Larry Bell

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Chronology
 
1938

Born, Chicago. Illinois
1957-59

Attended Chouinard Art School in Los Angeles; student of Robert Irwin, Richards Ruben, Robert Chuey, and Emerson Woelfer.
1962
 Received a grant from the Copley Foundation
1970
 Received a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation
1975
 Received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
1990
 Received the Governors Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts (Visual Arts), State of New Mexico
present
 Currently lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice California

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007

Annandale Galleries, Sydney
Danese, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2006

Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2005

Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
McClain Gallery, Houston
Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York
Pace Wildenstein, New York
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London
2003

St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2002

Roswell Museum & Art Center, NM
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
SkoRidder AS, Oslo, Norway
2001

Gallery Gan, Tokyo
2000

Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery
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
Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
1997

Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reyjavik, Iceland
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque
1996

Art et Industrie Gallery, New York
1995

Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1994

New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1993

New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1992

Tampa Museum of Art, Florida
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1991

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1990

Galerie Montenay, Paris
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1989

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
New Directions Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles

1988

Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1987

Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris
Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles
1986

Amarillo Art Center, Texas
Boise Gallery of Art, Idaho
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1984

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado
1983

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1982

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1981
 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
1977

Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts
1975

Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas
1973

Oakland Museum, California
Pace Gallery New York
1972

Pace Gallery New York
1971

Pace Gallery New York
1970

Pace Gallery, NYC
1967

Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
Pace Gallery New York
1966

Jewish Museum, New York
1965

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
Pace Gallery New York
1962-63
 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
 

Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2007

Solomon R. Guggenhiem Museum, New York
Las Vegas Art Museum, Nevada
2006

Centre Georges Pompidu, Paris.
Kunstencentrum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Washington State University, Museum of Art, Saint Louis, Missouri
1998

Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, New Jersey
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
1997

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
1996

Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1995

Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1993

Musee du Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1992

Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany

1989

Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona
1988

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Spaso House, Moscow, USSR
1987
 Arizona Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona
1986

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1985

Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1984

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
Santa Barbara Art Museum, California
1982

Oakland Museum, California
1981

Museum of Modern Art, New York
1978

Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Venezuela
1976

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
37th Venice (Italy) Biennale.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1975
 National Collection of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Hayward Gallery, London
1971
 Hayward Gallery, London
1970

Tate Gallery, London
1969-71

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1966

Museum of American Art, New York
1965-67

Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
   
 

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
 

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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