Education:
1969 - 1974 MIT Research Fellow, Center for Advanced Visual Studies
1969 - 1971 Hunter College, Masters in Art
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art, Uruguay
Auckland Museum of Contemporary Art, Auckland, New Zealand
Berkeley Museum of Art, Berkeley, CA
Boca Raton, Museum, Boca Raton, FL
Boston Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Celle Art Sculpture Park, Pistoia, Italy
Chau Chak Wing Museum Sydney, Au
Center for Creative Photography, Tucson,AZ
Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, IN
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Garzon Sculpture Park , Uruguay, South America
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Gillespie Museum, DeLand, Fl
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Houston Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Johnson Museum, Ithaca, NY
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL
Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Aachen, Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France.
National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
National Gallery of Art, Toronto, Canada
Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
Neue Museum, Sammlung Ludwig, Germany
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Norton Art Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
Palazzo Butera Palermo, IT
Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Queens Museum, New York, NY
Reed College, Portland, OR
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
Wave Art Museum, South Korea
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2026 “Celestial Landscape,” Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York
2024 “Circles of Time,” Pistoria Villa Celli, Italy. UNESCO Cultural Heritage Site.
“Burning Forest,” Exhibition Palazzo Butera Palermo, IT
2024 “Burning Forest,” Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC
2023 “Alan Sonfist: Working with Nature - Environmental Landscapes”, Space21, Seoul
“Nature is Art”, Wave Museum, South Korea
“Land Art Forward, Symposium Art in the Environment”, MIT, Cambridge Massachusetts
“Earth Houston”, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX
2022 Opening Exhibition, Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art, Uruguay
2021 “American Earth Landscape”, Shin Gallery, New York
“Earth Pandemic”, Stetson University Gillespie Museum and Hand Art Center, Florida “Miami Drowning: A Depiction of Miami’s Future,” Coral Gables Museum, Florida.
2020 “Florida Earth”, Hand Art Gallery, Florida
2018 “Miami Drowning: A Depiction of Miami’s Future,” Coral Gables Museum, Florida.
2017 “Island of Paradise,” Parco dei Renai di Signa, Tuscany.
“Surface Memory,” Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami.
2016 “A Better Landscape,” Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art, Genoa.
“Alan Sonfist: 50 Years of Time Landscape,” Alden ProjectsTM, New York.
“Alan Sonfist: Natural History,” Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Oregon.
“Endangered Trees of Los Angeles,” Downtown art district, Los Angeles.
Kabinett of Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Art Basel, Miami.
2015 “Fallen Limbs Rising - Endangered Trees of Southern Florida,” Miami Beach, Florida, Commissioned by Sagamore Hotel.
“Secret Garden” and “Forest in the Woods,” Exhibition San Diego, CA.
“Tank,” Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium.
2014 “Time Landscape. Alan Sonfist and the Birth of Land art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
2013 “Ecological Sculpture Park of Tuscany,” Commissioned by World Wildlife Fund.
2012 “Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, MOCA, Los Angeles.
“Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich.
“Endangered Trees,” Lincoln, MA, Commissioned by the Decordova Museum.
2011 “Ancient Olive Grove of Athena,” Florence, Italy, Commissioned by the City of Florence, Italy.
2010 “Time Landscape of the White River”, Entrance & Vegetation, Eiteljorg Museum
2009 “The Secret Garden,” Hamilton, Canada, Commissioned by the Royal Botanical Gardens
“Ancient Olive Grove of Athena,” Florence, Italy, Commissioned by the City of Florence, Italy.
“The Celtic Adder Protecting the Ancient Forest,” Exeter, UK, Commissioned by the Haldon Forest Park CCANW Art Museum, Exeter, UK
“Endangered Trees of Northern Europe,” Koln, Germany, Commissioned by the Koln Sculpture Park
2008 “The Burning Forest of Aspen,” Aspen, CO, Commissioned by Anderson Ranch
2005 "Alan Sonfist: Time Landscape: Reflection (1965-1978-Present)," Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 “Lost Falcon of Westphalia,” Westphalia, Germany, Commissioned by Prince Richard
2002 “The Burning Forest of Santa Fe,” Commissioned by Santa Fe Institute of Art, Santa Fe, NM.
2001 Maison des Gouverneurs, “Reflections on the Milky Way,” Sorel, Quebec, Canada.
2000 Goethe Institut, “Hidden and Natural Secrets in New York,” New York, NY, “Time Columns of The North-East,” Commissioned by the Public Art Fund.
1998 “Time Cubes of the Southeast,” Boca Rotan Art Museum, Exhibition in Cultural Forum, Germany.
1997 Museum of Art: University of Iowa, “Retrospective: A History of the Land,” Iowa City, IA.
1996 “Flying Cloud with Traffic Circle,” London, England, Centennial Commission of London.
“Natural/Cultural Landscape,” Southern California, La Quinta, Commissioned by the Waterworks.
1995 “Natural/Cultural Landscape of Pori,” Finland, Commissioned by the town of Pori.
“Natural/Cultural Landscape of Northern France,” Commissioned by Luxembourg.
“Natural/Cultural Landscape of Tampa,” Florida, Commissioned by Tampa, FL.
Tampa Museum of Art, “Alan Sonfist Sculptures and Drawings,” Tampa, FL.
1994 “Gaugin’s Landscape,” Port-au-France, Martinique, Commissioned by the Cultural Ministry of France.
“Landscapes,” Nancy Drysdale Art Gallery; Washington, DC
“Mural for Merrick and Bellmore Station,” NY, Commissioned by the Long Island Railroad.
1993 “Stoneship of Langeland,” Denmark, Commissioned by the Danish Cultural Commission.
“Natural/Cultural Sculptures of La Defense,” Paris, France, Commissioned by EPAD.
“Landscapes,” Gallerie Voight; Munich, Germany.
1992 “Natural/ Cultural Landscape of Liberty Park,” Jersey City, NJ, Commissioned by the Liberty Science Center.
“Time Columns of the Northeast,” Doris Freedman Plaza; New York, NY, Commissioned by the Public Art Fund.
1991 EPAD Museum of Contemporary Art, “Parks of Paris: La Defence,” Paris, France.
“Drawings,” Atlantic Center for the Arts; New Smyrna Beach,FL.
“Retrospective,” Max Protetch Gallery with Ledis Flam; New York, NY.
1990 Max Protecht Gallery, “Art of the Environment: 1965-1990,” New York, NY.
“Mason-Dixon Line,” Sewanee, Tennessee, Commissioned by the University of the South.
“Abandoned Railroad Nature Trail,” Hamden, CT, Commissioned by Hamden City Council.
“White River Environmental Sculpture,” Indianapolis, IN, Commissioned by the Eiteljorg Museum
1989 Marion Goodman Gallery, “Secrets of New York,” NY.
“Time Enclosures of the Southwest,” Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens; West Palm Beach, FL.
Arsenal Gallery of Art; Los Angeles, CA.
1988 Marion Goodman Gallery, “Bronze and Nature,” NY.
“Circles of Life,” Centennial Sculpture, Kansas City, MO, “Graz Castle Protecting Ancient Forest,” Austria, Commissioned by Humanic.
Nelson Atkins Art Museum, “Drawings of Environmental Sculptures,” Kansas City, MO.
University of Southampton Art Gallery; Southampton, NY.
1987 “Time Totem,” Anchorage, Alaska, Commissioned by the Natural HistoryMuseum.
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (Art League), “Earth Paintings,” Indianapolis, IN.
Public Sculpture for Pennsylvania State University; Pittsburgh, PA.
1986 “Bronze Forest” University of Massachusetts Gallery; Amherst, MA.
Lehmbruck Sculpture Park, “German Geological Foundation,” Germany.
1985 “Self-Portrait,” Jeff Deitch Project, New York, NY.
“Geologic Time”, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany.
1984 Cavanilo Gallery, Venice, Italy.
Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC.
“Earth Monument of Koln,” Koln, Germany, Commissioned by The Ludwig Museum.
1983 “Circles of Time,” Pistoria Villa Celli, Italy.
“Monument to The Rising Sun” Philadelphia, PA. Commissioned by Temple University
1982 Carl Solway Gallery; Cincinnati, OH.
Lowe Art Museum; Coral Gables, FL.
“Alan Sonfists Trees,” Center for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, Sponsored by the Pulitzer family.
1981 “Alan Sonfist: Autobiography,” J.B. Speed Art Museum; Louisville, KY.
“Towers of Growth,” University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY.
National Gallery of Art; Melbourne, Australia.
Marion Goodman Gallery; New York, NY.
1980 “Natural/Cultural Landscape of Trinity River,” Dallas, TX, Exhibited in Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.
“Oak Tree Becomes Ship,” Bronx Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY.
“Rock Monument of Buffalo,” Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY.
1979 “Monument to Atlanta,” High Museum of Art; Atlanta, GA, Multiples Gallery, NewYork, NY.
“Elements Section,” Stony Brook University Museum: Long Island, NY.
1978 The Boston Fine Arts Museum, “Autobiography of Alan Sonfist,” Boston,MA.
Smithsonian Institution, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC.
“Natural Monuments” Neuberger Museum (SUNY), Purchase, NY.
1977 Leo Castelli Gallery, “Time Landscape and Documenta Exhibitions,” New York, NY.
Galerie Bama, Paris, France.
Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, MA.
Light Gallery of Photography; New York, NY.
Carl Solway Gallery; Cincinnati, OH.
1976 “Autobiography of A Hemlock Forest,” Galerie Valsecchi; Milan, Italy,
Gallery Cavallino; Venice, Italy.
“Autobiography of a Time Landscape,” Centre Culturale American; Paris, France.
“Autobiography of a Time Landscape,” 112 Greene St. Workshop; New York, NY.
1975 Neue Galerie—Sammlung Ludwig, “Alan Sonfist Autobiography,” Aachen, Germany.
Galerie Thelen, “Secret Landscapes of Germany” Koln, Germany.
Leo Castelli Gallery, “ Collages of New York,” New York, NY.
Carl Solway Gallery; Cincinnati, OH.
1974 “Monument to the Sun,” Project for the University of Rhode Island.
Steffanotty Gallery, “Running Dead Animal,” New York, NY.
“Time Landscape,” Finch College Museum of Art.
Adiene Gallery, “Autobiography of an Abandoned Animal Hole,” New York, NY.
1973 “Trees of Manhattan: Acquisition Exhibition,” Finch College Museum of Art, NewYork, NY.
Palley And Lowe Gallery, “Earth Paintings” New York, NY.
1972 Reese Palley Gallery; “Overview” New York, NY.
“Landscapes,” Palley and Lowe Gallery; New York, NY.
“Sonfist’s Art,” Akron Institute (video catalog), Akron, OH.
“Army Ants: Patterns and Structures,” Automation House (sponsored by the Architectural League), New York, NY.
1971 “The Nature of Things,” Harcus-Krakow Gallery; Boston, MA.
“Star Chartings and Others,” Dezon-Zaks Gallery; Chicago, IL.
“Outdoor Crystal Sculpture,” Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY.
1970 “Natural/Cultural Landscape of New York,” Commissioned by the Office of Cultural Affairs.
“Plastic and Real Flowers,” Union Square Park, Parks Department, New York, NY, Commissioned by Public Art Fund.
1968 “Crystal Monument,” Museum of Natural History, NYC, NY.
1965 “Time Landscape,” Greenwich Village, NY, Commissioned by DOT.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Ennova Art Museum, Ennova International Art Biennale, “Celestial Landscape,” Hebei, China.
2020 Dorsky Gallery, “Poem of the Earth: From Ego to Eco – An intergenerational exhibition of Ecopoetic Art,” New York, NY.
2019 Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, "Coexistence: Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma’s Collections," Helsinki, Finland.
Tempelhof Airport, Art Berlin Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2018 Museum Het Domein, "Eén," Sittard, Netherlands.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, "Shifting Ground," Ithaca, NY.
2017 ART100 New York, "A Fine Line," New York, NY.
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, "Still Crazy 1977 - 2017," Miami, FL.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, "HYBRIS. A Possible Aproach to Ecoaesthetics," León, Spain.
Spencer Museum of Art, "Terra Anima," Lawrence, Kansas.
2015 Cabrillo National Monument, "CONVERGENCE," San Diego, CA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Into Dust: Traces of the Fragile in Contemporary Art," Philadelphia, PA.
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, "Changing Views: Queering U.S. Landscapes," Tucson, AZ.
2014 Katzen Arts Center American University, "Lay of the Land: Alan Sonfist & Karin F. Gusti," Washington, DC.
Orange County Museum of Art, “California Landscape into Abstraction,” Santa Ana, CA.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, "beyond earth art: contemporary artists and the environment," Ithaca, NY.
2013 Metro station Saint-Germain-des-Prés, "Le jardin souterrain," Paris, France.
2009 The Guggenheim Museum, “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989,” NYC. Opening January 30.
Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, “Childhood
Memories: Connecting with the Ancient Celts,” UK.
2008 Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, “On Location: Art, Space and Place in the 1960’s,” UK.
2007 Museum of Modern Art, Recent acc. “New York Trees,” New York, NY.
2005 The Nasher Museum of Art, “Opening Exhibition” Durham, NC.
2004 MacLaren Art Centre, “Public Art Commissions for Barrie” Barrie, Ontario.
2002 The Whitney Museum, “New Acquisitions” “Ancient in Contemporary New York,” New York, NY.
1999 (-2003) The Gori Collection, “Circles of Time”: Japan, 1999: Spatial Design
Consultants Co., Museo d'Arte Moderna di Kamakura, Museo
Civico d'Arte di Mie, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Sapporo; Spain,
2003 IVAM (Institut Valencia de Art Modern),
1999 Ludwig Museum, “Natural Reality: Charlemagne’s Fortification,” Germany.
1996 Modern Masters Gallery, Benefit for Aids, New York, NY. “Trilogi: Kunst, Natur, Vindeskab,” Kunsthallen Brandts; Klaedefabrik, Denmark.
1995 The Art Institute of Chicago, “Myself Within my Tree,” Illinois.
1994 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Crystal Monument,” CA.
Longwood Fine Art Center, “Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues,” Farmville VA.
San Antonio Museum of Art, “Sound Sculptures,” San Antonio, TX.
Center for the Fine Arts, “Fragile Ecologies,” Miami, FL.
Prado Museum, “Differentes Natures,” Prado, Spain.
Museum of Modern Art, “Differentes Natures,” Paris, France.
1993 Dallas Museum of Natural History, “Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues,” Dallas, TX.
Verd Art Gallery: East Hampton, NY.
San Jose Museum of Art, “Fragile Ecologies,” San Jose, CA.
La Defense Art Gallery, “Environmental Sculptures,” Paris, France.
Opening Exhibition for Environmental Art Museum; Tickon, Denmark.
Traveling Smithsonian Exhibition, Bellevue Art Museum, WA.
1992 Queens Museum, “Fragile Ecologies,” New York.
Center for Contemporary Arts, “Revered Earth,” Santa Fe, NM.
“Strata,” Tampere Art Museum; Tampere, Finland.
“Creativitae Creato,” Arte Stella; Borgo, Italy.
“Pour la Suite du Monde,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada.
“President’s Exhibition,” Max Protetch Gallery; New York, NY.
1991 Museum of Contemporary Art of San Francisco, “Leaves Frozen in Time,”San Francisco, CA.
“Revered Earth,” Atlanta College of Art; Atlanta, GA.
“Sticks and Stones: 10 artists Work with Nature,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY.
“Green Art,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY.
1990 “The Undiminished Landscape,” Security Pacific National Bank, San Francisco, CA.
“Spirit of the Earth,” Santa Fe Contemporary Art Center, Santa Fe, NM.
“Public Sculpture Show,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
“The Endangered Earth,” Pasadena Art Center, Pasadena, CA.
“From Earth to Archetype,” LedisFlam Gallery; New York, NY.
“Sculpture Aspen,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
“Revered Earth,” Museum of Contemporary Arts; Houston, TX.
Museum of Contemporary Art, “Art of the Decade,” Chicago, IL.
1989 “Nature as Art,” Kunst Academia; BerlinGermany.
“Landscape; A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality,” Ruth Siegal Gallery Ltd.; New York, NY.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Dreams with Bronze Guardians, Landscape Drawing Exhibition,” New York, NY.
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, “Ressource Kunst: Die Elemente Neu Gesehen,” Berlin.
Marrian Goodman Gallery, “Secrets of New York,” NY.
“USA Map: Toxic and Nature,” Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ.
1988 Southampton Art Gallery; Southampton, NY.
World’s Fair; Osaka, Japan.
1985 “Art and the Environment,” Lever House, Artists representing the EnvironmentalArts, New York, NY.
“The Artist as Social Designer,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Der Baum, Heidelberger Kunstverein; Heidelberger, Germany.
“Chance and Change,” Auckland City Art Gallery; Auckland, New Zealand.
1984 “Landmarks,” Blum Institute at Bard College, Hudson, NY.
“Reflections: New Conceptions of Nature,” Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island, NY.
“Metamanhattan,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
“Shoe Box,” University of Hawaii, Manoa, HI.
Fendricher Gallery, Washington, DC.
1982 “Common Ground,” Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
“The Monument Redefined,” Gowanus Canal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.
Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY.
“Mapped Art,” Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH.
“Mapped Art,” University of Colorado; Boulder, CO.
“Landscape in Sculpture,” Reading College, Reading, PA.
1981 “GLCA Artists Show,” Ohio Wesleyan University Gallery,OH.
“Artists Parks and Gardens,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
“Nature”, Alternative Museum, School without walls, New York, NY.
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, “Natur-Skulptur,” Germany.
1980 The Museum of Modern Art, “Paris Biennial: Myself Becoming an Animal,” Paris.
“Response to the Elements,” Power Plant Contemporary Art Center, Toronto,Canada.
“Architectural References,” Vancouver Gallery of Art, Vancouver, Canada.
“Reasoned Space,” The Arizona Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ.
1979 “Site Art,” Andover Art Museum; Andover, MA.
“Hudson River Artists,” Vassar College Museum of Art, Poughkeepsie, NY.
“Views of America,” Museum of Modern Art, penthouse, New York, NY.
1978 “Interaction with the Environment,” Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY.
“Maps,” Museum of Modern Art, penthouse; New York, NY.
Retrospective at the Boston Fine Arts Museum, “Autobiography of Alan Sonfist,” Boston, MA.
Venice Biennial, “Ancient Forest of Venice and New York: Multimedia Video.”
1977 Dokumenta 6 “Art is Photography,” Kassle, Germany.
High Museum of Art, “Geological,” Atlanta, GA.
American Museum of Fine Arts, “Autobiography of Alan Sonfist,” Washington, D.C.
“For the Mind and the Eye,” New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ.
1976 Venice Bienalle, Video Section, Venice, Italy.
“Body as Visual language,” Gallery Maki, Tokyo, Japan.
“Photography as Art,” Center for Photography (Galerie Grada), Zagreba, Yugoslavia.
Artpark, “The Program in Visual Arts,” Lewiston, NY.
1975 “Body Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art; Chicago,IL.
“A Response to the Environment,” Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ.
1974 “Materials and Manipulation,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, New York, NY
“Alternative Landscape,” Hayden Gallery (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cambridge, MA.
“Project 74,” Walraf-Richartz Museum, Koln, Germany.
“Living Ritual,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
Storm King Art Center (summer exhibition), Mountainville, NY.
1973 M.H. de Young Memorial and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.
“Sculpture III, World Trade Center,” sponsored by Cultural Affairs and Parks Departments, New York, NY.
Museum of Science and Industry, Massachusetts Institutes of Technology Exhibition, Chicago, IL.
Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, PA.
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL.
1972 “Bread,” Dezon-Zaks Gallery; Chicago, IL.
“Box Art,” Illinois University State Museum; Springfield, IL.
National Gallery of Victoria; Melbourne, Australia.
“Aire,” Museum of Fine Art; Caracas, Venezuela.
Third Biennial de Arts Coltejer; Medellin, Columbia.
“Art Now,” Indianapolis Museum of Art; Indianapolis, IN.
“Eco-Vision,” Everson Museum of Art; Syracuse, NY.
New York, New York Cultural Center; New York, NY.
“Landscape on the Sixth Floor,” Museum of Modern Art; New York, NY.
Kunst Markt; Koln, Germany.
Reese Palley Gallery; New York, NY.
1971 “26 by 26,” Vasser College Art Museum; Poughkeepsie, NY.
“Lucht-Kunst”, Stedelijk Museum; Amsterdam, Holland.
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, “Elements-Earth Air Water Fire,” Boston, MA.
1970 “Crystal Monument,” Museum of Natural History (sponsored by the Cultural Affairs and Parks Department); New York, NY.
“Air Exhibition,” Museum of Fine Arts; Sydney, Australia.
“Air Exhibition,” National Gallery of Victoria; Melbourne, Australia.
1969 “International Seeds Distribution Project,” Central Park, NY,
Commissioned by Department of Cultural Affairs.
“Invisible Image,” School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY.
SELECTED VIDEOS BY OR ABOUT ALAN SONFIST
Land Art Forward. Adam Weinberg Congratulatory Speech to Alan Sonfist. 2024.
alansonfist. Time Landscape New York - Alan Sonfist. 2010.
alansonfist. Alain Resnais' "Mon Oncle d'Amerique" & Alan Sonfist mural and landscape. 2010.
alansonfist. Circumference of a Tree. 2008.
alansonfist. Secret Landscapes. 2010.
sculpturenetwork. Lecture Alan Sonfist at XIV International Forum. 2017.
Comune di Certaldo. TIME CAPSULES - Land art - Alan Sonfist. 2017.
mediaburn.org. Army Ants at Automation House 7. 1972.
alansonfist, Bologna Arte Fiera 1976: Anicient Forest within the cracks of the city
SELECTED BOOKS BY OR ABOUT ALAN SONFIST
Adrian, Henri. Total Art: Environments, Happenings and Performance. Praeger, 1974.
Albertazzi, Liliana. Differentes Natures: Visions de l’Art Conemporain. Paris, France, 1993.
Alloway, Lawrence. Autobiography of Alan Sonfist. Ithica, New York: Herbert F. Jonson Museum of Art, 1975.
Alloway, Lawrence. Retrospective of Alan Sonfist. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1976.
Bach, Penny. Public Art in Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1992.
Bender, Richard. A Crack in the Rear View Mirror. New York: Van Nostrand Rheinhold, 1973.
Benthall, Jonathan. Science and Technology in Art Today. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
Bijvoet, Marga. Art as Inquiry. University of Rotterdam: Netherlands 1994.
Blanc, Nathalie and Barbara Benish. Form, Art and the Environment: Engaging in Sustainability. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Brady, Emily and Pauline Phemister. Human-Environment Relations: Transformative Values in
Theory and Practice. Doordrecht: Springer, 2012.
Braus, Heidberg, ed. Derbaum. Germany, 1986.
Brentano, Robyn and Mark Savitt, eds. 112 Workshop / 112 Greene Street, New York: New York University Press, 1981.
Brockhaus, Christoph. Das Jahrhundert Moderner Skulptur. Walther Konig: Koln, 2003.
Brockhaus, Christoph and Gottlieb Leinze. Skulpturen: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg. Duisburg, Germany, 1991.
Burnham, Jack. Encyclopedia Britannica, Yearbook 1973. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973.
Carson and Sky, eds. Unbuilt America. New York: McGraw Hill, 1976.
Conan, Michel. Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture. Washington: Dumbarton Oaks, 2000.
Davis, Douglas. Art and the Future. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973.
Fagone, Vittoio. Art in Nature. Italy: Mazzotta, 1996.
Fedele, Frank. The Artist’s Palate: Cooking with the World’s Great Artists. New York: DK Publishing, 2003.
Gelburd, Gail. Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues. New York: Council for CreativeProjects, 1993.
Gori, Paulo, ed. Cerchi del Tempo, Fattoria Celle, 1990.
Gori, Paulo and C. Field, eds. Nature: The End of Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2004.
Grande, John. Dialogos Arte-Naturaleza. Cesar Manrique: 2005.
Haberl, Horst. Art a1s a Living Ritual. Graz, Australia: Akademische Verlag Anstalt, 1974.
Hassemer, Volker. Art In Nature. Kultur Konzepte Sprengel GmbH, 2000.
Heartney, Eleanor. History and the Landscape. University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1997.
Hobbs, Robert. Art in Arcadia. Torino,: Umberto Allemandi &C, 1994.
Horney, Leon. Art in Public Places. New York: Partners for Livable Spaces, 1981.
Jenkins, Sera. Images of Change, Volume II. St. Louis: Milliken Press, 1973.
Kastner, Jeff. Nature: Documents of Contemporary Art. MIT Press, 2012.
Kastner, Jeff. Land and Environmental Art. Phaidon Press, 2005.
Kepes, Gyorgy, ed. Arts of the Environment. New York: George Eraziller Inc, 1972.
Klite, Paul. Reclamation Art. Denver, Colorado, 1985.
Knight, Cher and Senie Harriet. A Companion to Public Art. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2016.
Lacy, Suzanne. Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, Bay Press, 1994.
Art in Public Places, Partners for Livable Places, 1981.
Levin, Kim. Elsewhere: The Tainted Garden and Other Essays on Art, Life, and the Anthropocene. Florida: Booklocker.com Inc, 2020.
Lindgren, Lusa, ed. Strata. Helsinki: The Museum of Contemporry Art, 1992.
Lippard, Lucy, ed. Overlay. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.
Marchese, Francis. Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with
Urban Ecology. New York: Springer, 2015.
Matilsky, Barbara C. Fragile Ecologies. New York: The Queens Museum of Art, 1992.
Midland, David. Artpak. University Press at Buffalo, New York, 1976.
Montag, Daro, ed. Artful Ecologies, Falmouth University Press, 2006 and 2008.
Naylor, Colin, ed. Contemporary Artists. London: Saint James Press, Inc., 1978.
Preble, Duane and Sarah. Artforms: An Introduction to the Visual Arts. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1985.
Roukes, Nicholas. Plastics for Kinetic Art. New York: Waston-Gubtill Publications, 1974.
Shaw, Lytle. Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics. Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Siri Johnson, Carol. Essays in Arts and Sciences. University of New Haven, 1991.
Sites, William and Kristine Stiles. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A
Sourcebook of Artists' Writings. University of California Press: Berkley, 1996.
Sonfist. Alan ed. Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art. Dutton, 1983.
Sonfist, Alan, ed. Land Art. Tokyo, Art Vivant, 1986.
Sorte, Gunnar Jarle. Parks for the Future.
Skira, Rosabianca, ed. Skira Annal. Switzerland, 1977.
Skira, Rosabianca, ed. Skira Annal. Switzerland, 1979.
Skira, Rosabianca, ed. Skira Annal. (Art of the Decade) Switzerland, 1980.
Sky, Allison, ed. On Site, No. 4. New York: Site, Inc., 1973.
Smith, Edward Lucie. Art of the Seventies. London: Phaidon ress, 1980.
Smith, Valerie. Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism
Stuttgart. Nature-Sculpture. Germany, 1981.
Stara: Lother Baumgarten, Guillaume Bijil, , Alan Sonfist. Tampereen Taidemuseon julkaisu, 1992.
Taylor, Joshua C. The American Land. New York: W.W. Norton and o., 1979.
Thomas, Lewis. Lives of a Cell. New York: Viking Press, 1974.
Viatte, G. L’Art Contemporain et L’Axe Historique, Skira Epad, 1992.
Weintraub, Linda. To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2012.
SELECTED ARTICLES
Artnet, “Earth Art Pioneer Alan Sonfist…”, May 14, 2024
Artforum, “Robert Slifkin on Alan Sonfist”, 2022
Brooklyn Rail, “Alan Sonfist: American Earth Landscape”, November 2021
Artforum, “Nature as Artifact”, 2018
Hyperallergic, “Commemorating 50 Years of Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape”, 2016
Wall Street Journal, “Nature Runs Wild in Greenwich Village”, 2016
ARTnews, “Separating the Trees from the Forest”, August 15, 2011
Public Art Review, “The Lay of Land Art”, (Cover image: Burning Forest), Spring/Summer 2009
Albuquerque Journal, “Fires Inspire Scorched Art”, July 3, 2002
Kansas City Art Institute, “Alan Sonfist: Circle of Life, Revisited”, 2000
New York Times, “Oaks and Catbirds, Forever”, 1989
“A Downtown Work of Art Series: Cityscape.” St. Petersburg Times, March 3, 1995.
Anderson, Lincoln. “Time Landscape marks 20 years.” The Villager, April 29, 1998, p. 8
“Art Review at Newport: Into the Limelight.” Los Angeles Times, August 9 1994.
“Artists Seek to Heal the Wild.” The Boston Globe. March 16, 1994.
Atkins, Robert. “Fighting City Halls.” The Village Voice, April 26, 1988, p.99
Atkins, Robert. “Ants as Art.” New Yorker, March 4, 1972, p.30
Baker, Kenneth. “Boston: Earth, Air, Fire, Water.” Artforum, March 1971, p.72
Benson, Etienne. "Environment between System and Nature: Alan Sonfist…" Communication +1, 2014.
Burmingham, Peter. Treasures of the Arizona Museum. The Arizona Republic, 2 August 2002
Brenthall, Jonathan.”Haacke, Sonfist, and Nature.” Studio International, March, 1971, p.7
Brenthall, Jonathan. “Experimental Art: Stubbs to Sonfist.” Studio Intenational, July, 1971.
Brenson, Michael. “Art at Kever House, Environmental Works.” New York Times, Weekend, March 1, 1985.
Brenson, Michael. “Alan Sonfist.” (review) New York Times, Friday July 13, 1990, p. C23
Brenson, Michael. “City as Sculpture Garden: Seeing the New and Daring.” The New York Times, July 17, 1987.
Beyant, David. “Alan Sonfist and the Island of Paradise.” The Island Review, March 11, 2013.
Bosetti, Von Petra. “Sein Thema isr die Natur” Aachener Nachrichten, March 26, 1977, p. 25
Burnett, W. Clyde. “Sonfist’s Monument.” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, March 25, 1979
Cardone, Maurita. “Emergenza? No, disastro. Cosa dice l’arte a proposito del clima.” Artribune, 2020.
Carr, Sandra. “Science Meets Art at Stetson’s Gillespie Museum and Hand Art Center.” Stetson Today, 2021.
Cembalest, Robin. “The Ecological Art Explosion.” ArtNews cover story, Summer 1991, p. 96
Cyphess, Peggy. “New York in Review.” ArtsMagazine, p.114
Daniels, Bill. “Big Apple Art.” The Post Standard/Herald-Journal, February 15, 2004
Davis, Douglas. “Breakthrough in Boston.” Newsweek, February 15, 1971, p. 90
Dietrich, R.V. “Rocks Depicted in Paintings and Sculptures.” Rocks and Minerals. May/June 1990, pp. 224-236
Driscoll, Edgart. “Back to Nature.” ArtNews, September 1974, p. 81
Eisenman, Theodore. "Art of the Land: Sonfist, Smithson put the art in earth." Landscape Architecture, 2005.
“Environmental art Quietly Absorbing.” The Globe and Mail, January 29, 1998.
Evett, Kenneth. “Death Wish.” New Republic, May 17, 1977, p. 31
“Evening Hours; The Look Turns Casual.” New York Times, September 4, 1994.
Esslinger, Carlin. Fires Inspire Scorched Art Albuquerque Journal, 3 July 2002.
Foote, Nancy. “ Situation Esthetics.” Artforum, January 19, 1980, p. 22-29.
Foote, Nancy. “For Artist, Campus is the Canvas.” New York Times, Sunday, August 7, 1988.
“Fragile Ecologies: A Touch of Green.” Los Angeles Times, August 4, 1994.
Funke, Phyllis. “Science is Blended with Art in Display.” The New York Times, April 7, 1974.
Goldberg, Vicki. A Garden of Sculpture as an Up-to-Date Eden The New York Times, July 11, 1999.
Gori, Giuliano. “ Living With Art: Skeletons, Stairways, and Thunderbolts.” ArtNews, January, 1991, p.75-78.
Glueck, Grace. “Art People.” New York Times, March 10, 1978.
Glueck, Grace. “Nature Boy,” New York Times, November 15, 1970.
Glueck, Grace. “Out is in on Columbus Circle.” The New York Times, May 2, 1972.
Gnuter, Virginia. Art Transition. Boston: Massachusettes Institute of Technology Press, 1975.
Gollin, Jane. “Reviews and Previews.” ArtNews, December 1970, p. 62
Hackett, Regina. “Heavyweight Artists Discuss Public Works, Stress Collaboration.” The Seattle Times, May 20, 1991.
Hale, David. “Sonfist’s Art Leaves a Lasting Impression.” The Fresno Bee, Sunday, April 15, 1990.
Hale, David. “Patterns of Nature- Artist’s Theme is the Thread that Binds Individual Works.” Sunday, April 1, 1990.
Harrison, Helen. “Environmental Sculpture s by Alan Sonfist.” New York Times, April 8, 1979.
Harrison, Helen. “Esthetics and Twigs.” Cue. February 2, 1979.
Hiss, Anthony. “Talk of the Town: Ants as Art.” New Yorker, March 4, 1972.
Hiss, Anthony. “ Talk of the Town: Yes and No.” New Yorker, May 1, 1978, p. 31-34
Henry, Gerrit. “Alan sonfist at Ariadne.” Art in America, January-February 1976, p. 102
Hobbs, Robert. Sculpture Magazine. December 1990-January 1991, p. 48-53.
Hopkins, John. “Polemics and Poetry Of Environmental Art.” International Herald Tribune, July 17, 1999.
Hotchfield, Sylvia. “The Moral Rights (and Wrongs) of Public Art.” ArtNews, Vol. 87, No. 5, May 1988, pp.143-146.
Hunter, Chris . “Artist Sows Seeds to Sculpt Environmental Statement.” The Palm Beach
Daily News, Sunday, February 12, 1989.
Hunter, Chris. “International Land Artist Creates Latest Work at Penn State.” ArtNews, October 15, 1987.
Ikebana RYUSEI. May, 1984. NO. 289
Ingersoll, Richard. "Eat the City: The case for civic agriculture." Places Journal, 2013.
“Intervene in cities with nature, this is the land art of Alan Sonfist.” Fahrenheit Magazine, January 15, 2021.
Jacobs, J. “Alan Sonfist.” Gourmet, December 1990.
Johnson, Carol. “The Narrative Landscapes of Alan Sonfist.” The New York Historical Society, annual report for 1990, p .12-14.
Johnson, Carol. Landskap Magazine (Sweden), January 1990.
Johnson, Ken. “Nurturing Modernism with Spades, Water and Black Flowers.” The New York Times, July 29, 2005.
Kahn, Eve M. “Gardens on display at a Soho Gallery.” New York Times, July 4, 1991.
Kastner, Jeff. “Nature The End of Art: Environmental Landscapes Alan Sonfist.” Cabinet Magazine, 2001.
Kaufman, Jason. “Primeval Forest for Tate in London” The Art Newspaper, May 2007.
Kaufman, Bill. “Army on the Move Captured on Canvas.” Newsday, February 24, 1972.
Kimmelman, Michael. “In Westchester, Sculpture Meets Nature.” New York Times, February 4, 1971.
Kingsley, April. “Review of Landscape Exhibition.” Art Forum, Janurary, 1974, p. 6.
Kleeblatt, Norman. “Alan Sonfist: American Earth Landscape.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021
Kramer, Hilton. “Boston Museum Mounts an Unusual New Art.” New York Times, February 4, 1971.
Landi, Ann. “Separating the Trees from the Forest.” Art News, August 15th, 2011.
Lee, Deborah. “Art Grows from Trees: Alan Sonfist and Richard Rosenblum at Decordova.” Art Outdoors, January 10, 2021.
Lewis, Jo Ann. “Works by the Man Who Gave the Big Apple a Precolonial Forest.” The Washington Post, November 2, 1978.
Lieberman, Laura and Dan R. Talley. “Interview with Alan Sonfist.” Atlanta Art Newspaper, May/June 1979, p. 1-2.
Milani, Joanna. “Artist Draw on Past to Sculpt Future.” Tampa Tribune, March 4, 1995, p.1.
Milani, Joanne. “Downtown Spaces Out.” Tampa Tribune, April 5, 1995, Baylife, p. 1-3.
McDonough, Michael. “The Artist as Johnny Applesees.” Metropolitan Home, March 1990.
McGuiness, Eric. “On the trail of art and science; New York Artist has RBG Canvas.” The Hamilton Spectator, 14 November 2008
McKibben, Bill. “Art, Sweet Art: Adaptive, Hybrid and Flexible, EcoART Moves Hearts, Changes
Minds and Ultimately Alters Behaviour.” Grist Magazine, 2008. Alternatives Journal, December 1, 2006.
Moore, Alan. “Sonfist’s Art.” Artforum, May 1975, p. 81.
Morgan, Anne Barclay. “Site.” Sculpture, April 1996, p. 12-13.
Nemser, Cindy. “Alchemist and Phenomenologist.” Art in America, March 1971, p. 100.
Nochlin, Linda. “Oh Say Can You See.” New York Times, December 2, 1973.
Parks, Cynthia. “Artist Uses Trees to Create Little Forest in City.” Arts and Travel Newspaper, Sunday, March 24, 1991.
O’Harra, John. “From Here to Eternity.” Irish Times, 25 June 2005
“On the Aesthetic Appreciation of Japanese Gardens.” The British Journal of Aesthetics, January 1, 1997
“Park to Reflect City’s Personality.” St. Petersburg Times. November 8, 1993.
Pelts, Oksana. “Visual Landmarks Series: TIME OUT.” St. Petersburg Times, 16 November 2000.
Politi, Giancarlo. “Alan Sonfist.” Flash Art, December 1974/ January 1975, p. 46.
Preston, Malcomb. “Exploration of Space.” Newsday, March 29, 1979.
Quigley, Linda. “Sculpture Attempts to Preserve National Environment.” The Tennessean,
Wednesday, November 29, 1980. P. 1F-2F.
Raynor, Vivien. “Weekend Reviews.” New York Times. June 18, 1982 (Ron Feldman exhibition; correction, June 21, 1982).
Raynor, Vivien. “From Twigs, Leaves and Mud, a Show of Landscape.” New York Times, July 14, 1991.
Richardson, Benjamin. "Rewilding Tasmania's Lake Pedder: Past Loss as Nature's Lex Ferenda."
University of Tasmania Law Review 194, 2014.
Robbins, Corrine. “Sonfist: Time as Aesthetic Dimension.” Arts Magazine, October 1976, p. 20-26.
Ross, John. “Urban Reaction to Nature.” Newsday, November 12, 1978.
Russell, John. “Alan Sonfist – Hemlock Forest.” New York Times, May 20, 1977.
Russell, John. “Autobiography of Time Landscape.” New York Times, October 22, 1976.
Saltz, Jerry. “Jerry Saltz on the New York Canon: Art.” Saatchi Gallery Daily Blog, April 21, 2008.
Sanada, Ikkan. “Alan Sonfist.” Contemporary Artists Review, (vol. 6) Summer 1992.
Schulze, Franz. “Art That’s Fresh Out of the Oven.” Chicago Tribune, March 9, 1972.
Schwendenwien, Jude. “Breaking Ground: Art in the Environment.” Sculpture, Sept.-October 1991.
Schwab, Cindy. “Alan Sonfist.” Arts Magazine, November 1979, p. 13.
“Seeds of New York” Cabinet Magazine of Art and Horticulture, Spring 2002, p.92
Sedar, Alice. “La Defense choisit ses jardiniers.” Le Figaro, November 28, 1991.
Senie, Harriet. “Murals Make the Wall of the City.” New York Post, November 26, 1978.
“Shady Times in Story for Curtis Hixon Park.” St. Petersburg Times, June 5, 1995.
Shaul, Sandra. “Projekt 74.” Arts Magazine, Fall, 1974, p. 42-43.
Sheraton, Mimi. “In the Village, 50-Year Affair for a walker Still in Love.” New York Times,
January 10, 1997, p. C1.
“Silo Meets Satellite Dish in the New New England.” New York Times, September 4, 1998.
Slepard, Richard. “Ant Art.” New York Times, March 1, 1972.
Snow, Jackie. "Nature Runs Wild in Greenwich Village: Park represents what New York City
might look like if it hadn’t become a city." The Wall Street Journal, 2015.
Stoilas, Helen and Gabriella Angelati. “United Nations Sounds the Alarm on Species Loss—and
Artists Respond.” The Art Newspaper, 2019.
Genocchio, Benjamin. “Digging In to Nurture Nature.” The New York Times, 20 May 2007.
Kelley, Tina. “Downtown Life, River to River.” The New York Times, 12 May 2000.
Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review.” The New York Times, October 11, 1991.
Artforum International, 1 November 2005.
Stern, Ellen. “The Trees of the Forest.” New York, June 19, 1978.
Tannenbaum, Judith. “Alan Sonfist.” Arts Magazine, p.4.
Taylor, Robert. “Artist of the Whole Earth.” (cover) Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, January 24, 1971.
Taylor, Robert. “Celebrating the Future with the Past.” Boston Sunday Globe, October 23, 1977.
Tucker, Jennifer. “Sanctuary for Artists.” (cover) Baylife, Saturday, Janurary 9, 1991.
von Heinz, Thiel. “Natur-Kunst.” Kunstforum. February- March 1992, p. 23-36. Walla, Joe. “Alan Sonfist.” Observations, April 1991.
Walla, Joe. “The Forest Itself is a Political Statement.” (front cover) New Observations, p. 19.
Walla, Joe. “Southhampton Setting Defines New Sonfist Sculpture.” Master Workshop Project, Southhampton Press, August 1988.
White, Connie. “The Father of Earth Art.” Orlando Arts Magazine, United Arts of Central Florida, March 2021.
Wooster, Ann-Sarget. “Alan Sonfist.” Artforum, 1976
ArtNews (front cover) Summer 1991.
New Observations (front cover) January- February 1991.
VISITING ARTIST / PROFESSOR
Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
- Art and Science workshop
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- Seminar on environmental art
Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Art in Public Places, N.E.A grant to develop an art and science trail in
CT University of Florence, Italy
- Lecture/Workshop on the Island of Paradise project
Lehigh University, Bethleham, PA
- Workshop for the creation of DNA landscape sculptures
University of Exeter, C.C.A.N Art Center, Falmouth UniversityUK
- Workshop on art and science
Cooper Union, New York, NY
- Engaged students in science and art in their senior year
Pennsylvania State University, College Park, PA
- Visiting professor: Engaged students with public art and nature
University of California Los Angeles
- Department of Arts visiting lecturer
Jacksonville University
- Visiting artist, workshop with Master of Fine Arts on White Oak Plantation
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
- Festival for the Earth, artistic residency on Certosa Island
University of Hong Kong
- Department of Landscape Architecture guest lecturer
Bard College
- Visiting artist talk
SELECTED KEYNOTE SPEAKER
A Better Landscape: Gallery Unimediamodern, Genoa.
International Sculpture Conference in San Antonio, TX.
International Landscape Conference in Miami, FL.
Landscape in Art and Science: International workshop, Milan.
Landscapes of the Future: University of Lund, Sweden.
Nature of the City: Midwest Art College Association: Memphis, TN.
Public Art: National Museum Art Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Landscape Planning Conference, Penn State University.
Raine Conference on Environmental Art, University of Exeter, UK.
Rhode Island School Of Design Landscape Conference, Providence, RI.
Sculpting Nature: LandArt, EcoArt, BioArt: Sculpture Network XIV International Forum, Antwerp
and Brussels, Belgium.
Millennium Conference on Art and Science, MIT, Cambridge, MASS.
SELECTED HONORS
Board of Directors of Art Land Sculpture Park, Florence, Italy
National Endowment Grants for Environmental Art (Art in Public Places).
General Service Administration Award, Travel Grant Paris France.
Graham Foundation for Art and Architecture, Chicago, IL.
New York State Arts Grant for Environmental Art .
San Paulo International Environmental Conference, sponsored by the United Nations.
Australia Travel Purchase Grant.
Art in Public Places, Westchester, NY.
Ecological Summit, Berlin, Germany.
Arte Stella: International Art Symposium, Stella di Borgo Valsugana, Italy
SELECT INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES
Alan Sonfist: A Better Landscape, 2016. Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art: Genoa, Italy.
Alan Sonfist: History and the Landscape, 1997. The University of Iowa Museum of Art.
Alan Sonfist: Autobiography, April 1977. Neue Galerie/ Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany.
Alan Sonfist 1969-1989, 1990. Hillwood Art Museum at Long Island University: Brookville, NY.
Autobiography of Alan Sonfist, 1975. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Modern Art: New York, NY.
Autobiography of Alan Sonfist. 1977. Museum of Fine Arts: Boston, MA.
Natural Phenomenon as Public Monuments, 1976. Neuberger Museum of Art: New York, NY.
Trees/Alan Sonfist, 1978. National Collection of Fine Arts Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
SELECT CATALOGUES INCLUDING SONFIST
A View of a Decade 1967-1977, 1977. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,IL.
Artpark 1974-1984, 2010. University at Buffalo Art Galleries and Princeton Architectural Press, Buffalo, NY.
Artpark: The Progam in Visual Arts, 1976. University Press at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY.
Coexistence- Human, Animal and Nature in Kiasma's Colletions, 2019. Museum of Contemporary
Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland.
Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] , 1977. Kassel, Germany.
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, 2005. Queens Museum of Art, Queens New York, NY.
Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Elements of Art, 1971. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.
Ecovention: Current Art to Transform Ecologies , 2002. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
Land Marks: New Site Proposals by Twenty-Two Original Pioneers of Environmental Art, 1984.
Bard College Center
Reasoned Space, 1980. Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona
Sculpture Aspen 1990, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Colorado
Urban Encounters: Art Architecture Audience, 1980. ICA, University of Pennsylvania
Creative Solutions to Ecological Issues, 1993. Council of Creative Projects, Gail Gelburd