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Larry Bell
(
American
, born 1939)
Larry Bell
Untitled,
1990
Price on Request
Biography
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Timeline
1939
Born in Chicago, IL
1957 - 1959
Studied at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1962
Recipient, Copley Foundation Grant
1970
Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1975
Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1990
Recipient, State of New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, NM
Lives and works in Taos, NM, and Venice Beach, CA
Exhibitions
2013
Mirage Collage & Light Knots, White Cube, London (solo)
Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405 - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Larry Bell - Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2011
Larry Bell - Early Work - Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Larry Bell - Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
2010
Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960 - 1970, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2009 - 2010
1969, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2009
Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM (solo)
Larry Bell: New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2008
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2007
New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Translucence, Southern California Art from the1960’s & 1970’s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Cubes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2005
Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Larry Bell: The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Larry Bell: Cubes, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Glass Cubes and Other Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Larry Bell: New Work, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN (solo)
2003
St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany (solo)
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
SkoRidder AS, Oslo, Norway (solo)
2001
Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX (solo)
Fractions, Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000
Skulpurengarten Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery (solo)
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany (solo)
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (solo)
Larry Bell: Cubes, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1999
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany (solo)
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
1998
Seljord Art Association, Seljord, Norway (solo)
Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway (solo)
Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA (solo)
Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, January-March, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1997
Taos Today, Anderson Contemporary Alburquerque, NM
Drawing Invitational, Galerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
Sculptures & Drawings, Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland (solo)
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
1996
Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Fractions, New Gallery, Houston, TX
Curatorial Selections: Acqusitions to the Historic, Contemporary and Photographic Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1995
Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, The Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, NM (solo)
1994
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Drawings, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1993
Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1992
Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany
1991
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (solo)
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
1990
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Kammer, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galerie Rolf Ricke Köln, Cologne, Germany
1989
Museé d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (solo)
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1988
Spaso House, Moscow, Russia
Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY (solo)
Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (solo)
Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1987
Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Arizona Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1986
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX (solo)
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID (solo)
The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (solo)
Installation of the Leaning Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1985
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, UK (solo)
1984
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (solo)
Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1983
Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo)
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1982
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (solo)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (solo)
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1981
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)
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 (solo)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978
Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1977
The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 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
Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX (collaboration with Eric Orr) (solo)
1976
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1975
National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1974
Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Italy (solo)
1973
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (solo)
Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1972
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo)
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1971
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1970
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1969
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1968
Dokumenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1967
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
1966
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1963
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1962
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
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Public Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
