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Alexis Smith

(1949 - )
Born in Los Angeles, CA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION
1970
University of California at Irvine, CA, B.A.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Alexis Smith: Early Works, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Imitation of Life, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Play It As It Lays, Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Lust/Rust/Dust, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY

2003
Living Dangerously, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Local Color, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
'Real World': Collage Works 1981-2002, Modernism, San Francisco, CA

2001
An Embarrassment of Riches, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Amy Gerstler, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

2000
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Amy Gerstler, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Fools Rush In, Ameringer Howard, Boca Raton, FL

1999
Words to Live By, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997
My Favorite Sport, Wexner Art Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
A Matter of Taste, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1995
Alexis Smith: The Farmer's Daughter, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Alexis Smith: Cherished Notions, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994
Alexis Smith: The Wonder Years, 1973-1983, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993
Alexis Smith, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Looking for America, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA

1991
Alexis Smith: Public Works, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Alexis Smith, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1990
Eldorado (On the Road, Part II), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989
Past Lives, with Amy Gerstler, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA; traveled to: Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY

1988
On The Road, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1987
Same Old Paradise, Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art and the Law, Bar Association of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; traveled to: Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO; Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Alexis Smith - Joseph Cornell: Parallels, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

1986
Viewpoints: Alexis Smith, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Currents: Alexis Smith, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1985
Alexis Smith: Jane, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1982
Christmas Eve, 1943, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Chinese Junk, Clocktower, New York, NY
Satan's Satellites, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981
U.S.A., Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Stardust, Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Stardust, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA

1980
Raymond Chandler's L.A., Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Stardust, performance with Heide Hardin, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

1979
The Room on the Other Side of the Mirror, installation, Foundation de Appel, Amsterdam
The Magic Mountain, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Autumn Sonata, window installation, LAICA Downtown Window, Los Angeles, CA

1978
April Foole, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of Magic, Close-up, performance with Tony DeLap, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
The Magic Mountain and Medium, performance, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1977
Tales of Mystery and Enchantment, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alexis Smith, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1976
Alexis Smith, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Star Material, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
Scherherezade the Storyteller, performance, CARP, Los Angeles, CA

1975
Anteroom, installation, CARP, Los Angeles, CA
Rapido, installation, Art Galleries, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
Alexis Smith, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Classics Illustrated, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

1974
Alexis Smith, Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011-12
Body Gesture, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR

2011
High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego at La Jolla, La Jolla, CA

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 - 1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

State of Mind: New California Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2010
S, M, L, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York

2009
Glue, Paper, Scissors, Luckman Gallery, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2006
The Searchers, White Box, New York, NY

2004
Joyhouse, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Raid the Icebox, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002
Quasi Come: The Beauty of Fake and Forgery in Literature and Art, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA
Cowboys, Indians & The Big Picture, McMullen Museum, Boston College, Boston, MA
Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America,
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Parallels and Intersections: Art / Women / California 1950 - 2000, San Jose Art Museum, CA
The Annual C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) 2002 Individual Artists Fellowships Exhibition, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Roy Dowell, Daniel Mendel-Black, Alexis Smith, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Conceptualism, SITE Santa Fe International Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton
Evidence of Love; Romance, Desire & Fantasy, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern Americans: A Selection, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY

2000
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
12 Divas, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Big Go Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent's 1960s POP, Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT; Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV; Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX

1999
Radical P.A.S.T.: Contemporary Art in Pasadena 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design, and Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena

1998
90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997
A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960 - 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA

1996
Continuity & Contradiction, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY; traveled to: Worcester Art Museum, MA; Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ; Davenport Art Museum, IA; University of Texas, Austin, TX; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Marco Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1995
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Commercial Art, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Art Works: The PaineWebber Collection of Contemporary Masters, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; traveled to: Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN; San Diego Museum of Art, CA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL

1994
Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA;
traveled to Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, FL; Portland Art Museum, OR; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; San Jose Museum of Art, CA, Honolulu Academy of Art, HI
Romance, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1993
Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Western Myth: Twentieth Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, CO
Collage and Assemblage, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY

1992
Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Connections: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA
The Edge of Childhood, The Heckscher Museum, New York, NY
Hollywood, Hollywood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1991
A Passion for Art / Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, NY
Addiction, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
Transforming the Western Image in 20th Century American Art, Palm
Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Boise Art Museum, ID; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY
Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Centro
Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Framed, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1990
Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI;
traveled to: Oklahoma City Art; Museum, OK; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art, 1960-1990, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA

1989
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Beatrice and Philip Gersh Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85,
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH; traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, PA
Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California,Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, CA; Fresno Art Museum, CA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
A Brave New World: John Baldessari/Vernon Fisher/ Stephen Prina/Ed Ruscha/Alexis Smith, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London

1988
Striking Distance, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; traveled to: Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; Fresno Art Museum, CA
Auto-Perceptions: Los Angeles Artists and the Car, Gallery 1220,
Perloff Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Layers: Media and Culture, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

1987
Contemporary American Collage, 1960-1985, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; traveled to: Benson Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, PA; American Art, Youngstown, OH; Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University Camden, NJ; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Concept/reality: Los Angeles Public Art, University Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
comic iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Museum of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present, Fresno Arts Center and Museum, CA
Remembrances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Text & Image: The Wording of American Art, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Spectrum: In other words, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Contemporary Art from Southern California, U.S. Embassy, Helsinki, Finland
Gentleman's Choice, The Woman's Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Critical Messages: The Use of Public Media for Political Art by Women, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.

1984
Verbally Charged Images, Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, NY;
traveled to: USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA; Art Gallery, California State College, San Bernardino, CA; Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA; Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Merry and Bill Norris Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA
MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phase I-IV, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA

1983
A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank, Ag, Zurich, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
Contemporary Collage - Extensions, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA
New Directions, 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Exchange Between Artists: Poland - U.S.A., The Douglas Hyde Gallery, University of Dublin, Ireland
Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
The Comic Art Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY

1982
Contemporary Los Angeles Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Une Experience Museographique: Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982, Cologne - U.S.A., Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Poetic Objects, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Poetic Visions, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Words as Images, The Renaissance Society at Bergman Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum as Site: Sixteen Installations, (Cathay Installation), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1980
Views Over America, Junior Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Tableau, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Xmas in July, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1979
Storytelling in Art, American Foundation for the Arts Museum, Miami, FL
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Paper on Paper, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Kunstler Schaufenster, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

1978
American Narrative/Story of Art, 1968-78, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; traveled to: Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
Paris Biennale, Musée de Nice, France and Strausbourg, France
Southern California Styles of the 60's and 70's, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1977
Narrative Themes/Audio Works, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Miniatures, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
The American Section of the Paris Biennale, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Gold & Silver, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1976
Via Los Angeles: Asher, Burden, C. Davis, Hunt, Ruppersberg, Smith,
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR
AutobiographiCalifornial Fantasies, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Southland Video Anthology, Part I, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles, Penthouse Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
New Talent/New Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1975
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Four Los Angeles Artists: Foulkes, Goode, Smith, Wheeler, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY; traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Work, Image, Number, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Visual/Verbal, The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California at Irvine, 1965-75, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

1974
Word Works, Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
Works Selected by Nicholas Wilder, Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV

1972
Greater Magic, Mungar, Smith, Titus, Art Gallery, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA
Margaret Lowe, Barbara Munger, Alexis Smith, Margaret Wilson, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Southern California Attitudes, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2011
Lewallen, Constance M. and Karen Moss, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York, NY.

2002
The Annual C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles) 2002 Individual Artists Fellowships Exhibition, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

2001
Alexis Smith: An Embarrassment of Riches, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY.

1997
Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

1995
25 Years, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1992
Hollywood, Hollywood, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1990, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.

1991
Alexis Smith: Public Works, University of California, San Diego, Mandeville Gallery, La Jolla, CA.
Alexis Smith Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Transforming the Western Image in Twentieth Century American Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.

1990
Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art 1960-1990, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA.

1989
Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH.
Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.
Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA.
A Brave New World: John Baldessari/Vernon Fisher//Stephen Prina/Ed Ruscha/Alexis Smith, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London.
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Selections from the Beatrice and Philip Gersh Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1987
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1986
Viewpoint: Alexis Smith, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Rememberances of Things Past, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA.
Individuals: A Selected History in Contemporary Art 1945-1986, Installation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1985
Jane, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.

1984
Verbally Charged Images, Queens Museum, Flushing, NY.
Crime and Punishment: Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA.
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Selections from the Merry and Bill Norris Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine.
MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phase I-IV, Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles.

1983
A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank, Ag, Zurich, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA.
Contemporary Collage --- Extensions, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA.
New Directions, 1983, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA.
Inaugural Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY.

1982
Une Experience Museographique: Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982, Cologne- U.S.A., Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.

1981
Words as Images, The Renaissance Society at Bergman Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Messages, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA.
Museum as Site: Sixteen Installations, Cathay Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1980
Tableau, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1979
Kunstler Schaufenster, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.
Words and Images, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA.

1978
Paris Bienniale, Strasbourg, France.
Narration, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.

1977
Contemporary Miniatures, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA.
Paris Bienniale, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris.
American Narrative/Story of Art, 1968-78, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.

1976
Southland Video Anthology, Part I, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA.
New Talent/New Selections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1975
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
Work, Image, Number, Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY.

1974
Word Works, Art Gallery, Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA.

1972
Southern California Attitudes, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, CA.

COMMISSIONS
2006
The Scarlet Letter, Sahara West Library, Las Vegas, NV

1999
Larger Than Life, (terrazzo floor design), Schottenstein Center Sports Arena, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

1997
Taste, permanent mixed media wall installation for The Restaurant at The
Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

1993
Untitled<, terrazzo floor designs for South and West Lobbies, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA, Expansion Project

1992
Untitled, mixed media permanent installation for the Alaska Building in Downtown Seattle, Seattle Arts Commission, WA
Snake Path, slate and concrete installation, The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Untitled, (plaza design for downtown), Playhouse Square, Cleveland, OH

1989
Collaborative proposals for Miami International Airport, with R. M. Fischer: Concourses B and D, Miami, FL

1986
Mini-Monuments, MacArthur Park Public Arts Program, Los Angeles, CA

1985
Niagara, granite monument, Artpark, Lewiston, NY
Proposal for mixed-media collage on painted wall, The Brooklyn Public Library's Central Library, New York, NY

1984
California, collage works in permanent painted installation, California State Office Building, Santa Rosa, CA

1983
The Grand, 8,000 square feet permanent painted installation on three levels with collage works, Keeler Grand Foyer, De Vos Hall, Grand Center, Grand Rapids, MI

1982
There's No Place Like Home, collage works in permanent painted installation, home of Aviva and Carl Covitz, Los Angeles, CA

1981
Starlight, collage works in permanent painted installation, Unity Savings and Loan, West Hollywood, CA

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
The Getty, Los Angeles, CA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN


SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA
Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
The Chase Manhattan Bank, North America
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
The Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles, CA


AWARDS
2002
C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship

2000
Epoxy Terrazzo Job of the Century, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association

1999
Terrazzo Job of the Year, National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association

1995
Residency, The Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy

1987
Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

1986
Fourth Councilmanic District Civic Service Award, Los Angeles, CA

1983
Key to the City, Grand Rapids, MI

1976
Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

1974
New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1996
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA

1993
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Meadows Distinguished Visiting Professor

1990
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1985-88
University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1983
Kendall School of Design, artist-in-residence

1979-82
University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1977-78
University of California, San Diego, CA

1976
University of California, Irvine, CA

1975
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

HONORARY POSITIONS
2000 - Jurist, Alert Awards, California Institute for the Arts
1996 - Jurist, Rome Prize, American Academy, New York
1995 - Jurist, Pew Fellowships, Philadelphia
1990-95 - Member, Board of Trustees, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center
1987 - National Endowment for the Arts Public Art Policy Project
1986 - Jurist, Fellowship Awards, Chicago Art Institute
1986, 1989 - Selection Panelist, Public Art, National Endowments for the Arts
1985-86 - Trustee, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1980 - Selection Panelist, Conceptual Art, National Endowment for the Arts
1979-1985 - Member, Artist Advisory Council, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
1975-1988 - Trustee, City Building Educational Program, Los Angeles

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