LITA ALBUQUERQUE _______________________ CV/BIO 2017 PETER BLAKE GALLERY | 435 OCEAN AVENUE, LAGUNA BEACH CA 92651 | PETERBLAKEGALLERY.COM | (949) 376-9994 | LITA ALBUQUERQUE Born 1946, Santa Monica, California EDUCATION Death Valley, CA, Man and the Mountain I Lives and works Santa Monica, California Mojave Desert, CA, Rock and Pigment Installation 1968 University of California, Los Angeles; B.F.A. in Art History, cum laude SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS “Light carries information” – Lita Albuquerque 1971-1972 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA 2017 Peter Blake Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Since the early 1970s, Lita Albuquerque (born 1946, Santa Monica, CA) has created an expansive body of work, SELECTED EPHEMERAL AND PERFORMATIVE PROJECTS 2016 Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting and multi-media performance to ambitious site-specific ephemeral projects 2015 Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy 2017 Desert X, HeARTh Fisher Art Museum, University of Southern California, Los in remote locations around the globe. Often associated with the Light and Space and Land Art movements, 2016 USC Fischer Museum of Art, 20/20: Accelerando Angeles. CA Albuquerque has developed a unique visual and conceptual vocabulary using the earth, color, the body, motion and 2015 Mt. Vesuvius, curated by Emmanuele 2014 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA time to illuminate identity as part of the universal. 2014 Laguna Museum of Art, part of Art and Nature Center for Art + Environment,Nevada Museum of Art, Conference, Laguna Beach, CA Reno, Nevada She represented the United States at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale, where she was awarded the Biennale’s 2013 Human Resources, Participated in Crime, by HECUBA, Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA top prize. Albuquerque has also been the recipient of the National Science Foundation Artist Grant Program for Los Angeles, CA UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab, Los Angeles, CA the artwork, Stellar Axis: Antarctica, which culminated in the first and largest ephemeral artwork created on that 2013 Los Angeles Arts Exchange (LAX) Launching Pad, 2012 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA continent, three NEA Art in Public Places awards, an NEA Individual Fellowship grant, a fellowship from the Los Angeles, CA 2011 A. Gallerie, Paris, France Stellar Axis-Antarctica Civitella Ranieri Foundation and MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts award. 2012 Los Angeles, CA, Spine of the Earth 2012, Pacific Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival 2010 Design Loves Art Exhibit at the Pacific Design Center, Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of 2009 Anchorage Art Museum, Freeze, Anchorage Alaska Los Angeles, CA American Art, LACMA and MOCA, among others. She is on the core faculty of the Fine Art Graduate Program at Art 2008 New Delhi, India, 48 Degree Celsius 2008 Peter Blake Gallery, CA Center College of Design and currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. 2007 North Pole, Ninety Degrees North, 2007 Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA 2006 South Pole, Antarctica, National Science Foundation Hentschell Gallery, DesMoines, Iowa Grant, Stellar Axis: Antarctica Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 1996 Giza Plateau at the Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt, Sol Star 2006 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, 1983 Vermillion, South Dakota, NEA Art in Public Places Grant, Malibu, CA Medicine Wheel Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1982 Arroyo Grande Sand Dunes, San Luis Obispo, CA, 2002 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California Inconceivable Mansions 2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York 1981 Cal State University, Bakersfield, CA, 1998 Louis Stern Gallery in conjunction with the Armand 1980 El Mirage Dry Lake Desert, funded by California State Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir LA CA University, Long Beach, CA, Spine of the Earth William Turner Gallery in conjunction with the Armand Washington, DC, International Sculptural Conference, Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir, Venice, CA Washington Monument Project (the Red Pyramid) 1996 Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt 1979 Mojave Desert, CA, Man and the Mountain II 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Particle 1978 Malibu, CA, Malibu Line Memory Malibu, CA, Moon Shadow 1988 William Turner Gallery in conjunction with the Armand Malibu, CA, Blue Rock Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir, Venice, CA LITA ALBUQUERQUE 1996 Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Collected Works from the Bottom of the World” Bakersfield 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Particle Alaska Center of Contemporary Art, Freeze, collaboration Los Angeles County Museum of Art Art Museum Council, Memory 2016 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA with architect Christoph Kapeller, Anchorage, Alaska Special Projects Gallery, CA 1994 University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA 2015 Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Schneider Museum of Art, University of Southern Palos Verdes Art Center, Exploring the Cosmos, Palos 1993 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA Nevada Museum of Art, Lake Tahoe and Lake Pyramid, Oregon, “Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies; an Art and Verdes, CA 1991 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Nevada Astronomy Exhibit” Medford, Oregon Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Made in 1990 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, outside Toronto, Phantom Galleries as part of the TED conference, California Reflections, Career survey sponsored by Los Angeles Ontario Emergence Enchanted, Long Beach, CA 2001 St. John of the Divine, “A Threshold of Spirit” curated by Fellows of Contemporary Art Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Palm Peter Nagy Gallery, New York, New York 1989 The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA 2014 Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta Desert, CA Gallery 825, Romancing the Universe, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA El Paso Museum of Art 2008 New Delhi, India 48 Degrees Celsus_Public-Eco Art Drawing Center, New York, New York 1986 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Landscape abstraction” Orange County Museum of Art, through the Khoj Workshop, funded by the Goethe 2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York 1984 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA Newport Beach, CA Institute Molly Barnes Gallery, Twelve Divas, Santa Monica, CA Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775- Alyce Williamson de Roulet Gallery at Art Center College 1999 University Art Museum, California State University, Long 1982 Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX 2012”, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington of Design, Observe, A Collaboration with astrophysicists Beach, CA, Women-Founders and Innovators 1980 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY “Time, Space and Matter” Museum of California Art, from Spitzer Science Center at Caltech, Pasadena, CA 1996 Bakersfield Museum of Art and Todd Madigan Gallery, Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC Pasadena, California LA Contemporary Gallery, Culver City, Ca. Nepotism Bakersfield, CA, Process Art: West Coast Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL “The Mothership” Dilettante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Design and Architecture, MODAA, Liquid California State University, Northridge, CA, Rear View 1979 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2013 “Spring Break” at the Old School part of the Armory Fair, Light, Culver City, CA 1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in LA: Prints of Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA New York N.Y. 2007 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Made in California, Cirrus Editions 1977 University Art Museum, University of California, Santa 2012 “Knowledges”, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA 1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, P.L.A.N.: Barbara, CA CA Barnsdall Municipal Gallery Multiple Vantage Points, Los Photography L.A. Now Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, Getty Museum Pacific Standard Time Performance Angeles New York Academy of the Sciences, New York, NY, CA Festival Track 16 Gallery Now and Then, Santa Monica, CA Irrational Landscapes 1976 Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA Pacific Standard Time, Breaking In Two, Los Angeles, CA Peter Blake Gallery Shades of Gray, Laguna Beach CA. 1994 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Southern California: 1974 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Villa Di Donato, Naples, Italy 2006 Riverside Art Museum, Abstraction, Riverside, CA The Conceptual Landscape Grand Palais, “Art Paris”, Paris, France Barnsdall Art Center, COLA Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, The Gold Show TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, “Framing Abstraction”, 2005 Cal State Pomona Kellogg Gallery, The Big Book Show, 1992 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis Los Angeles, CA CA University, St. Louis, MO, The Artist and Sacred Space 2013 Lita Albuquerque and Mollie McKinley, Spring Break New 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Artist’s Art Center College of Design Williamson Gallery, 1992 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Dreams and York, N.Y Museum, CA Pasadena, CA Shields: Spiritual Dimensions in Contemporary Art 2005 Lita Albuquerque, Mitchell DeJarnett “As Above So Sophia Louisa Projects, “39: Exploring the Concept of 2004 Barnsdall Art Center, Bio Ballistic, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, One Over One Below: Art as Political and Cosmological