LittleBlueHeart, 2000
Encaustic on panel
15 x 15 x 4 inches
Kline has had a prolific career as a painter, sculptor and draughtsman and his works have been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States and abroad. His works are in many notable public and private collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Brooklyn Museum and the Morgan Library in New York City; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; the Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Albertina, Vienna; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Ohio University, Athens; the New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain; Triton Foundation, Belgium; Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, among others. Kline lives and works in upstate New York.
MARTIN KLINE
Born 1961, Norwalk, Ohio. Lives and works in Milan, New York
Education
1983 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Solo Exhibitions
2025 MartinKline:TheWorldinAllItsPlenitude, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2023 InMonochrome,Heather Gaudio Fine Art, Greenwich, CT
2021 AlloverPaintings, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2019 HammockPaintingsandRecentWorks, Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2018 White(1992-2018), Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA
JewelPaintings, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
2016 PaintingandSculpture,Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
2015 DreamsofVenice, Thomas Agnew's Gallery, London
DreamsofVenice,Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
2013 TabulaRasa, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
RecentWork,Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
ExcerptsinEncaustic,Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY
2012 MartinKline:RomanticNature(Retrospective),New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2011 ExcursionswithMartinKline, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
AbstractionRootedintotheWorld,Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2009 NatureintoStructure, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX
2008 Monochrome,Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY
2007 NatureandCulture,Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
2006 MadeinJapan,Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY
MadeinJapan(with Elsa Peretti), Tiffany Windows, New York, NY
2005 TruthAwakensasFiction:TheArtofMartinKline,Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY
CopenhagenSuite,NewQi/stickPaintings,Jason McCoy Inc, Copenhagen
StainlessSteelPainting,Jason McCoy Inc., New York, NY
PaintingSculpture,Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2000 NewWorks,Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Grids,65 Thompson Street, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
MartinKline,Allez les Filles Gallery, Columbus, OH
1995 LargeWatercolors,ACP Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1993 17Drawings,ACP Gallerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1985 Drawings,Oregon Information Technology Institute, Portland, OR
1984 EgyptianThemes,Sumus Gallery, Portland, OR
1983 LineDrawings,Small Space Gallery, Athens, OH
Selected Group
2022 NewAcquisitionsandOldFriends,Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
2021 RepetitionasStrategy,1945toNow,Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
ThreeCenturiesofAmericanArtAntiquitiesEuropeanandAmerican Masterpieces,TheFayezSarofimCollection,Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
NightVision,NocturnalMusings,Gallery Naga, Boston, MA
2020 DarkCarnival,Carrington Arts, Sandusky, OH
2019 Under the Microscope, Carrington Arts, Sandusky, OH
202018-3838(Pantonecoloroftheyear),Heather Gaudio Fine Art, New Canaan, CT
BlueHour,Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
2016-17 PaintingsAfterPostmodernism,Brussels, Vanderborght and Cinema Galleries Belgium/USA, traveled to Malaga, Palacio Episcopal Malaga, Reggia Di Caserta, Italy
2013 WaxWorks, Harvard University Art Museums, Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA
2011 Powders,aPhialandaPaperBook,Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Piel/Skin,Isabel la Catolica, Mexico City, Mexico
2010 PaintingandSculptureatLehmannMaupin,Lehman Maupin, New York, NY
AntiIcon,Eaton Fine Art, Inc., West Palm Beach, FL
2007 Grids:CarlAndre,JenniferBartlett,MartinKline,SherrieLevine,SolLeWitt, AtsukoTanaka,JohnTrembley,DanWalsh,JackieWinsor,Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2005 EncausticWorks2005,Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York, New Paltz, NY
2004 LosMonocromos,Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
TheWesternTradition:ArtSincetheRenaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
2003 RecentAcquisitions:WorksonPaper,Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
DrawingModern,WorksfromtheAgnesGundCollection,Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
ProcessandPossibility:ContemporaryDrawingintheMuseumofFineArts CollectionHouston,Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX
AlHeld,MartinKline,KimAnno:Watercolors,Chautauqua Center for Visual Art, Chautauqua, NY
2002 EncausticPainting,Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT
Mono-Chrome,Paul Rodgers 9W Gallery, New York, NY
NatureFoundandMade,Chambers Fine Art, Rocks and Art, New York, NY
2001 Watercolor:InTheAbstract,The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glen Falls, NY
Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center Gallery, Fredonia, NY; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2000 ChelseaArt2000,Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1999-2000 DrawingsandPhotographs,Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
WaxingPoetic:EncausticArtinAmerica, The Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
1998 Trace,Bard College, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY
Drawings,James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
1997 IntimateUniverse(Revisited),Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
The James Howe Gallery, Kean University, Union, NJ
1996 Bad Ragaz, Grand Hotels Resort, Ornamente und Strukturen
1995 OrnamentaleTendenzen:MartinKline,ClaudeSandos,SusannaTaras, Galerie der Stadt, Kornwestheim, Germany
1993 Drawings,30thAnniversaryExhibitionLeo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
DrawingtheLineAgainstAIDS,Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY
AMomentBecomesEternity:FlowersasImage,Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ
1992 FreedomofExpression‘92,Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Drawings,Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
Entr'Acte,Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1986 BigSkyBiennialIV,Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
GaryForner,MartinKline,NanYragui,Coos Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR
1985 StocktonNationalPrintandDrawingExhibition,Stockton, CA
OregonBiennial,Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay, OR Biennial
1984 AllOregonArtAnnual,Oregon State Fair, Salem, OR
Collections
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox At Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College and Conservatory, OH
The Atlantic Pacific Fellowship, Miyakonojo, Japan
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
The Kennedy Museum, Ohio University, Athens, OH
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Triton Foundation, Belgium
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
All images © 2025 Martin Kline, Photography © 2025 Andy Wainwright
