|
1939 |
Born in Chicago, Illinois |
|
|
Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, California |
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Shows
|
2011
|
“Larry Bell in perspective”; Carré d’Art Musée Contemporain de Nimes, FR |
|
2010
|
“Larry bell - works in progress”, Frank Lloyd Gallery Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
2009
|
Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA |
|
|
Larry Bell. New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
|
2008
|
New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH |
|
|
Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
|
2007
|
New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
|
|
New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, GB |
|
2006
|
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
|
|
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR |
|
|
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, AU |
|
2005
|
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA |
|
|
McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA |
|
|
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Pace / Wildenstein, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, GB |
|
2004
|
Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN, USA |
|
2003
|
St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
|
2002
|
Roswell Museum & Art Center, New Mexico, USA |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, DE |
|
|
SkoRidder AS, Oslo, NO |
|
2001
|
Gallery Gan, Tokyo, JP |
|
|
Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX, USA |
|
2000
|
Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery |
|
|
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven. Otterndorf, DE |
|
|
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA |
|
1999
|
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, DE |
|
|
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA |
|
1998
|
Seljord Art Association, Seljord, NO |
|
|
Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, NO |
|
|
Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA, USA |
|
1997
|
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland |
|
|
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA |
|
1996
|
Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
1995
|
Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, USA |
|
|
Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO, USA |
|
|
Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum. Taos, New Mexico, NM, USA |
|
1994
|
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA |
|
1993
|
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1992
|
Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA
|
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA |
|
1991
|
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA
|
|
|
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA |
|
1990
|
Galerie Montenay, Paris, FR
|
|
|
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, DE
|
|
|
Galerie Kammer. Hamburg, DE
|
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1989
|
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
|
|
|
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1988
|
Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA |
|
|
Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery. Houston, TX, USA |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1987
|
Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France |
|
|
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Cleveland, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH, USA |
|
|
Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1986
|
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, USA
|
|
|
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho, USA
|
|
|
The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA |
|
|
American academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Installation of the Leaning Room”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1985
|
Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, England |
|
1984
|
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA |
|
1983
|
Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA |
|
|
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
1982
|
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA
|
|
|
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA |
|
|
On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA |
|
1981
|
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA |
|
|
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA |
|
1979
|
Vapor Drawings, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM, Multiples Gallery, New York, NY, Sebastian-Moore Gallery, Denver, CO, USA |
|
1977
|
Solar Fountain Drawings, (collaboration with Eric Orr)Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA |
|
1976
|
The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MI, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, The Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA (1977) USA |
|
1975
|
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA |
|
1974
|
Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Torino, Venice, Milan, IT |
|
1973
|
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA
|
|
|
Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, AU |
|
1972
|
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA |
|
|
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK |
|
1970
|
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln, DE |
|
1965 ’67, ’70, ’71, ’72, ‘73 |
Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA |
|
1967
|
Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
|
|
1962, ’63, ’65 |
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
Group Exhibitions
|
2011
|
“Phenominal: California Light and Space”, La Jolla & downtown San Diego locations during “Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980” |
|
|
“Square Dancing”, with works by Larry Bell, John McCracken and Peter Alexander, Nyehaus, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
“Human nature, Contemporary Art from the Collection”, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
“Some assembly required”, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
“Surface thrusts: Abstract painting in the sixties”, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
2010
|
“Side by side”, Colburn Music School, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Larry Bell / Jeppe Hein, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France |
|
|
Gray Day, Roberts & Tilton, Washington, CA, USA |
|
|
Ferus Gallery, Greatest Hits Volume 1, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
“Primary Atmospheres: California Minimalism 1960-1970”, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA (winner of the Rob Pruitt Art Award for Best Gallery Group Show of 2010) |
|
2009
|
“1969”, P.S.1, New York, NY, USA |
|
|
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA |
|
|
"Larry's Loft", Hotel Erwin (formerly Marina Pacific Hotel), Venice, CA, USA |
|
|
"Elemental", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA |
|
|
Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Lobby installation with cubes, Miami Beach, FL, USA, |
|
|
“Miniatures” auction & exhibition, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA |
|
|
"California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 - 2008" Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA |
|
|
“DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture”, TATE, Liverpool, GB |
|
|
Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Bronze "Sumer" sculptures from the collection of "Grounds for Sculpture", Sarasota, FL, USA |
|
|
Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH |
|
|
Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH |
|
|
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI, USA |
|
2008
|
Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957 – 1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE |
|
|
Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |
|
2007
|
Made in California: Contemporary California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, 15th Anniversary Celebration, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA |
|
|
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA |
|
|
Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA |