Llyn Foulkes CV

exhibition

Solo Exhibitions

2017
‘Llyn Foulkes: Transfiguration’, Sprüth Magers, Berlin ‘Llyn Foulkes’, David Zwirner, New York, NY
‘Llyn Foulkes: Old Man Blues,’ Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, CA

2016
‘Llyn Foulkes: Return Here, 1959 – 1976,’ Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL

2014
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Retrospective, Museum Kurhaus, Kleve, Germany

2013
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Retrospective, New Museum, New York, NY
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Retrospective, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2011
‘Llyn Foulkes: Bloody Heads,’ Kent Fine Art, New York, NY

2007
‘Llyn Foulkes: Deliverance,’ Kent Gallery, New York, NY

2006
‘Llyn Foulkes: The Lost Frontier,’ Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA ‘Llyn Foulkes: Restoration,’ Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2005
‘Llyn Foulkes: The Lost Frontier,’ Kent Gallery, New York, NY

2001
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

1997
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
‘Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,’ Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
‘Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,’ Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

1996
‘Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,’ Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH ‘Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,’ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
‘The Legend of Mickey Rat,’ Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995
‘Llyn Foulkes: Between a Rock and a Hard Place,’ Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

1994
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1993
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ I Space, Chicago, IL

1990
‘POP: The First Picture,’ Kent Gallery, New York, NY

1989
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

1988
‘Llyn Foulkes: Images of Disruption and Delusion,’ Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX ‘Llyn Foulkes: The Eighties,’ Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1987
‘Llyn Foulkes: The Sixties,’ Kent Fine Art, New York, NY ‘Forum: Head Studies,’ Zurich, Switzerland

1986
‘Llyn Foulkes: Portraits,’ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. Traveled from the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

1985
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1984
‘Llyn Foulkes: New Rocks, Postcards,’ Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ‘Llyn Foulkes: New Paintings,’ Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL

1983
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA

1978
‘Llyn Foulkes: Paintings, Collages, Assemblages 1959–78,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1977
‘Llyn Foulkes: New Works 1976–1977,’ Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, NY

1975
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Willard Gallery, New York, NY
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France

1974
‘Llyn Foulkes: Fifty Paintings, Collages, and Prints from Southern California Collections: A Survey Exhibition 1959–1974,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1970
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France

1969
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

1964
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1963
‘Llyn Foulkes,’ Rolf Nelson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1962
‘Llyn Foulkes: Paintings and Constructions,’ Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

1961
‘An Introduction to the Paintings of Llyn Foulkes,’ Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Group Exhibitions

2016
‘Good Dreams, Bad Dreams – American Mythologies’, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut ‘Fétiche’, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY

2015
’75 Gifts for 75 Years,’ Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2014
‘The Avant-Garde Collection,’ Orange County Museum of Art,’ Newport Beach, CA ‘Revisiting Histories,’ Kent Fine Art, New York, NY
‘Left Coast: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art,’ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2013
‘A Triple Tour: Collection Pinault,’ Conciergerie, Paris, France
‘Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana,’ François Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy ‘Hypnotherapy,’ Kent Fine Art, New York, NY

2012
Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany
‘Pasadena to Santa Barbra: A Selected History of Art in Southern California 1951–1969,’ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
‘L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945–1980, from Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy,’ Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, California, CA

2011
‘Illuminations,’ 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ‘Perfect Man II,’ White Columns, New York, NY
‘Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in LA Paintings and Sculpture, 1950-1970,’ J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
‘Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981,’ Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Civic Virtue,’ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and Watts Tower Art Center, Los Angeles, CA

2010
‘The Artist’s Museum,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Collecting Biennials. 1931–2008,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
‘Ferus Gallery Greatest Hits Volume I,’ Franklin Parrasch and Nyehaus at the original Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
‘Ferus Gallery Greatest Hits Volume II,’ Franklin Parrasch and Nyehaus at the Armory, New York, NY

2009
‘Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from LA,’ Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
‘Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2008
‘In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor,’ Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA ‘Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968,’ Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
‘Invitational Exhibition,’ American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY ‘The Old, Weird America,’ Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
‘The Dark Side of the Mouse,’ Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA

2007
‘SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments,’ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2006
‘Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle,’ Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA.
Traveled to Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; and Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
‘Los Angeles 1955–1985: Birth of an Art Capital,’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
‘La Dolce Vita: Selection from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection,’ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
‘The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,’ National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Collection Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern,’ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

2005
‘Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement,’ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Traveled to Katzen Arts Center, American University, Washington, DC
‘Choice Small Pieces, Collage and Assemblage,’ Chouinard School of Art, South Pasadena, CA

2004
‘Pop! From San Francisco Collections,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA ‘Funny Business: Humor in Art from the Permanent Collection,’ Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
‘Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA ‘Lost but Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002,’ Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

2002
‘Humor as Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection,’ Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
‘To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection,’ Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY ‘LA Post-Cool,’ San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. Traveled to Otis College of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2001
‘Pop Culture!’ Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA ‘Open Ends,’ Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
‘One Minute of Your Time: A Brief Survey of Southern California Art From 1835 to 2001,’ Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

‘Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art,’ Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.

Traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

‘Extreme: Ill-Mannered Art,’ Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

‘Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1998
‘Gold Rush to Pop,’ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

1997
‘Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960–1997,’ Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Italy; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
‘20/20: CAF Looks Forward and Back,’ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

1996
‘Man’s World: Selections from the Permanent Collection,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1995
‘Object and Image,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1994
‘Human Environment and Future,’ Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea
‘Of the Human Condition: Hope and Despair at the End of the Century,’ Spiral/Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

1992
‘Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980,’ Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
‘Transforming the Western Image in 20th-Century American Art,’ Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
‘Helter Skelter,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1991
‘De-Persona,’ Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
‘Individual Realities,’ Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan

1990
‘Real Allusions,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1989
‘Forty Years of California Assemblage,’ Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
‘L.A. Pop in the Sixties,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA. Traveled to Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY; and Phoenix Art Museum, AZ

1987
‘Made in U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art, the ‘50s & ‘60s,’ University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA. Traveled to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
‘L.A Hot and Cool,’ MIT List Visual Arts Center and Bank of Boston Art Gallery, Boston, MA

1986
‘Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present,’ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. Traveled to Art Museum of Santa Cruz County and Cabrillo College Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA

1985
‘NO! Contemporary American Dada,’ Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA ‘Sunshine and Shadows: Recent Painting in Southern California,’ Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
‘Directions in Contemporary Landscape,’ Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
‘Selections from the Diana Zlotnick Collection,’ Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
‘Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection,’ Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

1984
‘Los Angeles and the Palm Tree: Image of a City,’ ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1983
‘Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1982
‘An Urban Vernacular: Narrative American Art,’ Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
‘The West as Art: Changing Perceptions of Western Art in California Collections,’ Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
‘The Michael and Dorothy Blankfort Collection,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1981
‘California, the State of Landscape, 1872-1981,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA.
Traveled to Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
‘Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies,’ Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA ‘Southern California Artists, 1940–1980,’ Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

1980
‘Ateliers aujourd’hui: Oeuvres contemporaines des collections nationales: Accrochage IV,’ Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

1979
‘Our Own Artists: Art in Orange County,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
‘Sound: An Exhibition of Sound Sculpture, Instrument Building and Acoustically Tuned Spaces,’ Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1977
‘A View of a Decade,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
‘30 Years of American Art, 1945–1975,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
‘California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era,’ National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC ‘New in the Seventies,’ Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University Art Museum, the University of Texas at Austin, TX
‘Invitational American Drawing Exhibition,’ Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA

1976
‘The Last Time I Saw Ferus: 1957–1966,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA ‘A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr,’ Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ‘Imagination,’ Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Painting and Sculpture in Southern California: The Modern Era,’ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC

1975
‘Current Concerns, Part 1,’ Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Collage and Assemblage in Southern California,’ Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
‘Four Los Angeles Artists,’ Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

1974
‘Seventy-First American Exhibition,’ Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
‘The Twentieth Century: 35 American Artists,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ‘The Audacious Years, 1961–1971,’ Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

1973
‘Separate Realities: Developments in California Representational Painting and Sculpture,’ Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
‘The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection,’ Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA

1972
‘The Topography of Nature,’ Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA ‘Contemporary Collections,’ California State College, San Bernardino, CA
‘Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1971
‘Recent Acquisitions,’ Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA ‘American Painting 1970,’ Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA

1970
‘Hollywood Collects,’ Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

1969
‘Young Artists from the Collection of Charles Cowles,’ Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
‘The Diana Zlotnick Collection,’ California State College, Los Angeles, CA
‘The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1968
‘The West Coast Now,’ Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR. Traveled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
‘São Paulo 9: United States of America,’ Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA ‘L’Art Vivant 1965-1965,’ Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France

1967
‘The Whitney Museum Annual of American Painting,’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY ‘United States of America: V Paris Biennale,’ Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
‘Ve Biennale de Paris,’ Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
‘9th São Paulo Biennial, Environment U.S.A.: 1957–1967,’ Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil

1966
‘The Photographic Image,’ Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1965
‘One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings,’ Museum of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
‘Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture,’ La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA ‘Twelfth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture,’ Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
‘Five Younger Los Angeles Artists,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1964
‘New Realism/Pop, etc.,’ Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria
‘The Sterling Holloway Collection,’ University Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

1963
‘82nd Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute,’ San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
‘The Director’s Choice – 1963,’ Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA

1962
‘First Group Show,’ Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1961
‘The Objectmakers,’ Pomona College, Claremont, CA

1960
‘Los Angeles County Museum Annual,’ Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1959
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

education

Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Central Washington College of Education, Ellensburg, WA