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Born 1952 |
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Lives in Los Angeles |
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Education |
| 1970 - 73 |
University of California Los Angeles |
| 1974 |
BFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
| 1976 |
BFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA |
| 1986 |
Member, Board of Directors Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1993 |
Member, Board of Directors, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica |
| 1993 |
Professor of Fine Arts, Graduate and Undergraduate Departments, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
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Awards |
| 2004 |
Pacific Design Center Stars of Design 2004 Award for Art |
| 2002 |
Skowhegan Medal for Painting |
| 1999 |
Flintridge Foundation Awards 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 |
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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 |
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Solo Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
“Lari Pittman”, Gladstone Gallery, New York |
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| 2007 |
"Lari Pittman," Regen Projects II, Los Angeles |
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| 2006 |
"Lari Pittman," Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin |
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| 2005 |
“Lari Pittman,” Villa Arson, Nice |
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| 2004 |
greengrassi, London, October |
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| 2003 |
Regen Projects, Los Angeles |
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Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany |
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| 2002 |
Barbara Gladstone Gallery , New York |
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| 2001 |
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2000 |
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy |
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| 1999 |
Barbara Gladstone Gallery , New York |
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| 1998 |
"Once a Noun, Now a Verb," Regen Projects, Los Angeles |
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Lari Pittman," Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England; Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland |
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Lari Pittman," greengrassi, London |
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| 1997 |
"Lari Pittman: Works on paper, 1982 to 1995,” curated by Elizabeth Brown, U.C.L.A. at The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles |
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University Art Museum, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, CA |
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| 1996 |
White Cube, London |
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"Lari Pittman," Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C. |
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| 1995 |
"Like You,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy |
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| 1994 |
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York |
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Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 1993 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Lari Pittman: Paintings & Works on Paper, 1989 - 1993," Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA |
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Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany |
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| 1992 |
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York |
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| 1991 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1990 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1989 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1988 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1987 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1986 |
Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA |
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| 1985 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1984 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1983 |
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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| 1982 |
"Lari Pittman: Code of Honor," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
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| 1981 |
"Lari Pittman: Sunday Painting," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions |
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Group Exhibitions |
| 2008 |
Not So Subtle Sub-Title”, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York |
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"Eyes Wide Open," Stedelijk Museum & The Monique Zajfen Collection, Amsterdam |
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“Collecting Collections”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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“Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial”, curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica |
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| 2007 |
“Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles,” Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich |
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"Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
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"Post Dec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration," Joseloff Gallery, Hartford |
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"Imagine Los Angeles," Monika Sprüth, Munich |
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| 2006 |
"Couples Discourse," Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania |
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" Hollywood Is A Verb," The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA |
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“Infinite Painting,” Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy |
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| 2004 |
“The Charged Image,” Joseleff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut |
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“Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque,” Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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| 2003 |
“Pittura/Painting,” la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy |
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"Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Painting Pictures, Malerie und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the Digital Age)," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany |
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“I and My Chimney,” Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany |
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“Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY |
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“Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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| 2002 |
"Sugar & Cream," Triple Candie, New York, New York , |
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“L.A. Post-Cool,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
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Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2001 |
"Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles |
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"IN FUMO," Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy |
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"The Mystery of Painting," Sammlung Goetz, Munchen |
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"Secret Victorians," The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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"The Importance of Being Earnest," Weingart Galleries at Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2000 |
"Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 - 2000," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
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"00," Barbara Gladstone Gallery |
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Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1999 |
"The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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"Examining Pictures," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, May 7 – June 27. Travelling to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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"Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19 th Century Vision,” organized by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England |
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Travels to Bighton Museum; Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Ca |
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"The Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland,CA |
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The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA |
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| 1998 |
"L.A. Current: Looking At the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists," UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center |
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"L.A. Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection,"Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Turin, Italy |
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"Out Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists," UC Santa Cruz |
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"Hindsight: 56 Recent Aquistions,” Whitney Museum of American Art |
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"Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art”, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH |
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| 1997 |
"American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity," Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy |
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Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina |
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"Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angele |
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"Painting Project," Basilico Fine Arts, New York and Lehmann Maupin, New York |
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"American Stories--Amidst Displacement and Transformation," Setagaya ArtMuseum, Tokyo, traveled to Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan; Kurashiki Art City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan; Atorion, Akita, Japan |
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Cruising L.A.," Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo |
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"Documenta X," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany |
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"Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997,” Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; CastelIo di Rivoli, Italy; UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, L.A |
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"1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1996 |
"a/drift," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NewYork |
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"Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,” National Gallery, Athens, Greece, traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany |
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"Mutate/Loving the New Flesh," Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York |
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"The Legacy of American Modernism,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"Social Fictions: Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel," The Grossman Gallery of the School ofthe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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"Painting on television, television on painting," Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York |
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| 1995 |
"1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," The Czech Museum of Modern Art,Czech Republic |
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"Stereo - tip," Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
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"Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York |
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"Love Flight of Pink Candy Hearts," Holly Solomon Gallery, New York |
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"Painting Beyond the Idea," Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"25 Americans: Painting in the 90's," Milwaukee Art Museum, WI |
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"Dutch Wives, Phone Sex, and Other Cheap Thrills," Apex Art, New York |
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"1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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“Pittura - Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren," Neue Galerie am LandesmuseumJoanneum, Graz, Austria |
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" In a Different Light," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
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| 1994 |
"In Retrospect: Paintings of the 80's," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"The Arabesque," P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York |
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"Love in the Ruins," Long Beach Museum of Art, CA |
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"Animal Farm," James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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"Don't Look Now," Thread Waxing Space, New York |
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| 1993 |
"Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for ContemporaryPerformance Arts," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York |
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"Medialismo," Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy |
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"Legend in My Living Room," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago |
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"The Space of Time / Espacio del Tiempo," The American Society, New York; Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL |
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"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York |
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"Steve Di Benedetto, Scott Grodesky, Gill Komoski, Peter Nagy, Lari Pittman, Lisa |
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Ruyter," Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York |
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"Drawing the Line Against AIDS," Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy |
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1993 Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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"Paper Trails: The Eldetic Image Contemporary American Work on Paper," Krannert |
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Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL |
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"Daylight Savings: Richmond Burton, Robert Kushner, Lari Pittman, Alexis Rockman," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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"Appraising The Prenatural," Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"LAX," Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria |
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| 1992 |
"Viaggio a Los Angeles," Castello di Rivara, Italy |
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“Fear of Painting,” Arthur Rogers Gallery, New York |
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"In Pursuit of Devoted Repulsion," Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"Gallery Artists," Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York |
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"Masquerade (Body Double)," Postmasters Gallery, New York |
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"Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance," Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy |
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"Helter Skelter: LA. Art in the 1990's," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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| 1991 |
Jonathan Hammer: Artist's Books," collaboration with Dennis Cooper and Jonathan |
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Hammer, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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"Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975 - 1991," Museum of ContemporaryArt, Los Angeles |
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"At the End of the Day," Randy Alexander Gallery, New York |
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"42nd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art,Washington, D.C. |
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"After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism," South Eastern Center forContemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC |
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"Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,Monterrey, Mexico |
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Someone or Somebody," Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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"Something Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson Gallery, New York |
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| 1990 |
LA My Third Lady," Tanja Grunert Galerie, Köln, Germany |
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"Representation -Non - Representation," curated by Stephen Berens, Security Pacific Galleries, Costa Mesa, CA |
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"Past and Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles |
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"Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
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| 1988 |
"Cultural Fetish," Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA |
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"Victoria," Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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"Prospect 89," Frankfurter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Kunsthalle Schirn am Römerberg, Frankfurt, Germany |
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| 1988 |
"Erotophobia," Simon Watson Gallery, New York |
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"Art of the 80’s: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation,” Kresge Art Museum |
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at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI |
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"New Works on Paper," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, LA |
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"Triton,” Museum of Contemporary Art, LA |
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"Striking Distance,” Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, The Fresno Arts Center andMuseum, Fresno, CA |
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| 1987 |
"LA. Hot and Cool: The Eighties," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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"Lari Pittman: Paintings/Boyd Wright: Sculpture," College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
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Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Western States Biennial,” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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"Highlights of California Art Since 1945: A Collecting Partnership," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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"Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s),” The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago,
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"1987 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
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| 1986 |
"Issues," Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...,” Kuhlenschmidt-Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1983 |
Ceci n'est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism," Fisher Gallery atUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Young American Artists II: Paintings and Painted Wall Reliefs," Mandeville Art Gallery at University of California, San Diego, CA |
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"Los Angeles/New York Exchange," Artists Space, New York |
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"Dealer's Choice: San Francisco/Los. Angeles," Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| 1980 |
"An Exhibition of Drawings: Sandra Jackman, Mary Jones, Tom Knechtel, Lari Pittman,
Dara Robinson, Sheila Ruth,” Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA |
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| 1977 |
"100 Current Directions in Southern California," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA |
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| 1976 |
Recent Works: Dowell, Lumbert, Pittman, Sherman," Long Beach City Art Gallery, CA |
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Public Collections
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Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio |
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Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA |
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Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC |
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Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy |
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Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA |
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Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA |
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Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina |
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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Awards |
| 2004 |
Pacific Design Center Stars of Design 2004 Award for Art |
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Skowhegan Medal for Painting |
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Flintridge Foundation Awards 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 |
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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 |
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