CHARLES GARABEDIAN 1923 Born in Detroit, MI 1942-1945 S/Sgt. U.S.A.F. 1961 Master of Arts, U.C.L.A. The artist currently lives in Santa Monica, CA. SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1992 "Studies for the ILiad", L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1990 "...loyal Athenians flock down to the seashore, with cooking-pots in which they stew different kinds of beans..." -Robert Graves, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1988 "New York Work: 1984-1987", L.A. Louver, Venice CA 1987 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY 1986 "Tunneling Backwards", L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1985 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (catalogue) 1984 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (catalogue) 1983 "Charles Garabedian-Painting 1978-1982", L.A. Louver, Venice, CA (catalogue) "Charles Garabedian: Twenty Years of Work", Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA (catalogue) 1982 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY 1981 "Just A Great Thing To Do: Selected Works by Charles Garabedian", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1980 "Collage and Ceramic Works: 1978-1980", L.A. Louver, Venice, CA 1979 L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA 1977 American River College, Sacramento, CA 1976 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue) 1975 College of Creative Studies, University of Santa Barbara, CA 1974 California State University at Northridge, CA (catalogue) 1970 Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1967 Cejee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1966 La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA Cejee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1965 Cejee GAllery, Los Angeles, SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1991 "L.A. When It Began", James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 "Spirit Of Our Time", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA "Faces", Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles,CA "Chas and Eddie Paint the Baja", Joseph Chowning Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1989 "Projects and Portfolios: Twenty-Fifth Annual Print Exhibition", Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY "Sounding and Depths: 150 Years of American Seascapes", The American Federation of the Arts (travelled) 1988 "An Awareness of Place", Richard Green Gallery, New York, NY "Columner", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY 1987 "Entities", R.C. Eysh Gallery, New York, NY "Art & Law", Bank of America Gallery, San Francisco, CA (travelled) "Ten At The Rose", Rose At Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (catalogue) 1986 "Connecticut Collects: American Art Since 1960", Whitney Museum of American Art/Fairfield County, Stanford, CT "The Female Nude", The Dilaurenti Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue) "A Man & A Woman: A Collaboration", Dramatis Personae Gallery, New York, NY "Individuals" A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "American/European: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940", Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (catalogue) 1985 "American/European Peinting And Sculpture", L. A. Louver, Venice, CA "Scapes", University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, travelled, (catalogue). "The Figure in 20th Century American Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum", travelled "The Classical Tradition in Painting and Sculpture", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue) "The 1985 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue) "Large Drawings", organized by the Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, NY, travelled. "Santa Barbara Collects" Part I", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue) "Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California", Fisher Art Gallery, USC, Los Angeles CA (catalogue) 1984 "Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984", Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (catalogue) "The First Newport Biennial, 1984, 'Los Angeles Today' ", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue) "El Norte Narrativo and Pintura Narrativa Mexicana", El Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico D.F., travelled, (catalogue) "American/European Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture", L.A. Louver, Venice, CA "Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained, American Visions of the New Decade", 41st Venice Biennial, W.S. Pavilion. Organized by the New Museum of Contemporary Art. (travelled) Cejee Revisited", L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) 1983 "The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980" Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) "Back to the USA", Kunst Museum, Luzern, travelled (catalogue) "Five West Coast Artists of Armenian Ancestry", Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA (catalogue) 1982 Venice Biennia, Venice, Italy 1981 "Contemporary Drawings", University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1980 "Aspects of The Seventies", Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA "Contemporary Art From Southern California", The High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia 1979 "The 1970's: New American Painting", travelled (catalogue) 1978 "The Early Sixties at UCLA", Dickson Art Center, UCLA "Bad Painting", The New Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) 1977 "100 + Current Directions in Southern California Art", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art and Allesandra Gallery, New York, NY "California Figurative Painters", Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "Watercolor and Related Media by Contemporary Californians", California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (catalogue) 1976 "Critical Perspectives in American Art", Fine Arts Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amhersest, Ma (catalogue) "XXXVII Venice Biennale", American Pavilion, Venice, Italy "Imagination", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 1975 "Whitney Museum Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Allesandra Gallery, Inaugural Show, New York, NY 1974 University of New Mexico Invitational, Albuquerque, NM 1967 "Art on Paper", Witherspoon Gallery Invitational, Albuquerque, NM 1965 "All California Exhibition", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA 1962 "Four Painters", Cejee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA AWARDS Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1977