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1935
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Born on July 24 in Sacramento, CA
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1957
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B.A Sacramento State College, B.A., Sacramento, CA
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1958
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M.A Sacramento State College, M.A., Sacramento, CA
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1986
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National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
United States/France Exchange Fellowship
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Lives and works in Oakland, CA and Horta de San Juan, Spain
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2013 |
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Pop Art Accrochage, Fluegel-Roncak Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
Pinups & Portraits - IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA |
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2012 |
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Mel Ramos: 50 Years of Superheroes, Nudes, and Other Pop Delights, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (CA), USA (solo)
Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany |
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2011 |
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Galerie Ernst Hilger Vienna, Austria |
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2010 |
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50 Jahre Pop Art, Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany (solo) |
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2009 |
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Marcel Strouk, Galerie Rive Gauche, Paris, France (solo) |
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2008 |
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True Romance, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany
Posing, Kunsthalle Dermstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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2007 |
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Prime Time - Idols and Icons, Vonderbank Artgalleries, Berlin, Germany
Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection, Oklahoma CIty Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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2006 |
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Life as a Legend - Marilyn Monroe, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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2005 |
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Photorealism, Then and Now, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Girls on film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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Summer Jam, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Dusseldorf, Germany |
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2003 |
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Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Riva Yares Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
Bemarducci-Meisel, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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Fischerplatz Galerie, Ulm, Germany
Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France |
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2001 |
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Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
Galeria Alvarez, Porto, Portugal
Palazzo dei Sette, Comune di Orvieto, Italy
Galerie Hilger, Vienna, Austria
Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy |
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2000 |
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Expo 2000, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Vonderbank, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunsthaus, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Galerie Levy, Hamburg, Germany
Kunstforum Fränkisches Seenland, Gunzenhausen, Germany |
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1999 |
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Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Essen ,Germany
Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Wilhelmshaven, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany
Kunsthaus Hannover, Hanover, Germany
Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy |
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1998 |
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Galerie Eikelmann & Auktionhaus Karbsten, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galeria Nova, Bad Homburg, Germany |
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1997 |
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Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mel Ramos - Oleos, Acuareias, Dibujos, Galeria Levy Madrid, Madrid, Spain |
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1996 |
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Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms), Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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1991 |
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Mel Ramos - The Heroine of 1962-64, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY |
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1987 |
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The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media, The Oakland Museum Oakland, CA |
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1986 |
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Mel Ramos Early Paintings, Galerie Tanja Grunert Cologne, W. Germany |
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1984 |
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Automobile and Culture, The Museum of Cotemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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1980 |
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Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey, The Rose Art Museum, Brandies University Waltham, MA |
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1979 |
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Selections from the Frederick Weisman Collection of California Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washinton, DC |
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1974 |
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Pop Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
David Stuart Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1970 |
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Pop Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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1964 |
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Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY |
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Selected Public Collections |
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Kunsthaus Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
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Franklin House Collection, San Francisco, CA
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The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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Indianapolis Museum of Art,Indiana, IN
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
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The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Düsseldorf, Germany
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Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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1994 |
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Rosenblum, Robert. Mel Ramos - Pop Art Images, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, Germany |
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1980 |
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Ramos, Mel. Mel Ramos: Watercolors, Lancaster-Miller Publishers, Berkeley, CA |
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1975 |
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Claridge, Elizabeth. The Girls of Mel Ramos, Playboy Press, Chicago, IL |
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