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Lari Pittman (2006)

 

Biography

Born 1952 in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles


Education and Residencies

1970-73 University of California, Los Angeles
1974 BFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1976 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1993 present Professor of Fine Arts, University of California Los Angeles


Solo Exhibitions

2009
Lari Pittman, c/o- Atle Gerharden, Berlin

2008
Lari Pittman, Gladstone Gallery, New York

2007
Lari Pittman, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2006
Lari Pittman, c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin

2005
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Lari Pittman, Villa Arson, Nice

2004
Lari Pittman, greengrassi, London

2003
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich

2002
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

2001
Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2000
Studio Guenzani, Milan

1999
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

1998
Once a Noun, Now a Verb, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Lari Pittman, Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Cornerhouse, Manchester; ICA, London; Centre d'Art, Contemporain, Geneva

1997
Lari Pittman, greengrassi, London

1996
White Cube, London
Lari Pittman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Corcoran Museum, Washington (cat.)
Lari Pittman: Works on paper, 1982 to 1995, curated by Elizabeth Brown, UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles; University Art Museum, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, (cat.)

1995
Like You, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Studio Guenzani, Milan

1994
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston

1993
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Lari Pittman: Paintings & Works on Paper, 1989 - 1993, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne

1992
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York

1991
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1990
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1989
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1988
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1987
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1986
Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego

1985
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1984
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1983
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles

1982
Lari Pittman: Code of Honor, Newport Harbor Art Museum, curated by Paul Schimmel, Newport Beach
Lari Pittman: Sunday Painting, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles


Group exhibitions

2008
Not So Subtle Sub-Title, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Eyes Wide Open - Aanwinsten Stedelijk Museum & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica

2007
Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles, curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
Imagination Becomes Reality: Conclusion, Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)

2006
Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
HOLLYWOOD IS A VERB, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park (cat.)
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo (cat.)
los angeles / mexico: complexities and heterogeneity, La Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Los Angeles Art Scene 1955-1985, curated by Catherine Grenier, Centres Pompidou, Paris
The Inside Game - a selection from PDX art collections, Portland Art Center, Portland
Webs, Loops and Skeins in modern Contemporary Art, The RISD Museum, Providence
Supersize, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
POPulence, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem

2005
KISS KISS, c/o-Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
Singular Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,Lincoln (cat.)
The Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose: Katzen Art Centery, Washington
Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles (cat.)
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, conceived by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Drawing from the Modern , 1975 - 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Véronique Boudier, Bernhard Martin, Lari Pittman, Culture and Communication Ministry, Arson, Nice
High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens; The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown (cat.)
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, Houston; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem (cat.)
A Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago
Recent acquisitions, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
Post and After - Contemporary Art from the Brandeis Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham
Recent Acquisitions - From the Grunwald Center, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

2004
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut, cat.
Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe, curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe, New Mexico (cat.)
15 year anniversary of Regen Projects, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Tear Down This Wall: Paintings From The 1980s, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles

2003
Pittura/Painting, la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice, (cat.)
Inaugural Exhibition, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Painting Pictures, Malerie und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the Digital Age), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany (cat.)
I and My Chimney, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer, Speed Art Museum, Louisville
Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Series, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

2002
Sugar & Cream, Triple Candie, New York, New York
L.A. Post-Cool, curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (cat.)

2001
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
IN FUMO, Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo (cat.)
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, München
Secret Victorians, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
The Importance of Being Earnest, curated by Michael Duncan, Weingart Galleries at Occidental College, Los Angeles

2000
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
00, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (cat.)
Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)

1999
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Examining Pictures, curated by Judith Nesbitt, organized by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, organized by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England; Brighton Museum, Brighton; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
The Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica

1998
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, The Hayward Gallery, Colchester (cat.)
L.A. Current: Looking At the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
L.A. Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Torino
Out Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists, UC Santa Cruz
Hindsight: 56 Recent Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Examining Pictures, curated by Judith Nesbitt, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (cat.)

1997
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, (cat.)
Woman's Work: Examining the Femine in Contemporary Painting, curated by Jeff Fleming, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Painting Project, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehmann Maupin, NY (cat.)
American Stories--Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui; Kurashiki Art City Museum, Kurashiki; Atorion, Akita, Akita (cat.)
Cruising L.A., Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo (cat.)
Documenta X, curated by Catherine David, Documenta und Museum und Fredericum, Kassel (cat.)
Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997, curated by Lars Nittve and Helle Crenzien, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek; travels to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; and UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, curated by Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri, The Whitney Museum of American Art (cat.)

1996
a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, National Gallery, Athens organized by David Ross and Eugenie Tsai, travels to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum Bonn (cat.)
Mutate/Loving the New Flesh, curated by Michael Cohen, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York
The Legacy of American Modernism, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Social Fictions: Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel, The Grossman Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (cat.)
Painting on television, television on painting, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York

1995
1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Stereo - tip, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana (cat.)
Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Love Flight of Pink Candy Hearts, curated by Michael Duncan, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Painting Beyond the Idea, curated by Bennett Roberts, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
25 Americans: Painting in the 90's, curated by Dean Sobol, The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (cat.)
Dutch Wives, Phone Sex, and Other Cheap Thrills, curated by Jessica Fredericks and Andrew Freiser, Apex Art, New York
1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, curated by Klaus Kertess, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Pittura - Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren, curated by Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz (cat.)
In a Different Light, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, University Art Museum, Berkeley (cat.)

1994
In Retrospect: Paintings of the 80's, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
The Arabesque, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York
Love in the Ruins, curated by Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach
Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
Don't Look Now, curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1993
Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Medialismo, curated by Gabriele Perretta, Trevi Flash Art Museum, TrevI (Cat.)
Legend in My Living Room, curated by Terry Myers, Rhona Hoffman Gallery,Chicago (brochure)
The Space of Time / Espacio del Tiempo, curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Alisa Tager, The Americas Society, New York, NY, Center for Fine Arts, Miami (cat.)
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
Steve Di Benedetto, Scott Grodesky, Bill Komoski, Peter Nagy, Lari Pittman, Lisa Ruyter, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Drawing the Line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum, Venice
1993 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
Paper Trails: The Eldetic Image Contemporary American Work on Paper, Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign
Daylight Savings: Richmond Burton, Robert Kushner, Lari Pittman, Alexis Rockman, curated by Jonathan Hammer, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Appraising The Prenatural, organized by Sue Spaid and Michael Anderson, Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles
LAX, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (cat.)

1992
Viaggio a Los Angeles, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Castello di Rivara, Rivara Torino
Fear of Painting, curated by Dan Cameron, Arthur Rogers Gallery, New York
In Pursuit of Devoted Repulsion, Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles
Gallery Artists, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
Masquerade (Body Double), organized by Matthew Weinstein, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance, Studio Guenzani, Milan
Helter Skelter: LA. Art in the 1990's, curated by Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)

1991
Jonathan Hammer: Artist's Books, (collaboration with Dennis Cooper & Jonathan Hammer), Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica
Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975 - 1991, curated by Paul Schimmel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
At the End of the Day, curated by Michael Jenkins, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York
42nd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington (cat.)
After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico (cat.)
Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica
Something Pithier and More Psychological, Simon Watson Gallery, New York

1990
LA My Third Lady, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Köln
Representation - Non - Representation, curated by Stephen Berens, Security Pacific Galleries, Costa Mesa (cat.)
Past and Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles Constructing a History: A Focus on MoCA's Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1989
Cultural Fetish, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena
Victoria, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica
Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany (cat.)

1988
Erotophobia, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Art of the 80's: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo
New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Triton, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Striking Distance, Museum of Art, Santa Clara and The Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno

1987
LA. Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (cat.)
Lari Pittman: Paintings/Boyd Wright: Sculpture, College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara Struve Gallery, Chicago
Western States Biennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix (cat.)
Highlights of California Art Since 1945: A Collecting Partnership, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago (cat.)
1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)

1986
Issues, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch..., Kuhlenschmidt-Simon Gallery, Los Angeles

1983
Ceci n'est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism, Fisher Gallery at University of Southern California, Los Angeles (cat.)
Young American Artists II: Paintings and Painted Wall Reliefs, Mandeville Art Gallery at University of California, San Diego
Los Angeles/New York Exchange, Artists' Space, New York (cat.)
Dealer's Choice: San Francisco/Los Angeles, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco

1980
An Exhibition of Drawings: Sandra Jackman, Mary Jones, Tom Knechtel, Lari Pittman, Dara Robinson, Sheila Ruth, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana

1977
100 Current Directions in Southern California, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1976
Recent Works: Dowell, Lumbert, Pittman, Sherman, Long Beach City Art Gallery, Long Beach


Public Collections

Akron Museum of Art, Akron
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington
Chapman University, Orange
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Sammlung Goetz, Munich
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach
Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica
Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Awards

2006
Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design

2004
Pacific Design Center Stars of Design 2004 Award for Art

2002
Skowhegan Medal

1999/2000
Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists

1993
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting

1990
California Arts Council Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting

1989
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting

1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting

1986
Art Matters, Inc. Grant