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Alexis Smith

(American, born 1949)

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Alexis Smith

Different Strokes, 2011

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Alexis Smith

Kerouac Haiku, 1994

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Alexis Smith

Bad Day....(Christmas Eve, 1943), 1982

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Alexis Smith

Despair, 1985

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Alexis Smith

Clues and Souvenirs, 1972

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Alexis Smith

Tightrope, 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1949
Born in Los Angeles, CA
1970
University of California at Irvine, CA, B.A.
1974
New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1976
Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1987
Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
2002
C.O.L.A. Individual Artist Fellowship
2008
Cotzen Award, Barnsdall Art Center
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Exhibitions

2017
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2017
On Point, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France (group exhibition)
Forms of Identity: Women Artists in the 90s, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Chapters:Book Arts in Southern California,Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2016
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2016
The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with Amy Gerstler, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (group exhibition)
A Retrospective Space, UC San Diego's University Art Gallery, UC San Diego Faculty Club, San Diego, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Holdings: Selectioons from MCASD's Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Collected, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
CALIFORNIA 101: Art from the Collection, Art, Design, & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2015
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2015
History in the Making, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY, United States (solo exhibition)
Chandlerisms, Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine, University Art Gallery at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, CA (group exhibition)
Drawing in L.A.: the 1960s and 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2014
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2014
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2013
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2013
Slice of Life, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
Alexis Smith: Second Nature, Craig Kull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
L'Objet Trouve: Readymade, Rectified and Reassembled, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY, United States (group exhibition)
Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2012
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2012
Arctic Summer, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Drawn, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2011
Alexis Smith Exhibitions in 2011
Alexis Smith: Early Works, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, United States (solo exhibition)
Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, United States (group exhibition)
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Geffen Conemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
The Feminine Canvas, Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA, United States (group exhibition)
High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and the 1970, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, United States (group exhibition)
2004
Lust/Rust/Dust, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY
Joyhouse, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA
Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank
Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
UBS PaineWebber Collection
Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Literature

2011
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle and Paul Schimmel, Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and DelMonic Prestal
2009
Rattemeyer, Christian ed., Judith Rothschild Foundation Catalogue Raisonné. New York: Museum of Modern Art
2007
Butler, Cornelia H. and Lisa Gabrielle Mark, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution. Cambridge: MIT Press
2006
Grenier, Catherine, Los Angeles 1955-1985 Birth of an Art Capital. Paris: Centre Pompidou
2004
100 Artists See God. New York: Independent Curators International
Coast of Dreams: California on the Edge, 1990-2003. New York: Knopf
2002
Piche Jr., Thomas and Mark Alilce Durant. Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America. Syracuse: Everson Museum of Art, illus. p. 71
Burgess Fuller, Diana and Daniela Salvioni, eds. Art / Women / California: Parallels and Intersections 1950-2000. San Jose and Berkeley: San Jose Museum of Art and University of California Press, illus. p. 110-11
C.O.L.A. 2002 Individual Artist Fellowships. Los Angeles: City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, illus. p. 37-40
2001
Beebe, Mary Livingstone et al. Landmarks: Sculpture Commissions for The Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego. New York: Rizzoli, p. 190-97
Westbrook, Adele, ed. A Creative Legacy: A History of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists' Fellowship Program 1966-1995. New York: Harry N. Abrams, illus. p. 110
2000
Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort. Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: University of California Press
Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996. San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997. Humlebæk, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Isenberg, Barbara. State of the Arts; California Artists Talk About Their Work. New York: Harper Collins
English (US)

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