Donald Baechler was born in Hartford (Connecticut) in 1956. He lives and works in New York. Baechler has created, with wit and humour, a metaphorical language of a popular culture which has gained him a wide reputation as a second-generation Pop Artist. "I’m interested in discreet and very mute objects, and I’ve never really been interested in narrative or psychology or these things which many people read into my paintings and probably into the sculptures," Baechler remarked recently about his work, which has been exhibited worldwide since the early 1980s. Some twenty years ago, in an effort to re-learn drawing, Baechler set about inventing a naïve vocabulary of lines and forms. It was geared – paraphrasing the work of Jean Dubuffet – to the world of images used by children, naïve artists and the mentally ill.
Solo exhibitions
2012
Izlozba, umjetnicki Pavillon, Zagreb
Donald Baechler: Painting & Sculpture - Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
2011
McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Recent Works - Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Museo Magi, Pieve di Cento, Bologna, Italy
2010
Cheim & Read, New York
2008
Three Bronzes - IBM Sculpture Garden, New York;
Baechler-Morrison - Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium;
Donald Baechler: New Works - Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden;
Donald Baechler: Editions - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg;
McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2009
New Works - Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland;
Recent Paintings and Collages - McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas;
I Wonder If I Can Write A Poem Tonight - Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy
2007
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife Spain
Donald Baechler - New Works - Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Museo Forte Strino. Vermiglio, Italy
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2006
Winter Sports - Museo Rimoldi, Cortina d'Ampezzo
Pace Prints, New York
Wes Lang and Donald Baechler: Skulls and Shit - Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Donald Baechler: New Sculptures and Related Works - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Cheim & Read, New York
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Sculpture - Cheim & Read, New York
The Enemies of the Rose - Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy;
Paintings 1991- 2003 - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
2004
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen; "New Work"
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium; "Donald Baechler: New Paintings"
Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg; "Sculptures"
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; "Donald Baechler: New Paintings and Sculptures"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; "Sculptures"
2003
Cheim & Read, New York; "Donald Baechler"
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich; "Recent Paintings"
Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston: "Thinking Without Words"
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; "Donald Baechler"
Hamiltons Gallery, London; "Donald Baechler"
2002
Galleria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
John Berggruen, San Francisco; "Principal & Auxillary Functions: Some Recent Pictures"
Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino, Italy; "77 Paintings"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Alain Noirhomme, Brussels
2001
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Five Easy Pieces"
Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin; "Donald Baechler"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; "Oeuvres Récentes"
Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento; "Some of My Subjects"
2000
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY; "Donald Baechler: new paintings"
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; "Buildings and Other New Paintings"
Pace/Prints, New York; "Recent Editions"
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; "Donald Baechler"
1999
Cheim & Read, New York; "Crowd Paintings"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Paintings from Kunsthalle, Basel"
Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis MO; "New Work"
Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels; "Collage Paintings"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "New Color Aquatints"
Bernd Klueser, Munich; "Recent Paintings"
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; "Sculptures & Drawings"
Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo; "New Paintings"
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; "Donald Baechler"
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; "Globes and More"
1998
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA; "Works on Paper"
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; "Crowds"
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; "Neue Bilder"
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; "New Paintings"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "twenty-one etchings"
Galeria 56, Budapest, Hungary
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
1997
Harley Baldwin, Aspen ; "New Flowers"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Flowers"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "One Very Large Painting & One Very Large Bust"
Anders Tornberg, Lund; "21 Paintings"
Galleria Milleventi, Milan
Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; "Works on Paper"
1996
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
1995
Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; "Donald Baechler: York House Suite"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Donald Baechler: Large Works on Paper 1984-1994"
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City NY; with Saint Clair Cemin
Bernd Klueser, Munich, Germany; "Black Flowers"
Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand; "Paintings & Works on Paper"
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; "Donald Baechler: Fish & Wildlife"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Donald Baechler: Selected Early Paintings"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Works on Paper"
Adolf Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany; "Donald Baechler: Neue Arbeiten"
Milleventi, Turin, Italy; "Donald Baechler 'Yankee Pieces' Torino"
1994
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Galleria Becherini, Florence, Italy
Pace Prints, New York; "Donald Baechler: Prints 'Days of the Week 1994'"
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe NM ; "Donald Baechler: Drawings"
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; "Donald Baechler: 'des Fleurs'"
1993
Gisela Capitain, Cologne; "Works on Paper"
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; "Abstract Painting With Bird"
Schönewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany; "Works on Paper"
UMKC Art Gallery, Kansas City MO ; "Works on Paper"
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Paintings, Works on Paper"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Works on Paper"
1992
Loyola University, New Orleans LA; "Works on Paper"
Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal; "Works on Paper"
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome; "Works on Paper"
1991
Lucio Amelio, Naples; "Prints & Collages"
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica CA
James Corcoran, Santa Monica, CA; "Paintings"
Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Gisela Capitain, Cologne; "Collagen"
Anders Tornberg, Lund
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Paintings of 1981 + 1982"
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne
1990
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Works on Paper"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Paintings, Bronzes & Works on Paper"
1989
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Works on Paper"
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden; "Flowers and Trees"
E+O Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Lino Silverstein, Barcelona, Spain
Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
1988
Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil; "Pinturas 1986-1988"
University Galleries, Illinois State University, "Donald Baechler Paintings and Drawings:
1982-1987"; and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University "Donald
Baechler Paintings 1981-1987"
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Anders Tornberg, Lund; "Donald Baechler: Paintings, Drawings & Prints",
1986
Akira Ikeda, Nagoya, Japan; "New Paintings"
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles
Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1985
Pat Hearn, New York
Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Ascan Crone, Hamburg; "Hamburger Gemaelde"
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1984
Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany; "Neue Bilder"
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1983
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1982
Hallwalls, Buffalo NY
1980
Artists Space, New York
Studio Cannaviello, Milan, Italy
Group exhibitions
2011
Kurnatowski Gallery, New York; “Notable Henchman”, Curated by Geoff
Young
2010
Haunch of Version, New York, “ Your History Is Not Our History “ ,
Organized by David Salle and Richard Phillips
2008
Cheim & Read, New York; "I Won't Grow Up", Curated by Beth DeWoody and Donald Baechler
Clinch/Cross/Cut - Team 404 & John Armleder, New Jersey, Basel
Full House - Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Friedrich, Basel
2007
Sammlung Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria, "Passion For Art: 35th Anniversary of the Sammlung Essl Collection"
Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: "Plug", curated by Art Design Office
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA: "We Are Near," curated by Eddie Martinez
Studio Raffaelli, Trento, Italy: "Nuove Aquisizioni," July - September
Tony Shafrazi, New York, "Four Friends," October 25 -January 12,2008
Cheim & Read, New York, NY; "I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton In Art," September 20 - November 3
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
"Donald Baechler - New Works", Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria
Museo Forte Strino. Vermiglio, Italy
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2006
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York; "The Other Side"
La Maison Rouge, Paris; "busy going crazy: collection Sylvio Perlstein"
2005
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Chelsea Art Museum; "Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: Selections from the collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett"
Howard House, Seattle; "Red Thread: Glimpses of International Art in Vienna"
Sammlung Essl, Vienna; "Figur Skulptur"
White Columns, New York "The Early Show," curated by the General Store
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York "Zoo Story,"
2004
Albertina, Vienna; "Pop Art & Minimalismus"
Cheim & Read, New York; "I Am the Walrus"
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan; "...so fresh, so cool..."
Sammlung Essl, Vienna; "Visions of America"
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano; "Les Enfants Terribles"
Galleria Cardi, Milan; "…Surpise"
2003
Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna; "Pictura Magistra Vitae"
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; "Funny Papers: Cartoons & Contemporary Drawing"
Evergreen House, Baltimore; "Conversations"
Leo Koenig Inc, NYC, together with Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne; "...As Time Goes By"
Galleria Cardi, Milan; "Painting Lesson"
2002
Bergen Kommune, Norway; "New York Expression"
Galleria Cardi &Co., Milan; "Good News"
48 Wall Street, New York "Art Downtown: New York Painting & Sculpture"
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Easthampton NY; "Revealing Nature: An Exhibition of
Organic Forms in Books, Photography, Art and Design"
Kunsthalle Basel, "Keine Kleinigkeit"
2001
MoCA Miami; "Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980's"
Paco Imperial, Brazil; "Espelho Cego (The Blind Mirror)"
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; "From Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill"
2000
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; "Painting"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "And Away We Go"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Off White"
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; "Drawings & Photographs"
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; "Pat Hearn Gallery: Part One (1983-1987)"
1999
Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York; "Compliments"
DFN Gallery, New York; "Road Show"
Ascan Crone, Hamburg; "Peter Kogler"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Selected Projects 1985-1990"
1998
David Beitzel Gallery, New York; "Knowing Children"
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; "Maps"
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton NY; "Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection"
Galerie Ropac, Salzburg & Paris; "Ensemble Moderne"
Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich; "20 Years"
1997
Bernd Klueser, Munich; "Group Show"
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA; "Chanel"
Ursula Blickle Fdtn, Kraichtal, Switzerland; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; "Von Kopf bis Fuss";
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Summer:
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Summer Group Show"
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; "KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen"
Fisher Landau Center, L.I. City, NY; "Wood Work"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Works on Paper"
1996
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "dissimilar & unrelated sculptures"
Wanas Foundation, Sweden; "Sculptures"
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; "Works on Paper"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Group Show"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Sculpture"
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Summer Group Exhibition"
Curt Marcus, New York; "The Baseball Show"
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; "Picasso: A Contemporary Dialogue"
1995
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Emblems and Contours"
Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT; "A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties"
Gagosian Gallery, New York; "1995 'Yamantaka' Donation"
Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; "Barras y Estrellas"
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Summer Group Exhibition"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Summer 1995"
Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany; "Group Show"
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Selected Projects of 1981-1995"
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; "Blumenstuecke Kunststuecke"
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; "Passions Privées"
1994
Baron/Boisanté, New York; "Works On Paper"
Schoenewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany; "en minature", ART Frankfurt
Offshore Gallery, Easthampton NY; "Inaugural Group Exhibition"
Sperone Westwater, New York; "Summer Group Show"
Paul Kasmin, New York; "Summer 1994"
1993
Anders Tornberg, Lund; "Floor Show 'sculptures & objects'"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance"
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; "Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art"
Sperone Westwater, New York; "The Spirit of Drawing"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "1982-83 Ten Years After"
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; "Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art"
Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany; "Jiri Dokoupil Donald Baechler"
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; "Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art"
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting"
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; "New York On Paper"
Sammlung Goetz, Munich; "New York Painters"
1991
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; "Wildness: Toward Their Own Natures 'An Aspect of
Contemporary Art'"
Angela Ho, Hong Kong, China; "New Figurative Art"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Summertime"
Robert Miller, New York; "Portraits on Paper"
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; "Vertigo 'The Remake'"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "A Passion for Art"
1989
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; "Repetition"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; "1989 Biennial Exhibition"
E+O Friedrich, Bern; "Zeichnung"
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; "Einleuchten: Will, Vorstell und Simul in HH"
1988
Monika Sprueth, Cologne, Germany; "Das Licht von der Anderen Seite I, Malerei"
Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; "Art at the End of the Social"
1987
Grand Palais, Paris, France; "Terrae Motus"
XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lawrence Oliver, Philadelphia PA; "Drawing Suites"
1986
Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden; "Face It"
Kunstverein Kassel, Germany & Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; "Vom Zeichnen"
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; "Premier Salon Irrealista"
Pat Hearn, New York; "Drawings"
Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; "Prospekt '86",
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "What It Is"
Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil; "Baechler, Cutrone, Haring & Scharf",
1985
Pat Hearn, New York
Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; "Anniottanta (the 80's)"
Edition Schellmann, Munich; "New York New Prints"
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; "Vom Zeichnen"
1984
Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria; "Works on Paper"
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia PA; "Behind Faces & Figures"
Galleria D'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; "Arte di Frontiera, New York Graffiti"
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1982
The Drawing Center, New York; "New Drawing in America: Part I"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Young Americans"
Tony Shafrazi, New York; "Donald Baechler/Ronnie Cutrone"
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles CA
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; "A Fatal Attraction: Art and the Media"
1981
Grace Borgenicht, New York; "Episodes"
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1980
Galeria Durban, Caracas, Venezuela; "Arte para Los Ochenta", September
The Drawing Center, New York; "Selections"
White Columns, New York; "Shoe Boxes"
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ARTICLES
1980
Ronny H. Cohen, Artforum; September
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1990
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1994
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1996
Alfred MacAdam, ARTnews, "Donald Baechler: Paul Kasmin"; March
Sune Johanneson, Kristianstadsbladet, "För kallt för glasfibermannen"; May 22
Anne Doran, Time Out New York, "Summer Exhibition Tony Shafrazi Gallery"; July 3-10
Robert C. Morgan, Time Out New York, Art "Sculpture: Donald Baechler, Konstantin Kakanias,
Nancy Rubins"; July 10-17
The New Yorker, ART "Kasmin..."; July 15
1997
Tim Griffin, Time Out New York, "Projects, 3 new + 3 old", Jan.16-23
Fred Moore, Aspen Country Magazine "Baechler Party"; Winter/Spring
Brooks Adams, Elle Decor artisans "Dream Weavers", Oct/Nov
Elizabeth Hayt, The New York Times, Art "Simple, Austere, An Old Genre Is Daringly New";
Sunday, November 16
Alexander Agrell, Sydsvenskan, konst i Lund "Amerikan skalar bort ytan"; November 22
Kim Hall, Skånska Dagbladet, "Visuella symboler som barn ser dem"; November 22
The New Yorker, Art/Galleries-Downtown "Donald Baechler"; December 1
Fiorenzo Degasperi, Alto Adige, Mostra di Baechler "I fiori strizzano l'occhio"; Dec.12
1998
Chiara Donn, Arte, Arte e Mercato "Baechler"; January
Alberto Fiz, Milano Finanza, Arte & Investimenti "Saatchi dà l'esempio"; January 10
Valerie Gladstone, Art News, "Donald Baechler: Tony Shafrazi"; February
Andrew Long, Art & Antiques, "Go Figure", March
Jennifer Darr, Citipaper, "20 Questions: Donald Baechler", March
Mårten Castenfors, Svenska Dagbladet, Kultur "Lekfullt klottrat persongalleri", March 14
Lars O. Ericsson, Dagens Nyheter, Kultur "Drömska berättelser, malörtsbitter svärta", March 19
The Philadelphia Inquirer, Museums/Galleries "Art: Donald Baechler"; March 27 Julie Ryan, Index
Magazine, "Donald Baechler"; photographs by Angel Lopez; June/July Eva Karcher, ELLE
Magazine (German vers.), "Vorsicht, Bildstörung!"; August Hans-Jochim Müller, Basler
Zeitung, "Was noch vom Cornet-Glace zu lernen wäre"; August 29/30
Danny Simmons, One World, "Less Is More"; Fall
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Ocean Drive, "Donald Baechler's Rising Pop Star"; November
Elisabetta Planca, Vogue Italia #580, Agenda: Distractions & Exhibitions, December
1999
Bangkok Metro Magazine #54, Ones to Watch "Watz Happening?", January
Melik Kaylan, Town & Country, Art and Soul "The Natural"; January
Jeffrey Hogrefe, The New York Observer, Art Diary "Donald Baechler's Moment;...", Mar.8
The New Yorker, ART Galleries-Chelsea "Donald Baechler", March 22
Youens, NY Arts Magazine, Vol.4/No. 3, "Tony Shafrazi Gallery"
Grace Glueck, The New York Times, Art In Review "Donald Baechler", March 19
Alfred MacAdams, Artnews, "Donald Baechler: Tony Shafrazi", June
Art On Paper, Working Proof, Sept-Oct
David Greenberg, Parkett No.57, "Surface to Air"
2000
David Kapp, Bomb Magzine, "Donald Baechler", Summer
Bob Colacello, Vanity Fair, "Studios By The Sea", August
2001
Stefanie Heckmann, Berliner Zeitung #81, "Alltägliches Welttheater", April 5
Amei Wallach, The New York Times, "Reassessing an Era When Excess Was the Norm",
2003
Arts & Leisure, Sunday, April 29
Tom Breidenbach, Artforum, "Donald Baechler: Cheim & Read", Summer
Martin Coomer, Time Out London, "Donald Baechler 'Hamiltons' West End", Nov.12-19
2004
Hilary Stunda Art News "Donald Baechler: Baldwin, Aspen", Summer 2004
Interview "Heeeeere's Andy," October 2004
2005
David Colman, The New York Times, "Forming Art With One Eye On Nature",
Sunday Styles, Sunday, January 23
Ken Johnson, The New York Times, Art in Review "Donald Baechler", Friday, January 28
The New Yorker, ART Galleries-Chelsea, "Donald Baechler", February 7
Ellen McBreen, Artnews, Reviews: International, "Donald Baechler: Thaddaeus Ropac" , March,
p. 126, 136
Luigi Meneghelli, Flash Art Italia, Reviews, "Donald Baechler, Kunst Meran," April-May p. 138
Ginori, Teresa, Flair, "granaio d'artista,' July, pp. 232-37
Vincent, Steven, Art in America, Reviews, "Donald Baechler at Cheim and Read," September, pp.156-57
2006
Henderson, Lee, Art Review, "Memento Vitae," April, p. 29
Scott, Andrea K., The New York Times, Art in Review, "Donald Baechler" October 13, p. E36
2007
"Brendan Cass Interviews Donald Baechler," Freight + Volume, Issue 1, Volume 1, Winter 2007, pp.54-57
V Magazine, "The Shape of Things," Summer, p. 59
2008
Hawgood, Alex , NYTimes T Magazine, The Moment, “ The Insider: Donald Baechler” , August 14
CATALOGUES
2010
“Skulls And Shit : Works by Donald Baechler and Wes Lang”, Ajax Press; text by Ernest Loesser
2009
“ Donald Baechler: recent paintings and Collages “, text Barry Walker ,McClain Gallery
“ I Wonder If I can Write A Poem Tonight”, text by Aldo Nove and Vincent Katz , Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy
“ Donald Baechler: XL + XS “ ; text Luca Beatrice and Alan Jones; Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Isernia, Italy
2007
"Skulls and Shit," Galleri Loyal
"Donald Baechler: A Farewell To Arms," Forte Strino, Trento, Italy
“ Donald Baechler: Sculpture and Painting “ ; Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2005
"Donald Baechler: The Enemies of the Rose," texts Valerio Dehò; Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
2004
"Donald Baechler"; text: Mariuccia Casadio; Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy
"Donald Baechler: Sculptures", texts Agnes Husslein-Arco, Eleonora Louis, interview with
Martin Prinzhorn; Museum der Moderne Salzburg Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
2002
"77 Paintings; Baechler"; text Peter Weirmair; Galleria di via Eugippo, San Marino, Italy
"Donald Baechler"; text: conversation Reed Anderson & John Newsom; GaleriaLeyendecker,
Tenerife, Spain
2001
"Some of My Subjects", text Demosthenes Davvetas; Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento
2000
"That Same Damn Flower", Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton; Charles Simic
1999
"Donald Baechler", Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; catalogue essay by David Rimanelli
"The Gellert Suite", Studio d'Art Raffaelli, Trento; text Chris Kelley, Rene Ricard
1998
"Donald Baechler: Works on Paper", text by Donald Baechler, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
"Donald Baechler", catalogue essay Demothenes Davvetas; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg,
Austria
"Donald Baechler: Crowd Paintings", poems by David Greenberg; Lars Bohman Gallery,
Stockholm
"Donald Baechler", text by Peter Pakesch; Kunsthalle Basel
"Donald Baechler", Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea Trento, Italy; published by Edizione
Mazzotta, Milan
1997
Carter Ratcliff, "Donald Baechler: Flowers", Martin Prinzhorn interview; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
"Donald Baechler", Galleria 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy; text D. Baechler
"Donald Baechler: Works on Paper", Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; cat. text "A Conversation
with DB", by David Greenberg
1995
Thanom Chapakdee, "Donald Baechler: Paintings & Works on Paper"; Galerie Kyoko Chirathivat;
Bangkok, Thailand
Paul D. Miller, Accumulations "Donald Baechler: Selected Early Paintings"; Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
NY
1994
Alan Jones, "Des Fleurs"; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1993
"Abstract Painting With Bird"; Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Deni McHenry, "Donald Baechler"; UMKC Gallery of Art, Kansas City
1992
John Havelda, "Donald Baechler"; Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
1990
"Donald Baechler: New Prints 1990"; AC&T Corporation, Tokyo
1989
Octavio Zaya, "Donald Baechler"; Lino Silverstein, Barcelona
"Donald Baechler: Flowers and Trees"; Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Lisa Liebmann, "Donald Baechler, Paintings - ArTRANDOM"; Kyoto Shoin, Kyoto
1988
"Donald Baechler: Paintings 1986-88"; Thomas Cohn, Rio de Janiero
Barry Blinderman, "Donald Baechler: Paintings 1981-87"; University Galleries,Normal IL, and
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
Demosthenes Davvetas, "York House Suite"; Kalejdoskop Förlag, Ahus, Sweden
1987
Stuart Morgan, "Donald Baechler"; Mayor Rowan, London
1986
Alan Jones, "Donald Baechler"; Akira Ikeda, Nagoya
1985
Joseph Kosuth/Franz Dahlem, "Hamburger Gemaelde"; Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Wilfried Dickhoff, "Donald Baechler"; Tony Shafrazi, New York
1983
Robert Pincus-Witten, "Donald Baechler - Increments of Inaccessibility"; Tony Shafrazi, New York
Public and private collections
Austria
Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg
Canada
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
France
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
Germany
Museum Würth, Künzelsau
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Museum Villa Haiss, Zell a.H.
Hungary
Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
Italy
Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
Terrae Motus, Caserta
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Spain
TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Sweden
The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
USA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
MOCA - The Museum of Contemporary Art - Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
The West Collection, Oaks, PA
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
