Born 1926 in Agios Nikolaos, Laconia, Greece.
Lives and works in New York, NY.
Website: stephenantonakos.com
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2009
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light
2008
ACA Gallery of SCAD, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light
David Krut Projects, New York, NY, Stephen Antonakos
Jim Kempner Fine Arts, New York, NY, Antonakos: "13' Red Neon Incomplete Square"
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Stephen Antonakos: Retrospective
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany, Stephen Antonakos and Ronald Bladen: Drawings of the 60s & 70s
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece, Stephen Antonakos: New Wall Works
2006
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY, Gardens
National Academy Museum, New York, NY, Italia
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Guild Hall Collects: Gifts in Honor of the 75th Anniversary
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, America / Americas
Kalfayan Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, Drawings
Hellenic Academy of Modern Art, Athens, Greece, Memory
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Perspectives / New Visions: Collecting the New
2005
The Gallery of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, Five Decades of Drawing
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, The Years of Defiance / Art of the 1970s in Greece
Ministry of Culture, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi, Greece, Columns and Pillars
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece, Light Waves
2004
Chapel of St. George, Mystra, Greece, Remembrance
Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros, Greece, To Spiti / The House
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Stephen Antonakos: Three Spaces / Four Directions
Museo dell’Academia Ligustica di Belle Arte, Genoa, Italy, Mastri Mediterrani: Antonakos, Burri, Klein, Tapies
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Arti + Architettura 1900-2000
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Infinite Possibilities / Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 7 + 7: From the Collections of EMST
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Five Artists / Five Faiths
2003
Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece, Darkness and Light
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Journey
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York, NY, Silent Chapel
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Recent Acquisitions
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, New Acquisitions
The Galleries at the JCC’s Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA, A Happening Place
Tsumari, Japan, The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
2002
Galerie Denise Rene, Rive Gauche, Paris, France, Antonakos
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, The Magic of Light
Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Architectures for One
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, Ad Infinitum: Serial Drawings
Chiostro dell’ex Convento di San Francesco, Pordenone, Italy, There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Bari, Italy, In Situ
Center for Contemporary Art, Trikala, Greece, Oi Protoporoi: Collection Beltsios
Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York, NY, Unforgettable
2001
Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY, Saint Anthony: An Installation for the Easter Season
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France, Contemporary Drawings
Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy, Manin Villa Manin: una collezione d’arte
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Im Spiegel der Freiheit: Tsarouchis, Antonakos, Hadjimichalis, Schirn
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany, Book Theologies: Contemporary Greek Artists
Hamburger, Banhoff, Berlin, Germany, Collection Marzona
2000
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Time Boxes 2000
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Public Works 1973-2000
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Praise
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, Proscenium
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France, Neons
Trikila, Greece, Betsios Collection
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages
1999
P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, Welcome and Chapel for P.S.1
Arts Center, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA, Blue Cross Meditation Room
St. Peter's Church, New York, NY, The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, Color and Light
Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York, NY, Greek Travel Collages
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Hot Glass, Flat Glass, and Neon
The Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Light at the Top of the Chimney
1998
Lucas Gallery, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Chapel Models
Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Plastivellum Drawings
Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York, NY, Selected Drawings
Mitchel Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Early Assemblages and Blue Box 1965
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Building the American Collections
Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY, Paper +
Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition
1997
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Aspects
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, Inner Light
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, Meditation Room
XVLII Biennale di Venezia (Greece), Giardini del Castello, Venice, Italy, The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Sex/Industry
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY, Neuberger Biennial for Public Art
42nd Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France, Montrouge—Athens
Kartner Landesgalerie, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Bozen, Germany, Raum Zeichen Licht
1996
The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, The Room
1995
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, Drawings
The New Fort, Corfu, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints
The Century Association, New York, NY, Ten Artists’ Drawings
Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece, Time Is a Child Playing and Throwing Dice
1994
European Union Hall, Zappeion, Athens, Greece, Antonakos and Takis
1993
Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints and Chapel of St. John the Baptist
The Fortress of St. George, The Old City, Rhodes, Greece, Chapel of the Saints
1992
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints and Chapel of St. John the Baptist
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, Challenge and Response: The New Technology
Alexandros Soutsos Museum, National Gallery, Athens, Greece, Metamorphoses of the Modern
1991
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland, A Touch of Switzerland
1990
Galerie d' Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, Neons and Drawings
Kamaruka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Crete, Greece, Second Minos Beach Art Symposium
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL, Opening Exhibition
1989
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, New Work
Atlantic Center for the Arts; New Smyrna Beach, FL, Neon and Drawings
Gallery Camino Real; Boca Raton, FL, Neons and Drawings
International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan, Artec
Villa Arson, Nice, France, pas à coté / pas n’importe où 4
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, Neons and Collages
Montreal, Quebec, Art et Nouvelles Technologies
American Crafts Museum, New York Architectural Art
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, Local Color: Selections from Contemporary Collectors
1987
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Neons and Drawings
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 10th Anniversary Exhibition
19th Sao Paulo International Biennial, Sao Paulo
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Galerie Kunigk, Munich, Germany, Minimal Art
1986
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Neons and Drawings
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th National Print Exhibition
Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA, Public Art: Our Commonwealth
1985
Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, IA, Neons
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Minimal Prints and Sculpture
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 10th Year Anniversary
1984
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (now San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art), La Jolla, CA, Neons and Works on Paper
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Intermedia Space - Space Between Painting and Sculpture
1983
Maison de Culture de Nevers, France, Neons for Nevers
Bonnier Gallery, New York, NY, New Work—1983
Jean and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece, Neons
Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, Electra
1982
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, New Works—1982
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Europalia—Hellas 1982
Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Drawing: An Exploration of Line
1981
Old First Precinct Building, New York, NY, Projects at the Precinct
Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York Group Show
P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, Summer Light
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Neon Fronts
1980
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, Three Neon Walls
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Neons, Drawings, Collages, Munchen
Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA, Aspects of the Seventies
Apex Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, The Eleventh International Sculpture Conference
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, Other Works
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Committee on the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, Arts on the Line: Art for Public Transit Spaces
1979
Galerie Nancy Gillespie/Elisabeth de Laage, Paris, France, Neons/Paris/1979
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, The Minimal Tradition
1978
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, Neons for the University of Massachusetts
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Neons, Drawings/Chicago/1978
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Drawings
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Works
1977
Jean and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece, Neons—Athens—1977
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Neons—New York—1977
Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden, Neons—Stockholm—1977
1976
Galerie Bonner, Geneva, Switzerland, Incomplete Circle Neons
art & project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Incomplete Circles Neons and Drawings
Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY, Line
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Rooms
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Private Notations: Artists’ Sketchbooks
26th Fall Arts Festival, West Berlin, Germany, Soho: Downtown Manhattan
1975
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Incomplete Neon Squares, Incomplete Neon Circles
Art Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, Room for Wright State
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, Incomplete Blue Neon Circles
Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany, USA Zeichnungen 3
Washington, D.C., Art in Landscape
Monumental Sculpture Appreciation Association, Inc., Houston, TX, Monumental Sculpture
1974
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Ten Outdoor Neons
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Recent Drawings and Sculptures
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Four Neon Sculptures
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, New Acquisitions
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Paintings and Sculpture Today
1973
University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY, Stephen Antonakos: Six Corner Neons; traveled to Art Gallery, State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Meyers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Works in Spaces
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, American Drawings 1963-73
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Sculpture off the Pedestal
1972
Art Gallery, Fresno State College, Fresno, CA, California Show, An Exhibition of Seven Projects
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Anne-Marie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, Drawings
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, Paintings and Sculpture
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Drawings by Sculptors
1971
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, Pillows, 1962-1963
Allen R. Priebe Gallery, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, WI, Neons
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Light
1970
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Neon Sculpture
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, American Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England, Kinetics
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Continuation of 1969 Sao Paulo Biennial
1969
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Human Concern / Personal Torment
Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Drawings
Heiner Freidrich Gallery, Munich, Germany, Drawings
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Light Sculpture
University of Nebraska, Hastings, NE, Inaugural Exhibition
1968
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Memorial
Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Light, Object, and Image
Hilles Room, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Inaugural Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture
American Federation of Arts, Soft Sculpture
1967
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, American Sculpture of the Sixties
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, Light, Motion, Space
New Jersey State Museum, Cultural Center, Trenton, NJ, Focus on Light
1966
Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, Sound, Light, Silence—Art that Performs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Contemporary American Sculpture—Selection I
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Kunst—Licht—Kunst
1965
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The New American Realism
1964
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, Pillows
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, 100 American Drawings
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, All Fur Art
1963
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show
1962
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, Nuts and Bolts
1961
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show
1960
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, New Forms—New Media I
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, New Forms—New Media II
1958
Avant-Garde Gallery, New York, NY, Collages
Dziedzic, Erin and Marshall N. Price. Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light. Savannah, GA: Savannah College of Art and Design, 2008.
Antonakos, Stephen. Stephen Antonakos: New Wall Works. Athens, Greece: Kalfayan Galleries, 2008.
2004
National Academy of Design. 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art. New York, NY: National Academy of Design, 2004.
Antonakos, Stephen, et al. Maestri Mediterrani / Periplo del Mediterraneo. Genoa, Italy: Museo dell’Academia Ligustica di Belle Arte, 2004.
2003
Journey. Salonica, Greece: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.
2000
Praise. Salonica, Greece: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Public Works. Salonica, Greece: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Rhodes State Art Gallery Collection. Rhodes, Greece: Rhodes State Art Gallery, 2000.
Filler, Martin. Time Boxes 2000. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2000.
1999
Sandler, Irving. Antonakos. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999.
1997
Denton, Monroe et al. Antonakos: The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder. Venice, Italy: XLVII Venice Bienale, Greek Ministry of Culture, 1997.
Searing, Helen et al. Stephen Antonakos: Inter Light. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1997
Katsarelias, Dimitrios G. and John Yau. Praise. Athens, Greece: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, 1997.
1995
Cummings, Paul. The Recent Drawings of Stephen Antonakos. New York, NY: Werner H. Kramarsky, 1995.
1993
Kambouridis, Haris. Chapel of the Saints. Rhodes, Greece: Rhodes Municipal Art Gallery, 1993.
Norden, Linda and Thomas F. Mathews. Chi-Rho and Angels/Saints/Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Salonika, Greece: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993.
1990
Papa, Sania. Stephen Antonakos. Geneva, Switzerland: Blancpain Stepszynski Galerie d'Art Contemporain, 1990.
1989
Radcliff, Carter. Stephen Antonakos. New York, NY: Kouros Gallery, 1989.
1988
Sandler, Irving and Maria Kotzamani. Stephen Antonakos. Athens, Greece: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, 1988.
1986
Belz, Karl. Stephen Antonakos: Neons and Drawings. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1986.
1984
Yard, Sallly. Stephen Antonakos: Neons and Works on Paper. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984.
1983
Popper, Frank et al. Electra. Paris, France: Musee d'Art de Ville de Paris, 1983.
1982
Shapiro, David. Stephen Antonakos: New Works 1982. Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1982.
1978
Davis, Hugh M. Neons for the University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978.
1971
LeWitt, Sol et al. Neons. Wisconsin: Allen R. Priebe Gallery, Wisconsin State University, 1971.
Spector, Naomi and Sebastian J. Adler. Pillows, 1962-1963. Houston, TX: Contemporary Artists Museum, 1971.
Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY, Lifetime Achievement Award
Lives and works in New York, NY.
Website: stephenantonakos.com
EDUCATION
Certificate in Art, Brooklyn Community College, Brooklyn, NY, 1947-1949SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2010The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2009
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light
2008
ACA Gallery of SCAD, Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, GA, Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light
David Krut Projects, New York, NY, Stephen Antonakos
Jim Kempner Fine Arts, New York, NY, Antonakos: "13' Red Neon Incomplete Square"
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Stephen Antonakos: Retrospective
Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany, Stephen Antonakos and Ronald Bladen: Drawings of the 60s & 70s
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece, Stephen Antonakos: New Wall Works
2006
The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY, Gardens
National Academy Museum, New York, NY, Italia
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, Guild Hall Collects: Gifts in Honor of the 75th Anniversary
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, America / Americas
Kalfayan Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, Drawings
Hellenic Academy of Modern Art, Athens, Greece, Memory
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, New Perspectives / New Visions: Collecting the New
2005
The Gallery of the Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, Five Decades of Drawing
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, The Years of Defiance / Art of the 1970s in Greece
Ministry of Culture, European Cultural Center of Delphi, Delphi, Greece, Columns and Pillars
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens, Greece, Light Waves
2004
Chapel of St. George, Mystra, Greece, Remembrance
Petros and Marika Kydoniefs Foundation, Andros, Greece, To Spiti / The House
Lafayette College, Easton, PA, Stephen Antonakos: Three Spaces / Four Directions
Museo dell’Academia Ligustica di Belle Arte, Genoa, Italy, Mastri Mediterrani: Antonakos, Burri, Klein, Tapies
Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Arti + Architettura 1900-2000
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, Infinite Possibilities / Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings
National Academy of Design, New York, NY, 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, 7 + 7: From the Collections of EMST
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, Five Artists / Five Faiths
2003
Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece, Darkness and Light
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Journey
Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, New York, NY, Silent Chapel
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Recent Acquisitions
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, New Acquisitions
The Galleries at the JCC’s Gershman Y, Philadelphia, PA, A Happening Place
Tsumari, Japan, The Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial
2002
Galerie Denise Rene, Rive Gauche, Paris, France, Antonakos
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, The Magic of Light
Five Myles Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Architectures for One
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, Ad Infinitum: Serial Drawings
Chiostro dell’ex Convento di San Francesco, Pordenone, Italy, There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Bari, Italy, In Situ
Center for Contemporary Art, Trikala, Greece, Oi Protoporoi: Collection Beltsios
Chelsea Studio Gallery, New York, NY, Unforgettable
2001
Corpus Christi Church, New York, NY, Saint Anthony: An Installation for the Easter Season
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France, Contemporary Drawings
Villa Manin di Passariano, Italy, Manin Villa Manin: una collezione d’arte
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany, Im Spiegel der Freiheit: Tsarouchis, Antonakos, Hadjimichalis, Schirn
Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany, Book Theologies: Contemporary Greek Artists
Hamburger, Banhoff, Berlin, Germany, Collection Marzona
2000
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Time Boxes 2000
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Public Works 1973-2000
State Museum of Contemporary Art, Salonika, Greece, Praise
Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY, Proscenium
Galerie Denise Rene, Paris, France, Neons
Trikila, Greece, Betsios Collection
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, Intimate Rituals and Personal Devotions: Spiritual Art Through the Ages
1999
P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, Welcome and Chapel for P.S.1
Arts Center, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA, Blue Cross Meditation Room
St. Peter's Church, New York, NY, The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder
Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, Color and Light
Foundation for Hellenic Culture, New York, NY, Greek Travel Collages
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, Hot Glass, Flat Glass, and Neon
The Performing Arts Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, The Light at the Top of the Chimney
1998
Lucas Gallery, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Chapel Models
Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Plastivellum Drawings
Jan Abrams Fine Art, New York, NY, Selected Drawings
Mitchel Algus Gallery, New York, NY, Early Assemblages and Blue Box 1965
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, Building the American Collections
Dieu Donné Paper Mill, New York, NY, Paper +
Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition
1997
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Aspects
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, Inner Light
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL, Meditation Room
XVLII Biennale di Venezia (Greece), Giardini del Castello, Venice, Italy, The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, Sex/Industry
Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY, Neuberger Biennial for Public Art
42nd Salon de Montrouge, Montrouge, France, Montrouge—Athens
Kartner Landesgalerie, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Bozen, Germany, Raum Zeichen Licht
1996
The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA, The Room
1995
Werner H. Kramarsky, New York, NY, Drawings
The New Fort, Corfu, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints
The Century Association, New York, NY, Ten Artists’ Drawings
Municipal Gallery of Athens, Athens, Greece, Time Is a Child Playing and Throwing Dice
1994
European Union Hall, Zappeion, Athens, Greece, Antonakos and Takis
1993
Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints and Chapel of St. John the Baptist
The Fortress of St. George, The Old City, Rhodes, Greece, Chapel of the Saints
1992
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, Chi-Rho and Angels, Saints and Chapel of St. John the Baptist
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, Challenge and Response: The New Technology
Alexandros Soutsos Museum, National Gallery, Athens, Greece, Metamorphoses of the Modern
1991
Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland, A Touch of Switzerland
1990
Galerie d' Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, Neons and Drawings
Kamaruka Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Crete, Greece, Second Minos Beach Art Symposium
Samuel P. Harn Museum, Gainesville, FL, Opening Exhibition
1989
Kouros Gallery, New York, NY, New Work
Atlantic Center for the Arts; New Smyrna Beach, FL, Neon and Drawings
Gallery Camino Real; Boca Raton, FL, Neons and Drawings
International Biennale, Nagoya, Japan, Artec
Villa Arson, Nice, France, pas à coté / pas n’importe où 4
Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, Neons and Collages
Montreal, Quebec, Art et Nouvelles Technologies
American Crafts Museum, New York Architectural Art
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, Local Color: Selections from Contemporary Collectors
1987
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Neons and Drawings
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 10th Anniversary Exhibition
19th Sao Paulo International Biennial, Sao Paulo
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Masters: Works on Paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Galerie Kunigk, Munich, Germany, Minimal Art
1986
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, Neons and Drawings
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th National Print Exhibition
Brockton Art Museum, Fuller Memorial, Brockton, MA, Public Art: Our Commonwealth
1985
Davenport Art Gallery, Davenport, IA, Neons
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Minimal Prints and Sculpture
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 10th Year Anniversary
1984
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art (now San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art), La Jolla, CA, Neons and Works on Paper
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Intermedia Space - Space Between Painting and Sculpture
1983
Maison de Culture de Nevers, France, Neons for Nevers
Bonnier Gallery, New York, NY, New Work—1983
Jean and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece, Neons
Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, Electra
1982
Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, New Works—1982
Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Europalia—Hellas 1982
Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD, Drawing: An Exploration of Line
1981
Old First Precinct Building, New York, NY, Projects at the Precinct
Penthouse, Museum of Modern Art, New York Group Show
P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, Summer Light
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C., Neon Fronts
1980
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Miami, FL, Three Neon Walls
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Neons, Drawings, Collages, Munchen
Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, MA, Aspects of the Seventies
Apex Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, The Eleventh International Sculpture Conference
Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA, Other Works
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Committee on the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, Arts on the Line: Art for Public Transit Spaces
1979
Galerie Nancy Gillespie/Elisabeth de Laage, Paris, France, Neons/Paris/1979
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, The Minimal Tradition
1978
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, Neons for the University of Massachusetts
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, Neons, Drawings/Chicago/1978
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany, Drawings
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Works
1977
Jean and Karen Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece, Neons—Athens—1977
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Neons—New York—1977
Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden, Neons—Stockholm—1977
1976
Galerie Bonner, Geneva, Switzerland, Incomplete Circle Neons
art & project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Incomplete Circles Neons and Drawings
Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY, Line
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Rooms
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, Private Notations: Artists’ Sketchbooks
26th Fall Arts Festival, West Berlin, Germany, Soho: Downtown Manhattan
1975
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Incomplete Neon Squares, Incomplete Neon Circles
Art Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, Room for Wright State
Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy, Incomplete Blue Neon Circles
Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany, USA Zeichnungen 3
Washington, D.C., Art in Landscape
Monumental Sculpture Appreciation Association, Inc., Houston, TX, Monumental Sculpture
1974
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Ten Outdoor Neons
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Recent Drawings and Sculptures
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, Four Neon Sculptures
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, New Acquisitions
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Paintings and Sculpture Today
1973
University Art Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, NY, Stephen Antonakos: Six Corner Neons; traveled to Art Gallery, State University College at Oneonta, Oneonta, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Meyers Fine Arts Gallery, State University College at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Works in Spaces
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, American Drawings 1963-73
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, Sculpture off the Pedestal
1972
Art Gallery, Fresno State College, Fresno, CA, California Show, An Exhibition of Seven Projects
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Anne-Marie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, Drawings
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY, Paintings and Sculpture
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Drawings by Sculptors
1971
Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, Pillows, 1962-1963
Allen R. Priebe Gallery, Wisconsin State University, Oshkosh, WI, Neons
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, Light
1970
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Neon Sculpture
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, American Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, England, Kinetics
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., Continuation of 1969 Sao Paulo Biennial
1969
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Human Concern / Personal Torment
Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Drawings
Heiner Freidrich Gallery, Munich, Germany, Drawings
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, Light Sculpture
University of Nebraska, Hastings, NE, Inaugural Exhibition
1968
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY and the Memorial
Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Light, Object, and Image
Hilles Room, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Inaugural Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture
American Federation of Arts, Soft Sculpture
1967
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, Neon Sculpture
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, American Sculpture of the Sixties
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI, Light, Motion, Space
New Jersey State Museum, Cultural Center, Trenton, NJ, Focus on Light
1966
Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO, Sound, Light, Silence—Art that Performs
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Contemporary American Sculpture—Selection I
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Kunst—Licht—Kunst
1965
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, The New American Realism
1964
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, Pillows
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, 100 American Drawings
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, All Fur Art
1963
Byron Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show
1962
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, Nuts and Bolts
1961
Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY, Group Show
1960
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, New Forms—New Media I
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, New Forms—New Media II
1958
Avant-Garde Gallery, New York, NY, Collages
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008Dziedzic, Erin and Marshall N. Price. Stephen Antonakos: Darkness and Light. Savannah, GA: Savannah College of Art and Design, 2008.
Antonakos, Stephen. Stephen Antonakos: New Wall Works. Athens, Greece: Kalfayan Galleries, 2008.
2004
National Academy of Design. 179th Annual Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art. New York, NY: National Academy of Design, 2004.
Antonakos, Stephen, et al. Maestri Mediterrani / Periplo del Mediterraneo. Genoa, Italy: Museo dell’Academia Ligustica di Belle Arte, 2004.
2003
Journey. Salonica, Greece: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.
2000
Praise. Salonica, Greece: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Public Works. Salonica, Greece: State Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000.
Rhodes State Art Gallery Collection. Rhodes, Greece: Rhodes State Art Gallery, 2000.
Filler, Martin. Time Boxes 2000. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 2000.
1999
Sandler, Irving. Antonakos. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1999.
1997
Denton, Monroe et al. Antonakos: The Chapel of the Heavenly Ladder. Venice, Italy: XLVII Venice Bienale, Greek Ministry of Culture, 1997.
Searing, Helen et al. Stephen Antonakos: Inter Light. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 1997
Katsarelias, Dimitrios G. and John Yau. Praise. Athens, Greece: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, 1997.
1995
Cummings, Paul. The Recent Drawings of Stephen Antonakos. New York, NY: Werner H. Kramarsky, 1995.
1993
Kambouridis, Haris. Chapel of the Saints. Rhodes, Greece: Rhodes Municipal Art Gallery, 1993.
Norden, Linda and Thomas F. Mathews. Chi-Rho and Angels/Saints/Chapel of St. John the Baptist. Salonika, Greece: Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, 1993.
1990
Papa, Sania. Stephen Antonakos. Geneva, Switzerland: Blancpain Stepszynski Galerie d'Art Contemporain, 1990.
1989
Radcliff, Carter. Stephen Antonakos. New York, NY: Kouros Gallery, 1989.
1988
Sandler, Irving and Maria Kotzamani. Stephen Antonakos. Athens, Greece: Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, 1988.
1986
Belz, Karl. Stephen Antonakos: Neons and Drawings. Waltham, MA: Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, 1986.
1984
Yard, Sallly. Stephen Antonakos: Neons and Works on Paper. La Jolla, CA: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984.
1983
Popper, Frank et al. Electra. Paris, France: Musee d'Art de Ville de Paris, 1983.
1982
Shapiro, David. Stephen Antonakos: New Works 1982. Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau County Museum of Art, 1982.
1978
Davis, Hugh M. Neons for the University of Massachusetts. Amherst, MA: University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1978.
1971
LeWitt, Sol et al. Neons. Wisconsin: Allen R. Priebe Gallery, Wisconsin State University, 1971.
Spector, Naomi and Sebastian J. Adler. Pillows, 1962-1963. Houston, TX: Contemporary Artists Museum, 1971.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2000Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY Purchase College, Purchase, NY, Lifetime Achievement Award