1935
Geboren in Quincy, Massachusetts

1951–53             
Kunststudium an der Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

1956                   
Umzug nach New York

1960–64              
Arbeitet als Schaffner und Bremser bei der Pennsylvania Railroad in New Jersey

1965                   
Erste öffentliche Ausstellung «Shape and Structure», Tibor de Nagy Gallery

1968                   
Städtisches Museum, Mönchengladbach

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

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, Kanada

1980                   
«Sculpture 1959–1977», Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

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

1984
«Der Frieden von Münster», Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster

1987                   
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Niederlande, gleichzeitig mit Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag
«Carl Andre – Sculpture», Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

1991                   
Tate Gallery, London, Preview von: «Without Walls: Upholding the Bricks», 60 Min. Film, Channel Four Television
                          
1994                   
«Words 1958–1972», Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Deutschland und «WORDS – The Complete Poems», Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

1996                   
«Carl Andre Sculptor 1996», Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Second Floor Exhibition Space, Reykjavík, Island

2004                   
«Carl Andre – Passeport et Poésie 1960–2000», Cabinet des Estampes, Genève

2005                   
«Carl Andre – Black Wholes», Kunsthalle Basel