Jeffrey Vallance
1955
Born Redondo Beach, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
1979 B.A., California State University, Northridge
1981 M.F.A., The Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles 1989-present Special Correspondent for Fortean Times, London
Awards
2000
Distinguished Alumnus Award, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles.
Honorary Nobel, royal title conferred by the Tongan National Center, Nuku’alofa, Kingdom of Tonga
2001
The Foundation Culture of the Future (Stiftelsen Framtidens Kultur), Sweden. 2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
Cultural Ties, Bernier/Eliades, Brussels, Belgium
2019
Jeffrey Vallance: La Chapelle de Poulet, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
2016
The Easter Island Enigma, Edward Cella Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA 2015 The Medium is the Message, CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Enamel Paintings: Idols & Villains and Islomania: Key West, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
2012
The Vallance Bible, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
2011
The Word of God: Jeffrey Vallance, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2010
Relics and Reliquaries, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
The Vallance Bible, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
Frieze Projects: Jeffrey Vallance, Frieze Art Fair, London, England
2009
Lars Pirak of Lapland (intervention), Ájtte Sámi Museum, Jokkmokk, Sweden Diet of Worms (intervention), Jean P. Haydon Museum of American Samoa, Village of Fagatogo, Pago Pago, Tutuila, American Samoa
Special Project: Lapland Shaman Drum, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Blinky the Friendly Hen 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007
Reliquaries, Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Multivalence, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
Relics and Reliquaries, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Reliquary Chapel, De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Jeffrey Vallance, De Kabinetten van De Vleeshal, Middelburg, The Netherlands Belief System: 1970s Political Work and Reliquary Chapels, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Preserving America’s Cultural Heritage, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Preserving America’s Cultural Heritage, LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2004
Heaven on Earth, (installation/intervention of Thomas Kinkade objects) Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA; and California State University Fullerton Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
2003
Jeffrey Vallance, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2002
Clown Stains, Satellite Space, University of Texas (San Antonio), San Antonio, TX
The Shape of Texas, (site-specific installation/simulacra) Majestic Ranch, Boerne, TX
Relics from LBJ’s 1966 Visit to Australia, (intervention) Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
Saami (Lapp) and Aboriginal Flags, (intervention) Black Kettle Museum, Cheyenne, OK
2001
The Virgin, the Poet and the President, Lehmann Maupin, New York
1999
Paranormal Diagrams: Heretical Theories, The Art Institute of Boston, MA Anomalies and Paranormal Diagrams: Heretical Theories, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jeffrey Vallance: Culture Mix, Musé e d’Art de la Ville Paris
1998
Paranormal Diagrams: Heretical Theories, Lehmann Maupin, New York Jeffrey Vallance: A 25-year Survey, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris Jeffrey Vallance/Drawings, Y1, Stockholm
1995
The World of Jeffrey Vallance, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1994
The Nixon Museum, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
1993
Three’s a Shroud, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Randy Travis Project, Randy Travis Museum, Nashville, TN
The Deification of George Washington, Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan
1992
Self-portrait Sindone, Museo Del Centro Internazionale Di Sindonologia, Turin, Italy
1991
Jeffrey Vallance Presents The Richard Nixon Museum, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Jeffrey Vallance, Marc Jancou Gallery, Zürich
1989
Blinky the Friendly Hen, 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Blinky, (video in collaboration with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto):
Open Channels IV, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Electronic Arts Intermix, New York; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Fukui International Video
Biennale, Fukui, Japan*; Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA; Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; California State University, Northridge; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia; KCTV Television Studio, Santa Barbara, CA
World Wide Video Festival, Kijkhuis, The Hague, The Netherlands*
Fossil Fuel and Tree of Renewal, Future Perfect, Los Angeles
| A Journey to Extremes, Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
1988 The Throne Room: Icelandic Women and the King of Tonga Part II, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Glendale, CA
1987 Icelandic Women and the King of Tonga, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 Jeffrey Vallance, Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1984 Reykjavik/Origlio, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1983 Aitutaki, A Series of Pacific Images, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1982 Jeffrey Vallance, Social Historian, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Jeffrey Vallance, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1981 Machines and Other Articles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles Museum Dumpsite, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1980 An American in Senegal, Daniel Sorano Hall of National Treasure, Dakar, Senegal
1978 Statements and Drawings by U.S. Senators, Entrance Gallery, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA The U.S. Senate: A Survey on the Arts, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1977 Wall Socket Plate Installation, Members’ Room, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1975 Man Eating Popcorn at Zody’s, Zody’s Department Store, Canoga Park, CA |
Group Exhibitions
2020
Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
2019
Strange, curated by Lawrence Rinder, The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Berkeley, CA
Offal, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Free Range, Blinky the Friendly Hen: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, California State University, Northridge Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Dirty Protest: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
2017
Museum of Lost Public Notices, George Paton Gallery Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Exquisite Pittoresque, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles
Book Works Art Works, Marylyn and Chuck Klaus Center for the Arts, Marymount California University, San Pedro, CA
Afraid of Modern Living: World Imitation & Monitor 1997 – 1982, These Day, Los Angeles
2016
Hearsay: Artists Reveal Urban Legends, LosJoCos Gallery, Los Angeles
Evil Clowns_reloaded, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Germany
Mango Madness, The Studios of Key West, FL
2015
Black & White Mike, curated by Benjamin Weissman, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles
Tchotchke: mass-produced sentimental objects in contemporary art, Gund Gallery, Kenyon College, OH
Evil Clowns, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund University, Germany
2014
Cultural Ties, Swiss National Museum, Zürich
6018 Wilshire, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles
Valley Vista: Art In the San Fernando Valley, CA 1970-1990, California State University, Northridge Art Gallery, Northridge, CA
IPSUM, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles
Veils, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles
2013
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Alan Smithee, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
2011
The Spectacular of Vernacular, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; traveling to Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ; Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2010
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
No Laughing Matter, Los Angeles Valley College Art Gallery, Valley Glen, CA
2009
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles*
Grand Central Art Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Animalkind, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Reading Standing Up, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
High Strangeness, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock, CA
Quelques possibiltes de texts, Centre d’edition contemporaine, Geneva
The Bread Art Project, Grain Foods Foundation, Ridgway, CO
Usages du document, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Vérité Tropicale, Circuit, Centre d’art Contemporain; Lausanne, Switzerland Pandemic Show, Overtones, Los Angeles
Editions vs objets, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
2008
Dysmorphic Visualization Syndrome, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
L.A. — A Select Survey of Art from Los Angeles, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London*
Los Angeles Filmforum Presents Southern California Video: Bruce and Norman Yonemoto (Blinky), Egyptian Theater, Hollywood, CA
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco* Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
In Search of Tiki, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA*
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Aspects of Mel’s Hole: Artists Respond to a Paranormal Land Event Occurring in Radiospace, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA Reclaiming—Intergeneration, 627 S. Carondelet, Los Angeles
California Biennial (The Backroom), Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Reality Check, Overtones Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
Mr. President, University of Albany Art Museum, Albany, New York*
A Secret Service: Art, Compulsion, Concealment, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle; De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea; and Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Organized by Hayward Gallery Touring, South Bank Centre, London* Unclassifiable, (Blinky video), Swing Space, New York
Malmöfestivalen, (Blinky video), Malmö, Sweden
From Mind to Hand: Artists and Graphology, Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco Bruce and Norman Yonemoto Videotapes from the 1980s, (Blinky video), Orange Lounge, Orange County Museum of Art, South Coast Plaza, Costa Mesa, CA
The Now That Once Was, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, University of California Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA
Middle School: Smart Art Press The First Thirteen Years, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
Cultural Ties, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel*
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades, Athens
2006
Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; travels to H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO*
Los Angeles Art Scene 1955–1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris*
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
The Backroom, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Farrago, Bernier/Eliades, Athens
Partial Recall, Lehmann Maupin, New York
2005
The Luck of the Draw(ing), UCLA Art Department, Los Angeles Interpretation and Innovation, Studio Channel Islands Art Center Gallery, California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo, CA
Funny Business: Humor in Art from the Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University Los Angeles, CA; traveled to Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania, PA Tiki Art Show (and book signing), La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; traveled to White Columns, New York*
2004
100 Artists See God, curated by Meg Cranston and John Baldessari; travels to Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH; Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; The Jewish Museum of San Francisco, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; and Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN (catalog)
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA*
This much is certain, Royal College of Art, London*
The End of the End of the Line. The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN Two Hours of Power, UCLA New Genres Project Room, Los Angeles* Apocalepsey, UCLA Kinross South Gallery, Los Angeles*
Upstream: Idea Drawings, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles*
2003
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
GNS: Global Navigation System (Naming Tokyo map by Aleksandra Mir), curated by Nicolas Bourriaud, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Min skattkammare (My Treasury), The Royal Armory, Swedish Royal Palace, Stockholm*
17 Reasons (BLESSING: intervention in the Mission District), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
The Men’s Room, The Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Collective Works, Kinross South Gallery, University of California Los Angeles
2002
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Sydney Biennale 2002, Australia*
Off the Grid, Lehmann Maupin, New York
Straight to Hell, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dumbo and Beyond, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX
Five by Seven by X, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
This Won’t Do a Thing for Your Career, Dahling: Juxtapoz, 8th Anniversary Art Studio, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
To Whom it May Concern, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
Curators’ Choice, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Presidential Site, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
2001
inSITE2000 (Second Phase), The Marriot Courtyard Guadalupe Apparition (simulacrum found on marble column in the Marriot Hotel lobby) San Diego, CA
Kungliga Palatset (Collaborative Installation with Jane Callister) Konsthögskolan, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
The Magic Hour, organized by Neue Galerie at the Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria*
2000
Jeffrey Vallance: Culture Mix, film program, MK 2 Project Café, Paris inSITE2000, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico (installation at the Tijuana Wax Museum)
Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art, Klemm Gallery – Studio
Angelico, Siena Heights University (founded by the Adrian Dominican Sisters), Adrian, MI
Faith, Dynamite Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900 – 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1999
Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers, W139, The Erotic Museum, Red Light District, Amsterdam
Heaven, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; traveling in 1999-2000 to the Tate Gallery, Liverpool
Rue Louise Weiss, Abbaye Saint-André, Centre dart Contemporain, Ville de Meymac, France
cARTe blanche, Centre Culturel Français de Turin, Turin, Italy
Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA God Don’t Make No Junk, with Jim Shaw and Rev. Ethan Acres, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Millennial Tension, POST-Wilshire, Los Angeles
1998
Deluxe: Who and What’s HOT in Las Vegas, SITE, Las Vegas
Luck of the Draw, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
The 100 Dollar and Up Show, POST, Los Angeles
Everybody Loves a Clown, Baby, Why Don’t You?, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA*
Beyond the Matter of Space: Big Ideas in a Small Room, curated by John Geary, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life: The Judy and Stuart Spence Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Unmade in the U.S.A., La Panaderia, Mexico City
Group Show, Spak Gallery, Umeå, Sweden
1997
Poder Ejecutivo — Take Me to Your Leader, The Nixon Museum/Museo Salinas, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Anomalies, Contemporary Art Collective, Las Vegas
The Vegas Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Drawings…A Bi-Coastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle
Hot, Hot, Haute, Contemporary Arts Collective in conjunction with Studio West, Las Vegas (fashion show)
Popocultural 2, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England
A Big Deal, NICA Gallery at the Arts Factory, Las Vegas
The Red and Green Show, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
Five Easy Pieces, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas
At the Threshold of the Visible, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; traveled to Meyerhoff Galleries, Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada*
1996
Popocultural, South London Gallery, London
Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA
Pushing the Envelope, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas Annual Fine Arts Faculty Exhibition, Community College of Southern Nevada, Las Vegas
Tiki Group Show, La Luz de Jesus, Los Angeles
Tiki—Native Drums in the Orange Grove, Anaheim Museum, Anaheim, CA Dogs in Form and Image, Golden West College Fine Arts Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
1995
Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; also traveled to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; New York Historical Society, NY; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK; Columbus Museum of Art, OH; Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN; San Jose Museum of Art; Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI
Selections from the Robert A. Rowan Trust Collection, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
20 Hot Artists Who Are Cooler Than Science, Cafe Espresso Roma, Las Vegas, NV
Confronting Nature, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Collectism, A look at collectors and their magnificent obsessions, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
From L.A. With Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
A Glimpse of the Norton Collection: As Revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum, CA
Mahaffey Fine Art: Exquisite Corpse Northwest, Maryhurst College, Maryhurst, OR
folie á deux, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Neotoma, Otis Gallery, Los Angeles
Chair-I-Tea, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas
1994
Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Pen and Ink, curated by Michael Darling, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Pro-Creation, Kunsthalle, Freiburg, Germany
Facts and Figures: Selections from the Lannan Collection, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
Cronologias, Temístocles 44, Mexico City
Hi-Lite on Portraits, (Scott Roté Farnum in collaboration with Jeffrey Vallance), Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
Journals, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
1993
L.A. Stories, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
World of Difference; Art, Tourism and Cultural Dialogues, Euphrat Gallery, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
Carnet de Voyage, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Kustom Kulture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; College of Art, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD; Center on the Arts, Seattle
1992
Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance, Studio Guenzani, Milan I Thought California Would be Different: New Work in the Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
The Crucifixion Through The Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery, Saint Mary’s College, Moraga, CA
Just Pathetic II, American Fine Arts, New York
Group Drawing Exhibition, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles
Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitba, Museu Da Gravura, Curitiba, Brazil
Viaggio a Los Angeles, Castello di Rivara, Torino, Italy Boxes, curated by Leo Michelson, Space Gallery Los Angeles Edge 92 International Biennial, Madrid and London
LAX, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna*
Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix – B. & L. Polla, Geneva
1991
Environmental Legacies: Countdown to the Millennium, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Monnaie de Singe, Ecole de Nimes, Nîmes, France
The Store Show, Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles
20th Century Collage, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Musée d’art modern et d’art contemporain, Nice, France
Letters, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
Quick Coagulation Forms The August Corpse, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Presenting Rearwards, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Glendale, CA*
Addictions, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA*
1990
After Taste, Future Perfect Gallery, Los Angeles
Past & Present: Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud, curated by David Humphrey, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA*
Surf Board Art, Ace Market Place, (Venice Art Walk) Venice, CA
China: June 4, 1989… Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Just Pathetic, curated by Ralph Rugoff, Rosamund Felsen Gallery*
L.A. My Third Lady, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Köln, Germany
All Quiet on the Western Front?, Espace Dieu, Paris
Con/Texts, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
After Laughter, Laughing Matters Festival, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA*
Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Arroyo Arts Collective, Highland Park, CA
1989
Forty Years of California Assemblage, curated by Anne B. Ayres, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE*
Mermaids and Myths of the Sea, Community Arts, Inc., San Francisco; 400 South Hope Street Lobby Gallery, Los Angeles
Tools, San Francisco Airports Commission Exhibitions Program, San Francisco
Recent Portraits, Tatistcheff Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Risibility Askew, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Open Channels IV, (Blinky video in collaboration with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto) Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
Video-tape showing, (Blinky video) Electronic Arts Intermix, New York
Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Lidovy Dum, Prague
America Pie, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York
Coast to Coast, Stones Gallery, Lihue, Kauai, HI
1988
Alumni Invitational, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles
Tropical Topics, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Re:Placement, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, curated by Sandra Starr, organized by James Corcoran Gallery in cooperation with Shoshana Wayne Gallery and Pence Gallery, Santa Monica*
Artist’s Liaison, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL*
Art Against Aids, Murray Feldman Gallery, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
LA2DA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Los Angeles/Houston, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Animals, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Animal Art, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria* Group Show, USC Atelier, Santa Monica, CA Just Cows, Ankrum Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch… , Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles
1985
Best of the West, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
Off the Street, curated by Fritz Frauchiger, Cultural Affairs Department, Old Print Shop Building, Los Angeles*
16 x 26 Landscapes, Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA
Perspectives 1985, California State University, Northridge, CA*
B & W, curated by Mike Kelley, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1984
Narrative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA* California Bookworks: The Last Five Years, Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
Contemporary Collages: Extension, Claremont Colleges Galleries, Claremont, CA*
Dogs, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; traveled to Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover,
NH; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL (under the auspices of The Art Museum Association of America)
Summer Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles*
Facings, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Robert L. Pincus (brochure)
Miles Above: 19 Return to Otis/Parsons, curated by Miles Forst, Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles*
Art in the Dark, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Spy Tiki Modern, Fun Gallery West, San Francisco
1982
New Now Narratives, California State University, Northridge, CA
Critical Perspectives, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
5 From L.A., Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA The Atomic Salon, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York (co-sponsored with the Village Voice)
Imaginative Sculpture, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles
New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Stephen Seemayer/Jeffrey Vallance, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1981
International Artists’ Book Show, The Art Institute of Chicago
M.F.A. Exhibition, The Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles
Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles*
The Fix-It-Up Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
The Anti-WW3 Internationalist Art Show, Parsons School of Design, New York
1980
Westwood Clay National 1980, Otis Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles; traveled to Parsons Exhibition Center, Parsons School of Design, New York
Show and Tell, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Janss Mall, Thousand Oaks, CA Group Exhibition, Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice, CA Nihilist Festival of the Arts, Otis Arts Institute, Los Angeles
1979
American Symptoms-Art Parked, on Main near Windward, Venice, CA Artist as Social Critic, (Cultural Ties), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1978
World Imitation-Products Exhibition, Gallery 405 E. 4th St., 3rd Floor, Los Angeles
International Self-Portrait Invitational, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The Blimp Show, Junior Arts Center Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1973
Youth Expression 73, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Ájtte Sámi Museum, Lapland, Sweden Balau National Museum, Koror, Pelau Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Jean P. Haydon Museum, American Samoa Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia The Vatican Museum, Rome