Walter de Maria. Foto: Peter Gaechter. © 2003 Gaechter +Clahsen

1935
Born in Albany, California

1953–59
Undergraduate at Berkeley University of California

1957
B.A. in History

1959
M.A. in Art (Painting)
 
Walter de Maria lived in New York since 1960. He died in July 2013 in Los Angeles.





2002
Roswitha Haftmann Prize

1990
Bicentenaire de la Revolution Française dans la court de l’Assemblée Nationale, Paris (Competition: 1st Prize)

1989
Foreign Member, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm

1986
International Prize for Visual Art, Baden-Württemberg

1976
Mather Sculpture Prize, 72nd Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago

1969
Guggenheim Fellowship





1997
Dia Center for the Arts, New York

1992
Kunsthaus Zürich

1989
Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1988
Stockholm Konsthall; Dia Art Foundation, New York

1987–88
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

1986
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge (Mass.)

1984–85
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1982
Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1981
Musée nationale d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Kunstverein St. Gallen

1980
Dia Art Foundation, New York

1974
Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt

1972
Kunstmuseum Basel