BORN

1938 Alhambra, California

EDUCATION

1959 A.A. Degree, Pasadena City College
1962 M.F.A., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1998 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1995 Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois (catalogue)
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1992 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California (Thirty Year Survey)
1991 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1990 Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica
1989 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1988 La Galerie de Poche, Paris
1987 Nature Morte, New York
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Freidus, Ordover Gallery, New York
1983 Freidus, Ordover Gallery, New York
1982 Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles
1981 Los Angeles Valley College (Twenty Year Survey)
1980 Ehrlich Gallery, New York
Tortue Gallery, Los Angeles
1979 Ehrlich Gallery, New York
1978 O.K. Harris, New York
1976 O.K. Harris, New York
Max Protetch, Washington D.C.
1975 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City
1974 O.K. Harris, New York
1973 O.K. Harris, New York
1972 Gallery Mikro, Berlin, Germany
1971 Akron Art Institute, Akron
Contrack Graphics, Houston
O.K. Harris, New York
1970 O.K. Harris, New York
1969 Leo Castelli, New York
1965 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001 "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1999 "Apropos of Marcel: The Art of Making Art After Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY, (cur., Francis Naumann)
"Gallery Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1997 "Best of the Season: Selected Work from 1996 - 97 Gallery Exhibitions," Aldrich Museum
of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
"So Much Deathless," Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY (cur. by Peter Nagy)
1996 "The Baseball Show," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY, (in collaboration with Craig Smyth)
"Champions of Modernism: Art of Tomorrow/Art of Today," Castle Gallery, College of
New Rochelle, NY
1995 "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
"Sculpture As Objects: 1915 - 1995," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY (in collaboration with
Timothy Baum)
"Mini-Mundas," White Columns, NY
"Degrees of Abstraction: From Morris Louis to Mapplethorpe," Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston
"5 Longish Wood Sculptures," Feature Gallery, NY
"Americana," Grand Salon, New York
1994 "Elvis + Marylin: 2 x Immortal," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, cur. by Wendy
McDaris, traveling through 1997)
"Painting," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1993 Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, NY
"45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition," American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
"The George and Edith Rickey Collection of Constructivist Art and Richard Pettibone
Miniatures," Neuberger Museum of Art, NY
"Selections from The Marcia Simon Weisman Collection," The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles; The Menil Collection, Houston
"Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY
"I Am the Enunciator," Thread Waxing Space, NY (cur. by Christian Leigh)
"Richard Pettibone and Mark Innerst," Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1992 "Group Show," Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA
Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, NY
"Quotations: The Second History of Art," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
1991 "(Art)2: Art Appropriates Art," Art Gallery at California State University, Fullerton
"Outside America: Going into the 90's," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (cur. by Collins &
Milazzo)
"Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY
"Aspects De L'Art Du XXe Siecle L'oeuvre re-produite," Abbaye Saint-Andre "Poetic Objectives," Curt Marcus Gallery, NY, (cur. by Gordon Vene Klasen)
1987 "Comic Iconoclasm," Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
"Art Against Aids," Nature Morte, NY
"Redux," Maloney Gallery, LA
1986 "Investigations," McIntosh/Drysdale, Washington, DC
1981 "Deja Vu: Masterpieces Updated," Western Association of Art Museums
1978 "Art About Art," Whitney Museum, NY (cur. by Jean Lipman and Richard Marshall)
1977 "Small Objects," Whitney Museum Downtown, NY
"Miniature," Cal-State University, LA
1976 "Painting and Sculpture in California; The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

AWARDS

1993 Pollack-Krasner Foundation
1988 National Endowment for the Arts

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Friends of the Israel Museum, New York
The Art Museum, Princeton University, New Jersey
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
The Laguna Art Museum, California
The Los Angeles County Museum, California
Marcia Simon Weisman Collection, California
Marietta Cobb Museum, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The San Francisco Museum, California
Syracuse University Lowe Art Gallery, New York

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