Gronk CV

GRONK CV

EDUCATION
B.F.A. East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, CA, 1974-1975
M.F.A. California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 1976-1978

AWARDS
2002 Artist-in-Resident, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
1996 Artist-in-Resident, Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
1993 Artist-in-Resident, Tandom Press, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Artist-in-Resident, Cornell university, Ithaca, New York
1983 Visual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1977 Artist of the Year, Mexican-American Fine Art Association, Los Angeles

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C.
The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA
University of Texas, El Paso, TX
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Carnegie Museum, Oxnard, CA
Albuquerque Center for the Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

EXHIBITIONS: MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
2006 Gronk, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Gronk: New Work, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Brain Flame, multimedia installation in collaboration with the Digital Pueblo Project, Digital Dome, Lodestar Astronomy Center, Albuquerque, NM (traveling installation)
2002 On-Site Installation, The Museum of Glass and Contemporary Art, Tacoma, WA

EXHIBITIONS: MUSEUMS & INSTITUTIONS
2008-01 Chicano Visions: American Painters On The Verge: San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio TX; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, WashingtonD.C.; National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, NM; El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; Museum of Contemporary Art SanDiego, La Jolla, CA; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MI; Mexican Fine Arts Museum; University of Houston, Houston, TX (October – December 2005); St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO (January – May 2006); De Young Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco, CA (June – September 2006); Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL (November – April 2007); coming to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA in 2008. Curated by Cheech Marin. (traveling exhibition 2001-08)
2006 L.A. – Paris: 1955 – 1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2000 La Luz, Hispanic Cultural Center, New Mexico, NM
1998 Queen of Denial, Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Memorial Museum, Rochester, NY
Gronk x 3, San Jose Museum of Art, California, CA
1996 American Kaleidoscope, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
1995 Gronk-Ironweave, On-Site Installation, Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1993 Retrospective, Living Survey, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA (traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; El Paso Museum of Art, TX) Revelations/Revelaciones,” On-Site Installation, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1992 Hotel Tormenta, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France
1991 Myth and Magic in the Americas, the ‘80s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterey, Mexico
1990 Hotel Zombie, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Chicano Art/Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-85, Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles , CA (traveled to: Denver Art Museum, CO; Albuquerque Museum, NM; San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ)
Le Demon des Anges, Barcelona Museum, Spain (Traveled to Nantes, France and Stockholm, Sweden)
1989 Grand Hotel, Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Hispanic Art in the United States, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
(traveled to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Brooklyn Museum, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
1985 On Site Installation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Asco ‘83, Senso Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
1982 Asco ‘82, Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1980 Gronk/Herron: Illegal Landscapes, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Hecho en Latinoamerica, Museum de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1977 No Movie, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1976 New Works, Galeria de Artes Nuevos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2000 Tormenta Cantata with Albuquerque Quartet (performance painting), National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1999 Y2 Gronk (live performance), Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Tormenta Cantata with Kronos Quartet (painting to music), Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, CA
1997 Tormenta Cantata with Kronos Quartet (painting to music), University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1995 Tormenta Cantata with Kronos Quartet (painting to music), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA and Theater Artaud, San Francisco, CA

SET DESIGN
2006-05 Opera- “Ainadamar” by Osvaldo Goligov, Directed by Peter Sellers, Artwork by Gronk, Santa Fe Opera (2005); Lincoln Center, New York, NY (2006) Opera, Santa Fe, NM (travels in 2006 to Lincoln Center, New York, NY)
1998-2000 Opera- “Story of a Soldier” by Igor Stravinsky, Directed by Peter Sellars, Artwork by Gronk, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music Center, Los Angeles (traveled to: Palmero, Italy, Paris, France, Madrid, Spain, Vienna, Austria)
1998 Play- “Stone Wedding,” Los Angeles Theatre Center
1994 Opera- “Journey to Cordoba,” Los Angeles Opera Company, Music Center, Los Angeles
1993 Play- “Carpa Clash,” Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Play- “Bowl of Beans,” Los Angeles Theatre Center, CA (broadcast on PBS “Guest Performances” series)
1990 Play- “Come Back Little Sheba,” East/West Players, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Jazz Festival- “Paris Jazz Festival,” Paris, France

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004 Knight, Christopher. “Art Exhibitions Inc.” Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles Herald Examiner 26 (June 2004): E-33.
2003 Johnson, Reed. “They Were Here First.” Los Angeles Times (October 2003): F7.
2001 Johnson, Reed. “Soul Searching on Spring Street.” Los Angeles Times (April 2001): E-1.
1999 Diggs, Agnes. “Skirball Center Symposium Feature Mural Artists.” Los Angeles Times (March 1999): B-3.
James, David E. “Hollywood Extras: One Tradition of Avant-Garde Film in Los Angeles.” October (Fall 1999): 3-24.
1998 Hamlin, Jesse. “Gronk If You’re Creative.” The San Francisco Chronicle (November 1998): 15.
1997 Kronenberg, Gail. “He’s Opened A Museum of Modern Art.” Los Angeles Times (December 1997): D-5.
1996 Fox, Larry. “Weekend’s Best.” The Washington Post (October 1996): L N-3.
Kosman, Joshua. “Kronos Tries to Conquer World: Quartet plays Chinese, Jewish Balinese Themes at Artaud.” The San Francisco Chronicle (May 1996): E-1.
1994 Higgins, Bill. “Cheap-Not Cheesy.” Los Angeles Times (November 1994): E-3.
Knight, Christopher. “The Two Lives of Gronk.” Los Angeles Times (November 1994): E-3.
1993 Pagel, David. “Chicano Codices’ Has A Social Identity Crisis.” Los Angeles Times (September 1993): F-6.
1993 Curtis, Cathy. “On Drawing: Get The Point.” Los Angeles (April 1993): F-1.
1992 Clifton, Leigh Ann. “Gronk at San Jose Museum of Art” Artweek (April 1992): 21
1991 Gronk. “Gronk.” In Artweek 22 (October 1991): 11-15.
1990 Curtis, Cathy. “Hotel Zombie: Walls Offer Guessing Game.” Los Angeles Times (September 1990): F-2.
1989 Gamboa Jr., Harry. “Serpents in the City of Angels.” Artweek 20 (November 1989): 24.
1988 Christiensen, Judith. “Disparate Influences, Shared Attitudes.” Artweek (August 1988): 8.
1986 Burnham, Linda Frye. “Morning Becomes Electricity.” Artforum (February 1986): 110-111.
Conal, Robbie. “Gronk.” L.A. Weekly (May 1986).
1985 Burnham, Linda Frye. “Asco.” High Performance, vol. 8, no. 2 (1985): 66-67.
Knight, Christopher. “A Something-For-Everyone Group Exhibit at MoCA.” Los Angeles Times (June 1985): B-1, B-5.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Outside-In Tour of L.A. in Summer ‘85: 9 Artists.” Los Angeles Times (June 1985): 5-1.
Plagens, Peter. “MoCA Mix, The Good, The Bad and The Unplugged.” L.A. Weekly (August 1985): 65-66, 18.
1983 Gamboa Jr., Harry. “Asco 83.” Caminos 3.9 (October 1983): 36.
1979 Hugo, Jean. “Communication Alternatives.” Artweek (September 1979): 5.
1975 Flaco, Eduardo. “Chicanoismo en El Arte.” Artweek (May 1975): 3.