Biographies

Marvin Harden

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1983 " Marvin Harden, Paintings & Drawings", Conejo Valley Art Museum
1982 " Marvin Harden, Paintings & Drawings, 1961 - 1981", Los Angeles Municipal
Art Gallery
1979 " Marvin Harden Paintings & Drawings,, 1965 - 1981", Newport Harbor Art
Museum
1978 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1977 California State College, Bakersfield
1976 College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
1975 David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles
1972 Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor College
Brand Library Art Center, Glendale CA
1971 Eugenia Butler Galleries, Los Angeles
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1969 Occidental College, Los Angeles
1967,1966, 1964 Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles


SELECTED MAJOR GROUP EXHIBTIONS

1983 "AVA 2", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (traveled to Mint Museum,
Charlotte, NC, and DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln MA)
"Cirrus editions Ltd., A Retrospective View," Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
1982 "Changing Trends: Content & Style.", Laguna Beach Museum (traveled to Los
Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art)
1981 "The. Intonate. Object", Downtown Gallery, Los Angeles
"Post Modernists Metaphor", Alternative Museum, New York City (travelled to
Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
"Decade.: Los Angeles Painting in the. Seventies", Art Center College of Design,
Los Angeles
"New Editions," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
"Cirrus Downstairs," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1980 "Dialects, The Artists", Franklin Furnace, New York City
1979 "Ten Years of Cirrus, 1970-1980", Cirrus Editions, Ltd., Los Angeles
1977 "Shades of Gray", Malone Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los
Angeles CA
"The. Early Sixties at UCLA", Frederick S. Wight Gallery, UCLA
"Drawing: Various Approaches?, Long Beach City College
?Miniature,? California State University, Los Angeles
"Private. Images: Photographs by Painters", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"30 Years of American Printmaking Including the 20th Anuual Print Exhibition",
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY
1976 "The. Lyon Collection: Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper?? California
State University, Long Beach
"A Tribute. to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
1975 "A Drawing Show", Newport Harbor Museum
"Winners 1953-74? (Selection from the winners of Home Savings and Loans
Association), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1974 ?Selections from Cirrus Editions Ltd.", Los Angeles County Museum of Art
"1974 Purchase Show?, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico
"Uses of realism", University of California, Riverside
1973 "Separate Realities", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
1969 "Drawings", Fort Worth Art Center (traveled - itinerary unknown)
"The. California. Landscape., Then and Now", La Jolla Museum
1968 "The. California. Landscape", Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles
(traveled to Lytton Center of the Visual Arts. Oakland)
1965 "Art ?65: Lesser Known and Unknown Painters, Young American Sculptors – East
to West? New York World's Fair, American Express Pavilion, New York City


ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Board of Directors -images & issues Magazine
Grants Committee of Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Elected to First Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibitions Committee
Co-Founder of Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art


1980-83 Board of Directors images & issues Magazine

1978 Grants Committee of Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

1974 Elected to First Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Exhibitions Committee

1973 Co-Founder of Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art

EDUCATION

MA in Creative Painting, University of California, Los Angeles

BA in Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

SELECTED MAJOR AWARDS


1983 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1983 Awards in the Visual Arts Fellowship
1972 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist's Fellowship
1963 Art Council Award, University of California, Los Angeles

ADDITIONAL AWARDS & HONORS (Professional and Academic)

1973 Los Angeles All City Art Festival, Purchase Prize
1969 University of Judaism, Invitational Art Exhibition & Sale, Los Angeles, First Prize
1966 San Diego Jewish Community Center, First Pruchase Prize
1965 Downey Museum, Honorable Mention
1964 Westside Jewish Community Center, Purchase Prize
Teaching Assistantship in Art, UCLA
Annual All University of California Art Exhibit
1964, 1963, 1962, 1961 Annual Student Art Exhibit, UCLA
1959 Honorary Art Society, UCLA
1957 & 1956 Annual Student Art Exhibit, Los Angeles City College
Los Angeles City College, Academic Honor Student - Four Semesters

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Babs Altoon
Atlantic Richfield Company, Corporate Art Collection
Dr. & Mrs. Leon 0. Banks
Richard & Jan Baum
University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Hans Burkhardt
James & Eugenia Butler
Naomi Caryl
Vija Celmins
Cirrus Editions Ltd., Los Angeles
City National Bank, Beverly Hills, California
Bernice Col man
Ry Cooder & Susan Titelman
Mr. & Mrs. Alvin Dick
Mac Doty
Melvin Edwards
Don & Marilyn Gevirtz
Yvonne & Jay Gustin
Edwin Janss, Thousand Oaks, California
City of Los Angeles
Leon & Molly Lyon
Metromedia Inc., Los Angeles
Neil Ovsey Gallery
Gifford S Joanne Phi Hips
Jan & Ben Sakoguchi
The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Fund
The Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York Neysa McMein Purchase Award
Vesti Trust, Boston, Massachusetts
Rosalind Wholden
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Massachusetts College of Arts
National Archives
New York Public Library
Occidental College, Los Angeles
Portland State University, Library
Roosevelt University
Rutgers University
Sandak, Inc.
Studio Museum
Universities of California
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
University of South Alabama
University of South Florida
Upper Iowa College
Taped Interview, Honnold Library,

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