Joseph Marioni is internationally regarded as one of the leading figures of Radical Painting, an art movement wholly dedicated to the exploration of color. In September 2024, he passed away at the age of 81. To honor his legacy, the Von der Heydt Museum—home to one of Marioni’s characteristic works—will pay tribute to the painter with a special exhibition.
Born in 1943 in Cincinnati, Ohio, Marioni lived and worked in New York. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and Europe, and is part of several major private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Kolumba Cologne, the Goetz Collection in Munich, and the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg.
