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George Widener

B 1962 (USA)

CONTEMPORARY ARTIST, WHOSE PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY AND NUMERICAL LITERACY ARE REVEALED ON EXPANSIVE DISASTERSTREWN PAPER-NAPKIN TABLEAUX.

George Widener: From the Collection of Victor Keen, Sangro de Cristo Arts Centre (Pueblo, CO) 2019/20

Memory Palaces: Inside the Collection of Audrey B. Heckler, American Folk Art Museum (New York) 2019

The Doors of Perception, Curated by Javier Téllez in collaboration with the Outsider Art Fair, Frieze (New York) 2019

Draw, The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago) 2016

Eppur si muove - Art et technique, un espace partagé, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg) 2016

System and Vision, David Zwirner Gallery (New York) 2015

George Widener: Time Lapse, Ricco/Maresca Gallery (New York) 2014

Great and Mighty Things: Outsider Art from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia) 2013

The Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery (London) 2013

Secret Universe: George Widener, Ricco/Maresca Gallery (New York) 2013

George Widener: Secret Universe IV, Hamburger Bahnof - Museum für Gegenwart (Berlin) 2013

World Transformers: The Art of the Outsiders, Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt) 2011

George Widener: Dates, Ricco/Maresca Gallery (New York) 2011

Elegant Obsessions - Outsider and Visionary Art, Orleans House (London) 2008

Ralph Rugoff, ed., The Alternative Guide to the Universe, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Publishing, London, 2013

Tom Patterson, "Art for the Super-Computers (and Other Audiences): The Obsessive Drawings and Calendrical Codes of George Widener," World Transformers: The Art of the Outsiders, Schirn Kunstalle, Frankfurt, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, 2010

Roger Cardinal and Colin Rhodes, The Art of George Widener, exhibition catalogue, Henry Boxer Gallery, London, 2009

Roger Cardinal, "George Widener: An Obsession with Dates and Calendars," Raw Vision, No. 51, 2005

Roberta Smith, "Untamed Art From the Fringes is a Gust of Bracing Air," New York Times, January 28, 2005