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1944 Born in
Charleston, South Carolina
EDUCATION
1967 M.F.A, Rochester
Institute of Technology, School of Art and Design
1966 B.A, Jersey City
State College
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Susanne
Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007 “Greenhouse”,
LAX><ART, Los Angeles
“La
Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy (curated by Robert Storr)
Brigitte
March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2006 “Drawings from
the ‘Explosion’ and the ‘Randomized Text’ Series”, Susanne Vielmetter
Los Angeles Projects
“Snake River”,
collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux and the LA Philharmonic, REDCAT
Gallery, Los Angeles
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig)
Kapinos
Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 Steve Wolf
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Survey
exhibition 1991-2004, Triple Candie, New York, NY
2003 “Lurid Stories:
Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Phoebe Conley Art Gallery
2002 “Lurid Stories:
Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State
University, Los Angeles
2001
“Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001”, Adoline Kent Award
Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery,
San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2000
John
Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Richard
Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Institute
for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC),
two one-person
shows, Charles Gaines and Kara Walker, City University of New York, NY
1997 Brigitte March
Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Richard
Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Conley Art
Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA
John Weber
Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Santa Monica
Museum, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Fresno Art
Museum, Fresno, CA
1991 “Charles Gaines:
A Survey Exhibition, 1979-1991”, Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris; John
Weber Gallery, New
York, NY; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery,
Santa Monica, CA
1989 JohnWeber
Gallery, New York, NY
Dorothy
Goldeen Gallery, “Fresh Visions”, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Gallery Lavignes-Bastille,
Paris, France
Brigitte
March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
1987 John Weber
Gallery, New York, NY
Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Artist of the
Month Exhibition,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles
1981 Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York, NY
John Weber
Gallery, New York, NY
1980 John Weber
Gallery, New York, NY
Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin
Gallery, Los Angeles
Daniel
Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Thomas Segal
Gallery, Boston, MA
1979 Young Hoffman
Gallery, Chicago, Il
Fresno Art
Center, Fresno, CA
1978 Daniel Weinberg
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 University of
Southern California, Los Angeles
1972 Cinque Gallery,
New York, NY
University of
Southern California, Los Angeles
1971 Louisville
School of Art, Anchorage, Kentucky
1969 State University
of New York, College at Oswego, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 “Weighing and
Wanting” Musuem of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
„Wild
Signals – Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis“,
Wuerttembergischer
Kunsverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2007 “Im Wort”,
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
“Read Me:
Text in Art”, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (curated by Malik
Gaines)
“From Close
to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art”, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kapinos
Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2005 “Double
Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970”, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX
“Hommage to
Friedrich Schiller,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Kamm Gallery
Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany
2004
“Fade (1990-Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey
Exhibition”, Luckman Gallery and the
University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA (curated by Malik Gaines)
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
“Recherche-entdeckt! Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten
(Research-discovered! Picture Archive of the
Invisibilities)”, Sixth Esslingen International Photo Triennial, Galerie
de Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar
Group Show,
Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., curated by Bruria Finkel
2003 “Structure of
Difference: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography of the Past 50 Years,”
Wadsworth Atheneum,
Hartford, CT
“Rhythm of
Structure,” Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery, New York, NY
“Urban
Aesthetics 2003,” California African American Museum, Los Angeles
Prints from
Segura Press, group show, New Mexico State University Art Museum
“The Night of
the Hunter,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
“Selections
from the LeWitt Collection,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New
Britain, CT
2002 “Math Art,” Art
Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL
“What About
Hegel,” Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
2001 Group
exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
“Rhapsody,”
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
“Song Poems:
Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers”, a project by
Steven Hull. Cohan Leslie
and
Browne, New York, NY
2000 “Deep
Distance-Die Entfernung der Fotografie”, Kunsthalle Basel; curated by
Wilhelm Schürmann
“A Selective
Survey of Political Art”, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1999 “Mixed Media:
Selections from the Segura Publishing Archives”, Scottsdale Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Scottsdale, AZ
“Pictures of
Other People’s Bodies”, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“More than
Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg,
organized by
Wilhelm Schümann
“Landschaft—Stadtlandschaft”
(Landscape—Cityscape), Brigitte March Gallery
“Landscape
Memories”, organized by Steven Hull, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
“Touring the
Frame”, organized by Charles Gaines, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
1997 National Museum
of art (Stadtgalerie), Die Magie Der Zahl, Stuttgart, Germany
1996 “Castles”, two
person collaboration, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
“Castles”,
Full Moon Gallery, Los Angeles
“Some Grids:
The Grid in Twentieth Century Art”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1995 Recent
publications, Chicago Art Fair, Segura Press, Tempe. Arizona, Chicago,
IL
1994 Cologne Art
Fair, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany; Cologne, Germany
“Earthworks
and Landscapes”, Fuel Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Paper Work”,
John Weber Gallery, New York City, NY
“Group show
(works from the collection)”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA
1993 “The Naming of
the Colors”, White Columns, New York, NY
“Artists
Writing Reading Room”, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
“L.A. Next:
Six Los Angeles Artists”, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
“The Return
of the Cadavre Exquis”, (collaboration on a work by Robin Kahn), The
Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992 “Open Mind: The
LeWitt Collection”, Wadswoth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“Force/Sight,
International Kunst der Gegenwart”, Schloss Presteneck, (Stein am
Kocher), Wurzburg, Germany,
organized by Brigitte March
“No Justice,
No Peace”, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles
“Counterweight,” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA
“LAX: The Los
Angeles Exhibition” (simultaneous exhibitions by several participating
arts institutions), Otis Art
Institute Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 “The Grid:
Organization and Idea”, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College,
Patterson, NJ
1989 “Landscape
Visions”, Office of the Chancellor, CSU Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1988 Cologne Art Fair
(Brigitte March Gallery), Cologne, Germany
1986 “Work from the
Collection of Sol LeWitt,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1985 “Selections from
the William Hokin Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Work from
the Collection of Sol LeWitt”, Auckland Art Museum, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill;
Everhart Art Museum, Scranton, PA; The Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York
“Process and
Construction”, sponsored by Archives of Contemporary Thought, Brigitte
March Gallery,
Kunstlerwerkstatt and Lenbachaus Museum; Kunstler Werkstatt and
Lenbachaus, Munich, Germany
“Black and
White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection”, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal
State University, Los Angeles
“Artists
Forum: Selected Faculty Artists form the California State University”,
Office of the Chancellor, Los Angeles
1984 “Contemporary
Watercolors”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San
Diego, CA
“Work From the Collection of Sol LeWitt”,
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
1982 “Selections”,
Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont at Burlington, VT
“Selections”,
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
“Works form
the Collection of Sol LeWitt”, Wesleyan University Art Museum, CT (travelling
in 1984)
“Numero
Quattro”, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1981 “Artists from
the John Weber Gallery”, Florida International University, Tamiami
Trail, Miami, FL
“Post
Modernist Metaphors”, organized by Horace Brockington, The Alternative
Museum, New York
“New
Dimensions in Drawing: 1950-1980”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT
“Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection”, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
(traveling in 1982)
1980 Santa Barbara
Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
“Systems,
Inquiry, Translation”, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY
“An
Exhibition of Drawings from the Margo Leavin Gallery”, California State
College, Bakersfield, CA
“Benefit Show
for the Center for the Performing Arts”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York,
NY
“Artists from
the John Weber Gallery”, University of South Florida Art Galleries,
College of Fine Art, Tampa, FL
“Prints from
the Landfall Press”, Melinda Wyatt Gallery, Los Angeles
1979 “Exchanges”,
Henry Street Settlement, New York
“The Grid”,
Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
“Portraits”,
Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
“Gallery
Artists Show”, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
“Gallery
Artists Summer Show”, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Texas
Gallery, Houston, TX
1978 “John Weber
Invitational”, John Weber Gallery, New York
“Works on
Paper”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Numerals:
Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art”, curated by Rainer Crone, Leo
Castelli Gallery,
New
York (travels in 1978-79)
Yale
University Galleries, New Haven, CT
“Numerals”,
Dartmouth College Gallery, University Art Gallery, Hanover, NH;
University of North Dakota,
Grand Forks; Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Art
Museum of North Texas, Corpus Christi;
Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; The New Gallery,
Cleveland, OH
Minneapolis
College of Arts and Design, Minneapolis, MN
“Recent
Publications”, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL
1977 Golden West
College, Los Angeles
1976 Golden West
College, Los Angeles
1975 Oakland Museum,
Oakland, CA
“Whitney
Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1974 “Black Artists
Recent Attitudes”, California State University, Fresno, CA
1973 California Arts
Council, Sacramento, CA
Oakland
Museum (permanent installation), Oakland, CA
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2008 “’Globalization’
of the Biennial Wave”, Art in Asia Magazine, No. 4, March - April
Smith, Terry,
“The World From Europe: Mega-Exhibitions from Spring 2007,” X-TRA
Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring 2008
2007
Ostendorf, Yasmine, “De Schoonheid Van Een Ramp,” Mister Motley,
December
JS, “United
States Artists winners,” Flash Art Online, November 20
Fragoza,
Carribean, “LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and
Funds,” Flash Art Online, November 16
Boehm, Mike,
“USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light,” Los Angeles Times,
November 15
“Ann
Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships,”
Artforum.com, November 15
Siegal, Katy,
“The Buck Stops Here”, Artforum, September
Ollman, Leah,
“Smoggy side of L.A. ‘Greenhouse’”, Los Angeles Times, August 10
Mizota, Sharon,
“Clarity in every crisis”, Los Angeles Times, July 29
Brooks, Amra,
“Must See Art: Charles Gaines’ Greenhouse”, LA Weekly, July 25
Bedford,
Christopher, “Charles Gaines at LAXART”, Artforum, July 19
Wrigley, Paul,
“The 52nd International Art Exhibition”, Linden Centre for
Contemporary Arts, Australia, July
Levin, Kim,
“Death in Venice”, The Brooklyn Rail, July
Schjeldahl,
Peter, “Big Ideas”, New Yorker, June 25
O’Keeffe,
Alice, “The art of a good time”, New Statesman, June 21
Mustroph,
Tom, “Fragezeichen über Venedig”, Neues Deutschland, June 19
Czöppan,
Gabi, “Augenschmaus statt Angstschweiβ”, Focus, June 13
Kaè, Maja,
“Policentrièna umetnost tega trenutka”, Triera (Slovenia), June
12
Kaè, Maja, “Policentrièna
umetnost tega trenutka”, RTV Slovenija, June 12
Haun,
Anne, “Das grosse Kunst-Ragout”, artnet, June 11
“Venice
Art Biennale 2007”, designboom.com, continuously updated
June-November
Finkel,
Jori, “A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black”, New York Times,
June 10
Schirrmeister, Benno, “Isa Genzkens ‘Öl für Kunst’-Programm”, taz.de,
June 9
Mathonnet,
Philippe, “A Venise, l’art s’humanise”, Le Temps, June 9
Lacayo,
Richard, “And A Bit More On Storr”, Time Magazine, June 8
Huber-Lang, Wolfgang, “Zwischen Museum und Katastrophengebiet”,
Wiener Zeitung, June 8
De Sanctis Mangelli, Flavia, “Paesaggi di Guerra”,
l’Unità, June 7
Moshayedi,
Aram, “Charles Gains + Edgar Arceneaux”, Art Papers,
January/February
2006 Pagel, David,
“Connecting beauty, suffering”, Los Angeles Times, December 22
Blumenstein, Ellen, “L.A. Confidential”, Monopol,
November/December
Ollman, Leah,
“Forks abound in ‘Snake River’”, Los Angeles Times, October 4
Muchnic,
Suzanne, “The Art Explosion”, Los Angeles Times, October 1
“Snake
River”, Photography Now, July/August/September
“Räume und
Kulturen verflochten”, Krone OÖ, May 19
“Ausstellung”,
OÖ Nachrichten, May 2
“Kunst: Snake
River im Lentos”, Oberösterreichblicke, May
“Das
Thek, Franz,
“Sprache von Fluss und Musik”, OÖ Nachrichten, April 29
Hofleitner,
Johanna, “Der Lauf der Dinge”, Schaufenster, April 28
Hutter,
Andreas, “Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als ‘Filmproduzent’”, Neues
Volksblatt, April 28
CB, “Watchlist”,
Der Standard, April 27
“‘Snake
River’ im Lentos”, Tips, April 25
“Snake
River”, Schaufenster, April 21
“Edgar Arceneaux
und Charles Gaines: Snake River”, freikarte.at, April 3
Snake River:
Charles Gaines and Edgar Arceneaux,
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (RedCat
show catalogue), Ed. Karen Jacobson
2005 Cotter, Holland,
(mention in a review of Rodney McMillian exhibition), New York Times,
January 21
2004 Haithman, Diane,
“Crossing Generations,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section,
January 19, p. 2.
Harvey, Doug,
“Color Theory, ‘Fade’ to Black,” LA Weekly, February 13-19, 2004,
p. 55.
Cotter,
Holland, “Charles Gaines Survey Exhibition: 1991-2004,” New York
Times, p. B31, April 30
2003
Iwona Blaswick, “Conference Report: Beauty
rears its ugly head again,” re Charles Gaines’s “The Paradox of Black
Pluralism,” Art Monthly, No. 265, pp. 44-45, April
2002 Calder, Diane,
“Charles Gaines”, artscenecal.com, April
2001 Miles,
Christopher, “Charles Gaines”, Artforum, February, p. 158.
Bonetti,
David, "Gaines probes darkness in 'Lurid Stories' show," review, San
Francisco Chronicle, July 7, p. C1
Helfand,
Glen, "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines," The San Francisco Bay Guardian,
July 4-10, Vol. 35, No. 40, p. 73.
Olson, Marisa
S., "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines at the San Francisco Art Museum",
Artweek, September, Vol. 32, Issue 9, pp. 19-20
Gaines, Malik,
“Remember the Grid”, Untitled, Summer 2001, No. 25
2000 Sirmans,
Franklin, review of Weber show, John Weber Gallery, Time Out/New York,
issue #238, April 13-20
Myers, Holly,
"Disasters in the Making," Los Angeles Times, December 29, p. F32
1999 Intra, Giovanni,
“La struttura mobile,” article, Tema Celeste, No. 72,
January/February, pp. 50-55
Pagel, David,
“Glimpses of the Drama in LA Settings,” Los Angeles Times, July
16, p. F31
1998 Klein, Jennie, "Circumventing the Center:
Identity Politics and Marginalization," Postmodern Perspectives,
Howard
Risatti, ed., (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall), 1998, pp
273, 297-99, 300-301
Intra,
Giiovanni, review of "Airplanecrashclock", Richard Heller Gallery,
Art/Text, #59, p. 89
November, 1997-January, 1998, p. 89.
"Transfiction
I," Wienlexicon Kunstkalender, #34, review, Charim Klocker
Gallery, April
Curtis,
Cathy, "When Seeing Isn't Believing, Orange County Calendar, Los
Angeles Times, Oct. 12, p. F 2
Walsh,
Daniella, "A visit to 'Other Related Areas,' " review of "other related
areas, U. C. Irvine Art Gallery,
Fine
Arts, review, Orange County Register, October 25, p. 26
Schoenkopf,
Rebecca, "Cool World: Alternative environments are neat!" review of
"other related areas,"
U.
C. Irvine Art Gallery, Orange County Weekly, October 23-29, p. 29
1997 Otto, Susan,
review of "Airplanecrashclock", review, Richard Heller Gallery, Art
in America, December, p. 99
Intra,
Giovanni, “Charles Gaines”, Art/Text, 1997
1996 Hale, David,
“Was victims’ fate merely in the stars?” Fresno Bee, February 17,
p. H4
Knight,
Christopher, "There's Evidence of Good Work Found at 'Scene of Crime.' "Los
Angeles Times,
July
29,sec. F, p. 1.
1995 Kandel, Susan,
review of "Night/Crimes," Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles Times,
April 20
Green, David,
"Net Gaines: Making a Case for "Night/Crimes.", Los Angeles Reader,
May 26
Nolan,
Timothy, review of Night/Crimes, “Lewis Baltz at Gallery Ram and Charles
Gaines at the Santa Monica
Museum, Santa Monica Museum show, Artweek, p. 26, June
Brooks,
Rosetta, "The Metaphysics of Murder: Charles Gaines’ Work Explores the
Human and the Cosmic", L. A. Village View, p. 39, June 2-8
Frank, Peter,
"Art Picks of the Week," L. A. Weekly, Vol. 17, No. 28, June 9-15
Gerstler,
Amy, "Night/Crimes", Artforum, Vo. 34, No. 1, September, p. 97.
Zellen, Jody,
"Night/Crimes", Art Press, September, p. 11
1993 Veneciano,
Daniel, review of "No Justice, No Peace," New Art Examiner,
February
Waddington,
Chris, "Pieces don't make a whole at CAC show." Lagniappe,
November 5, pgs. 23-25
1992 Pagel, David,
"Becoming Unraveled, LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", Los Angeles
Times, December 11
1991 Ger, Suvan,
“Group Effort Using Science Pays Off”, The Los Angeles Times,
July 19
Chattopodhyay,
Collette, “Charles Gaines”, Artweek, July 18
1990 Hale, David,
article, “FSU ties intact as Gaines leaves for Cal Arts,” The Fresno
Bee, September 9
1989 “Fresh Visions,"
Los Angeles Times, Aug. 25
1985 Vivien Raynor,
“Art: The Conceptualists,” New York Times, July 12
1982 Liebman, Lisa,
“Charles Gaines”, Art Forum, Vol. 20, No. 6, pg. 88, February
1980 Review of
"Systems, Inquiry, Translation," Art Forum, Nov
1979 San Francisco
Chronicle, Feb. 7
Artner, Alan,
Chicago Tribune, April 2
New Art
Examiner, April
Alloway,
Lawrence, review of "Exchanges," New York Times, June 8
1979 Hale, David,
“Gaines: All Systems Are Go”, The Fresno Bee
Frank, Peter,
"Exchanges, "Village Voice, June 18
"Exchanges,"
Soho News, NYC, May 30
Article,
Print Collectors Newsletter, Chicago, July
Review of
"The Grid," The New Art Examiner, May
Review of
Fresno Exhibition., West Art
Muchnic,
Susanne, review of Margo Leavin Gallery exh., Los Angeles Times,
July 7
1978 Marjorie Del
Parker, "Bolomey and Gaines at Fresno Art Center," West Art, July
13, p. 3
Brengelman,
Paula, “The Big Raisin”, Aug 1978, vol. 2, Issue 8, Titled "New
Gaines Book”, book
Hale, David,
“All Systems Go,” Fresno Bee, August 13
Article,
Fresno Bee, December 13
1975 Hoesterey,
Ingeborg, review of Whitney Biennial, “New York”, Art International,
May 15, pg 54
1972 Wilson, William,
"Lumber and Beds and USC", The Los Angeles Times, October 23
"Recent
Paintings of Charles Gaines at Cinque Gallery",
New York Amsterdam
News,
Vol. 1 No. 7, April
“Cinque
Gallery exhibit”, Art News, May
PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS,
CATALOGUES
2006 Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux,
catalogue, Redcat, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
2005 Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970,
catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
2004 International Review of African American Art, , “Rhythm
of Structure,” photo of Charles Gaines’, “Numbers and
Trees,” vol. 19, no. 3
Recherche-entdeckt! Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten (Research-discovered!
Picture Archive of the
Invisibilities), catalog for the Sixth
Esslingen International Photo Trienial, Galerie de Stadt, Esslingen
am Neckar, Revolver: Archiv für aktuelle Kunst,
Andreas Bur and Ludwig Seyfarth, editors
2001 Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001,
San Francisco Art Institute Publication, Adaline Kent Award
exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer, p 9
Gaines, Malik,
"Remember the Grid: Charles Gaines interviewed by Malik Gaines,"
article, Untitled, UK
summer, No. 25, p. 22, 23
Song
Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers, a
project by Steven Hull, Cohan Leslie
and
Browne Gallery, New York City, June
2000 Pagel, David, Themes Out of School: Art and
Education in Los Angeles, catalogue for the Creative Artist Agency
Collection, (Los Angeles: CAA ), April, p.
51
Franklin Sirmans,Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines
Projects 1995-2001, catalogue essay Adaline Kent Award
exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1999 Johnstone, Mark, Contemporary Art in Southern
California, (Sydney: Craftsman House), pp. 72-75
1998 Birrell Studio, Eagle Rock, California
“More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der
Photographie,” catalogue, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1997 Von Maur, Karin,
Magie der Zahl: in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, catalogue,
Stadtsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Hull, Steven, “I’m Still In Love With You,”
catalogue, Steven Hull, Twentieth Century Century Women’s Club,
1995 Gamblin, Noriko,
Night/Crimes, brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica,
CA, April, 1995
Art Walk,
'95, Venice Family Clinic, Venice, CA, May, 1995
1993 Gookin, Kirby,
The Naming of the Colors, White Columns, New York City, April
Gerstler,
Amy, L. A Next: Six Los Angeles Artists, Contemporary Art
Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1
1992 Force/Sight,
International Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Presteneck, Brigitte
March, Wurzburg, Stuttgart, Sept.
No
Justice, No Peace, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles,Ca.,
October,
Hugo, Joan,
Counterweight, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa
Barbara, Ca., November
Gerstler,
Amy; Fehlau, Fred, LAX, THE LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION, Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery,
December
1989 Landscape
Visions, Office of the Chancellor, Art Gallery, CSU Long Beach, Ca.,
January
1988 Artists
Forum: Selected Faculty Artists from the California State University,
CSU, Los Angeles, Oct.
Gookin,
Kirby, Charles Gaines, Catalogue, Lavignes-Bastille Gallery,
Paris, Jan
1985 Process Und
Konstruktion, 1985 in Munich, Archives of Contemporary Thought,
Galerie Brigitte March, June
Black and
White Drawings from ther David Nellis Collection, California State
University, Los Angeles, Ca
Selections
from the William Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago
1981 Artists from
the John Weber Gallery, (brochure), John Weber Gallery, New York
City
Paoletti,
John, No Title: Selections from the Collection of Sol LeWitt,
Wesleyan University, Ct., Oct.
Brockington,
Horace, Post modernist Metaphors, The Alternative Museum, New
York City, April
Anderson,
Richard E., New Dimensions in Drawing, 1950-1980, Aldrich Museum,
Ridgefield, Ct., May
Posner,
Helane, Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection,
Chase Manhattan Bank
Miller-Keller, Andrea; Ravenal, John B., From the Collection of Sol
LeWitt, ICI Curators, 1985-86
1979 Lippard, Lucy;
Exchanges, Henry Street Settlement, New York City, April
Portraits,
(brochure), Center for the Visual Arts, Apen, Co.
1978 Rainer Crone,
Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York City, (ill.)
Landfall Press, Inc., Chicago, IL., Dec
1975 Whitney
Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, (ill.)
PUBLICATIONS AND ARTICLES
2008 Gaines, Charles,
“The New Cosmopolitanism”, California State University, Fullerton
2005 Gaines, Charles, reprint of “Theater of Refusal: Black Art and
Mainstream Criticism in the catalog Double
Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970,
(originally printed in the catalog “Theater of
Refusal”, University of California, Irvine),
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, January
2004 Gaines, Charles, “Edgar Arceneaux’s Search for Meaning Among
Infinite Variations,” Afterall, Sept.
2003 Gaines, Charles,
“Art, Post History and the Paradox of Black Pluralism,” Merge,
vol. 12, 2003, Stockholm,
Sweden, p. 52.
Gaines, Charles, “Surviving Alaska: Michael Joo’s Sublime
Transformations.” Michael Joo exhibition catalog,
Institute of Technology Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2001 Gaines Projects 1995-2001,
catalogue essay Adoline Kent Award exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery,
San Francisco Art
Institute, San Francisco, CA
1999 Gaines, Charles,
“Avant L.A. Letter,” commentary, letters section, Artforum,
February
Gaines,
Charles, “Memories: The Art of Kyung Won Moon,” from the catalog,
Kung Won Moon, Park Ryu Sook
Gallery, Soul, South Korea
Gaines,
Charles, “Art and the Search for Origin Amidst the Scent of Flowers,”
from the catalogue Origins, Fresno
Art
Museum, Fresno, CA.
Gaines, Charles, "Metonymy and the
Defamiliarization of Objects," Lurid Stories: Charles
1996 Gaines, Charles,
"Hotter Than July," Margo Leavin Gallery exhibition, Art + Text,
#55, September, pp. 12, 16
1995 Gaines, Charles,
commentary on the Whitney Museum exhibition "Black Male," World Art,
January
Gaines,
Charles, "Bear Stories," Framework, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1995, Los
Angeles, California, p. 5
1994 Gaines, Charles,
"Untitled," Color This! A Collection of Los Angeles Artists'
Drawings, (Los Angeles:
Foundation For Art Resources, Inc. [FAR]), 1994, p. 44
1993 Gaines, Charles,
"Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Catalogue, (UC
Irvine)
Gaines,
Charles, "The Devil and Mona Lisa: Confessions of an Art Heckler,"
New Art Examiner, December, pg. 24
Gaines,
Charles, "Manifesto," Promotional Copy, edited by Robin Kahn,
(New York: Mimi Somerby, S.O.S.
International, and B.R.A.T.), 1993, p. 33.
1990 Gaines, Charles,
"Sandra Rowe: Androgyny and the Janusian Split," Catalogue (UC,
Riverside), CA
Gaines,
Charles, "Sandra Rowe: Androgyny and the Janusian Split,"Journal of
Social Theory in Art Education,
J.S.T.A.E., #10, April, pgs 158-163
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008 Faculty
Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2007 United States
Artists Fellowship
Norton Family
Foundation Grant, Los Angeles
2004 Durfee
Foundation Grant, Los Angeles
California
Institute of the Arts, Dean’s Grant, Valencia, CA
2001 Adoline Kent
Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1977 National
Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of
Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Studio Museum
Harlem, New York
Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Oakland
Museum, Oakland, California
Santa Fe
Museum of Contemporary Art
Städtishche
Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München
Galerie der
Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany
Villa Merkel,
Esslingen, Germany
Lentos
Museum, Linz, Austria
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