Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
2025
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid, Park Dräi Eechelen, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
2024
Systems of Logic / Logic of Systems: The Art and Mind of Agnes Denes, The Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Agnes Denes: Exercises in Eco-Logic, Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden
Agnes Denes: Wheatfield—An Inspiration, Tinworks Art, Bozeman, Montana
Agnes Denes: Honoring Wheatfield—A Confrontation, The Messeplatz Project, Art Basel 2024, Basel, Switzerland
2023
“Agnes Denes: Early Work,” If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. Art and Internationalism Before the Fall of the Wall, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
Agnes Denes: Philosophy in the Landscape, acb Gallery, Budapest
2022
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid, Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Sabancı University, Emirgan, Istanbul
Agnes Denes: Another Confrontation, CIRCA, London, New York, Berlin
2020
Agnes Denes: Photos of the Mind, 1969–2002, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, ADAA Member Viewing Rooms
2019
Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York
2018
Agnes Denes: Works 1969–2018, acb Gallery, Budapest
2017
Agnes Denes: Truth Approximations, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2015
In the Realm of Pyramids: The Visual Philosophy of AGNES DENES, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Wheatfield, Porta Nuova District, Milan, Italy
The Living Pyramid, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, N.Y.
2013
Agnes Denes: Sculptures of the Mind and the Body, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
2012
Agnes Denes: Body Prints, Philosophical Drawings, and Map Projections 1969–1978, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Agnes Denes: Sculptures of the Mind – 1968 to Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2010
Body Prints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2009
Agnes Denes: Philosophy in the Land II, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2008
Agnes Denes: Art for the Third Millennium—Creating a New World View: A Retrospective, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2007
Uprooted & Deified—The Golden Tree, BravinLee Programs, New York
2005
Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
2004
Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, Chelsea Museum, New York
2003
Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
1995
Philosophy in the Land, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York
1994
Drawings of Agnes Denes 1969–1994, Wynn Kramarsky, New York
1992
Agnes Denes: A Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1990
Agnes Denes—Concept into Form, Works 1970–1990, Arts Club of Chicago
1979
Agnes Denes Work: 1968–1978, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1978
Agnes Denes—Philosophical Drawings, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Agnes Denes: Work 1968–78, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
Sculptures of the Mind, Centre Culturel Americain, Paris
1976
Sculptures of the Mind, University of Akron, Ohio
1974
Agnes Denes: Perspectives, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1972
A.I.R. Gallery, New York
2025
Agnes Denes: The Living Pyramid, Desert X 2025, Palm Springs, California
New Humans: Memories of the Future, The New Museum, New York
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2024
Science / Fiction. A Non-History of Plants, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
Shifting Landscapes, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Radical Software: Women, Art & Computing 1960–1991, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Mutual Aid – Art in Collaboration with Nature, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Save Land. United for Land, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
Abstraction After Modernism: Recent Acquisitions, The Menil Collection, Houston
Artistes et paysans. Battre la campagne, Les Abattoirs, Musée—Frac Occitanie; Toulouse, France
RE/SISTERS, FOMU Foto Museum, Antwerp
(Re)Focus: Then and Now, The Galleries at Moore, Philadelphia
2023
Artists Born Elsewhere: Selections from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, University Museum of Contemporary Art, UMASS, Amherst
The Irreplaceable Human: The Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI,Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Extreme Tension: Art between Politics and Society 1945–2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
How is Life? — Designing For Our Earth, Toto Museum, Kitkyushu, Japan
Our Ecology: Toward a Planetary Living, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Can't See, Sequences Biennial XI, Icelandic Art Center, Reykjavik
RE/SISTERS, Barbican Art Gallery, London
Groundswell: Women of Land Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Agnes Denes: The Debate, The Armory Show: Platform, New York
Nature Doesn’t Know About Us, Sculpture Milwaukee
Dear Earth: Art in a Time of Crisis, The Hayward Gallery, London
Chaleur Humaine, Triennale Art & Industrie, Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Adaptation: A Reconnected Earth, MCAD, Manila
The Material Revolution, E-Werk Luckenwalde, Germany
Pour, Tear, Carve, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
2022
Territories of Waste: On the Return of the Repressed, Museum Tinguely, Basel
How is Life?—Designing for our Earth, TOTO GALLERY MA, Tokyo
Back to Earth, Serpentine North Gallery, London
The Milk of Dreams, The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Chapter 5IVE, Het HEM, Zaandam, Netherlands
Balance: Environment and Society in Swiss Art of the 70s and 80s, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Switzerland
Pavilions, Lisson Gallery, New York
2021
Spatial Affairs, Ludwig Museum, Budapest
Art Encounters Biennial 2021: Seasons End, Timișoara, Romania
Autostrada Biennale III, Prishtina, Kosovo
Climate Care: Reimagining Shared Planetary Futures, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Dream Monuments: Drawing in the 1960s and 1970s, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Tree Story, Monash University Museum of Art, Caulfield East, Australia
Land Art: Expanding the Atlas, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
T Zero, Ufficio Mostre Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
The 18th Tallinn Print Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Spatial Affairs, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
I Hate Nature, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Weimar, Germany
Nature of Robotics: An Expanded Field, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland
2020
Stayin’ Alive, Another Space, New York
Among Highlights, Keiselbach Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Virtual Exhibition: Drawing from the Collection, Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts, Camden, N.J.
Apocalypse & World Salvation, Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen, Germany
In the ever changing world in which we live …, The Storefront, Bellport, New York
Ecofeminism(s), Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
Down to Earth, Curated by Tino Sehgal and Thomas Oberender, Berliner Festspiele/Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
The Penumbral Age—Art in the Time of Planetary Change, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Year Without the Southern Sun, PS120, Berlin, Germany
Crear Mundos, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2019
To Light, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
I Remember Earth, MAGASIN des horizons — Centre national d'arts et de cultures, Grenoble, France
Counter-Landscapes: Performative Actions from the 1970s – Now, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Pangea United, Muzeum Sztuki, Łódź, Poland
Line to Form, Danese/Corey, New York
2018
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Territories That Matter: Gender, Art and Ecology, Centro De Arte Naturaleza de Huesca, Huesca, Spain
Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y.
Sense of Humor, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cosmogonies, Musée d’art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France
2017
Cosmomorphic Practices and Asian Environments, Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959–1989, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Art in the Open: Fifty Years of Public Art in New York, The Museum of the City of New York, New York
From Outrage to Action: Proposals for the Climate, Resources, and the Planet, The Gallatin Galleries, New York University
Ecovention Europe, Museum De Domeinen in Sittard, The Netherlands
Bending Light: Neon Art 1965 to Now, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y.
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980, The Met Breuer, New York
Hybris, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Léon (MUSAC), Spain
Urban Planning: Contemporary Art and the City 1967–2017, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
The Garden, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2016
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
City After the City—Urban Orchard, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
El mundo fue plano, ahora es redondo y será un holograma,Museu de Arte Zapopan, Zapopan, Mexico From Point to Line, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Sublime, Centre Pompidou, Metz
Drawing Then: Innovation and Influence in American Drawings of the Sixties, Dominique Lévy Gallery, New York
(Counter)Public Art, Intervention & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978–1993, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York
Land/Sky, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Land, Sea and Air, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
2015
Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s — Now, Mills College Museum of Art, Oakland, California
On Paper, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
From Drawing to Sign, from Fattori to LeWitt, Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
Collectibles: Works on Paper, Denver Art Museum
tout le monde, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry (Le Crédac), Ivry, France
The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Rachael Champion | Agnes Denes | Rachel Pimm, Hales Gallery, London
Plastic: Art in the Age of Material Innovation, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y.
Counter (Public) Art, Intervention & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978–1993, organized by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at Arts Center, Governor’s Island, N.Y.
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Visualized, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Conn.
2014
Things of Their Own Making, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, Missouri
Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
As Exciting As We Can Make It: Ikon in the 1980s, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
SITElines: New Perspectives on Art of the Americas – Unsettled Landscapes, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
EXPO 1: Rio, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Beyond Earth Art – Contemporary Artists and the Environment, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
2013
In Cloud Country, Harewood House, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
EXPO 1: New York, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, N.Y.
Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
A City Shaped, STUK Arts Centre, Leuven, Belgium
Les Immémoriales: Agnes Denes, Monika Grzymala, Cecilia Vicuna, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
2012
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Haus der Kunst, Munich
The Body Argument, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Green Acres: Artists Farming Fields, Greenhouses and Abandoned Lots, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
Materializing "Six Years": Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual Art, Brooklyn Museum
2011
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph 1964–1977, Art Institute of Chicago
Erre, variations labyrinthiques, Centre Pompidou–Metz, Metz, France
Plot: Plan: Process: Works on Paper from the 1960s to Now, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos: 1965–1975, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Die Letzte Freiheit: Von den Pionieren der Land—Art der 1960er Jahre bis zur Natur im Cyberspace, Ludwig Museum, Koblenz, Germany
2010
Landscape as an Idea: Projects and Projections, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea Cultural Center, San Sebastian, Spain
Artpark: 1974–1984, UB Art Gallery, State University of New York, Buffalo, N.Y.
2009
Radical Nature: Art & Architecture for a Changing Planet, 1969–2009, Barbican Art Gallery, London
elles@centrepompidou: Artistes femmes dans les collections du Musée national d'art moderne, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Sites, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
utopia/dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970s, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
2007
Art in Action: Nature, Creativity and our Collective Future, Natural World Museum, San Francisco
Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (in collaboration with EcoArt, Boulder, Co.
Collection Focus I: Recent Work by Women, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
2005
Treading Water, Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
2004
Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, and University Museums, University of Richmond, Virginia
Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
2001
New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000
Force-Fields: Phases of the Kinetic, Museu d'Art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona; Hayward Gallery, London
1999
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1998
American Academy in Rome—Annual Exhibition, Rome, Italy
Biennale dei Parchi, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Light on the New Millennium, International Sculpture Symposium & Art Festival,
Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, Pusan, Korea
The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1997
Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1995
Adding It Up; Print Acquisitions 1970–1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1992
Completing the Circle: Artists’ Books on the Environment, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minn.
1989
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970–85, Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; New Orleans Art Museum; Denver Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia
1987
The International Art Show for the End of World Hunger, Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minn.; Sonja Henie-Neils Onstad Foundation, Hovikodden, and Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway; Göteborgs Kontsmuseum, Göteborg, Sweden; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Musée des Arts Africains et Océaniens, Paris; Barbican Art Gallery, London; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Arti et Armiticiae, Amsterdam; Salas Nacionales de Exposicion, Buenos Aires; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil; Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; El Museo de Barrio, New York
1978
From Nature to Art, from Art to Nature, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Numerals 1924–1977, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
1976
Biennale of Sydney, Arts Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
1975
USA Drawings 3, Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
The Year of the Woman, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
Lives—Conceptual Artists: 1972–75, The Fine Arts Building, New York (organized by Jeffrey Deitch)
1974
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art and Taft Museum, Cincinnati
1973
American Drawings 1963–73, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Conceptual Art, Women's Interart Center, New York
1970
Language IV, Dwan Gallery, New York
Software, Jewish Museum, New York
Albion College, Albion, Michigan
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
American Academy in Rome, Rome/New York
Art Institute of Chicago
AT&T Corporation Collection
Beijer Collection, Stockholm, Sweden
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, Colorado
Chase Manhattan Art Collection
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Container Corporation of America, St. Louis, Missouri
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Ellen H. Johnson Collection, Oberlin, Ohio
Elvehjem Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Finch College Museum, New York
First National Bank of Chicago
Frac Grand Large — Hauts-de-France, Dunkirk
FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Kunsthalle Praha, Prague
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Collection
The Menil Collection, Houston
Metro Dade Art in Public Places, Miami
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont
Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée National D'Art Modern Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée de Petit Format, Cul-des-Sarts, Couvin, Belgium
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe
National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence
Roy R. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, N.Y.
Rutgers University Art Collection, New Brunswick, New Jersey
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse, N.Y.
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
University of Massachusetts Art Collection, Andover
Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York