Edward Kienholz
Born 1927 in Fairfield, Washington Object and concept artist US-American, 20th century
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1950	Kienholz was an autodidact, who never visited an academy of art. He started his artistic work with wooden reliefs. His materials were objets trouvés or objets cherchés, sought for at flea markets.
1953	Edward Kienholz moves to Los Angeles
1956	Opening of the NOW Gallery in Los Angeles
1961	Completes his first environment: Roxy´s
1968	Group exhibition, documenta 4, Kassel
1972	Group exhibition, documenta 5, Kassel
1975	Edward Kienholz receives Guggenheim Award; Onnasch Gallery, New York
1977	Opening of The Faith and Charity Gallery in Hope, Idaho
1982	Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1985	Museum of Contemporary Art: The Art Show, Chicago
1986	The Detroit Institute of Arts: Sollie 17, Detroit; Berlinische Galerie: The Pawn Boys, Berlin; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: The Art Show, Santa Barbara
1988	Edward Kienholz receives Arnold-Bode-Prize of the documenta, Kassel; Group exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art: Committed to Print, New York; Biennial of Sydney, Sydney and Melbourne
1989	Städtische Kunsthalle: Kienholz 1980's, Dusseldorf
1993	Museum of Contemporary Art: The Hoerengracht, San Diego
1994	Edward Kienholz dies in Hope, Idaho
1996	Whitney Museum: Kienholz Retrospective, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA, Los Angeles; Berlinsche Galerie, Berlin
1997	Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA, Miami; Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin
1999	Group exhibitions, Irvine Fine Arts Center: Southern California Car Culture, Irvine
2000	Group exhibitions: Sprengel Museum Hannover: Aller Anfang ist MERZ, Hannover; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf: Das fünfte Element - Geld oder Kunst, Dusseldorf
2001	Galerie de France: Tentatives d´évasion I, Paris
2002	Group exhibitions: Gagosian Gallery Chelsea: Ferus, New York; Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki: Popcorns and politics - Activists of Arts, Helsinki
2003	Galerie Inge Baecker: Kunst und Politik, Cologne
2003 – 2004	Group exhibition, Martin Gropius Bau: Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin, Berlin
2004	Group exhibitions: Tretjakov Gallery: Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Moscow; MUMOK: Mike Kelley - Das Unheimliche, Vienna; Whitney Museum: Memorials of War, New York
2005	Laguna Art Museum: Laguna´s Hidden Treasures, Laguna Beach; Museum der Moderne Salzburg: Les Grand Spectacles, Salzburg; Solo exhibition : Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney: Kienholz, Sydney
2006	Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego: La Dolce Vita, San Diego; Group exhibition: Centre Pompidou: LOS ANGELES 1955-1985, Paris
2006 – 2007	La Maison Rouge: busy going crazy, Paris
2008	L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice; Galerie Lelong, Paris
2009	National Gallery, London; EL SOURDOG HEX: Edward Kienholz, Roxy´s (environment 1960-1961), Berlin