Michael Heizer
Born 1944 in Berkeley, California
Land Art
US-American, 20th/21st century
 
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1963 – 1964 Attends the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1968 Group exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art: Sculpture Annual, New York; Michael Heizer receives Cassandra Foundation Award, William and Noma Copley Foundation; Virginia Dwan Gallery: Earthworks, New York
1969 Michael Heizer moves to New York; Galerie Heiner Friedrich: Michael Heizer, Munich Depression, Munich; The Museum of Contemporary Art: Virgin River Mesa, Nevada, Michael Heizer, Double Negative, Los Angeles Group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Bern: When Attitudes Become Form, Bern; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld
1970 Group exhibition: Venice Biennale: International Pavillion, Venice
1972 Michael Heizer acquires land in Hiko, Nevada, where he works and resides
1974 Fourcade, Droll Inc.: Michael Heizer, Recent Paintings, New York
1976 Xavier Fourcade Inc. Gallery: Michael Heizer, New Works-Painting and Sculpture, New York
1977 Galerie Am Promenadeplatz: Michael Heizer, Bilder von 1967-1977, Munich; Gruppenausstellung, documenta 6, Kassel
1979 Museum Folkwang: Michael Heizer, Essen; Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
1980 Group exhibition, St. Louis Museum of Art: Currents 7, William Kohn and Michael Heizer, St. Louis
1981 Janie C. Lee Gallery: Michael Heizer, Sculpture, Houston; Gruppenausstelung, Contemporary Art Museum: The Americans, The Landscape, Houston
1984 Museum of Contemporary Art: Michael Heizer, 45°, 90°, 180°/Geometric Extraction, Los Angeles; Group exhibition, Musée d´ Art Contemporaine: Accents américains, Montreal
1985 Whitney Museum of Art: Michael Heizer, Dragged Mass Geometric, New York
1988 Akira Ikeda Gallery: Michael Heizer: New Sculpture, Tokyo
1990 Waddington Galleries: Michael Heizer, London
1994 Ace Gallery: Art Before Life, Michael Heizer, New York
1995 Galerie Frank + Schulte: Michael Heizer: Works 1972-1976, Berlin
1996 Fondazione Prada: Michael Heizer: Negative - Positive +, Milan
1998 Group exhibition, David Zwirner: Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s
1999 Group exhibition, P.S.1 Museum of Modern Art: PRIMARILY STRUCTURAL, Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Works on Paper, New York
2003 Peter Freeman Inc.: Michael Heizer, New York; Group exhibitions: Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: Ready to Shoot, Dusseldorf; Detroit Institute of Arts: On the Edge, Contemporary Art from the Daimler Chrysler Collection, Detroit
2004 Fundació Joan Miró: Behind the Facts, (Interfunktionen 1968-1975), Barcelona
2006 Jablonka Galerie: Michael Heizer: Works from the 70s, Cologne; Pace Wildenstein: Michael Heizer, Stone Scuptures, New York; Group exhibition, Daimler Contemporary: Minimalism and After IV, Berlin
2007 Group exhibitions: Lucas Schoormans Gallery: Sculpture, New York; Fundación Juan March, Museu d´ Art Español Contemporani: Before and Ater Minimalism, Palma de Mallorca; Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin;
2008 EL SOURDOG HEX: Michael Heizer, Untitled (paintings and Sculptures, 1972-1983), Berlin; Group exhibitions: The Menil Collection: How Artists Draw, Houston; Städtische Kunsthalle: Performing the City, Munich; Jason Rulnik: Abstract in Appearance, New York;
2009 Group exhibitions: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Häusler Contemporary: Loveparade 2, Munich