1933
born April 1 in Queens, New York, NY, USA
1953 – 1957
United States Air Force
1956 – 1959
takes lessons at Hans Hofmann’s Eighth Street School for drawing and painting, New School for Social Research and at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
1959 – 1960
works as a guard at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1961
D. N. Flavin: Construction and Watercolor, Judson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964
Dan Flavin, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1966
Dan Flavin, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln, Germany
Kunst Licht Kunst, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1967
Dan Flavin: Alternating Pink and Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1968
Dan Flavin, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, München, Germany
Cool White, etc. from Dan Flavin, Dwan Gallery, NY, USA
1969
Fluorescent Light, etc. from Dan Flavin, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (traveled to Vancouver, Canada; New York, NY, USA)
1971
Fluorescent Light with Diagrams from Dan Flavin, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1972
Dan Flavin, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1973
Corners, Barriers and Corridors in Fluorescent Light from Dan Flavin, St. Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
Dan Flavin: Three Installtions in Fluorescent Light/Drei Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht, Kunsthalle Köln, Germany
1975
Dan Flavin, Installations in Fluorescent Light 1972-1975, Fort Worth Art Museum, TX, USA (traveled to Chicago, Il, USA; Berkeley, CA, USA)
Fünf Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (Publication)
Zeichnungen, Diagramme, Druckgraphik 1972 bis 1975 und zwei Installtionen in fuoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
1976
Dan Flavin, Installations in Fluorescent Light, Scottish Arts Council and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottland
1978
... Drawn Along the Shores, 1959-1976, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA (traveled to Yonkers, NY, USA; Austin, TX, USA)
1983
permanent Installation at the Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
1984
Monuments' for V. Tatlin fom Dan Falvin, 1964-1983, MoCA Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA (traveled to Washington, DC, USA; Bordeaux, France; Otterlo, The Netherlands)
seit 1986
Dan Flavin: lichtinstallaties/Light Installtions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987
Dan Flavin: Untitled (to the Citizens of the Swiss Cantons) 1987, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1989
Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin / New Uses of Fluorescent Light with Diagrams, Drawings and Prints from Dan Flavin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
1990
Dan Flavin: Untitled (for Otto Freundlich) 1990 Themes and Variations, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1993
Dan Flavin: Lichträume, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dan Flavin, Untitled (to the Vernas on opening a new...) 1993, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1995
Dan Flavin, Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
1996
died November 29 in Riverhead, New York, NY, USA
1999
Dan Flavin: Untitled 1969, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2004
Dan Flavin: A Retrospecive, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
2006
Dan Flavin, Eine Retrospektive, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany
2008
Dan Flavin, Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis, MI, USA
2012
Dan Flavin. Drawings, Morgan Library New York, NY, USA
Dan Flavin, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2016
Dan Flavin. It is what it is and it ain’t nothing else, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, Great Britain
1987, 1990, 1993, 1999, 2007
Dan Flavin, Works 1969 - 1990, January 30 to March 17, 2007
Dan Flavin, Untitled, 1969, November 27, 1999 to February 5, 2000
Dan Flavin (1933–1996) and Will Insley (1929–2011), March 6 to May 24, 2024
Artists of the Gallery, January 18 to February 24, 2023
Richard Tuttle – Dan Flavin – Jerry Zeniuk, September 15 to December 2, 2022
Grids and Structures, September 18 to October 26, 2019
ART 47 Basel, June 16 to June 19, 2016
ART 45 Basel, June 19 to June 22, 2014
Celebrating 20 Years of Neptunstrasse 42 | Part II, September 25 to October 19, 2013
Celebrating 20 Years of Neptunstrasse 42 | Part I, June 17 to August 29, 2013
ART 44 Basel, June 12 to June 16, 2013
Art 37 Basel, June 14 to June 18, 2006
Salon automne, September 7 to October 15, 2005
Art 36 Basel, June 15 to June 20, 2005
Art 34 Basel, June 18 to June 23, 2003
network, September 10 to September 28, 2002
Art 33 Basel, June 12 to June 17, 2002
Anniversary exhibition, July 1 to August 31, 1999
Dan Flavin, untitled (for Otto Freundlich) 1990, themes and variations, Publisher: Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich
Richard Tuttle
50 Years of Collaboration
September 25, 2024 to February 21, 2025
Richard Tuttle
Complete Interviews 1970–2022
Edited and with a Preface Interview by Dieter Schwarz
Glen Rubsamen
The Petrified Forest
Publisher: Glen Rubsamen
INSIGHT #3 spotlights the graphic work of Fred Sandback through three examples from 1974 and 1982.
Rita McBride, Momentum,
Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY,
July 1, 2023 to January 2025
Ree Morton with Natalie Häusler,
To Each Concrete Man,
Kunstmuseum Bochum, Germany
October 11, 2024, to February 23, 2025
Sol LeWitt (1928–2007)
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art
November 16, 2008 – 2033