BORN
1926-1976 Born in Staten Island, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Wallace Berman: Be-bop Kabbalah, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France Wallace Berman, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 Wallace Berman, 1926 – 1976, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2008 Wallace Berman, Camden Arts Centre, London
2006 Semina Culture, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA
2005 Aleph - A Film by Wallace Berman, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
2000 Wallace Berman - Art Is Love Is God - une introduction - 1957- 1976, Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
1992 Support the Revolution: Wallace Berman, ICA/Amsterdam
1990 A Gesture Involving Verifax Collage, Photographs, Text and Sculpture: Wallace Berman, Louver Gallery, New York
1988 Works from the Estate, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1982 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
1979 Work by Wallace Berman: Art is Love is God, LA Louver, Venice, CA Wallace Berman, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1978 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (traveled to Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle) (catalogue) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Timothea Stewart Gallery, Los Angeles
1974 Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
1973 The Mermaid Tavern (one day), Topanga, CA
1968 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Jewish Museum, New York (catalogue)
1967 Topanga Community House (one day), Topanga, CA
1965 Studio Exhibition, Beverly Glen
1957 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2014 Walls and Words, organized by UNTITLED Gallery, Eldridge Street Synagogue, New York
2013 An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan and Their Circle, curated by Michael Duncan; Traveling exhibition beginning at the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2012 INTO THE MYSTIC, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles LA RAW: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945-1980: From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy, curated by Michael Duncan,The Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (January – April 2012) Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, Traveling exhibition beginning at the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2011 Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, The Getty Center, Los Angeles All of the Above: Carte Blanche a John M Armleder, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Speaking in Tongues: The Art of Wallace Berman and Robert Heinecken, curated by Claudia Bohn-Spector and Sam Mellon, The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA (October 1, 2011 – January 22, 2012) 25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 California Maximalism, Foundation 20 21/Nyehaus, New York, NY She: Images of Women by Wallace Berman and Richard Prince, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Looking for Mushrooms, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Trace du Sacre, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2007 Pioneers, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA Semina Culture, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2006 Radical Software - Art, Technology, and the Bay Area Underground, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
2005 Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY Semina Culture - Wallace Berman & His Circle, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA Tony DeLap & Wallace Berman, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Subway Series - The New York Yankees and the American Dream, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, NY Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY Collage, Bloomberg Space, London (England)
2003 Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2002 Ferus, Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY
2000 S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1999 Group Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY
1998 World Artists for Tibet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Sunshine and Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960 – 1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
1992 Poem Makers: Wallace Berman, George Herms, Jess, LA Louver, Venice, CA Overlay, Louver Gallery, New York
1991 Summer: Scale, Louver Gallery, New York Wallace Berman, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms and Jess, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
1990 Contemporary Assemblage: The DADA and Surrealist Legacy, LA Louver, Venice Words as Image: American Art 1960-90, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
1989 Collage/Assemblage: Nine Points of View, California State University Hayward, Hayward (traveled to Richard Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA) The Junk Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950s and early 1960s, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York Forty Years of California Assemblage, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles (traveled to Fresno Art Museum & Art Center, Fresno; University of Houston, Blaffer Gallery, Houston; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha) (catalogue) LA Pop in the Sixties, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (traveled to Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs; Wadsworth Atheneum, Wadsworth; Newberger Museum, Purchase; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix)
1988 The Art of George Herms and Wallace Berman, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, and G. Ray Hawkins, Los Angeles (catalogue) Different Drummers, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (catalogue) Poetic Objects, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio (traveled to Boise Art Museum, Boise; Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo)
1987 Assemblage, Kent Fine Art, Inc, New York (catalogue)
1986 American/European Painting and Sculpture 1986: Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1985 Past Presence/Contemporary Sources, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA Twentieth Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1983 Sight/Vision/The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1982 The Peace Show, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1981 Group Show: California: A Sense of Individualism: Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA Art in Los Angeles: Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (traveled to San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio) Southern Californian Artists: 1940 – 1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna
1980 Group Show: Summer Exhibition Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1979 Electroworks, International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, New York
1977 California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (traveled to Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C)
1976 The Last Time I Saw Ferus, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1975 Collage and Assemblage, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Environment and the New Art 1960 – 1975, University of California, Davis Art as a Muscular Principle, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
1974 Poets of the Cities: New York and San Francisco 1950-1965, Exhibition traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1969 West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena (traveled to City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX) Pop Art Redefined, Hayward Gallery, London
1968 Assemblage in California, University of California, Irvine (catalogue) 1966 Los Angeles Now, Robert Fraser Gallery, London (catalogue)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur , Switzerland Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC