LARI PITTMAN 1952 Born, Los Angeles, California. Lives in Los Angeles. EDUCATION: 1976 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, M.F.A. 1974 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, B.F.A. 1970/73 University of California, Los Angeles, CA AWARDS: 1986 Art Matters, Inc., Grant. 1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. 1989 J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant. National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. 1990 California Arts Council Arts Fellowship Grant. 1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant. SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 1994 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY 1993 Jablonka Galerie, Koln, Germany. Presentation of: Untitled #1 from the series: "A Decorated Chronology of Insistence and Resignation." Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY 1991 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA 1985 Rosamund Felesn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Sunday Painting, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles and Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 1994 Paintings and Works on Paper, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX don't look now, Curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Love in the Ruins, Curated by Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Arabesque, PPOW, New York, NY 1993 Appraising The Prenatural, Patricia Shea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Daylight Savings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image Contemporary American Work on Paper, Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. 1993 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue). Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas, Americas Society, New York, Center for the Fine Art, Miami, FL (catalogue). Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Helter Skelter, LA Art in the 1990's, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Paul Schimmel (catalogue). Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffery Vallence, Studio Guenzani, Milan Italy. Masquerade (Body Double), Postmasters, New York In Pursuit of Devoted Repulsion, Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles. Fear of Painting, curated by Dan Cameron, Arthur Roger Gallery, New York, NY, (catalogue). 1991 Something Pithier and More Psychological, simon Watson, New York. Someone or Somebody, Meyers/Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Mito Y Magia En America: Los Ochenta, Museo do Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico (catalogue). After The Apocalypse; A Different Humanism, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC. Quick Coagulation Forms The August Corpse, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles. 42nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., (catalogue). At the End of the Day, Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, curated by Michael Jenkins. Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975 - 1991, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel. 1990 Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. Past & Present - Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Representation-Non-Representation, Security Pacific Galleries, Costa Mesa, CA, curated by Stephen Berens (catalogue). L.A. My Third Lady, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Koln, Germany. 1989 Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Kunsthalle Schirn am Romerberg, Frankfurt, West Germany Victoria, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Cultural Fetish, Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1988 Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (brochure); Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA; Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA. New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art of the 1980's: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI (catalogue) Erotophobia, Simon Watson, NY. 1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue) Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, IL; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1988, (catalogue). Highlights of California Art Since 1945 - A Collecting Partnership, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA 1987 Phoenix Biennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalogue) Group Exhibition, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL Lari Pittman: Paintings and Boyd Wright: Sculpture, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA L.A. Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue) 1986 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch..., Kuhlenschmidt-Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Issues, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Dealer's Choice: San Francisco/Los Angeles, Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue). Los Angeles/New York Exchange, Artists' Space, New York, NY (catalogue) Young American Artists II: Paintings and Painted Wall Reliefs, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA Ceci n'est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (catalogue) 1980 An Exhibition of Drawings: Sandra Jackman, Mary Jones, Tom Knechtel, Lari Pittman, Dara Robinson, Sheila Ruth, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA 1977 100 Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1976Recent Works: Dowell, Lumbert, Pittman, Sherman, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA OTHER ACTIVITIES: 1986-91 Member, Board of Directors, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. BIBLIOGRAPHY: Adams, Brooks, Review: Art in America, September, 1992; p 128. Albright, Thomas, "L.A. Artists in an Exchange Show Here," San Francisco Chronicle, May 30, 1983, p. 37. 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