Galerie Daniel Templon

Larry Bell

(American, born 1939)

Larry Bell

Cube #15 (amber), 2006

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1939: Born in Chicago, IL
1957 - 1959: Studied at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1962: Recipient, Copley Foundation Grant
1970: Recipient, Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1975: Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1990: Recipient, State of New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, NM
: Lives and works in Taos, NM, and Venice Beach, CA

Exhibitions

2013: Mirage Collage & Light Knots, White Cube, London (solo)
: Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405 - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2012: Larry Bell - Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2011: Larry Bell - Early Work - Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Larry Bell - Carré d´art - Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes
2010: Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960 - 1970, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2009 - 2010: 1969, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY
2009: Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM (solo)
Larry Bell: New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2008: Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2007: New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
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
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006: Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France (solo)
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV
Translucence, Southern California Art from the1960’s & 1970’s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Cubes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
2005: Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Larry Bell: The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Larry Bell: Cubes, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Glass Cubes and Other Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Larry Bell: New Work, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2004: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN (solo)
2003: St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2002: Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany (solo)
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
SkoRidder AS, Oslo, Norway (solo)
2001: Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX (solo)
Fractions, Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2000: Skulpurengarten Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery (solo)
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, Germany (solo)
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI (solo)
Larry Bell: Cubes, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1999: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany (solo)
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)
1998: Seljord Art Association, Seljord, Norway (solo)
Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway (solo)
Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA (solo)
Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, January-March, Hayward Gallery, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1997: Taos Today, Anderson Contemporary Alburquerque, NM
Drawing Invitational, Galerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
Sculptures & Drawings, Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland (solo)
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (solo)
1996: Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Fractions, New Gallery, Houston, TX
Curatorial Selections: Acqusitions to the Historic, Contemporary and Photographic Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1995: Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, The Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL (solo)
Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO (solo)
Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, NM (solo)
1994: New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Drawings, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1993: Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1992: Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany
1991: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ (solo)
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
1990: Galerie Montenay, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Kammer, Hamburg, Germany (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galerie Rolf Ricke Köln, Cologne, Germany
1989: Museé d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (solo)
New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1988: Spaso House, Moscow, Russia
Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY (solo)
Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (solo)
Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1987: Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France (solo)
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH (solo)
Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Arizona Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1986: American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX (solo)
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID (solo)
The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
American Academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY (solo)
Installation of the Leaning Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1985: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, UK (solo)
1984: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO (solo)
Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1983: Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE (solo)
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1982: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (solo)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (solo)
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1981: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (solo)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA (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 (solo)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978: Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1977: The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; 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
Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX (collaboration with Eric Orr) (solo)
1976: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1975: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (solo)
1974: Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome, Italy (solo)
1973: Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (solo)
Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1972: Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo)
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1971: Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1970: Tate Gallery, London, UK
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1969: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1968: Dokumenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1967: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
1966: Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1963: Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1962: Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)

Public Collections

: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Tate Gallery, London, UK
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC