1935
Born in Quincy, Massachusetts

1951–53
Studies Art at the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

1956
Moves to New York

1960–64
Works as freight brakeman and conductor in New Jersey for the Pennsylvania Railroad

1965
First public exhibition of work in the ‘Shape and Structure’ show curated by Henry Geldzahler at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery

1969
Participation at ‘Live in your head: when attitude becomes form’, Harald Szeemann’s legendary 1969 group exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern

1968
Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany

1970
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1971
The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

1973
‘144 Blocks and Stones. For Robert Smithson (1938–1973)’, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
‘Waterbodies’, Projects Series, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

1975
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland

1976
‘Prime Terrane’, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
The Clocktower, New York

1978
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Pinacotheca Richmond Victoria, Melbourne,
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, The Art Institute of Chicago

1979
‘Wood’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, Glenbow Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
‘Sculptures en bois’, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

1980
‘Sculpture 1959–1977’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1981
‘House as Organ: Stops and Unstopped’, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1984
‘Der Frieden von Münster’, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

1987
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, simultaneous show with Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
‘Carl Andre – Sculpture’, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Italy

1991
Tate Gallery, London, Preview of: ‘Without Walls: Upholding the Bricks’, 60 min. film, Channel Four Television

1994
‘Words 1958–1972’, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Germany and ‘WORDS – The Complete Poems’, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1996
‘Carl Andre Sculptor 1996’, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Second Floor Exhibition Space, Reykjavík, Iceland

2004
‘Carl Andre – Passeport et Poésie 1960 – 2000’, Cabinet des Estampes, Genève, Switzerland

2005
‘Carl Andre – Black Wholes’, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland