1939 Born in Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, California
EDUCATION
1957-59 Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1990 Governor's Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts (Visual Arts), State of New Mexico
1975 National Endowment for the Arts, grantee
1970 Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship
1962 Copley Foundation, grantee
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM
Larry Bell. New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM
2008 New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Larry Bell: New space-Impasse Beaubourg, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
New Sculpture, Danes Gallery, New York, NY
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England
2006 Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Larry Bell: The Sixties, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
Larry Bell: Cubes, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Glass Cubes and Other Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Larry Bell: New Work, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
2004 Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN
2003 St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 Roswell Museum & Art Center, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg. Monchengladbach, Germany
2001 - 2002 SkoRidder AS, Oslo, Norway
2001 Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX
Fractions, Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
2000 Larry Bell: Cubes, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery
Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven. Otterndorf, Germany
Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
1999 Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany
Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA
1998 Seljord Art Association, Seljord, Norway
Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA
1997 Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1996 Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO
Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum. Taos, New Mexico, NM
1994 Drawings, Kiyo Higashi Gallery Los Angeles, CA
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Tampa Museum of Art, FL
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
1991 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1990 Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
Galerie Kammer. Hamburg, German
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Museé d'Art Contemporain Lyon, France
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY
Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery. Houston, TX
1987 Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Cleveland, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH
Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX
Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Installation of the Leaning Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, England
1984 Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1983 Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1982 The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1981 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA
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
1977 Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX (collaboration with Eric Orr)
1975 Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1974 Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (toured to Torino, Venice, Milan), Italy
1973 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK
1971 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1967 Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
1965 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1963 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 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, Switzerland
Nepotism, LA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2008 "Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1957-1968", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 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 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
2005 Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
2004 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
2003 Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2000 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
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
1999 Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
1998 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
1996 Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Fractions, New Gallery Houston, TX
Curatorial Selections: Acqusitions to the Historic, Contemporary and Photographic Collections, Museum of New Mexico, 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
1993 Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1992 Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany
1990 Galerie Rolf Ricke Köln, Cologne, Germany
1989 Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1988 Spaso House, Moscow, USSR
Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1987 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
1985 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
1984 Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
1982 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
1981 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1979 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1978 Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela
1976-1977 The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MI, 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 (1977)
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 D.C
Hayward Gallery, London, England
1973 Pace Gallery New York, NY
1971 Hayward Gallery, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
1970 Tate Gallery, London, England
1969 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1968 Dokumenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1967 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1966 Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1964 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Abilene Zoological Gardens, Texas
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Berardo Collection, Funchal, Portugal
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
City of Albuquerque Public Arts, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, Connecticut
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Musee Saint-Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico
National Collections of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
San Antonio Museum of Art , Texas
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, England
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartforrd, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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