SABINA OTT 1955 Born in New York City EDUCATION 1979 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1981 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA AWARDS 1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist's Grant 1989 Djerrasi Foundation, Artist-in-Residence Grant 1986 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1993 California State University, Los Angeles, CA - Assistant Professor Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA - Fine Arts Graduate Faculty 1989 Claremont College Graduate School, Claremont, CA - Visiting Artist 1988 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA - Visiting Artist Humbolt State University, Humbolt, CA - Visiting Artist SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1994 Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1992 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1991 Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1990 Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1989 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Charles Cowles Gallery, New York 1988 Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA 1987 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Galerie am Moritzplatz, Berlin, West Germany Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1986 Davies/Long Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Acme Art, San Francisco, CA 1985 Attack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Charles Cowles Gallery, New York Davies/Long Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, CA 1982 A.R.E Gallery, San Francisco, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1995 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, "Investigating Eros" 1993 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA, "Backtalk: Women's Voices in the 90's" Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, D.C., "Off the Mall: Inside Washington's Foremost Art Galleries" Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California, "Fourth Newport Biennial" Pyramid Lobby Gallery, Transamerica Corporation, San Francisco, CA, "New Sculpture: Softer Surfaces" Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, "The Layered Look" Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC, "Regarding Beauty" Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA " A Carafe, That is a Blind Glass" The Drawing Center, New York, NY, "The Return of the Cadavere Exquis" 1992 Tri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Not Men" Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Abstract Painting" Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "In Pursuit of a Devoted Repulsion" Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA, "Symbology" Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, "Breakdown" The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, "Images Transformed" Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, "Encaustic" 1991 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "New Editions: David Austen, Fred Fehlau, Gronk, Sabina Ott, Lari Pittman" The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, "American Art Today: New Directions." Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Sixpence" The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "42nd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting." The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL, "American Art Today: New Directions" Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Sixpence" 1990 Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA, "LA/Brazil Projects 90", travelling to Museo Sao Paolo, Brazil. The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, "Selections from the Carnation Company Collection" 1990 Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, "Experimental Workshop: Recent Editions and Monotypes" Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Gallery One: Memory, Time and Recognition: Greg Hannan and Sabina Ott" 1989 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, "Words and Images: Seven Corporate Commissions" Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Victoria" 1988 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL, "The Flower Show" 1987 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, "New Works" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "Avant-Garde in the Eighties" (curated by Howard Fox) Galerie am Moritzplatz, Berlin, West Germany, "10 Jahre Kunst" Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA, "On the Horizon: Emerging in California" Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, "Contemporary Diptychs: Divided Visions" Mathes Cultural Center, Escondido, CA, "Landscape '87" Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, "Year 1: A Survey" 1986 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, "The Third Western States Exhibition" Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "A Southern California Collection" Acme Art, San Francisco, "Group Show" Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, "Group Show" 1985 Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA)/PAcific Design Center, "Astonishing Horizons" (curated by Peter Frank) Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, "Artists from Attack Gallery" Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, "Downtown Artist's Show" (curated by Bill Olander) Los Angeles Visual Art (LAVA), "Astonishing Horizons" Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, "Group Show" 1984 James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Sabina Ott/Holly Phillips" James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Orphan Show" Attack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Under Surveillance" Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, "Night of the Mask" L.A. Artcore, Los Angeles, CA, "Wall Works" (curated by Robert Pincus) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA, "The Cotton Exchange Show" 1983 Swope Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Figures in L.A." 1982 Galleria By the Water, Los Angeles Emanuel Walter Gallery, San Francisco 1981Heller Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Richmond Arts Center, Richmond, CA, "San Francisco Art Institute Alumni Invitational" PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., New York, NY Dayton Hudson Foundation, Minneapolis, MN Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH Carnation Corporation, Glendale, CA NYNEX Corporation, White Plains, NY Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, OH Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Newport harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Anderson, Isabel. "The name of the Rose: Sabina Ott at Mark Moore Gallery", Artweek, March 24, 1994 (Volume 25; Number 6; page 17. Anderson, Michael. "Art Pick of the Week/Sabina Ott", L.A. Weekly, May 2 - 8, 1986. (Volume 8, Number 23). Anderson, Michael. "Sabina Ott at Pence Gallery", Art issues, January/February, 1992, (Number 21; Page 39. Appleton, Steven. "Consideration of the Historical", Artweek, April 26, 1990. (volume 21, Number 16, pp. 11-12). Askey, Ruth. "Sabina Ott", Artscene, September, 1987 (Volume 7, No. 1); pp. 25. Baker, Kenneth. "At the Galleries/Ott's Recent Work", San Francisco Chronicle, October 18, 1986, (Page 38). Barbiero, Daniel. "Sabina Ott at the Corcoran Gallery of Art", Art Paper, September/October 1990, (Page 71 R). Beal, Graham. 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