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LARRY BELL
 
 

1939

Born in Chicago, Illinois

 

Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, California

 
 
EDUCATION
 

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