Born Los Angeles, CA, 1939 Education 1957-60 University of Pennsylvania 1960-62 Architectural Association, London 1962-63 University of California, Berkeley 1963-64 University of Southern California, Los Angeles 1964-65 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles 1965-66 M.A., University of California, Los Angeles Solo Exhibitions 2008 To Dive For, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2007 Pasadena City College, College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY 2006 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2005 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2004 Water Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY Patrick Olson Gallery, Plymouth, MI Godt-Cleary Gallery, Las Vegas, NV Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2003 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2002 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA Peter Alexander: Tropics, Crocker Plaza, San Francisco, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA 2001 Semi Plein Air Paintings of Laguna. Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 2000 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 1999 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1998 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1997 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon 1996 Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 1994 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Charles Whitchurch Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1991 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1990 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA 1989 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA 1987 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1983 ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY 1981 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 1980 Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1976 California State University, Long Beach, CA 1975 University of California, Irvine Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA 1974 Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, CA 1973 Art in Progress, Munich, Germany Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO 1972 Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, CA 1971 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1970 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1969 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX Locksley/Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1968 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY Selected Group Exhibitions 2009 The Beast in Me, Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York, NY Draw the Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA 2008 Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Body and Soul: American Art from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA Fresh Air, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY Nepotism, LA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Imaging and Imagining California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA The Left Coast, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Summer Group Show, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA SoCal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue) Julius Shulman/Peter Alexander: Light and Space of California, Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada Los Angeles 1955-1985, Cetre Pompidou, Paris, France 2005 Beyond Geometry, Miami Art Museum, FL (catalogue) Wilder, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York and Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN California Landscapes, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Drawings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Safe and Warm in L.A., Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY Peter Alexander, Jack Bush, Tony Delap, Friedel Dzubas, John McCracken, The Elkon Gallery, New York, NY 2004 Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Los Angeles Artists, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield, CA L.A.’s Finish Fetish, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY California Artists of the Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery, New York, NY 2002 Velvet Kruise, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA Dutched: A Personal Touch, Art Galleries of California State University Northride and Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA Arte Terciopelo Negro/Black Velvet Art, Galeria ICBC Tijuana, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico Cowboys, Indians and the Big Picture, McMullen Art Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts (catalog) Surf Culture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalogue) California Art from the Collection of Frederick R. Weisman, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 2001 Minimalism Then and Now, UC Berkeley Art Museum Contemporary Configurations—Peter Alexander, Meridel Rubenstein and Ted Orland, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA 1997 Approaching the Figure, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1996 Paintings of the New Landscape, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA Grounded: Suburban Landscapes, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA City of Vapor, Tatischeff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 A California Collection, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Presence in Minimal and Postminimal Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, travelling to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI; as well as museums in Pittsburgh, PA; Scottsdale, AZ; Las Vegas, NV; and St. Petersburg, FL Landscape: A Concept, Steven Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Quintessential California, FACT Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1994 75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Five Guys, Bank of America, Costa Mesa, CA Nocturnes, Night Works, Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA Best of the West, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Shoes or No Shoes, Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium Paper Presence, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Sculpture and Multiples, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY 75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1992 Abstraction in the Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagisaki, Japan 1991 Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, San Diego Museum of Art, CA 1990 Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, New York, NY 1989 Ed Hamilton: Master Printer, University of Arizona, Tucson Daylight Savings Time, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain 1987 Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1986 Peter Alexander/Nicholas Wilder, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, CA 1985 Spectrum: Los Angeles, Hartje Gallery, Berlin, Germany 1984 An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York 1983 Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1982 Echange entre Artistes, 1931-1982: Pologne-USA, Museum of Modern Art, Paris and Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland 1978 The Weisman Collection, California State University, Long Beach 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1973 The State of California Painting, Auckland City Museum, New Zealand 1972 Documenta 72, Kassel, Germany 1971 Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1970 300: New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England 1969 New Materials and Methods, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Fourteen Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Highlights: 1968-69, Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL A Plastics Presence, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Other Ideas, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI Here and Now, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1967 Small Images, California State College, Los Angeles New Work, Southern California, University of california, San Diego West Coast Now, Seattle Art Museum, WA Plastics: Los Angeles, CA State College, Los Angeles Made of Plastic, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI Public Collections Akron Art Museum, OH Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Des Moines Art Center, ID Eli Broad Collection, Los Angeles, CA Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,TX Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles, CA Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA Getty Museum, Malibu, CA Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA Voorhees Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA La Jolla Art Museum, CA Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Minneapolis Institute of Art Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu The Museum of Modern Art, New York New Orleans Museum of Art Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA New York Public Library, Spencer Collection Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Princeton University Art Museum, NJ Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, NY San Diego Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, CA University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Vancouver Museum of Art, British Columbia, Canada Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
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