Forrest W. Myers
Biography
1941 Born in Long Beach, California
1958 Studied at the San Francisco Art Institute
1961 Resides New York City
1986 Studios in Brooklyn, NY
1988 Studio and Garden, Damascus, PA.
2014+ Wild Turkey on the Rocks Sculpture Garden and Museum, Damascus, PA
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2019 Delaware Valley Art Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY. “Spaced Out at Home” – “At Home in Space”
Gregory Allicar Museum, CSU, Fort Collins, CO. “The Moon Museum: Unofficial Art on Apollo 12”
2013 Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI. “Small Scale”
Lynden Sculpture Garden Gallery, Milwaukee, WI.
2011 Regina Rex Gallery, BKNY. “Luminus Flux” Forrest Myers & James O. Clark
2008 Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “Not Furniture”
2007 Friedman-Benda Gallery, NY. “Forrest Myers”
2006 Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY “Right Brain/Left Brain – Selections from 1960 to 2006”,
1982-97 Art et Industrie Gallery, NYC
1974 Sculpture Now Gallery, NYC
1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Centre Pompidou, Paris, France “La Lune: Zone Imaginaire”
Kunsthaus Museum, Zurich and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. “Fly Me to the Moon”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC. “Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography”
Vasarely Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary. “The Moon Museum 1969, Art and Space”
2018 National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, (MMCA) Seoul, Korea “E.A.T.: Experiments in Art and Technology”
2017 Museum of Modern Art, NYC “Rauschenberg Among Friends”
2016 Museum of Modern Art, NYC “Art of the 60’s”
2014 The Jewish Museum, NYC. “Primary Structures, 1966/Other Primary Structures 2014”
2011 Museum of Art and Design, NYC. “Picasso to Koons”
Stephen Kasher Gallery, NYC, “Max’s Kansas City: Art Glamour Rock and Roll” Laser Sculpture,
Loretta Howard Gallery, NYC “artists at Max’s kansas city, 1965-1974, hetero-holics and some women too”
2010 MoMA PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, LICNY. “1969”
2008 The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX “Reimagining Space, The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960’s New York”
2005-7 Miami-Basel, Friedman- Benda Gallery
2005-7 Miami-Basel, Magen H Gallery XX Century Design
1999 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA “Sticker Shock”
MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center, LIC, NY
1994 Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ “Grounds for Sculpture”
Bard College, NY “The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line”
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, Group Exhibition, NYC
1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial Painting and Sculpture Show, NY
“Outdoor Sculptors Indoors” Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Whitney Museum of American Art, Sculpture Annual, NYC
1968 Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT “Cool Art”
American Embassy Mexico City, Mexico, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
Park Place Group Show, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1967 Los Angeles County Museum, CA. “American Sculpture of the Sixties”
Institute of Contemporary Art, U Penn, Philadelphia, “Art for the City”
1966 The Jewish Museum, NYC, “Primary Structures”
Museum & Public Collections
“The Wall” aka “The Gateway to SoHo” Art in Public Places, Bway & Houston NYC
Museum of Modern Art, NYC
The Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Museum of Modern Art, Roof Tower Garden, NYC
Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY
Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY
OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Miami-Dade County Art in Public Places, Wolfson College, FL
Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
Special Projects
2018 The Art and Times of Frosty Myers, feature length Documentary Wallabout Productions, Talon Films
2010 The Moon Museum, Featured @ PBS The History Detectives
2009 Wild Turkey Sculpture Garden and Museum, Damascus, PA Collaboration with landscape designer, Debra Arch Myers
2004 Searchin 5, Search Light Sculpture Performance; Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
1979 Searchin 4, Search Light Sculpture Performance; Dallas Symphony, TX
1978 Searchin 3, Search Light Sculpture Performance; MoMA PS1, LICNY
1975 Searchin 2, Search Light Sculpture Performance; Art Park, Lewiston, NY
1975 “Uno Cycle” One-wheel Motorcycle, for “Gizmo” film by Francois de Menil
1973 “The Wall aka Gateway to SoHo” Broadway & Houston Street, NYC
1970 Expo ‘70 World’s Fair, Pepsi Cola Pavilion, Special Exhibit, E. A. T. Experiments in Art and Technology, Osaka, Japan
1969 The Moon Museum, First Art on the Moon, Apollo 12 Mission, Experiments in Art and Technology
1969 “Lunechild III” Apollo 11 Moon Landing, Laser Sculpture Installation @ Dept of Recreation & Cultural Affairs @ Sheep’s Meadow, Central Park, NYC
1968 “From My Place to Max’s” Laser Sculpture Installation, Max’s Kansas City, Park Ave. South @ 17th Street, NYC
1968 Union Square Park, Laser Light Sculpture Performance, NYC
1967 Searchin 1, Search Light Sculpture Performance; NYC Dept of Cultural Affairs, “Sculpture in Environment” Tompkins Square Park, NYC
1967 World Trade Towers Search Light Installation Proposal to David Rockefeller
Selected Publications
“La Lune: Zone Imaginaire” catalog, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 2019
“Fly Me to the Moon” Kunsthaus Museum, Zurich/Museum der Moderne, Salzburg
“Apollo’s Muse: The Moon in the Age of Photography” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, 2019
“The Moon Museum 1969, Art and Space” Vasarely Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, 2019
Siah Armajani: Follow This Line, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Edited by Clare Davies & Victoria Sung, 2018
Robert Rauschenberg, MoMA, Dickerman, Borchardt-Hume, Tate Publ. 2017
Inventing Downtown, Artist-Run Galleries in New York City 1952-1965, Melissa Rachleff, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, NY 2017
Eye of the Sixties, Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art, Judith E. Stein, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY. 2016
E. A. T. Experiments in Art and Technology, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, by Sabine Breitwieser, 2015
Art et Industrie, Magen H. Gallery, 2016
Primary Structures, 1966 / Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, 2014
20 @ OMI, Celebrating Twenty Years of Creativity and Community, OMI International Arts Center, 2011
Large Scale, Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960’2 and 1970’s, Jonathan D. Lippincott, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2010.
Max’s Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll, Abrams Image, Sept. 2010 “artists at Max’s kansas city, 1965-1974, hetero-holics and some women too”, Maurice Tuchman, 2010
La Nouvelle Abstraction Americaine 1950-1970, Claudine Humblet, Skira Press, 2003
Earth Works-Art and the Landscape of the Sixties, Susra Boettger, U of Ca. Press, 2002
The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Rizzoli 2002
A Landscape for Modern Sculpture: Storm King Art Center, John Beardsley & David Finn, Abbeville Press
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition – New Art in the 20th Century, Bruce Altshuler, Harry Abrams, Inc., 1994
The Rocker – an American Tradition, by Bernice Steinbaum, Rizzoli
High Touch: The New Materialism in Design, Robert Janjigian, E. P. Dutton, NY. 1990
New Used & Improved: Art for the ‘80’s, Frank/McKenzie, Abbeville Press
The Art Commission and the Municipal Art Society, Guide of Manhattan’s Outdoor Sculpture, Gayle & Michelle Cohen, Prentice Hall Press, NY 1988
Down & In, Life in the Underground, Ronald Sukenick, Beech Tree Books, William Morrow, NY, 1987
The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1987
Forced Entries: The Downtown Diaries, 1971-1973, Jim Carrol, Penguin Books, 1987
Artists Design Furniture, Denise Domargue, Abrams Press, 1984
Music in Stone-Great Sculpture Gardens of the World, Lawrence & Foy, Scala, 1984
Sculpture at Storm King, H. Peter Stern and David Collens, Abbeville Press, 1980
American Sculpture in Process: 1930-1970, Wayne Anderson, NY Graphic Soc., 1975
American Art Since 1900, Barbara Rose, Praeger Publishers, 1975
The Pavilion, Billy Kluver, Julie Martin & Barbara Rose, EP Dutton, 1972
Minimal Art a Critical Anthology, Gregory Battock, EP Dutton, 1968
Selected Grants and Awards
2012 American Academy of Arts and Letters; Jimmy Ernst Lifetime Achievement Award In Art
2000 Pollack-Krasner Foundation
1998 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation
1980 National Endowment for the Arts
1977 Creative Artists Program Service (CAPS)
1973 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship