DUANE HANSON

Hanson was born in 1925 in Alexandria, Minnesota, and died in 1996 in Boca Raton, Florida. He received a BA from Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota, and an MA from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Selected solo exhibitions include Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (1975); Des Moines Art Center (1977); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1978); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1979); Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna (1992); Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (1994, traveled to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas); Daimaru Museum, Tokyo (1995, travelled to Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan, and Kintetsu Museum, Osaka, Japan); Saatchi Gallery, London (1997); Duane Hanson: A Survey of His Work from the ’30s to the ’90s, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Florida (1998, travelled to Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis); Duane Hanson: More than Reality, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (2001, travelled to Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; and Kunsthaus Zürich); Duane Hanson: A Midwestern Perspective, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio (2004); Duane Hanson: Real Life, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania (2006); Sculptures of the American Dream, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria (2009, travelled to ARKEN—Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Helsinki City Art Museum, UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Völklinger Hütte, Völklingen, Germany, and Fundación Canal, Madrid); Duane Hanson, Serpentine Galleries, London (2015); and Duane Hanson Polaroids: 1979–1994, Aperture Foundation, New York (2017).

Courtesy Gagosian