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Tony Berlant - Resumé

BORN:

1941
  • New York, New York

EDUCATION:

1963
  • M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1962
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1961
  • B.A., University of California, Los Angeles

     

ONE PERSON EXHIBITS:

2001
  • Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
  • L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
  • Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2000

  • Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
  • Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., NY
  • Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1999

  • Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • LA Louver, Venice, California
  • Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1998
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
  • Imago Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
1997
  • Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York City
  • John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
1996
  • Klein Art Works at Art 1996 Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago
  • Dennis Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
1995
  • Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Recent Miracles, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1994
  • Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1993
  • Small Works, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
  • Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
  • New Work, L.A. Louver, Venice, California (catalogue)
1992
  • Louver Gallery, New York
  • Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1991
  • John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis
  • John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1990
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
  • Binder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
  • Louver Gallery, New York
1989
  • Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1988
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
  • Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1987
  • Tony Berlant: Recent Work 1982-1987, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
  • John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1986
  • Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1985
  • John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis1985 L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1984
  • Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1983
  • John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1982
  • Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
  • John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
  • L.A. Louver, Venice, California
  • Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1981
  • Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, California
  • Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1978
  • Tony Berlant: Constructions and Collages, Texas Gallery, Houston
  • Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1976
  • Cubes and Quilts, Texas Gallery, Houston
1975
  • James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles
1974
  • Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
  • Construction and Boxes, Fourcade, Droll Gallery, New York
1973
  • Tony Berlant: The Marriage of New York and Athens, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, traveled to:
    • Utah Museum of Fine Arts
    • University of Utah, Salt Lake City;
    • Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
1971
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
  • Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
1967
  • David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1966
  • David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1965
  • David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1964
  • Hansen Gallery, San Francisco
1963
  • David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITS:

1998
  • Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1997
  • Abstract Confluence, Klein Art Works, Chicago
  • Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
1996
  • Gallery Artists, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1995
  • Home, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
1994
  • House, Sweet House, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey
  • Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago
1993
  • Summer Invitational '93, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
  • On Water, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California
  • Intersections - Art and Play, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
  • California Eclectic, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco
  • L.A. Stories, Jack Ruthberg Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Floor Show: Sculptures and Objects, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
  • Coast to Coast, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1992-93
  • Choice Encounters, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1992
  • The Spirit of Matter, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, California
1991
  • The Art-over-the-Sofa, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica
  • Summer Scale, Louver Gallery, New York
  • L.A. When It Began, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica
1990
  • California A-Z and Return, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1989
  • Collage, Assemblage: Nine Points of View, University Gallery, California State University, Hayward (traveling exhibition)
  • Miniature Environments, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles (traveling exhibition)
  • L.A. Pop in the Sixties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
  • Collecting on a Shoestring: Jerry Coates, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
  • American Rainbow, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
1988
  • Sculpture Da Camera, Fisher Gallery, USC, Los Angeles
  • Affinities, April Sgro-Riddle Gallery, Los Angeles
  • Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, and Pence Gallery, Santa Monica California
1987
  • Faux Arts: Surface Illusions and Simulated Materials in Recent Art, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla
  • Made in U.S.A., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (traveling exhibition)
1986
  • Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • American/European Part II: Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1985
  • American/European Part I: Painting and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
  • Boxes, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico Artists
  • Look at Architecture, Trans America Pyramid Gallery, San Francisco
  • An Inside Place, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
1984
  • Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs
  • First Newport Biennial 1984: Los Angeles Today, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
  • American and European: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
  • Sculpture, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1983
  • On and Off the Wall: Shaped and Colored, The Oakland Museum
  • Drawings, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
  • Habitats, Klein Gallery, Chicago
1982
  • Metals: Cast-Cut-Coiled, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
  • Sculpture, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
  • California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice
1981
  • Artists' Quilts, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1980
  • Small Scale, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
  • One Major New Work Each, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
1979
  • Sculptural Perspectives: An Exhibition of Small Scale Sculpture of the 70's, University of California, Santa Barbara
1978
  • Dwellings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
1974
  • Painting and Sculpture Today 1974, Indianapolis Museum of Art; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1973
  • The Emerging Real: Painting and Sculpture 1973, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
  • 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1972
  • Working in California, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
  • Seventieth American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
  • 12 Statements Beyond the Sixties, Detroit Institute of Arts
  • University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
1971
  • New Works by Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • M. Knoedler & Company, New York
  • Neuendorf Gallery, Hamburg, West Germany
1970
  • 1970 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
  • The West Coast New, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1969
  • Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection 2, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (traveling exhibition)
1968
  • Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena Annual Exhibition
  • Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1967
  • American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (traveling)
1966
  • Annual Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1965
  • Five Younger Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Bianchini Gallery, New York
1963
  • Pop Art U.S.A., Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
  • Boxes, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1962
  • The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

AWARDS:

1964
  • New Talent Purchase Grant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1963
  • Annual Exhibition Award, San Francisco Ford Foundation Purchase Award, Houston

COMMISSIONS:

  • California Department of Motor Vehicles, Davis
  • The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising, Los Angeles
  • Home Savings of America, Los Angeles
  • The Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota
  • National Airport, Washington, D.C.
  • Palm Sprigs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California
  • Rebecca's Restaurant, Venice, California
  • The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, Minnesota
  • San Francisco International Airport
  • Wilshire/Alvarado Subway Station, Los Angeles

SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:

  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Centro Cultural Arte Contemporano, Mexico City
  • Emperor and Empress of Japan
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
  • Long Beach Museum of Art
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
  • Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  • The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
  • Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
  • Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
 

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