CHARLES CHRISTOPHER HILL 1948 Born in Greensburg, PA EDUCATION 1973 University of California, Irvine, M.F.A. 1971 University of California, Irvine, BA AWARDS 1992 National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship 1976 New Talent, Los Angeles County Museum of Art National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist's Grant Mention Speciales du Jury, UIII Festival International de la Peinture, Cagnes Sur Mer, France ACADEMIC POSTITIONS 1981 University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1979 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1978 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1999 Rocket Gallery, London, Sept. 1998 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France Rocket Gallery, London, England 1996 Rocket Press and Gallery, Oxfordshire, England 1995 Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1993 l'Espace Champagne, Riems, France 1992 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France 1988 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy Centre d'Action Culturelle de Saint-Brieuc, France Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris, France SOLO EXHIBITIONS (continued): 1984 DBR Gallery, Cleveland, OH Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland 1981 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland 1980 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1978 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada 1977 Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland 1976 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland Stevenson & Palluel, Paris, France 1975 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy Galerie Arp, Paris, France Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland 1974 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1973 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1972 Newspace Gallery, Newport Beach, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1998 "LA Cool," Rocket Gallery, London, England "LA Cool," Bruning + Zischke, Dusseldorf, Germany 1997 California State University, Bakersfield 1995 "Subtle Voices," Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA "Pasted Paper: Collage in the 20th Century," Louis Stern Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA 1993 "Signes & Formes," Henry Bussiere, Paris, France "The Contemporary Museum Collects: The First Five Years 1988 – 1993," The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI 1991 The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 1988 "La Bambou," Galerie Nicole Dortindeguey, Anduze, France 1987 "Multi-media Abstract Art," ISD Interiors, Los Angeles, CA "The Cutting Edge: New Directions in Handmade Paper," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (travelling) 1986 "Artists/Printmakers," The Maryland Institute College of Art "Los Angeles Artists," Bullock's Department Stores, Beverly Center, Los Angeles, CA A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 "Sunshine and Shadow," University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA "Spectrum Los Angeles," Galerie Akmak, Berlin, Germany Contemporary Monotypes," Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA "American Abstraction: Four Currents," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Los Angeles, CA "Four from Cirrus Editions," The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz A Of, On, or About Paper II," USA Today, Arlington, VA 1982 "Drawings by Painters," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA "Five Artists From the Cirrus Gallery," Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy "New American Paperworks," World Print Council, San Francisco, CA (travelling) "Fifteen Los Angeles Artists," Gallery Scope, Los Angeles, CA 1981 "Los Angeles Printmakers 1973 - 1980: Part II," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Forty Famous Californians," Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY "Abstraction in Los Angeles 1950-1980: Selections From the Murray and Ruth Gribin Collection," Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Northridge and The University of California, Irvine, CA 1980 "Matter, Meaning, and Memory," Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI (travelling) Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA "Cirrus Exhibition," University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada "Paper, Cast/Torn/Formed," Old Venice Jail Gallery, Venice, CA 1979 "Group Exhibition," Vanguard Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM University of California, Riverside, CA 1978 Harbor College, Wilmington, CA 1977 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA Whitney Counterweight Exhibition, New York, NY Toile Libres, Chateau de Fourgres, France 8th International Painting Festival, Cagnessur Mer, France "Paper Art," Pomona College, Claremont, CA Art, Los Angeles, CA Zola Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, CA 1976 "LA Eight", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Group Exhibition," LA Louvre Gallery, Venice, CA "Los Angele"Unstretched Surfaces," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary s Artists", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 1975 "Last Picture Show," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Coulures Matieres Couleurs," Galerie Fenetral, Deauville, France University of California, Irvine, CA La Jolla Museum of Fine Art, La Jolla, CA Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, CA 1974 "Recent Drawings," Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA "Group Show," Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO "24 From Los Angeles," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Contemporary Idioms: Some New Los Angeles Galleries," University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 1973 Art Museum Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA "Market Street Program," Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Six From Newspace," California State University, Fullerton, CA 1972 University of California, Irvine, CA Art Museum Council, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ RESIDENCIES 1994 Eklisia, Gumusluk, Turkey 1993 Cite International Des Arts, Paris, France Chateau de la Napoule, La Napoule, France ARTIST BOOKS 1994 Charles Christopher Hill & John Yau, Moon Alias Mona Lisa, published by Collectif Generation, Colombes, France 1989 Charles Christopher Hill & Kristina McKenna, The Smells of Summer, published by Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica, CA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA Chemical Bank, New York, NY BIBLIOGRAPHY: Kate Mikhail, Fragments of time, preserved as if amber, Independent London, Sept. 1999 Ballatore, Sandy. "Charles Hill: Paintings from Compost, Artweek, Dec. 21, 1974, Danieli, Fidel. "LACMA'S Young Talent, 1963-1983", Artweek, Sept. 10, 1983, Vol. 14, Number 29. Donahue, Marlena. "Downtown", Los Angeles Times 1984. Donahue, Marlena. "Downtown", Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1988. Frank, Peter. "Pick of the Week", LA Weekly, October 7-13, 1988. Gardner, Colin. "Downtown", Los Angeles Times, Feb. 6, 1987, Part IV. Haydon, Harold. "Paper Emerges as an Innovative, Happy Medium", Chicago Sun Times, May 9, 1985. Harris Eleanor. "Car wash, Art by C.C. Hill on Exhibit", Evening Outlook, June 17, 1978, p. 5A. Lasarow, Bill. "Charles Christopher Hill", Artscene, September 1988. Mahoney, Carol. 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