Winston Roeth
Born in Chicago, USA, 1945
Lives and works in Beacon, New York and Waldoboro, Maine, USA
Education
University of Illinois, USA
University of New Mexico, USA
Royal Academy of Arts London, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2024The Unbearable Lightness of Seeing, Fox Jensen McCrory, Auckland, New Zealand
2024Colored Grids, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2022Before Forever, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2021Winston Roeth with Clay Ketter, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2020Speed of Light, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
2020The Naked Icon, Hanns Kunitzberger and Winston Roeth – A Dialogue, Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
2019Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2018The Speed of Light, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
2018Trabajos Destacados, Xavier Fiol Project Space, Madrid, Germany
201824 Hours a day, Catalog launch & exhibition, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2017Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2017Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015Galerie Christian Lethert, Köln, Germany (with Frank Gerritz)
2015New Works, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2013Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2013Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2012Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2012Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2011Works on Paper, Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt, Germany (with Rudolf de Crignis)
2011Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2011Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2010Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2009Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2008Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
2007Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2007Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2006Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2006Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2006Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
2004Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
2002Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2002New Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
2001Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
2001Palazzo Ducale di Sassuolo, Sassuolo, Italy
2000Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
2000Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1999Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California, USA
1998Artothek, Cologne, Germany
1997Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1996Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
1995Recent Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1993Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1993Drawings, Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden
1992Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1991Galleri Ars Nova, Goteborg, Sweden
1990Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1989Invitational Exhibition, Griffin McGear Gallery, New York, USA
1988Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1980The Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025Group Show, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2025Farbe im Fokus. Werke aus der Paul Ege Art Collection, PEAC, Freiburg, Germany
2024Group Show, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2024RED, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2023Twenty-Five, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
2023Collecting Color: Blue, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA
2023Geometric Abstraction, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, USA
2023Prima Materia: The Periodic Table in Contemporary Art, The Aldrich, Connecticut, USA
2020»Leidenschaft ist unser Antrieb« | Werke aus der Sammlung Kunstraum am Limes, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2020Groupshow, Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2019Permafrost, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2018TWENTY, Ingleby, Edinburgh, UK
2018Portrait without a Face, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2017RADICAL: Monochrome paintings from the Goodman Duffy collection, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2017IN NEUEN RÄUMEN!, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2017Galerie Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2017Blickwechsel, Kunstraum Alexander-Buerkle, Freiburg, Germany
2015Painting Well after Formalism, Fox-Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2015The Authority Of Death, Jensen Gallery Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
2015Pink. Ruff-Nikolic-Leigh-Roeth-Knoebel-Humphries, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2015GROUPSHOW, Galerie Christian Lethert, Cologne, Germany
2014Elemental: Susan English, Winston Roeth and Greg Slick, Matteawan Gallery, New York, USA
2014connect., Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany
2014Haupt- und Nebenwege, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2014Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2013Once upon a time and a very good time it was..., Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2013Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2013INDICATE, Gippsland Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
2013Farben – Colours, Wilhelm-Morgner-Haus and Sammlung Schroth, Soest, Germany
2013Accrochage, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2013Winston Roeth, Tomislav Nikolic, Imi Knoebel, Geoff Thornley, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2012Works on Paper, Bartha Contemporary, London, UK
2012Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, USA
2012Fox/Jensen & Greenwood Street Project, Victoria, Australia
2011Naked, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2010Neuzugänge III. Licht – Raum, collection Schroth, Kaiserhaus, Arnsberg, Germany
2010Naked, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2010Painting, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
2009Other Voices, Other Rooms, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York, USA
2008Straight Forward: Tobias Trutwin, Karoly Keseru, Frank Gerritz, Winston Roeth, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
200820/20, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2008Recent acquisitions, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
2008Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2007The Panza Collection: An Experience of Colour and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2007All from America (Part Two), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2007Headspace, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2006All From America (Part One), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
2006Detox, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2005Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2005Reflex: The Brain Closer than the Eye, Gallery N. von Bartha, London, UK
2005First Choice, Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
2005Minimal Means, Kunstverein, Eislingen, Germany
2005Frank Gerritz and Winston Roeth, Galerie Peter Zimmermann, Mannheim, Germany
2005Lux, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2004Einblick – Ausblick, Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2004There's Joy in Repetition, Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2003Seascape, Landscape, Territory, Nusser Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2002Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg, Germany
2002White, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2002Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, Germany
2002Niklas von Bartha, London, UK
2001Radical Painting, curated by Nino Weinstock, Villa Aichele, Städtische Galerie, Lörrach, Germany
1999Then & Now, The Work Space, New York, USA (curated by Theresa Chong)
1998Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1997Andrew Jensen Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
1997Drawing From Life, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1997Projected, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1996La Collezione Panza di Biumo. Artist degli anni '80 e '90, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
1996White, Howard Scott-M13 Gallery, New York, USA
1996Drawings, Galerie Art In, Nuremberg, Germany
1995Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York (USA); curated by Richard Kalina
1995The Panza di Biumo Donation, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano (CH)
1995Light/Body - Dark/Body, collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/choreographer, Dia Center for the Arts, USA and Unga Atalante, Goteborg, Sweden
1994The Constructive Vocabulary: An American Vision, Galerie Dr. Istvan Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland
1994X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
1994Collector's Choice: Natalie and Irving Forman, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, USA
1994Ars Nova Galleri, Goteborg, Sweden
1993Uses of Geometry: Winston Roeth, Cary Smith, Stephen Westfall,etc., Snyder Fine Arts, New York, USA
1993Supervision, Raum für neue Kunst, Wuppertal, Germany
1993Sublime Presence: Stuart Arends, Madeline O'Connor, Florence Pierce, Winston Roeth, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
1993Contemporary Drawing - Part II, Arena, New York, USA
19927-NY: Directions in Abstract Painting, Studio A, Museum Moderner Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
1992Painting, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1992Cultural Fabrication, John Good Gallery, New York, USA
1992Mercury, Light installation, Stark Gallery (Annex), New York (USA)
1991Abstraction: Recent Prints, Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, USA
1991The Process of Looking, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1991Geometric Considerations, Capital Cities/ABC, New York, USA
1991Paper Trail, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, USA
1990Opening Group Exhibition, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1990Cruciform, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1989M-13 Gallery, New York, USA
1989An Extraction of Form, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA (curated by Alison Weld)
1989Three Artists Who Work With Slate, Stark Gallery, New York, USA
1989Small Works on Paper, Susanna Sheffield Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA
1989Pastel Drawings, Islip Museum, Islip, New York, USA (curated by Karen Shaw)
1989Light Paintings, Stark Gallery, New York (USA)
1988-1989Collaboration with Susan Osberg, dancer/choreographer, Malcolm Goldstein, violinist/composer, and Susanne Poulin, lighting designer, Dia Art Foundation, New York, USA
1986Slate, An installation at Springs Industries, project of the Art Advisory Service, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1986Intuition, collaboration with Susan Osberg, choreographer, and James Tenney, Composer, Riverside Dance Festival, New York, USA
Selected Public Collections
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Artothek, Cologne, Germany
Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Panza Collection, Palazzo Ducale, Sassuolo, Italy
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Sammlung Ulrike und Dieter Scheid, Germany
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, USA
Benesse House Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Benesse Island, Japan
FAI Foundation; Panza Collection, Varese, Italy
Yves Klein Foundation, Tucson, Arizona, USA
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
San Jose Museum of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California, USA
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
Selected Bibliography
2020Winston Roeth. Speed of Light, Jörg Daur and Lea Schäfer, Museum Wiesbaden
2018Winston Roeth. 24 hours a day, Galerie Christian Lethert, Köln
2011Winston Roeth, Reinhard Ermen, in: Kunstforum International, no. 208, May-June, p. 298-301
2006Winston Roeth, Alison Green, Bartha Contemporary, Basel
2002Winston Roeth, Jan Avgikos and Giuseppe Panza di Biumo, Stark Gallery, New York
2001Winston Roeth, Tom McDonough, Ouroborus Publishing
1993Winston Roeth, Stark Gallery, New York