| Born |
1934, Yakima, Washington |
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| EDUCATION |
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| 1957 – 59 |
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1954 – 56 |
U.S. Army, Germany |
| 1954 |
Central Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, WA |
| 1953 – 54 |
University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 2007 |
Llyn Foulkes Kent Gallery, New York , NY |
| 2006 |
The Lost Frontier Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Restoration Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2005 |
LLYN FOULKES: The Lost Frontier Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA |
| 1997 |
Gallery Paula Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 |
The Legend of Mickey Rat Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1995 |
Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place organized by the Laguna Art Museum, CA (travels) |
| 1994 |
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1992 |
I Space, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
POP: The First Picture Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1989 |
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 1988 |
Llyn Foulkes: Images of Disruption and Delusion Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Llyn Foulkes: The Sixties Kent Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog) |
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Llyn Foulkes: The Eighties Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| 1987 |
Forum:Head Studies Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1986 |
Llyn Foulkes: Portraits, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (catalog) |
| 1985 |
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
| 1984 |
Llyn Foulkes: New Rocks, Postcards, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Llyn Foulkes: New Paintings, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1983 |
AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1978 |
Llyn Foulkes: Paintings, Collages, Assemblages 1959-78, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
| 1977 |
Llyn Foulkes: New Works 1976-1977 Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY (catalog) |
| 1975 |
Willard Gallery, New York, NY |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer Paris, France |
| 1974 |
Llyn Foulkes:Fifty Paintings, Collages and Prints from Southern California |
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Collections: A Survey Exhibition 1959-1974, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog) |
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David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1970 |
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
| 1969 |
David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1964 |
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA |
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Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1963 |
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1962 |
Llyn Foulkes: Paintings and Constructions, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 1961 |
An Introduction to the Paintings of Llyn Foulkes, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 2008 |
Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957 – 1968 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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The Dark Side of the Mouse Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA |
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Pretty Ugly Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY |
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In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Member and Recipients of Honors and Awards American Academy of Arts and Letters |
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American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts The American Academy of Arts and Letters |
| 2007- 2008 |
Southern California Art of the 1960’s and 70’s from LACMA’s Collection Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Art Since the 1960’s: California Experiments Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| 2007 |
A View Within Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA |
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Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, New York, NY |
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Wallace Berman and His Circle, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY |
| 2006 |
Kapital, Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
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Urban Cosmologies, Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
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Visual Politics, The Art Of Engagement, The Katzen Center at American University, Washington D.C. |
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Wallace Berman and His Circle, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
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Wallace Berman and His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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Los Angeles 1955 – 1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
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Urban Cosmologies Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
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Tracking and Tracing: Contemporary Acquisitions San Diego Museum of Art, CA |
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5 Stories High Track 16 Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA |
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La Dolce Vita: Selection from the Ruth and Murray Griben Collection San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement American University Museum College of Arts & Sciences, Washington DC |
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181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art National Academy, New York, NY |
| 2005 |
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement San Jose Museum of Art, CA |
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Constructed Image. Kent Gallery, New York, NY |
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Collection Memories, California Modern Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
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Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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Choice Small Pieces: Collage and Assemblage Chouinard School of Art, South Pasadena, CA |
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Art of Engagement Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2004 |
POP from San Francisco Collections San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA |
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Humor in Art Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA |
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Tear Down This Wall Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Lost But Found Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 2003 |
L.A. Post Cool Otis College of Art, Los Angeles |
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L.A. Post Cool curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, CA |
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Paperwork Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2002 |
Humor As Art Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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Painting and Sculpture from the Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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L.A. Post Cool San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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The Art of Giving: Recent Acquisitions Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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First Run Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 2001 |
Pop Culture Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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The Importance of Being Earnest Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA |
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12 Pack: A Dozen Artists from LA’s Brewery Art Colony Shasta College, Redding, CA |
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Selections from the Collection Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA |
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Open Ends Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Representing L.A.: California Narrative Painting Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA (travels) |
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One Minute of Your Time: Southern Californian Art from the collection: 1835 to 2001 |
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Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA |
| 2000 |
Extreme Ill-Mannered Art Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA |
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Made in California: Art, Image and Identity (1900-2000) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA |
| 1999 |
Made in America: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture From the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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Size Matters Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Radical Past, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 1998 |
Goldrush to Pop: California Art in Context Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
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1964 curated by Mat Gleason, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
| 1997 |
The Elusive Paradise The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA |
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Lithographs from Hamilton Press Montgomery Gallery, Pomona college, Claremont, CA |
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Seattle Collects Paintings Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. (1960-1997) organized by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (travels) |
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20/20 CAF Looks Forward and Back Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 |
Be Specific Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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A Man’s World Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Imaginary Realities: Surrealism, Then and Now Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA |
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Sixteen Artists Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Referencing Innocence/Not Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, CA |
| 1995 |
Permanent Collection: Object and Image, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy in Tokyo, thru the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Bestiaire, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
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Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA (catalog; traveled) |
| 1994 |
Human Environment and Futur, Sonte Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea |
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The Conceptual Landscape, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI |
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Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the end of the Century, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (catalog; traveled) |
| 1993 |
Altered States: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Inad`vertently, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA |
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Mr. Serling`s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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L.A Stories, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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I Am the Enunciator, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY |
| 1992 |
Proof: Los Angeles Art and Photograph 1960-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalogue; traveled) |
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Transforming the Western Image in 20 th Century American Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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Bedroom Pictures, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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Helter Skelter, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
| 1991 |
Persona, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY |
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De-Persona, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (catalog) |
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Individual Realities, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalog) |
| 1990 |
Real Allusions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog) |
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Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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Subversive Classical Subverted, L.A Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Postcards from America, Caracas, Venezuela: Galeria Freites; New York: Kent Fine Art. |
| 1989 |
American Pie, Bess Cutlter Gallery, New York, NY |
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Forty Years of California Assemblage, Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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L.A Pop in the Sixties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog; traveled) |
| 1988 |
Art of the 70s, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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L.A Hot and Cool Stux Gallery, New York, NY |
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Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery and Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog) |
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G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 |
The Capital Group, Selections from a Corporate Collection, University of California, Irvine, CA |
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California Masters, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the 50s & 60s, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (catalog; traveled) |
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Assemblage, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY |
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L.A Hot and Cool: Pioneers, Bank of Boston Art Gallery, Boston, MA; List Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (catalog) |
| 1986 |
NO! Contemporary American Dada, Henry Art gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (catalog) |
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Artificial Paradise, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
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Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present, Contemporary Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (traveled) |
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American Myths, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY (catalog) |
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A Southern California Collection, Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA |
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Sterling Holloway Collection, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1985 |
Sunshine and Shadows: Recent Painting in Southern California, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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To the Astonishing Horizon, Los Angeles Visual Arts Exhibitions, Los Angeles Designer Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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The Cutting Edge, Quay Gallery, San Fransico, CA |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
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Directions in Contemporary Landscape, Palo Alto Cultural center, Palo Alto, CA |
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Selections from the Diana Zlotnick Collection, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
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Willard Gallery, New York, NY |
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Selections from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1984 |
Los Angeles and the Palm Tree, ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA |
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Twelve Californian Artists, Gille Mansillon Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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New York: Paintings 1984 AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA |
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Olympiad, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 |
Paintings of the 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Then and Now: Two Decades of New Talent Purchase Awards, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
| 1982 |
From the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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Narrative Painting and Urban Vernacular, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
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The West as Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, palm Springs, CA |
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Michael Blankfort Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1981 |
California Landscape, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalog) |
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Works from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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The Decade, Los Angeles: Painting in the 70s, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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Professor’s Choice: An Exhibition of Works Requested by the Studio Art Faculty Montgomery Art Gallery |
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and Lang Art Gallery, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA |
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Southern California Artists: 1940-1981, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog) |
| 1980 |
Ateliers Aujourd`hui: Oeuvres Comtemporaines des Collections Nationales: Accrochage IV, |
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Centre George Pompidou, Musee National d`Art Moderne, Paris, France |
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50th Abstract, Conejo Valley Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA |
| 1979 |
Our Own Art, Newport Harbor art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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Sound, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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Special Showing, Marion Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1978 |
Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Art of the Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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Thanatopsis, Space, Los Angeles, CA |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
| 1977 |
30 Years of American Art: 1945-1975, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NW |
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Painting and Sculpture in Southern California, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. |
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Off the Wall, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
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New in Seventies Archer M. Huntington Galleries, University of Texas, Austin, TX |
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Invitational American Drawing Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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Recent Gifts and Purchases, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
| 1976 |
The Last Time I Saw Ferus: 1957-1966, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog) |
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A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr., Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Imagination, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Painting and Sculpture in Southern California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Bicentennial Exhibition, Orlando Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1975 |
Current Concerns #1, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Young Artist from the Charles Cowles Collection, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
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Collage and Assemblage in Southern California, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Four Los Angeles Artists, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY travelled to: |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
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Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France |
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Society of Contemporary Art, Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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10 Modern Masters, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1974 |
Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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Symphony Graphics, Cirrus Editions, Gloria Cortella Gallery, New York, NW |
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Cirrus Editions, Betty Gold Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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35 American Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NW |
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The Audacious Years 1961-1971, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
| 1973 |
10 Years of Art Council Awards, Los Angeles County Museum of art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Separate Realities, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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The Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
| 1972 |
Topography in Nature, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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Recent Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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West Coast Art: Permanent Collection, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
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Contemporary Collections, California State College, San Bernardino, CA |
| 1971 |
New Acquisitions, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
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American Painting 1970, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA (catalog) |
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David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1969 |
Painting 1969, University of Nevada, Reno, NV |
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The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New york,NW |
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The Diana Zlotnick Collection, California State College, Long Beach, CA |
| 1968 |
Los Angeles Now, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (traveled) |
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The Sao Paulo 9 Exhibitions, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA |
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L`art Vivant, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France (traveled) |
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The U.S.A. at the Paris Biennale, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA |
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The 9th Sao Paulo Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog) |
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The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1966 |
Sao Paulo Biennale, Museum Of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
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Five Younger Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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Sterling Holloway Collection, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
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100 American Drawings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
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Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL |
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New York World’s Fair, New York, NY |
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California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
| 1964 |
New Realist Exhibition, Museum des 20. Jahrunderts, Vienna, Austria |
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Four California Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, new York, NY |
| 1963 |
San Francisco Museum Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA |
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Director’s Choice, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| 1962 |
Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Objectmakers, Pomona College, Claremont, CA |
| 1960 |
Los Angeles County Museum Annual, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1959 |
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| COLLECTIONS |
| Fonds national d’art contemporian, Puteaux, France |
| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Musee National d`art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| Musee Boymans, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
| Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
| Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
| Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
| Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
| Stanford University, Palto Alto, CA |
| The Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. |
| The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI |
| Utah State University, Logan, UT |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
