Lita ALBUQUERQUE
1946, USA

Lita Albuquerque is an internationally renowned installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. She has developed a visual language that brings the realities of time and space to a human scale and is acclaimed for her ephemeral and permanent art works executed in the landscape and public sites...

EDUCATION
1968,University of California, Los Angeles; B.F.A. in Art History, cum laude.
1971-72 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
GRANTS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2008 Faculty Enrichment Grant, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2007 Artist in Residence, Quark Expedition to the North Pole on board The Yamal
2006 National Science Foundation Artist And Writer’s Program Grant, Antarctica
2006 Distinguished Woman Artist of 2006, Fresno Art Museum Council
2005 City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship Award, City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
2002 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship in the Visual Arts, Perugia, Italy
1996 Cairo Biennale Prize, Sixth International Cairo Biennale, Cairo, Egypt
1996 Arts International – U.S. Artist Representative for the Cairo Biennale, Egypt
1990 Woman of the Year, Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA
1990 National Endowment for the Arts; Art in Public Places
1984 National Endowment for the Arts; Art in Public Places
1983 National Endowment for the Arts; Art in Public Places
1977 National Endowment for the Arts; Individual Fellowship Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Design Loves Art Exhibit at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Peter Blake Gallery, CA
2007 Fresno Museum of Art, Fresno, CA
2007 Hentschell Gallery, DesMoines, Iowa
2007 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2006 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2006 Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, California
2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York
1998 Louis Stern Gallery in conjunction with the Armand Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir LA CA
1988 William Turner Gallery in conjunction with the Armand Hammer Museum’s Sunshine and Noir, Venice, CA
1996 Akhenaton Galleries, Cairo, Egypt
1995 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Particle Memory
1994 University of Judaism, Los Angeles, CA
1993 The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1991 Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, Reflections, Career survey sponsored by Los Angeles Fellows of Contemporary Art
1989 The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1988 Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Robin Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX
1980 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC
1980 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1979 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Casat Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1977 University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1977 Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA
1976 Jack Glenn Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
1974 Ellie Blankfort Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Lita Albuquerque, Mitchell DeJarnett “As Above So Below: Art as Political and Cosmological Space” Cal State Fullerton Art Gallery
1989 Lita Albuquerque and Richard Misrash, Landscape as Thought California State University, Fullerton, CA,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 MOCA, “The Artist’s Museum”, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Sophia Louisa Projects, “39: Exploring the Concept of Now”, Los Angeles, CA
2010 De Saisset Museum, “Just In: Recent Acquisitions to the Permanent Collection”, Santa Clara, CA
2009 Fellows of Contemporary Art Exhibition Space “Not Los Angeles” Los Angeles, CA
2009 Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD “Antarctica: Collected Works from the Bottom of the World”
2009 Alaska Center of Contemporary Art, Freeze, collaboration with architect Christoph Kapeller, Anchorage, Alaska
2009 Schneider Museum of Art, University of Southern Oregon, “Arp’s Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies; an Art and
Astronomy Exhibit” Medford, Oregon
2009 Phantom Galleries as part of the TED conference, Emergence Enchanted, Long Beach, CA
2009 Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Palm Desert, CA
2008 New Delhi, India 48 Degrees Celsus_Public-Eco Art through the Khoj Workshop, funded by the Goethe Institute
2008 Alyce Williamson de Roulet Gallery at Art Center College of Design, Observe, A Collaboration with astrophysicists from Spitzer Science Center at Caltech, Pasadena, CA
2008 LA Contemporary Gallery, Culver City, Ca. Nepotism
2008 Museum of Design and Architecture, MODAA, Liquid Light, Culver City, CA
2007 Fred Weisman Museum of Art, Made in California, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2007 Barnsdall Municipal Gallery Multiple Vantage Points, Los Angeles
2007 Track 16 Gallery Now and Then, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Peter Blake Gallery Shades of Gray, Laguna Beach CA.
2006 Riverside Art Museum, Abstraction, Riverside, CA
2006 Barnsdall Art Center, COLA Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Cal State Pomona Kellogg Gallery, The Big Book Show, CA
2005 Art Center College of Design Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2004 Barnsdall Art Center, Bio Ballistic, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Grand Central Art Center, 100 Artists See Satan, Cal State University, Fullerton, CA
2003 San Diego Museum of Art, Of Earth and Sky, Elements in Abstraction, San Diego, CA
2003 Todd Madigan Art Gallery, Made in CA –works from Frederick Weisman Foundation, Cal State University, Bakersfield
2003 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Art Museum Council, Special Projects Gallery, CA
2003 Palos Verdes Art Center, Exploring the Cosmos, Palos Verdes, CA
2003 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, Made in California
2001 St. John of the Divine, “A Threshold of Spirit” curated by Peter Nagy Gallery, New York, New York
2001 Gallery 825, Romancing the Universe, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Drawing Center, New York, New York
2000 Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Molly Barnes Gallery, Twelve Divas, Santa Monica, CA
1999 University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA, Women-Founders and Innovators
1996 Bakersfield Museum of Art and Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield, CA, Process Art: West Coast
1996 California State University, Northridge, CA, Rear View
1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Made in LA: Prints of Cirrus Editions
1995 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, P.L.A.N.: Photography L.A. Now
1995 New York Academy of the Sciences, New York, NY, Irrational Landscapes
1994 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape
1994 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, The Gold Show
1992 Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, The Artist and Sacred Space
1992 Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, Dreams and Shields: Spiritual Dimensions in Contemporary Art
1991 Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, One Over One
1991 Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA, The Artist and Sacred Space
1990 Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, Sculpture/Aspen 1990
1987 National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, Visions of Inner Space
1987 Amerika Haus, Berlin/West, West Germany, LA Today: Contemporary Visions
1987 Asahi Shimbun, Tokyo, Japan Tokyo Prints by Los Angeles Artists
1987 Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA, The Years of Passage: 1969-1975
1986 American Center, Paris, France Works from the Collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation
1985 Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, Imagine the Future
1985 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Concerning the Spiritual
1985 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, Sculpture & Drawing, Drawing & Sculpture
1983 The Museum of Contemporary Art, (MOCA) Los Angeles, CA The First Show
1983 Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Abhasa – Image Bearing Light
1982 Musee d’Art de la Moderne Ville de Paris, France (Ireland, Poland)
1982 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Twenty American Artists: Sculpture 1982
1981 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Directions 81
1981 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA Anti Static
1980 Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT, Southern CA Drawings
1980 Diane Brown Gallery, Washington, DC, International Sculpture Conference Artists
1978 University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Abstract Painting from Southern CA
1978 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, The Weisman Collection
1978 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Aesthetics of Graffiti
1977 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Los Angeles
1975 Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, Four by Four + Four by Eight

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