The Rebecca Ibel Gallery is delighted to present the rich and sensuous paintings of Stephen Mueller. These new works have a meditative quality blending a contemporary sensibility with interests in Eastern philosophy. New York Times critic Holland Cotter has described his work as, “mysterious without being mystifying, suave but sweet-humored, as art-savvy version of visionary.”

Since 1970, New York based Stephen Mueller’s work has been widely exhibited in galleries and curated exhibitions with a retrospective in 2003 at the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska and the Whitney Biennial in 1995. Mueller has been recognized with many awards such as the Pollack-Krasner Foundation Fellowship in 2002 and his work can be found in numerous private and public collections including The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Portland Art Museum and the Progressive Corporation. Based in New York, this is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery.

Lives and works in New York

1969

BFA University of Texas, Austin

1971

MA Bennington College, Vermont

1995

Visiting Lecturer, Four Painters Program, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

1999

Visiting Lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge

2004

Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2003

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

2001

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

2000

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

1997

Indian Science, Stone Road, Wainscott, New York

1996

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1995

•Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida
•Texas Gallery, Houston
Watercolors, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

1994

Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1993

Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.

1992

•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1990

•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1989

Gallerie Specht, Basel

1988

•Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles
•New Gallery/Bemis Project, Omaha, Nebraska
•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1987

•Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden
•Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1986

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1985

Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London

1984

•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•North Store Gallery, New York

1982

•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•Art Now Gallery, Gothenberg, Sweden

1980

•Mary Boone Gallery, New York
•D. Clayton & Co. Gallery, Houston

1977

•Watson/de Nagy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery, Houston
•Lubin House Gallery of Syracuse University, New York

1976

J. H. Duffy & Sons, Ltd. Gallery,

New York

1975

•Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
•Bennington College Art Gallery, Vermont

1970

Richard Feigen Gallery, New York

2005

‘Fabulous,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2004

‘Holiday Show 2004,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2003

•The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor,

New York
•Summer Color, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
2002 Zenroxy, von Lintel Gallery,

New York
•Summer Group Show and Invitational, Bill Maynes Gallery

2001

•50th Anniversary Exhibition, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
•Some Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

2000

•Glee: Painting Now, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (travels to Palm Beach Institue of Contemporary Art)
•Drawings & Photographs, Benefit Exhibition, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York by Rolf Staub

1999

•Om, Dorsky Gallery, New York
•Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

1998

•6 Painters, (Baroque Geometry), Marborough Chelsea Gallery, New York
•Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
•1997 Out There, Images of the Cosmos, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
•Nirguna/Saguna, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India

1996

Champions of Modernism - Art of Tomorrow/Art of Today, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New York

1995

•Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
•The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
•Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•Transatlantica - The American-Europa Non-Representativa, Fundacion Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,Venezuela
Pure Painting, The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado

1994

•Works on Paper: Selections From the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
•Art on Paper, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
•Paintings from New Jersey Collections, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit

1993

•Tesors de Voyage, Monastero dei Padri Mechitaristi dell’Isola di San Lazzaro degli Arrneni, Venice (under the patronage of the 45th Venice Biennale)
Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
•Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
•Quotes from Past Exhibitions, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•Texas Gallery, Houston
•Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
•Small Format Abstract Paintings, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York
•Reveillon ‘94, Stux Gallery, New York
•Isn’t It Romantic?, On Crosby Street, New York
•In the Spirit of Things, Stux Gallery, New York
•Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York

1992

•Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York
•Slow Art, P. S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
•Emerging New York Artists: An Exhibition of Selected Works from the Collection of Phil Schrager, The College of Fine Arts, University of Nebraska at Omaha

1991

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

1989

•Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1987

The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting Invitational, Bette Stoler Gallery, New York

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Awards:

Pollack-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2002 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2000 National Endowment for the Arts, 1994 The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, 1993 CAPS, Individual Fellowship, 1987

Public Collections:

William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut Portland Art Museum, Oregon Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Brooklyn Museum The Denver Art Museum Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York Southwestern Bell Goldman-Sachs Progressive Corporation, Ohio