Patrick Painter Gallery - Larry Johnson

1959 Born in Long Beach, CA
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

EDUCATION

1982 B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1984 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Larry Johnson’s Hits from the 80s, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Frame Tales, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York

2009 Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2007 Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY

2001 New Photographs, Cohan, Leslie & Browne, New York, NY

2000 The Thinking Man’s Judy Garland and Other Works, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica,
CA
Modern Art Inc., London

1998 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1996 Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver,
Canada

1995 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1994 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1992 Patrick de Brok Gallery, Knokke, Belgium

1991 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany

1990 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Cologne, Germany
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1989 303 Gallery, New York, NY

1987 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Isabella Kacprzak, Stuttgart, Germany
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1986 303 Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 How Many Billboards? Art in Stead, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler
House, Los Angeles, CA
Rive Gauche/Rive Droite, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York
The Last Newspaper, The New Museum, New York

2009 Geography of the Imagination, Lead Apron, Los Angeles, CA
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2008 Endless Summer, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Heroes and Villains, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY
Idle Youth, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Good Morning, Midnight, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
L.A. Desire, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Dusseldorf, Germany

2006 Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig e.V.,
Braunschweig, Germany
Hiding in the Light, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2005 Interstate, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Sign Language, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
100 Artists See God, organized by Independent Curators International; Naples Museum
of Art, Naples, FL; The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art
Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY;
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia,
Virginia Beach, VA; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA;
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN

2003 Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN
Unreal Estate Opportunities, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2002 Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Reading, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
23rd Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA

2001 The Slide Area, James Van Damme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2000 The Big G Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent’s 1960s Pop exhibition tour, Luckman
Gallery, California State University, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, USU, Logan,
UT; Donna Beam Fine Arts Gallery, UNLV, Las Vegas, NV; Art Gallery, UTSA,
San Antonio, TX Beaver College Art Gallery, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA

1996 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Just Past: The Contemporary in MOCA’s Permanent Collection, 1975-96, The Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
SAMPLER 2—More Videos from Southern California, David Zwirner Gallery, New York,
NY
Larry Johnson / Allen Ruppersberg, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; Jay Gorney
Modern Art, New York

1995 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
About Place: Recent Art of the Americas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, University Art
Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Narcissistic Disturbance, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
New Testament, Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Word for Word, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin

1994 Group Show: Dan Graham, Jeff Wall, Rodney Graham, Lincoln Tobier, Larry Johnson,
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Mind Quakes: Breda Fotografica ’94, Museum de Beyerd, Breda, The
Netherlands
Love in the Ruins: Art and the Inspiration of L.A., Long Beach Museum of Art, Long
Beach, CA
Romance, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena,
CA
Benefit for Dennis Cooper’s “Frisk”, Thomas Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles, CA

1993 The Language of Art (Die Sprache der Kunst), Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria; traveled to
Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Legend in My Living Room, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Object Bodies, Emison Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN; traveled to
Turman Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN (organized by Terry R.
Myers)
Painter Editions, Johnen & Schottle, Cologne, Germany
Standing Still and Walking in Los Angeles, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills

1992 Bedroom Pictures, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA
Group Drawing Show, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Hollywood, Hollywood, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Lust for Life, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
There Is a Light that Never Goes Out, Amy Lipton Gallery, NY
True Stories: Mark Dion, Renee Green, Larry Johnson, Karen Kilimnik, Raymond
Pettibon, Jack Pierson, Jim Shaw, Institute for Contemporary Art, London, UK
Voyage to Los Angeles, Castello di Rivera, Italy

1991 1991 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ausenraum-Innenstadt, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Matthew Barney, Michael Joaquin Grey, Larry Johnson, Liz Larner, Richard Prince,
Thomas Ruff, Rosemarie Trockel, Meg Webster, Lawrence Weiner, Stuart Regen
Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography, The Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? The Hyde
Collection, Glen Falls, NY
New Work by Gallery Artists, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Words & #s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Vero, Vero, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy

1990 De Afstandt, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam Le Case d’Arte,
Milan, Italy
The Charade of Mastery: Deciphering Modernism in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum
of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
Constructive Anger, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Drinking and Driving, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
The Indomitable Spirit, International Center of Photography; traveled to Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Köln Show”, various galleries, Cologne, Germany
Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Word as Image: American Art, 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI;
traveled to Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK; Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX
The Young and the Restless: Vanguard Artists from the Current SoHo Scene, The Sales
and Rental Gallery, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (Organized by
Arnold Lehman and Brenda Richardson)

1989 Art About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
Beyond Family of Man, Northeastern University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
David Bussel, Nan Goldin, Larry Johnson, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY; traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; University Art Gallery, University of New
Hampshire, Durham, NH; Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, MI; Virginia Beach
Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA
Departure, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Erotophobia, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, NY
A Forrest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
A Good Read: The Book as Metaphor, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of
American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; traveled to the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
To Probe and Push: Artists of Provocation, Wessel-O’Connor Ltd., New York, NY

1988 Aperto 88, Venice Biennale XLIII
Christoph Andres, Larry Johnson, Ken Lum, Hans-Jorg Mayger, Harald F. Muller, David
Robbins, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York, NY
Information as Ornament, Feature Gallery and Suzanne Rezac Gallery, Chicago, IL
Larry Johnson, Liz Larner, Charles Ray, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Modes of Address: 25 Years of Language in Art, Whitney Museum of American Art,
Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Utopia Post Utopia: Configurations of Nature and Culture in Recent Sculpture and
Photography, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

1987 Around and About, Galerie Hufkens/Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago,
Chicago, IL, and Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Castle, installation by Group Material at Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
Contemporary Diptych: Divided Vision, Whitney Museum of American At, Stamford, CT,
and Equitable Center, New York, NY
Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munich, Germany
The Image in Singular, Amer Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Industrial Icons, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Larry Johnson, Tony Tasset, Christopher Wool, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los
Angeles, CA
New Photo, Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL
The New Who’s Who, Hoffman/Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
New York-Wien, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
On View, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W. Post Campus, Long Island University,
Brookville, NY
Photographs, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
The Spectre of Saturation, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC

1986 Cable Gallery, New York, NY
Stephen Frailey, Larry Johnson, New Strategies, Los Angeles, CA
P, 303 Gallery, New York, NY
Uplifted Atmosphere, Borrowed Tastes, Hallwalls, Buffalo,

1985 James Casebere, Larry Johnson, Jeff Koons, 303 Gallery, New York NY
Proof and Perjury, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Synaesthetics, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY (organized by Felice Neals)

1984 Three Artists Select Three Artists, Artists Space, New York, NY

PROJECTS

2004 The Last Of The Blood And Guts Brigade, Daniel Mendel-Black, Mark Roeder,
Sixteen:One, Santa Monica, CA (organized by Larry Johnson)

1995-96 Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present wil Project
Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World”
Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (organized by Larry Johnson)

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA