Artists

Barry Le Va


b. 1941, Long Beach California

Artist Bio

Born 1941 in Long Beach, California
Lives and works in New York City

1960
California State University, Long Beach

1963
Los Angeles College of Art & Design

1964
Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, receives BFA; MFA 1967

1968
Receives Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles

1968
Instructor Minneapolis College of Art & Design

1973
Teaches Advanced Sculpture, Princeton University

1974
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture

1976
Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Teaches graduate sculpture at Yale University

2000
Finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Barry Le Va: Network, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2015
Barry Le Va, Hall Art Foundation, Schloss Derneburg, Germany
Barry Le Va, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2014
Barry Le Va, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013
Silent Readings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2012
The Floor Show: Gravity and Materials, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
The Italian Project: Monica in Grey, Grey and Black, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Barry Le Va: 3 drawings, 1974, The National Exemplar Gallery, New York
2010
Ink on Paper, Cut and Glued to Ink on Paper: 1983 – 1988, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

2009
Sculptures and Drawings: 1966 – 2008 (Part 1), Nolan Judin Berlin
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Barry Le Va: Munich Diary – African Sketchbook, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

2008
Voltage, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico

2007
Double Join, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich

2006
Zeichnungen und Collagen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal
Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2005
Mary Boone Gallery (in cooperation with David Nolan), New York
Drawings and Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York
9g-Wagner Diagrams, ICA Variations, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Accumulated Vision, ICA Philadelphia

2003
A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Sculptures, Galerie Judin, Zurich
Scrapbooks: Books to Drawings 1998-2003, Cabinet des estampes du Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany

2002
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

2001
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Black on Blue, Danese Gallery, New York
Recent Drawings/Early Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Drawings 1966-2000, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

2000
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

1999
Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Large Scale Drawings from 1987, Danese Gallery, New York
Catalogued Confined, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

1998
Smatterings: Works on Paper 1967-1998, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Staatliche-Kunstsammlungen, Dresden
Zeichnungen, Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhöhe, Essen

1997
Diagrams of Thought, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Danese Gallery, New York

1996
Galerie Zell-am-See, Austria
Bunker Coagulations, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Sculpture and Drawings, Galerie Georges-Philippe and Natalie Vallois, Paris

1995
Barry Le Va: Pages from a Sketchbook - Japanese Lacquerware, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1994
Barry Le Va: Zeichnungen 1965-1993, Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Munich
Staadtischen Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany

1993
Barry Le Va: Collage and Drawing 1988-1993, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris

1992
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

1991
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1990
The Texas Variations, David Nolan Gallery, New York

1989
Woodblock Prints and Related Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Sculpture, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Glass, Bullets, Cleavers, 1968-1970, Staadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Sculpture, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1988
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Barry Le Va 1966-88, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, PA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, California; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York

1987
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

1986
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1985
Texas Gallery, Houston

1983
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1982
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Beaver College, Pennsylvania
Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco

1981
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
The New Gallery, Cleveland

1980
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
Michelle Lachowsky, Brussels
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Otis Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles

1979
New Museum, New York
Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas, California
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1978
Texas Gallery, Houston
Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1977
Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio

1976
Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris
Texas Galley, Houston
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1975
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles
Bykert Gallery, New York
Espace 5, Montreal, Canada
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal

1974
Texas Gallery, Houston
Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut
Bykert Gallery, New York
Toselli Gallery, Milan

1973
Felix Handshin Gallery, Basel
Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Zwirner Gallery, Cologne
Bykert Gallery, New York

1972
Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Bykert Gallery, New York
Ursula Wevers Gallery Projection, Cologne

1971
Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

1970
Ricke Gallery, Cologne

1969
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol Le Witt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York

2015
Piece Work (organized by Robert Storr), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York
Bold Abstractions: Selections from the DMA Collection 1966–1976, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

2014
Ellen Berkenblit, Steve Dibenedetto, Philip Hanson, Barry Le Va, Albert Oehlen, Alexander Ross, Rebecca Shore, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Es ist schon alles gesagt, nur noch nicht von allen, Galerie Jaun, Munich

2013
Le Va, Sandback, Taylor, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Jeff Koons, Robert Morris, Barry Le Va, Carlito Carvalhosa, Sonnabend, New York

2012
Notations: Contemporary Drawings as Idea and Process, Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Large Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Body Language Centre cultural suisse, Paris
The Floor Show: Gravity and Materials, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, Califorina

2011
Arte Povera International, Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Erre, variations labyrinthiques, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Der Raum der Linie: Amerikanische Zeichnungen und Skulpturen ab 1960 aus einer Privatsammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Der Raum der Linie: Amerikanische Zeichnungen und Skulpturen ab 1960 aus einer Privatsammlung,
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Land Art, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Compass: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2010
Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints, International Print Center, New York
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York
Summer Group Show, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Funktionen der Zeichnung, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

2009
Woodcuts Now, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Sites, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2008
Before and After Science, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

2006
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York
Collage Effect, 1301 PE Gallery, Los Angeles
Drawing Through It, David Nolan Gallery, New York

2005
Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, LA Municipal Art Gallery, California
Beuys and Le Va: Compare and Contrast, Sonnabend Gallery, New York

2004
Moved, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York
Symmetries, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York

2002
Phenomenal Bodies, Drammens Museum, Norway
From Pop to Now, Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus, Ohio
Five Sculptors Drawings: Drawings from the Seventies, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

1999
After Image: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Circa 1968, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Walking, Danese Gallery, New York
Barry Le Va, Kirsten Ortwed, Lawrence Weiner, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
Drawings from the Sixties: Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York

1998
Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir, Danese Gallery, New York
Summer Group Show, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

1997
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Laying Low, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

1995
1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawings from a Private Collection, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Attitudes/Sculptures 1963-1972, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux

1994
Painterly Thought, Raab Galerie, Berlin

1993
European and American Drawings 1961-1969, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

1992
American Art: 1930-1970, Lingotto, Torino, Italy
The New Museum Auction: 15th Anniversary Benefit Auction, New York

1991
New Editions, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va, Terry Winters, Galerie Faust, Geneva
Immaterial/Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza Equitable Center, Phillip Morris, New York
A View from the Sixties: Selections from the Leo Castelli Collection and the Michael and Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York

1990
The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Concept-Decoratif: Anti-formalist Art of the 70's, Nahan Contemporary, New York
Conceptual Art, Conceptual Forms, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor, The University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Geometric Abstraction, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
Between Geometry and the Gesture, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris

1989
Works on Paper, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles
A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
New Works by Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1988
Sonnabend Collection, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Musée d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent, Italy, Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Recent American Prints, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich

1987
1967: At the Crossroads, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Drawings , Sulvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore
Points of Contact , Laurie Ruben Gallery, New York
Knoebel, Le Va, Nauman , Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Drawings from the Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Early Concepts from the Last Decade, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York

1986
American Eccentric Abstraction, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
Art from Two Continents, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-75, Palacio De Velazquez Parque Del Retiro, Madrid
Europe/America, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

1985
Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York University, New York

1984
Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Large Drawings, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut
Minding Measure: Measuring Mind, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Large Drawings: Le Va, Morris, Nauman, Serra, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago

1983
Object, Structure, Artifice, University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa, FL
Language, Drama, Source & Vision, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Sculptor as Draftsman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawing Conclusions, A Survey of American Drawings 1958 to 1983, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Shift, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York
Varieties of Sculptural Ideas, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York
Young Talent Awards, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1982
Documenta (7), Kassel, Germany
Prints by Contemporary Sculptors, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Abstract Drawings 1911-1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts
Beyond Measurement, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Shift LA-NY, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
20th Century Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1981
Working Drawings, Hunter College, New York
Drawing Distinctions: Tendencies in American Drawings of the Seventies, Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Stadtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich
Variants: Drawings by Sculptors, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston
Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings, Elise Meyer Gallery, New York
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Contemporary Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Drawing Acquisition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1980
Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Reasoned Space, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ICA, Philadelphia
Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Ed Thorpe Gallery, New York

1979
Drawings About Drawing Today, The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Traditions in Minimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1978
Summer Group Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Installation, Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, Florida
New York Now, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.
Contemporary Drawing New York, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California

1977
Andre, Le Va, Long, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D. C.
Documenta (6), Kassel, Germany
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawings (Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt), Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Installations (Andrea Blum Freya Hansell, Barry Le Va), The Renaissance Society, Chicago
3 Installations (Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va), Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1976
Renaissance Society, Chicago
Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Group Exhibition, Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Rene Block Gallery, Berlin
Line, Visual Arts Museum, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia

1975
Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Tuttle, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Fourteen Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
U.S.A. Drawings III, Stadtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany

1974
1st American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Drawings: 70's, Hartford Art School, Hartford, Connecticut

1973
Options and Alternatives, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
American Drawings 1963-73, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawings, Bykert Gallery, New York

1972
Documenta (5), Kassel, Germany

1971
American Drawings, Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Whitney Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Seven Artists, 7 Works, Ricke Gallery, Cologne
Prospect, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf

1970
955,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Art in the Mind, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Projections, La Jolla Museum of Art, San Diego
Nine Artists, Nine Spaces, Minnesota State Arts Council, Minneapolis
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1969
Conception-Perception, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Appearing-Disappearing Object, Newport Center of Arts, Balboa, California
Anti-Illusion: Procedure and Materials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
557,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

1968
2 Painters, 1 Sculptor, California State College, Los Angeles

1967
Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles

Awards and Grants
Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, 1968
Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture, 1974
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1976
Finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, 2000

Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museu Serralves: Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
The Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
The Morgan Library & Museum, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

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