Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
2023
2020
2018
- Al Held: Infinite Choices - Abstract Drawings ,Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums ,Richmond, Virginia, USA
- Al Held: Paris to New York, 1952鈭�1959 ,Cheim & Read ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Al Held in Paris: 1952-1953 ,Nathalie Karg Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Al Held Luminous Constructs: Paintings & Watercolors from the 1990s ,David Klein Gallery, Detroit ,Detroit, Michigan, USA
2016
2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
2024
- Only Black and White ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Minimalism: Color, Line, Form ,Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts ,Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
- Electric Op ,Buffalo AKG Art Museum ,Buffalo, New York, USA
- Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946鈥�1962 ,Addison Gallery of American Art ,Andover, Massachusetts, USA
- Hard-edged Sacrifice ,Meredith Rosen Gallery ,New York, USA
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2023
- Imaginary I ,MMoCA, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ,Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Works In Black And White ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- The 1960s: Beyond Op and Pop ,The Hyde Collection ,Glens Falls, New York, USA
- The Beauty of Black and White With Rottet Collection ,Loretta Howard Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Order & Disorder (in collaboration with QG Gallery) ,Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels ,Brussels, Belgium
- Abstraction: 1950-1970 ,Taylor | Graham, Greenwich ,Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
2022
- A Celebration: Large Scale ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- 1962-2022: A Celebration: 60 Prints for 60 Years ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- In Dialogue: Unexpected Visual Conversations ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Summer Group Show ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Color ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2021
2020
- ONLINE: Babel ,White Cube, Hong Kong ,Central, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Specific Forms ,Loretta Howard Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- The Responsive Eye Revisited: Then, Now, and In-Between ,Miles McEnery Gallery (520 W 21st Str.) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Crown Point Press in the 鈥�80s ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2019
- In Honor of the New MoMA ,Cheim & Read ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Summer Choices: A Group Exhibition ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Downtown Painting ,Peter Freeman, Inc. ,Soho, New York, USA
- Double Edged: Geometric Abstraction Then And Now ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Inaugural Exhibition ,Leila Heller Gallery, New York ,New York, USA
- Winter Selections: Prints & Drawings ,Senior & Shopmaker Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2018
- Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris 1944-1968 ,Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ,Madrid, Spain
- Spheres Of Influence ,Senior & Shopmaker Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Montauk Highway II: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (4 Newtown Ln) ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- 1960s: A Survey of the Decade ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Black & White ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Pictures without shadows ,Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Line, Form and Colour. Works from the Berardo Collection ,MAC/CCB Museum of Contemporary Art ,Lisbon, Portugal
- Pictures without shadows ,Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf ,Düsseldorf, Germany
- Carry the Bend ,Brennan & Griffin, Lower East Side ,Lower East Side, New York, USA
- Selections ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
2017
- Expanding Space ,Loretta Howard Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Degrees of Abstraction ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Disorderly Conduct: American Painting and Sculpture, 1960-1990 ,Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University ,Durham, North Carolina, USA
- Montauk Highway: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (4 Newtown Ln) ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- The Horizontal ,Cheim & Read ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Summer Choices ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Abstraction: Stories Told in Shape, Color and Form ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Winter Assembly ,Austin / Desmond Fine Art ,Bloomsbury, London, UK
- Park Place Gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now ,David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952鈥�1965 ,Grey Art Museum ,New York, USA
2016
2015
- Color(less) ,Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- BLACK / WHITE ,Miles McEnery Gallery (525 W 22nd Str.) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Military Veterans at the League ,Art Students League of New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Coordinates ,MMoCA, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art ,Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Post-War and Contemporary Selections ,David Klein Gallery ,Birmingham, Michigan, USA
- Abstraction ,Robert Miller Gallery ,New York, USA
- An Artist鈥檚 Gift: Acquisitions from the Alex Katz Foundation ,Colby College Museum of Art ,Waterville, Maine, USA
- Showing Off: Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions ,Denver Art Museum ,Sun Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
- America Is Hard to See ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2014
- Al Held + Robert Mangold: B/W to Color ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Summer Group Exhibition: Part II ,Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Summer Choices: A Group Show ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Summer Group Exhibition: Part I ,Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Winter Group Show ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Winter Group Show: Paintings, Sculpture ,David Klein Gallery ,Birmingham, Michigan, USA
2013
- Multiplicity ,Akron Art Museum ,Akron, Ohio, USA
- Galen at The Galen ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Daimler Contemporary ,Daimler Contemporary ,Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- Totally 80s: Gifts to the Permanent Collection ,Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) ,Santa Barbara, California, USA
- Shifting Planes ,Van Doren Waxter, 73rd Street ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Abstract Mash-Up II: A Group Exhibition ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- My Echo My Shadow ,Gavlak Gallery, West Palm Beach ,West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
2012
2010
2008
- Abstract Mash-Up: A Group Exhibition ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Intro to Riverhouse Editions and Van Straaten Gallery ,Sandy Carson Gallery ,Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
- Sensory Overload: Light, Motion Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945 ,Milwaukee Art Museum ,Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Winter Group Show ,Crown Point Press Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
How much does an Al Held cost?
Al Held's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 147 USD to 312,500 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.What is Al Held's most expensive painting?
Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 312,500 USD for Compass Rose, sold at Christie's New York in 2019. In the past 12 months, their prints & graphic art have averaged 1,103 USD.Where can I see Al Held's works?
Numerous key galleries and museums such as Buffalo AKG Art Museum have featured Al Held's work in the past.Al Held in the news
Al Held has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for Art Review in December 2024. The artist died in 2005.Artist's alternative names: Alvin Jacob Held
Have You Considered?
Aur茅lie Nemours
French, 1910 - 2005
Georg Karl Pfahler
German, 1926 - 2002
Leon Polk Smith
American, 1906 - 1996
Frederick Hammersley
American, 1919 - 2009
Ad Reinhardt
American, 1913 - 1967
Michelle Grabner
American, 1962
Adolf Luther
German, 1912 - 1990
John Dwyer McLaughlin
American, 1898 - 1976
Jack Tworkov
American, 1900 - 1982
Karl Benjamin
American, 1925 - 2012
Raymond Parker
American, 1922 - 1990
Tony Smith
American, 1912 - 1980
Thomas Downing
American, 1928 - 1985
Alfred Jensen
Guatemalan, 1903 - 1981
Allan McCollum
American, 1944
John McCracken
American, 1934 - 2011
Jack Youngerman
American, 1926 - 2020
Beverly Pepper
American, 1922 - 2020