1903 Born in Guatemala City.
1981 Died in Livingston, NJ.
Education
1925 Education San Diego Fine Arts School, San Diego, CA
1928 Education Heymann-Schule, Hofmann-Schule, Munich, Germany
1937 Studied Architecture, Painting Académie Scandinave, Paris, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2015 Alfred Jensen: Works from Swiss Collection, Kunstmuseum Winterthur,
Switzerland, April 25–July 26, 2015.
2011 Alfred Jensen: Prints and Lithographs, Pace Prints, New York, NY
2010 Alfred Jensen, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
2006 Alfred Jensen: The Number Paintings, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2004 Alfred Jensen, Nielsen Gallery, Boston
Alfred Jensen: Paintings from the 1970s, The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 Alfred Jensen: Concordance, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
2001 Alfred Jensen: Concordance, Dia Center for the Arts, 548 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen, Pace Wildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen, Max Protetch Gallery, 511 West 22nd Street, New York, NY
1999 Alfred Jensen, Malca Fine Arts, New York, NY
Crossing the Equator, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Selected Paintings, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
1997 The Relationship between Structure and Function, Buchman Galerie, Köln, Germany
1996 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings and Drawings, a Survey, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
1995 Paintings, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
1994 The New Jersey Years, 1972-1981, The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
1993 The Pythagorean Work, Galerie Rigassi, Bern, Switzerland
1992 Bilder und Arbeiten auf Paper von 1952 bis 1978, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
1991 Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Susan Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Blancpain Stepczinski, Geneva
1987 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Dan Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Works on Paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1983 The Late Works, Pace, New York 1988 Waddington Galleries, London, England
1981 The Great Pyramid and Other Paintings of 1979 and 1980, Anderson Gallery,
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
1980 Changes and Communication, mural, National Libarary of Medicine, National Institutes
of Health, Lister Hill Center, Bethesda, MD
1978 Alfred Jensen (with Sam Francis), XIV International Bienal of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
Traveled to Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; New Museum, New York,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA;
Department of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado Museum, Boulder, CO and
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1977 Alfred Jensen: Paintings and Diagrams from the Years 1957-1977, Kornfeld & Klipstein,
Basel, Switzerland
1976 Alfred Jensen: Selected Works 1961-1974, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Alfred Jesen, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Alfred Jesen, Kornfeld & Klipstein Basel, Switzerland
1973 Alfred Jesen, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany; Travelled to: Louisiana Museum,
LA; Humblebaek, Denmark; Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle,
Dusseldorf; Kunsthalle, Bern
Alfred Jensen: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1970 The Aperspective Structure of a Square, Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen, Paintings 1964-1972, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Kornfeld, Zurich, Switzerland
1968 Treasures from Inventory III, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, NY
Alfred Jensen: The Acroatic Rectangle, J. L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI
1966 Alfred Jensen, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
Works of Graphic/Alfred Jensen, Royal Marks Gallery, New York, NY
The Acroatic Rectangle, Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc., New York, NY
1965 Alfred Jensen, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
A Pythagorean Notebook, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 Alfred Jensen (with Franz Kline), Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Alfred Jensen, Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alfred Jensen, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1963 Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ
Duality Triumphant, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
Kornfeld & Klipstein, Bern. Alfred Jensen, October-November.
Graham Gallery, New York. Divine Analogy and Time Reckoning, November 5-December 7
1961 Magic Square, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1959 First Exhibition of Murals, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
Alfred Jensen and the Image of the Prism, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1957 Recent Oils by Alfred Jensen, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York, NY
1955 Al Jensen: Paintings, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1952 Alfred Jensen: Experiments in Color, John Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Collection 1950s-1970s, 407: Sign Posts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2024 ARTephemera (1930-present), VINCE fine arts/sephmera, Vince, IL
Two faced art (art with double sides), Alpha 137 Gaery, New York, NY
The Spirit of Summer, Alon Zakaim Fine Art, London, UK
2023 Schema: World as Diagram, Marlborough New York, NY
UK vs USA: Post-War to Present, Alon Zakaim Fine Art
2022 MAD WOMEN| Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward: Art Dealers on
Madison Avenue in the 1960s, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
The Mid Century Modern Aesthetic, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, NY
2018 True Colors, Nassau County Museum of Art, Rosalyn Harbor, New York, July
21–November 2, 2018.
Principia Mathematica, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York,
February 8–March 17, 2018.
Recalibration, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950–1980, Met Breuer, New York,
September 13, 2017–January 14, 2018. (Catalogue).
2016 Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey
Art Gallery, New York University, New York, January 10–April 1, 2017.
Traveled to: NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, October 4, 2017–
January 13, 2018.
The Architecture of Line, Jason McCo Gallery, New York, NY
Talking on Paper, Pace Gallery, Bejing, China
From the Collection: 1960-1969, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2015 On the Square Part II, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Eureka, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2014 There was a Bad Tree, Pace Gallery, London, England
Summer Group Show, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2012 Alfred Jensen/Sol LeWitt: System and Transformation, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Katherine Bernhardt, Alfred Jensen, Chris Martin, Andrew Masullo and Judith Scott,
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
Proofs and Refutations, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Color Fields, Deutsche+Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
50 Years at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Back to the Future, Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Exile on Main Street, Bonnefante Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2008 Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Wonders of Numbers, Art about Mathematics, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
2007 Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Alfred Jensen and Mel Bochner: Hommage to Pythagoras, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Logical Conclusions: 40 years of Rule-based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2003 Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2001 Noncomposition: Fifteen case studies, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2000 Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
1999 Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of
Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997 Magie der Zahl, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Alfred Jensen and Tony Smith: Personal Geometry, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
1994 A Century of Artists Books, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993 Reading Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1990 Still Life Into Objects, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1989 Bilderstreit: Die Internationale Kunst von 1960 bis heut, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
1987 Contemporary Works from the collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1985 Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910-1980, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
1984 I Knew It to Be So, Alfred Jensen, Forrest Bess and Myron Stout, New York
Studio School, New York, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books,
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1977 Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Collectors, Collecting, Collection: American Abstract Art Since 1945, San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1977 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1976 Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in America, The Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1975 The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Albright-
Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Color Museo de Arte Modemo, Mexico City, Mexico (in collaboration with
the International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Selections from the Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, University Art
Gallery, State University of New York at Albany, NY
1973 The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, University of Maryland Art
Gallery, College Park, MD; Travelled to The Finch College Museum
of Art, New York, NY and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, NY
1972 Recent American Painting and Sculpture in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Exhibition of Works by Contemporary Artists Who Are Not Members the
Institute, The Gallery of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Grids Grids Grids Grids Grids Grids Grids Grids, Institute of Contemporary
Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
documenta 5: Internationale Ausstellung, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1971 The Structure of Color, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970 Highlights of the 1969-70 Art Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1969 Black-White, Latayette College, Easton, PA
Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes,
Buenos Aires, Argentina; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY (circulated under the auspices of the
International Council of The Museum of Modern Art)
1968 Plus by Minus: Today's Half Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Neue Kunst U.S.A. Barock-Minima, Das Modern Art Museum, Munich, Germany
Sammlung Marguerite Arp – Hagenbach, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
4. documenta: Internationale Ausstellung, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1967 The Rainbow Room, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Kane Memorial Exhibition, Brown University, Providence, RI
The 8th International Art Exhibition of Japan, Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
(circulated throughout Japan under the auspices of The American Federation of Arts)
Colorists 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Highlights of 1964-65, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1964 A Decade of New Talent, American Federation of Arts Gallery, New York,
NY (circulated under the auspices of The American Federation of Arts)
Post Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
(circulated to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI and Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada)
documenta III: Internationale Ausstellung, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Contemporary Painters and Sculptors as Printmakers, Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
1963 The 28th Biennial Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Banners, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
Paintings from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, National Gallery of
Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Recent Trends, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1962 65th American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and
Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
New Accessions U.S.A., The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO
Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 American Abstract Expressionists and Imagists, The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
100 Paintings from the G. David Thompson Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, NY
1960 Collectors Choice, The City Art Museum of St. Louis, MO
Jensen and Schwitters, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Image Lost and Found, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, M
Segunda Bienal Interamericana de Mexico, Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1956 Fifth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Painters /Sculptors on 10th Street, Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
1955 Fourth Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
1954 Third Annual Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, Iowa
Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Baltimore Museum of Art
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MichiganDallas Museum of Art
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Deutsche Bank, New York
Dia Center for the Arts, New York
Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Health and Hospital Corporation, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
I.B.M., Armonk, New York
Insel Hambroich Museum, Neuss, Germany
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
The Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth, Western Australia
Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle, Basel
Kunsthaus, Zurich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood, New Jersey
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands
Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Newark, New Jersey
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
Time, Inc., New York
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York