin and Norman Bluhm
2005
New York, James Graham and Sons, Norman Bluhm, Works on Paper from
the 70s, 80s and 90s
New York, JG Contemporary, Norman Bluhm, Three Paintings
2007
Houston, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, The Late Paintings of Norman Bluhm
SELEZIONE ESPOSIZIONI COLLETTIVE
1953
Parigi, Galerie Craven, Peintres américains en France
1956
New York, Martha Jackson Gallery
Londra, Gimpel Fils, Summer exhibition
Tokyo, Exposition internationale de l’art actuel
1958
Milano, Galleria del Naviglio, Incontro Italia-America
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, The Pittsburgh International
1959
New York, Leo Castelli Gallery, Monogram
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Painting
Kassel, Documenta II
1960
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Sixty American Painters, 1960:
Abstract Expressionist Painting of the Fifties
Dallas, The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts, To Be Continued
1961
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, American Abstract
Expressionists e Imagists
Torino, Galleria Notizie, Artisti americani
Chicago, The Art Institute, 64th Annual American Exhibition of
Painting and Sculpture
1963
Ghent, Centrum voor kunstbachten, Forum 63
Zurigo, Galerie Semiha Huber, Accrochage
Londra, Museum of Modern Art/Art in Embassies, Fourteen Americans
1964
Parigi, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Xxeme Salon de Mai
New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, American Drawings
1965
New York, International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Abstract
Watercolors by 14 Americans
Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria
1966
Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art
New Delhi, Museum of Modern Art
1967
New York, The Jewish Museum, Large Scale American Paintings
1968
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Dada, Surrealism and Their
Heritage
New York, The Museum of Modern Art
1970
New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, Recent Years
Flint, Flint Institute of Art, The Director’s Choice
1971
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Art in the Embassies Program
1972
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972 Annual Exhibition of
Contemporary American Painting
Milano, Galleria d’Arte Pietra, Venti pittori
1975
New York, The Museum of Modern Art (itinerante), Color in Language
1976
Chicago, Young Hoffman Gallery, Around 10th Street: Abstract
Expressionism in the 1950s
Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Painting and Sculpture
Today
1978
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Aesthetics of Graffiti
1980
Udine, Civici Musei e Gallerie d’Arte, Contemporary American Art
1982
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, Recent Trends in Collecting
Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
New York, Guild Hall Museum, Poets and Artists
1983
Tubingen, Kunsthalle
Berlino, Staatliche Kunsthalle
1985
Washington, Smithsonian Institution, The Martha Jackson Memorial
Collection
New York, Washburn Gallery, Action/Precision: 1980-85
1987
Città del Messico, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporàneo, Leo Castelli
New York, Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, Post Abstract Expressionism
1988
Bruxelles, Galerie Monochrome, Topics in American Art
Little Rock, The Arkansas Art Center, American Abstract Drawings
1991
Buffalo, Anderson Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition. Parts I and II
Parigi, Galerie Stadler, Group Show
1993
Maubeuge, 1ère Triennale des Amériques
1994
New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, On Paper: Abstraction in American Art
1996
Città del Messico, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Pintura estadounidense, Expressionismo Abstracto
1997
Torino, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Parigi, New York, Osaka: Tapié, Un Art Autre
1999
Chiavari, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Rocca, O’Hara,
Bluhm & Goldberg, Un poeta e due pittori a New York negli anni ‘50
Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art (itinerante), In Memory
of My Feelings: Frank O’Hara and American Art
2001
New York, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, 1950-1965 Abstraction on Paper
2004
Madrid, Circulo de Bellas Artes, An American Odyssey: 1945-1980
Cork, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Modern American Painting, from the
NYU art Collections
2007
Los Angeles, Manny Silverman Gallery, Norman Bluhm: Selected Works from 1976 to 1989
