Tony Berlant
Topanga After Dark, 2018

The High Ground, 2019

Song, 2018

Pond, 2018

Hat in the Ring, 2018

Night Bloom, 2018

When God Was A Woman, 2018

Spin, 2018

Fly Around, 2017

At Some Point, 2018

All In, 2019

An Unspoken Thought, 2019

Made in the Shade, 2019

When God Was a Woman, 2007


Beyond Way, 2008


El Dorado, 2007


Round Up, 2009


Passport, 2014


Lucky Shot, 2011


Fast Forward, 2011


Beside Myself, 2011


Break Out, 2011


Some Other Place, 2011


Goddess, 2009


Ruled From Above, 2009


Born
1941, New York, New York
Education
1961
B.A., University of California at Los Angeles
1962
M.A., University of California at Los Angeles
1963
M.F.A., University of California at Los Angeles
Awards
1989
Heritage Artist Recognition Award, Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, California
1964
New Talent Purchase Grant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1963
Exhibition Award, San Francisco Ford Foundation Purchase Award
Solo Exhibitions
2019
High Ground, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco; exhibition catalog
2018
Fast Forward, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Tony Berlant—The Marriage of New York and Athens, Jean Michel Wilmotte Gallery, Provence, France
2016
Tony Berlant, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
2014
Tony Berlant: Close to Home, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2011
New Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
Extended Ecstasy, Nyehaus, New York, NY
Works from 1962–1964, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2010
Tony Berlant, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2009
More Than Meets the Eye, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco
2008
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, New York
2008
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
2007
Hidden in Plain Sight, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, California
2007
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2007
When God Was A Woman, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2007
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2006
Within, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, New York
2005
Tony Berlant: Night Bloom, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
2005
Extended Ecstasy, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2004
Tony Berlant: The Marriage of New York and Athens, new building of Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, California
2004
Tony Berlant: New Terrain, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
2003
Recent Works by Tony Berlant, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2003
What You See is Who You Are, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, Inc., New York, NY
2001
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2001
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
2001
New Work, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
2000
Tony Berlant Line of Sight, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, New York
1999
Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1999
L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1999
Lennon/Weinberg, New York, New York
1997
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California Commissions
1997
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
1997
Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1997
Recent Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997
Recent Miracles, Lennon- Weinberg Gallery, New York, New York
1995
New Work, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois
1995
Recent Miracles, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1995
Pieces of a Life, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1994
New Work, Dennis Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1993
New Work, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1993
New Work, Dennis Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1993
New Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1991
Recent Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990
Eugene Binder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1990
Louver Gallery, New York, New York
1989
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1988
Centro Cultural del Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1988
New Work, Andres Tornburg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1987
Recent Works, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park , Los Angeles, California
1986
New Work, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, New York
1985
New Work, John Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1985
Recent Work, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California
1984
New Works, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, New York
1982
Recent Work, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1981
New Works, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, New York
1978
Constructions and Collages, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1975
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1974
Phyllis Kind Gallry, Chicago, Illinois
1973–74
The Marriage of New York and Athens, The Whitney Museum of American Art
1963
Davis Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibitions
2021
Photo Based: Works by Tony Berlant, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Keira Kotler, Meridel Rubenstein, and Paul Sarkisian, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2020
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog
2016
Mustard Road, The Battery SF, San Francisco, CA
2015
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
After Living in the Room of Réalités Nouvelles, Sonce Alexander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014
Venice Under the Influence, curated by Amanda Quinn Olivar, A Window Between Worlds (James Beach), Venice, CA
California Dreamin: Thirty Years of Collecting, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Between Worlds (James Beach), Venice, CA
2012
Ed’s Party, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art, 1974–81, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011–12
Artistic Evolution—Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County: 1945–1963, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Lords of the New Creatures, NYE + Brown, Culver City, CA
California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2009–10
Rarities, Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, France
Summer Sale: Selected Artists, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Emphasis SANTA MONICA, curated by Bruria Finkel, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Envisioning Maps, Hebrew Union College, New York, NY
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, Los Angeles, CA
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 1960’s: California Experiments, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Day and Night, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2006
Picking up the Pieces: Contemporary Collage, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
Los Angeles - Paris, 1955–1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (catalogue)
Impressionism/Ism: Contemporary Impressions, City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA
2005
WEST! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962–1978, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA
Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art and Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston Salem, NC
Conversations, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Bioballistic, Barnsdall Art Park Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Art 35, Basel, Switzerland
2002
August 2002, L.A. Louvre, Venice, CA
1999
Making Change, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
1998
L.A. Current: Looking at the Light, 3 Generations of L.A. Artists, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
1998
Painting Language, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1998
Winter Show, Stroke Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1998
Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, California
1997
Transformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and Design, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
1997
Sensuality in the Abstract, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California
1997
Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
1997
Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
1997
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
1997
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1997
Sunshine and Noir: Art in L.A., 1960-1997, (touring exhibition)
1996
Blessings and Beginnings: Our Pathway to This Moment, Skirball Cultural Cener and Museum, Los Angeles, California
1994
Worlds in a Box, Whitechapel Art Gallery, (touring exhibition) London, Great Britain
1991
L.A. When It Began, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989
Forty Years of California Assemblage, (traveling exhibition) UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Inaugural exhibition, Museum of Conemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1985
Boxes, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
1977
Art from Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1972
Seventieth American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1972
12 Statements Beyond the Sixties, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
1971
New Works by Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1969
Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1966
Biennial Exhibiion: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1965
Five Younger Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1960
Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Commissions
1999
Junipero Serra Stte Office Building, Los Angeles, California
1998
Wilshire Boulevard Temple, Los Angeles, California
1997
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, FBC Operations Building Lobby, Los Angeles, California
1996
U.S. Federal Building and Courthouse, Sacramento, California
1994
Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C.
1994
Faret Tachikawa Art Park, Tokyo, Japan
1992
Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California
1991
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990
Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing, Los Angeles, California
1988
The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
1987
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, California
1986
Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York, New York
1986
Rebecca's Restaurant, Venice, California
Collections
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Chateau La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Fort Worth Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT