LITA ALBUQUERQUE 1946 Born in Santa Monica, CA EDUCATION: 1968 University of California, Los Angeles; B.F.A. GRANTS AND AWARDS: 1985 Palm Springs Museum of Art; Women of the Year in the Visual Arts 1984 National Endowment for the Arts; Art in Public Places 1983 National Endowment for the Arts; Art in Public Places 1975 National Endowment for the Arts; Individual Fellowship Grant SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica CA 1994 University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA 1993 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA The William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA 1992 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1991 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA 1990 Career Survey sponsored by the Los Angeles Fellows of Contemporary Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art (locations to be announced) 1989 The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1988 Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1984 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Robert Cronin, Inc., Houston, TX Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1981 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1980 Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL 1979 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1978 University Arts Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA 1977 Janus Gallery, Venice, CA 1976 Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 1974 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1995 Elementum: The Four Substances Earth, Air, Fire and Water,? Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY "The Gold Show," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1994 "Southern California The Conceptual Landscape," Madison Art Center, Madison, WI "Multiple Parts," Lita Albuquerque, John Baldessari, Jennifer Barltlett, Choong-Sup Lim, Donald Lipski, William T. Wiley, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Venice, CA "The Continuous Line: Circles in Contemporary Artwork," Hewlett Packard Corporate Headquarters, Palo Alto, CA "The Gold Show," Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA 1993 Tiverton House, UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 1992 "New Editions, Lita Albuquerque, Charles Garabedian/Brian Murphy, Joan Nelson" Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 "Sculpture/Aspen 1990," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 1989 "Thought and Landscape," California State University, Fullerton Seena West Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1987 "Earth Vision: Human Scale," The Women?s Building, Los Angeles, CA "Personal Iconography: The Figure," Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA "Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions," Amerika Haus, Berlin/West Germany (curated by Noriko Fujimani) "Visions of Space" Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; New Delhi, India "Prints By Los Angeles Artists," Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo "The Years of Passage: 1969-1975," Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA 1986 "Works from the Collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation," American Center, Paris, France "Contemporary Art from Southern California," United States Embassy, Helsinki, Finland "The Back Room Show," Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Artists/Works," The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1985 "Abstract Paintings, An Invitational Exhibition," Irit Krygier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Imagine the Future," Japanese-American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Noriko Fujinami) "Paintings," Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Concerning the Spiritual," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA "Contemporary Monotypes," Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, Ca "First Marin Headlands Seminar," Headlands Art Center, Sausalito, Ca "Art Out," Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA "The Artist Views Washington," Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC "The Spiritual Eye," Loyola Art School, Los Angeles, CA "LAVA Exhibition," Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Sculpture and Drawing, Drawing and Sculpture," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1984 "To the Astonishing Horizon," Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA "Lita Albuquerque, Judd Fine, Michael Todd, DeWain Valentine"; Prudential Insurance Airport Towers, Los Angeles, CA "Broad Spectrum," Los Angeles Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 1983 "The First Show," Temporary Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Architectural Concerns in the Urban Context," Security Plaza, Los Angeles, CA "Abasha - Image Bearing Light," Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration) 1982 "Exchange Between Artists - An Experience for Museums," Musee d?Arte de la Moderne Ville de Paris, France (Ireland, Poland) "Michael Todd, David Bottini, Lita Albuquerque," Paule Anglem Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Contemporary Triptychs", Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA "The West as Art," Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA "L.A. Times: Eight Contemporary Artists from Los Angeles," San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, CA 1981 "L.A. Painting: The Decade," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA "Directions," Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC "Anti-Static," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 1980 "Contemporaries," Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA "Southern California Drawings," Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT "Janus in San Diego," San Diego State University, San Diego, CA "International Sculpture Conference Artists," Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC "Artists in the American Desert," Sierra Madre Museum of Art, Reno, NV 1979 "The Weisman Collection," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC "Los Angeles Abstract Painting," University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1978 "Proposal for a Children?s Museum," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA "Works on Paper," Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS "Southern Exposure," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Aesthetics of Graffiti," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA "Exhibitions 1976-1977," Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA 1977 "Los Angeles," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA "Miniatures," California State University, Los Angeles "Abstract Painting in Southern California," University of Akron, Akron, OH "24 California Women Artists," Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA 1976 "Artists '76," Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX "Los Angeles Painting," Museum of Modern Art Rental Gallery, New York, NY "The Lyon Collection," California State University, Long Beach 1975 "New Acquisitions," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA "4 x 8 + 8 x 4," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA "Albuquerque, Beydler, Harmon, Richards, St. Pierre," Mount St. Mary?s College, Los Angeles, CA 1974 "Ca. 90291," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA "Contemporary Idioms," University of California, Santa Barbara "24 from L.A.," Barnsdall Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA EPHEMERAL OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCULPTURES: 1990 "Carbon Aurum," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO "Spine of the Earth," El Mirage Dry Lake, CA. Recreated for Public Television. KCET "Artworks/Earthworks" Documentary aired May 1990 1983 "Medicine Wheel," Vermillion,SD. Funded by NEA Art in Public Places Grant 1982 "Inconceivable Mansion," Arroyo Grande Sand Dunes, San Luis Obispo, CA Funded by Cuesta College 1980 "Spine of the Earth," El Mirage Dry Lake, CA. Funded by California State University , Long Beach "Double Reflective," Bakersfield, CA. Funded by California State University, Bakersfield "Washington Monument Project," Washington, DC. Funded by International Sculptural Conference 1979 "Man and the Mountain II," El Mirage Dry Lake, CA "Window into the Earth," Harry Nielsen Residence, Los Angeles, CA 1978 "Connection Places," Malibu, CA "Man and The Mountain," Death Valley, CA "Rock and Pigment Installation," Mojave Desert, CA PERMANENT OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS: 1992-1994 "Stellar Axis," Palos Verdes Penninsula Center Library 1992-1994 "Memory/Echo/Passage<" Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Chemical Engineering Department, Sweeney Hall Addition, Art in State Buildings; In conjunction with the Community Redevelopment Agency. 1989-1993 Site/Memory/Reflection, 550 S. Hope St. Project. Koll Corporation, Los Angeles, CA, in conjunction with the Community Redevelopment Agency 1989-1992 "Celestial Sources," Grand Hope Park Project, Los Angeles, CA; Funded by the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency (collaboration) Green Valley Obelisk, Green Valley, NV (work in progress) 1986 "Legend," Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA. Funded by NEA Art in Public Places grant "Tangency Horizon," Natural Elements Park, Santa Monica, CA. Funded by the Santa Monica Arts Commission (work in progress) 1982 "Sailing," City of Oakland Estuary, Oakland, CA. Funded by the International Sculpture Center. INDOOR ENVIRONMENTAL WORKS: 1989 "Spheres of Influence," Security Pacific Bank with Judd Fine, Eric Orr and Fred Fisher, Costa Mesa, CA "Spent Light," Salt River Project, Tempe, AZ 1985 "Concerning the Spiritual," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1984 "Forbidden City," Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA "Pyramids are Chunks of Stars Fallen from the Sky," Prudential Insurance Airport Towers, Los Angeles, CA. Funded by Prudential Insurance Co. 1983 "Beneath the Black Polished Granite are a series of Ten Subterranean Islands Each One Floating on a Copper Plate," Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA. Funded by Security Pacific Bank. 1982 "Landing," San Diego State University, San Diego, CA "Axis Mundi II," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Funded in part by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1981 "Axis Mundi," Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Funded in part by Janus Gallery. "Locus Mundi," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca. Funded by the Baxter Art Gallery. "The Horizon is the Place that Maintains the Memory," Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. 1980 "Earth Axis Pieces," Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL 1979 "Materia Prima," Janus Gallery, Venice, CA COLLABORATIONS: 1989 Security Pacific Bank with Judd Fine, Eric Orr and Fred Fisher, Irvine, CA 1987 "Vocal Windows," with vocalist Joan LaBarbara, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1986 "Vocal Windows," with vocalist Joan LaBarbara, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Los Angeles, CA Film project with Leslie Glatter and Frank Becker. Funded by a grant from The American Film Institute (work in progress). 1984 "Incantations II," set design for the dancer Leslie Linka Glatter and composer Frank Becker, Gallery Sushi, San Diego, CA 1983 "Abasha - Image Bearing Light," with architect Robert Kramer and composer Harold Budd, Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. Funded by an NEA grant. "Incantations," set design for dancer Leslie Linka Glatter and composer Frank Becker, Espace, DBD, Los Angeles, CA WORKS IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Newport Beach, CA Frederick Weisman Corporation, Los Angeles, CA ARCO Corporation, Los Angeles, CA Sohio Corporation, Cleveland, OH Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, New York, NY Times-Mirror Corporation, New York, NY Vesti Trust International, Boston, MA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA Hewlett Packard, Japan Ohbayashi America corporation/The Koll Company, Los Angeles, CA Sanwa Bank, Los Angeles, CA Maguire Thomas Partners, Los Angeles, CA Princess Cruise Lines, New York, NY The Gas Company, Los Angeles, CA Hewlett Packard, Zurich The Getty Trust, New York, NY Hewlett Packard, Korea Consulate General of Japan, Los Angeles, CA The New Otani Hotel, Los Angeles, CA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1988 Huneven, Michelle. "The Art the Artists Collect." California Magazine, December, 1988 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Inspired Visions of Inner Worlds at UCLA." Los Angeles Times, January 10, 1988 Frank, Peter. "West Coast Scenarios." LA Weekly,1/27/88, (Unknown author). "Art Which Seeks the Inner Spaces." Times of India, 4/12/88 Datta, Santo. "The Context of Inner Space." The Indian Express, 4/20/88 Mullican, Lee. "Visions of Inner Space." Span, April, 1988 1987 Schipper, Merle. "Los Angeles Galleries." ART NEWS, January, 1987 Welles, Ilenore. "Beyond Time." Visions, Fall, 1987 1986 Pelfrey, Bob with Hall-Pelfrey, Mary. Art and Mass Media: Art Appreciation in a Technological Culture. 1986, Harper & Row Ferguson, Trudy. Femininity and Success. 1986, Simon & Schuster Apple, Jacki. "Border Crossings." Artweek, 4/12/86 Ballatore, Sandy. "Sleeping Beauty." L.A. Weekly, 9/15/86 Curtis, Cathy. "Tracing the Circuitous Path to OCC?s own Private Haven." The Orange County Register, 9/26/86 Gottlieb, Shirle. "Looking at the Other Side." Long Beach Press-Telegram. 10/12/86 Greenstein, Jane. "Finding Her Place in the Moment." Los Angeles Times, 9/26/86 Greenstein, Jane. "Artwork's Invitation: Come On In." Los Angeles Times, 9/26/86 McKenna, Kristine. "The Art Galleries." Los Angeles Times, 9/19/86 Nieto, Margarita. "Somnambulist Narrative." Artweek, 10/4/86 Spiegel, Judith. "Joan LaBarbara." High Performance, Issue 34/1986 Swed, Mark. "Performance Art Still Sells-Centuries Later." Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 3/12/86 "Concert Review-Joan LaBarbara." Daily Variety, 3/5/86 1985 Jertz, Richard. Theories of Contemporary Art, 1985, Prentice Hall Art in the Environment. Boca Raton Museum of Art, 1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward, American Art Now; 1985, William Morrow & Co. Jones, Virginia. Contemporary American Women Sculptors. 1985, Onyx Press Barker, Kenneth. "Invoking the Spiritual." Artweek, 9/7/85 Burkhart, Dorothy. "A Look at the Spiritual Side of Art, California Style." San Jose Mercury News, 8/30/85 Levy, Mark. "Invoking the Spiritual." Artweek, 9/7/85 Look, Lenore. "Digging the Sculpture at Orange Coast College." The Orange County Register, 7/13/85 Morch, Al. "The Spirit is Willing in New Art Show." San Francisco Examiner, 8/26/85 Muchnic, Suzanne. "The Spiritual Eye." Los Angeles Times, 4/9/85 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Future: More that a Wistful Look at the Bomb." Los Angeles Times, 7/23/85 1984 University of California, Los Angeles; College of Fine Arts Catalogue Geldzahler, Henry. "California as a World Art Capital." California Magazine, April 1984 Pincus, Robert. "Creating A City in Metaphor." Los Angeles Times, 11/14/84 Schipper, Merle. "Image-Bearing Light." Arts and Architecture, Vol 3, #1 "Contemporary Art and Architecture, Los Angeles in Context." Arts and Architecture, Volume 3, Number 2 1983 Bijovet, Marga. "In Search of Self Through Nature." Arts and Architecture, Volume 2, Number 3 Hicks, Emily. "Collaborative Frontiers." Artweek, 10/8/83 Hsu, Kenneth. "Lost Secrets of the Mediterranean." The Sciences, Sept. 1983 Pincus, Robert. "Collaborations Wed Two Different Views." Los Angeles Times, 11/8/83 Wilson, William. "Sculpture Dwarfed by Setting." Los Angeles Times, 11/8/83 Wong, Herbert. "Prestigious Sculptor to Work at O.C.C.." Los Angeles Times, 11/13/83 1982 Ballatore, Sandy. "Sculpture by the Bay." Images and Issues, November, Cabuiski, Frank. "Sculpture as a Mirror for Life." Artweek, 9/14/82 Crossley, Mimi. "Lita Albuquerque's Africa." The Houston Post, 1/22/82 Grove, Lloyd. "Art Collecting." The Washington Post, 1/8/82 McEveilley, Tom. "San Francisco: 12th International Sculpture Conference." ArtForum, November, 1982 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Artwalk." Los Angeles Times, 10/2/82 Sailing, Patricia. "Oakland: Sculpture for all Reasons." Artnews, November, 1982 Shere, William. "Exhibiting a Sculptural Crisis." The San Francisco Tribune, 8/8/82 Temko, Alle. "A Sculpture Show in Search of a Vision." The San Francisco Chronicle, 8/1/82 Wilson, William. "Sculptors: Having it Both Ways." The Los Angeles Times, 8/22/82 1981 Artner, Alan G.. "Capital Exhibits Fill Washington's Calendar." Chicago_Tribune, 3/29/81 Arnbeck, Bob "Living artists are a Dime a Dozen." The Washington Post Magazine, 2/1/81 Bordeaux, Jean Luc. "Los Angeles." Connaissance des Arts, November 1982 1981 Clothier, Peter. "Archetypal Images and Aesthetic Conventions." Artweek, 4/25/81 Forgey, Benjamin. "New and Narrower Directions." The Washington Star, 2/15/81 Glueck, Grace. "How Emerging Artists Really Emerge: Putting the Biennials Together." Artnews, May 1981 Hughes, Robert. "Quirks, Clamors and Variety." Time, 4/2/81 Lewis, Joann. "The New of the Best, But the Best of the New?" Artnews, May, 1981 Rickey, Carrie. "Curatorial Conceptions, The Hirshorn: Danger, Curves Ahead." Artforum, April, 1981 Rose, Barbara. "Talking About..ART." Vogue, March, 1981 Wilson, William. "Artwalk." Los Angeles Times, 4/10/81 Withers, Josephine. "Modernism Atomized at the Hirshorn." New Art Examiner, April, 1981 "Top of the Week." Newsweek, 2/3/81 1980 Albuquerque, Lita. "Washington Monument Project." Images and Issues, Fall, 1980 Butterfield, Jan. "The Guiddity of Pluralism and the Quandary of Scale-The 11th Annual International Sculpture Conference." Images and Issues, Fall, 1980 Clothier, Perer. "Art at Large." LAICA Journal, September/October, 1980 Fleming, Lee. "Stars and Hypes in Washington." The New Examiner, October, 1980 Hazlitt, Gordon. "Venice, California." Artnews, January, 1980 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Contemporaries." Los Angeles Times, 2/3/80 Schipper, Merle. "Lita Albuquerque." Arts Magazine, January, 1980 Tun, Mateo. "Lita Albuquerque-Rocks and Pigment." Casa Vogue (Italian Edition), May, 1980 1979 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Artwalk." Los Angeles Times, 4/20/79 Wortz, Melinda. "Materia Prima: The Work of Lita Albuquerque." Arts Magazine, June, 1979 1978 Muchnic, Suzanne. "Baxter Art Gallery Exhibit." Los Angeles Times, 12/7/78 1977 Noah, Barbara. "Lita Albuquerque at Janus." Art in America, November/ December, 1977 Spelman, Martha. "Lita Albuquerque at Janus." Artweek, 9/24/77 Wilson, William. "Artwalk." Los Angeles Times, 9/23/77 Wortz, Melinda. "Los Angeles Reviews." Artnews, November, 1977 1976 Apgar, Katie. "Of Birth and Death." Artweek, 1/24/76 Beller, Miles. ?Albuquerque, Arnoldi, Bengils, Steir, Castoro.? Artweek, 9/18/76 Wilson, William. "Exhibit at Otis Galleries." Los Angeles Times, 9/6/76 1975 Wortz, Melinda. ?Emerging California Talent.? Artweek, 6/14/75 1974 Ballatore, Sandy. "Twenty-four from L.A.? Artweek, 11/16/74 Sameshima, Masayo. "CA 90201." Untitled Magazine, June/July 1974 Seldis, Henry. "Eight Venice Artists at Cal Tech." Los Angeles Times, 5/4/74 TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS: 1988 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Graduate Advisor 1987 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, Ca; Sculpture Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Graduate Seminar San Francisco Art Institute; Visiting Artist Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, CA; Workshop 1986 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture and Graduate Seminar Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, Idyllwild, CA Workshop 1985 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture and Graduate Seminar San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Graduate Seminar Marin Headlands Art Center, Sausalito, CA; Graduate Seminar San Francisco Art Institute Winter Conference of Women, San Francisco, CA California State University System, Kirkwood, CA; ?The Language of Imagination? Seminar Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA; Visiting Artist Colloquium 1984 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture Arizona State University, Tucson, AZ; Seminar Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Visiting Artist Program 1983 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture 1982 Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles, CA; Sculpture Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Fine Arts Seminar 1981 California State University, Long Beach; Workshop California State University, San Diego; Seminar California State University, Bakersfield; Seminar 1980 Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA; Visiting Artist Program; Painting Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Fine Arts Seminar 1979 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Painting Workshop 1977 University of California, Santa Barbara; Painting, Drawing and Graduate Seminar 1975 California State University, Los Angeles; Drawing, Painting, Foundation Seminar (through 1977) CURATING: 1979 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, "Entrance Gallery, One-Person Show: Robert Thierrin" Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, "Entrance Gallery, One-Person Show: Robert Overby" Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, "Cirrus Editions Prints: American Photographers, 1976"