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LIZ LARNER
BIOGRAPHY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
Education: BFA, California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA, 1985
Solo Exhibitions:
2011
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – March 19, 2011
2010
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, April 24 – May 22, 2010
2008
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 29 – February 23, 2008
2006
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, TBD Doris C. Freedman Plaza in Central Park, New York, November 29, 2006 – May 1, 2007
2005
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, July 1 – 31, 2005
2003
303 Gallery, New York, NY, April 12 – May 17, 2003
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, on MCA plaza in conjunction with Art Chicago/Pier Walk, curated by Dave Hickey, May 1 - September 8, 2002
2001
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, December 2, 2001 - April 7, 2002, catalogue
1999
303 Gallery, New York, NY, May 15-June 12, 1999
1998
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, June 27 – August 1, 1998 MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria, catalogue
1997
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Peter Pakesch, June 8 – August 24, 1997,
catalogue
1994
303 Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Jennifer Flay Galerie, Paris, France
1992
Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
1991
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
303 Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
303 Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
303 Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013
"Auf Zeit. Was hinter dem Putz steckt," Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden, Germany, July 20 - October 27, 2013
"Speak, Memory," The Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 – June 8 2013
2012
"Prima Materia," Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, March 30 – April 28, 2012
"Intimate Immensity: The Susan and Larry Marx Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 14- May 6, 2012
"DECADE: Contemporary Collecting 2002-2012," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, August 21-January 6, 2013
2011
"…there is a crack in everything," Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, November 12- December 20, 2011
"Under Destruction," Swiss Institute, New York, NY, March 15 – May 28, 2011
2010
"The Artist's Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, October 31, 2010-January 31, 2011
"Under Destruction," Museum Tinguely Basel, Basel Switzerland, October 15, 2010 – January 23, 2011; travels to the Swiss Institute, New York
"The Jewel Thief," Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, October 9, 2010 – February 27, 2011
"Immaterial," Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, October 1 – February 20, 2011
"The Artist's Museum," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 19 – January 31, 2011
"Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 3 - January 30, 2011
"Collecting Biennials," Whitney Museum, New York, January 16 - November 28, 2010
2009
"Collection: MOCA's First Thiry Years," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, November 15, 2009 - July 12, 2010
"Collecting History, Highlighting Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, July 12 – October 19, 2009
"Abstractionists Unite!" Curated by Nancy Chaikin, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA, June 20 – August 8, 2009
"Between Art and Life: The Painting and Sculpture Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, May 10 – January 3, 2010
2008
"Life? Biomorphic Forms in Sculpture," Kunsthaus Graz, September 27, 2008 – January 11, 2009
"AURUM Gold in Contemporary Art," curated by Dolores Denaro, CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland, September 13 – November 30, 2008
"Red Wind," Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, June 28 – August 23, 2008
2007
"Celebrating the Lucelia Artist Award, 2001-2006," Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., September 21, 2007 – June 22, 2008
"Makers and Modelers: Works in Ceramic," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY,
September 8 – October 13, 2007
"Blood Meridan," curated by David Hunt, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany, April 27 – May 26, 2007
"eight sculptors from los angeles," sabine knust, Münich, Germany, March 22 – April 17, 2007
"Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006,"
curated by Dextra Frankel, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA, February 25 – April 15, 2007
"Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, February 11 – May 20, 2007; cat.
"Uncontained," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, February 8 – April
29, 2007
"Hammer Contemporary Collection," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, January 16– April 8, 2007
2006
"The Bong Show or This is Not a Pipe," curated by Beverly Semmes, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY, December 9, 2006 – January 20, 2007
"The Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society," curated by Okwui Enwezor, Second International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, October 26, 2006 – January 15, 2007; cat.
"Pose and Sculpture," curated by Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, June 30 – August
4, 2006
"Two or Three or Something: Maria Lassnig, Liz Larner," Kunsthaus Graz,
February 4 – May 7, 2006
"Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 2 – May 28, 2006
"Gone Formalism,' Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Pittsburg, January 21 – March 26, 2006
2005
"Extreme Abstraction," curated by Louis Grachos and Claire Schneider,
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, July 15 – October 2, 2005, catalogue
"The The," curated by Stuart Shave, Modern Art, London, July 8 – August 7, 2005
"The Meeting," curated by Kathryn Andrews, Center for the Arts of Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA, May 27 – July 2, 2005
2004
"Showdown," curated by Kimberli Meyer and Fritz Haeg, Schindler House, Los Angeles, October 22 – 23, 2004
"Full House," curated by David Pagel, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA, August 16 - September 10, 2004
"100 Artist See God," curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, The Jewish Museum San Francisco, March 7 – June 27, 2004; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, July 25 – October 3, 2004; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, November 19 – January 9, 2005; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia, June 9 – September 4, 2005,
catalogue
"The Thought that Counts," curated by Jason Meadows, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
"Inaugural Exhibition," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, January 25 - March 8
303 Gallery, New York, NY neuger/riemschneider, Berlin, Germany
"Popstraction," curated by Paola Antonelli, curator of Architecture and Design
at MOMA and independent curator and writer, Eungie Joo, Deitch
Projects, New York, NY, catalogue
"Imagination: Perception in Art," curated by Peter Pakesch and Martin
Prinzhorn, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria, October 25, 2003 – January 18,
2004, catalogue
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, November 20, 2003 – January 10, 2004
2002
"New Attitudes in Sculpture," The Gallery at Green Street, New York, NY, April 5 - May 18, 2002
2001
"Drawings," Regen Projects, Los Angeles, May 26 - July 21, 2001
"A Room of Their Own," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2000
"Raumkorper. Netze und andere Gebilde," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland, catalogue
"1999 Drawings," Alexander & Bonin Gallery, New York, NY
"00," Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, July 6 - August 5, 2000, catalogue
1999
"Description Without Place," AC Project Room, New York, NY, October 23 - December 4, 1999
"Proliferations," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, March 7 – June 26, 1999
"Life is Elsewhere," Theoretical Projects, Naples, Italy, March 25 - May 1, 1999
1997
"Maxwell's Demon," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, November 8 -December 20, 1997
"Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 1997 - November 14, 1999
"Painting Machines," curated by John Stomberg, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, October 31 - December 14, 1997
1996
"Just Past: The Contemporary in the Permanent Collection, 1975-96," curated by Ann Goldstein, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, September 28 - January 7, 1997
"Final Projects: The House," MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Schindler House, Los Angeles
"The Garage Project, " MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Mackey House, Los Angeles
"Everything that's interesting is new," Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
1995
"The Big Night," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Plane/Structures," White Columns, NY, curated by David Pagel
"Ambient," Olivier Antoine, Nice, France
"Saturday Night Fever," Thomas Solomon's Garage, Los Angeles, CA
1994
"Un Papillon sur la Roue," L'Espace d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Toulouse et Midi Pyrenees,
Toulouse, France
"Plane/Structures," Otis Gallery, curated by David Pagel, Los Angeles
1993
"Co-Conspirators," James Corcoran Gallery, curated by Cliff Benjamin, Santa Monica, CA
"Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?," Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
"Sonsbeek 93," Arnhem, Holland
"Informationsdienst," Art Acker, Berlin, Germany
"At the Edge of Chaos - New Images of the World," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Sweden
1992
"Multiplicity," Thea Westreich Associates, New York, NY
"FluxAttitudes," New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
"Speaker Project", curated by Liam Gillick, ICA, London, England
Galerie Max Hetzler, curated by Tim Neuger, Koln, Germany
"Permanent Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"How It Is", curated by Jonathon Seliger, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
"Tatoo Collection," Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris, France
"Not Quiet," Jennifer Flay Gallery, Paris, France, with Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Christian Marclay, Matthew McCaslin
"Helter Skelter," Modern Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Group Drawing Show," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
"New Works by Gallery Artists," 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"FluxAttitudes," Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
"Enclosure's," Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
"The Body," The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Gulliver's Travels," Galerie Sophia Ungers, Koln, Germany
"Lick of the Eye," curated by David Pagel, Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"American Art of the Eighties," curated by Jerry Saltz, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Trento, Italy
"Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a)," curated by Catherine Liu, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
"Devices," curated by Bruce Ferguson, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY
"Liz Larner, Karen Kilimnick, Collier Schorr, Anne Walsh," Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, NY
"Liz Larner, Rosemarie Trockel, Meg Webster," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Drawings," Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, CA
"The Koln Show," various galleries, Cologne, Germany
"Santa Monica Editions," Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, CA
"nonrePRESENTation," Security Pacific Corporation Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Work in Progress? Work?," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY Luhring, Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
1990
"Signs of Life. Process and Materials, 1960-1990," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
"Artificial Nature," curated by Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, The House
of Cyprus, Athens, Greece
"Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure," Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
"Mind Over Matter," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany, with L.C. Armstrong, Gretchen Faust, Eva Hesse, Rebecca Horn, Robin Kahn, Jutta Koether, Patty Martori, and Rosemarie Trockel "Liz Larner, Rosemarie Trockel, Meg Webster," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
"Whitney Biennial 1989," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "The Desire of the Museum," Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany
"David Cabrera, Larry Johnson, Liz Larner," 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"Archaeology II," Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Specific Metaphysics," organized by Pat McCoy, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
1988
"Nayland Blake, Liz Larner, Richard Morrison, Charles Ray," 303 Gallery, New York, NY
"A Drawing Show," curated by Jerry Saltz, Cable Gallery, New York, NY
"Re:Placement," L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
"Life Like," curated by Marvin Heiferman, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
Stadtmuseum, Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Pakesch; represented the U.S. along with Jennifer Bolande, Jon Kessler, Mike Kelley DAG, Los Angeles, CA
1987
"Room 9," Tropicana Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
"Nothing Sacred," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"1987 Annuale," L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA
Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; curated by John Baldessari
"Reworks: Recent Sculpture," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
"L.A. Hot and Cool," M.I.T. Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Public Collections
Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Awards and Grants
2005
Pacific Design Center Stars of Design Award, Category of Art
2002
Lucelia Artist Award
2000
Anonymous Was A Woman
1999
Guggenheim Fellowship
Public Commissions:
2003
University of California, San Francisco, Mission Bay Project, San Francisco, California
Jacob Burckhardt Haus courtyard, Basel, Switzerland
2000
Riverside Pedestrian Bridge at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California
