1929 Born January 28, Stockholm, Sweden.
1937-56 Residence in Chicago.
1946-50 Studied at Yale University. B.A. Degree in English and Art.
1952-54 Night and day school studies, Art Institute of Chicago. Painting study with Paul Wieghardt.
1956 Moved to New York City.
1958 First showing of drawings in New York City, at Red Grooms’ City Gallery.
1960 “New Media, New Forms II,” Martha Jackson Gallery.
1961 “The Store,” first version, in “Environments, Situations,
Spaces” at Martha Jackson Gallery.
1962 Green Gallery.
1963 Richard Feign Gallery, Chicago, and “Gayety,” happening at the University of Chicago.
Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles.
1964 Returned to New York. First one-man show at the Sidney Janis Gallery.
1965 Began first “multiple” productions-editions of “Baked Potato” and “Tea Bag” objects.
1966 Sidney Janis Gallery “Airflow” subject and Bathroom Group.
Robert Fraser Gallery, London.
1967 One-man show of monuments proposals for the opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
1968 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles.
1969 “Earthworks” at the Dwan Gallery, New York City.
Visited London to supervise completion and installation of “Bedroom Ensemble” replica, for “Pop Art”, Hayward Gallery.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Retrospective at Museum of Modern Art, NY
1970 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate gallery, London, England
1971 Pasadena Art Museum, LA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA
1972 Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
1973 Seattle art Museum, WA
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1974 Group exhibition “American Pop Art”, Whitney, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
1975 Walker Art Center, NY
Kunsthalle Tubingen, West Germany
Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
1976 Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
1977 Moderna Museum of Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1978 Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
1980 Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
1987, 1988 MOMA, NY
1988 Whitney, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
1989 Margo Leavin Gallery, LA
1990 Leo Castelli Gallery, NY
1990, 1991 MOMA, NY
1994 Group exhibition “The Art of Assemblage”, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Marian Goodman Gallery, NY
Group exhibition “Drawing on Sculpture”, Cohen Gallery, NY
Group exhibition “White Works”, Pace Wildenstein, NY
1994-95 Group exhibition “Worlds in a Box”, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, England