John Baldessari

Born National City, CA (USA) 1931

Lives and works in Santa Monica, California. John Baldessari was born in National City, California. He attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute and U.C. Berkeley. He taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia until 1990 and is currently teaching at UCLA as Professor of Art.

His art has been featured in more than 120 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and in over 300 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. His awards include the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award, the Rolex Mentor and Protege arts initiative, the Governors Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in California, the Oscar Kokoschka Prize from Austria and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany. He has received honorary degrees from the National University of Ireland, San Diego State University, and Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design.

Recent projects include; solo shows in New York, Europe, and Los Angeles, books, films, a commissioned project at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (2004), and retrospectives at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, Austria (2005), the Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria (2005), and at the Musee d'art Contemporain de Nimes, France (2005). Upcoming projects include a curatorial project at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture garden in Washington DC, as well as two shows in Germany at the Kunst Museum Bonn, and the Kunstverein Bonn.

Select Exhibitions

• 2006 - "Full House: Faces of a Collection", Kunsthalle Mannheim, Manneheim, Germany
• 2006 - "John Baldessari: Works 1982 - 1991" Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
• 2005 - "John Baldessari: Person with Guitar Series," Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California
• 2005 - "Greater than the Sum" University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
• 2004 - "California Dreaming," films by Kenneth Anger, John Baldessari, Will Handle, David Lamelas, and Ed Ruscha, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
• 2004 - "John Baldessari and Jonathan Monk" Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2003 - "John Baldessari: Vertical/Horizontal Series" Bernier/Elaides, Athens, Greece
• 2002 - "John Baldessari: Junctions and Intersections," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
• 2001 - "While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1965-2001," Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
• 2000 - "John Baldessari Selections from: The Goya Series-The Tetrad Series-The Elbow Series," Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
• 1998 - "John Baldessari: Recent Works," Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
• 1997 - "John Baldessari: National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996," Galerie Philomene Magers, Koln, Germany
• 1996 - "John Baldessari: National City," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
• 1995 - "John Baldessari: Prints From Cirrus Editions," Lowinsky Gallery, New York, New York
• 1994 - "John Baldessari at Gemini G.E.L.," Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, New York
• 1993 - "John Baldessari: Working Materials," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, New York
• 1991 - "John Baldessari," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
• 1988 - "John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective, " Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
• 1984 - "John Baldessari," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• 1978 - "Baldessari: New Films," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• 1966 - "John Baldessari: Fragments," La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, California

Select Artwork

• Goya Series: PER SE - 1997
• Some Narrow Views (either tall or wide) - 2004
• Wall with two Windows, Large Blue Shape, Yellow Shape & One Line - 1994
• Two Hands (with Distant Figure) - 1989-1990
• The Fallen Easel (in nine parts) - 1988
• Stable Life - 1986
• Pink Guitar - 2005
• Green Guitar - 2005
• Blue Guitar - 2005
• Box and Two persons (With Nose And Ear) - 2006
• Helmsman (With Various Fires) - 1989-1990
• Two Figures with horse / Two Figures with Cave - 1990
• Life's Balance with Money - 1989-1990
• Overlap Series: Double Motorcyclists and Landscape (Icelandic) - 2003
• French Horn Player (with Three Contexts Uncoded) © Gemini G.E.L. and the Artist - 1994

Select Books By John Baldessari

• 2006 - Prima Facie: Marilyn's Dress, A Poem (In Four Parts). Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, Germany, 2006
• 2001 - Brown and Green and Other Parables. Reykjavik, Iceland: i8 and Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland, 2001.
• 1999 - The Metaphor Problem Again. Collaboration with Lawrence Weiner. Ink-Tree Kunsnacht and Mai 35 Galerie Zurich, Switzerland.
• 1998 - Zorro (Two Gestures and one Mark). Oktagon Verlag, Cologne, Germany.
• 1989 - Lamb. Images by John Baldessari, story by Meg Cranston. Valencia, Spain: IVAM Centre Julio Gonzlez
• 1988 - The Telephone Book (With Pearls). Gent, Belgium: Imschoot, Uitgevers for IC.

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