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MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
ArmChair, 1995, cast bronze - Denver Art Museum.
Nymph Chairs, 1993, cast bronze chair- Brooklyn Museum of Art  and Museum Of Fine Arts Houston.
Fourth Frond, 1991,cast bronze chair and drawing; Ribbon Chaise, 1981 (Main + Main) - Metropolitan Museum Of Art, New York, NY.
QueenAnneQueenAnne, 1980/93, enameled wood & mohair, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
Flyer, 1990, cast bronze loveseat- Virginia Museum of Art. Amity (from the Apparition series) 1989, cast bronze lamp, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

.SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002
Terra Incognita, Installation at 143 West 26th Street, New York, NY.
1997 Guerrillas, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1996 Terrestrial Tale, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1996 InfIorescence, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1990  Exhibition Evolution: from New York, Manufactory Gallery, Tokyo.
1989 Apparitions, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1988 Hellbenders, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1983 The Future Isn't What It Used To Be, International Design Conference, Aspen, CO.
1982 Third Stream, Main+Main, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.

COMMISSIONS AND WORKS IN PUBLIC
Urban Alligators, commissioned by Clodagh Design for The W Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Urban Guerrillas, commissioned by Clodagh Design for The Caledonia, Luxury Residential Building, New York, NY.
Urban Guerrillas, cast stone sculptures, commissioned by Clodagh Design for Nemacolin Woodlands Resort and Spa, Farmington, PA.
Cast stone Guerrillas and cast aluminium Frond Chairs,  commissioned by Rockwell Group for the Rum Jungle, Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas, NV.
The Palm Doors, private residence cast bronze entry doors, New York, NY.
Untitled Dining Table and Nymph Chairs, carved glass and cast bronze, private residence, New York, NY.
Falls Table, cast bronze, private residence, New York, NY.
Felissimo Door, carved glass and cast bronze handle, commissioned by Clodagh Design, New York, NY.
Dentsu Doors, carved glass, cast bronze and sheet bronze, commissioned by Clodagh Design for Dentsu Corp. Headquarters, Tokyo, Japan

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
Design Miami/New York, Magen H Gallery, New York, NY.

Art Basel, Switzerland, via Magen H Gallery.

Design Miami/Basel, via Magen H Gallery, Miami Beach FL.

London Design, Magen H Gallery, London Preview, Berkeley Square, London.
2007
Structure Et Surface, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY.

International Exposition of Sculptural Objects & Functional Art, New York, NY.
2006
Design Miami/Basel, via Magen H Gallery, Miami Beach, FL.
2005
Modernism, 7th Regiment Armory, via Magen H Gallery, New York, NY.

Design Miami/Basel, Magen H Gallery, Miami Preview, Miami Beach, FL.
2003
Significant Objects from the Modern Design Collection, Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY.

The Sculpted Seat, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY.
2002
Magnet, Yassine Art Gallery, Dakar, Senegal.
2001
A Century of Design Part IV: 1975-2000, Metropolitan Musem of Art, New York, NY.
2000
Important Postwar and Contemporary Design, Icon20, New York, NY.
1999
Summer group show, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY.
1998
Agitating Utopia, traveling exhibition sponsored by Cranbrook  Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1997 Get Out, John Elder Gallery, New York, NY. 

Form Function or Metaphor, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, NY.

Sit on this, The Chair as Art, PBCC Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL.
1996
Form Over Function, (from the collection of Sydney & Frances Lewis), Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. 

Young Curators Choose Chairs, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Eclectic Electric, Gallery Function Art, New Pontiac, MI.
1995
Building the Collection, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.

Back from Vacation, Art et Industrie, New York, NY.
1994
Modern Furniture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Art and Design for Living, Reidelbach Gallery, Troy, MI.
1993
Modern Metalwork, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Art and Application, Turbulence, New York, NY.
1992
Lamp Edge, Leo Kaplan Modern, New York, NY.

Mailbox Auction, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Southfield, MI.
1991
Cranbrook Design: the new discourse, (traveling): Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI,

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, Yamagiwa Gallery, Minato-ku, Tokyo.

The Chair: From Artifact to Object, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, NC.
1990
The Humanist Icon, (traveling): Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS; Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA,

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.

Functional Art, New York, (traveling) Brutus Gallery, Osaka, Japan, Kyodo Kikakum Fukuoka, Japan.

Mondrian auf der Tube, Foundation for Constructivist and Concrete Art, Zurich.
1989
The Future Is Now, Bass Art Museum, Miami, FL.
1988
Magic in the Mind's Eye, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI.
1987
Art in the Dark, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ.
1986
La Salon Ironique, Pompeii Gallery, New York, NY.
1984
Works on Paper, Pompeii Gallery, New York, NY.
1983
Ornamentalism, Huntington Museum, Austin, TX; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.

International Design Conference, Aspen, CO.
1982
New York City Renaissance, Seibu Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Limited edition: Prototypes, One-Offs and Design Art Furniture. A Birkhäuser book, 2009
Lifestyle & Travel For Physicians. Jan/Feb 2003
Departures. 2002
Fine Furnishings International. May 2002
Colorado Homes & Lifestyle magazine. September 2001
Important Postwar and Contemporary Design.(catalogue) Icon20.com, New York, NY. June 6 2000
Kids... Pull Up A Chair. Oakland Press, Pontiac MI, March 4, 1998
Terence Main, Guerrillas.  Art Guide, New York Times, October 3, 1997 
Art in Review,  New York Times, September 26, 1997
Terence Main at Art et Industrie.  Gallery Guide NY, Art Now Inc, September, 1997
Terence Main. (catalogue) New York: Art et Industrie, 1996 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall Bulletin. 1992
Form Over Function. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. 1992
Mailbox Auction. (catalogue) Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Southfield, MI, 1992 
The Chair: From Artifact to Object. Greensboro, NC: University of North Carolina, 1991 
Mondrian auf der Tube (catalogue). Weinberg-Staber. Zurich: Pro Litteris, 1990 
Cranbrook Design: the new discourse. Aldersey-Williams. New York: Rizzoli, 1990 
Modern Furniture Classics. Stimpson. New York: Whitney Library of Design, 1987 
New, Used & Improved: Art for the '80's. Frank and McKenzie. New York: Abbeville, 1987 
High Touch. Janjigian. New York: Dutton, 1987 
Light. Szenasy. Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1986 
Artists Design Furniture. Domergue. New York: Abrams, 1984