Peter Alexander

1939 Born in Los Angeles

1957-60 University of Pennsylvania

1960-62 Architectural Association, London, England

1962-63 University of California, Berkeley

1963-64 University of Southern California, Los Angeles

1964-65 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.

1965-66 University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A.

Artist in Residence

1971 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

1976 California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach California

1981 University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

1982 Centrum Foundation, Washington

1983 Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad, India

1996 California State University Long Beach, Summer Arts Festival

Special Projects/Awards

1971 PBS Documentary, “Artists of America” series

1975 Paramount Pictures, prop drawings for the film “Day of the Locust”

1980 Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1984 “Amphitheatre of Light: A Prelude to the XXIII Olympiad, Hollywood Bowl, July 27, 1984;

1985 Commissioned art for Rebecca’s Restaurant, Frank Gehry, architechect

Visual images in collaboration with Frank Gehry and Ron Hays.

1988 “Eight West Coast Artists”, a print project arranged by Ediciones Poligrafia, Barcelona

1989 Commissioned painting for Santa Monica Municipal Airport, California

1990 Commissioned mural for Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, Poster for Venice Art Walk, Venice California

1992 Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles, festival poster

1994 Commissioned sculpture for the 777 Building, Los Angeles, architect Cesar Pelli, client South Figueroa Plaza Associates

1999 Peter Alexander: In This Light, Retrospective Exhibition, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

2003 Commissioned painting for Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, California

Individual Exhibitions

1968 Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1969 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, Texas

Locksley/Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1970 Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles

1971 Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco

1972 Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, California

1973 Art in Progress, Munich, Germany

Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, Kansas

1974 Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, California

1975 University of California, Irvine

Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California

Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, California

1976 California State University, Long Beach

1980 Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art

Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles

1981 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

University of Colorado, Boulder

1982 Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, California

Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

1983 ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (catalogue)

Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, California

Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles

1984 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

van Straaten Gallery, Chicago

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco

1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

1986 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

1987 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

1988 Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles

1989 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1990 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans

1991 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, California

“Sculpture 1966-72”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1991 Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

1992 “Century: A Painting by Peter Alexander”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

“Peter Alexander: The Velvet Paintings”, Charles Whitchurch Gallery, Huntington Beach, California

“Skycam”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

1993 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans

“Las Vegas”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

1994 Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York (catalogue)

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica

1995 Gallery at 777, Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles

Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

1997 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon

1998 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada

Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1999 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California

“Peter Alexander: In This Light”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California (retrospective catalogue)

2000 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2001 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California

2002 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Peter Blake gallery, Laguna Beach, California

Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California

2003 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2004 Franklin Parrasach Gallery, New York, New York

Patrick Olson Gallery, Plymouth Michigan

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

1967 “Small Images”, California State College, Los Angeles

1969 “New Materials and Methods”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Here and Now”, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri

“Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

“Fourteen Sculptors: The Industrial Edge”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)

1970 “300: New Multiple Art”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue)

1971 “Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space”, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1972 “Documenta ‘72”, Kassel, Germany

1973 “The State of California Painting”, Auckland City Art Museum, New Zealand (catalogue)

1976 “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1978 “The Weisman Collection”, California State University, Long Beach (catalogue)

1982 “Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982: Pologne-USA”, Museum of Modern Art, Paris and Museum of Modern Art,

Lodz, Poland

1983 “Corcoran Biennial”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1984 “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

1985 “Spectrum: Los Angeles”, Hartje Gallery, Berlin (catalogue)

“Made in India”, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986 “Peter Alexander/Nicholas Wilder”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles

“The Golden Land”, San Diego Museum of Art

1987 “Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions”, Amerika Haus, Berlin

“Selections from the Permanent Collection”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1990 “Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York

1991 “Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Gallery forContemporary Art”, San Diego Museum of Art

1992 “Individual Realities in the California Art Scene”, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo and Seibu Tsukashin Hall,

Amagisaki,Japan

1993 “Sculpture and Multiples”, Brooke Alexander Gallery,New York

1994 “75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California”,Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

“Selected Works on Paper”, Modernism, San Francisco

“Best of the West”, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles

“City Art”, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California

“The Frederick Weisman Collection”, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California

1995 “P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

“Landscapes, Figures and Still Lifes”, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho

1997 “Approaching the Figure”, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

“Las Vegas”, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

1998 “Light and Space”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

“Digital Frontier: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions”, International Museum of Photography and Film,

Rochester, New York

1999 “Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974”, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena,

2000 “Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

2001 ‘Representing L.A.’, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalog)

"Representing L.A.", Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas (catalog)

"California Contemporary Art Collection 2001", The California State Senate, State Capitol, Sacramento, California

2002 "Velvet Kruise". Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, California

"Arte Terciopelo Negro/Black Velvet Art", Galeria ICBC, Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

"Cowboys, Indians and the Big Picture", McMullen Art Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill,

Massachusetts (catalog)

"California Art From the Collection of Frederick R. Weisman", Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,

Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

2003 “Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana: and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University, Bakersfireld

“L.A.’s Finish Fetish”, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, New York

‘California Artists of the Elkon Gallery”, The Elkon Gallery, New York, New York

2004 “Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

“Los Angeles Artist”, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California

“Beyond Geometry”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

“100 Artists See Satan”, Grand Central Arts Center, Santa Ana, California

2005 “Craig Krull Gallery“, Santa Monica, California

“"Wilder"“, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

“"West: Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978"“, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minneapolis, Minnesota

“100 Artists See Satan”, Grand Central Arts Center, Santa Ana, California

Public Collections

Akron Art Institute, Ohio

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

Eli Broad Collection, Los Angeles

Flint Institute of the Arts, Michigan

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas

Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art, Los Angeles

Fresno Art Museum, California

Getty Museum, Malibu, California

Voorhees Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

La Jolla Museum, California

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California

Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota

Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Museum of Contempro

Museum of Modern Art, New York

New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana

New York Public Library, Spencer Collection, New York

Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California

Oakland Museum, California

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey

Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, New York

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, California

San Diego Museum of Art, California

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Stanford University Art Museum, Palo Alto, California

University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Santa Barbara

Vancouver Museum of Art, British Columbia, Canada

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota