Barry Le Va

(American, 1941–2021)

untitled (chalk inverse) by barry le va

Barry Le Va

Untitled (Chalk Inverse), 1969

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cleaved corners (3) by barry le va

Barry Le Va

Cleaved Corners (3), 1969

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a- (red, green, blue, purple, felt, steel, bought, cut, folded, placed, rolled) by barry le va

Barry Le Va

A- (Red, Green, Blue, Purple, Felt, Steel, Bought, Cut, Folded, Placed, Rolled), 1966

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Biography

Timeline

1941
Born in Long Beach, California
1960 - 1963
Studied California State University, Long Beach
1963
Los Angeles College of Art & Design
1964 - 1967
Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, Received BFA-MFA
1968 - 1970
Instructor, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
1968
Received Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles
1973 - 1974
Taught Advanced Sculpture, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1974
Received Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture
1976
Received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Taught Graduate Sculpture at Yale University
Resides in New York City

Exhibitions

2018
Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Orientation, Jack Shainman Gallery in conjunction with The Racial Imaginary Institute (TRII), New York, NY
Group Show 2018, Marc Selwyn Fine Art
2017
Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Barry Le Va: Cleaved Wall, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Barry Le Va: Munich – Africa 1992-1995, Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)
Nagy / Libby / Le Va, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Plan View, Jahn and Jahn, Munich, Germany
Why Draw? 500 Years of Drawing at Bowdoin College, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brusnwick, ME
2016
Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Barry Le Va: Network, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
drawing ROOM: Curated by Markus Dochantschi, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Forty, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol Le Witt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2015
Barry Le Va Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Barry Le Va, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany (solo exhibition)
Barry Le Va, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
UTOPIE documenta: Unrealized Projects from the History of the World Art Exhibition, Stadtmuseum, Oldenburg, Germany
Kassel Geschichtsturm, Kassel, Germany
Piece Work (organized by Robert Storr), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Bold Abstractions: Selections from the DMA Collection 1966–1976, Dallas Museum of Art, TX
2009
"Hands, Handles, Blades: Cleaver Configurations 1969-2009”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
Sculptures and Drawings 1966 - 2009 (Part I), Nolan Judin Berlin, Germany (solo)
2006
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
2005
“Barry Le Va Drawings 1967 to 2005”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)
Barry Le Va: Wagner, Danese, New York, NY
Accumulated Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Barry Le Va, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (touring)
2003
Black/White, Danese, New York
A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Scultpures, Galerie Juerg Judin, Vienna, Austia
Scrapbooks: Books to Drawings 1998-2003, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museu Serralves: Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, Italy
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Literature

1975
Le Va, Barry. "Notes by the Artist", in Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio: 1975, pp. 16-24.
1971
Le Va, Barry. "Notes on a Piece by Barry Le Va: Extended Vertex Meetings: blocked, blown outward", Studio International, vol. 182, no. 938, November 1971, pp. 178-9.
1969
"Barry Le Va", Design Quarterly, vol. 74/ 75, pp. 46-57.