1933
born April 1 in Queens, New York, NY, USA
1953 – 1957
United States Air Force
1956 – 1959
takes lessons at Hans Hofmann’s Eighth Street School for drawing and painting, New School for Social Research and at Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
1959 – 1960
works as a guard at Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1961
D. N. Flavin: Construction and Watercolor, Judson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964
Dan Flavin, Green Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1966
Dan Flavin, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln, Germany
Kunst Licht Kunst, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1967
Dan Flavin: Alternating Pink and Gold, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1968
Dan Flavin, Galerie Heiner Friedrich, München, Germany
Cool White, etc. from Dan Flavin, Dwan Gallery, NY, USA
1969
Fluorescent Light, etc. from Dan Flavin, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada (traveled to Vancouver, Canada; New York, NY, USA)
1971
Fluorescent Light with Diagrams from Dan Flavin, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1972
Dan Flavin, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
1973
Corners, Barriers and Corridors in Fluorescent Light from Dan Flavin, St. Louis Art Museum, MO, USA
Dan Flavin: Three Installtions in Fluorescent Light/Drei Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht, Kunsthalle Köln, Germany
1975
Dan Flavin, Installations in Fluorescent Light 1972-1975, Fort Worth Art Museum, TX, USA (traveled to Chicago, Il, USA; Berkeley, CA, USA)
Fünf Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (Publication)
Zeichnungen, Diagramme, Druckgraphik 1972 bis 1975 und zwei Installtionen in fuoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
1976
Dan Flavin, Installations in Fluorescent Light, Scottish Arts Council and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scottland
1978
... Drawn Along the Shores, 1959-1976, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA (traveled to Yonkers, NY, USA; Austin, TX, USA)
1983
permanent Installation at the Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
1984
Monuments' for V. Tatlin fom Dan Falvin, 1964-1983, MoCA Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA (traveled to Washington, DC, USA; Bordeaux, France; Otterlo, The Netherlands)
seit 1986
Dan Flavin: lichtinstallaties/Light Installtions, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1987
Dan Flavin: Untitled (to the Citizens of the Swiss Cantons) 1987, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1989
Neue Anwendungen fluoreszierenden Lichts mit Diagrammen, Zeichnungen und Drucken von Dan Flavin / New Uses of Fluorescent Light with Diagrams, Drawings and Prints from Dan Flavin, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
1990
Dan Flavin: Untitled (for Otto Freundlich) 1990 Themes and Variations, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1993
Dan Flavin: Lichträume, Städtische Galerie im Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dan Flavin, Untitled (to the Vernas on opening a new...) 1993, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
1995
Dan Flavin, Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, New York, NY, USA
1996
died November 29 in Riverhead, New York, NY, USA
1999
Dan Flavin: Untitled 1969, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2004
Dan Flavin: A Retrospecive, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
2006
Dan Flavin, Eine Retrospektive, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, Germany
1987, 1990, 1993, 1999, 2007
Dan Flavin, Works 1969 - 1990, January 30 to March 17, 2007
Dan Flavin, Untitled, 1969, November 27, 1999 to February 5, 2000
Celebrating 20 Years of Neptunstrasse 42, March 14 to July 6, 2013
ART 43 Basel, June 14 to June 17, 2012
Manifold, June 20 to August 20, 2011
Art 42 Basel, June 15 to June 19, 2011
Autumn Leaves, October 26 to November 27, 2010
ART 41, June 16 to June 20, 2010
Art 37 Basel, June 14 to June 18, 2006
Salon automne, September 7 to October 15, 2005
Art 36 Basel, June 15 to June 20, 2005
Summer exhibition 2004, August 9 to September 18, 2004
Summer exhibition 2003, August 21 to September 27, 2003
Art 34 Basel, June 18 to June 23, 2003
network, September 10 to September 28, 2002
Art 33 Basel, June 12 to June 17, 2002
Anniversary exhibition, July 1 to August 31, 1999
Dan Flavin, untitled (for Otto Freundlich) 1990, themes and variations, Publisher: Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich
Celebrating 20 Years of Neptunstrasse 42
March 14 to July 6, 2013
Richard Tuttle
The Use of Time
Published by Kunsthaus Zug, Preface Matthias Haldemann, Text Marco Obrist ger/eng 36 pages, 30 colored images, Hatje Cantz Verlag / Kunsthaus Zug
David Rabinowitch
Birth of Romanticism Drawings
Peter Blum Edition New York Annemarie Verna Edition Zurich Richter Verlag, Dusseldorf
Dan Flavin - Lights, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, March 16 – August 18, 2013
Andreas Christen - Lumineux ! Dynamique ! Espace et vision dans l’art de nos jours à 1913, Galerie Nationale du Grand-Palais, Paris, April 9 – July 29, 2013
Forrest Bess - Seeing the Invisible, The Menil Collection Houston, TX, April 11 – August 18, 2013
Joseph Egan - A Coat of Many Colors, Gartenflügel Kulturelles Forum, Ziegelbrücke, April 27 – May 26, 2013
Rita McBride - lonelyfingers Konversationsstücke,
March 17th – June 2nd, 2013,
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
November 16, 2008 – 2033
Sol LeWitt –
A Wall Drawing Retrospective
Yale University Art Gallery and Williams College Museum of Art