Larry Bell

CV

Born

1939

Chicago, IL, USA

Lives and works in Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, CA, USA

Studies

Chouinard Art Institute

Selected Solo Shows

2022

Larry Bell, Dia Beacon, Beacon, NY, USA

2020

Still Standing, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, USA

2019

Bill and Coo at MOCA’s Nest, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Larry Bell. Cubic Propositions, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, USA

VFZ 1, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, USA

2018

Larry Bell: Time Machines, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA

Vapor and Vibration: The Art of Larry Bell and Jesús Rafael Soto, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA

Larry Bell Complete Cubes, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles, LA, USA

Hocus, Focus and 12, The Hardwood Museum of Art, Taos, New Mexico, USA

Larry Bell: Aspen Blues, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA

Taos 1960’s – Present’, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

Venice Fog: Recent Investigations, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, CH

2017

Larry Bell: Pacific Red II, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Larry Bell: Pacific Red, The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA

2016

From the 60s, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, USA

2015

6 x 6 An Improvisation, Melin Building, Miami, FL, USA

Larry Bell : Cubes, Mirage Works, Fractions, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH

2D-3D: Glass & Vapor, White Cube, London, UK

Larry Bell, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

Land, Air, See, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014

Larry Bell: 6×6 An Imporvisation, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX, USA

Light and Red, White Cube Hong Kong, CHN

Orange Juice and Teeth, Memories of 9/11 and the Time Machine, David Anthony Fine Art, Taos, NM, USA

The Carnival Series, White Cube Sao Paulo, BR

2013

Mirage Collage & Light Knots, White Cube, London, UK

Light Knots, ARTS Manhattan, Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

Translucence, Frank Lloyd Gallery Los Angeles, CA, USA

2012

Larry Bell, Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Larry Bell Installation, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM, USA

2011

Larry Bell “In Perspective”; Carré d’Art Musée Contemporain de Nimes, FR

2010

Larry Bell “Works in progress”, Frank Lloyd Gallery Los Angeles, CA, USA

2009

Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA

Larry Bell. New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM, USA

2008

New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH

Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2007

New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

2006

Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR

Annandale Galleries, Sydney, AS

2005

Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

McClain Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Pace / Wildenstein, New York, NY, USA

Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK

2004

Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA

2003

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

2002

Roswell Museum & Art Center, NM, USA

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, DE

SkoRidder AS, Oslo, NO (2001 / 2002)

2001

Gallery Gan, Tokyo, JP

Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX, USA

2000

Larry Bell Annex/New Directions Gallery, Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Otterndorf, DE

Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA

1999

Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, DE

Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

1998

Seljord Art Association, Seljord, NO

Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, NO

Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1997

Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavík, IS

The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA

1996

Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1995

Indigo Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, USA

Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO, USA

Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, NM, USA

1994

New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

1993

New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1922

Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA

1992

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mixing Media and Metaphor: LB’s Abstract Painting,” Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, USA

1991

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA

New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

1990

Galerie Montenay, Paris, FR

Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, DE

Galerie Kammer, Hamburg, DE

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1989

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR

New Directions Gallery, Taos, NM, USA

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1988

Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1987

Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, FR

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1986

Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, USA

Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho, USA

The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

American academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

Installation of the Leaning Room”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1985

Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, UK

1984

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

1983

Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA

ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1982

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, NM, USA

On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA

1981

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Sculpture by Larry Bell / Eric Orr: Vapor Paintings on Glass, Ann Jacob Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA

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, USA

1977

Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA (collaboration with Eric Orr)

1976

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), USA

1975

Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA

1974

Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (toured to Torino, Venice, Milan), IT

1973

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA

Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, AS

1972

Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Felicity Samuel Gallery, London, UK

1970

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln, DE

1967

Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, FR

1965

’67, ’70, ’71, ’72, ’73 Pace Gallery, New York, NY, US

1962

’63, ’65 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Selected Group Shows

2022

Une seconde d’éternité, La Bourse du Commerce, Paris, FR

2021

The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object and Performance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

2020

Beyond the light of the East and West, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Object Lessons, The Landing, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artists for New York, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, USA

2019

Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA, USA

2018

Larry Bell, Joe Goode, Ed Moses – Back to L.A., Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH

Shape Shifters, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

The Marvellous Cacophony, Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, SR

Welt ohne Aussen, Berliner Festspiele, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, DE

2017

Mirror, Mirror, Wadsworth Atheneum, CT, USA

Between Two Worlds Art of California, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA, USA

Seeking Stillness, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA, USA

Pivotal Highlights from the Collection, OMCA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980,The Met Breuer New York, NY, USA

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

2016

Side by Side: Larry Bell and Gabriel Dawe, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, USA

Larry Bell Alexander Calder Nicholas Moenich, D’Agostino and Fiore, New York, NY, USA

Atmospheric Abstraction, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA

2015

Another Minimalism: Art After California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, GB

Larry Bell, Alexander Calder, Nicholas Moenich l Hyperactif, D’Agostino & Fiore, New York, NY, USA

Reverse Order: Troika, Tobias Putrih, Larry Bell, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH

2014

Yesteryear Remembered, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Basel, CH

2013

Derrière la Couleur, Galerie Maubert, Paris, FR

Exhibition Dynamo: A Century of Light and Movement of Art 1913-2013, Galeries Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris, FR

Beyond Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405, Otis College of Art andDesign, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Minimalism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

‘2 person exhibition’, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL

Larry Bell, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Everything Loose will Land, Mak Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA, USA

DNA Evolution No. 2. Arts Manhattan, Manhattan Beach Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA, USA

2011

Phenominal: California Light and Space, La Jolla & downtown San Diego locations during

Pacific Standard Time: Art in Los Angeles 1945 – 1980, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Square Dancing, with works by Larry Bell, John McCracken and Peter Alexander, Nyehaus, New York, NY, USA

Human nature, Contemporary Art from the Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Some assembly required, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Surface thrusts: Abstract painting in the sixties, Norton Simon Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2010

Side by Side, Colburn Music School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Larry Bell / Jeppe Hein, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR

Gray Day, Roberts & Tilton, Washington, CA, USA

Ferus Gallery, Greatest Hits Volume 1, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Primary Atmospheres: California Minimalism 1960-1970, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA (winner of the Rob Pruitt Art Award for Best Gallery Group Show of 2010)

2009

1969, P.S.1, New York, NY, USA

Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA

Larry’s Loft, Hotel Erwin (formerly Marina Pacific Hotel), Venice, CA, USA

Elemental, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, Lobby installation with cubes, Miami Beach, FL, USA

Miniatures, auction & exhibition, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA

California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 – 2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculptur”, TATE, Liverpool, UK

Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Bronze “Sumer” sculptures from the collection of “Grounds for Sculpture”, Sarasota, FL, USA

Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH

Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 – 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, CH

Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI, USA

2008

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957 – 1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE

Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

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, USA

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2006

Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Translucence, Southern California Art from the1960’s & 1970’s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Selected Collections

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AS

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, AS

The Berardo Collection, Funchal, PT

Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

City of Albuquerque Public Arts, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, NY, USA

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

Metropolitan Bronco Football Stadium, District & City of Denver, CO, USA

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO, USA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA

Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Musée Saint-Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, FR

Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, DE

Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, VE

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Museum Ludwig, Köln, DE

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM, USA

National Collections of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA

Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, USA

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, TX, USA

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL

Stedelijk Museum, Rotterdam, NL

Tate Gallery, London, UK

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Honors and Awards

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

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