Exhibitions
Five decades of solo and group exhibitions in galleries, museums and sculpture parks across the United States, Europe and Asia — from the first one-person shows of the late 1970s to major museum surveys of recent years.
Pictured: Transformation: The Art of John Van Alstine, 50-year survey exhibition, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, New York, 2022. Curated by Caroline M. Welsh, Director Emerita Adirondack Museum
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
The View Arts Center
Forging Creative Journeys
2024
The Hyde Collection
Transformation: The Art of John Van Alstine (50-Year Survey Exhibition)
2022
Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation
John Van Alstine: Tipping the Balance
2021
The Hyde Collection
Reflecting on 2020: New Sculpture by John Van Alstine
2021
Artist Book Foundation, MASS MoCA Campus
John Van Alstine: Sculpture 1971–2018 (Publication Exhibition)
2019
Opalka Gallery, Sage College
John Van Alstine: Arrested Motion / Perilous Balance
2012
John Davis Gallery
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Gerald Peters Gallery
Nohra Haime Gallery
Rolly-Michaux Gallery
2017–18
Laffer Gallery
2015
Cline | Dale Fine Arts
2008
James Gallery and Sculpture Garden
2003
Gallery 100
2006
Bushlen Mowatt Gallery
2002
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College
2001
FMCC
Mirror to Mountains
2000
The Hyde Collection
Confluence
1999
Wood Street Gallery
John Van Alstine: Sculpture and Drawings
1999
Burke Art Gallery, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Acknowledging the Figure
1998
Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College
1997
DeCordova Museum
Vessels and Voyages
1996–97
Hopkins Center Gallery, Dartmouth College
1995
Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire
1994
Troyer-Fitzpatrick-Lassman Gallery
1994
Cleveland State University Art Gallery
1994
Schering-Plough Corporation
1994
Sun Valley Center for the Arts
1993
Sonsbeek International Art Center
1991
National Academy of Sciences
Documents
1991
Morris Museum
New Jersey Artist Series
1991
Franz Bader Gallery
New Work / Raw Space
1990
Jersey City Museum
Recent Work: John Van Alstine
1988
Laramie County Community College
Drawings
1990
George Ciscle Gallery
1988
Sally Wendels Gallery
1988
National Museum Arts Foundation
1987
Phillips Collection
1987
George Ciscle Gallery
1986
Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University
1986
Diane Brown Gallery
1984
Osuna Gallery
Henri Gallery
Easel Photographs
1981
University of Colorado
1980
Neill Gallery
1979
West Broadway Gallery
1978
Colorado State University
1978
Northern Arizona University
1977
Museum Exhibitions (selected group)
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
As Earth is to Sky
2025–27
Adirondack Experience (The Adirondack Museum)
Artists and Inspiration in the Wild
2023–26
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US Embassy Museum, Santiago, Chile
John Van Alstine | Carlos Luna | Alicia Creus | Valerie Hurd
2009
National Building Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Tool as Art II: Exploring Metaphor — The Hechinger Collection
1997
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Recent Acquisitions (Permanent Collection Exhibition)
1997
Hakone Open-Air Museum
Second Fujisankei Biennale
1994
Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Organization of American States / Art Museum of the Americas
Sculpture of the Americas into the '90s
1990
Portland Museum of Art
Fantastic Vessels | Fictional Voyages
1990
The Phillips Collection
1987
Newark Museum
New Jersey Artists: 5th Biennial Exhibition
1985
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Directions '79
1979
First Western States Biennial (touring exhibition)
1978–80
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Cornell Then / Sculpture Now
1978
Group Exhibitions (selected)
Southampton Arts Center
Organic Abstraction
2024
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Edith Wharton Historic Site
Sculpture on the Mount
2024
Wuhu Sculpture Park
Transformation and Creation
2022
Adirondack Experience
Creativity in Quarantine
2021
Wilderstein Historic Site
5th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial
2019
Open Studio
Chesterwood Gardens
40th Anniversary Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
2018
Art Hamptons, C Fine Arts
2016
Navy Pier
SOFA Chicago (Sculptural Objects Functional Art)
2015
ARThaus
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Summer '14
2014
James Gallery
Response
2014
Courthouse Gallery
Confluence of Opposites II
2014
Chesterwood
Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
2013
Art Hamptons 2013
2013
Nohra Haime Gallery
Sculpture at Nohra Haime
2013
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Summer '13
2013
Silver Bay / Silverbay Boathouse
Tsinghua University
Centennial Sculpture Exhibition
2011
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Elements in Alliance II
2011
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Confluence of Opposites – Pantha Rhei
2011
Bridgehampton Gardens
Uncommon Grounds
2011
Gallery Salwa Zeidan
2010
Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2010
2010
Bridgehampton Gardens
Outdoor Sculpture
2010
Beijing Olympic Park Exhibition
Competition for Large-Scale Public Sculpture, 2008 Olympic Games (Merit Award)
2008
Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Confluence of Opposites
2007
Nohra Haime Gallery
Sculpture from Calder to Bolla
2007
Pittsburgh Society of Sculptors
Project 2006
2006
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Sculpture (Anthony Caro, Isherwood, Ruppert, John Van Alstine)
2006
Gallery Prisma
Exposition Transfer — Südtiroler Künstlerbund
2005
Arnot Museum
Re-presenting Representation VII
2005
Gerald Peters Gallery
Gallery Artists
2005
Grounds For Sculpture
New Additions Outdoors
2004
Rockland Center for the Arts
Sculpture in the Park
2004
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Summer '04
2004
Cobb Galleria Centre
Sculpture Internationale 2003
2003
AVC Contemporary Art Gallery
From Nature
2002
Nohra Haime Gallery
From Stone to Foam
2002
Bushlen Mowatt Gallery
2002
The Gallery of South Orange
Earthline / Landscape
2001
Grounds for Sculpture
Spring Invitational Exhibition
2001
Robert McClain & Co. Gallery
International Sculpture Center – Collection LII, Sculpture 2000 Conference
2000
"N" Street Fine Arts Gallery
Birth
2000