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.
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
The View Arts Center
Forging Creative Journeys
2024
View →The Hyde Collection
Transformation: The Art of John Van Alstine (50-Year Survey Exhibition)
2022
View →Chesterwood, National Trust for Historic Preservation
John Van Alstine: Tipping the Balance
2021
View →The Hyde Collection
Reflecting on 2020: New Sculpture by John Van Alstine
2021
View →Artist Book Foundation, MASS MoCA Campus
John Van Alstine: Sculpture 1971–2018 (Publication Exhibition)
2019
View →Opalka Gallery, Sage College
John Van Alstine: Arrested Motion / Perilous Balance
2012
View →John Davis Gallery
Rolly-Michaux Gallery
2017–18
View →Laffer Gallery
2015
View →Cline | Dale Fine Arts
2008
View →James Gallery and Sculpture Garden
2003
View →Gallery 100
2006
View →Bushlen Mowatt Gallery
2002
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College
2001
View →FMCC
Mirror to Mountains
2000
View →The Hyde Collection
Confluence
1999
View →Wood Street Gallery
John Van Alstine: Sculpture and Drawings
1999
View →Burke Art Gallery, State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Acknowledging the Figure
1998
View →Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College
1997
View →DeCordova Museum
Vessels and Voyages
1996–97
View →Hopkins Center Gallery, Dartmouth College
1995
View →Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire
1994
View →Troyer-Fitzpatrick-Lassman Gallery
1994
View →Cleveland State University Art Gallery
1994
View →Schering-Plough Corporation
1994
View →Sun Valley Center for the Arts
1993
View →Sonsbeek International Art Center
1991
View →National Academy of Sciences
Documents
1991
View →Morris Museum
New Jersey Artist Series
1991
View →Franz Bader Gallery
New Work / Raw Space
1990
View →Jersey City Museum
Recent Work: John Van Alstine
1988
View →Laramie County Community College
Drawings
1990
View →George Ciscle Gallery
1988
View →Sally Wendels Gallery
1988
View →National Museum Arts Foundation
1987
View →Phillips Collection
1987
View →George Ciscle Gallery
1986
View →Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University
1986
View →Diane Brown Gallery
1984
View →Henri Gallery
Easel Photographs
1981
View →University of Colorado
1980
View →Neill Gallery
1979
View →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
View →Adirondack Experience (The Adirondack Museum)
Artists and Inspiration in the Wild
US Embassy Museum, Santiago, Chile
John Van Alstine | Carlos Luna | Alicia Creus | Valerie Hurd
2009
View →National Building Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Tool as Art II: Exploring Metaphor — The Hechinger Collection
1997
View →Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Recent Acquisitions (Permanent Collection Exhibition)
1997
View →Hakone Open-Air Museum
Second Fujisankei Biennale
1994
View →Museum of Modern Art of Latin America, Organization of American States / Art Museum of the Americas
Sculpture of the Americas into the '90s
1990
View →Portland Museum of Art
Fantastic Vessels | Fictional Voyages
1990
View →The Phillips Collection
1987
View →Newark Museum
New Jersey Artists: 5th Biennial Exhibition
1985
View →Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
Directions '79
1979
View →First Western States Biennial (touring exhibition)
1978–80
View →Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
Cornell Then / Sculpture Now
1978
View →Group Exhibitions (selected)
Southampton Arts Center
Organic Abstraction
2024
Edith Wharton Historic Site
Sculpture on the Mount
2024
View →Wuhu Sculpture Park
Transformation and Creation
2022
View →Adirondack Experience
Creativity in Quarantine
2021
View →Wilderstein Historic Site
5th Outdoor Sculpture Biennial
2019
View →Chesterwood Gardens
40th Anniversary Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
2018
View →Art Hamptons, C Fine Arts
2016
Navy Pier
SOFA Chicago (Sculptural Objects Functional Art)
2015
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Summer '14
2014
James Gallery
Response
2014
Courthouse Gallery
Confluence of Opposites II
2014
View →Chesterwood
Contemporary Sculpture Exhibition
2013
View →Art Hamptons 2013
2013
Nohra Haime Gallery
Sculpture at Nohra Haime
2013
C. Grimaldis Gallery
Summer '13
2013
Tsinghua University
Centennial Sculpture Exhibition
2011
View →Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Elements in Alliance II
2011
View →C. Grimaldis Gallery
Confluence of Opposites – Pantha Rhei
2011
View →Bridgehampton Gardens
Uncommon Grounds
2011
View →Gallery Salwa Zeidan
2010
Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2010
2010
Bridgehampton Gardens
Outdoor Sculpture
2010
View →Beijing Olympic Park Exhibition
Competition for Large-Scale Public Sculpture, 2008 Olympic Games (Merit Award)
2008
View →Lake Placid Center for the Arts
Confluence of Opposites
2007
View →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
View →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
View →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
View →Robert McClain & Co. Gallery
International Sculpture Center – Collection LII, Sculpture 2000 Conference
2000
"N" Street Fine Arts Gallery
Birth
2000