58. LARI PITMAN
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Untitled #8
2010 Acrylic, Cel-vinyl, and aerosol lacquer on gessoed canvas over panel (137.2 x 121.9 cm) |
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Flying Carpet with Magic Mirrors for a Distorted
Nation
2013 Cel-vinyl, spray enamel on canvas over wood panel (274.3 x 914.7 cm) |
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Twelve Fayum From a Late Western Impaerium (After
Hermenegildo Bustos)
2013 Cel-vinyl and spray enamel on gessoed paper Framed Dimensions: (56.2 x 46 cm) 12 Drawings |
BIO & STEPS
Born:
In 1952
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Nowadays:
Lives
and works in Los Angeles, California.
Studies:
1970-73: University
of California, Los Angeles,
1974: B.F.A.,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1976 : M.F.A.,
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1993-Nowadays:
Professor of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Themes and
style:
Pittman's
paintings include imaginary organic forms, runaway arrows, and arabesques,
transform ornamentation into a contemporary narrative of life and death, love
and sex. His operatic pictures propose that the world's complexity does not
override passion, sincerity, and individuality.
Techniques:
His work is developed in paintings.
Solo
Exhibitions:
2015
“LARI
PITTMAN: Homage to Natalia Goncharova... When the avant-garde and the folkloric
kissed in public,” Proxy Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,
CA, September 1 – 30, 2015
2014
"Lari
Pittman: Curiosities from a Late Western Impaerium,"Gladstone Gallery,
Brussels, Belgium, March 13 – April 16, 2014
2013
"Lari
Pittman: From A Late Western Impaerium," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA,
November 9 – December 21, 2013
"Lari
Pittman," Bernier Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece, April 11 – May 25
"Lari
Pittman," Le Consortium, Dijon, France, February 14 – April 12, 2013
"A
Decorated Chronology," Museum of Contemporary Art St. Louis, St. Louis,
MO, May 31 – August 11, 2013
2012
"Irrevocable,"
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany, April 27– June 30, 2012
"thought-forms,"
Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK, October 9 – November 17, 2012
2011
"Lari
Pittman," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, September 23 – October 22, 2011
2010
"Orangerie,"
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, September 11 – October 23, 2010
"New
Paintings," Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA, September 11 – October 23,
2010
2009
"Lari
Pittman," c/o Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, September 25 – November 6, 2009
2008
"Lari
Pittman," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, October 23 – December 6, 2008
2007
"Lari
Pittman," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, September 14 – October 20, 2007
2006
"Lari
Pittman," c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany, September 8 – October
22, 2006
2005
Gladstone
Gallery, New York, NY, November 19 – December 23, 2005
"Lari
Pittman," Villa Arson, Nice, France, February 25 – May 22, 2005
2004
"Lari
Pittman," greengrassi, London, England, October 6 – November 13, 2004
2003
"Lari
Pittman," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, November 1 – December 20, 2003
"Lari
Pittman," Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany, March 20 – May 10,
2003
2002
Gladstone
Gallery, New York, NY, March 23 – May 4, 2002
2001
Regen
Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 27 – February 24, 2001
2000
Studio
Guenzani, Milan, Italy, October 3 – November 7, 2000
1999
Gladstone
Gallery, New York, NY, November 6 – December 23, 1998
"Once
a Noun, Now a Verb," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 24 –
February 28, 1999
"Lari
Pittman," Spacex Gallery, Exeter, England, April 4 – May 9, 1999; traveled
to Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, May 17 – July 5; ICA, London, UK, July 15
– September 6; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, November 3
–January 17
"Lari
Pittman," greengrassi, London, UK, July 9 – August 19, 1999
1996
White
Cube, London, UK, September 13 – October 26, 1996
"Lari
Pittman," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, June 23
–September 8, 1996; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, November 1, 1996 –
January 5, 1997; Corcoran Museum, Washington D.C., February 8 – April 7, 1997;
catalogue
"Lari
Pittman: Works on paper, 1982 to 1995," curated by Elizabeth Brown, Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 30 – March 10, 1996; University Art Museum,
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, March 16 – April
21; catalogue
1995
"Like
You," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 1995
Studio
Guenzani, Milan, Italy, 1995
1994
Jay
Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, 1994
Texas
Gallery, Houston, TX, 1994
1993
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1993
"Lari
Pittman: Paintings & Works on Paper, 1989 – 1993," Mandeville Gallery,
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1993
Jablonka
Galerie, Cologne, Germany, 1993
1992
Jay
Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, 1992
1991
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1991
1990
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1990
1989
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1990
1988
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1988
1987
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1987
1986
Patty
Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA, 1986
1985
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1985
1984
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1984
1983
Rosamund
Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1983
1982
"Lari
Pittman: Code of Honor," Newport Harbor Art Museum, curated by Paul
Schimmel, Newport Beach, CA, 1982
"Lari
Pittman: Sunday Painting," Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los
Angeles, CA, 1982
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2015
“Black
& White Mike,” Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, August 29 –
September 24, 2015
“The Art
of Our Time,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, August
15, 2015 – April 30, 2016
“Art
AIDS America,” West Hollywood Library and One Archives Gallery and Museum, Los
Angeles, CA, June 1 – September 6, 2015; travels to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
WA, October 3, 2015 – January 10, 2016; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA,
February 9 – May 21, 2016; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY, June 23
– September 11, 2016; catalogue
“America
is Hard to See,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, May 1 –
September 27, 2015
“Left
Coast: California Political Art,” The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City
University of New York, New York, NY, April 15 – May 29, 2015
“75
Gifts for 75 Years,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 5 – July 26,
2015
2014
"Earthly
Delights," Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, June 28 –
November 30, 2014
"Left
Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of
Art, Santa Barbara, CA, May 25 – September 14, 2014
2013
"Comic
Future," curated by Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, September 27,
2013 – January 26, 2014; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH,
May 17 – August 3, 2014
"Art
and Its Discontents," University of California Santa Barbara Art Museum,
Santa Barbara, CA, October 19 – December 13, 2013
2012
"Letters
From Los Angeles," Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, November 17 –
December 22, 2012
"This
Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s," Museum of
Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL, February – May 2012; traveled to Walker
Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June – September 2012; Institute for Contemporary
Art (ICA), Boston, MA, October 2012 – January 2013
"Contemporary
painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection," San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, May 18- August 12, 2012
2011
"Never
Let Me Go," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, May 20 – July 8, 2011
"The
More Things Change," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
November 10, 2010 – November 6, 2011
"The
Spectacular of Vernacular," curated by Darsie Alexander, Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, MN, January 29 – May 8, 2011; traveled to Contemporary
Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, July 23 – September 18, 2011; Montclair Art
Museum, Montclair, NJ, October 8, 2011 – January 1, 2012; Ackland Art Museum,
Chapel Hill, NC, January 14 – March 18, 2012.
"Seeing
is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, Illinois, January 29 – March 29, 2011
2010
"Nature,"
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany, November 12 – January 14, 2011
"The
Artist's Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA,
October 31, 2010 – January 31, 2011
"Paintings
and Drawings by Lari Pittman. Collages by Roy Dowell." Kunsthaus Santa Fe
Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, October 10, 2009 – January 10, 2010
"Psychedelic:
Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s," San Antonio Museum of Art, San
Antonio, TX, March 13 – August 1, 2010
"The
Library of Babel: In and Out of Place," 176 Zabludowicz Collection,
London, UK, February 25 – May 9, 2010
"Disquieted,"
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, February 20 – May 16, 2010
2009
"California
Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 – 2008, Part II,"
Davidson Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, January 30 –
May 30, 2010
"Constellations:
Paintings from the MCA Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
July 11 – October 18, 2009
"Thomas
Hirschhorn, Andrew Lord, and Lari Pittman," Regen Projects, Los Angeles,
CA, March 7 – April 18, 2009
2008
"California
Community Foundation Exhibition – Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual
Artists in L.A.," Japanese American National Museum, October 4, 2008 –
January 11, 2009
"Collecting
Collections," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, February 10 –
May 19, 2008
"Not
So Subtle Subtitle," Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by
Matthew Brannon, June 19 – August 1, 2008
"Some
Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial," Track 16 Gallery,
curated by Doug Harvey, Santa Monica, CA, January 12 – February 16, 2008
2007
"Uneasy
Angel / Imagine Los Angeles," curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen,
Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany, September 14 – November 3,
2007
"Eden's
Edge: Fifteen LA Artists," Armand Hammer Museum , Los Angeles, CA, May 13
– September 2, 2007
"Imagination
Becomes Reality: Conclusion," Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM,
Karlsruhe, Germany, February 17 – May 1, 2007
2006
"Hollywood
is a Verb," The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, 2006
"Couples
Discourse," Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University,
University Park, PA, October 10 – December 22, 2006; catalogue
"Infinite
Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism," curated by Francesco
Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro D'Arte Contemporanea,
Codroipo, Italy, April 9 – September 24, 2006
"los
angeles / mexico: complexities and heterogeneity," La Colección Jumex,
Mexico City, Mexico, March 22 – July 2006
"Los
Angeles 1955-1985," curated by Catherine Grenier, Centres Pompidou, Paris,
France, March 8 – July 17, 2006
2005
"Recent
Acquisitions," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, November
20, 2005 – January 9, 2006
"The
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond," San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, November 20 – March 5, 2006; travels to Katzen Art
Center Washington, D.C., April 9 – July 29, 2006
"Singular
Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,
Lincoln, Nebraska, November 12, 2005 – February 12, 2006; catalogue
"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, NY, October 28 – January 15, 2006
"Drawing
from the Modern, 1975 - 2005," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,
September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006
"High
Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime," Georgia
Museum of Art, Athens, GA, January 15 – March 20, 2005; catalogue; traveled to
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, May 18 – August 14, 2005; Long Beach
Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, September 10 – October 31, 2005; Allentown Art
Museum, Allentown, PA, February 6 – May 14, 2006
"POPulence,"
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, June 25 – August 27, 2005; traveled to Cleveland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, September 16 – December 30, 2005;
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, January 21 – April
7, 2006; catalogue
"A
Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection,"
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, May 15 – September 4, 2005
2004
"The
Charged Image," Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT, September 7
– October 17, 2004; catalogue
"Disparities
& Deformations: Our Grotesque," curated by Robert Storr, Site Santa
Fe, Santa Fe, NM, July 18, 2004 – January 9, 2005; catalogue
2003
"Pittura/Painting,"
la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice, Italy, 2003;
catalogue
"Painting
Pictures, Malerie und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the
Digital Age)," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, February 14 –
May 11, 2003; catalogue
"I
and My Chimney," Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany, June 27
–September 6, 2003
"Reverie:
Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer," Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, KY, July 22 – October 5, 2003
"Not
So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture," San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, November 21, 2003 – February 15, 2004
2002
"L.A.
Post-Cool," curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose,
CA, November 23, 2002 – March 23, 2003; catalogue; Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis
College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2001
"Drawings,"
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 – July 21
"IN
FUMO," Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy, September
26 – January 6, 2002; catalogue
"The
Mystery of Painting," Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, October 29 – April
5, 2002
"Secret
Victorians," Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA,
January
25 – April 7, 2002
"The
Importance of Being Earnest," curated by Michael Duncan, Weingart Galleries,
Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, January 26 – March 16, 2001
2000
"Made
in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 - 2000," Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, November 12, 2000 - February 25, 2001, Cat.
"00,"
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, Cat.
"Departures:
11 Artists at the Getty," The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA,
February 29 - May 7, 2000; catalogue
1999
"The
American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000," Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY, September 23, 1999 – February 27, 2000; catalogue
"Examining
Pictures," curated by Judith Nesbitt, organized by Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London, UK; traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago,
Chicago, IL, July 24 - September 19, 1999; catalogue
"The
Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage," Mills College Art Museum,
Oakland, CA, September 9 – October 24, 1999
The
Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA, September 12, 1999 – September 12, 2000
1998
"Secret
Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision," The Hayward
Gallery, Colchester, England, October 15 – December 5, 1998; traveled to
Brighton Museum, July 2 – August 15, 1999; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA,
September 22, 1999 – January 2, 2000; catalogue
"L.A.
Current: Looking At the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists," University
of California Los Angeles at the Hammer Museum, September 22, 1998 – February
28, 1999
"L.A.
Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection,"
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L'Arte, Torino, Italy, May 10 –
September 6, 1998
"Out
Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists," University of
California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, January 14 – February 21, 1998
"Hindsight:
56 Recent Acquisitions," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,
December 17, 1998 – February 21, 1999
"Examining
Pictures," curated by Judith Nesbitt, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK;
traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL, July 24 –
September 30, 1998; catalogue
"Early
Works: Larner, Opie, Pettibon, Pierson, Pittman, Prince, Ray, Welling,"
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, May 27 – June 20, 1998
1997
"American
Art 1975 – 1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity," Castello di
Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, October 20, 1997 – January
18, 1998; catalogue
"Woman's
Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting," curated by Jeff
Fleming, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1997
"Elusive
Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection," Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 5, 1997 – November 14,
1999
"American
Stories--Amidst Displacement and Transformation," Setagaya Art Museum,
Tokyo, Japan, August 30 – October 19, 1997; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba,
Japan, November 16 – December 1997; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan, April
27 – May 17, 1998; Kurashiki Art City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan, June 13 – July
26, 1998; Atorion, Akita, Akita, Japan, August – September 1998; catalogue
"Cruising
L.A.", Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, June 24 – July 30,
1997; catalogue
"Documenta
X," curated by Catherine David, Documenta und Museum und Fredericum,
Kassel, Germany, 1997; catalogue
"Sunshine
& Noir: Art in LA 1960 – 1997," curated by Lars Nittve and Helle
Crenzien, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, May 16 – September 7, 1997;
traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, November 15, 1997 –
February 1, 1998; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, May 8 – August 23, 1998;
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, September 16, 1998 – January 1999; catalogue
"1997
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," curated by Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri,
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 20 – June 15, 1997;
catalogue
1996
"a/drift,"
curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 20 – January 5, 1997
"Art
at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American
Art," organized by David Ross and Eugenie Tsai, National Gallery, Athens,
Greece, June 10 – September 30, 1996; traveled to Museu d'Art Contemporani,
Barcelona, Spain, December 18 – April 6, 1997; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany,
June – September 1997; catalogue
"The
Legacy of American Modernism," Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, March
29 – April 27, 1996
"Social
Fictions: Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel," The Grossman Gallery of the School
of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, February 21 – March 17, 1996; catalogue
1995
"1995
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," The Czech Museum of Modern Art, Prague,
Czech Republic, December 1995; catalogue
"Stereo
- tip," Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1995;
catalogue
"Carroll
Dunham, Lari Pittman," Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY, September 16 –
October 14, 1995
"25
Americans: Painting in the 90s," curated by Dean Sobol, The Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, WI, September 8 – November 5, 1995; catalogue
"1995
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," curated by Klaus Kertess, The Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, NY, 1995; catalogue
"Pittura
- Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren," curated by Peter Weibel, Neue
Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, 1995; catalogue
"In
a Different Light," curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, Berkeley
Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1995; catalogue
1994
"In
Retrospect: Paintings of the 80's," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA, 1994
"Love
in the Ruins," curated by Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA, 1994
"Don't
Look Now," curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY,
1994
1993
"Drawings:
30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, 1993
"Medialismo,"
curated by Gabriele Perretta, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy, 1993;
catalogue
"The
Space of Time / Espacio del Tiempo," curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and
Alisa Tager, The Americas Society, New York, NY, 1993; traveled to the Center
for Fine Arts, Miami, FL; catalogue
"The
Return of the Cadavre Exquis," The Drawing Center, New York, NY, 1993
"Drawing
the Line Against AIDS," Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy, 1993
"1993
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY, 1993; catalogue
"Paper
Trails: The Eldetic Image Contemporary American Work on Paper," Krannert
Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL, 1993
"Daylight
Savings: Richmond Burton, Robert Kushner, Lari Pittman, Alexis Rockman,"
curated by Jonathan Hammer, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"LAX,"
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 1991; catalogue
1992
"Viaggio
a Los Angeles," curated by Gregorio Magnani, Castello di Rivara, Rivara
Torino, Italy, 1992
"Masquerade
(Body Double)," organized by Matthew Weinstein, Postmasters Gallery, New
York, NY, 1992
"Paul
McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance," Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy,
1992
"Helter
Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s," curated by Paul Schimmel, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, January 26 – April 26, 1992; catalogue
1991
"Selections
from the Permanent Collection: 1975 – 1991," curated by Paul Schimmel, The
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1991
"42nd
Biennial of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington D.C., 1991; catalogue
"After
the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism," South Eastern Center for
Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1991
"Mito
y Magia en America: Los Ochenta," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey,
Mexico, 1991; catalogue
"Something
Pithier and More Psychological," Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, 1991
1990
"LA
My Third Lady," Tanja Grunert Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 1990
"Constructing
a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection," The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1990
1989
"Cultural
Fetish," Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA, 1989
"Prospect
89," Frankfurter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Kunsthalle Schirn am
Romerberg, Frankfurt, Germany, 1989; catalogue
1988
"Erotophobia,"
Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY, 1988
"Art
of the 80's: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation," Kresge Art
Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Kalamazoo Institute of
Art, Kalamazoo, MI, 1988
"Triton,"
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1988
"Striking
Distance," Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA and The Fresno Arts Center and
Museum, Fresno, CA, 1988
1987
"LA.
Hot and Cool: The Eighties," MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA,
1987; catalogue
"Lari
Pittman: Paintings/Boyd Wright: Sculpture," College of Creative Studies at
University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 1987
Struve
Gallery, Chicago, IL, 1987
"Western
States Biennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, 1987; catalogue
"Highlights
of California Art Since 1945: A Collecting Partnership," Newport Harbor
Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1987
"Cal
Arts: Skeptical Belief(s)," The Renaissance Society at the University of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1987; catalogue
"1987
Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1987;
catalogue
1986
"Meanwhile,
Back at the Ranch...," Kuhlenschmidt-Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1986
1983
"Ceci
n'est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism," Fisher
Gallery at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 1983; catalogue
"Young
American Artists II: Paintings and Painted Wall Reliefs," Mandeville Art
Gallery at University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 1983
"Los
Angeles/New York Exchange," Artists' Space, New York, NY, 1983; catalogue
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,
1980
1977
"100
Current Directions in Southern California," Los Angeles Institute of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1977
1976
"Recent
Works: Dowell, Lumbert, Pittman, Sherman," Long Beach City Art Gallery,
Long Beach, CA, 1976
Public
Collections:
Akron
Museum of Art, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The
Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Carnegie
Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Corcoran
Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chapman
University, Orange, CA
Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Sammlung
Goetz, Munich, Germany
Harvard
Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Los
Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum
of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum
of Modern Art, New York, NY
Newport
Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Palm
Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Peter
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Phoenix
Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
Rhode
Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
The Rose
Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Sheldon
Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Weatherspoon
Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
The
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Awards
and Grants:
2013
International Association of Art Critics United States Exhibition Award Winner
2012
International Association of Art Critics Award
2011
Honoree, Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden
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
1989 J.
Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1987
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
In his own words:
"at times, I purposefully orchestrate
the work so that you do have that comfortable laughter when looking at it—it's
fullhearted and enjoyable internally—but it's also a laughter linked to
nervousness. And that's the laughter I particularly like cultivating, parlor
laughter, where there's always the subtext of conversation going on, but
everyone is very agreeable."
Representative
Galleries:
Gladstone Gallery
Regen Projects
For
more Information:
http://www.gladstonegallery.com/artist/lari-pittman/work