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Larry Bell    (American, 1939)




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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

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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