Exhibitions

2012

The 186th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, New York

Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951-1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California

2011 - 2012

The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945-1985, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1945-1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, October 1 – February 5. Travels to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2012

Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California

Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2011

Softcore / Hard Edge, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California

Structured Color, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York

Southern California Hard Edge: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, John McLaughlin, Art Paris, Louis Stern Fine Arts exhibiting, Paris, France

High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Color Field Revisited, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, New York

Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California

Karl Benjamin: Under the Influence, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, California (solo)

2010 - 2011

Softcore Hard Edge, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada

2010

Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2009

California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 – 2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, Part 1: July 18 – December 27.

Karl Benjamin: Paintings and Installation, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California (solo)

2008 - 2009

Circa 1958 Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum/The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC.

2007 - 2009

Birth of the Cool; California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin.

2007 - 2008

Burgoyne Diller and Hard-Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity, Spanierman Modern, New York, New York.

2007

A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin Paintings, 1953-1995, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, California.

Optic Nerve-Perceptual Art of the 1990’s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio.

Karl Benjamin: Paintings for 1950 – 1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.

2006

2006 Peace Tower (recreation of 1966 original) in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.

Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1900 – 1980, (curated by Peter Frank), Riverside Museum, Riverside, California.

India Ink Drawings form the 1950s, Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, Texas.

Alphabet Series: 1964-1965, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California.

Twenty Years and Counting: An Exhibition Celebrating the dA Center for the Arts, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, California.

Human Presence: Works from the Museum’s Collection (The Geometry of Color/The Singular Body), San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California.

2005

Karl Benjamin: Drawings from 1950 – 1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California.

The First 80 Years, Los Angeles Art Association, West Hollywood, California

2004 - 2005

The Los Angeles School (curated by Dave Hickey), Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California.

2004

Conversations with the Collection: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

Alphabet Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California.

2003

(Un) taped: An Exhibition of Hard-Edge Paintings by Karl Benjamin and Mark L. Emerson, Huntington Beach Art Center, California.

Stripe Paintings: 1979-1981, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California.

2001

Mostly Random Rectangles, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California.

Four Abstract Classicists, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York.

2000

2000 Vertical Chords, Harris Gallery, University of LaVerne, California.

1998

Convergences, Mt. San Antonio College Walnut, CA

Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Geffen Contemporary, MOCA Los Angeles, CA

Paintings from the 50's and 90's, Ruth Bachofner Gallery Santa Monica, CA

1997

Eyedazzlers, University Art Museum University of New Mexico

1996

On the Edge of America: California Moderist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery Los Angeles, CA

1995

, L.A. Artcore Los Angeles, CA

1994

The Pomona Years 1979-1994: A Retrospective, Montgomery Gallery Pomona College, CA

1992

Karl Benjamin, Paintings 1955-1990, Snyder Fine Art New York, NY

1990

Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Moderninst 1920-1956, Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA

1986

Francine Seders Gallery Seattle, WA

1985

Colorforms, Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific National Bank,

1981

California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Art Museum, California.

1978

California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Art Museum, California.

1977

California: Five Footnotes to Modern History, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

Los Angeles Hard Edge: The 50's and 70's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

1976

Paintings and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.

1968

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California

1965

The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

1961

Bolles Gallery San Francisco, CA

1959

Four Abstact Classicists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA