Lari Pittman
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Biography
Lari Pittman è nato nel 1952 a Los Angeles (CA). Vive e lavora a Los Angeles.Pittman_bio
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE PERSONALI
2018
“Portraits of Textiles & Portraits of Humans”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA
2017
“Lari Pittman”, Gerhardsen Garner, Oslo, Norway
“Lari Pittman / Silke Otto-Knapp: Subject, Predicate, Object”, Regen Projects, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
2016
“Lari Pittman: Grisaille, Ethics & Knots (paintings with cataplasms)”, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
“Lari Pittman: Mood Books”, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA
“Lari Pittman: Noctures”, Thomas Dane Gallery, London
“Lari Pittman: NUEVOS CAPRICHOS”, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2015
Lari Pittman: Homage to Natalia Goncharova… When the avant-garde and the folkloric kissed in public, Proxy Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Lari Pittman: Curiosities from Late Western Impaerium, Gladstone Gallery, Belgium
2013
Lari Pittman: From a Late Western Impaerium, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2012
though-forms,Thomas Dane, London
Irrevocable, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin
2011
Lari Pittman, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2010
Orangerie, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Lari Pittman, Regen Projects II, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Lari Pittman, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
2008
“Lari Pittman”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
“Lari Pittman” Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2006
Lari Pittman, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
2005
Villa Arson, Nice
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2004
greengrassi, London
2003
Galerie Philomene Magers, München
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2002
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
2001
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2000
Studio Guenzani, Milano
1999
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1998
Once a Noun, Now a Verb, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Spacex Gallery, Exeter; Cornerhouse, Manchester; ICA, London
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Greengrassi, London
1996
Lari Pittman Works on Paper, 1982 to 1995, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara (cur. by Elizabeth A. Brown); UCLA, Armand Hammer
Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles *
Lari Pittman,Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cur. by Howard Fox); travels to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.*
White Cube, London
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2018
“Give a damn”, Tang Teaching Museum and Art GAllery, Saratoga Springs, NY
2017
“The Painters,” University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
“What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s”, Regen Projects, Santa Monica, Los Angeles
2016
Art from Los Angeles: 1990 – 2015, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2015
Inaugural Installation, The Broad, Los Angeles, CA
Black and White Mike, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of Our Time, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art AIDS America, West Hollywood Library and One Archives Gallery and Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travels to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacome, WA; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY.
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Left Coast: California Political Art, The James Gallery, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY
75 Gifts for 75 Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2014
Treasure of Lima: A Buried Exhibition, curated by Nadine Samman TBA21: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Academy Cocos Island, Costa Rica
Earthly Delights, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL, June 28 – November 30, 2014
Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, May 25 – September 14, 2014
2013
Comic Future, curated by Fairfax Dorn, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, September 27, 2013-January 26, 2014; traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, May 17-August 3, 2014
Art and its Discontents, University of California Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, October 19-December 13, 2013
2012
Letters From Los Angeles, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA, November 17-December 22, 2012
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)Chicago, IL, February-May 2012; traveled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, June-September 2012; Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston, MA, October 2012-January 2013
Contemporary painting, 1960 to the Present: Selection from the Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
This will have been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980′s, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston
2011
Never let me go, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
The more things Change, San Francisco museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Spectacular of Vernacular, curated by Darsie Alexander, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
8,2011; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Montclair, NJ, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Seeing is a Kind of Thinking: a Jim Nutt Companion, Museum of Contempiorary Art
Chicago ,Illnois
2010
Nature, Gerhardsen Gerner, Berlin, Germany
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
Paintings and Drawings by Lari Pittman, Collages by Roy Dowell, Kunsthaus Santa Fe Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960′s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
The Library of Babel: In and Out of Place, curated by Anna Catharina, Zabludowicz Collection, London
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Delacroix to Monet: Masterpieces of 19th Century Painting from the Walters Art museum, Santa Barbara Museum of art, Santa Barbara, CA
R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2009
California Calling: works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Part II, Davidson Gallery, Santa Barbara
Museum Art, Santa Barbara
Constellations: Paintings from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Thomas Hirschhorn, Andrew Lord, Lari Pittman, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Akron Art Museum Collection: 1950 to now, Akron, OH
2008
California Community Foundation Exhibition, Twenty Years Ago Today: Supporting Individual Artists in LA
Japanese American National Museum
Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Not So Subtle Sub-Title”, curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
2007
“Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles,” Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Munich
“Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
“Post Dec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration,” Joseloff Gallery, Hartford
“Imagine Los Angeles,” Monika Sprüth, Munich
2006
“Couple Discorse”, Palmer Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA, USA*
“Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“Infinite Painting”, Villa Manin, Codroipo
“Hollywood is a verb”, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
2005
A Window on the West: California Art from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, USA
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, Houston; mostra itinerante: Cleveland Museum of Contemporary
Art; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
High Drama: Eugene Barman and the Legaci of the Melancholic Sublime, Georgia Museum
of Art, Athens, Georgia; mostra itinerante: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach,
California; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA
Singular Expressions, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA*
Drawing from the Modern, 1975-2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, a cura di Robert Storr, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA*
The Charged Image, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut, USA*
2003
Regen Projects (Inaugural Exhibition of the new space), Los Angeles
Painting Pictures, (Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter), Kunstmuseum
Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germania*
Pittura/Painting, 50a Biennale di Venezia, a cura di Francesco Bonami, Venezia*
I and My Chimney, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Köln, Germania
Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas Kramer Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
Not So Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, CA, USA
2002
L.A. Post-Cool, a cura di Michael Duncan, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA;
Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sugar and Cream, Triple Candie, New York
Officina America, a cura di Renato Barilli, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Villa delle Rose, Bologna;
Chiostri di San Domenico, Imola; Galleria Comunale ex Pescheria, Cesena; Palazzo dell’Arengo, Rimini*
2001
The Mystery of Painting, Sammlung Goetz, München, Germania
In Fumo, a cura di Giacinto di Pietrantonio, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Bergamo*
Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2000
Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Examining pictures, (curated F. Bonami and J. Nesbitt) Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; M.C.I. Chicago; and UCLA A. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles*
The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and a 19th-Century Vision, organized by the Hayward Gallery for the Arts Council of England, travels to Brighton Museum, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Rowan Collection: Passion and Patronage, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists and 19th-Century Vision, The Hayward Gallery, Colchester
L.A. Current: Looking at the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists, UCLA at the
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center
Out Inside: UC Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Faculty Artists, UC, Santa Cruz
L.A. Times: Arte da Los Angeles nella collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, (cur. by Francesco Bonami), Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba (CN), Italy*
Hindsight: 56 Recent Acquisitions, Withney Museum of American Art
1997
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum:Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
Woman’s Work: Examining the Femine in Contemporary Painting, South Eastern Center for Contemporary ART, North Carolina, curated by Jeff Fleming
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Painting Project, Basilico Fine Arts and Lehman Maupin, NY*
American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Chiba City Museum of art, Chiba, Japan; Fukui Fine Atrts Museum, Fukui, Japan; Kurashiki Art City Museum, Kurashiki, Japan; Atorion, Akita, Japan*
Cruising L.A., Galeria de Arte Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid*
Documenta X, (cur. by Catherine David), Kassel, Germany*
Sunshine & Noir: Art in 1960-1977, (cur. by Lars Nittve e Helle Crenzien), Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (Torino); UCLA in The Armand hammer Museum, Los Angeles*
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, curated by Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri*
1996
Controfigura, Studio Guenzani, Milano
a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
Painting on Television, Television on Painting, (cur. by Joshua Decter), Friederich Petzel Gallery Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, National Gallery, Atene; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum,Bonn, organized by David Ross and Eugenie Tsai*
Mutate/Loving the New Flesh, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, curated by Michael Cohen
The Legacy of American Modernism, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Social Fictions: Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel, The Grossman Gallery of the School of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston*
Painting on television, television on painting, curated by Joshua Decter, Friedrich Petzel Gallery
* Catalogo
Bibliography
Selected Catalogues and Publications:
2017
Manné, Jamie G., ed., and Christine Robinson, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, published by The Maurice and Paul Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, and Prestel, New York, NY, 2017, pp. 198 – 201 [ill.]
2015
Beck, Chelsea, The Broad Collection, published by The Broad, Los Angeles, CA, and Prestel, New York, NY, 2015, pp. 350 – 355 [ill.]
Hushka, Rock, and Jonathan David Katz, Art AIDS America, published by Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, and University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA, 2015, pp. 208 [ill.]
Miller, Dana, and Adam D. Weinberg, Whitney Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collection, published by Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2015, p. 307 [ill.]
Baker, George, Ann Goldstein, Michael Maltzan, and Shaun Caley Regen, Regen Projects 25, published by Prestel, New York, NY, 2015
2013
Shindler, Kelly, ed., A Decorated Chronology, published by Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 2013.
Lari Pittman, published by Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece, 2013.
Lari Pittman, published by Le Consortium, Dijon, France, 2013.
2012
“Decade,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 2012, p. 209.
“This Will Have Been,” published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2012, pp. 219 – 221.
2011
Lari Pittman, published by Skira Rizzoli, New York, NY, 2011
The Spectacular of Vernacular, published by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2011, pp. 96 – 97 [ill., cover].
2010
Collischan, Judy, Made in the U.S.A.: Modern/Contemporary Art in America, Bloomington, IN: iUniverse, 2010.
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, published by the San Antonio Museum of Art in Association with the MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, p. 76 [ill.].
2008
Paton, Justin, How to Look at a Painting, Awa Press, Wellington, New Zealand, 2008, p. 18 [ill.].
MoMA: Highlights since 1980, published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, p. 99 [ill.].
Lari Pittman, published by c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Gladstone Gallery, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, 2008.
Heartney, Eleanor, Art & Today, published by Phaidon, London, UK, 2008, pp. 212 – 214 [ill.].
This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, published by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 2008, pp. 234 – 235 [ill.].
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Published by LACMA, 2008, p. 191 [ill.].
2007
Eden’s Edge Fifteen LA Artists, published by the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 2007, pp. 28 – 33 [ill.].
Imagination Becomes Reality: An Exhibition on the Expanded Concept of Painting, Works from the Goetz Collection: Part VI, published by Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, 2007, pp. 130 – 131 [ill.].
Art 21: Art in the Twenty-First Century vol. 4, published by Abrams, New York, NY, 2007, pp. 194 – 205 [ill.].
2006
Holland Cherene and Amy Milgrub Marshall, eds., Couples Discourse, published by the Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, 2006, pp. 110 – 111 [ill.].
Richer, Francesca and Matthew Rosenzweig, eds., No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, published by D.A.P., New York, NY, 2006, p. 297 [ill.].
Infinite Painting, published by Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, 2006, pp. 132 – 133 [ill.].
Los Angeles 1955-1985, published by Centre Pompidou and Panama Musées, Paris, France, 2006, pp. 362 – 363 [ill.].
Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, published by the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2006, pp. 17, 214 – 215 [ill.].
2005
No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, published by D.A.P., New York, NY, 2005, p. 297 [ill.].
Lari Pittman, published by Villa Arson, Nice, France, 2005.
Singular Expressions: Nine Artists in Three Galleries November to February, published by Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE, 2005, pp. 45, 50 – 51 [ill.].
CAP Collection, published by Arlène Bonnant et al., Dublin, Ireland, pp. 228 – 231 [ill.].
Drawing from the Modern, 1975 – 2005, organized by Jordan Kantor, published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, pp. 123 [ill.].
POPulence, published by Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX, 2005, pp. 28 – 33 [ill.].
Drucker, Johanna, Sweet Dreams: Contemporary Art and Complicity, published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2005, pp. 138 – 141,144 [ill.].
Kraus, Chris, Jane McFadden and Jan Tumlir, L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, published by Black Dog Publishing, London, UK, 2005, p. 54, 89 [ill.].
2004
Duncan, Michael, High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, published by Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2004, pp. 30, 106-7 [ill.].
Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, published by Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2004, pp. 102 – 103 [ill.].
Art At Work: Forty Years of The JP Morgan Chase Collection, published by The Chase Manhattan Corporation, New York, NY, p. 235 [ill.].
2003
Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, published by Kerber Verlag, Bielfeld, Germany, pp. 80, 143 170 – 171 [ill.].
Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, la Biennale di Venezia, 50th International Art Exhibition, published by Marsilio Editori, Venice, Italy, May 2003, p. 462.
The Not-So-Still-Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture, published by San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2003, p. 152 [ill.].
Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Kramer, published by The Speed Art Museum. Louisville, KY, 2003, p. 16.
Codeluppi, Vanni, Il Potere del Consumo, published by Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, Italy, 2003 [cover].
2002
White Cube, Volume I, published by Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany, 2002 [ill.].
American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson, published by Abrams, New York, NY, 2002, p. 241 [ill.].
2001
The Mystery of Painting, published by Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, 2001, p. 192
[ill.].
2000
Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000, p. 256 – 257 [ill.].
Reading Caifornia: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000, p. 300 [ill.].
1999
Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artist, Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, CA, 1999 – 2000, p. 36 [ill.].
1998
Secret Victorians: Contemporary Artists nd a 19th-Century Vision, essays by Susan Ferleger Brades, Melissa E. Feldman and Ingrid Schaffner, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 1998.
Lari Pittman, essays by Paolo Colombo and Alex Farquharson, published by Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, and Spacex, Exeter, UK, 1998 [ill.].
Bonami, Francesco, ed., L.A. Times: Art e da Los Angeles nella Collezione Re Rebaudengo Sandretto, published by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy, 1998 [ill.]
Shimbun, Asahi, American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan [ill.].
American Art 1975-1995 from the Whitney Museum: Multiple Identity, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Edizioni Charta, Milano, Italy, 1998.
Torres, Jose Alvaro Perdice, Cruising L.A., Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain [ill.].
Crenzien, Helle and Lars Nittve, Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark [ill.].
Fernand Leger, essay by Jodi Hauptman “Imagining Cities: Lari Pittman’s Urban Groove,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1998, pp. 83 – 90 [ill.].
1997
Neri, Louise and Lisa Phillips, 1997 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art and Abrams Publishers, New York, NY [ill.].
Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, p. 3 [ill.].
1996
Art at the End of the 20th Century: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, essay by Johanna Drucker, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, p. 22 [ill.].
Lari Pittman: A Survey: 1982 – 1996, essays by Howard Fox, Dave Hickey and Paul Schimmel, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1996.
Lari Pittman/Andrea Zittel, essay by Lelia Amalfitano, The Grossman Gallery of the School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA, 1996.
Lari Pittman: Drawings, 1982 to 1985, essays by Elizabeth Brown and Laurence Rickels, University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 1996.
a/drift, curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1996 [ill.].
1995
Stereo-Tip, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1995, pp. 60 – 61 [ill.].
1992
Lari Pittman Paintings 1992, text by Christopher Knight, published by Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria, 1992.