LITA ALBUQUERQUE _______________________ CV/BIO 2016 PETER BLAKE GALLERY | 435 OCEAN AVENUE, LAGUNA BEACH CA 92647 | PETERBLAKEGALLERY.COM | (949) 376-9994 | LITA ALBUQUERQUE Born 1946, Santa Monica, California EDUCATION 1978 Malibu, CA, Moon Shadow Lives and works Santa Monica, California 1978 Malibu, CA, Blue Rock 1968 University of California, Los Angeles; B.F.A. in Art History, 1978 Death Valley, CA, Man and the Mountain I cum laude 1978 Mojave Desert, CA, Rock and Pigment Installation “Light carries information” – Lita Albuquerque 1971-1972 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA Since the early 1970s, Lita Albuquerque (born 1946, Santa Monica, CA) has created an SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS expansive body of work, ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting and multi-media performance to SELECTED EPHEMERAL AND PERFORMATIVE PROJECTS 2015 Mount Vesuvius, Naples, Italy ambitious site-specific ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe. Often associated 2016 USC Fischer Museum of Art, 20/20, Accelerando, 2016 2015 Fisher Art Museum, University of Southern California, Los with the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has developed a unique visual 2015 Mt. Vesuvius, curated by Emmanuele Angeles. CA and conceptual vocabulary using the earth, color, the body, motion and time to illuminate identity 2014 Laguna Museum of Art, part of Art and Nature Conference, 2014 Center for Art + Environment,Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, as part of the universal. Laguna Beach,CA Lita Albuquerque 1629 18th Street Studio Nevada #4 Santa Monica, CA 90404 • 310-617-5088 • www. 2014 Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA She represented the United States at the Sixth International Cairo litaalbuquerque.com 2014 UCLA Art|Sci Center + Lab, Los Angeles, CA Biennale, where she was awarded the Biennale’s top prize. Albuquerque has also been the 2013 Human Resources, Participated in Crime, by HECUBA, Los 2012 Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA recipient of the National Science Foundation Artist Grant Program for the artwork, Stellar Axis: Angeles, CA 2011 A. Gallerie, Paris, France Stellar Axis-Antarctica Antarctica, which culminated in the first and largest ephemeral artwork created on that continent, 2013 Los Angeles Arts Exchange (LAX) Launching Pad, Los 2011 Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna, CA three NEA Art in Public Places awards, an NEA Individual Fellowship grant, a fellowship from the Angeles, CA 2010 Design Loves Art Exhibit at the Pacific Design Center, Los Civitella Ranieri Foundation and MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts award. 2012 Los Angeles, CA, Spine of the Earth 2012, Pacific StandardAngeles, CA Time Performance and Public Art Festival 2008 Peter Blake Gallery, CA 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 2007 Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, 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 2007 Hentschell Gallery, DesMoines, Iowa Center College of Design and is represented in Los Angeles by Michael Kohn as well as in Laguna Beach by Peter 2007 North Pole, Ninety Degrees North, 2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Blake Gallery. 2006 South Pole, Antarctica, National Science Foundation Grant, 2006 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Stellar Axis: Antarctica Malibu, CA 1996 Giza Plateau at the Pyramids, Cairo, Egypt, Sol Star 2006 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Lita Albuquerque currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. 1983 Vermillion, South Dakota, NEA Art in Public Places Grant, 2002 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California Medicine Wheel 2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York 1982 Arroyo Grande Sand Dunes, San Luis Obispo, CA, 1998 Louis Stern Gallery in conjunction with the Armand Hammer Inconceivable Mansions Museum’s Sunshine and Noir LA CA 1981 Cal State University, Bakersfield, CA, 1988 William Turner Gallery in conjunction with the Armand 1980 El Mirage Dry Lake Desert, funded by California State Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir, Venice, CA University, Long Beach, CA, Spine of the Earth 1996 Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt 1980 Washington, DC, International Sculptural Conference, 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Particle Washington Monument Project (the Red Pyramid) Memory 1979 Mojave Desert, CA, Man and the Mountain II 1988 William Turner Gallery in conjunction with the Armand 1978 Malibu, CA, Malibu Line Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir, Venice, CA LITA ALBUQUERQUE 1996 Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS “Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies; an Art and Astronomy Exhibit” 2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York 1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Particle Medford, Oregon 2000 Molly Barnes Gallery, Twelve Divas, Santa Monica, CA Memory 2015 Nevada Museum of Art, Lake Tahoe and Lake Pyramid, 2009 Phantom Galleries as part of the TED conference, Emergence 1999 University Art Museum, California State University, 1994 University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA Nevada Enchanted, Long Beach, CA Long Beach, CA, Women-Founders and Innovators 1993 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA 2015 McMichael Canadian Art Collection, outside Toronto, 2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Palm Desert, CA 1996 Bakersfield Museum of Art and Todd Madigan Gallery, 1991 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Ontario 2008 New Delhi, India 48 Degrees Celsus_Public-Eco Art through the Bakersfield, CA, Process Art: West Coast 1990 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, 2014-2015 Glenbow Museum, Calgary Alberta Khoj Workshop, funded by the Goethe Institute 1996 California State University, Northridge, CA, Rear View Reflections, Career survey sponsored by Los Angeles Fellows of 2014 El Paso Museum of Art 2008 Alyce Williamson de Roulet Gallery at Art Center College of 1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in LA: Contemporary Art 2014 “Landscape abstraction” Orange County Museum of Art, Design, Observe, A Collaboration with astrophysicists from Spitzer Prints of Cirrus Editions 1989 The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA Newport Beach, CA Science Center at Caltech, Pasadena, CA 1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, P.L.A.N.: 1988 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2014 “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art 1775- 2008 LA Contemporary Gallery, Culver City, Ca. Nepotism Photography L.A. Now 1986 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2012”, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington 2008 Museum of Design and Architecture, MODAA, Liquid Light, 1995 New York Academy of the Sciences, New York, NY, 1984 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA 2014 “Time, Space and Matter” Museum of California Art, Culver City, CA Irrational Landscapes 1984 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL Pasadena, California 2007 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Made in California, Pepperdine 1994 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Southern California: 1982 Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX 2014 “The Mothership” Dilettante Gallery, Los Angeles, CA University, Malibu, CA The Conceptual Landscape 1980 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY 2013 “Spring Break” at the Old School part of the Armory Fair, 2007 Barnsdall Municipal Gallery Multiple Vantage Points, Los Angeles1994 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, The Gold 1980 Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC New York N.Y. 2007 Track 16 Gallery Now and Then, Santa Monica, CA Show 1980 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL 2012 “Knowledges”, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles, 2007 Peter Blake Gallery Shades of Gray, Laguna Beach CA. 1992 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis 1979 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA CA 2006 Riverside Art Museum, Abstraction, Riverside, CA University, St. Louis, MO, The Artist and Sacred Space 1979 Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2012 Getty Museum Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival 2006 Barnsdall Art Center, COLA Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Dreams and 1977 University Art Museum, University of California, Santa 2012 Pacific Standard Time, Breaking In Two, Los Angeles, CA 2005 Cal State Pomona Kellogg Gallery, The Big Book Show, CA Shields: Spiritual Dimensions in Contemporary Art Barbara, CA 2011 Villa Di Donato, Naples, Italy 2005 Art Center College of Design Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1991 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, One Over One 1977 Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA 2011 Grand Palais, “Art Paris”, Paris, France 2004 Barnsdall Art Center, Bio Ballistic, Los Angeles, CA 1991 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, The Artist and Sacred 1976 Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA 2011 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, “Framing Abstraction”, 2004 Grand Central Art Center, 100 Artists See Satan, Cal State Space 1974 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, CA University, Fullerton, CA 1990 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Sculpture/Aspen 2010 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Artist’s 2003 San Diego Museum of Art, Of Earth and Sky, Elements in 1987 National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, Museum, CA Abstraction, San Diego, CA Visions of Inner Space TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2010 Sophia Louisa Projects, “39: Exploring the Concept of 2003 Todd Madigan Art Gallery, Made in CA –works from Frederick 1987 Amerika Haus, Berlin/West, West Germany, LA Today: Now”, Los Angeles, CA Weisman Foundation, Cal State University, Bakersfield Contemporary Visions