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John Wesley Biography
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1928 |
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Born in Los Angeles, CA
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1946 - 1950 |
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Los Angeles City College and University of California, Los Angeles, CA
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1976 |
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Guggenheim Fellowship
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1989 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Grant
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1998 |
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American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Award
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2004 |
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American Academy of Arts and Letters, Purchase Award
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2005 |
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Skowhegan Award for Artistic Achievement, Medal in Painting
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2006 |
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The Armory Show, Flagship Artist
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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El Sourdog Hex, Berlin Germany, Cheep! (forthcoming)
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2008
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Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Waddington Galleries, London, England (forthcoming)
Kunstmuseum Berne, Switzerland, There is Desire Left (Knock, Knock) – 40 Years of Fine Arts from the Mondstudio Collection (forthcoming)
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York, NY People
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2007
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Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, The Bumsteads (catalogue)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Two Years
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, Equal, That Is, To The Real Itself (curated by Linda Norden)
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2006
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Zwirner and Wirth, New York, A Collection (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany, John Wesley Retrospective: Works on Paper 1960-2005 (traveling exhibition, with catalogue)
Galerie Hyundai, Seoul, Korea, R. Crumb, Roy Lichtenstein, John Wesley
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2005
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Fredericks & Freiser, New York, NY, Don’t Eat My Eagle: Paintings from the 1960’s
Krefeld Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany, John Wesley Retrospective: Works on Paper 1960-2005 (curated by Martin Hentschel, with catalogue)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, After Cezanne
Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles, CA, On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present
Artek Contemporaries, It’ll Cost You…, New York ,NY
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, POP
Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY, Tete a Tete
Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY, Surface
Artek Contempararies, New York, NY, It’ll Cost You (curated by Beth DeWoody)
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2004
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Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Recent Paintings: 2000-2004 / Drawings from the 1960’s
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, Paintings on Paper (in conjunction with the inauguration of his permanent installation)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany, Funny Cuts- Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art (catalogue)
Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, Disparities & Deforamations: Our Grotesque (curated by Robert Storr, with catalogue)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, The Big Nothing (with brochure)
Hines Gallery at West 52, New York, NY, Line
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY International Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
The Elkon Gallery, New York NY. Figurative Work on Paper by 20th Century Masters
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2003
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Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York City, New Paintings
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, Paintings on Paper
Arario Gallery, Cheonan, South Korea, POP thru OUT (catalogue)
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Funny Papers
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2002
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Gagosian Gallery, London, England, New Paintings (catalogue)
Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY, New Paintings
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Time and Again
Nassau County Museum of Art, NY, The Presidential Suite
Wall Street Rising, New York, NY, New York Painting & Sculpture & Sculpture (curated by Richard Marshall)
Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, John Wesley Love’s Lust (curated by Linda Norden)
Onnasch Austellungen, Berlin, Germany
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-66, (curated by Walter Hopps, David E. Brauer, and Jim Edwards).
Museum of Dole, Dole, France, The “W” Show (curated by Bob Nikas)
Lawing Gallery, Houston, TX, Locating Drawing (curated by Maureen Mahoney and Doug Lawing)
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, Les Annes Pop
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2000
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PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, John Wesley: Retrospective (catalogue)
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, Nudes
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, The Figure: Another Side of Modernism Paintings from 1950 to the Present
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