WALLACE BERMAN
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
1979 Work by Wallace Berman: Art is Love is God, LA Louver, Venice, CA Wallace Berman, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1957 Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
1990 Contemporary Assemblage: The DADA and Surrealist Legacy, LA Louver, Venice
1988 The Art of George Herms and Wallace Berman, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis
1986 American/European Painting and Sculpture 1986: Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1981 Group Show: California: A Sense of Individualism: Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1980 Group Show: Summer Exhibition Part 1, LA Louver, Venice, CA
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