Biography:
1942
Born in Brooklyn, NY
  Lives/ Works in New York, NY
 
Education:  
1961
Art Students League, NYC NY.
1960 -1961
Parsons School of Design New York, NY
1961-1964
Pratt Institute New York, NY
1967
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute San Francisco, CA
 
Solo Exhibitions:
2006
WAYS TO MAKE THINGS (with Klaus Merkel), Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Nine Paintings, Myers Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH                          
2001
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
University of Alabama, AL
Butler Institute,10 Year  Survey, Youngstown, Ohio
1995
Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1993

Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

1992
Revolution Gallery, Detroit, Ml

Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY

Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Siboney, Santander, Spain
1993

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy
1992

Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC

1991
Galeria Fernand Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
1990
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
1989
Galeria Lino Silverstein, Barcelona, Spain
1988
Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1986
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Marlborough Gallery, New York NY
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rl
Portico Row Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1981
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mattingly-Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX
1980
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1978
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1977
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1974
Alfred University, Alfred, NY
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1973
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Galeri Ostergren, Malmo, Sweden
Fabian Carlson Gallery, Goteborg, Sweden
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1972
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Koln, Germany
Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
1971
Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY
1970
David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY
 
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2006
Still Missing: Beauty Absent Social Life, Visual Arts Museum at the School of Visual Arts,
New York, NY
  Will Mentor, Joyce Robins, Harry Roseman, Gary Stephan, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2005
After All That Can Be Said, Kienzle-Gmeiner,  Berlin Germany

I'm a Child of Divorce, Give me a Break, Cynthia Broan Gallery, NY, NY

Vision and Re-vision, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ
2004
Color Pencil ,K.S.Art , New York, NY
2003
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY, NY
Inklings, KS. Art, New York, NY
Transcendent and Unrepentant, Rosenwald-Wolff Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Ball Point, Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA

177th Annual: Invitational, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

A Response, Exit Art,New York, NY
Rebuilding  Hope, One Block at a Time, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2001

Vermont Studio Center Press,  Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Vermont

2000

Substance, Neo Images, New York, NY

Almost Something: Depictive Abstraction, Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
Sensibilities, Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield, RI
1999

Xthetic, Curated by Giles Lyon,Angstrom Gallery, Dallas,TX

Stefenelli Exhibition Space, New York, NY

Size Matters, Curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, NY
A Room with a View, Curated by Mike Weiss, Sixth at Prince, New York, NY
1998
Debs & Co., New York, NY

Evergreen Review Exhibition, Curated by Richard Milazzo, New York, NY

Masters of the Master: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH

Hey, You Never Know, curated by Kenny Schacter, New York, NY

Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY

Galeria Siboney, Spain
GlyphRiff2, Curated by Max Henry, New York, NY
1997
Leap of Faith:Amenoff, Heilman, Stephan, and Volonakis, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Arbeiten Auf Papier, Andrea Pintsch, Munich, Germany
Lasker, Nozkowski, Stephan, Baumgartner Galleries, New York, NY
Set OffView Room Exhibitions, New York, NY
Revolution Gallery, Detroit, Ml
Attitudes, S.O.M.A Gallery, San Diego, CA
Alternative Art Show, Pierogi 2000, New York, NY
1996
Highlights From The Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,  Miami, FL
Annual Benefit, White Columns, New York, NY
Champions of Modernism:Art of Tomorrow/Art of Today, College of New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Bentley Terrace Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995
Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
25th Anniversary; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Romantic Impulse; O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Positions:Attitudes & Arrangements; Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Flooding Camera; The Work Space, New York, NY
East/West; J.S. Vandam, New York, NY
Abstract Painting; Nina Freudenheim, Buffalo, NY
Personal Heroes; Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Actual Painting; Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993
The Single Frame; John Good Gallery, New York, NY
The Intimate Universe:Paintings by 26 American Artists; Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY / Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
The Retum of The Exquisite Cadaver, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992
Intimate Universe, Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
1991
The Figure in the Landscape, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Painting on Paper:James Nares, Peter Schuyff, Gary Stephan, Marc Richard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Figuring Abstraction, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Rope, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
La Metafisica Della Lee, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
The Landscape in Prints, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Abstract Painting in the Nineties, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Spellbound, Marc Richard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Token Gestures, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York,NY
Vertigo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1989
Land Scope, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY
Painters in Residence, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Collapsing Light, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
A Decade of American Painting:1980-89, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica,CA
Joan Nelson/Gary Stephan Landscape Painting, University Art Galleries,Wright State University, Dayton, OH
1988
Kent State University Art Museum, Kent, OH
The Image of Abstraction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum Gallerie, Malmo, Sweden
Hybrid Neutral:Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Independent Curator
Incorporated, New York, NY
1987
The Antique Future, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Abstract-Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1986
An American Renaissance, Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Time After Time, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Collections of Douglas S. Cramer, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Amenoff, Mc Laughlin, Stephan, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1985
Paul Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Paravision, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Style, Wolf Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Abstract Painting, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Work From the Johnson Atelier, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Fact and Fiction, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Five Painters in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,NY
An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Currents 6:New Abstractions, Milwaukee Museum, Milwaukee, Wi
1983
Recent Acquisitions:Works on Paper, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Drawing it Out, Baskerville-Watson Gallery, New York, NY
ArtisVCritic, White Columns, New York, NY
Portico Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Mary Boone and Her Artists, Siebu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Language, Drama, Source, and Vision, The New Museum, New York, NY
New York, New York, Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, Newcastle, England
1982
SweetArt, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
The Abstract Image, Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
Early Work, The New Museum, New York, NY
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Selected Drawings, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ
Postminimalism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Still Modern After All These Years, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1981
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Painting Invitational, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, NJ
Drawings, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
American Painting:Today, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, FL
Colorand Sufface, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1979
The Altered Photograph:20 Walls, 20 Curators, Institute for Art and Urban
Resources/PS 1, New York, NY
From Allan to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
American Painting:The Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
1978
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Black and White on Paper, Nove Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Show, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Painting 75, 75, 77, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
11 Artists in New York, Galerie Loyse Von Oppenheim, Nyon, Switzerland
Painting, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
Painting, Institute for Art and Urban Resources/PS 1, New York, NY
Selected Prints, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Emily Lowe Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Ten Painters, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1974
Michael Wyman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Art Now '74, Washington, DC
The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Works from the Collection, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1973
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Choice Dealers, Dealer's Choice, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Recent Abstract Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1972
New York Painting, American Federation of the Arts (Traveling Exhibition)
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1971
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
1968
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1966
Hamsen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1965
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
 
Performances:
1998
Still/Pause, 2 video pieces by Alix Pearlstein, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Niagara, Niagara, full length feature
Planes, short film
  Salters' Cottages, short film by Gary Schneider, filmed in 1981, screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
 
Collections:
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Awards and Honors:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts
The New York Arts Foundation
Teaching:
School of Visual Arts, NY, Faculty: Graduate Painting and Sculpture - 1989 to Present
Anderson Ranch, Advanced Painting
American University, American Painting
Chautaqua Institute, Advanced Painting
Maryland Institute of Art, Advanced Painting
Cooper Union, NY, Advanced Painting - 1983 - 86
School of Visual Arts, NY, Undergraduate Drawing - 1973
Jasper Johns, NY, Studio Assistant - 1968 - 1969
Gracie Square Hospital, NY, Director of Evening Activities - 1967
Veterans Administration, Brooklyn, NY, Occupational Therapist - 1966
Head Start Program, East 9th Street, NY - Summer 1966
Head Start Program, Harlem, NY - Summer 1965
Camp Berkshire, NY, Arts Activities Director - Summer 1960
 
Selected Panels and Symposium:
New York University, NY
  Museum of Modern Art, NY
Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
Four Walls, Hoboken, NJ
High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Aldridge Museum, Richfield, CT
CM Panels, 1991 - 92, 1994
  Bomb Magazine
Guggenheim Museum, NY
Pratt Institute of Design, Brooklyn, NY
Whitney Museum of Art, NY