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Leslie Lerner    (American, 1949)

 Leslie Lerner - #551- My Life in France: The Man With The Wooden Arm, All the Possibilities in One Night (Paintings) h: 18 x w: 18 in / h: 45.7 x w: 45.7 cm
Leslie Lerner
#551- My Life in France: The Man With The Wooden Arm, All the Possibilities in One Night 1995
 
 Leslie Lerner - #601- My Life in France: The Mountain Fortress (Paintings) h: 66 x w: 66 in / h: 167.6 x w: 167.6 cm
Leslie Lerner
#601- My Life in France: The Mountain Fortress 1996
 
 Leslie Lerner - #642- My Life in France: The Sky Above My Home is Alive with Birds (Paintings) h: 16 x w: 16 in / h: 40.6 x w: 40.6 cm
Leslie Lerner
#642- My Life in France: The Sky Above My Home is Alive with Birds 1996
 
 Leslie Lerner - #915- My Life in France: The Lost Boy, High Sierra (Paintings) h: 70 x w: 60 in / h: 177.8 x w: 152.4 cm
Leslie Lerner
#915- My Life in France: The Lost Boy, High Sierra 2001
 
  

Biography
1949 Born in Chicago, IL
1975 Instructor in Painting and Drawing, San Francisco State University, CA
1975 Instructor in Life Drawing, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1976 Instructor in Painting and Drawing, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1985 Instructor in Painting, San Francisco State University, CA
1985 Crocker-Kingsley Juror's Award, Crocker Museum, Sacramento, CA
1986 Visiting Artist in Painting, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1986 Instructor in Painting and Drawing, San Francisco State University, CA
1986 Marin Arts Council Achievement Grant, Marin County, CA
1986 Eureka Fellowship, The Mortimer Fleishacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1987 Visiting Instructor in Painting and Drawing, San Francisco State University
1989 Visiting Artist, Painting; University of California, Davis, CA
1989 Senior Lecturer in Painting, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1990 Sr. Lecturer, Painting; Grad. School Seminar, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1990 Pollock - Krasner Foundation Achievement Award, New York, NY
1990 Westaf Grant: Western States Arts Federation, Santa Fe, NM
1990 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Achievement Award, New York, NY
1990 Westaf Grant: Western States Arts Federation - NEA, Santa Fe, NM
1990 - 1994 Fine Art Faculty, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
1990 - 1994 Director Pre-College Perspective Summer Program, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
1995 Fine Art Faculty - Painting and Advanced Drawing, Modern Art & Contemporary Criticism, Senior Thesis Coordinator; Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida
1996 Fine Art Faculty - Painting and Advanced Drawing, Senior Thesis Coordinator Awarded Professional Development Grant
1997 Fine Art Faculty - Painting and Senior Thesis Coordinator, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida
1997 Awarded Professional Development Grant/Authored ‘The Expedition’ one of three chosen out of eleven
1998 Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Grant
1998 - 999 Fine Art Faculty- Painting, Drawing, Collaboration; Ringling School Of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida
BFA, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Exhibitions
1999 Byron C. Cohen Gallery For Contemporary Art, ‘Stories’
1999 Leslie Lerner, Squeak Camwath, Tim Berry Kansas City, MO
1999 ‘Art In The News’ Contemporary Art Museum, The University Of South Florida (12 artists create art in full page spreads In The Tampa Herald Tribune) Tampa, FL
1999 Florida Fellowship Grant Exhibition (traveling exhibition state of Florida)
1999 Littlejohn Contemporary, November, New York, NY (solo)
1999 The Contemporary Art Museum, University Of South Florida, Tampa, FL (solo)
1999 The Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA (solo)
1999 ‘The Man With The Wooden Arm:The Imagined City’ (solo)
1998 Littlejohn Contemporary, New York, NY (solo)
1998 ‘Small Works’ Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1998 ‘Plate Marks’ Norton Museum Of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
1998 University Of Arizona, Joseph Gross Gallery, ‘Hindsight’, Tuscon, AZ
1998 Palo Alto Cultural Center, ‘Construct For Thought An Invitational Box Exhibition’, Palo Alto, CA
1998 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art ‘About Face’, New York, NY
1997 Norton Museum Of Art, ‘Selections From The Contemporary Collection’ West Palm Beach, FL
1997 The Columbus Museum, ‘Body And Soul: Contemporary Southern Figures’ Columbus GA Traveling Exhibition Catalog
1997 Mira Mar Gallery, ‘A Few Great, Big Pictures’ Sarasota, FL
1997 Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
1996 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
1996 Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
1996 Galerie Vieleers, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
1996 Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA (solo)
1996 Triton Museum Of Art,’ Drawings: Realism To Abstraction: A Survey of Contemporary Drawings of the Bay Area Santa Clara, CA
1996 Johnson county community College Gallery Of Art, catalog
1996 ‘Beyond Bounds III: A Frame Of Mind’ Overland, KS
1996 Palo Alto Cultural Center,’ The Mythic Narrative’ Palo, Alto, CA
1995 The Tampa Museum of Art, ‘New Horizons in Printmaking’ Tampa, FL
1995 Cohen/Berkowitz Gallery, ‘Paper View’ Kansas City, MO
1995 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
1995 Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (solo)
1995 The Boca Raton Museum of Art, 'Touchstones From The Graphic Studio and Limestone Press/Hine Editions ', Boca Raton FL
1995 The Fred Jones Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, 'The Stephane Janssen Collection of Contemporary American and European Art,' Norman, OK
1995 Susan Cummins Gallery, ‘Historic References,’ Mill Valley, CA
1995 San Francisco International Airport, ‘Water’ San Francisco, CA
1995 Palo Alto Cultural Center, ‘Lyricism & Light, Bay Area Figurative Painting’ Palo Alto, CA
1995 The Stephane Janssen Collection of Contemporary American and European Art, The Fred Jones Museum of Art The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
1995 Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art, Rosenberg + Kaufman Fine Art New York, NY
1994 Elaine Horwitch Gallery, Elaine Horwitch Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
1994 Historic References, Susan Cummins Gallery Mill Valley, CA
1994 Water, San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, CA
1994 Between the Covers, Palo Alto Cultural Center Palo Alto, CA
1994 Lyricism & Light, Bay Area Figurative Painting, Palo Alto Cultural Center Palo Alto, CA
1994 Cathy Clayton Gallery Tampa, FL
1994 Small Works, Elaine Horwitch Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
1993 New Regional Painting II, Moody Gallery, University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL
1993 New Regional Painting II, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art Sarasota, FL
1993 Cityscapes, Hope Street Gallery Los Angeles, CA
1993 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery New York, NY
1993 23rd Anniversary Exhibition, Stremmel Gallery Reno, NV
1993 The Pet Show, Helander Gallery New York, NY
1993 Past, Present, Future, the 20th Anniversary, Elaine Horwitch Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
1993 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery New York, NY
1993 On Big River, Susan Cummins Gallery Mill Valley, CA
1992 Clayton Gallery, Clayton Gallery Tampa, FL
1992 Painting Invitational, Helander Gallery New York, NY
1992 Corollaries of Apprehension, Oliver Art Center California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1992 What's New, Helander Gallery Palm Beach, FL
1992 New to the Gallery, Susan Cummins Gallery Mill Valley, CA
1992 Elaine Horwitch Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
1992 Annual Drawing Invitational, Koplin Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1992 MiraMar Gallery Sarasota, FL
1991 California Cityscapes, San Diego Museum of Art San Diego, CA
1991 Gallery Artists Exhibit, Tibor de Nagy Gallery New York, NY
1991 Recent Aquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Part II, 1950-1991, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco San Francisco, CA
1991 The Making of a Museum - The Stephane Janssen Collection, Scottsdale Center for the Arts Scottsdale, AZ
1991 Stremmel Gallery Reno, NV
1991 Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery New York, NY
1990 Rena Bransten Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1990 Miniatures, Marilyn Butler Gallery Scottsdale, AZ
1990 Day and Night: The Los Angeles Urban Landscape, Angels Gate Cultural Center San Pedro, CA
1990 Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1990 Limestone Press, Simon James Gallery Berkeley, CA
1990 Bridges, Artists Response to Disaster, Berkeley Art Center Berkeley, CA
1990 New Romantic Painting, Clayton Gallery Tampa, FL
1990 Season's Best, Tibor de Nagy Gallery New York, NY
1990 Artist as Story Teller, Tampa Museum of Art Tampa, FL
1990 Fantastic Landscapes, Bank of America World Headquarters San Francisco, CA
1989 Fresh Views, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
1989 Landscapes, Marilyn Butler Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1989 Drawings: Selections from the Collection, The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
1989 Marilyn Butler Gallery, Marilyn Butler Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1988 Rena Bransten Gallery, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1988 Roger Ramsey Gallery, Roger Ramsey Gallery Chicago, IL
1988 Bank of America World Headquarters, Bank of America World Headquarters San Francisco, CA
1988 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art Monterey, CA
1988 Limestone Press: Prints 1985-1988, de Saisset Museum Santa Clara, CA
1988 France, Mark Fishman, de Saisset Museum Santa Clara, CA
1988 Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco, CA
1988 The Landscape: Real and Imagined, Stephen Rosenberg Gallery New York, NY
1987 Roger Ramsay Gallery Chicago, IL
1987 On the Trail, Claudia Chaplin Gallery Stinson Beach, CA
1987 Bay Area Artists Small Works Invitational, Janet Steinberg Gallery San Francisco, CA
1987 Bay Area Drawings, Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA
1987 Vistas: Approaches to the Panoramic Landscape, G.W. Einstein Gallery New York, NY
1987 The Right Foot Show, San Francisco Ar, San Francisco International Airport San Francisco, CA
1987 The Extended Figure, University Art Gallery, Hayward State University Hayward, CA
1987 Quint Gallery San Diego, CA
1987 A Small Agreement, Mark Fishman, Janet Steinberg Gallery San Francisco, CA
1987 University of Wisconsin Center, University of Wisconsin Center Marshfield, WS
1987 de Saisset Museum, de Saisset Museum Santa Clara, CA
1987 Janet Steinberg Gallery, Janet Steinberg Gallery San Francisco, CA
1987 Falkirk Cultural Center, Falkirk Cultural Center San Rafael, CA
1986 Quint Gallery, Quint Gallery San Diego, CA
1986 Best Pick, The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
1986 All California 86, Laguna Beach Museum of Art Laguna Beach, CA
1986 Let's Play House, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery New York, NY
1986 Drawings from Northern California, Nelson Gallery University of California, Davis, CA
1986 Shelter, Richmond Art Center Richmond, CA
1986 California Painting, J.B. Speed Museum Louisville, KY
1985 1078 Gallery Chico, CA
1985 California Painting, Visual Art Center Anchorage, AK
1985 12 x 26 Landscapes, Quint Gallery San Diego, CA
1985 Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Crocker Museum Sacramento, CA
1985 Janet Steinberg Gallery, Janet Steinberg Gallery San Francisco, CA
1984 Eight California Artists, October Gallery St. Helena, CA
1984 All California 84, Laguna Beach Museum of Art Laguna Beach, CA
1982 Urban Landscapes, Van Doren Gallery San Francisco, CA
1981 Van Doren Gallery, Van Doren Gallery San Francisco, CA
1980 Henri Gallery, Henri Gallery Washington, D.C.
1980 The Last Three Days of Antoine Watteau, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
1980 A Visible Chinese Horizon, Mark Fishman, Washington Project for the Arts Washington, D.C.
1980 California Box Exhibition, M.H. DeYoung Museum - Downtown Center San Francisco, CA
1980 Invitational Sculpture, Henri Gallery Washington, D.C.
1978 21st Annual Chatuaqua Exhibition of American Art, 21st Annual Chatuaqua Exhibition of American Art Chatuaqua, NY
1978 3 from 228 Grant, San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
1978 Our Romance with Technology, Works San Jose, CA
1978 Van Doren Gallery, Van Doren Gallery San Francisco, CA
1977 American Realism, Reed College Portland, OR
1977 Invitational Drawing Exhibition, San Diego Fine Arts Gallery San Diego, CA
1977 The Human Figure in the 70's, Kohler Art Center Sheboygan, WI
1976 From Mona to Mao, Berkeley Art Center Berkeley, CA
1976 Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
1976 Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
1975 John Berggruen Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA

Literature
1998 ‘Leslie Lerner’ Review ART May 15, 1998
1998 'Sarasotan's Atr Exhibit Seeks Order in Conflict' Tampa Tribune-Bay Life, Tampa, FL May 31
1996 'Faking (Out) France' New Times February 8, 1996
1996 'Artist Looks at Familiar in a Different Way' Kansas City Star February 2, 1996
1996 ‘Leslie Lerner’ Review ART December 15, 1996
1995 ‘Leslie Lerner’ Cover Magazine May 1995
1995 ‘Leslie Lerner Refined Resources’ THE Magazine, May 1994, Paul Ivey
1989 ‘Leslie Lerner’ Los Angeles Times, May 12, Kristena McKenna
1985 ‘Leslie Lerner’ Art In America, October, Jerome Tarshis
1975 ‘Leslie Lerner Adds Some Magic to Realism’ ArtNews, September, John Berggruen
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