b. 1925, Chicago Illinois.
decd. 2020, Durham, North Carolina.

Solo Exhibitions

2021
Irwin Kremen, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, October 29 – December 11

2018
Irwin Kremen. Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, NY, March 29 – May 6.

2017
Irwin Kremen/Matrix 265. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive at UC-Berkeley, April 26 – August 27.

2011
In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen. Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsylvania August 31 – October 24.
In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition organized by the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center: Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, North Carolina, February 18 – June 4.

2007
Irwin Kremen: Beyond Black Mountain (1966 to 2006). Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, March 22 – June 17.

2004
Three in One: Collage, Painting, Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at ACA Galleries, New York, New York, March 20 – April 10.

2000
As Such: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen, 1975 – 2000. Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois, May 13 – July 9.

1999
Seescape: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi, October 24, 1998 – January 17.

1998
High C: Collages by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at ACA Galleries, New York, New York, September 10 – October 3, 1998.

1997
C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 4 – November 16.
C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, May 2 – June 20.
C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, December 10, 1996 to February 9.

1996
C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition organized by the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina: Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 8 – October 27.

1992
Irwin Kremen: The Re’eh Series. Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery (now: Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, April 2 – May 10.

1991
Irwin Kremen: The Re’eh Series. An exhibition organized by the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September 22 – November 24.
The Art of Irwin Kremen. City Art Gallery, Toyama, Japan, April 10 – May 6.

1990
The Art of Irwin Kremen. An exhibition organized by the Duke University Museum of Art: Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, November 16 – December 31.
From the 2nd Decade: Collages & Sculptures by Irwin Kremen, 1979 – 1989. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina, May 5 – July 15.
The Re’eh Series by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at the Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, January 14 – February 25.
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, January 14 – February 25.

1989
From the 2nd Decade: Collages & Sculptures by Irwin Kremen, 1979 – 1989. An exhibition organized by the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, October 8 – November 26, 1989.
The Reva K. Collages & Other Works by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at the Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13 – June 11.

1988
per se: Collages & Other Works by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, including the Re’eh Series, February 17 – March 19.

1987
In Plain View: The Collages of Irwin Kremen. An exhibition at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, including the Re’eh Series, September 27 – November 5.

1986
SE Ǝ: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, November 10, 1985 – January 5.

1985
SE Ǝ: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, September 8 – October 27, including the Re’eh Series.
SE Ǝ: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, June 4 – July 28, including 10 additional collages.
SE Ǝ: Collages by Irwin Kremen. An exhibit organized by The Brooklyn Museum: The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, March 15 – May 14.

1983
Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1976 – 1983. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 17 – November 13.

1981
Works and Ways: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, September 27 – November 1.

1979
53 Collages by Irwin Kremen. Kresge Art Center Gallery, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, November 18 – December 16.
Collages by Irwin Kremen. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, D. C., January 26 – March 25.

1978
Collages by Irwin Kremen. An exhibition organized by the National Collection of Fine Arts & the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art: Irwin Kremen, Collages. Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, September 8 – October 22.

Other Re’eh Series Exhibitions

1999
The Re’eh Series, Collages by Irwin Kremen: In Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. An exhibition at the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, September 14 – November 28.

1996
The Re’eh Series by Irwin Kremen. An exhibit at Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, September 8 – October 27.

1985
The Re’eh Series by Irwin Kremen: A Special Showing. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania. October 30 – November 7.
The Re’eh Series by Irwin Kremen. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, September 8 – October 27.

Four Artist Exhibition

1992
The Black Mountain Connection: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Irwin Kremen, M.C. Richards. Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, September 13 – November 22.

Group Exhibitions

2022
87 Franklin Inaugural, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
Looking Back / The 12th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY (forthcoming)

2019
Nurikabe. Tetsuo’s Garage (organized by Troedsson Villa), Nikko, Japan, August 17 – September 8, 2019.

2016
This Just In: Recent Acquisitions. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, at UC–Berkeley, July 6 – September 11.

2011
Pasted Papers: The Art of Collage. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas, January 25 – May 15.

2005
Waterflow: An Exhibition. The Cotuit Center for the Arts, Cotuit, Massachusetts, July 15 – August 28.
The Art Show. Park Avenue Armory. New York, New York, February 24 – 28.

2004
The Winter Show. Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, December 5 – 30.
Small and Everlasting: 19th, 20th, and 21st Century Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. ACA Galleries, New York, New York, December 13, 2003 – February 7.

2002
Rupture & Revision: Collage in America. Pavel Zoubok, Inc., New York, New York, November 29, 2001 – January 5.

2000
Sculpture at the Block Museum of Art. Evanston, Illinois: Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Works on Paper Art Fair. Park Avenue Armory, New York, New York, May 5.

1998
Mixing Media: Assemblage and Collage. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, October 24, 1997 – January 25.

1997
Metal Forms. The Durham Art Guild, Inc., Durham, North Carolina, September 28 – October 27 (with William Noland).

1995
Rolywholyover: A Circus. Art Tower, Mito Contemporary Art Center, Japan, November 3, 1994 – February 26, 1995.
Rolywholyover: A Circus. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, June 4 – July 30, 1995.
American Collage. ACA Galleries, New York, NY, May 2 – June 16, 1995.

1994
Rolywholyover: A Circus. Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, New York, April 23 – July 31.
Rolywholyover: A Circus. The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, January 14 – April 3.

1993
Rolywholyover: A Circus. An exhibition organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, September 12 – November 28.

1992
An Exchange of Concepts on the American Landscape (FAXART). Museum of Modern Art of Cartagena, August 2 – September 5.
An Exchange of Concepts on the American Landscape (FAXART). Museum of Modern Art of Bucaramanga, June 2 – July 12.
An Exchange of Concepts on the American Landscape (FAXART). Camara de Comercio de Cali, March 17 – April 24.
Recent Acquisitions: Works on Paper. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), Washington, D.C., October 4, 1991 – February 2.

1991
An Exchange of Concepts on the American Landscape (FAXART). An exhibit organized by the Centro Colombo Americano de Medellin, Colombia: Centro Colombo Americano de Medellin, October 3 – November 29.
Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Part Two, 1950 – 1991. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, September 19 – December 8.
The 26th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 18, 1990 – January 6.

1990
42nd Annual Purchase Exhibition. American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York, November 12 – December 9, 1990.

1989
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 27 – May 8.
University Art Gallery, SUNY Albany, Albany, New York, January 24 – March 6.

1988
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, November 14 – December 24.
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 11 – October 2.
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. Lehigh University Galleries, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, March 27- May 8.
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, January 24 – March 7.

1987
Contemporary American Collage, 1960 -1986. An exhibition organized by The Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: The Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, November 9 – December 11.

Selected Bibliography

2017
DeWitt Cheng. “Catch Collagist Irwin Kremen at BAM.” Oakland Magazine, July 20. (Also in Alameda Magazine, same date, and in the July issue The East Bay Monthly).
Rinder, Lawrence. Irwin Kremen/Matrix 265. Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.

2007
Schroth, Sarah. “Notes on the Art of Irwin Kremen.” Irwin Kremen: Beyond Black Mountain 1966 to 2006. Durham, North Carolina: the Nasher Museum at Duke University, pp. 1-27.
Sung, Ellen. “From the Folds of His Mind: Irwin Kremen shaped a career out of ‘experienced paper.’” Also, “Keep Mind Open.” The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 18.
Patterson, Tom. “Duke Prof ’s retrospective is stunning.” Winston-Salem Journal, May 6.
White, Amy. “Work-of-his-kind: In his ninth decade, Irwin Kremen celebrates a Lifetime of art.” Independent, June 6.

2004
Glueck, Grace.  “Irwin Kremen.” The New York Times, April 2.
Mullarkey, Maureen. “Irwin Kremen.” The New York Sun, April 8.

2000
Holg, Garrett. “Irwin Kremen.” ARTnews, November, Vol. 99, No. 10, p. 214.
Patterson, Tom. “Life as Collage.” Duke Magazine, September – October, Vol. 86, No. 6, cover + pp. 2-8

1998
Glueck, Grace. “High C: Collages by Irwin Kremen.” The New York Times, September 25.
Rush, Michael. “High C. Review:” The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, September 15.

1997
Bookhardt. D. Eric. “Irwin Kremen’s East by West Shows the Artist’s True Direction.” Gambit Weekly (New Orleans, LA), November 3.

1996
Patterson, Tom. “Exhibit of Collage and Sculpture by Retired Duke Prof Worth a Long, Loving Look.” Winston-Salem Journal, October 6.
Patterson, Tom. “Thirty Years of Play Against a Darker Ground: Notes on Irwin Kremen and his Art.” In C#: Collage and Sculpture by Irwin Kremen. Greensboro, NC: Green Hill Center for N.C. Art, pp. vii-ix.

1991
Millard, Charles. (Foreword). In Irwin Kremen: The Re’eh Series. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Ackland Art Museum.

1990
Patterson, Tom. “New Risks: Kremen Keeps Growing.” Winston Salem Journal, Dec. 16.
Patterson, Tom. “Nuances: Intricate, Textured Collages Succeed on Many Levels.” Winston-Salem Journal, Sunday, May 27.
Shiff, Richard. “Insistent Matter: The Art of Irwin Kremen.” In The Art of Irwin Kremen. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Museum of Art, pp.1-5.

1989
Manuel, John. “A Sublime Coherence: The Collages of Irwin Kremen.” Leader Magazine, May 18.

1988
Artner, Alan G. “Works Are Studies in Elegant Refinement.” Chicago Tribune, March 4.
Hill, Barbara. “Kremen revives mystery in art.” Chicago Illini, March 3.
Indeck, Karen. Foreword. In per se: Collages & Other Works by Irwin Kremen. Chicago, Illinois: Gallery 400, University of Illinois.
Sappington, John. “Experienced Papers.” Philadelphia City Paper, May 27.
Spector, Buzz. “Irwin Kremen.” Artforum International, Summer, pp. 144-145.
Taylor, Sue. “Irwin Kremen.” ARTnews, May, 185.

1987
Gruber, J. Richard. “On Irwin Kremen.” In In Plain View: The Collages of Irwin Kremen. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Heidrich, William. “Irwin Kremen’s Collages.” In In Plain View: The Collages of Irwin Kremen. Memphis, Tennessee: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Koeppel, Frederic. “Collage Art Masterful, Metaphoric Kremen Exhibit Powerful.” The Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee), Sunday, September 27.

1985
Narrett, Eugene. “Irwin Kremen: Collages. Art New England.” December 1985/January 1986.
Bannon, Anthony.” There’s Magic in Collage as Chaos Becomes Unity.” The Buffalo News, June 9.
Belz, Carl. “Irwin Kremen.” In SE E: Collages by Irwin Kremen, including the Re’eh Series. Waltham, Massachusetts: Rose Art Museum.
Brenson, Michael. “Collages that Wrest Dignity from the Holocaust.” The New York Times, September 15.
Digby, John & Digby, Joan. The Collage Handbook: State of the Art. (Section on “Irwin Kremen”) London: Thames and Hudson.
Glueck, Grace. “Irwin Kremen.” The New York Times, April 5.
Mintz, Jane. “Precision, Detail Pay Off for Prof Turned Collagist.” The Leader, Research Triangle Newsmagazine. June 27 – July 4.
Morgan, Robert C. “Two Speak Language of Art on Own Terms.” Rochester Sunday Democrat and Chronicle, June 9.
Taylor, Robert. “Shards of the World in Miniaturist’s Work.” Boston Sunday Globe, September 15.
Walker, Barry. “On Looking at Kremen Collages.” In SE E: Collages by Irwin Kremen. Brooklyn, New York: The Brooklyn Museum.

1983
Caldwell, John. (Untitled essay). In “Collages by Irwin Kremen, 1976 – 1983.” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute.

1979
Forgey, Benjamin. “Irwin Kremen Masters the Difficult Art of Collage.” The Washington Star, January 27.
Richard, Paul. “The Elusiveness of Irwin Kremen’s Collages.” The Washington Post, March 14.

1978
Richards, M. C. “That Pure and Riddling Truth.” In Collages by Irwin Kremen. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Public Collections

Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor.
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Allentown Museum of Art
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, (now the Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art), The University of Texas at Austin
The Arkansas Art Center
The Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive at UC–Berkeley ( three works).
Birmingham Museum of Art
Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center
Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University (sculpture)
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University
The Carnegie Museum of Art
Getty Research Institute (2 works)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (two works)
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (two works)
National Gallery of Art (two works)
Philadelphia Museum of Art (two works)
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University (three works)
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.
The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago
Smith College Museum of Art (two works)
Smithsonian American Art Museum [formerly the National Collection of Fine Arts, and the National Museum of American Art] (five works).
Wichita Art Museum (four works)
Yale University Art Gallery (two works)