Solo Exhibitions
2019
Light, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York.
2018
Rudolf de Crignis, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt, Germany.
2016
Rudolf de Crignis: 14 Paintings, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York.
2013
Rudolf de Crignis / MATRIX 245, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive.
2012
Rudolf de Crignis: New York 1985 - 2006, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
2010
Canvas and Paper, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
2009
Visionary Collection Vol. 10 - Rudolf de Crignis, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland.
Arbeiten auf Papier - Works on Paper, Galerie Rosenberg, Zürich, Switzerland.
grays and blues, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio.
2008
Rudolf de Crignis - Paintings 1992 to 2006, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York (accompanying publication, with text by Linda Norden).
2006
Surface, Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Graphische Sammlung, Bern (cat.).
Grays, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg.
2005
Rudolf de Crignis recent and earlier works, Galerie S 65, Köln.
2004
CCNOA, Bruxelles.
Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Rosskopf, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg.
2003
Rudolf de Crignis, Paintings, Peter Blum, New York.
John Cage - Rudolf de Crignis, Galerie Sabine Knust, München.
5 Paintings = 1 Work, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn (cat.). English and German texts.
2002
Malerei, Galerie S 65, Köln.
three grey paintings-one radiant lemon yellow, Galleria Valeria Belvedere, Milano.
2001
Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe.
Studies and Painting, Artothek, Köln. English and German texts.
Changing Daylight, Peter Blum, New York.
2000
John Cage / Rudolf de Crignis, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
Paintings, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston.
1999
Paintings, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf (curated by Margerete Roeder Gallery, New York).
1998
Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe.
Colour-Paintings, Galerij S 65, Belgium (cat.). English and German texts.
1997
Painting: An Installation, Stark Gallery, New York (cat.). English and German texts.
1996
Galerij S 65, Belgium.
Centre d'art contemporain de Demigny, Demigny, France (cat.).
1995
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York.
Rudolf de Crignis-Eclipse-Paintings, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur (cat.).
Text by Beat Wismer in English and German.
Galerie am See, Zug.
1992
Black Paintings, Galerie am See, Zug.
1991
Works 1990-1991, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich (cat.).
Texts by Margit Weinberg Staber and Roman Hollenstein.
1988
Galerie Brigitta Rosenberg, Zürich.
1986
Galerie Brigitta Rosenberg, Zürich.
1985
Galerie Michelle Zeller, Bern.
1984
Galerie Kunstverein Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen.
1983
Galerie Brigitta Rosenberg, Zürich.
1980
Galerie Apartment, Geneva.
Galerie Palette, Zürich.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Zwischen weissen Wänden ... (Between White Walls ...), PEAC Museum, Freiburg, Germany.
The Last Picture Show, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York.
2022
Fokus: Sammlung (Focus: Collection), Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland.
2021
Seeing Differently - The Phillips Collects for a New Century, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC.
51 Jahre Experiment F+F (51 Years Experiment F+F), Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.
2019
Im Garten der Farben (In the Garden of Colors), PEAC-Paul Ege Art Collection, Freiburg, Germany.
Zurück in die Zukunft 2 (Back to the Future 2), Galerie Kim Behm, Mannheim, Germany.
Celebrating Thirty Years: Part Two, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A Day's Work, Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany.
Malerei! (Painting!) Rudolf de Crignis, Jakob Gasteiger, Elisabeth Sonneck, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt.
2018
Auf der ganzen Linie! Positionen zeitgenössischer Zeichnung (All Along the Line! Positions of Contemporary Drawing), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
Blickwechsel, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
Painting Black, Raum Schroth, Museum Wilhelm Morgner, Soest, Germany.
2017
Hunger nach Bildern: Malerei der 1980er-Jahre aus der Sammlung (Hunger for Pictures: Paintings of the 1980s From the Collection), Kunstmuseum Olten, Switzerland.
Zeichnungen, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt.
2016
On Paper, Minus Space, Brooklyn, New York.
2015
Das Dreieck der Liebe—Körperlichkeit und Abstraktion in der Zürcher Kunst (The Triangle of Love—Corporeality and Abstraction in Zürich Art), Helmhaus, Zürich, Switzerland.
Painters/Paintings, 57W57ARTS, New York.
CH-Variationen—Neuere Schweizer Zeichnungen (CH-Variations—Recent Swiss Drawings), Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Selections From The Kramarsky Collection, David Zwirner, New York.
Drawn to Perfection, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York.
Rudolf de Crignis, Imi Knoebel, Julia Rommel, Bill Walton, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago.
2013
serge stauffer—kunst als forschung (serge stauffer—art as research), Helmhaus Zürich, Switzerland.
Inner Focus, Anthony Slayter-Ralph, Los Angeles.
Drawing the Line, Galerie Kim Behm, Frankfurt.
Farblichter, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
Indian Tantric + Western Contemporary, Bartha Contemporary, London.
2012
Information, Schroth Foundation at Kloster Wedinghausen, Arnsberg, Germany.
Coherent Surface, Radiant Light, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, New York.
2011
Rudolf de Crignis + Winston Roeth - Works on Paper, Olschewski & Behm, Frankfurt.
Stephan Baumkötter + Rudolf de Crignis, Bartha Contemporary, London.
2010
Chromie, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel.
Painting: Rudolf de Crignis, Winston Roeth, Ulrich Wellman, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston.
2009
Blue, James Graham & Sons, New York.
Sammlung XXL, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
2008
Zur Kontingenz der Linie, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
Remix Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
2007
Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
All from America (Part two), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
Trace Elements, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
2006
All from America (Part one), Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
2step, Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo, Norway.
Line and Surface, Peter Blum Gallery, New York.
2005
Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. (cat.).
New Works, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
Rudolf de Crignis, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, David Rabinowitch, Günter Umberg, Kunstraum Alexander Bürkle, Freiburg, Germany.
The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (cat.).
2004
Molti Multipli, CCNOA, Brussels.
Die Farbe hat mich II, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, Germany.
Painting and Drawing I/II, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
Deux arcs de Cercle - Neue Werkgruppen in der Sammlung, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland.
2003
Farbe und Fläche in der Gegenwartskunst, Lenbachhaus, München, (cat.).
Guest Art - Das Kunsthaus Zürich mit Leihgaben zu Gast, Haus für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich.
Zeichnungen, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany.
Sterne für Kolumba - Schenkungen, Diözesanmuseum Köln, Cologne.
Painted Color: Modern Painting at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Chac Mool Gallery, Los Angeles.
2002
Some Chromes, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Refining Expressionism: Painterly to Post-painterly Abstraction, Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.
Three Painters, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
7 Grays, Organized by Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.
Color: A Life of Its Own, Múcsarnok, Kunsthalle Budapest, (cat.).
2001
Das Gespinst, Galerie Cora Hölzl, Düsseldorf.
Monochrome/Monochrome?, Curated by Lilly Wei, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York.
Chroma: Rudolf de Crignis, Stephan Baumkötter, Stefan Gritsch, Alexis Harding, Ingo Meller, Galerie Krohn, Badenweiler, Germany.
Paintings / Photographs: Rudolf de Crignis, John Coplans, Peter Hujar, Joseph Marioni, Gary Schneider, Peter Tollens, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston.
2000
The Memory of Painting/Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland.
Über die Wirklichkeit, Diözesanmuseum Köln, (cat.).
Paintings, Esso Gallery, New York.
1999
99 respektive 59, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland (cat.).
Color-Based Paintings, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco.
Rudolf de Crignis, Friederike van Duiven, Christiane Rasch, Atelier Kluser Schule, Lüdenscheid, Germany.
Radical Silence: Rudolf de Crignis, Marcia Hafif, Adrian Schiess, Peter Tollens, Günter Umberg, Dieter Villinger, Ulrich Rückriem, Richard Long - aus der Sammlung Rosskopf, Alexander Bürkle Galerieräumen, Freiburg, Germany.
Color-Based Paintings - Rudolf de Crignis, Frederic Thursz, Joseph Marioni, Phil Sims, Ingo Meller, Peter Tollens, Ulrich Wellmann, Joseph Hughes, Jan Maiden Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio.
1998
Farbe 2: Rudolf de Crignis, Stefan Baumkötter, Bernhard Hartter, Joseph Marioni, John McCracken, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt.
A Space Between, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
Muette: Conversation des yeux, Galerie Gisele Linder, Basel.
Color-Based Paintings - Rudolf de Crignis, Frederic Thursz, Joseph Marioni, Marcia Hafif, Phil Sims, Ingo Meller, Peter Tollens, Ulrich Wellmann, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston.
Visible, Schweizerische Nationalbibliothek, Bern (cat.).
Texts in English and German.
Règle et déviance, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Neuchâtel.
1997
Regel und Abweichung, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich (cat.)
Texts by Margit Weinberg Staber and Elisabeth Grossmann.
Rudolf de Crignis, Phil Sims, Ulrich Wellmann, Galerie Giselle Linder, Basel.
Blau-Weiss, Galerie am See, Zug.
J'aime toutes les couleurs parce que mon âme est obscure, Centre d'art contemporain de Demigny, France.
Issues of Abstraction, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York.
Seit 1970, Sammlungsausstellung, Kunsthaus Aarau, Switzerland.
1995
Minimalist Strategies: Rudolf de Crignis, Marcia Hafif, Nancy Haynes, Gary Smith, John Zinsser, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York.
1994
....x zweidimensional, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zürich.
Konstruktive Konzepte, Galerie am See, Zug.
1993
Das einfache ist das schwierige, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug.
1992
366 Zeichnungen, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zürich.
1990
Between Two Worlds - Swiss Artists in America; American Artists in Switzerland 1940-1990, Credit Suisse, New York.
1989
Means, PS 122 Gallery, New York.
Two Aspects of Abstraction, Swiss Institute New York, New York (cat.).
Hudson River Open 89, The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, New York.
All-Harlem Art Exhibition, Aaron Davis Hall, New York.
1988
GMHC Contemporary Art Auction, Sotheby's, New York.
6th Biennale der Schweizer Kunst, St. Gallen (cat.).
1982
Fotografien III, Städtische Galerie zum Strauhof, Zürich.
1980
12 Junge Künstler aus der Schweiz, Halle für Internationale neue Kunst (InK), Zürich (cat.).
1976
The Environment, Pavillon of Switzerland, 35th Biennale, Venice.