Oldenburg / Van Bruggen

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 

2022

Claes Oldenburg: Giants, Miniatures and Desserts, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA
 

2021

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

2020

Mapping the Collection, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
 

2019

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

2018

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

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

Claes Oldenburg: Sculptural Multiples, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Boston, USA
 

2017

Claes Oldenburg: Shelf Life, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
 

2016

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

2015

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

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

2012

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

Claes Oldenburg: Strange Eggs, The Menil Collection, Houston, USA

Claes Oldenburg, Pace Prints, New York, USA

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

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

2010

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

2009

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

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

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

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

2008

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

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, UK

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

2006

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

Traveled to: Fundaciò Joan Mirò, Barcelona, Spain
 

2005

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

Claes Oldenburg: Multiples, Honor Fraser, Venice, California, USA

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

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

2004

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

2003

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

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

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

2002

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2001

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

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

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, USA

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

1995

New Unique Works, Galerie Gemini, Los Angeles, USA
 

1994

The Inverted Tie, DG Bank, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 

1992

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

Recent Sculpture, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA

Die frühen Zeichnungen, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

In the Studio, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Pace Gallery, New York, USA
 

1991

Monument to the Last Horse, Seagram Plaza, New York, USA
 

1990

The European Desk Top, Galleria Christian Stein, Milan, Italy

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

8 Sculptures 1961-1987, The Mayor Gallery, London, UK
 

1989

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

1988

Drawings 1959-1988, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium

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

1987

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

The Haunted House; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

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, France

Piano / Hammock, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf
 

1986

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

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

1980

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

1978

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

1977

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

The Inverted Q, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, USA

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

1976

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
 

1975

Zeichnungen von Claes Oldenburg, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

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

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

Erotic Fantasy Drawings, Mayor Gallery, London, UK

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

1974

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

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

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

1971

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

1969

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

1968

Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1967

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

Projects for Monuments, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

1966

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

Robert Fraser Gallery, London, UK

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
 

1964

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

Pace Gallery, Boston, USA

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
 

1961

The Store, 107 East 2nd Street, New York, USA
 

1960

The Street, Reuben Gallery, New York, USA

1959

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

1955

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

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 

2024

Books, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
 

2023

Tropic of Cancer, Pace Palm Beach, Florida, USA
 

2022

Chewing Gum V, Pace Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
 

2021

Little Things: Part I & II, Pace Geneva, Switzerland

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

2020

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

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

2018

The Art of Collaboration, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA

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

2017

Shelf Life, Pace Gallery, New York, USA

Shelf Life, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, USA

CHOICES/Paris Gallery Weekend, Pace Gallery, Paris, France

The Long Run, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

American Sculpture: Sotheby’s Beyond Limits, Chatsworth, Derbyshire, UK

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

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

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, USA

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

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, Switzerland

Talking on Paper, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
 

2015

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

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

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

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

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

2014

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

2009

Rückschau in die Moderne, Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany

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

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

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

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

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Unbuilt Roads, e-flux, New York, USA

Pop-Up!, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

Kunst und Öffentlichkeit, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin

1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany

Yellow and Green, MMK Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Spazio Libro d'Artista, Palazzo Manganelli, Catania, Italy

Action/Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
 

2008

Heavy Metal. Die unerklärbare Leichtigkeit eines Materials, Kunsthalle Kiel, Germany

Whatever Happened to Sex in Scandinavia, OCA Oslo, Norway

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

Wasser, Farbe, Licht Das Städel, Frankfurt a. Main, Germany

Street Art, Street Life, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA

Curiosität, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen, BElgium

POP und die Folgen, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, Germany

Lauffs, Collection Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland

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

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

Action/Abstraction, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

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

Die Hände der Kunst, MARTA Herford, Herford, Germany

How Artists Draw, Menil Collection, Houston, USA

Skulptur Im Blickpunkt, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA
 

2007

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

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

Wittgenstein in New York, Stadthaus Ulm, Ulm, Germany

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

100 Jahre Kunsthalle Mannheim, Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

Das schwarze Quadrat, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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

Vertigo, Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

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

Le cinque anime della scultura, CeSAC Caraglio, Caraglio, Italy

Picasso and American Art, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

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

Have A Good Nose, Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany

Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden, Germany

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

POP ART PORTRAITS, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK

Blick zurück - Offenes Depot IV, Galerie Vayhinger, Radolfzell, Germany

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

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

2006

Drawn Into The World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery, Washington, USA

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

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

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

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

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

Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

RESONANCE, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK

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

Konzept. Aktion. Sprache, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
 

2005

The Music Room, PaceWildenstein, New York, USA
 

2004

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

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

2003

The Spirit of White, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland

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

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

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

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

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

2002

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

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

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

Group Show, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA

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

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

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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). California: Getty Publications in association with Norton Simon Museum

Off the Wall (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Arne Glimcher et al. New York: The Pace Gallery

Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fischer Collection (cat.). Text by Neal Benezra, Doris Fisher, and Garry Garrels. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Crash: Homage to JG Ballard (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Judith Goldman. New York: Acquavella Galleries

Robinson, Julia, ed. New Realisms: 1957–1962. Object Strategies between Readymade and Spectacle (cat.). Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Thanks for Being with Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection (cat.). 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 (cat.). Waterville, Maine: Colby College Museum of Art

Bonham-Carter, Charlotte and David Hodge. The Contemporary Art Book. London: Goodman

Classic Contemporary: Lichtenstein, Warhol & Friends (cat.). Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Cooper, Harry. The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works (cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art

Danto, Arthur C. Andy Warhol. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press

Fer, Briony. Eva Hesse: Studiowork (cat.). Edinburgh: The Fruitmarket Gallery

If We Could Imagine (cat.). Texts by Emily Wei Rales and Jeffrey Weiss. Potomac, Maryland: Glenstone Foundation

Innovations in the Third Dimension: Sculpture of Our Time (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Germano Celant. Milan: Skira Editore

The Quick and the Dead (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Lucina Ward. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia

Unfolding Process: Conceptual and Material Practice on Paper (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Roni Feinstein. Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum and University of North Carolina

Claes Oldenburg: Drawings 1965–1973 (cat.). Text by James D. Herbert. New York: Craig F. Starr Gallery

Collecting Collections: Highlights of the Permanent Collection (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Marco Livingstone. London: Waddington Galleries

Dreishpoon, Douglas and David Bonetti. The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light (cat.). 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 (cat.). Zurich: JRP Ringier Kunstverlag AG

Pop Art: Contemporary Perspectives (cat.).Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Art Museum

Pop Art Is (cat.). 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 (cat.). Milan: Skira Editore

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Sculpture By the Way (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Richard Morphet. New York: PaceWildenstein

Claes Oldenburg: Early Work. (cat.). Text by Julia E. Robinson. New York: Zwirner & Wirth

Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection (cat.). New York: The Museum of Modern Art

Extreme Abstraction (cat.). Text by Claire Schneider. Buffalo, New York: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

50 Jahre / Years of Documenta 1955–2005 (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Zwirner and Wirth
 

2004

An American Odyssey 1945/1980 [Debating Modernism] (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Klosterneuburg, Austria: Edition Sammlung Essl
 

2003

20th Century Sculpture: An Exhibition (cat.). New York: Acquavella Gallerie
 

2002

Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen: Recent Work (cat.). Text by Richard Morphet. New York: PaceWildenstein

Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen–Down Liquidambar Lane: Sculpture in the Park (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
 

2001

Brauer, David E. Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956–1966 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Donald Kuspit, Delfim Sardo and Margarida Veiga. Lisbon: Centro Cultural de Bélem

Collischan, Judy. End Papers: Drawings from 1890–1900 & 1990–2000 (cat.). Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York

Encounters: New Art from Old (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts

Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960–1974 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
 

1996

From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings (cat.). London: Frith Street Gallery; Karsten Schubert Gallery
 

1995

Claes Oldenburg: An Anthology (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York and Paris: Whitney Museum of American Art; Flammarion 

The Popular Image: Pop Art in America (cat.). 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 (cat.). San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery
 

1994

Claes Oldenburg / Coosje van Bruggen: Large-Scale Projects: Drawings and Sculpture (cat.). New York: The Pace Gallery

Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: Inverted Collar and Tie. Ostfildern, Germany: Cantz

Claes Oldenburg: Multiples and Notebook Pages (cat.). Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Gemini G.E.L.: Recent Prints and Sculpture (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Brooks Adams, David Anfam, Richard Armstrong, et al. Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau

Claes Oldenburg: Recent Print and Sculpture Editions (cat.). New York: Gemini G.E.L.

L’Ivresse du réel: L’Objet dans l’arte du XXe siècle (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Wim Beeren, Marja Bloem, et al. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum

Claes Oldenburg: New Work (cat.). Interview by Arne Glimcher. New York: The Pace Gallery

Claes Oldenburg: Die frühen Zeichnungen (cat.). Basel: Das Kupferstichkabinett der Öffentlichen Kunstsammlung Basel

Claes Oldenburg: In the Studio (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Frankfurt: Portikus

Koepplin, Dieter. Claes Oldenburg: Die frühen Zeichnungen (cat.). Basel: Museum für Gegenwartskunst

New Directions in Multiples (cat.). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

…Reperti…O meio ambiente visto por 18 dos mais renomados artistas do mundo (cat.). Texts by Ricardo Grassi and Eugenio Miccini. Rio de Janeiro: Museu Nacional de Bellas Artes

Territorium Artis (cat.). Texts by Pontus Hultén and Oldenburg. Bonn: Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Transform: Bild Object Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert (cat.). Basel: Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle

X 6–New Directions in Multiples (cat.). Texts by Richard Klein and Susan Tallman. Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 
 

1991

Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Dennis Adams. New York and St. Louis: John Weber Gallery and Washington University Gallery

Pop Art (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). London: The Mayor Gallery

Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect, 1964–1990 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Coosje van Bruggen. Milan and Florence: Galleria Christian Stein; Hopeful Monster

High & Low: Modern Art and Popular Culture (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Lucius Grisebach and Dieter Koepplin. Nürmberg: Kunsthalle Nürnberg
 

1989

Magiciens de la Terre (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by J. O. Mallander, Seppo Niinivaara, Ullamaria Pallasmaa, et al. Helsinki: Helsingin Taidelhalli

Selections from the Collection of Marc and Livia Straus (cat.).Text by Dan Cameron. Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

van Bruggen, Coosje. Claes Oldenburg: Dibujos/Drawings 1959–1989 (cat.). Valencia, Spain: IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno
 

1988 

Celant, Germano. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen: A Bottle of Notes and Some Voyages (cat.). 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 (cat.). 2 volumes. Milan: Electa
 

1987

1967: At the Crossroads (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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. (cat.). New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.

Skulptur Projekte in Münster (cat.). 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 (cat.). Essen: Verlag H. Gerd Margreff
 

1986

Celant, Germano. El Cuchillo Barco de Il Corso del Coltello: Claes Oldenburg, Coosje van Bruggen, Frank O. Gehry (cat.). Milan and Madrid: Electa and Ministerio de Cultura

Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer künstlerischen Faszination seit 1940 (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Abbeville Press

Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986 (cat.). 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? (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Douglas Walla. New York: Kent Fine Art

Sonsbeek 86: International Beelden Tentoonstelling (cat.). 2 volumes. Texts by Saskia Bos, Marianne Brouwer and Antje von Graevenitz. Utrecht: Veen/Reflex
 

1985

Cinquante ans de dessins américains: 1930-1980 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela

The Panza Collection (cat.). Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Pop Art: 1955-70 (cat.). Text by Henry Geldzahler. Sydney: International Cultural Corporation of Australia

Räume heutiger Zeichnung (cat.). Text by Dieter Koepplin. Baden-Baden: Die Kunsthalle

Selections from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collections (cat.). Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University
 

1984

Automobile and Culture (cat.). Text by Gerald Silk. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958-1964 (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Wave Hill

Drawings: 1974-1984 (cat.). Texts by Frank Gettings and Claes Oldenburg. Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration (cat.). Texts by Bruce Davis and Ruth E. Fine. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art

Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert (cat.). Basel: St. Jakob Merian-Park

10 Painters and Sculptors Draw (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-van Beuningen

Changes (cat.). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

The Comic Art Show: Cartoons in Painting and Popular Culture (cat.). 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 (cat.). Texts by Antoine Bourdelle, Terry Friedman, Knipe, and Paul Overy. United Kingdom: Sunderland Arts Center

Neue Zeichnungen aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel (cat.). Text by Dieter Koepplin. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel

Twentieth Century Sculpture: Process and Presence (cat.). Text by Lisa Phillips. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
 

1982

Claes Oldenburg (exhibition brochure). Dusseldorf: Galerie Schmela

Documenta 7 (cat.). Kassel: Museum Fridericianum

60-80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images (cat.). Texts by Wim Beeren, Cor Blok, Edy de Wilde, Gijs van Tuyl, and Antje von Graevenitz. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum

Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982 (cat.). San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 

1981

American Prints: Process and Proofs (cat.). 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 (cat.). Akron, Ohio: Akron Art Museum

Mapped Art: Charts, Routes, Regions (cat.). New York: Independent Curators Inc.

A Tradition Established 1940–1970: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art (cat.). New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

Twenty-Second National Print Exhibition (cat.). Text by Gene Baro. New York: The Brooklyn Museum

Westkunst: Zeitgenoissische Kunst seit 1939 (cat.). Text by Laszlo Glozer. Cologne: Museen der Stadt Köln
 

1980

From Reinhardt to Christo (cat.). Texts by Ellen H. Johnson and William Orlander. Oberlin, Ohio: Allen Memorial Art Museum

Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition (cat.). Text by Stanley Tigerman. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art

Monumente-Denkmal (cat.). Texts by Wulf Herzogenrath, Ed Kienholz, Claes Oldenburg, Michael Sandle, and Timm Ulrichs. Cologne: Kölnischer Kunstverein

The Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works (cat.). 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 (cat.). Venice: Instituto di Cultura di Palazzo Grassi

Skulptur im 20. Jahrhundert: Austellung im Wenkenpark Riehen/Basel (cat.). Text by: Reinhold Hohl. Basel: Werner Druck

Urban Encounters: Art Architecture Audience (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
 

1979

Shoemaker, Innis H. Drawings About Drawing Today (cat.). Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The Ackland Art Museum

Van Bruggen, Coosje. Claes Oldenburg: Mouse Museum / Ray Gun Wing (cat.). Cologne: Museum Ludwig
 

1978

Art About Art (cat.). 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 (cat.). Berlin: Nationalgalerie Berlin
 

1977

Claes Oldenburg (cat.). Delft, The Netherlands: De Volle Maan

Claes Oldenburg: The Inverted Q (cat.). 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 (cat.). Kassel: Orangerie and Neue Galerie

Fall 1977: Contemporary Collectors (cat.). Ridgefield, Connecticut: The Aldrich Museum of contemporary art

Landfall Press: A Survey of Prints (1970-1977) (cat.). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art

The Mouse Museum / The Ray Gun Wing: Two Collection / Two Buildings by Claes Oldenburg (cat.). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art

Paris—New York: Un Album (cat.). Paris: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou

Skulptur: Austellung in Münster, 1977 (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

American Pop Art and the Culture of the Sixties (cat.). Texts by Carol Nathanson, Nina Sundell, and Marjorie Talalay. Cleveland: The New Gallery of Contemporary Art

Claes Oldenburg (cat.). New York: Leo Castelli Gallery

Claes Oldenburg (cat.). Texts by Adriani Götz, Dieter Koepplin and Barbara Rose. Hannover: Kesner-Gesellschaft

Claes Oldenburg: Log, May 1974–August 1976 (cat.). 2 volumes. Stuttgart and New York: Hansjörg Mayer and Store Days

Claes Oldenburg: The Soft Screw (cat.). Texts by Oldenburg and Melinda Wortz. Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L.

Drawing Now (cat.). Text by Bernice Rose. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 

Images of an Era: The American Poster 1945–1975 (cat.). Washington, D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute

Seventy-Second American Exhibition (cat.). Text by Anne Rorimer. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago

Thirty Years of American Printmaking (cat.). Text by Gene Baro. New York: The Brooklyn Museum

Twentieth Century American Drawing: Three Avant-Garde Generations (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Museum of Modern Art

Claes Oldenburg: The Alphabet in L.A. (cat.). Los Angeles: Margo Leavin Gallery 

Claes Oldenburg: Recent Erotic Fantasy Drawings (cat.). London: The Mayor Gallery

Götz, Adriani, Dieter Koepplin and Barbara Rose. Zeichnungen von Claes Oldenburg (cat.). 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 (cat.). Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Minami ’75: A Selection of Twentieth Century Art Tokyo: Minami Gallery (cat.)

Oldenburg: Six Themes (cat.). Text by Martin Friedman and interviews with the artist. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center
 

1974

American Pop Art (cat.). Text by Lawrence Alloway. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art

Claes Oldenburg: The Lipstick Comes Back (cat.). New Haven: Yale University Press

Monumenta: A Biennial Exhibition of Outdoor Sculpture (cat.). Texts by Sam Hunter and Hugh M. Davies with Sally E. Yard. Newport, Rhode Island: Monumenta Newport, Inc.

Painting and Sculpture Today 1974 (cat.). Text by Richard L. Warrum. Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art

Poets of the Cities, New York and San Francisco, 1950-1965 (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: Marlborough Gallery

Stilkunde an Beispielen: Einlehrspiel (cat.). Mönchengladbach, Germany: Städtisches Museum Abteiverg Mönchengladbach

25 Years at Janis: Part 2, From Pollock to Pop, Op and Sharp-Focus Realism (cat.). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery

1973

Claes Oldenburg (cat.). 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 (cat.). New York: M. Knoedler and Co.

Claes Oldenburg: Standing Mitt with Ball, 1973 (cat.). 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 (cat.). San Francisco: John Berggruen Gallery

Colossal Scale: The Appeal of Gigantic Representational Images for Today’s Artists (cat.). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery

Diagrams and Drawings (cat.). 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 (cat.). Text by Kasper König. Kassel, Germany: Documenta GmbH

New York Collection for Stockholm (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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 (cat.). 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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