Greg Colson (American, born )

Timeline

1956
Born in Seattle, Washington
1978
BA, California State University, Bakersfield, California
1980
MFA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
Lives and works in Venice, CA

Exhibitions

2013
Greg Colson: Consumer Ratings and Aggregate Paintings – Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA. (solo)
2012
Untitled (Giotto’s O) – Sperone Westwater Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
2012
Astrazione Figurazione – Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
2012
Group Show – Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2011
The Art Must Go On – Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
2010
Outside the Box, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
2010
William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
2008
William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
2008
Line Drive – Hamilton Press Gallery, Venice, CA
2007
Drawings, GRIFFIN, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Ballkunstler, Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Germany
2006
John Baldessari, Greg Colson, John Hilliard, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2006
Baldwin Gallery, “Mall Suites and Media Boxes,” Aspen, Colorado
2005
GRIFFIN, Media Boxes, Santa Monica, California
2005
Surprise, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2005
Utopia", Gorcums Museum, Gorinchem, The Netherlands
2005
Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City (forthcoming March 23 - June 26, 2005)
2005
Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy (solo)
2004
Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2004
.so fresh, so cool!, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2004
The Pontus Hultén Collection., Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden (catalogue)
2004
Of the Moment: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
2004
The Artists of 'Faster Jim', Hamilton Ptress Gallery, Venice, CA
2004
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
2003
Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY
2003
Donald Baechler, Greg Colson, Graham Gillmore, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2003
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2003
No Canvas, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2002
Amerika-Europa: Sammlung Rosnkranz im Von der Heydt-Museum, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (catalogue)
2002
Good News, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy (catalogue)
2002
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado (solo)
2002
Terra Incognita: Contemporary Artists’ Maps and Other Visual Organizing Systems, Contemporary
2001
Galleria Sprovieri, London, England (solo)
2001
Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy (solo)
2001
Sperone Westwater, New York, New York (solo)
2001
First Impressions: The Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2001
Ironical Instinct, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2001
Panza Gift Show, Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
2001
Landscape, Griffin Contemporary, Venice, California
2001
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, California (solo)
2000
American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater, New York, New York (catalog)
2000
hand-Made in U.S.A., Galleria Sprovieri, London, England
2000
da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, Turin, Italy (catalog)
2000
Arte Americana, Ultimo Decennio, Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Italy (catalog)
2000
Panza: The Legacy of a Collector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (catalog)
2000
Soft White, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (catalog)
2000
The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Arte Americana: Ultimo Decennio– Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Italy
1999
Sperone Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
1999
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1999
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, California (solo)
1998
1000eventi, Milan, Italy (solo)
1998
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, California (solo)
1998
Wood – Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
1997
Book Obsession – Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
1997
Paper Works – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
1997
Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997 – John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1997
Limited Edition Artists’ Books – Brooke Alexander, New York City, NY
1997
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California (solo)
1995
A Sculpture Show – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
1995
Greg Colson - Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. (solo)
1994
Greg Colson - Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium (solo)
1994
Greg Colson - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
1993
Greg Colson – Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. (solo)
1993
The Spirit of Drawing – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
1992
Greg Colson, Takashi Murakami, Jorge Pardo, Jon Tower – Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Greg Colson, Guillermo Kuitca, William Wegman – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
1992
Greg Colson – Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome (solo)
1991
Greg Colson - Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
1991
Greg Colson – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
1991
Recent Acquisitions – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1991
New American Art: Mary Beyt, Greg Colson, Christopher Wool – Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
1990
Je Viens de chez le Charcutier – Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1990
Greg Colson – Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY
1988
Greg Colson – Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Fl. (solo)

Public Collections

Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA.
Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Long Island City, NY

Literature

2006
“The Architecture of Distraction,” softcover, 63 pages
2001
Greg Colson. Galleria Cardi (catalogue). Essay by Robert Evren. 2001
1994
Mapping, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalog), 1994: 15-16
1988
Clearwater, Bonnie. “Greg Colson”. Lannan Museum(catalog), September 1988.