Exhibitions

Group

Julian Stanczak's work has been included in numerous national and international art fairs, including Art Basel (Switzerland, Hong Kong, Miami Beach), the Armory show, Fiac and many others.

2020

Danese/Corey Gallery, "Abstraction: Hot and Cold", New York, New York

2019-2020

Rockford Art Museum, "Bold Abstraction: Paintings from the Thoma Collection", Rockford, Illinois

2019

Toledo Museum of Art, "Everything is Rhythm: Mid-Century Art and Music", Toledo, Ohio

McNay Art Museum, "American Dreams: Classic Cars and Postwar Paintings", San Antonio, Texas

Diane Rosenstein Gallery, "The Seven Year Itch", Los Angeles, California

David Richard Gallery, "Optics, Colors and Materials: Abstractions by Stanczak, Halley, Simon, Fleming, Valledor, Kluber, Hanafusa, and Haub", New York, New York

2019-2018

LWL-Museum fur Kunst un Kultur, Westfalisches Landesmuseum, "Bauhaus und Amerika: Experimente in Licht und Bewegung", Munster, Germany

2018

Harris Stanton Gallery, "Transcendence: Silkscreens by Julian Stanczak and Stone carvings by Barbara Stanczak", Cleveland, Ohio

Bonfoey Gallery, "Harmonic Duality: Sculpture by Barbara Stanczak and Paintings by Julian Stanczak", Cleveland, Ohio

Kent State University, Center for the Visual Arts Gallery, "Kent Blossom Art Inventories: The First 10 Years. Highlights from the School of Art Collection", Kent, Ohio

Anderson Gallery at the State Univeristy of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo, "Light, Line, Color and Space", Buffalo, New York

2015

UB Anderson Gallery, SUNI University of New York, Buffalo, New York, "A Tribute to David K. Anderson" (begins November 22, 2015)

Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, "Choice: Contemporary Art from the Akron Art Museum"

Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Fransisco, California, "OPTIC NERVE"

Bonfoey Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, "Color & Form"

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, Gallery, "Hard Edge Painting in the 1960's: From Los Angeles, to D.C., to New York"

David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, "Post–Op: 'The Responsive Eye' Fifty Years Later"

Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, North Carolina, Viewing of "Julian Stanczak Op Art: The Perceptive Eye"

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, "Bold Obstructions: Selections from the Collection, 1966–76"

2014

Frost Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, "Global Exchange: Geometric Abstraction since 1950" (lent by the Museo de Arte, Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, "Our Postwar Focus 1960s-1970s"

2013

Harris–Stanton Gallery, Akron, Ohio, "26th Annual International Exhibition: Julian and Barbara Stanczak"

Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida, "Pan-American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States"

2012-2013

Mueso de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, "Exhibition of Major International Geometric Artists"

2012

New Museum, New York, New York, "Ghosts in the Machine"

2011

D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York "Structured Color", with Anuszkiewicz, Benjamin, Davis, Downing, Hinman, Stanczak, Tadasky

Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York "Obstruction"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH "CLE OP: Cleveland Op Art Pioneers", with Julian Stanczak, Edwin Mieczkowski and Richard Anuszkiewicz

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH, with Julian Stanczak, Edwin Mieczkowski and Robert Mangold

2010

Madron Gallery, Chicago, Illinois "The Perceptive Mind"

Deedee Wigmore, New York, New York "Op Art of Ohio; Anonima Group, Richard Anuszkiewicz and Julian Stanczak in the 1960's"

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio "In Honor of the Cleveland Arts Prize"

2009

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire "Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum"

2008

Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, "Bars and Stripes"

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical Art Since 1945"

Beck Centerand the Cleveland Artists Foundation, Lakewood, Ohio — Julian & Barbara Stanczak

Albright-Know Gallery, Buffalo, New York "Op Art Revisited"

Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York "Pop and Op"

2006

State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, "Op Art Revisited- Selections from the Albreight Knox Gallery"

Eckert Fine Arts, Naples, Florida, "Color & Light", Julian Stanczak & Steven Knapp

University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Intersecting Pathways: The Art of Julian & Barbara Stanczak"

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, "Optic Nerve- Perceptual Art from the 60’s"

Pratt Institute, New York, NY, "The Optical Edge"

Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, "Director’s Choice", 3 artists

Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "From Here To Infinity", 125th. Anniversary exhibition

2005

Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida, "Timeless: An Eclectic Collection strongning Two Centuries"

McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Universal Medium"

McKenzie Fine Art, New York, New York, "Good Vibrations"

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Extreme Abstraction"

Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, "Op Art: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Revisited"

2004-05

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, "Light and Movement"

2004

Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, "The Lead Chicken Award: Major Cleveland Painting at Mid-Century"

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, "The Abstract Eye: Selections from the Permanent Collection"

Ashmore Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, "High Art: Perspectives"

2003

Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery and Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York, New York [Participating in both Parts I (“Pioneers of Nonobjective Painting”) and II (“Contemporary Nonobjective Painting”)], "Seeing Red: International Exhibition of Nonobjective Painting"

P.S. 1 Gallery, an affiliate of the Museum of Modern Art, Queens, New York, "Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists (Curated by Agnes Gund)"

2002

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio, "Wired: Art That Moves"

Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, "Inner Light: Selections from the Permanent Collection"

2001

Cleveland Artists Foundation, The Beck Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, "Harmonic Forms on the Edge: Geometric Abstraction in Cleveland"

Gallery One, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan, "Color in the Eye"

2000

Baum Gallery of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway Arkansas, "Color Function Serigraphs"

1999

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana, "POP(ular)/OP(tical): Art of the 60’s and 70’s from the Permanent Collection"

1998

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Eyes Pop"

1997

DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, "Expanding Tradition: the Influence of Polish Artists in the US"

Cleveland Botanical Gardens, Cleveland, Ohio, "Responses to Nature – Responses to Art", Julian & Barbara Stanczak

1996

The Neil Rector Collection, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, "Color Function Painting: The Art of Josef Albers, Julian Stanczak and Richard Anuszkiewicz"

1995

Lakeland Community College, Ohio, "Action – Reaction: Julian and Barbara Stanczak"

The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, continued (1996) to Canton Art Museum, ArtSpace Lima, The Riffe Gallery Columbus, and the Beck Center for the Arts (Lakewood), "The Spirit of Cleveland: Visual Arts Recipients of the Cleveland Fine Arts Prize 1961-1995"

1994

Akron Museum, Akron, Ohio, "Abstraction & Geometry in Painting"

1993

The Upstairs Gallery, Ithica, New York, "Julian Stanczak, Clayton Pond: Prints"

1991

Ministerstwo Kulturi I Sztuki, Galeria Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland, "Jestesmy"

1988

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, "Op & Pop"

1987

Madrid, Spain, "Art in the Embassies"

1985

National Museum of American Art, Washington, "The Martha Jackson Memorial Collection"

1984

Cincinnati, Ohio, "The Drackett Fine Art Collection"

1982

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, "Josef Albers: His Art and His Influence"

1981

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., "The Development of Optical Art"

1979

Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, D.C., "Artists from Yale"

The Cleveland Institute of Art, "Visual Logic: Davis, Mieczkowski, Pearson, Stanczak"

1977

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, "Modern Prints"

1975

Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, "Forms of Color"

1973

Youngstown, Ohio, "American Contemporary Art"

Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio, "Stanczak – Anuszkiewicz"

1972

Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, "Color Painting"

1971

Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, Ohio, "The Saalfield and Sundell Collections"

1970

Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Pittsburgh International"

Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, "Contemporary American Art"

1969

Flint International, Flint Art Institute, Flint, Michigan, "The Square in Painting"

Lafayette College, Easton Pennsylvania (organized by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service), "Black White: Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions"

1968

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Second Buffalo Festival of the Arts Today "

1967

Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, "Pittsburgh International"

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, "Contemporary Painting"

Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Three Generations: Albers, Vasarely, Stanczak"

1966

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "Paintings in the White House"

Riverside Museum, New York, "Yesterday and Today 1936 – 1966, American Abstract Artists"

1965

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, "The Responsive Eye"

San Francisco Museum of Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco, California, "The Colorists"

Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, "Kinetic and Optical Art Today"

Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York, "Vibrations Eleven"

1964

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, "Motion and Movement"