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Jeffrey Vallance    (American, 1955)

 Jeffrey Vallance - Morticia Madonna (Sculptures) h: 13.5 x w: 12 x d: 3.6 in / h: 34.3 x w: 30.5 x d: 9.1 cm
Jeffrey Vallance
Morticia Madonna 2007
 
 Jeffrey Vallance - Vladimir Lenin: Relics of the USSR (Sculptures) h: 17.2 x w: 14.4 x d: 8.2 in / h: 43.7 x w: 36.6 x d: 20.8 cm
Jeffrey Vallance
Vladimir Lenin: Relics of the USSR 2006
 
 

Biography
1955 Born Torrance, CA
1979 BA, California State University, Northridge, CA
1981 MFA, The Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Winning entry for Venice Family Clinic Art Walk Venice, CA
Lives in Las Vegas, Nevada

Exhibitions
2002 “Relics of LBJ’s 1966 Visit to Australia,” Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
“Clown Stains,” UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas.
Presidential Site, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York
“Dumbo and Beyond,” Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas.
The Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia.
“Off the Grid,” Lehmann Maupin, New York
“(The World May Be) Fantastic,” Sydney Biennale 2002, Sydney, Australia.
2001 “The Virgin, The Poet and the President,” Lehmann Maupin, New York (solo)
1996 “Kungliga Palatset,” (Collaborative Installation with Jane Callister.) Konsthögskolan, Umeå, Sweden.
“The Magic Hour,” organized by Neue Galerie at the Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria.
“inSITE 2000,” (Second Phase), The Marriot Courtyard Guadalupe Apparition (simulacrum found on marble column in the Marriot Hotel lobby), San Diego, CA.
2000 “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000,” Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
“Jeffrey Vallance: Culture Mix,” film program, MK 2 Project Café, Paris, France, March 7.
“inSITE 2000,” San Diego, CA/Tijuana, Mexico (installation at the Tijuana Wax Museum).
“Blurry Lines,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.
“Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art,” Klemm Gallery – Studio Angelico, Siena Heights University (founded by the Adrian Dominican Sisters), Adrian, MI.
“Faith,” Dynamite Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI.
1999 Paranormal Diagrams: Heretical Theories, Art Institute of Boston
“Anomalies,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Jeffrey Vallance/Drawings, Y1 Stockholm, Sweden
“Midnight Walkers and City Sleepers,” W139, The Erotic Museum, Red Light District, Amsterdam.
“Heaven,” Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany; traveling in 1999-2000 to the Tate Gallery, Liverpool.
“Rue Louise Weiss,” Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ville de Maymac, France.
“cARTe blanche,” Centre Culturel Français de Turin, Turin, Italy.
“Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk,” Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
“God Don’t Make No Junk,” with Jim Shaw and Rev. Ethan Acres, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1998 Paranormal Diagrams: Heretical Theories, Lehmann Maupin New York, NY
1-15 (Interstate Highway Fifteen) (Curatorial works), Post Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Everybody Loves a Clown, Baby, Why Don't You?, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University
“Deluxe: Who and What’s HOT in Las Vegas,” SITE Las Vegas, NV.
“Luck of the Draw,” Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV.
“The 100 Dollar and Up Show,” POST, Los Angeles, CA.
“Beyond the Matter of Space: Big Ideas in a Small Room,” curated by John Geary, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA.
1997 Anomalies, Contemporary Art Collective Las Vegas, CA
The Vegas Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
Drawings...A Bi-Coastal Invitational, Meyerson & Nowinski Seattle, WA
The Vegas Show (curatorial works), Rosamund Felsen Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1996 Popoccultural, South London Gallery London, England
The Cranberry Show: An Exhibition of Good Taste (curatorial works), The Cranberry Museum Henderson, NV
The Magic Show (curatorial work), Magic and Movie Hall of Fame O'Sheas Casino, Las Vegas, NV
1995 Liberace! The Man, The Myth, Temporary Contemporary Gallery Las Vegas, NV
1995 The Debbie Reynolds Art Show! (curatorial work), Debbie Reynolds Casino-Museum Las Vegas, NV
1995 Clown Oasis (curatorial work), Ron Lee's World of Clowns Museum Henderson, NV
1995 Norwegian Satanism (Television), Jack van Impe, Trinity Broadcasting Network
1995 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal, The Institute of Contemporay Art Boston, MA
1995 Selections from the Robert A. Rowan Trust Collection, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1995 20 Hot Artists Who Are Cooler Than Science, Cafe Expresso Roma Las Vegas, NV
1995 Confronting Nature, Main Art Gallery California State University, Fullerton, CA
1995 Collectism, a look at collectors and their magnificent obsessions, Track 16 Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1995 From L.A. with Love, Galerie Praz-Delavallade Paris, France
1995 A Glimpse of the Norton Collection: as revealed by Kim Dingle, Santa Monica Museum Santa Monica, CA
1995 The World of Jeffrey Vallance, Santa Monica Museum of Art Santa Monica, CA
1994 The Nixon Museum, Galerie Praz-Delavallade Paris, France
1994 Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1994 Pen and Ink, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA
1994 Pro-Creation, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Germany
1994 Facts and Figures, Selections from the Lannan Foundation, Lannan Foundation Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cronologias, Tem'stocles 44 Mexico City, Mexico
1994 Hi-Lite on Portraits, Scott Rot Farnum, Robert Berman Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1994 The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1994 Journals, Galerie Praz-Delavallade Paris, France
1993 L.A. Stories, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Los Angeles, CA
1993 World of Difference; Art, Tourism and Cultural Dialogues, Euphrat Gallery De Anza College, Cupertino, CA
1993 Carnet de Voyage, Galerie Praz-Dela Vallade Paris, France
1993 Kustom Kulture, Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach, CA
1993 Three is a Shroud, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1993 Randy Travis Project, Randy Travis Museum Nashville, TN
1993 Emi Fontana Gallery Milan, Italy
1993 And Now a Moment a Prayer (Television), Germany TV channel 40 Cologne, Germany
1993 Superbarrio Protest Against Televisa, Televisa T.V. Station Mexico City, Mexico
1993 Crawling on My Knees to the Virgin, Basilica de Guadalupe Mexico, City. Mexico
1993 Crawling up the Holy Stairs, Scala Sancta Sancta Sanctorum, Rome
1992 Appointment at the Vatican, Office of the Secretariat of State Citta del Vaticano, Vatican, Rome
1992 Self-Portrait Sudarium, Obelisk, St. Peter's Square Vatican, Rome
1992 Randy Travis Museum Nashville, TN
1992 Splashing with Barry (Marian Barry Pool Party) (peformance), Marian Barry's house Washington D.C.
1992 Museo Del Centro Internazionale Di Sindonologia Turin, Italy
1992 Paul McCarthy, Lari Pittman, Jeffrey Vallance, Studio Guenzani Milan, Italy
1992 I Thought California Would be Different: New Work in the Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum Laguan Beach, CA
1992 The Crucifixion Through the Modern Eye, Hearst Art Gallery Saint Mary's College, Moraga, CA
1992 Just Pathetic II, American Fine Arts New York, NY
1992 Group Drawing Exhibition, Stuart Regen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1992 Mostra da Gravura Cidade de Curitba, Museu Da Gravura Curitiba, Brasil
1992 Viaggio a Los Angeles, Castello di Rivara Torino, Italy
1992 Boxes, Space Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1992 LAX, Galerie Krinzinger Vienna, Austria
1992 Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix - B. & L. Polla Geneva, Switzerland
1991 Environmental Legacies: Countdown to the Millennium, Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena, CA
1991 Monnaie de singe, Ecole De Nimes Nimes, France
1991 The Store Show, Richard Bennet Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1991 20th Century Collage, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City, Mexico
1991 Letters, Christine Burgin Gallery New York, NY
1991 Quick Coagulation Forms The August Corpse, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1991 Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1991 Addicitions, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA
1991 Jeffrey Vallance Presents The Richard Nixon Museum, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1991 Marc Jancou Gallery Zurich, Switzerland
1991 Nixon Convention, Inn at the Park Hotel Anaheim, CA
1990 Nixon Artifact Conference, Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace Yorba Linda, CA
1990 Forgiveness, Southwest Museum Los Angeles, CA
1990 All Quiet on the Western Front?, Espace Dieu Paris, France
1990 Con/Texts, Moody Gallery Houston, TX
1990 After Laughter, Laughing Matters Festival Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1990 Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Arroyo Arts Collective Highland Park, CA
1990 After Taste, Future Perfect Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1990 Past & Present -- Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1990 Stained Sheets/Holy Shroud, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art Santa Monica, CA
1990 Surf Board Art, Ace Market Place (Venice Art Walk) Venice, CA
1990 China: June 4, 1989, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA
1990 Just Pathetic, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1990 L.A. My Third Lady, Galerie Tanja Grunert Koln, Germany
1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, University of California Los Angeles, CA
1989 Blinky the Friendly Hen, 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1989 Blinky (video collaboration with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto), Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1989 Open Channels IV, Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1989 Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
1989 Fukui International Video Biennale (catalogue), Fukui International Video Biennale Fukui, Japan
1989 Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
1989 Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
1989 Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena, CA
1989 World Wide Video Festival (catalogue), Kijkhuis The Hague, Holland
1989 Fossil Fuel and Tree of Renewal, Future Perfect Los Angeles, CA
1989 A Journey to Extremes, Venice Art Walk Venice, CA
1989 The Temptation, Collezione d'Arte Religiosa Moderna Citt del Vaticano, Vatican
1989 Life Styles of the Rich and Famous/Trinity Broadcasting Network-Kava Ceremony (performance), Beyond Baroque Venice, CA
1988 Autopsy (performance), Office of Dr. Roy L. Walford Venice, CA
1988 Blinky's 10 Year Anniversary, Exhumation (performance), Los Angeles Pet Memorial Park Calabasas, CA
1988 The Throne Room: Icelandic Women and the King of Tonga Part II, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1988 Mermaids and Myths of the Sea, Community Arts Inc. San Francisco, CA
1988 Tools, San Francisco Airports Commission Exhibitions San Francisco, CA
1988 Recent Portraits, Tatistcheff Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1988 Risibility Askew, Bess Cutler Gallery New York, NY
1988 Open Channels IV, Bruce and Norman, Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1988 Video-tape showing, Electronic Arts Intermix New York, NY
1988 Dialogue Prague/Los Angeles, Lidovy Dum Prague, Czechoslovakia
1988 America Pie, Bess Cutler Gallery New York, NY
1988 Coast to Coast, Stones Gallery Lihue, Kauai
1987 LA2DA, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA
1987 Los Angeles/Houston, DiverseWorks Houston, TX
1987 Animals, California State University Fullerton, CA
1987 Animal Art, Steirischer Herbst Graz, Austria
1987 Group Show, USC Atelier Santa Monica, CA
1987 Just Cows, Ankrum Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1987 Facings, Downey Museum of Art Downey, CA
1987 Alumi Invitational, Otis/Parsons Los Angeles, CA
1987 Houston Office (performance), DiverseWorks Houston, TX
1987 Icelandic Women and the King of Tonga, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1987 Tropical Topics, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art Monterey, CA
1987 Re:Placement, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA
1987 Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1987 Artist's Liaision, Evanston Art Center Evanston, IL
1987 Art Against Aids, Murray Feldman Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1987 New Works on Paper, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1987 The Joan Rivers Show (Television), Fox Television Hollywood, CA
1986 Arts Illustrated (Television), KCET Los Angeles, CA
1986 DoFinni (Television), Reykjavik Television Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA
1986 Meanwhile, back at the ranch...., Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Los Angeles, CA
1986 Jeffrey Vallance, Living Art Museum Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 Tumu Nu Ritual (performance), Areora Village Atiu, Cook Islands
1986 Meeting with Vigdis Finnbogadottir, President fo Iceland (performance), Forseti Hsll Reykjavik, Iceland
1985 Office, The Old Print Shop Los Angeles, CA
1985 I Joined the Samoan Police Force (performance), Leone Village American Samoa
1985 Audience with His Majesty King Taufa'ahau Topou IV (performance), Royal Palace Nuku'alofa, Tonga
1985 Tongan Jam Session (performance), Zero-D Recording Studio Nuku'alofa, Tonga
1985 Landing Place of the Spirits (performance), Matavera Village Rarotonga, Cook Islands
1985 Best of the West, Zero Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1985 Off the Street, Cultural Affairs Department Los Angeles, CA
1985 16 x 26 Landscapes, Quint Gallery San Diego, CA
1985 Perspectives 1985, California State University Northridge, CA
1985 B & W, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
1984 Narrative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum Palm Springs, CA
1984 California Bookworks: The Last Five Years, Otis/Parsons Los Angeles, CA
1984 American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1984 Reykjavik/Origlio, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1984 Regis Philbin Show (Television), ABC Television New York, NY
1983 The Cutting Edge (Television), MTV host on monthly show New York, NY
1983 The David Letterman Show (Television), NBC, guest New York, NY
1983 TV Jack (Television), Asahi Broadcasting Corporation Osaka, Japan
1983 Aitutaki, A Series of Pacific Images, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1983 Contemporary Collages: Extension, Claremont Colleges Galleries Claremont, CA
1983 Dogs, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
1983 Summer Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1983 Facings, Downey Museum of Art Downey, CA
1983 Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant, Japanese Cultural and Community Center Los Angeles, CA
1983 Miles Above: 19 Return to Otis/Parsons, Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design Los Angeles, CA
1983 Art in the Dark, Claremont Graduate School Claremont, CA
1983 Spy Tiki Modern, Fun Gallery West San Francisco, CA
1982 New Now Narratives, California State University Northridge, CA
1982 Critical Perspectives, P.S.1 Long Island, NY
1982 5 From L.A., Mandeville Art Gallery University of California, San Diego, CA
1982 The Atomic Salon, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York, NY
1982 Imaginative Sculpture, Security Pacific Bank Los Angeles, CA
1982 New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1982 Stephen Seemayer/Jeffrey Vallance, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
1982 Jeffrey Vallance, Social Historian, University Art Museum Santa Barbara, CA
1982 Jeffrey Vallance, Claremont Graduate School Claremont, CA
1982 Alive and Well (Television), USA Cable (Interview with Meredith MacCrae)
1981 Machines and Other Articles, Rosamund Felsen Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1981 International Artists' Book Show, Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL
1981 M.F.A. Exhibition, Parsons School of Design Los Angeles, CA
1981 Humor in Art (catalogue), Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
1981 The Fix-It-Up Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Los Angeles, CA
1981 The Anti-WW3 Internationalist Art Show, Parsons School of Design New York, NY
1980 Westwood Clay National 1980, Otis Parsons Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1980 Show and Tell, Conejo Valley Art Museum Janss Mall, Thousand Oaks, CA
1980 Group Exhibition, Social and Public Art Resource Center Venice, CA
1980 An American in Senegal, Daniel Sorano Hall of National Treasure Dakar, Republic of Senegal
1979 Women Speak Out About Insects, Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design Los Angeles, CA
1979 American Symptoms-Art Parked, on Main near Windward Venice, CA
1979 Artist as Social Critic -1979, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1978 World Imitation-Products Exhibition, Gallery 405 E. 4th St., 3rd floor Los Angeles, CA
1978 International Self-Portrait Invitational, Northlight Gallery Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1978 The Blimp Show, Junior Arts Center Gallery Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Blinky, the Friendly Hen, Los Angeles Pet Cemetery Calabasas, CA
1978 Statements and Drawings by U.S. Senators, Entrance Gallery L.A. Institute of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1978 The U.S. Senate: A Survey on the Arts, Washington Project for the Arts Washington, D.C.
1977 Wall Socket Plate Installation, Members' Room, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
1977 Dinky, My Pen Pal (performance), ongoing correspondence by U.S. Mail
1977 Mojave Case (performance), Mojave Desert, CA
1977 The Sam Yorty Show (Television),
1976 Bicentennial Snails, Canoga Park, CA
1975 Man Eating Popcorn at Zody's, Zody's Department Store Canoga Park, CA
1973 L.A. City Hall Frisbee Throwing Spectacular (performance),
1973 Seymour (performance), Los Angeles City Hall Los Angeles, CA
1973 Youth Expression 73, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
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