Born 1962, Santa Monica, California

Education:

1986
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
BFA (with distinction)

1988
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
MFA

One-Person Exhibitions:

1992
Julian Pretto, New York

1993
Julian Pretto, New York
Julian Pretto, New York

1994
Fulcrum, New York
Littlejohn/Sternau, New York

1996
AMO Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1998
Voix, Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
Caledonian Hall, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
Trans Hudson, New York
Vitrisitu, Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland

1999
Westenburg, Marfa, Texas

2000
Galerie Cramer, Bonn, Germany
Galerie Frank, Paris, France
Galerie, Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland

2001
Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado

2002
ACE Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Stark Gallery, New York
Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland

2003
Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Belgium
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany

2004
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris

2007
Lesley Heller Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions:

1988
Out of Order, Anne Plumb, New York

1990
New Talent, Julian Pretto, New York

1991
Surface Issues, Stephen Haller, New York
Abstract Painting: Process and Material, Ben Shahn Gallery,
Paterson College, Wayne, New Jersey
Constructed Black Paintings, Julian Pretto, New York

1992
Small Works, Julian Pretto, New York
Rumored Paintings, Anne Plumb, New York
Slow Art, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, New York
ARENA, New York

1993
Inaugural Exhibition, TennisportArts, Long Island City, New York
Contemporary Drawings, Part II, ARENA, New York
Works on Paper, Julian Pretto, New York
Beyond Paint, Tibor de Nagy, New York
Silent Echoes, TennisportArts, Long Island City, New York
Jours Tranquilles à Clichy, TennisportArts, Long Island City, New York
Jours Tranquilles à Clichy, Paolo Goyannes, Paris, France
BOMB magazine benefit exhibition, Fawbush, New York

1994
Five Abstract Artists, Littlejohn/Sternau, New York
New Recruits, In Collaboration, Santa Monica, California
Beyond Virtual, Back to Actual, Fulcrum, New York
Faith, Fetish, Spirit, Westenburg, Gt. Barrington, Massachusetts

1995
Material Abuse, Trans Hudson, Jersey City, New Jersey
Julian’s Show II, Littlejohn/Sternau, New York
The Whole World in a Small Painting, Trans Hudson, Jersey City,
New Jersey

1996
In Small Dimensions, Andre Zarre, New York
AMO Gallery, Gramercy International, Los Angeles, California
Epitaphs, Edward Thorp, New York
Recent Acquisitions: The Collection of Julian Pretto, Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford, Connecticut
Formal Abstraction, Bachofner, Santa Monica, California
Image/After Image, The Work Space Gallery, New York
Erik Satie, Robert Smithson, Melissa Kretschmer, Arnaud Lefebvre,
Paris, France
Trans Hudson, Jersey City, New Jersey

1997
The Whole World in a Small Painting, II, Trans Hudson, New York
Art Auction 6, Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, California
3rd Annual Holiday Group Show, Bachofner, Santa Monica, California
CIAP (Vereniging voor culturele informatie en actueel pretenkabinet),
Hasselt, Belgium

1998
Art Miami ‘98, special projects installation, Miami Beach, Florida
Vision Festival, Orensanz Arts center, New York
Foot Falls, Greenport, Long Island, New York
Transparent Façade, The Work Space Gallery, New york

1999
Galerie Frank, Paris, France
Transparent Façade, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Rule Modern and Contemporary, Denver, Colorado

2000
Transparency, Translucency, Opacity, Galerie Frank, Paris, France
Rule Modern and Contemporary, Denver, Colorado

2001
Gamel Fraser, Mendocino, California
Geukens & De Vil, Knokke, Belgium

2002
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
ACE Gallery, New York
Ready-Made Color, Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris, France

2003
Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
Selections From The LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of
American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Minimalism And More: Contemporary Art From The Frederick R. Weisman
Art Foundation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California

2004
Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Armored, Planet Thailand, Brooklyn, New York
ACE Gallery, Beverly Hills, California

2005
Glass, Seriously, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, New York
Galerie 1000 Eventi, Milan

2006
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli, Italy
Galerie Gisèle Linder, Basel
“Turtle”, Chelsea Space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, England
“Small Works-Petit Formats”, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris
“Dedica: 1986 – 2006 Twenty Years of the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery”, Palazzo della
Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy

Bibliography:

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February 2005.

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Bergoffen, Celia. Exploring ‘Qualities of Change’ in Materials, The Villager,
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Public Collections:

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Allianz, Berlin
Centre Pompidou, Paris

Private Collections:

Sol and Carol LeWitt, Connecticut
Milton Brutten, New York
Werner Kramarsky, New York
Michael and Amy Chapman, California
Jim and Marisal Higgins, Florida
Donna and Bruce Polichar, California
Dr. Jan Quaegebeur, New York
Dr. Richard Hertz, California
Ivana de Gavardie, France
Brian and Rosie Panish, California
Daisy Symons, Belgium
Michel Bernheim, Switzerland
Bertrand Lefebvre, France
Marlis Gericke, Germany
Jim Goldstein, California
Ruth and Hermann Bachofner, California
John Long, California
Aaron Hsu, New York
Vernon Faulconer, Texas
Ben Bourgeois, California
Dr. Leslie Levine, California
Weisman Foundation, California
Pier Luigi Pero, Italy
Valentina Pero, Italy
Giuseppe Pero, Italy
Michael Straus, Alabama
Elisabeth Dahler, Switzerland
Annelies Sutter, Switzerland
Jean-Philippe and Françoise Billarant, France