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Larry Bell   (American, 1939) 

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Larry Bell Biography
1939   Born in Chicago, Illinois
1962   Copley Foundation, grantee
1970   Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship
1975   National Endowment for the Arts, grantee
1990   Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts (Visual Arts), State of New Mexico
  Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, California
  studied at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA
Selected Exhibitions
2009   Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA (solo)
2009   Larry Bell. New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM, USA (solo)
2009   Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2009   Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2009   Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI, USA
2009   "Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968", Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
2008   "Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1957-1968", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2008   'New works', Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2008   Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2008   Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
2007   New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
2007   New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
2007   Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England (solo)
2007   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, USA
2007   SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2007   Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2007   Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2006   Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA (solo)
2006   Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
2006   Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
2006   Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2006   Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA
2006   Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2006   Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2006   Translucence, Southern California Art from the1960’s & 1970’s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
2006   "Cubes," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2005   Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United Kingdom (solo)
2005   "Larry Bell: The Sixties," Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York (solo)
2005   "Larry Bell: Cubes," Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
2005   "Glass Cubes and Other Works," McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas (solo)
2005   "Larry Bell: New Work," Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York (solo)
2005   Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, USA
2004   Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2004   Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
2004   Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN, USA (solo)
2003   St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2003   Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal
2003   Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002   Roswell Museum & Art Center, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2002   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
2002   Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg. Monchengladbach, Germany (solo)
2002   Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002   Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
2001 - 2002   SkoRidder AS, Oslo, Norway (solo)
2001   Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX, USA (solo)
2001   "Fractions," Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000   "Larry Bell: Cubes," Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
2000   Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
2000   Skulpurengarten Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
2000   Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000   San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
2000   Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2000   Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2000   Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery (solo)
2000   Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven. Otterndorf, Germany (solo)
2000   Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA (solo)
1999   Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany (solo)
1999   Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (solo)
1999   Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
1999   PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
1998   Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ, USA
1998   Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, January-March, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall London, England
1998   Seljord Art Association, Seljord, Norway (solo)
1998   Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway (solo)
1998   Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
1997   Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland (solo)
1997   The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1997   Taos Today, Anderson Contemporary Alburquerque, NM
1997   Drawing Invitational, Galerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
1997   Sculptures & Drawings, Galerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
1997   Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
1996   Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1996   Fractions, New Gallery Houston, TX
1996   Curatorial Selections: Acqusitions to the Historic, Contemporary and Photographic Collections, Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM
1996   Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1995   Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, USA (solo)
1995   Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO, USA (solo)
1995   Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum. Taos, New Mexico, NM, USA (solo)
1995   Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, The Main Art Gallery, California State University Fullerton, CA
1995   Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1994   Drawings, Kiyo Higashi Gallery Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1994   New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1994   Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
1993   New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1993   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1993   Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1992   Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany
1992   Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA (solo)
1992   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1992   Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA (solo)
1991   Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1991   Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA (solo)
1991   New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1990   Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
1990   Galerie Kammer. Hamburg, Germany (solo)
1990   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1990   Galerie Rolf Ricke Köln, Cologne, Germany
1989   Museé d'Art Contemporain Lyon, France (solo)
1989   Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1989   New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1989   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1988   Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY, USA (solo)
1988   Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1988   Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA (solo)
1988   Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery. Houston, TX, USA (solo)
1988   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1988   Spaso House, Moscow, USSR
1988   Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1988   High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
1988   Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
1987   Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
1987   Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA
1987   Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA
1987   Arizona Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
1987   Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
1987   Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1987   Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Cleveland, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH, USA (solo)
1987   Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1986   Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, USA (solo)
1986   Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho, USA (solo)
1986   The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1986   Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA (solo)
1986   American academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1986   Installation of the Leaning Room”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1986   American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA
1986   Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1986   Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1986   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1985   Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. USA
1985   Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1985   Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1985   Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, England (solo)
1984   Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA (solo)
1984   Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1984   Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, USA
1983   Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA (solo)
1983   ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1982   The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA (solo)
1982   Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
1982   On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA (solo)
1982   Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA
1981   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1981   The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA (solo)
1981   Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1981   Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA (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, USA (solo)
1979   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1978   Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1977   Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA (collaboration with Eric Orr) (solo)
1976 - 1977   The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MI, 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 (1977) USA
1976   Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA
1976   37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1976   San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
1975   National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. , USA
1975   Hayward Gallery, London, England
1975   Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (solo)
1974   Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (toured to Torino, Venice, Milan), Italy (solo)
1973   Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA (solo)
1973   Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
1973   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1973   Pace Gallery New York, NY
1972   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1972   Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA (solo)
1972   Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1971   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1971   Hayward Gallery, London, England
1971   Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA
1970   Tate Gallery, London, England
1970   Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1970   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1969   Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA
1969   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1968   Dokumenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1967   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1967   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1967   Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
1966   Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
1965   Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1965   Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1965   Pace Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
1964   Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1963   Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
1962   Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
Literature
2004   Golstein, Ann (editor). Minimal Future? Art as Object, 1958-1968. (exhibition catalog) Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2004
1999   Belloli, Jay et alia. Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974. (exhibition catalog) Jay Belloli, Linda Centrell, Michelle Deziel, Suzanne Muchnic, Peter Plagens, Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts, 1999.
1997   Bell, Larry. Zones of Experience: The Art of Larry Bell, (includes essays by Ellen Landis,James Moore,Dean Cushman,Douglas Kent Hale ,Peter Frank and the artist), Albuquerque: Harwood Museum, 1997.
1991   Colpitt, Frances et alia. Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School. Los Angeles: University of Southern California, 1991
1982   Doe, Donald Barlett. Santa Fe/Taos, Nebraska Art Association, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, p. 19, 1982.
1982   Levine, Melinda. A Contemporary Survey, Sculpture ’82, (exhibition catalog essay), University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, 1982.
1981   Lin, Henry. Larry Bell, (exhibition catalogue), Trisolini Gallery of Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, October 19-November 21, 1981.
1981   Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Art in Los Angeles: 17 Artists in the Sixties, Portfolio, July/August, 1981, p. 18.
1981   Domerque, Denise. Furniture by Artists, Art and Architecture, vol. 1, No. 1, p. 12-13, 1981.
1981   Abstraction in Los Angeles, 1950-1980: Selections from the Murray and Ruth Bribbin Collection, (exhibition catalog) California State University, Northridge, September 27-October 23, 1981
1981   Friedman, Mary Lou. The Vice President’s House, (exhibition brochure), Loan Collection from Pacific Coast States Museums at the Vice President’s House, Washington, DC, May 1980-April 1981.
1981   Santa Fe Festival of the Arts/Rosalind Constable Invites, (exhibition catalog), October 24, 1981.
1981   Tuchman, Maurice et alia. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties: Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.
1981   Tuchman, Maurice et alia. Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties: Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981.
1981   Wortz, Melinda. Larry Bell; Crelley, Robert. Introduction, (exhibition catalog) Larry Bell: New Work, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, January 31-March 22, 1981.
1980   Adlmann, Jan. New New Mexico, (exhibition catalog) Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 16-Septembe 21, 1980.
1979   Larry Bell’s Taos Iceberg, Rock Mountain News, August 31, 1975. Landis, Ellen. Introduction, Reflections of Realism (exhibition catalog), Albuquerque Museum, November 4-January 27, 1979.
1979   Landis, Ellen. Reflections of Realism. (exhibition catalog) Albuquerque: Museum of Albuquerque, 1979.
1979   Wortz, Melinda. California Perceptions: Light and Space. Selections from the Wortz Collection (exhibition catalog), California State University, Fullerton, 1979.
1978   Carnevali, Gloria. 12 Artistas Internacionales en la Collection, (exhibition catalog), Museo del Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela, November 1978.
1978   Savage, Sue. Larry Bell, from exhibition catalog for the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art, shown at California State University, Long Beach, 1978.
1977   Statement by Larry Bell, Photographs of Southern California Painters and Sculptors, (exhibition catalog), University of California, Santa Barbara, 1977..
1976   Haskell, Barbara. Two Decades of American Sculpture, A Survey: 1950-1976, Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, (exhibition catalog), Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 198, 201-2, 259, 1976.
1976   Turnbull, Betty. The Last Time I Saw Ferris, (exhibition catalog), Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1976.
1975   .Statement by Larry Bell in Larry Bell, (exhibition catalog) Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, Italy, 1975.
1973   Goosen, E.C. Art in Space: Some Turning Points, (exhibition catalog), Detroit Institute of Arts, 1973.
1972   Haskell, Barbara. Larry Bell, (exhibition catalog) Pasadena Art Museum, 1972.
1972   The Tate Gallery, Larry Bell, (exhibition catalog), The Tate Gallery: 1970-1972, p. 80-81, 1972.
1971   Tuchman, Maurice et alia. Eleven Los Angeles Artists: London: The Arts Council of Great Britain/Hayward Gallery, 1971.
1971   Tuchman, Maurice et alia. Eleven Los Angeles Artists: London: The Arts Council of Great Britain/Hayward Gallery, 1971.
1971   Friedman, Martin. Works for New Spaces, (exhibition catalog) Walker Art Center, 1971.
1970   Compton, M; Reid, N. Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, Doug Wheeler, (exhibition catalog) ,Tate Gallery, London, 1970.
1969   Coplans, John. West Coast, 1945-1969. (exhibition catalog) Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1969
1969   Leerings, Jan. Kompas IV-West Coast USA, (exhibition catalog) Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland, November-January 1969.
1969   Licht, Jenifer. Spaces, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1969
1968   Coplans, John. Larry Bell, Serial Imagery, (exhibition catalog) Pasadena: Pasadena Art Museum, 1968.
1968   Coplans, John. Los Angeles 6, (exhibition catalog), Vancouver Art Gallery, 1968.
1968   Banner, Bode, et al. Documenta IV, (exhibition catalog), Museum Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany, 1968.
1968   Rose Baraba, et al. 14 Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, (exhibition catalog), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1968.
1968   Rose Baraba. Larry Bell, A New Aesthetic (exhibition catalog), Washington Gallery of Modern Art,
1968   Rose, Barbara; John Coplans et alia. Los Angeles 6, (exhibition catalog) Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1968
1966   Coplans, John. Ten From Los Angeles, (exhibition catalog) Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1966
1965   Hopps, Walter. Sao Paulo VIII: Catalog for the 8th Annual Biennial in Sao Paulo. Pasadena, 1965.
  Heissenbuttel and Winer. USA West Coast, (exhibition catalog) Hamburg Kunstverein.
  Wight, Frederick S. Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space. (exhibition catalog) UCLA Art Galleries.

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