“Iris Lake”, 1974, Silkscreen, 37 x 74”, framed, Ed. 3/4
“Flying Stone”, 1974, Silkscreen with string and stone, 37 x 74”, framed, Ed. 27/51
1998 Completes ceiling mural for the Palais de Chaillot in Paris for the 50th anniversary signing of the Rights of Man by Eleanor Roosevelt
1988 Receives Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, Nashville, Tennessee.
Exhibits ‘Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil’ (1988), 17’ x 46’, at Leo Castelli gallery, New Yor
1987 Nominated into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1986 F-111 is sold at Sotheby’s for $2.09 million for the estate of Robert C. Scull
1980 Painted ‘Star Thief’, 17’ x 46’
1978 Appointed to six-year term as member of the National Council on the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1977 Purchases building on Chamber Street, NY. In Florida, paints a number of 15 feet paintings for Leo Castelli
1976 Builds a house and studio with Gilbert Flores, architect, in Aripeka, Florida
1975 Lobbies in Washington, D.C. with Marion Javits and Robert Rauschenberg for a law to allow artists to get a 15% royalty after the art work
has been resold
1967 Moves to Long Island
1963 Commissioned by Philip Johnson to paint mural for the New York World’s Fair, New York State Pavilion. exhibits in ‘Americans 1963’
at the Museum of Modern Art in the ’Six painters and the object’ at the Solomon R Guggenheim museum
1961 Paints ’Zone’ (1961), first studio painting to employ commercial techniques
1960 Quits working for Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. rents a loft at 3- Coenties Slip; neighbours include painters Jack Youngerman,
Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Indiana
1959-57 Becomes a member of the International Sign, Pictorial and Display Union, local 230. Employed by A.H. Villerpigue, Inc., General
Outdoor Advertising, Brooklyn, and Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. Paints billboards in the Times Square area and other parts of New York
1955 Receives scholarship to the Art Students League, New York: studies with Morris Kantor, George Grosz and Edwin Dickinson
1954-52 Attends the University of Minneapolis and studies with Cameron Booth. Visits The Art Institute of Chicago to study old masters and 19th
century paintings. Paints storage bins, grain elevators, and gasoline tanks during the summer. Works for General Outdoor
Advertising, Minneapolis and paints commercial billboards
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2008 Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta, Zurich
2007 When Art Worlds Collidie - The 60's, Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
2006 Works on Paper, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004-3 ”A Retrospective’ The Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Moving to the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York and Guggenheim,Bilbao)
“James Rosenquist: Recent Paintings” at Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
‘American Pop Icons’ at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at the Venetian, Las Vegas, NV
‘James Rosenquist Collages’ Opening exhibition at Jacobson Howard, New York
2001 Gagosian Gallery, New York (solo)
2000 ‘James Rosenquist: Paintings/James Rosenquist: Selects Dali’ at the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida