BIOGRAPHY   born 1930 in Nashville, Tenesse   SOLO EXHIBITIONS   1967 Paul Bianchini Gallery, New York 1968 Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf 1969 Fischbach Gallery, New York "Wall Show - Part I", Ace Gallery, Los Angeles Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf "Drawings", Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milano 1970 "Delta Paintings", 1966, Fischbach Gallery, New York (cat.) 1971 Fischbach Gallery, New York Dwan Gallery, New York Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne Currents Editions, Seattle 1972 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (cat.) "Early paintings", John Weber Gallery, New York Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Cologne Current Editions, Seattle Galleria II Cortile, Rome Lisson Gallery, London 1973 Galleria San Fedele, Milano (cat.) "Paintings and Etchings", John Weber Gallery, New York Art & Project, Amsterdam Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf 1974 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam (cat.) "Komplette Graphik", Westfälischer Kunstverein (cat.) John Weber Gallery, New York Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel 1975 Kunsthalle Basel (cat.) "Paintings and Prints", John Weber Gallery, New York 1977 "Neue Bilder", Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (cat.) "Paintings 1976", PS 1, New York Gallerie Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Galerie Charles Kriwin, Brussel 1978 InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich (cat.) 1979 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (cat.) InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich (cat.) 1980 "Neue Bilder", Kunstraum München, Munich Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst, Zurich (cat.); Museé national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (1981); Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf (1981/82) 1981 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York 1982 "Paintings", Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago "Recent Paintings", Mayor Gallery, London 1983 Bonnier Gallery, New York Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles 1984 "New Paintings", Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York "Peintures récentes", Galerie Maeght Lelong, Paris (cat.) 1985 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago 1986 "Recent Paintings", Galerie Maeght Lelong, New York Leo Castelli Gallery, New York "Currents", Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston Raum für Malerei, Cologne 1987 Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf "The Charter Series, A Meditative Room for the Collection of Gerald S. Elliott", The Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco 1988 DIA Art Foundation, New York (cat.) 1989 "Prints", The Projects Room, John Weber Gallery, New York 1990 "New Paintings", The Pace Gallery, New York (cat.) "Six Aquatints", Nohra Haime gallery, New York 1991 RENN Esapce d'Art Contemporain, Paris / Hallen für neue Kunst Schaffhausen (cat.) 1992 "Works on Paper", Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf "Versions", Hallen für neue Kunst Schaffhausen (cat.); The Pace Gallery, New York 1993 "Works on paper", Victoria Miro Gallery, London Tate Gallery, London (cat.);Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1994 "New Paintings", Galerie Marc Blondeau, Paris "Prints 1969-93", Betsy Senior Gallery, New York; Galerie Tanit, Munich; Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zurich; Milwaukee Art Museum 1995 "Core Paintings", PaceWaldenstein, New York "Obra grafica completa" Ediciones T Galeria D'Art, Barcelona 1996 "Temporary Contemporary", Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville "Recent Paintings", PaceWaldenstein, New York Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1999 "Paintings", PaceWaldenstein, New York Studio 7 L, Paris (cat.) 2000 "Paintings from the sixties", Xavier Hufkens, Brussel (cat.) "Retrospektive", Haus der Kunst, Munich (cat.) 2001 Kunstmuseum Bonn 2003 "New Paintings", Haunch of Venison, London (cat.) 2004 Pacewildenstein, New York, USA "Robert Ryman", Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan "Robert Ryman", Peter Blum - Blumarts Inc., New York, NY, USA 2005 "Robert Ryman", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA "Robert Ryman", Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium 2007 "Contemporary Conversations: Robert Ryman, 1976", The Menil Collection, Houston, USA 2010 Robert Ryman: Variations and Improvisations, The Phillips Collection, Washington Robert Ryman: A Closer Look at Robert Ryman´s Classico 5, MoMA PS1, New York   GROUP EXHIBITIONS   2004 "Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof", Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany "Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at Usce", Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrad, Belgrade, Serbia "Still mapping the moon - Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei", Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany "Sommerausstellung", Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland "Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s?70s", Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA "Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA 2005 "Outside Europe - Aus der Sammlung DaimlerChrysler", DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany "Mäzene der Kunst auf Papier", Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany "Salon dautomne", Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland "Masterprints aus Privatsammlungen", Galerie Erhard Witzel, Wiesbaden, Germany "Leporello, Een reis door de collectie", Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2006 "Line and Surface - Works on Paper", Peter Blum - Blumarts Inc., New York, NY, USA "Soulages, Kelly, Ryman - Estampes", Galerie Lelong, Paris, France "Conversation with Art, on Art", Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan "Travelin' Light", Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL "Where are we going?", Palazzo Grassi, Venedig, Italy "The Guggenheim Collection", Kunst und Ausstellungshalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany "Plane/Figure", Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winthertur, CH "busy going crazy", La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2007 "Das schwarze Quadrat", Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany "Die Kunst zu Sammeln", Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany "MARTa schweigt", MARTa Herford Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Herford, Germany "What Is Painting?", MoMA, New York, USA "Japan und der Westen - Die erfüllte Leere", Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany "J'EMBRASSE PAS", Collection Lambert, Avignon, France 2008 LINES, GRIDS, STAINS, WORDS - MOMA COLLECTION, Museum Wiesbaden for what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery / Red October Chocolate Factory, Moskau Private / Corporate, V Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Robert Ryman / Urs Raussmüller, Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen SAMMLUNG: 1978 - 2008, Migros Museum, Zürich LINES, GRIDS, STAINS, WORDS - MOMA COLLECTION, Museu Serralves, Porto Face to Face. The Daros Collections II, Daros Exhibitions, Zürich How Artists Draw, Menil Collection, Houston Abstract Vision, Thomas Ammann, Zürich 2009 White Light / White Heat, HAUSER & WIRTH Colnaghi London ONE MORE, Thomas Rehbein Galerie, Köln   PUBLICATIONS