Oldenburg / Van Bruggen

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

Claes & Coosje: A Duet, Pace Gallery, New York

2020

Mapping the Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2019

Claes Oldenburg: A Survey of Print & Sculpture Editions, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York

2018

Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen: Drawings, Denver Art Museum

Claes Oldenburg: Shelf Life, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Claes Oldenburg: Sculptural Multiples, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston

2017

Claes Oldenburg: Shelf Life, Pace Gallery, New York

2016

The Ordinary Must Not Be Dull: Claes Oldenburg’s Soft Sculptures, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, Saint Louis, Missouri

2015

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Things Around the House, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Claes Oldenburg: Large-Scale Prints and Small-Scale Multiples, 1966–1976, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston

2012

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul

Claes Oldenburg: Strange Eggs, The Menil Collection, Houston

Claes Oldenburg, Pace Prints, New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Theater and Installation 1985–1990: Il Corso del Coltello and The European Desktop, Pace Gallery, New York

Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna – Traveled to: Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, as Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store, Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2010

The European Desktop: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Ivorypress Art + Books, Madrid
 

2009

Drawings on Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, The Menil Collection, Houston

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Inventing the Shuttlecocks, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings, and Happenings Films, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 

2008

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings 1965–1973, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York

Claes Oldenburg: The Store and Later, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin
 

2007

Double Vision: The Poetic Focus of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Waddington Galleries, London

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way, Fundaciò Joan Mirò, Barcelona

2006

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin

Traveled to: Fundaciò Joan Mirò, Barcelona
 

2005

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Images à la Carte, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

Claes Oldenburg: Multiples, Honor Fraser, Venice, California

Claes Oldenburg: Early Work, Zwirner and Wirth, New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room, PaceWildenstein, New York
 

2004

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Images à la Carte, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
 

2003

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Objects and Drawings, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg: Works from The Store, 1961, Peter Freeman Inc., New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Notebook Pages: A Dialogue, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa
 

2002

Oldenburg/van Bruggen: Works on Paper 1965–2000, Grant Selwyn Fine Art, New York

Oldenburg/van Bruggen, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York

Claes Oldenburg Drawings, 1959–1977 (on view in the Ames Gallery), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg with Coosje van Bruggen Drawings, 1992–1998 (on view in the Ehrenkranz Gallery), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Unbound and Entwined: Recent Projects by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: Recent Work, PaceWildenstein, 534 West 25th Street, New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen on the Roof, Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings 1959–63,Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
 

2001

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Typewriter Eraser, Scale X, The Center for Public Sculpture, New York

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Down Liquidambar Lane; Sculpture in the Park, Museu de Serralves, Porto
 

1996

Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn; Hayward Gallery, London
 

1995

New Unique Works, Galerie Gemini, Los Angeles
 

1994

The Inverted Tie, DG Bank, Frankfurt am Main
 

1992

Multiples 1964-1990, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main; Lenbachhaus, Munich; Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Recent Sculpture, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

Die frühen Zeichnungen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel

In the Studio, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Pace Gallery, New York
 

1991

Monument to the Last Horse, Seagram Plaza, New York
 

1990

The European Desk Top, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan

Multiples in Retrospective, 1964-1990, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York

8 Sculptures 1961-1987, The Mayor Gallery, London
 

1989

From the Entropic Library, Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne

1988

Drawings 1959-1988, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels

Musee d'Art Contemporain, Nimes; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia
 

1987

A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages, Northern Centre of Contemporary Art, Sunderland; The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds; The Serpentine Gallery, London; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales Valencia; Tampereen Nykytaiteen Museo, Tampere

The Haunted House; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

Le couteau navire: decors, costumes, dessins: Il Corso del Cotello, de Claes Oldeburg, Coosje van Bruggen et Frank O. Gherye, Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Piano / Hammock, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

1986

El Cuchillo Barco, Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid

The Knife Ship, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
 

1980

Large-Scale Projects 1977-1980, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
 

1978

Sculptures, 1971-1977, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
 

1977

Drawings, Watercolors and Graphics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Moderna Museet, Stockholm

The Inverted Q, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

The Mouse Museum / The Ray Gun Wing: Two Collections / Two buildings by Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix; St. Louis Art Museum, St.Louis; Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo; Museum Ludwig, Cologne
 

1976

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
 

1975

Zeichnungen von Claes Oldenburg, Kunsthalle Töbingen, Töbingen

Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Munich; Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld; Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Vienna; Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg; Städtisches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt; Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

Oldenburg: Six Themes, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Denver Art Museum, Denver; The Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; Institute of Contemporary Art and Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

Erotic Fantasy Drawings, Mayor Gallery, London

The Alphabet in L.A., Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
 

1974

Standing Mitt with Ball, The New Gallery, Cleveland; The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York

The Lipstick Comes Back, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University , New Haven, Conneticut
 

1971

Objects into Monument, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley; The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines Iowa; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
 

1969

Chicago Show, Richard Feigen Gallery, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf; Tate Gallery, London

1968

Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles

1967

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Projects for Monuments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1966

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Robert Fraser Gallery, London

Moderna Museet, Stockholm
 

1964

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York

Pace Gallery, Boston

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
 

1961

The Store, 107 East 2nd Street, New York
 

1960

The Street, Reuben Gallery, New York
 

1959

Drawings Sculptures Poems by Claes Oldenburg, Judson Gallery, Judson Memorial Church, New York 

1955

A Collection of Paintings by Claes Thure Oldenburg, Bramson Gallery, Evanston, Illinois

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

A room with a…, Pace Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida

2020

Degree Zero: Drawing at Midcentury, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

On View in East Hampton, Pace Gallery, 68 Park Place, East Hampton, New York

2018

The Art of Collaboration, Venus Over Manhattan, New York

American Masters 1940–1980, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, August 24–November 11, 2018. (Catalogue)

2017

Shelf Life, Pace Gallery, New York

Shelf Life, Museum of Fine Art, Boston

CHOICES/Paris Gallery Weekend, Pace Gallery, Paris

The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York

American Sculpture: Sotheby’s Beyond Limits, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950–1980, Met Breuer, New York

Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York

Victors for Art: Michigan’s Alumni Collectors at the University of Michigan Museum of Art, Part 1: Figuration, A. Afred Taubman Gallery, the University of Michigan Museum of Art;  Part 2: Abstraction, A. Alfred Taubman Gallery, the University of Michigan Museum of Art; Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery, the University of Michigan Museum of Art

Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, January 10–April 1, 2017. Traveled to: NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi

2016

WITH A TOUCH OF PINK - WITH A BIT OF VIOLET - WITH A HINT OF GREEN - Dorothee Fischer in memoriam, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf

SCULPTURE ON THE MOVIE 1946 - 2016, Kunstmuseum Basel

Talking on Paper, Pace Gallery, Beijing
 

2015

Käfer, Crash & Capri-Batterie. Wie Künstler Technik sehen. Die Sammlung Schiffer Kunsthalle Göppingen / Schloss Filseck, Uhingen

Ludwig Goes Pop, mumok Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna

A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense - A Portrait of Robert Fraser, Pace London, London

Dissolving Margins, 521 W 21st Sreet Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

Picasso in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Halle für aktuelle Kunst, Hamburg
 

2014

Intenzione manifesto. Il disegno in tutte le sue lingue e forme Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2009

Rückschau in die Moderne, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/Oder

Entre deux actes - Loge de comedienne, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden

LEARN TO READ ART: A History of Printed Matter (1976-2009), Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

From Dürer to Kiefer - Five Centuries of Art on Paper, Kunsthal Rotterdam

Drawings On Site: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Menil Collection, Houston

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Unbuilt Roads, e-flux, New York

Pop-Up!, Ludwig Forum, Aachen

Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein

1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Yellow and Green, MMK Frankfurt

Spazio Libro d'Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania

Action/Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
 

2008

Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, OCA Oslo

Action/Abstraction, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis

Wasser, Farbe, Licht Das Städel, Frankfurt a. M.

Street Art, Street Life, Bronx Museum of the Arts

Curiosität, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen

POP und die Folgen, Museum der Stadt Ratingen

Lauffs, Collection Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime+Comics+Video Games+Art, Vancouver Art Gallery

Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds, Rose Art Museum, Waltham

Action/Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York

A Room of One's Own, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Die Hände der Kunst, MARTa Herford

How Artists Draw, Menil Collection, Houston

Skulptur Im Blickpunkt, Kunsthalle Mannheim

Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
 

2007

Wenn Handlungen Form werden, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nürnberg

Live/ Work: Performance into Drawing, MoMA, New York

Wittgenstein in New York, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm

Picasso and American Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim

Das schwarze Quadrat, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg

From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Vertigo, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna

When Art Worlds Collide - The 60's, Woodward Gallery, New York

Le cinque anime della scultura, CeSAC Caraglio, Caraglio

Picasso and American Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

a point in space is a place for an argument, David Zwirner, New York

Have A Good Nose, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg

Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden

POP ART IS..., Gagosian Gallery Britannia, London

POP ART PORTRAITS, National Portrait Gallery, London

Blick zurück - Offenes Depot IV, Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell

Homenaje a Picasso, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile

Pop Art! 1956-1968, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
 

2006

Drawn Into The World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery, Washington

Was ist Plastik, 100 Jahre - 100 Köpfe, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

Artists at Work, Cranbrook Academy & Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Picasso and American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Models and Prototypes, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis

Claes Oldenburg & Coosje van Bruggen, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, CH

RESONANCE, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK

Magritte and Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Konzept. Aktion. Sprache, MUMOK, Vienna
 

2005

The Music Room, PaceWildenstein, New York
 

2004

POP CARS. Amerika - Europa, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg

POP CARS - Pop Art in Amerika und Europa, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn

2003

The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel

Pop³: Oldenburg, Rosenquist, Warhol, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

After Shock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, Dickinson Roundell, New York

20th Century Sculpture: An Exhibition, Acquavella Galleries, New York

Real Illusions: Contemporary Art from Nashville Collections, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville

Sweet Tooth, COPIA, The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, Napa, California

2002

An American Legacy, A Gift to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Independent Vision: Painting and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco

From Pop to Now: Selections form the Sonnabend Collection, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

Group Show, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

Moderna Museet c/o Magasin 3, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall

Happy New Year!, PaceWildebstein, 32 East 57th Street, New York

SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
 
2014
Eliel, Carol S. John Altoon (ed.), Los Angeles and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cat.) 
Hickey, Dave (ed.), Everything falls faster than an anvil, Pace London (cat.)
From Picasso to Jasper Johns. Aldo Crommelynck’s Workshop, Bibliothèque nationale de France, (cat.)
Re-View: Onnasch Collection, Snoeck; Hauser & Wirth (cat.)
The Shaped Canvas, Revisited, Luxembourg & Dayan, (cat.) 
 
2013
404 E 14,  New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery (cat.) 
Pongrac, Patricia C (eds.),  Albrecht Dürer to Claes Oldenburg: Collecting at the Cornell, 1990–2010, inter Park, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College
 Konish, Nobuyuki; Hirayoshi, Yukihiro (eds.), American Pop Art from the John and Kimiko Powers Collection, Hana Takigami and Yusuke Minami, The National Center
Atkins, Robert (ed.), Art Speak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present, Abbeville Press Publishers 
Blunt, Hannah W. and Fronia Simpson (eds.), The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art (cat.)
Celant, Germano, Thomas Demand, Rem Koolhaas and Harald Szeemann. When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Milan: Ca’ Corner della Regina and Fondazione Prada, 2013: 69–71, illustrated. (cat.)
Hochdörfer, Achim; Oldenburg, Maartje; Schröder, Barbara (eds.), Claes Oldenburg Writing on the Side, The Museum of Modern Art, The Contemporary Art Masters, Bijutsu Shuppan-Sha  (cat.)
Delong, Lea Rosson (ed.),  Des Moines Art Center Collects. Des Moines, Des Moines Art Center
De Young: Inside and Out. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Celant, Germano (ed.), Ephemeral Monuments: History and Conservation of Installation, Getty Publications
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, (cat.)
Wilmerding, John (ed.), The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art, Acquavella Galleries
Van Wyk, Gary. (ed.), Pop Art: 50 Works of Art You Should Know.
Welchman, John C. (ed.), Sculpture and the Vitrine. Surrey, Ashgate Publishing Limited
Wells, Rachel.(ed.),  Scale in Contemporary Sculpture. Surrey, Ashgate Publishing Limited
Your Museum Transformed. Saint Louis, Saint Louis Art Museum
 
2012
Bird, Michael. (ed.), 100 Ideas That Changed Art, Laurence King Publishing Ltd. 
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, PKM Trinity Gallery (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Theater and Installation 1985–1990: Il Corso del Coltello and The European Desktop (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg: Los Años Sesenta, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in association with FMGB Guggenheim Bilbao Museo
Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, Achim Hochdörfer, Branden W. Joseph, Ann Temkin, Gregor Stemmrich, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh and Maartje Oldenburg, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (cat.) 
David Shrigley (ed.), Brain Activity London: Hayward Publishing (cat.)
Extreme Abstraction: Revisited. Buffalo, New York: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy
Gielen, Denis. S.F. Art, Science & Fiction. Brussels: Musée des Arts Contmporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles au Grand-Hornu
Handmade Holiday Cards from 20th-Century Artists. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books
Hodge, Susie. Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That. London: Thames & Hudson
Klein, Jacky and Suzy. What Is Contemporary Art, A Children’s Guide. London: Thames & Hudson
Pogue, Dwight W. Printmaking Revolution: New Advancements in Technology, Safety, and Sustainability. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2012: 103, illustrated.
Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg (exhibition catalogue). Text by Robert Storr. New York: Gagosian Gallery
 
2011
Allen Memorial Art Museum: Highlights from the Collection. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Celebrating the American Spirit: Masterworks from Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Bentonville, Arkansas: Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Chikako, Takaoka. The Complete Catalogue of Ohara Museum of Art (I): Foreign Artists. Okayama, Japan: Ohara Museum of Art
Dreishpoon, Douglas. The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Text by Holly E. Hughes, Mariann W. Smith and Susana Tejada. Milan: Skira Editore spa
Holzwarth, Hans Werner and Laszlo Taschen, eds. Modern Art: 1870–2000, Impressionism to Today. Cologne: Taschen
Lehmbeck, Leah, ed. Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern California (exhibition catalogue). California: Getty Publications in association with Norton Simon Museum
Off the Wall (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Chrissie Iles and João Fernandes. New York and Porto, Portugal: Whitney Museum of American Art; Fundação de Serralves
The Passionate Collector: Robert B. Mayer’s Adventures in Art. Chicago: Beatrice Cummings Mayer
Surfaces of Everyday Life: Postwar and Contemporary Masters from Ai Weiwei to Andy Warhol (exhibition catalogue). Text by Charles Merewether. Singapore: Ikkan Art International
Un capolavoro chiamato Pasta. Uno stile alimentare globale: A Masterpiece called Pasta for a Global Diet. Florence: Alinari 24 Ore
 
2010
50 Years at Pace (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fischer Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Neal Benezra, Doris Fisher, and Garry Garrels. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Crash: Homage to JG Ballard (exhibition catalogue). London: Gagosian Gallery
The European Desktop: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (exhibition guide). London and New York: Ivorypress; PaceWildenstein
The European Desktop: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Richard Cork and Ida Gianelli. London and New York: Ivorypress; PaceWildenstein
Kamien, Kazhden, Adina, ed. Modernism in Dialogue: 20th-Century Painting and Sculpture in the Israel Museum. Jerusalem: The Israel Museum
Lippincott, Jonathan. Large Scale: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s. New York: Princeton Architectural Press
Marquis, Alice Goldfarb. The Pop Revolution. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts Publications
Modern Views. Inspired by the Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House and the Philip Johnson Glass House. Text by Sylvia Lavin. New York: Assouline
Onnasch, Reinhard, ed. Nineteen Artists. Berlin: El Sourdog Hex
Popular: Brands, Symbols, Icons, 1960–2010 (exhibition catalogue). Munich: Galerie Thomas Modern
Rattemeyer, Christian, et al. Exhibiting the New Art: ‘Op Losse Schroeven’ and ‘When Attitudes Become Form’ 1969. London: Afterall
Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection (exhibition catalogue). Text by Judith Goldman. New York: Acquavella Galleries
Robinson, Julia, ed. New Realisms: 1957–1962. Object Strategies between Readymade and Spectacle (exhibition catalogue). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Thanks for Being with Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection (exhibition catalogue). Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art
United States Embassy London: Art in Embassies Exhibition. Washington, D.C.: Art in Embassies Program
 
2009
Art at Colby: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art
Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and David Hodge. The Contemporary Art Book. London: Goodman
Classic Contemporary: Lichtenstein, Warhol & Friends (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Cooper, Harry. The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art
Danto, Arthur C. Andy Warhol. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
Fer, Briony. Eva Hesse: Studiowork (exhibition catalogue). Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery
If We Could Imagine (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Emily Wei Rales and Jeffrey Weiss. Potomac, Maryland: Glenstone Foundation
Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Nancy Hall-Duncan and Joan Pachner. Greenwich, Connecticute: Bruce Museum
Phifer, Jean Parker. Public Art New York. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Piero Manzoni: A Retrospective (exhibition catalogue). Text by Germano Celant. Milan: Skira Editore
The Quick and the Dead (exhibition catalogue). Minneapolis: The Walker Art Center
Rattemeyer, Christian, ed. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. Catalogue Raisonné. New York: The Museum of Modern Art
Richard, Sophie. Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967–77: Dealers, Exhibitions and Public Collections. London: Ridinghouse
Rush, Michael. The Rose Art Museum at Brandeis. New York: Abrams
Shannon, Joshua. The Disappearance of Objects: New York Art and the Rise of the Postmodern City. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press
Soft Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lucina Ward. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia
Unfolding Process: Conceptual and Material Practice on Paper (exhibition catalogue). Ithaca, New York: The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University

2008
Acton, Mary. Guardare l’arte contemporaea. Torino, Italy: Piccola Biblioteca Einaudi
Castello di Rivoli: The Castle Collection. Text by Ida Gianelli, Andrea Bruno, Maria Grazia Cerri. Milan: Skira Editore
Celant, Germano. The American Tornado: Art in Power 1949–2008. Milan: Skira Editore
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Roni Feinstein. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings 1965–1973 (exhibition catalogue). Text by James D. Herbert. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery
Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art
Dictionnaire International de la Sculpture Moderne & Contemporaine. Paris: Éditions du Regard
Heartney, Eleanor. Art & Today.London: Phaidon Press Limited
Heavy Metal: On the Inexplicable Lightness of a Material (exhibition catalogue). Kiel: Kunsthalle zu Kiel
The History Book: On Moderna Museet 1958–2008. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle,: Seattle Art Museum
Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed. Action / Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Debra Bricker Balken, Morris Dickstein, Douglas Dreishpoon, et al. New York and New Haven, Connecticut: The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press
Large. London: Waddington Galleries
Macnair, Jennifer, Thomas Frick and Nola Butler, ed. BCAM/LACMA 2008.Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mesch, Claudia. Modern Art at the Berlin Wall. London: Tauris Academic Studies
Schall, Jan and Robert Storr. Sparks! The William T. Kemper Collecting Initiative at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (exhibition catalogue). Kansas City, Missouri: Trustees of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Scott, Deborah Emont, ed. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection. Kansas City, Missouri: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
This Is Not to Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria. Texts by Adam D. Weinberg and Shamim M. Momin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

 
2007
All for Art! Great Collections Among Us (exhibition catalogue). Montreal: Museé des beaux-arts de Montréal
Art Works: The Progressive Collection. Texts by Dan Cameron, Peter B. Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis and Toni Morrison. New York: Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Beal, Graham W. J. and Dera N. Mancoff. Treasures of the DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts). Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts 
Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961–1968 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Barbara Rose, Gerald Nordland and Hardy S. George. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City Museum of Art 
Collins, Judith. Sculpture Today.London: Phaidon Press Limited 
Double Vision: The Poetic Focus of Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen (exhibition catalogue). Text by Marco Livingstone. London: Waddington Galleries
Dreishpoon, Douglas and David Bonetti. The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light (exhibition catalogue). Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Godfrey, Mark. Abstraction and the Holocaust. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press
Milwaukee Art Museum: Friends of Art Celebrating 50 Years. Milwaukee: Petullo Publishing
Neff, Terry Ann R. The Fisher Collection: L–Z. Text by Mark Rosenthal. San Francisco: Doris and Donald Fisher
Pacquement, Alfred. Selected Works: La Collection du Centre Pompidu, Musée National D’Art Moderne. Paris: Éditions du Panama / Éditions du Centre Pompidou
Plastic: A Proposal of John Temblay: Works in Vacuum-Formed Plastic, From the 1960s to Today (exhibition catalogue). Zurich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG
Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives (exhibition catalogue).Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum
Pop Art Is (exhibition catalogue). London: Gagosian Gallery
Sculpture. London: Waddington Galleries
The UBS Collection: Drawings. Germany: Hatje Cantz
 
2006
Celant, Germano and Lisa Dennison. New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Skira Editore
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture By the Way (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Germano Celant, Dieter Koepplin, Richard Morphet, et al. Milan: Skira Editore
Lewis, Michael J. American Art and Architecture.London: Thames & Hudson, Ltd.
Picasso and American Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Michael FitzGerald. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

2005
Brecht, George, Julia Robinson, and Alfred M. Fischer. George Brecht: Events: Eine Heterospektive: A Heterospective. Cologne: Walther König
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: The Music Room (exhibition catalogue). Text by Richard Morphet. New York: PaceWildenstein
Claes Oldenburg: Early Work. (exhibition catalogue). Text by Julia E. Robinson. New York: Zwirner & Wirth
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Museum of Modern Art
Extreme Abstraction (exhibition catalogue). Text by Claire Schneider. Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
50 Jahre / Years of Documenta 1955–2005 (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl
Francis, Mark, ed. Pop. London: Phaidon Press Limited
High Museum of Art: Selected Works from the Collection. Atlanta: High Museum of Art
Pop: Roy Lichtenstein, Konrad Lueg, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol (exhibition catalogue). New York: Zwirner and Wirth
 
2004
An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism] (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Stephen C. Foster, Daniel A. Siedell, Estera Milman, John Yau, and Janis Mink. Madrid: Circulo de Bellas Artes
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Images à la carte (exhibition catalogue). New York: PJC 
Kellein, Thomas and Angela Lampe. Das Große Fressen. Von Pop bis heute. Bielefeld, Germany: Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Visions of America: Contemporary Art from the Essl Collection and the Sonnabend Collection New York (exhibition catalogue). Klosterneuburg, Austria: Edition Sammlung Essl
 
2003
20th Century Sculpture: An Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). New York: Acquavella Gallerie
 
2002
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: Recent Work (exhibition catalogue). Text by Richard Morphet. New York: PaceWildenstein
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen–Down Liquidambar Lane: Sculpture in the Park (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Richard Cork, Alexandre Melo et al. Porto, Portugal: Fundação de Serralves
Lee, Janie C, ed. Claes Oldenburg: Drawings in the Whitney Museum of American Art (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
 
2001
Brauer, David E. Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956–1966 (exhibition catalogue). Houston: Menil Collection
Glimcher, Mildred, ed. Adventures in Art: 40 Years at Pace. Text by Arne Glimcher. Milan: Leonardo International
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, Connecticut and London: Yale University Press
Onnasch: Aspects of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Reinhard Onnasch, Roberto Sebastián Matta Echaurren, Boris Groes et al. Barcelona and Porto, Portugal: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves 

 
2000
Berardo Collection 1917–1999 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Donald Kuspit, Delfim Sardo and Margarida Veiga. Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Bélem
Collischan, Judy. End Papers: Drawings from 1890–1900 & 1990–2000 (exhibition catalogue). Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York
Encounters: New Art from Old (exhibition catalogue). Text by Richard Morphet. London: National Gallery Company Ltd.
Schneider, Cynthia P and Claire Van Cleave, ed. Art in Embassies Program: Another Salute. The Hague, American Embassy

1999 
Celant, Germano. Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Skira Editore
Corzo, Miguel Angel, ed. Mortality Immortality, The Legacy of 20th-Century Art.Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute
Process as the Muse: Fifty Years of Artists Teaching Art (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts
Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960–1974 (exhibition catalogue). Pasadena and Santa Monica: Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center College; RAM Publication & Distribution
 
1998
Causey, Andrew. Oxford History of Art: Sculpture since 1945. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Elizabeth Armstrong, Julian Zugazagoitia, Kevin Power et al. San Diego, California: Museum of Contemporary Art
Works by Contemporary American Artists: Residence of the Ambassador of the United States of America to Austria. Vienna: USA Regional Office

1997
Future, Present, Past: XLVII La Biennale di Venezia (exhibition catalogue). Milano: Electa
Schneede, Marina. Amerikanische Pop Art in der Hamburger Kunsthalle. Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle
The View From Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Museum (exhibition catalogue). Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig

1996
From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings (exhibition catalogue). London: Frith Street Gallery; Karsten Schubert Gallery
 
1995
Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Germano Celant, Dieter Koepplin, Mark Rosenthal and Marla Prather. New York and Washington, D.C.: Guggenheim Museum Publications; National Gallery of Art
Margo Leavin Gallery: 25 Years. Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery
Phillips, Lisa, ed. Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965 (exhibition catalogue). New York and Paris: Whitney Museum of American Art; Flammarion 
The Popular Image: Pop Art in America (exhibition catalogue). New York: O’Hara Gallery and Marisa del Re Gallery
Sanford, Mariellen, R., ed. Happenings and Other Acts. London: Routledge
XXV Years: An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery
 
1994
Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen: Large-Scale Projects: Drawings and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Pace Gallery
Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Inverted Collar and Tie. Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz
Claes Oldenburg: Multiples and Notebook Pages (exhibition catalogue). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Gemini G.E.L.: Recent Prints and Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ruth E. Fine and Charles Ritchie. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art
30 YEARS––Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964–1994 (exhibition catalogue). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
For Twenty-Five Years: Brooke Alexander Editions (exhibition brochure). Text by Wendy Weitman. New York: The Museum of Modern Art
 
1993
American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Brooks Adams, David Anfam, Richard Armstrong, et al. Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau
Claes Oldenburg: Recent Print and Sculpture Editions (exhibition catalogue). New York: Gemini G.E.L.
L’Ivresse du réel: L’Objet dans l’arte du XXe siècle (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Elisabeth Lebovici, Pierre Restany and Guy Tosatto. Nîmes: Carré d’Art, Musée d’Art Contemporain
 
1992
A Century in Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Wim Beeren, Marja Bloem, et al. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum
Claes Oldenburg: New Work (exhibition catalogue). Interview by Arne Glimcher. New York: The Pace Gallery
Claes Oldenburg: Die frühen Zeichnungen (exhibition catalogue). Basel: Das Kupferstichkabinett der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel
Claes Oldenburg: In the Studio (exhibition catalogue). Minneapolis: Walker Art Center
Claes Oldenburg: Recent Sculpture (exhibition brochure). Text by Pamela R. Esch. Cleveland: Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art 
Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition, 1955-62 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by David Deitcher, Donna De Salvo, et al. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hentschel, Martin, Thomas Lawson and David Platzker. Claes Oldenburg: Multiples 1964–1990 (exhibition catalogue). Frankfurt: Portikus
Koepplin, Dieter. Claes Oldenburg: Die frühen Zeichnungen (exhibition catalogue). Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst
New Directions in Multiples (exhibition catalogue). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
…Reperti…O meio ambiente visto por 18 dos mais renomados artistas do mundo (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ricardo Grassi and Eugenio Miccini. Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes
Territorium Artis (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Pontus Hultén and Oldenburg. Bonn: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Transform: Bild Object Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert (exhibition catalogue). Basel: Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle
X 6–New Directions in Multiples (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Richard Klein and Susan Tallman. Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 
 
1991
Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990 (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Committee for Beyond The Frame
Claes Oldenburg: Sculptures & Lithographs at Gemini 1988–91. New York: Gemini G.E.L.
Large Scale Project: Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. New York: Gemini G.E.L.
The Political Arm (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dennis Adams. New York and St. Louis: John Weber Gallery and Washington University Gallery
Pop Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Dan Cameron, Constance W. Glenn, Thomas Kellein, et al. London: Royal Academy of Arts
Solway, Arthur, Thomas Lawson, David Platzker and the artist. Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, 1964–1990 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Rizzoli International
van Bruggen, Coosje. Claes Oldenburg: Nur ein anderer Raum. Frankfurt: Museum für Moderne Kunst
 
1990
Claes Oldenburg: Eight Sculptures 1961-1987 (exhibition catalogue). London: The Mayor Gallery
Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, 1964–1990 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Brooke Alexander Editions
Claes Oldenburg: Prints and Multiples (exhibition brochure). New York: Susan Sheehan Gallery
Claes Oldenburg: The European Desktop, Sketches and Blottings toward the European Desktop (exhibition catalogue). Text by Coosje van Bruggen. Milan and Florence: Galleria Christian Stein; Hopeful Monster
High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Adam Gopnik and Kirk Varnedoe. New York: The Museum of Modern Art
Zeichnungen: Joseph Beuys, Francesco Clemente, Martin Disler, Donald Judd, Bruce Nauman, Claes Oldenburg, A. R. Penck, Frank Stella (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lucius Grisebach and Dieter Koepplin. Nürmberg: Kunsthalle Nürnberg
 
1989
Magiciens de la Terre (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Homi Bhabha, Mark Francis, Pierre Gaudibert, et al. Paris: Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou and La Grande Halle, La Villette 
Modern Masters ’89 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by J. O. Mallander, Seppo Niinivaara, Ullamaria Pallasmaa, et al. Helsinki: Helsingin Taidelhalli
Selections from the Collection of Marc and Livia Straus (exhibition catalogue).Text by Dan Cameron. Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
van Bruggen, Coosje. Claes Oldenburg: Dibujos/Drawings 1959–1989 (exhibition catalogue). Valencia, Spain: IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno
 
1988 
Celant, Germano. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Sunderland and Leeds: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art and The Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture, Leeds City Art Galleries
Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints. Secaucus, New Jersey: Wellfleet Books
International Exhibition of the XVII Triennale di Milano: World Cities and the Future of the Metropolis (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Milan: Electa
 
1987
1967: At the Crossroads (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hal Foster, Janet Kardon, Lucy R. Lippard, Barbara Rose and Irving Sandler. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Dalla Pop Art Americana alla Nuova Figurazione: Opere del Museo d’Arte Moderna di Francoforte (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Hans Hollein, Peter Iden and Rolf Lauter. Milan: Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
Le Couteau Navire: Décors, Costumes, Dessins, “Il Corso del Coltello” de Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen et Frank O. Gehry (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, The 50's and 60's (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ben H. Bagdikian, James E. B. Breslin, Thomas Schaub and Sidra Stich. Berkeley: University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley
Oldenburg, Claes, Coosje van Bruggen and Frank O. Gehry. Il Corso del Coltello / The Course of the Knife. (exhibition catalogue). New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
Skulptur Projekte in Münster (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Texts by Marianne Brouwer, Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Thomas Kellein, et al. Münster: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst and Kulturgeschichte
Storck, Gerhard and Coosje van Bruggen. Claes Oldenburg: The Haunted House (exhibition catalogue). Essen: Verlag H. Gerd Margreff
 
1986
Celant, Germano. El Cuchillo Barco de Il Corso del Coltello: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O. Gehry (exhibition catalogue). Milan and Madrid: Electa and Ministerio de Cultura
Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer künstlerischen Faszination seit 1940 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Craig Adcock, Dore Ashton, Alberto Boatto, John Cage, et al. Cologne: Museum Ludwig
Gohr, Siegfried. Museum Ludwig Cologne: Paintings, Sculptures, Environments from Expressionism to the Present Day. Munich: Prestel-Verlag
Hunter, Sam, ed. An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Abbeville Press
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by German Celant, Hal Foster, Sherri Geldin, Richard Koshalek, Donald Kuspit, et al. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Qu’est-ce que la sculpture modern? (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Benjamin H. D. Buchloh, Jean-Pierre Criqui, Thierry de Duve, Rosalind Krauss, et al. Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Reality Remade (exhibition catalogue). Text by Douglas Walla. New York: Kent Fine Art
Sonsbeek 86: International Beelden Tentoonstelling (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Texts by Saskia Bos, Marianne Brouwer and Antje von Graevenitz. Utrecht: Veen/Reflex
 
1985
Cinquante ans de dessins américains: 1930-1980 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Walter Hopps with Neil Pintz. Houston: Menil Collection
Claes Oldenburg: Cross Section of a Toothbrush with Paste in a Cup on a Sink Portrait of Coosje’s Thinking. Krefeld, Germany: Krefelder Kunstmuseen und Autoren
Nine Printmakers and the Working Process (exhibition catalogue). Text by Pamela Gruninger Perkins. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Oldenburg, Claes, Frank O. Gehry and Coosje van Bruggen. Il Corso del Coltello: Menu. Turin and Milan: Gruppo Finanziario Tessile and Gabriele Mazzotta
Oldenburg: Tube Supported by Its Contents (exhibition catalogue). Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela
The Panza Collection (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Pop Art: 1955-70 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Henry Geldzahler. Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia
Räume heutiger Zeichnung (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dieter Koepplin. Baden-Baden: Die Kunsthalle
Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collections (exhibition catalogue). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
 
1984
Automobile and Culture (exhibition catalogue). Text by Gerald Silk. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John G. Hanhardt and Barbara Haskell. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Claes Oldenburg: Standing Mitt with Ball: From Concept to Monument (exhibition catalogue). New York: Wave Hill
Drawings: 1974-1984 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Frank Gettings and Claes Oldenburg. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Bruce Davis and Ruth E. Fine. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art
Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert (exhibition catalogue). Basel: St. Jakob Merian-Park
10 Painters and Sculptors Draw (exhibition catalogue). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Twentieth-Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection. Text by Townsend Wolfe. Little Rock: The Arkansas Arts Center
 
1983
American Still Life 1945–1983 (exhibition catalogue). Houston and New York: Contemporary Arts Museum; Harper & Row Co.
Blok, Cor, ed. Claes Oldenburg: Het Schroefboog-projekt; een opdracht van Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1978–82. The Screwarch Project commissioned by Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam 1978–82 (exhibition catalogue). Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen
Changes (exhibition catalogue). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by John Carlin and Sheena Wagstaff. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Knipe, Tony, ed. Drawing in Air: An Exhibition of Sculptors’ Drawings: 1882-1982 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Antoine Bourdelle, Terry Friedman, Knipe, and Paul Overy. United Kingdom: Sunderland Arts Center
Neue Zeichnungen aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel (exhibition catalogue). Text by Dieter Koepplin. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel
Twentieth Century Sculpture: Process and Presence (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lisa Phillips. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
 
1982
Claes Oldenburg (exhibition brochure). Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela
Documenta 7 (exhibition catalogue). Kassel: Museum Fridericianum
60-80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Wim Beeren, Cor Blok, Edy de Wilde, Gijs van Tuyl, and Antje von Graevenitz. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum
Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982 (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 
1981
American Prints: Process and Proofs (exhibition catalogue). Text by Judith Goldman. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Contemporary American Prints and Drawings 1940-1980 (exhibition brochure). Text by Andrew Robison. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art
The Image in American Painting & Sculpture 1950–1980 (exhibition catalogue). Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Museum
Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions (exhibition catalogue). New York: Independent Curators Inc.
A Tradition Established 1940–1970: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (exhibition catalogue). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Twenty-Second National Print Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Text by Gene Baro. New York: The Brooklyn Museum
Westkunst: Zeitgenoissische Kunst seit 1939 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Laszlo Glozer. Cologne: Museen der Stadt Köln
 
1980
From Reinhardt to Christo (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Ellen H. Johnson and William Orlander. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum
Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition (exhibition catalogue). Text by Stanley Tigerman. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art
Monumente-Denkmal (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Wulf Herzogenrath, Ed Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Michael Sandle, and Timm Ulrichs. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein
The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Texts by E. A. Carmean, Jr., Sam Hunter, Eliza E. Rathbone, and Trinkett Clark. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art
Pop Art: Evoluzion di una generazione (exhibition catalogue). Venice: Instituto di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi
Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert: Austellung im Wenkenpark Riehen/Basel (exhibition catalogue). Text by: Reinhold Hohl. Basel: Werner Druck
Urban Encounters: Art Architecture Audience (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Lawrence Alloway, Nancy Foote, Janet Kardon, and Ian L. McHarg. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
van Bruggen, Coosje, Claes Oldenburg and R.H. Fuchs. Claes Oldenburg: Large-Scale Projects, 1977–1980 (exhibition catalogue). New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

1979
Shoemaker, Innis H. Drawings About Drawing Today (exhibition catalogue). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Ackland Art Museum
Van Bruggen, Coosje. Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum / Ray Gun Wing (exhibition catalogue). Cologne: Museum Ludwig
 
1978
Art About Art (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Jean Lipman with Richard Marshall and Leo Steinberg. New York: E. P. Dutton in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art
Aspekte der 60er Jahre: Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin
 
1977
Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Delft, The Netherlands: De Volle Maan
Claes Oldenburg: The Inverted Q (exhibition catalogue). Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Institute
Claes Oldenburg: Tekeningen, aquarellen en grafiek. Texts by Edy de Wilde, Coosje van Bruggen and Ad Petersen. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum
Documenta 6: Wirklichkeit—Klischee und Reflexion und Objektkataloge (exhibition catalogue). Kassel: Orangerie and Neue Galerie
Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors (exhibition catalogue). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of contemporary art
Landfall Press: A Survey of Prints (1970-1977) (exhibition catalogue). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art
The Mouse Museum / The Ray Gun Wing: Two Collection / Two Buildings by Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art
Paris—New York: Un Album (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Skulptur: Austellung in Münster, 1977 (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Text by Gottfried Boehm, Laszlo Glozer, Kurt Johnen, Bernhard Kerber, Werner Schnell, and Herbert Schöttle. Munster, Germany: Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte
 
1976
American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present (exhibition catalogue). Text by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
American Pop Art and the Culture of the Sixties (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Carol Nathanson, Nina Sundell, and Marjorie Talalay. Cleveland: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art
Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). New York: Leo Castelli Gallery
Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Adriani Götz, Dieter Koepplin and Barbara Rose. Hannover: Kesner-Gesellschaft
Claes Oldenburg: Log, May 1974–August 1976 (exhibition catalogue). 2 volumes. Stuttgart and New York: Hansjörg Mayer and Store Days
Claes Oldenburg: The Soft Screw (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Oldenburg and Melinda Wortz. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L.
Drawing Now (exhibition catalogue). Text by Bernice Rose. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 
Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945–1975 (exhibition catalogue). Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute
Seventy-Second American Exhibition (exhibition catalogue). Text by Anne Rorimer. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago
Thirty Years of American Printmaking (exhibition catalogue). Text by Gene Baro. New York: The Brooklyn Museum
Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations (exhibition catalogue). Text by Diane Waldman. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
 
1975
Alloway, Lawrence. Topics in American Art Since 1945. New York: W.W. Norton & Co.
American Art since 1945 from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue). New York: Museum of Modern Art
Claes Oldenburg: The Alphabet in L.A. (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery 
Claes Oldenburg: Recent Erotic Fantasy Drawings (exhibition catalogue). London: The Mayor Gallery
Götz, Adriani, Dieter Koepplin and Barbara Rose. Zeichnungen von Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Basel and Tübingen: Kunstmuseums Basel; Kunsthalle Tübingen
Kostelanetz, Richard, ed. Essaying Essays: Alternative Forms of Exposition. New York: Out of London Press
The Martha Jackson Collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (exhibition catalogue). Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Minami ’75: A Selection of Twentieth Century Art Tokyo: Minami Gallery (cat.)
Oldenburg: Six Themes (exhibition catalogue). Text by Martin Friedman and interviews with the artist. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center
 
1974
American Pop Art (exhibition catalogue). Text by Lawrence Alloway. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Claes Oldenburg: The Lipstick Comes Back (exhibition catalogue). New Haven: Yale University Press
Monumenta: A Biennial Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Sam Hunter and Hugh M. Davies with Sally E. Yard. Newport, Rhode Island: Monumenta Newport, Inc.
Painting and Sculpture Today 1974 (exhibition catalogue). Text by Richard L. Warrum. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art
Poets of the Cities, New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965 (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Neil A. Chassman, Robert Creeley, Lana Davis, John Clellon Holmes and Robert M. Murdock. New York: E. P. Dutton
Selected Works from the Collection of Carter Burden (exhibition catalogue). New York: Marlborough Gallery
Stilkunde an Beispielen: Einlehrspiel (exhibition catalogue). Mönchengladbach, Germany: Städtisches Museum Abteiverg Mönchengladbach
25 Years at Janis: Part 2, From Pollock to Pop, Op and Sharp-Focus Realism (exhibition catalogue). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery

1973
Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Tokyo: Minami Gallery
Claes Oldenburg: More Ray Gun Poems (1960). Philadelphia: Moore College of Art and Falcon Press
Claes Oldenburg: Recent Prints and Preparatory Drawings (exhibition catalogue). New York: M. Knoedler and Co.
Claes Oldenburg: Standing Mitt with Ball, 1973 (exhibition catalogue). Cleveland: The New Gallery
König, Kasper, ed. Raw Notes. Halifax: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 1973.
 
1972 
Claes Oldenburg: Works in Edition (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery
Colossal Scale: The Appeal of Gigantic Representational Images for Today’s Artists (exhibition catalogue). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery
Diagrams and Drawings (exhibition catalogue). Text by R. Oxenaar. Otterlo, The Netherlands: Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller
Documenta 5: Maus Museum: Eine Auswahl von Objekten gesammelt von Claes Oldenburg / Mouse Museum: A Selection of Objects Collected by Claes Oldenburg (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kasper König. Kassel, Germany: Documenta GmbH
New York Collection for Stockholm (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Emile de Antonio, Pontus Hultén and Billy Klüver. Stockholm: Moderna Museet
 
1971
Amerikanst kunst 1950-70 Text by Öyvind Fahlström and Oldenburg. Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum, (cat.)
Art and Technology Texts by John Forkner, Jane Livingston, Gail R. Scott and Maurice Tuchman. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (cat.)
Art in the Mind Text by Athena T. Spear. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College
Claes Oldenburg: Notes in Hand. Switzerland: Professional Prints Ltd., (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg: Works in Edition, Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery, (cat.)
Haskell, Barbara. Claes Oldenburg: Object into Monument, Pasadena, California: Pasadena Art Museum, (cat.)
Highlights of the 1970–1971 Art Season, Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, (cat.)
Johnson, Ellen H. Penguin New Art 4: Claes Oldenburg. New York: Penguin Books
Multiples: The First Decade, Text by John L. Tancock. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, (cat.)
Oldenburg’s Giant 3-Way Plug at Oberlin. Text by Ellen H. Johnson. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum
ROSC ’71: The Poetry of Vision, Text by David M. Wilson. Dublin: Royal Dublin Society, (cat.)
Sonsbeek 71: Sonsbeek buitten de perken Text by Ton Haak. Arnhem, The Netherlands: Park Sonsbeek, (cat.)
Technics and Creativity: Gemini G.E.L..Text by Riva Castleman. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (cat.)
 
1970
XXXV International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia  Venice: La Biennale, (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg London: Arts Council of Great Britain, (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg  Text by Barbara Rose. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, (cat.)
Expo ’70  Osaka: Japan Association for the 1970 World Exposition, (cat.)
Happening & Fluxus, Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein, (cat.)
New Multiple Art, Text by Robin Campbell. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, (cat.)
New Work by Claes Oldenburg, New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, (cat.)
Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, (cat.)
1970 Pittsburgh International: Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Pittsburg: Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, (cat.) 
Seven Artists: New Work by Fahlstrom, Kelly, Marisol, Oldenburg, Segal, Steinberg, Wesselmann, New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, (cat.)
String and Rope, New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, (cat.)
 
1969
Art by Telephone, Text by Jan van der Marck. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, (cat.)
Baro, Gene. Claes Oldenburg: Drawings and Prints. Lausanne; London and New York: Publications I.R.L.; Chelsea House Publishers
Claes Oldenburg: Constructions, Models, and Drawings, Chicago: Richard Feigen Gallery, (cat.)
Dubuffet and the Anticulture, Texts by George Cohen, Jean Dubuffet, Richard L. Feigen, and Oldenburg. New York: Richard Feigen & Co., (cat.)
Lippard, Lucy, ed. New York 13, Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, (cat.)
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, Text by Henry Geldzahler. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, (cat.)
Oldenburg, Claes. Proposals for Monuments and Buildings 1965–69. Interview with Paul Carroll. Chicago: Big Table Publishing Co.
Pop Art, Texts by John Russell and Suzi Gablik. London: Hayward Gallery. (cat.)
Seven Artists: Dine, Fahlstrom, Kelly, Marisol, Oldenburg, Segal, Wesselmann (exhibition catalogue). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery
The Spirit of the Comics, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, (cat.)
 
1968
Art of the 60s: Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang, Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (cat.)
Claes Oldenburg: Notes. Text by Barbara Rose. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L.
Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage Text by William S. Rubin. New York: The Museum of Modern Art (cat.)
Documenta 4  2 volumes. Texts by Arnold Bode, Jürgen Harten, Max Imdahl, J. Leering, Janni Müller-Hauch, et al. Bad Godesberg, Germany: Inter Nationes (cat.)
Homage to Marilyn Monroe New York: Sidney Janis Gallery (cat.)
Linee della ricera dall’informale alle nuove strutture: XXXIV International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice: Padiglione Centrale (cat.)
The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age Text by K. G. Pontus Hulten. New York: The Museum of Modern Art (cat.)
Richard J. Daley Chicago: Richard Feigen Gallery  (cat.)
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher Text by Jürgen Wissmann. Munich: Haus der Kunst, Neue Pinakothek  (cat.)
Sculpture in Environment New York: Seybert-Nicholas Print. Corp.  (cat.)
Three Blind Mice / de Collecties: Visser, Peeters, Becht Texts by W. A. L. Beeren, Hubert Peeters, and Pierre Restany. Eindhoven: Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum
 
1967
American Painting Now,. Text by Alan Solomon. Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art (cat.)
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Text by Lawrence A. Alloway, et al. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cat.)
An Exhibition of New Work by Claes Oldenburg, Text by the artist. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, (cat.)
Johnson, Ellen H. (ed.), Dine, Oldenburg, Segal: Painting/Sculpture, Art Gallery of Ontario (cat.)
Alan Solomon. Holt, Rinehart, Winston, (ed.),The New Art Scene
Oldenburg, Claes. Store Days: Documents from the Store (1961) and Ray Gun Theater 1962 Something Else Press, Inc.
IX Bienal do Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo: Environment U.S.A., 1957-1967 / Meio-Natural U.S.A., 1957?1967 Texts by William C. Seitz and Lloyd Goodrich.International Art Program, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (cat.)
Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, (cat.)
Nuove Tecniche d’Immagine, Alfieri Edizioni d’Arte, (cat.)
Sandler, Irving (ed.), Sculpture in Environment, New York City Administration of Recreation and Cultural Affairs for Cultural Showcase Festival, (cat.)
 
1966
Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, (cat.)
Wilke, Ulfert (ed.), As Found: An Experiment in Selective Seeing, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (cat.)
racy Atkinson (ed.), Pop Art and the American Tradition, Milwaukee Art Center (cat.)


1964
American Drawings (cat.)

2014
Newman, Amy (ed.), Challenging Art, Artforum 1962–1974.,  Soho Press
Taylor, Brandon (ed.), After Constructivism, Yale University Press

2013
White, Michelle (ed.), Strange Eggs. Text by Michelle White. New Haven: Yale University Pres

2012
Rottner, Nadja, (ed.) Claes Oldenburg: October Files 13. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press
Glimcher, Mildred L. (ed.), Happenings: New York, 1958–1963 (exhibition catalogue). New York: The Monacelli Press
Peppiatt, Michael.(ed.),  Interviews with Artists 1966–2012. New Haven and London: Yale University Press

2010
Meyer, James, (ed.), Minimalism. London: Phaidon Press, Inc.
La Prade, Erik. (ed.), Breaking Through: Richard Bellamy and the Green Gallery 1960–1965, Twenty-Three Interviews. New York: Midmarch Arts Press 

2003
Buskirk, Martha. (ed.), The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art. Cambridge, The MIT Press

2001
Sylvester, David (ed.), Interviews with American Artists, Random House

1997
Axsom, Richard H., Platzker,  David (ed.), Printed Stuff: Prints, Posters and Ephemera by Claes Oldenburg. A Catalogue Raisonné 1958–1996, Hudson Hills Press
Richard Cork (ed.), Bottle of Notes: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen., Middleborough Borough Council; Lund Humphries Publishers

1994
Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen: Large-Scale Projects., The Monacelli Press

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