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		1928 Born in Chicago, IL 2019 Died in Santa Fe, NM Education 1955-56 Mexico City College 1953-54 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California 1945-48 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Teaching 1972 University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL 1971 University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 1970 University of California, Berkeley, CA 1969 Los Angeles Art Center, CA 1969 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1965-69 Pasadena Art Museum, CA Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 Paul Sarkisian, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM 2014 SARKISIAN & SARKISIAN, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (curated by Dan Cameron) 2011 Paul Sarkisian: Drawings for Roman, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM 2005 Paul Sarkisian, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM (curated by Louis Grachos) 1984 Tomasulo Art Gallery, Union County College, Cranford, NJ 1982 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Aspen Center for Visual Arts: Southwest Artists Series, CO Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM 1981 Paul Sarkisian, ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA Paul Sarkisian, Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1980 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Wright State University, Dayton; Ohio, Traveling to: Herron Gallery, IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN and Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 1979 The Arts Club of Chicago, IL 1978 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Paul Sarkisian: Photo Realism, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston, TX (Curated by Paul Schimmel) 1975 Paul Sarkisian, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Houston, TX (Curated by Paul Schimmel) 1973 Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1972 Paul Sarkisian, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1970 Paul Sarkisian, An Exhibition of Six Paintings, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Four New Paintings, Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1969 Paul Sarkisian, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (curated by Walter Hopps) 1968 Paul Sarkisian, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1963 Paul Sarkisian, La Jolla Art Center, La Jolla, CA 1962 Show One, Aura Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1958 Nova Gallery, Boston, MA Selected Group Exhibitions 2022 FRAMED 2: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, and Paul Sarkisian, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA FRAMED: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Ed Moses, Ruth Pastine, Paul Sarkisian and Andrea Way, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 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 2014-15 Still Life: 1970s Photorealism, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (curated by Cathleen Chaffee) Travelled to: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY; Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH 2010 Hyperreal, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria 1999 Radical P.A.S.T.: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena 1960-1974, Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA Postmark: An Abstract Effect, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM 1993 Trompe l’Oeil-Illusionism: Curators' Forum, Hans and Walter Bechtler Gallery, Charlotte, NC (Catalogue) 1992 The Allure of Illusionism: Trompe l’Oeil In Contemporary American Painting, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, UT 1990 Pacific Enterprise Collection, Library Towers, Los Angeles, CA (Catalogue) 1989 Alcove Show, Santa Fe Art Museum, NM 1988 Directors Invitational, Helen B. Murray Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA. (Catalogue) 1987 Statements '87, Fine Arts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1986 New Mexico Collections, Fogelson Gallery, College of Santa Fe, NM 1985 Abstract Variations, Harcourts Contemporary, San Francisco, CA The Real Thing; Trompe l’Oeil, Castle Gallery College of New Rochelle, NY 1984 American Art Now! Painting in the 80's, Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences, Columbus, GA American Scene, Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX Summer Group Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NY "Still Life Show", Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1983 Contemporary Visual Art Exhibition, Helios Fine Art and the El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX Realistic Directions, University Park, Pennsylvania Contemporary Trompe l’Oeil Painting and Sculpture, Boise Gallery, Boise, ID New Art from New York City, Contemporary Art Paintings, Wilmington, DE Festival of the Arts, Center of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA Salon d'Automne, Grand Palais, Paris, France Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Summer Group Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY The Great Illusionists, Ben Shahn Gallery, Paterson, NJ Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE. Material Illusions/Unlikely Materials, Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH Contemporary Trompe l’Oeil Painting and Sculpture, Boise Gallery, Boise, ID 1981-83 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts. Curated by Frank Goodyear. Traveled to: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; The Salas de Exposiciones de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany 1982 Works on Paper, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Summer Workshops 1982, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, CO 1981-82 Real, Really Real and Super Real, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; Traveled to: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PN 1981 46th Annual National Midyear show, The Butler Art Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Summer Group Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Major New Works: Tenth Anniversary Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Contemporary Realism, Brainerd Art Gallery, S.U.N.Y., at College of Arts and Sciences, Potsdam, NY Director's Gallery Glimpse, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hampstead, NY Realists Exhibition, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY The Artist and the Airbrush, San Jose State University Art Gallery, San Jose, CA Rosalind Constable Invites, Festival/Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Group Show, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY New York Gallery Showcase, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Still Life/Interiors, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 1980-81 A Decade of Drawing in Black and White: 1970-80, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY Art for Collectors, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Contemporary Art from New Mexico, A Scottish Arts Council Exhibition, Edinburgh, Scotland Realism/Photo Realism, Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK Possibilities for Collectors III, Des Moines Art Center, IA Contemporary Naturalism: Works of the 70's, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY Illusions, (Turrell, Sarkisian, Okulick, Macaulay.), Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IA Here and Now, 35 Artists in New Mexico, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM Summer Group Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY Group Show, The Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Illinois State University, Normal, IL 1979-80 100 Artists 100 Years, The Alumni Schools of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL First Western States Biennial Exhibition, Organized by the Western Collection of Fine Arts; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Traveled to: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle WA; University of Hawaii, Honolulu; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA 1979 Prospectus: The Seventies, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT Group Show, Middendorff-Lane Gallery, Washington, D.C. Recent Acquisitions, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Soho Directions, Brookhaven National Labs, Upton, NY Still Life, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH Paintings from New York Galleries, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA. Traveled to: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA; Roanoke College, Salem, VA Group Show, University of North Dakota Art Galleries, Grand Forks, ND. Things Seen: The Concept of Realism in 20th Century Art, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE Armory Show, Santa Fe, NM The Reality of Illusion, The Denver Art Museum, CO 1978 Realists, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE Drawing the Line, Montclair Art Museum, NJ Watercolors, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA 1977-78 Illusions of Reality, Australia Council. Traveling to: Australia National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian National Gallery, Perth, Australia Aspects of Realism, Sponsored by Rothmans of Pall Mall; Curated by Alan Hanlon. Traveling throughout Canada 1977 Group Show, Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Painting in the Age of Photography, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland Major New Works, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, FL Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. A View of the Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1976 The Last Time I Saw Ferus, 1957-66, Newport Harbor Art Museum, CA Visions, Distinguished Alumni, 1945 to Present, Chicago Art Institute, IL Fall Invitational, Roswell Museum, NM Painting and Sculpture in California, The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Possibilities, Des Moines Art Center, IA Painting and Sculpture Today, 1976, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN 12 Contemporary Artists Working in New Mexico, Museum of New Mexico, Fine Arts Center, Santa Fe, NM. Drawings, Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Peter Ludwig Collection, Aachen Museum, Aachen, West Germany 34th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1973 Separate Realities, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA 1972 Chuck Close and Paul Sarkisian, Two Person Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL DOCUMENTA 5, Kassel, Germany 1971 Traveling Show of American Paintings and Prints, National Gallery of Australia 1970 Excellence: Art from the University Community, University Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA Looking West, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NE 1969 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1968 Late Fifties at the Ferus, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. 1965 Art '65 East and West, American Pavilion, New York World's Fair, New York, NY 100 California Artists, Pasadena Art Museum, CA 1962 Show One, Aura Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1960 Annual, Pasadena Art Museum, CA 1957 Gallery Artists Group Show, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Walter Hopps) 1956 Action2, NOW Gallery inside the Turnabout Theatre, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Walter Hopps) 1955 Action: Painting, Collages, Lithographs, & Contemporary Music of the West Coast (The Merry-Go-Round Show), Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, CA (curated by Walter Hopps) 1954-55 Southern California Painting and Sculpture Annual, Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, CA 1954 Syndell Studio, Brentwood, CA (curated by Walter Hopps) 1952 California Painting Annual, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA. Selected Public Collections Aachen Museum, Aachen, Germany Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock , AR Art Institute of Chicago, IL Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque , NM Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA Becton Dickinson & Company, Paramus, NJ Brandeis University Art Museum, MA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Des Moines Art Center, IA Des Moines Register and Tribune, IA New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM Harwood Museum, Taos, NM Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge MA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Hospital Corporation of America Collection, Nashville, TN Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY Milwaukee Art Center, WI Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN The Museum of Albuquerque, NM Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Museum of Modern Art, NY Museum of Modern Art (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria Museum of the University of Georgia, Athens , GR Oakland Museum of California, CA Owens Corning Fiberglass Corp., Toledo, OH Pacific Enterprise Corp., Los Angeles, CA Pasadena Art Museum, CA Philip Morris Inc., NY Roswell Museum of Art, NM San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, NY Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT