LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Born in Yonkers, New York, 1919
EDUCATION 1949 Sorbonne, Paris, Doctorat de L'Université 1946 Columbia University, New York, M.A. 1941 University of North Carolina, B.A.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 100 Years Without a Net, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2017 Underwear Series, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Muscardini Cellars, Kenwood, CA Museo di Santa Giulia, Brescia, Italy 2016-17 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Back to Verona, Accademia de Belle Arti, Verona, Italy 2016 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Censored Tarps, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Love & War, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2015 Legends of the Bay Area: Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novata, CA Fluxare: Paintings by Lawrence Feringhetti/The European Connexion, Istituto Italiano de Cultura, San Francisco, CA 2013 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Future Woman, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Cross-Pollination: The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA Prints and Original Works on Paper by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2010 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: 60 Anni di Pittura/60 Years of Painting, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Rome Foyer del Teatro Francesco Cilea, Reggio Calabria (Catalogue) 2009 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Evolution of a Painter, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visual Arts Lyric Escape: Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA 2007 Paintings and Poems, Vydal Galerie, Prague
2004 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Life Studies, Life Stories, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Art of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2003 Ferlinghetti: Art, Marin Theatre Company, Mill Valley, CA (sponsored by George Krevsky Fine Art) 2002 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Lit.Paint, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Lit.Paint: Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kleinert/James Arts Center, Woodstock, NY 2001 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Models from the Studio, Caffe 817, Oakland, CA William Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Un Artista Totale, Foyer degli Artisti, Florence, Italy 2000 Love in the Days of Rage, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Archivio Francesco Conz, Verona, Italy 1999 New Paintings, Drawings, Poems, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Painter, San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA The Painter's Dream, Shorenstein Company, San Francisco, CA 1998 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Pure Art vs. Agit-Prop, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ Francesco Conz Gallery, Verona, Italy Ferlinghetti: Lyrical and Political Paintings,Thacher Gallery, Gleeson Library/Geschke Center, University of San Francisco, CA 1997 Friesen Gallery, Sun Valley, ID 1996 Ferlinghetti: The Poet as Painter, Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Rome (Catalogue) Ferlinghetti: Opere su Carta, Studio S–Arte Contemporanea, Rome Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Beat Poet as Printmaker and Painter, Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, CA Tranquil Spaces Fine Arts Co-op, Sandusky, OH 1995 University of Charleston, Charleston, WV Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Paintings + Drawings 1981-1994, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1994 Paintings from the Studio of Light by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Mountain View Civic Center Gallery, Mountain View, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1993 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: The Paintings, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1992 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Recent Paintings and DrawingS, Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA Recent Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, CA 1991 New Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kennedy Gallery, San Francisco, CA Peter Lembcke Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1990 An Exhibition of Paintings by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz 1986 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Oil Paintings, Pauline's Pizza, San Francisco, CA 1985 Symbolism: Ferlinghetti Recent Paintings, Ethel Guttmann Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1982 Lawrence Ferlinghetti: Paintings, Cafe Americain, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin 2016-17 Mustard Road, The Battery, San Francisco, CA 2016 Welcome to the Left Coast, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Paris (Catalogue) 2014 Mythos Fine Art, Berkeley, CA Catamaran, Santa Cruz, CA 2012 Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2005 Contemporary Gallery Artists, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2003 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA 2002 Extra Innings: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2001 Torture, Exhibition Hall, The Presidio of San Francisco, CA Play Ball! George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2000 Diamonds and Dust: The Art of Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1999 Writerly Art, Trenton Art Museum, Trenton, NJ By the Sea George, Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1998 Contemporary Bay Area Artists, George Krevksy Gallery, San Francisco, CA The Merav Show, Bradford Smock Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1997 The Writer as Artist: Lawrence Ferlinghetti & William Saroyan, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY Friesen Gallery, Ketchum, ID 1996 Writers Who Paint, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (traveled to the M. H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA) *Catalogue Minna Street Gallery, San Francisco, CA SOMAR Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1994 Beat Art, Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY 1988 North Beach Exhibition, Jan Holloway Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1982 First International San Francisco Armory Show, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS Smithsonian Museum of American Arts Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin