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ED MOSES BIOGRAPHY


[ Chronology | Solo Exhibitions | Group Exhibitions | Collections | Awards | Miscellaneous ]


Chronology:

1955 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1958 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1958-60 Lived in New York
1963-64 Traveled in Europe
1968 Fellow at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles
1968-72 Taught at University of California, Los Angeles
1971 Lithography for Bernard Jacobson, Ltd., done in London, England
1972 Traveled in Europe: Germany and France (documented)
1975-76 Taught at University of California, Los Angeles
1976 Received National Endowment for the Arts Grant
Traveled in Egypt, Greece and Israel
1977 Taught at California State College, Bakersfield
1978 Traveled in Europe
1980 Received Guggenheim Fellowship
Traveled in Japan
1981-82 Lived in New York
Traveled in France and Canada
1983 Taught at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Lived in New York
1984 Received California Arts Council Commission
Lived in New York
1985-86 Taught at California State University, Long Beach
1986 Traveled in Europe
1987 Traveled in England and Italy
1988 Traveled in Spain
1989 Traveled in Europe and Korea
1990 Traveled in Japan
1990-00 Lives and works in Venice, CA.


Solo Exhibitions:

2000
"Ed Moses and John Altoon," Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, May 27-June 24

1999
“Ed Moses,” L A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, March 23-May 1
“Vision Usher,” Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, May 20-July 3

1998
“Ed Moses,” Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA., July 25-August 10
“Ed Moses,” Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA., February 5-March 29.
"Ed Moses," Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC., February 18- April 4.
"Ec-topic: Drawings, 1998," Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., February 12 - March 28.

1997
"New Paintings and Works on Paper," Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX. December 4, 1997 - January 10,
"Up Against the Wall," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, July 17 - August 16, 1997

1996
"A Retrospective of the Paintings and Drawings, 1951-1996", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, April 21 - August 11, 1996.
"Elpoep Ebolg," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, June 22 - July 27, 1996.
"At 70 from the 70's", Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, June 22 - August 31, 1996.

1995
"Paint," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, May 18 - June 17, 1995.

1994
"Recent Paintings," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA, June 11 - July 4, 1994.

1993-94
"Drawings," Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., December 23, 1993 - January 6, 1994.

1993
"Structural Reoccurrence & Cloud Cover Paintings 80's & 90's," Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA. September 10 - October 9, 1993.
Denis Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
"Apparition and What," Louver Gallery New York, NY.
"Recent Paintings And Drawings," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
"Ed Moses; Paintings and Drawings," Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX.

1992
"Apparitions and What: Works on Paper," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
"Ed Moses," Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc, Chicago, IL.

1991
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
Louver Gallery, New York, NY.

1990
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
"Ed Moses: Prints", Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA.

1989
Louver Gallery, New York, NY.
Gallery Kukje, Seoul, Korea.
Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris, France.
"Ed Moses: Recent Paintings," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
"Ed Moses: Works on Paper," L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.

1988
L. A. Louver, Venice, CA.
Iannetti Lanzone, San Francisco, CA.

1987
L. A. Louver, Venice, CA.
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1986
Gilbert Brownstone and Cie, Paris, France.
The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
School of Fine Arts, Gallery B, California State University, Long Beach, CA.

1985
L. A. Louver, Venice, CA.

1984
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1983
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Ltd., Los Angeles, CA.
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1982
Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1981
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1980
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (commissioned wall painting: 22' x 52', entrance to Museum)

1979
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX.
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY.
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1978
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX.
Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA.
Dory Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

1977 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA.
Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL.

1976
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"20 Years of Drawing," Frederick S. Wight Gallery,
University of California, Los Angeles.

1975
Andre' Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
Dory Gates Gallery, Kansas City, MO.

1974
Andre' Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY.
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England.
Art in Progress Gallery, Munich, Germany.
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1973
Art in Progress Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN.
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, NY.
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR.

1972
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, NY.
Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, England.
Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN.

1971
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., New York, NY.
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Pomona College Art Gallery, Pomona, CA.
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1970
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1969
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1965
Everett Ellen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Alan Gallery, New York, NY.

1964
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1963
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1962
Alan Gallery, New York, NY.

1961
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1960
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1959
Area Gallery (10th Street Co-op), New York, NY.
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1958
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA.


Selected Group Exhibitions:

1999
“Art From Stone: Prints From The Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1960-1970,”
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA June 24-September

1998
“radical past: contemporary art & music in Pasadena, 1960-1974,” Norton Simon Museum of Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena CA, February 7, April 11.
“Sunshine & Noir, Art in L.A. 1960-1997,” UCLA/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, October 4, 1998 - January 3, 1999
“LA Cool,” Rocket Gallery, London, England, and Bruning & Zischke, Dusseldorf, Germany,
“The Forty-fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 17-September 28
“The Edward R. Broda Collection,” Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida, March 12-June 21
"Group Exhibition," L. A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA., February 13-March 7.

1997
"A Thought Intercepted," California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, CA. May 7 - July 13, 1997
"California: State of the Art, Art of the State," Chac Mool Contemporary Fine Art, W. Hollywood, CA., May, 1997
"Forms of Abstraction," Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA. April 12 - May 17, 1997

1996
"Lobby Installation," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, December -January 15, 1996
"Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 18, 1995-January, 1996
"Washi: Collaborations in Spirit," Beckstrand Gallery,
Palos Verdes Art Center, August 12-October 14, 1995
"Color Painting," Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California, July 8-August 26, 1995
"The Art Show or So, Where's The Art," Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, June 30-July 30, 1995

1995
"Object and Image," Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport Beach, CA. April 15-June 18, 1995
"California Collection," Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, California, March 4-April 15, 1995
"Timeless Abstraction," Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, January 7-February 25, 1995

1994
Gallery Delaive B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
"In Plain Sight: Abstract Painting in Los Angeles," Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, September 9-October 30, 1994

1993
"Tony Berlant, John McCracken, Ed Moses," The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA. November 11-December 30, 1993.
"Art in Los Angeles; Eight Artists in the Sixties," Asher Faure, Los Angeles, CA. June 26-August 28, 1993.
"elegant, irreverent & obsessive: Drawing in Southern California,"
Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA. (catalogue)

1992-93
"Choice Encounters," The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.

1992
"American Drawings Since 1960," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"The Last Picture Show: An Evolution of Works by Los Angeles Artists," Bank of America, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA.

1991
"Recent Acquisitions, Part II - 1950-1991,"
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA.
"Moses, Richter, Scully," Louver Gallery, New York, NY.
"Biennial Exhibition," The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY.

1990
"In Perfect Silence," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
"Abstraction: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kauffman, Jon McLaughlin and Ed Moses," Nagoya City Art Museum; Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Hara Museum ARC, Japan

1989
Galeria Joan Prats, New York, NY.
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.

1988
"Visions of Inner Space," Wight Art Gallery, University of California,
Los Angeles; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India

1987
"Prints by Santa Monica Bay Area Artists," Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA.
"After Pollock: Three Decades of Diversity," Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1986
"New Acquisitions," National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
"International Invitational," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"On the Road," Galerie Kulturtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark. Monotypes courtesy of Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
"American/European: Painting and Sculpture, Part III", L. A. Louver, Venice, CA.

1985
"Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Paintings in Southern California,"
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
"Recent Painting and Sculpture," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1984
"First Newport Biennial 1984: Los Angeles Today," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.
"American/European: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture," L. A. Louver, Venice, CA.
"The Folding Image," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
"Monotypes," Weintraub Gallery, New York, NY.
"Gallery Selections: Early Works, Current Works", Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"The Dilexi Years 1958-1970," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
"Olympiad: Summer 1984," Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"Selected Monotypes," Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.

1983
"The First Show - Inaugural Exhibition," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"Drawings by Painters," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.
"Maine Biennial," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME.
"California Drawings," Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

1982
"L. A. Art: Contemporary Paintings," Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"Exhibition of Contemporary L. A. Artists," Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan
"New Acquisitions," Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY.
"Exchange Between Artists," (curated by Pontus Hulten), Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France; Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland
"Contemporary Triptychs," Pomona College, Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona, CA.
"New Monotypes and Etchings," Jacobson-Hochman Gallery, New York, NY.
"Drawings by Painters," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
"Drawings," Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Mo.

1981
"Abstraction in L. A., 1950-1980," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA.
"Forty Famous Californians," Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY.
"Abstraction," San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

1980
"History of California Arts," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
"A Decade of California Paintings," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA.
"Southern California Artists, 1940-1980," Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA.
"Contemporary Paintings in California," (curated by Clark Poling), High Museum, Atlanta, GA.

1979
"A Painting Installation," Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.
"Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

1978
"The Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art," The Art Museum and Galleries, California State University, Long Beach, CA.

1977
"Recent Works on Paper by American Artists," University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.

1976
"Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
"Thirty Years of American Painting," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
"The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957-66," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.

1975
"34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
"Four From the East, Four From the West," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1974
"American Painting and Sculpture," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL.
"Three Painters," University of California, San Diego
"Art Now '74," Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
"Robert Arneson and Edward Moses,," San Francisco
Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
"1973-1974 Irvine Faculty," The Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA.
"15 Abstract Artists," Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, CA.

1973
"A Drawing Exhibition," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"The Wall Object," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA.
"14 Artists Working in California," Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
"Painting or Sculpture?," Newark Art Museum, Newark, NJ.
"American Art 1948-1973," Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
"Options 73/30," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH.
"The State of California Painting," Govett Brester Art Gallery, New Plymouth,
New Zealand; National Art Gallery, Wellington, Australia

1972
"Four Artists: Ruscha, Bengston, Alexander and Moses," Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH.
"Off the Stretcher," Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA.
"Documenta 5," Kassel Documenta, Kassel, Germany, Der Reahitat Bildwelten Heute
"Seventieth American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
"Contemporary American Art," Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX.
"West Coast U.S.A.," Kunstverein, Hamberg, Germany; Kunstverein, Hanover,
Germany; Kolnischer Kunstverein, Wurtt, Germany; Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

1971
"32nd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
"Inauguration," Joslyn Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
"Billy Al Bengston, Ed Moses," Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
"Gallery Artists," Hansen Fuller Gallery, New York, NY.

1970
"A Decade of California Color," Pace Gallery, New York, NY.

1969
"West Coast, 1945-1969," Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA.
"Drawings," Ithaca College Museum, Ithaca, NY.
"Francis, Kanemitzu, Moses, Wayne," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA.

1968
"The Late Fifties at Ferus," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

1967
"Artists Artists," Lytton Center of the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA.

1965
"The Studs: Moses, Irwin, Price, Bengston," Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1964
"Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston," Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1963
"Altoon, Bengston, Bell, DeFeo, Irwin, Kauffman, Lobdell, Mason, Moses, Price, Rubin, Ruscha," Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1962
"Annual," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
"The Pacific Coast Invitational," Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA;
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA;
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
"Fifty California Artists," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY;
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.

1961
"Invitational," Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, PA.
"Annual," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
"New Object," Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA.

1959
"Annual," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
"L. A. Painters Under 30," Dickson Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA.

1958
"Annual," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.

1957
"Group," Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

1954
"Annual," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Four Man Show," Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA.

1953
"Annual," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA,

1949
Sacramento State Fair, Sacramento, CA: 2nd Prize


Public Collections:

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Akron Art Institute of Art, Akron, OH.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
Dartmouth College Gallery, Hanover, NH.
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO.
Gelco Collection, Minneapolis, MN.
Hereditary Disease Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
Irvine Collection, Irvine, CA.
Janss Foundation, Thousand Oaks, CA.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA.
Lannan Foundation, Chicago, IL.
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Los Angeles Times Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Menil Foundation, Rice Museum, Houston, TX.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM.
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC.
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Pasadena Art Museum (Norton Simon Museum of Art), Pasadena, CA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
University of Miami, Miami, FL.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Frederick Weisman Foundation Collection, Los Angeles, CA.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.


Awards:

Tamarind Lithography Workshop Fellowship, 1968, Los Angeles, CA.
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant, 1976
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1980
Honorary Ph.D., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA., 1996
Long Beach City College Hall of Fame Inductee, 1993


Miscellaneous

Member of the National Society of Literature and the Arts Biographical
Record in Who's Who in the World, 5th Edition
Papers deposited in Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

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