| 1893 |
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Joan Miró Ferra born April 20th in Barcelona, Spain. His father is a goldsmith and watchmaker, mother the daughter of a Majorcan cabinetmaker. One sibling, a sister born in 1897. |
| 1900 |
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Attends school in the Calle Regomir; after regular classes takes a drawing class where he does not excel but his artistic tendencies are already apparent. |
| 1905 |
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Sketchbooks of drawings, mostly from nature, done on visits to maternal grandparents in Majorca and on trips to the Tarragona countryside. |
| 1907 |
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Attends business school in Barcelona and simultaneously La Lonja School of Fine Arts where he finds the formalism stifling, but is encouraged by two teachers Modesto Urgell and Jose Pasco. |
| 1910 |
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Bowing to paternal pressure, abandons study of art to take a job as a clerk with a business firm in Barcelona. Suffers a nervous breakdown, followed by typhoid fever. Convalesces on parents' farm in Montroig. |
| 1912 |
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Attends Francisco Gali's Escola d'Art, where he thrives in the anti-academic curriculum. Learns to draw from touch, sketches from life and paints first oils. Befriends fellow students E. C. Ricart and Josep Llorens i Artigas. |
| 1915 |
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Graduates from Gali's school, shares first studio with Ricart. Attends free life drawing classes. Begins to paint in a Fauvist manner. Friendship with Joan Prats and J. F. Rafols. |
| 1916 |
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First paintings exhibited by dealer Jose Dalmau. Visits Ambroise Vollard's exhibition of French art in Barcelona. Reads French avant-garde magazines and poetry such as Apollinaire and Reverdy. |
| 1917 |
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Meets Picabia, who is exhibiting in Barcelona. Paints portraits and Montroig landscapes. |
| 1918 |
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First one-man exhibition in Barcelona at Galeries Dalmau. Becomes a member of the Agrupacio Courbet, a circle of young artists centered around his friend, Artigas. |
| 1919 |
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Meets French critic Maurice Raynal. Exhibits at the Barcelona "Municipal". First trip to Paris, where he meets fellow countryman, Picasso. |
| 1920 |
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Settles in Paris in a studio at 45 Rue Blomet. Thereafter spends his winters in Paris and summers in Montroig. Begins to participate in Dada activities. |
| 1921 |
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First exhibition in Paris at Galeries La Licorne organized by Dalmau. Begins to paint The Farm. |
| 1922 |
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Friendship with Andre Masson, his neighbor; associates with Surrealist poets. Precarious finances, crisis in artistic expression. |
| 1923 |
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Exhibits at the Salon d'Automne, Paris. Friendship with Jacques Prevert, Ernest Hemingway and Henry Miller. Paints The Tilled Field and Catalan Landscape which mark a turning point in his artistic development. |
| 1924 |
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Joins the Surrealist group with Andre Breton, Louis Aragon and Paul Eluard. He participates regularly in Surrealist manifestations. Begins to paint in a fantastic and poetically allusive style. |
| 1925 |
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One-man exhibition in Paris at Galerie Pierre Loeb, a great success. Participates in first Surrealist group exhibition at same gallery. Paints disembodied, reverie-inspired images. |
| 1926 |
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Collaborates with Max Ernst on décor for Ballets Russes production of Romeo and Juliet in Monte Carlo. Paints imaginary landscapes at Montroig. |
| 1927 |
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Moves to Montmartre where Ernst, Eluard, Arp and Magritte are neighbors. |
| 1928 |
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Visits the Netherlands, inspired to paint his Dutch Interiors by postcards of Dutch old masters. Exhibition in Paris at Galerie Georges Bernheim et Cie. Executes first papier colles and collages. |
| 1929 |
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Marries Pilar Juncosa at Palma de Majorca, October 12th. They move to 3 Rue Francois Mouthon, Paris. |
| 1930 |
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Collages exhibited in Brussels at Galerie Goemans and in Paris at Galerie Pierre. First New York one-man show at Valentine Galleries. Engraves first lithographs. |
| 1931 |
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Birth of daughter, Dolores in Barcelona, July 17th. Exhibition of sculpture-objects in Paris at Galerie Pierre. |
| 1932 |
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Designs sets and costumes for production of Jeux d'enfants by Ballets Russes de Basil, Monte Carlo. Exhibitions in Paris, Galerie Pierre and in New York, Pierre Matisse Gallery. |
| 1933 |
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Engraves his first etching, Daphnis et Chloe. |
| 1934 |
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Beginning of Sauvage period: paintings of bitterness and protest against Franco and fascism. Designs first pochoirs including two for Cahiers d'art. |
| 1935 |
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Attends life drawing classes at the Grand Chaumiere, Paris. Does his sauvage paintings on cardboard. |
| 1937 |
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Paints a large mural, The Reaper, for the Spanish Pavilion at the Paris World Exposition. Creates, Aidez l'Espagne, pochoir. |
| 1938 |
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Begins etching with Marcoussis, resultant compositions include Serie Noire et Rouge (Red and Black Series). Summers at Varengeville-sur-mer, Normandy. |
| 1940 |
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Begins his Constellations series at Varengeville during the first months of WW II. Fleeing the German invasion of Paris, leaves for the South of France, decides to continue to Spain. Settles temporarily in Palma de Majorca. |
| 1941 |
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Completes the Constellations series in Palma and Montroig. Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; catalogue written by James Johnson Sweeney, is first monograph on Miró. |
| 1944 |
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Makes first ceramics in collaboration with Artigas. |
| 1945 |
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Exhibition of Constellations and ceramics in New York at Pierre Matisse Gallery. |
| 1947 |
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First trip to the United States: executes mural paintings for the Terrace Hilton Hotel in Cinncinnati; executes series of etchings at S. W. Hayter's Atelier 17, exibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Included in an International Surrealist Exhibition at Galerie Maeght, Paris. |
| 1949 |
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Retrospective exhibition at the Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland. |
| 1950 |
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Exhibition of paintings and sculptures in Paris at Galerie Maeght. Executes mural painting for Harvard University. |
| 1954 |
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Participates in the Venice Biennale; awarded Grand Prix International for prints. Begins a four year period devoted almost exclusively to ceramics and printmaking. |
| 1955 |
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Starts work with Artigas on two ceramic walls for the Unesco building, Paris. |
| 1956 |
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Retrospectives at the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam and the Kunsthalle, Basel. The architect J. L. Sert designs a house and studio for Miró near Palma de Majorca. |
| 1958 |
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UNESCO walls win Guggenheim International Award. Exhibition, Miró: Peintres Sauvages 1934-1953, at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. |
| 1959 |
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Second trip to the United States for major retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. |
| 1960 |
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With Artigas creates a ceramic mural for Harvard University, which is exhibited in Barcelona, Paris and New York before installation. |
| 1961 |
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Third visit to the United States, exhibition at Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. Exhibition of new work at Galerie Maeght, Paris. |
| 1962 |
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Major retrospective exhibition at the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris. |
| 1963 |
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Major retrospective at the Tate Gallery, London. |
| 1964 |
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Inauguration of the Fondation Maeght at St. Paul-de-Vence, France and its Labyrinthe entirely decorated with sculptures and ceramics by Miró. |
| 1966 |
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Begins work on a large mural, Alicia, commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Major retrospective at the National Museum of Art, Tokyo and at the National Museum of Art, Kyoto. |
| 1967 |
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Awarded the Carnegie International Grand Prize for Painting. Inauguration of the Alicia mural at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Publishes his first major carborundum aquatints, including Equinoxe. |
| 1968 |
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Participates in the exhibition, Dada, Surrealism and Their Heritage, shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Art Institute, Chicago and the Los Angeles county Museum of Art. Major retrospective exhibition at the Fondation Maeght, St. Paul-de-Vence and in Barcelona presented in the medieval buildings of the Hospital de la Santa Creu. |
| 1969 |
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Exhibition at the Haus der Kunst, Munich. |
| 1970 |
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Exhibition Joan Miró: Fifty Recent Prints (the carborundum aquatints) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Creates a large ceramic mural with Artigas for the Barcelona airport. |
| 1971 |
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Exhibition of Miró's sculpture at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. |
| 1972 |
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Establishment of the Fundacio Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona. Joan Miró: Magnetic Fields exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. |
| 1973 |
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Exhibition at the Fondation Maeght in honor of Miró's eightieth birthday. Exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York of their forty-four Miró works. |
| 1974 |
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Concurrent Miró exhibitions in Paris of paintings, sculpture and ceramics at the Grand Palais and the complete graphic oeuvre (prints) at the Musee d'Art Moderne. |
| 1975 |
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Opening of the Fundacio Joan Miró, Centre d'Estudis d'Art Contemporani, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, in a building designed by J. L. Sert. |
| 1976 |
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Formal inauguration of the Fundacio Joan Miró with exhibition of 475 drawings from 1901 to 1975, selected from 5,000 drawings donated by the artist to the foundation. |
| 1978 |
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Painting retrospective at the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporanea, Madrid. |
| 1979 |
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Major retrospective at the Fondation Maeght at which Miró's first stained glass windows are unveiled, they are later installed at the Fundacio Joan Miró. |
| 1980 |
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Retrospective exhibitions at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Mexico, Mexico City; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. Traveling exhibition of paintings and drawings in Japan: Isetan Museum Tokyo. Nagoya Museum, Nagoya, Fukuoka Museum, Fukuoka and Osaka Museum, Osaka. Unveiling of the ceramic mural in the new Palacio de Congresos, Madrid. |
| 1981 |
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Unveiling of a monumental (12 m. high) sculpture in Chicago; Miró a Milano: a great retrospective of all media, including prints, shown in various public buildings in Milan, Italy. |
| 1982 |
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Execution with Joan Gardy-Artigas, of Woman and Bird, a monumental sculpture in cement covered with ceramic shards for Barcelona. Exhibition, Joan Miró: painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic work (prints), posters, tapestry and theatre, at the Fundacio Joan Miró, Barcelona. |
| 1983 |
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December 25th, death of Joan Miró in his house near Palma. |
