Marcia Hafif

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A member of the Radical Painting Group in New York, Marcia Hafif has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States and has written much of the definitive literature on monochrome painting. Her pioneering work with color has set the standard for many painters.

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Davey's Gray (Scheveningen) 2000
30 x 30 inches
Oil on linen

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Payne's Gray (Winsor & Newton) 2000
30 x 26 inches
Oil on linen
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Green Lake Deep
30 x 26 inches
Oil on linen
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2001 Marcia Hafif: Italian Series, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland, with catalogue raisonne of years 1961-1969
Installation, Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2000 Marcia Hafif, Italian Series 1962-65, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Video showing, Beach Rocks and Ideal Women, Workshop Mauser, Cologne, Germany
Red Paintings: Oil, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Paint Color/Light Color, paper read at colloquium, Kunstakademie Wien, Vienna, Austria
"A Little History", paper read at symposium for Die Farbe Hat Mich, Oberhausen, Germany
Marcia Hafif: Pacific Ocean Series, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 Peintures, 1962-1968, La Fondation Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Red Paintings: Oil, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland
Red Paintings: Oil, Galerie Sturm, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Appel & Troschke, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Photo and video exhibition, Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany
Red Paintings: Oil, Galerie Appel & Traschke, Frankfurt, Germany
1998 Red Paintings, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
Vienna Suite: Red Paintings/Photos, Gallery Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Red Paintings, Josselyne Gerard-Naef, Lyon, France
1997 Marcia Hafif, Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Marcia Hafif, Richard Nonas, Hubert Winter Gallery, Berlin, Germany
New French Paintings, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Late Roman Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Marcia Hafif, Paintings from the 60's, Edieurope, Rome, Italy
1996 New Arts Program, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, 
Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
L=Espace de i=Art Contemporain, Demigny, France
1995 Marcia Hafif, Galerie Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland
From the Inventory, Haus fur Konstruktive und Konkrete Art, Zurich, Switzerland
Marcia Hafif, Schilderijen, Het Apollohuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Marcia Hafif, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Marcia Hafif: French Paintings, Watercolors, Artothek, Cologne, Germany
Marcia Hafif, Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
1994 From the Inventory, Von der Heydt-Museum, Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal, Germany
Acryl Lasur, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
Lasure Acrylique, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
Rose, Todd Gallery, London, England
studio a, Otterndorf, Germany (with Erik Saxon)
1993 New York Colors, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
1992 Marcia Hafif, Mass Tone Paintings From the Table of Pigments, Galerij S65, Aalst, Belgium
French Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany
Local Color, Galleria Plurima, Milan, Italy
Mass Tone Paintings From the Table of Pigments, Stark Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Bleu Parisien, Gilbert Brownstone et Cie., Paris, France
Red Colors, Kunsthalle, Winterthur, Switzerland
1990 Inventory: Marcia Hafif, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Monochrome Malerei, Dr. Luise Krohn, Badenweiler
Black Paintings, Julian Pretto, New York, New York
Red Paintings, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany
Wall Painting and Work on Paper, Galerie Conrads
1989 Enamel on Wood, Julian Pretto/Berland Hall, New York, New York
Enamel on Wood, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
Blue Paintings, Julian Pretto, New York, New York
1986 Marcia Hafif, Paintings, Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Marcia Hafif, Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
1984 Marcia Hafif, Ultramarine Blue, Viridian Green, Raum fur Malerei, Cologne, Germany
1983 Marcia Hafif, Malningar, Galerie Nordenhake, Malmo, Sweden
1981 Black Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
Marcia Hafif, paintings and drawings, Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California
Marcia Hafif, diagonal drawings, Galleria Peccolo, Livorno, Italy
1979 Marcia Hafif, New Paintings: Breaking Color, The Clocktower, New York, New York
1978 Neutral Mix Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
Drawings, Galleriaforma, Genoa, Italy
1976 Drawings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
1975 Wall Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, and Paris, France
Marcia Hafif, d=Alessandro-Ferranti, Rome, Italy
Marica Hafif, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California
Mass Tone Paintings, Galerie Delta, Brussels, Belgium
1974 Mass Tone Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
1973 Marcia Hafif, Galleriaforma, Genoa, Italy
1969 Marcia Hafif, New Paintings, Editalia, Rome, Italy
1968 Marcia Hafif, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy
Marcia Hafif, Galleria Il Sagittario, Bari, Italy
1968 Marcia Hafif, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
1964 Marcia Hafif, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001 Virtuel/Reel, Espace d'Art Concrete, Mouans-Sartoux France
Abstraction and Immanence, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York
2000 The Tao of Painting: Principles in Monochrome, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Painting, Esso Gallery, New York, New York
Blau-Malerei, Galerie Am See, Zug, Switzerland
Das Gedachtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Installation, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1999 Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Die Farbe Hat Mich, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
Studio-Exhibition: Geccelli, Hafif, Muller, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden,Germany
Galleria Plurima, Udine, Italy
Radical Painting, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Not Nothing, Todd Gallery, London, England
Le Dessin en Proces, La Box, Bourges, France
Memory, TZ'Art, New York, New York
Color-Based Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Die Schaufenster, Galerie Hubert Winter, Berlin, Germany
Amarante Vermillion Ocre Rouge, Musee des Ursulines, Macon, France
1997 Un Musee-Imagine par des Artistes, Espace de L=Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Oeuvres de FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
La Tentation du Livre, Livres d'Artistes, Tinqueux, France
Intimate Universe, 420 West Broadway, curated by Michael Walls
After The Fall, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Summer Reading, Printed Matter, New York, New York
Stellar Spectra, Mary Barone Gallery, New York, New York
Paper Trail, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York
After the Fall, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York
1996 Julian Pretto Collection, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Squares or Lines, Art and Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Mostly Monochrome, The Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Condamnes a la Liberte, L'Espace de l'Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Installation, Hubert Winter Gallery, Krems, Austria
Derniéres Nouvelles des Fonds, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Marcia Hafif, Martina Klein, Carl Andre, Galerie C. Delank, Bremen, Germany
Deep Surface, Vienna, Austria
1995 Pleasant Pebble, The Workspace, New York, New York
Karo Dame, Historical Exhibition of Constructive and Concrete Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Une Constellation, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
Lilian Ball, Bernard Frize, Marsha Hafif, Chateau Naef-Gerard, Roanne, France
Co-Existence, Construction in Process, Israel
Color and Paint, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Concrete Art Today, Chateau de Mouans, Sartoux, France
1995 In Small Dimensions, Andre Zaare Gallery, New York, New York
Dorrie-Priess Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Une Anthologie, URDLA, Villurbane, France
1994 Farbe Benutzen, Mark Muller, Zurich, Switzerland
Defining Color, Tz=art & Co., New York, New York
Surface Tension, Curwen Gallery, London, England
Poetic Heroic, curated by Michael Walls, Art Initiatives, New York, New York
1993 Songs of Retribution, curated by Nancy Spero, Richard Anderson, New York, New York
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
MFA Program Faculty Artist=s Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Hunter
College Art Gallery, New York, New York
The Design Show at Exit Art/First World, New York, New York; announcements 
for exhibitions, curated by Jean Noel Herlin
Construction in Process IV, Lodz, Poland
On Paper, Tz=art & Co., New York, New York
1992 Wanas 1992, Wanas Exhibitions, Krislinge, Sweden
Slow Art, Painting in New York Now, P.S.1, New York, New York
Simply Red, Gilbert Brownstone et Cie., Paris, France
1992 Marcia Hafif, Perry Roberts, Adrian Schiess, Phil Sims, Gunter Umberg, Galerie 
Conrads, Neuss, Germany
1991 L=Aventure de L=Abstraction, Foundation Deutsch, Belmont-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland
The Painted Desert, Renox Xippas, Paris, France
Galerie Hake, Wiesbaden, Germany
Malerie Pur, Die Gesellschaft fur Akustische Lebenshilfe, Kiel, Germany
The Process of Looking, Stark Gallery, New York, New York
Paintings of the 1970s/1990s, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany
Travaux Sur Papier, Gilbert Brownstone et Cie., Paris, France
Qui Arte Contemporanea Venticinque Anni, Rome, Italy
In Malerei Pur, Die Gesellschaft fur Akustische Lebenshilfe, 
Lebenshilfe, Kiel, Germany
1990 Painting for Itself, Julian Pretto, New York, New York
Galerie S65, Aalst, Belgium
Red, Isy and Christine Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
Construction in Process, Lodz, Poland
1989 Installation der Farbe, Marcia Hafif, Olivier Mosset, Dieter Villinger, Galerie Conrads, Neuss, Germany
Un Autre Affaire, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Disappearances, Nahan Contemporary, New York, New York
Simple in Appearance, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 The Color Alone: The Monochrome Experiment, Musee St. Pierre, Lyon, France
1987 New York Art, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 Red, Curated by Robert Nickas, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, New York
1984 American Women Artists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
Radical Painting, Curated by Thomas Krens, Williams College Museum, Williamstown, Massachusetts
1983 Abstract Painting: 1960-1969, curated by Donald Droll, P.S. 1, New York, New York
Paint as Image, curated by Eric Siegeltuch, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, New York
New Abstraction, curated by Marcha Hafif, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
Artist/Critic, White Columns, Wayne, New York
1981 Painting about Painting, William Patterson College, New Jersey
New Work III, Surfaces/Textures, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Dark Thoughts: Black Paintings, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Seven New York Painters, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York
1980 Marking Black, The Bronx Museum, New York, New York
1980 Color Painting, Shirley Cerf Gallery, San Francisco, California
New York City, Arco d=Alibert, Rome, Italy
1979 Drawing About Drawing Today, Ackland Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Wall Painting, curated by Judith Rossi Kirschner, The Museum of Contemporar Art, Chicago, Illinois
1978 In the Realm of the Monochromatic, curated by Michael Wells, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, New York
1977 Drawing of the >70s, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Inscriptions, Mollet-Vieville, Najar, Paris, France
Bilder Ohne Bilder, curated by Klaus Honnef, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany
1976 Approaching Painting, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Rooms, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Berlin Festival Exhibition, curated by Rene Bloch, The Berlin Festival Society, Berlin, Germany
1975 Painting, Julian Pretto, New York, New York, curated by Annina Nosei
Tendencies Actuelles de la Nouvelle Peinture Americaine, curated by Marcelin Pleynet, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1973 Glossario, curated by Ma Volpi, Editalia, Rome, Italy
1968 Confronto, Accardi, Hafif, Turcato, curated by Marisa Volpi, Galleria Editalia, Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition, Galleria SM13, Rome, Italy
IV Quadriennale Roma, Rome, Italy
1967 Imagini Del Colore, curated by Marisa Volpi, Galleria Editalia, Rome, Italy
Illuminations, Trento, Italy
Hafif, Innocente, Titone, Galleria La Salita, Rome, Italy

WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Wright State Medical School, Dayton, Ohio
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York
The American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
The American Medical Association
The First National Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
Clemens-Seles Museum, Neuss, Germany
Espace de I=Art Concret, Chateau de Mouans Sybil Albers-Barrier, Mouans- Sartoux, France
studio a, Otterndorf, Germany
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Rotkreuzsspital, Zurich, Switzerland
Fonds Municipal de Decoration, Ville de Geneve, Geneva, Switzerland
Fonds Cantonal de Decoration, Switzerland
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

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