1939 Born in Chicago, IL
Lives and works in Taos, NM and Venice, CA
Education:
1957-1959 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles CA
Awards:
1990 Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, Office of
Cultural Affairs, New Mexico Arts Division, Santa Fe, NM
1975 National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1970 Guggenheim Fellow, Solomon R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation,
New York, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Larry Bell: Smoke on the Bottom, White Cube, London, UK
Larry Bell: Pacific Red, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine
University, Malibu, CA
2016 Larry Bell: From the '60s, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2015 Larry Bell: 2D-3D: Glass & Vapor, White Cube, Mason's Yard, London, UK
Larry Bell, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2014 6x6 an improvisation, Chinati Weekend, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Larry Bell: Light and Red, White Cube, Hong Kong
Larry Bell: The Carnival Series, White Cube, São Paulo, Brazil
2013 Larry Bell: Light Knots and Mirage Paintings, White Cube, London, UK
2012 Kayne Griffin Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Larry Bell Installation, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2008 New Small Works, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, UK
2006 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Cubes and Works on Canvas, Annandale Galleries, Sydney, Australia
2005 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, IL
Pace / Wildenstein, New York, NY
2002 Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany
2001 Gallery Gan, Tokyo, Japan
Larry Bell: Fractions, SkovRidder AS, Oslo, Norway
1999 Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany
1998 Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
1997 Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
1995 New Glass Sculptures, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France
1993 Glass Constructions, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
1989 Larry Bell: Work from New Mexico, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
1988 Spectacles, Leaning Room, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Light on Surface, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1987 Larry Bell, Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France
Larry Bell – Light and Space, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 The Leaning Room, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Chairs in Space: The Game, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Larry Bell: New Sculpture, ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Larry Bell: New Work, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1981 Larry Bell: New Work, Marian Goodman Gallery, NY. Traveling Show
Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM
1976 The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
Traveling Show
1975 Larry Bell: Recent Work, Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
1973 Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Possibilities for Glass Sculpture, Bonython Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Larry Bell: New Work, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Larry Bell, Pace Gallery, New York, NY. Traveling Show
Larry Bell has been featured in numerous group exhibitions.
Selected Public Collections:
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
The Berardo Collection, Funchal, Portugal
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, NY
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, M
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM
National Collections of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY