Llyn Foulkes (American, )

Timeline

1934
Born in Yakima, Washington
1953–1954
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Central Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, WA
1954–1956
U.S. Army, Germany
1957–1959
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
First Award for Painting, Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1963
First Award for Painting (82nd Annual) San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1964
First Los Angeles County Museum New Talent Purchase Grant
1967
First Award for Painting, 5th Paris Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Paris
Representative for the U.S., 9th Sao Paulo Bienale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1977
Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
2008
American Academy of Arts and Letters 2008 Awards in Art
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Exhibitions

2013
Hammer Museum Retrospective. Organized by Ali Subotnick. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2012
dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
Pasadena to Santa Barbra: A Selected History of Art in Southern California 1951- 1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2011
Llyn Foulkes: New paintings from LA, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
ILLUMInations. Venice Biennale, Italy
Perfect Man, Curated by Parinaz and Ackerman, White Columns, New York
Pacific standard time: Crosscurrents in LA Paintings and Sculpture, J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Civic Virtue. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles, CA
Some Assembly Required, Assemblage & Collage, Jack Rutherberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010–2011
Juicy Paint: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Selections form the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Artist’s Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Collecting Biennials. 1931-2008. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Ferus Gallery Greatest Hits Volume I- Franklin Parrasch and Nyehau, The original Ferus Gallery Space, Los Angeles, CA
Ferus Gallery Greatest Hits Volume II- Franklin Parrasch and Nyehau, The Armory, New York, NY
Happy Birthday Mr. Blum, Louis Stein Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
Mad Men, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
2009
The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Collection: MoCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. Hammer Museum of art, curated by Ali Subotnick
Intuitive Eye: The Diana Zlotnick Collection, Los Angeles Valley College, Valley Glen, CA
Modern and Contemporary: A Revolving Exhibition, Jack Rutherberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2008–2009
In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Art Museum, CA
2008
Pretty-Ugly, Ugly-Pretty. curated by Alison Gingeras, Maccarone Gallery and Gavin Brown Gallery, New York
Time & Place: Los Angeles 1958-1968, curated by Lars Nittve, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Old, Weird America, curated by Toby Kamps Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
The Unruly and The Humorous, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Dark Side of the Mouse, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2007–2008
Southern California Art of the 1960’s and 70’s from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles 08 County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art Since the 1960’s: California Experiments. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2007
Llyn Foulkes: Deliverance, Kent Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
A View Within. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, New York, NY
2006
The Lost Frontier, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Restoration, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
A View Within. Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Mr. President, University Art Museum at Albany, New York, NY
Wallace Berman and His Circle, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, NY
Urban Cosmologies. Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Visual Politics, The Art Of Engagement, The Katzen Center at American University, Washington D.C.
Wallace Berman and His Circle, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Wallace Berman and His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles 1955 – 1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Urban Cosmologies, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Tracking and Tracing: Contemporary Acquisitions, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
5 Stories High, Track 16 Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
La Dolce Vita: Selection from the Ruth and Murray Griben Collection, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, American University Museum College of Arts & Sciences, Washington D.C.
181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy, New York, NY
2005
Llyn Foulkes: The Lost Frontier, Kent Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Constructed Image, Kent Gallery, New York, NY
Collection Memories, California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Seminal Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
Choice Small Pieces: Collage and Assemblage, Chouinard School of Art, South Pasadena, CA
Art of Engagement. Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2004
POP from San Francisco Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Humor in Art, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Tear Down This Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Lost But Found, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
2003
L.A. Post Cool, curated by Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Paperwork. Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Humor As Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Painting and Sculpture from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
L.A. Post Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Art of Giving: Recent Acquisitions, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
First Run, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA (solo)
Pop Culture, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
12 Pack: A Dozen Artists from LA’s Brewery Art Colony, Shasta College, Redding, CA
Selections from the Collection, Frye Museum of Art, Seattle, WA
Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Representing L.A.: California Narrative Painting. Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA travels to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christie, TX
One Minute of Your Time: Southern Californian Art from the collection: 1835 to 2001, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
2000
Extreme Ill-Mannered Art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity (1900-2000), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
1999
Made in America: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture From the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Made in America: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture From the Norton Simon Museum. Pasadena, CA
Size Matters, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Radical Past, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
1998
Goldrush to Pop: California Art in Context, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA curated by Mat Gleason, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997
Gallery Paula Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Elusive Paradise, The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Lithographs from Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona college, Claremont, CA
Seattle Collects Paintings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A. (1960-1997). organized by the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark And travels to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany Castello di Rivoli, Italy, Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
20/20 CAF Looks Forward and Back. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1996
The Legend of Mickey Rat, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
A Man’s World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Imaginary Realities: Surrealism, Then and Now, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
Sixteen Artists, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Referencing Innocence/Not, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, CA
1995
Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place, organized by the Laguna Art Museum, CA and travels to: Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, The Oakland Art Museum, CA, Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA (solo)
Permanent Collection: Object and Image, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy in Tokyo, thru the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Bestiaire, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA (catalog; traveled)
1994
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Human Environment and Future, Sonte Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
The Conceptual Landscape, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the end of the Century, Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (catalog; traveled)
1993
I Space, Chicago, IL (solo)
Altered States: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Inadvertently, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA
Mr. Serling`s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
L.A Stories, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
I Am the Enunciator. Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
1990
POP: The First Picture, Kent Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1989
Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (solo)
1988
Llyn Foulkes: Images of Disruption and Delusion, Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX(solo)
Llyn Foulkes: The Sixties, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
Llyn Foulkes: The Eighties, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1987
Forum:Head Studies, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1986
Llyn Foulkes: Portraits, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (solo)
1985
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
1984
Llyn Foulkes: New Rocks, Postcards, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Llyn Foulkes: New Paintings, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1983
AsherFaure, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1978
Llyn Foulkes: Paintings, Collages, Assemblages 1959-78, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
1977
Llyn Foulkes: New Works 1976-1977, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1975
Willard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
1974
Llyn Foulkes:Fifty Paintings, Collages and Prints from Southern California
Collections: A Survey Exhibition 1959-1974, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (solo)
David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1970
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
1969
David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Diana Zlotnick Collection, California State College, Long Beach, CA
1968
Los Angeles Now, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (traveled)
The Sao Paulo 9 Exhibitions, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
L`art Vivant, Fondation Maeght, Saint Paul de Vence, France (traveled)
The U.S.A. at the Paris Biennale, Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
The 9th Sao Paulo Biennale, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil (catalog)
The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1966
Sao Paulo Biennale, Museum Of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Five Younger Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
Sterling Holloway Collection, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
100 American Drawings, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
New York World’s Fair, New York, NY
California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1964
The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (solo)
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
New Realist Exhibition, Museum des 20. Jahrunderts, Vienna, Austria
Four California Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
1963
Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
San Francisco Museum Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Director’s Choice, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1962
Llyn Foulkes: Paintings and Constructions, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo)
Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Objectmakers, Pomona College, Claremont, CA
1961
An Introduction to the Paintings of Llyn Foulkes, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1960
Los Angeles County Museum Annual, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1959
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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