Lari Pittman
1952 Born in Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, 1970-73
BFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1974
MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 1976
1993-present Professor of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions
2013
“Lari Pittman”, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
2012
Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
“thought-forms,” Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2011
“Lari Pittman,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2010
“Orangerie,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Lari Pittman,” Regen Projects II, Los Angeles
2009
“Lari Pittman” c/o Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
2008
“Lari Pittman,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2007
“Lari Pittman,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2006
“Lari Pittman,” c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
2005
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Lari Pittman,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
2004
“Lari Pittman,” greengrassi, London, England
2003
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
2002
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2001
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2000
Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1999
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1998
“Once a Noun, Now a Verb,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“Lari Pittman,” Spacex Gallery, Exeter, EnglandCornerhouse, Manchester, England; ICA, London, England; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1999
“Lari Pittman,” greengrassi, London, England
1996
White Cube, London, England
“Lari Pittman,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Corcoran Museum, Washington
1997
“Lari Pittman: Works on paper, 1982 to 1995,” curated by Elizabeth Brown, UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
University Art Museum, Univ. of Calif., Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
1995
“Like You,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
1994
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY Texas Gallery, Houston
1993
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
“Lari Pittman: Paintings & Works on Paper, 1989 – 1993,” Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1992
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1991
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1989
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1988
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1986
Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego
1985
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1984
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
1982
“Lari Pittman: Code of Honor,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, curated by Paul Schimmel, Newport Beach
“Lari Pittman: Sunday Painting,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
Group Exhibitions
2012
“Letters From Los Angeles,” Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
“This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s,” Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, IL traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and to Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston
“Contemporary painting, 1960 to the Present: Selections from the Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2011
“Never Let Me Go,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
“The More Things Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
“The Spectacular of Vernacular,” curated by Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
“Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
2010
“Nature,” Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
“The Artist’s Museum,” Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles
“Paintings and Drawings by Lari Pittman. Collages by Roy Dowell.” Kunsthaus Santa Fe Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico “Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s,” San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
“The Library of Babel: In and Out of Place,” 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England
“Disquieted,” Portland Art Museum, Portland
2009
“California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Part II,” Davidson Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
2010
“Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Thomas Hirschhorn, Andrew Lord, and Lari Pittman,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2008
“California Community Foundation Exhibition – Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in L.A.,” Japanese American National Museum
“Collecting Collections,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Not So Subtle Subtitle,” Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Matthew Brannon
“Some Paintings: The Third (2007) LA Weekly Annual Biennial,” Track 16 Gallery, curated by Doug Harvey, Santa Monica
2007
“Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles,” curated by Johannes Fricke Waldthausen, Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany
“Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists,” Armand Hammer Museum , Los Angeles
“Imagination Becomes Reality: Conclusion,” Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2006
“Hollywood is a Verb,” The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
“Couples Discourse,” Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA cat.
“Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism,” curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centro D’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
“los angeles / mexico: complexities and heterogeneity,” La Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
“Los Angeles 1955-1985,” curated by Catherine Grenier, Centres Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
“Recent Acquisitions,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“The Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; traveled to Katzen Art Center Washington, D.C.
“Singular Expressions: A Sheldon Invitational,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; cat.
“Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,” conceived by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
“Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005,” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime,” Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; traveled to
The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio and to Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach and Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA, “POPulence,” Blaffer Gallery, Houston traveled to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland and to Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem; cat.
“A Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection,” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro
2004
“The Charged Image,” Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, cat.
“Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque,” Site Santa Fe, curated by Robert Storr, Santa Fe, cat.
2003
“Pittura/Painting,” la Biennale di Venezia, curated by Francesco Bonami, Venice, Italy, catalogue
“Painting Pictures, Malerie und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter (Painting and Media in the Digital Age),” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, catalogue.
“I and My Chimney,” Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
“Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville
“Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
2002
“L.A. Post-Cool,” curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, catalogue;
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2001
“Drawings,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“IN FUMO,” Galleria of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy, cat.
“The Mystery of Painting,” Sammlung Goetz, Munchen, October 29-April 5, 2002 “Secret Victorians,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
“The Importance of Being Earnest,” curated by Michael Duncan, Weingart Galleries at Occidental College, Los Angeles
2000
“Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Cat.
“00,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, Cat.
“Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty,” The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cat.
1999
“The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , Cat.
“Examining Pictures,” curated by Judith Nesbitt, organized by Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England, traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Cat.
“The Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage,” Mills College Art Museum, Oakland
The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica
1998
“Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision” The Hayward Gallery, Colchester, England; traveled to Brighton Museum and to The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, cat.
“L.A. Current: Looking At the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists,” UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
“L.A. Times: Art from Los Angeles in the Re Rebaudengo Sandretto Collection,” Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Per L’Arte, Torino, Italy
“Out Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists,” UC Santa Cruz
“Hindsight: 56 Recent Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art
“Examining Pictures,” curated by Judith Nesbitt, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England; travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1997
“American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity,” Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Cat. “Woman’s Work: Examining the Femine in Contemporary Painting,” curated by Jeff Fleming, South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art
“Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
“American Stories–Amidst Displacement and Transformation,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, Japan, Kurashiki Art City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan; Atorion, Akita, Akita, JapanCat.
“Cruising L.A.”, Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain, Cat.
“Documenta X,” curated by Catherine David, Documenta und Museum und Fredericum, Kassel, Germany, Cat.
“Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997,” curated by Lars Nittve and Helle Crenzien, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy; and UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Cat.
“1997 Whitney Biennial Exhibition,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY, curated by Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri, Cat.
1996
“a/drift,” curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, National Gallery, Athens, Greece, organized by David Ross and Eugenie Tsai; traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany, Cat.
“The Legacy of American Modernism,” Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
“Social Fictions: Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel,” The Grossman Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cat.
1995
“1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition,” The Czech Museum of Modern Art, Czech Republic, December, Cat.
“Stereo – tip,” Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, Cat.
“Carroll Dunham, Lari Pittman,” Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
“25 Americans: Painting in the 90’s,” curated by Dean Sobol, The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Cat.
“1995 Whitney Biennial Exhibition,” curated by Klaus Kertess, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Cat.
“Pittura – Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren,” curated by Peter Weibel, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, Cat.
“In a Different Light,” curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Cat.
1994
“In Retrospect: Paintings of the 80’s,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Love in the Ruins,” curated by Noriko Gamblin, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“Don’t Look Now,” curated by Joshua Decter, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
1993
“Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Medialismo,” curated by Gabriele Perretta, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (Perugia), Italy, Cat.
“The Space of Time / Espacio del Tiempo,” curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Alisa Tager, The Americas Society, New York, NY; travels to the Center for Fine Arts, Miami, FL, Cat.
“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY “Drawing the Line Against AIDS,” Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
“1993 Whitney Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Cat.
“Paper Trails: The Eldetic Image Contemporary American Work on Paper,” Krannert Art Museum & Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL “Daylight Savings: Richmond Burton, Robert Kushner, Lari Pittman, Alexis Rockman,” curated by Jonathan Hammer, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“LAX,” Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, Cat.
1992
“Viaggio a Los Angeles,” curated by Gregorio Magnani, Castello di Rivara, Rivara Torino, Italy
“Masquerade (Body Double),” organized by Matthew Weinstein, Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY
“Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance,” Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
“Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s,” curated by Paul Schimmel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Cat.
1991
“Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975 – 1991,” curated by Paul Schimmel, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
“42nd Biennial of Contemporary American Painting,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Cat.
“After the Apocalypse: A Different Humanism,” South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem
“Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta,” Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Monterrey, Mexico, Cat.
“Something Pithier and More Psychological,” Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
1990
“LA My Third Lady,” Tanja Grunert Gallery, Koln, Germany
“Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1989
“Cultural Fetish,” Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
“Prospect 89,” Frankfurter Kunstverein im Steinernen Haus and Kunsthalle Schirn am Romerberg, Frankfurt, Germany, Cat.
1988
“Erotophobia,” Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
“Art of the 80’s: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation,” Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo, MI
“Triton,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Striking Distance,” Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA and The Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
1987
“LA. Hot and Cool: The Eighties,” MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, Cat.
“Lari Pittman: Paintings/Boyd Wright: Sculpture,” College of Creative Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, CA Struve Gallery, Chicago
“Western States Biennial,” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, Cat.
“Highlights of California Art Since 1945: A Collecting Partnership,” Newport Harbor. Art Museum, Newport Beach
“Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s),” The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Cat.
“1987 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Cat.
1986
“Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch…,” Kuhlenschmidt-Simon Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
“Ceci n’est pas le surrealisme, California: Idioms of Surrealism,” Fisher Gallery at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Cat.
“Young American Artists II: Paintings and Painted Wall Reliefs,” Mandeville Art Gallery at University of California, San Diego, CA
“Los Angeles/New York Exchange,” Artists’ Space, New York, Cat.
1980
“An Exhibition of Drawings: Sandra Jackman, Mary Jones, Tom Knechtel, Lari Pittman, Dara Robinson, Sheila Ruth,” Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana
1977
“100 Current Directions in Southern California,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1976
“Recent Works: Dowell, Lumbert, Pittman, Sherman,” Long Beach City Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Works in Public Collections
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, Ohio
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Carnegie Institute of Art, Pittsburgh, PA Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC Chapman University, Orange, CA
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino, Italy
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yale Univeristy Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Awards
2012 International Association of Art Critics Award
2011 Honoree, Hammer Museum Gala in the Garden
2006 Honorary Doctorate, Rhode Island School of Design
2004 Pacific Design Center Stars of Design 2004 Award for Art
2002 Skowhegan Medal
1999/2000 Flintridge Foundation Award for Visual Artists
1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1990 California Arts Council Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1989 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1989 J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant in Painting
1986 Art Matters, Inc. Grant