CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Whitney Museum, New York, US Singular Visions
9 December 2011 - 31 May 2012


The Whitney Museum is showing Len Lye’s sculpture Fountain (1959) as part of its permanent collection exhibition, Singular Visions.  The work will be presented from 9 December 9 2011 through to 31 May 2012.




Image: Len Lye Fountain 1959. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Ford Foundation Purchase Program 63.10. Installation view from the exhibition Singular Vision 2012) Photo: Sheldan C. Collins

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, Printin'                                                         
15 February - 14 May 2012

MoMA is showing Len Lye's films Particles in Space and Free Radicals as part of its exhibition Printin' in conjunction with the exhibition Print Out.

http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1243

 Image: Len Lye Free Radicals 1958 (film still). Courtesy the Len Lye Foundation.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

LEN LYE

Hordaland Art Centre, Bergen, Norway
14 January – 13 March 2011

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Curated by artist HC Gilje and Director Anne Szefer Karlsen

Image: Len Lye Rainbow Dance (film still) 1936. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation

LEN LYE: THE BODY ELECTRIC 

IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
24 November 2010 – 13 February 2011

Len Lye: The Body Electric is the first survey exhibition of Lye's work in the United Kingdom in over two decades. Bringing together his experimental films, kinetic sculpture and two-dimensional work, the exhibition follows Lye's artisitc enquiry into the experience of movement, energy and the body for the 1920s to the 1970s.

Curated by Tyler Cann and Jonathan Watkins

Image: Len Lye Trade Tattoo (film still) 1937. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation

LEN LYE'S FILMS

Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
3 October 2010 – 25 April 2011

Len Lye's films feature in the exhibition:
Abstract Expressionist New York

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 Image: Len Lye Rainbow Dance (film still) 1936. Courtesy Len Lye Foundation