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Raymond Pettibon's Biography |
Raymond Pettibon was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1957. The fourth of five children, Pettibon earned a degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from college, Pettibon worked briefly as a high-school math teacher, but soon after set out to launch a career as a professional artist. A cult figure among underground music devotees for his early work associated with the Los Angeles punk rock scene, Pettibon has acquired an international reputation as one of the foremost contemporary American artists working with drawing, text, and artists books. Pettibon is as likely to explore the subject of surfing as he is typography; themes from art history and nineteenth-century literature appear in the same breath with American politics from the 1960s and contemporary pop culture. In his 1998 anthology, "Raymond Pettibon: A Reader," the viewer can read over PettibonÕs shoulder to discover a handful of the artists muses Henry James, Mickey Spillane, Marcel Proust, William Blake, and Samuel Beckett, among others. In the 1990s, Pettibon extended his work beyond the printed page and onto the walls of the exhibition space, creating wall-sized drawings and collages. Retrospectives of his work have been held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2002, an exhibition of his drawings, Plots Laid Thick, was organized by the Museu dArt Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain, and traveled to the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, and the Haags Gemeentemuseum in the Netherlands. Pettibons work was also featured at Documenta XI in Kassell, Germany. Pettibon lives and works in Hermosa Beach, California. Born 1957, Tucson, AZ, Lives Hermosa Beach, CA Selected solo exhibitions 2001 "Raymond Pettibon: The Wolfgang Hahn Prize Exhibition," Gesellschaft fur Modern Kunst am Museum Ludwig Koln, Koln, Germany, Oct 31 - March 2002 "The Magic Hour," Neue Galerie, September 23 - November 11 "Raymond Pettibon," The Whitechapel, London, England, September 6 - October 28 "Raymond Pettibon:Wall Drawing," MAK Center, Vienna, Austria, March 6 -May 6 2000 Regen Projects, Los Angeles Hauser + Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY, January 12 - February 12 Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, June 8 - July 8 1999 Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, January 30- April 2 1998 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, September 4 - October 10 Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, March 30-May 9 1997 1996 Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, March 29 - April 14 1995 David Zwirner Gallery, NY Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, organized by Ulrich Loock, catalogue Galeria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany 14/16 Verneuil, Paris, France 1994 Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg 1993 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA Feature Gallery, New York, NY University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (brochure) Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne, Germany "On the Scent" Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria Galerie Marc Jancou, Zurich, Switzerland 1992 Esther Schipper Galerie, Cologne, Germany 1991 Richard/Bennet Gallery, Los Angeles, CA N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL Massimo de Carlo Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany "Reader Dearest," Robert Berman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 "A Long Parenthesis," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1987 1986 Selected group exhibitions 2002 "Permanent Collection Galleries, Post-1945 Art," Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, January - June 2001 "Letters, Signs & Symbols," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, November 10 - January 25, 2002 "I Love New York," David Zwirner Gallery, New York, October 19 - November 3 "American Art," from the Goetz Collection, Galerie Rudolfinum, Munich, Germany, May 23 - September 2 "A* comme Accident," Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France, September 8 - 29 "Das Gute Leben," Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany April - May "Selections from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of American Art, San Francisco, CA, summer "Wechselstrom (Alternating Current), Part 2, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth May 12 - October 2002, catalogue "Locating Drawing," Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas "Drawing Exhibition," Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas, January 20 - February 24 2000 "Art on Paper 2000," curated by Ron Platt, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, November 19, 2000 - January 14, 2001, Broch. "Drawings," Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, May 5 - June 10, 2000 "Sammlung (1) - The Oldest Possible Memory," Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St. Gallern, Switzerland, opens May 13 "L.A.- ex," Museum Villa Stuck & Marstall, Munich, Germany, April 12 - June 12, 2000 "L.A.," Monika Spruth & Philomene Magers, Koln, Germany, March 5 - April 22, 2000 "L.A.," Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece, November 20, 2000 - January 5, 2001 "Mirror's Edge," curated by Okwui Enwezor, Bildmuseet, Sweden, November 14, 1999 February 20, 2000; travels to Vancouver Art Gallery, March 18 - July 9;Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy, October 3 - December; Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, February - April, 2001 "Made in California," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, November 12, 2000 - February 25, 2001 "Jahresgaben 2000," Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein 1999 "Los Angeles," Philomene Magers Projekte & Maxmilian Verlag, Munich, Germany "Weg Aus Dem Bild," curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria, July 8 - August 21, 1999 "Gallery Swap," Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany, June 26 - July 31; Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, July 2 - July 31, 1999 "Stop the Violence," organized by the MAK and the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, June 30 - August 29 "Hypertronix," curated by Manel Clot, Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain , July 28 - September 26, 1999 "Life/Boat," MAK Center, Los Angeles, California, July 21 - September, 26; MAK, Vienna, October 8 - January 9, 2000 "Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990 - 99," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Curated by Jessica Morgan "It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art," Austin Museum of Art, Texas, January 30- April 3, 1999 "Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life," The Judy and Stuart Spence Collection. Laguna Art Museum, Oct. 24 - Jan. 3, 1999 1998 "Transfiguration," curated by Darcey Steinke, Bronwyn Keenan, New York, NY, November 21-December 23 "L.A. Current: Looking At the Light: 3 Generations of L.A. Artists," UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, September 22-February 28, 1999 "Sea Change," The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, curated by Klaus Kertess, September 12-November 15 "Otto Dix/Raymond Pettibon," Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, September 27- November 22, curated by Hans-Werner Schmidt "Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, June 27-September 5 "Exterminating Angel," curated by Joshua Decter, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, March 7 - April 13, 1998 "Early Warhol Drawings, Recent Pettibon Drawings," 11 Duke Street Limited, London, January 27 - March 13, 1998 "Self-portraits," Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, The Netherlands, January 16-February 8, 1998 1997 "Heart, Mind, Body, Soul," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, November 26, 1997 - January 4, 1998 "A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, October, 1997 - January 13, 1998 "Heaven: Public View, Private View," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, October 29-February 1, 1998 "Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 5, 1997 - November 14, 1999 "Michael Craig-Martin and Raymond Pettibon," Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, organized by Raimund Stecker, August 1 - 14 September, catalogue "Angel, Angel," curated by Cathrin Pichler, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, June 10 - September 7, travels to The Rudolfinum in Prague, Czechoslovakia, October-January 11, 1998, catalogue "Meg Cranston, Paul McCarthy, Barry McGee, Raymond Pettibon, Jason Rhoades", Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Haarlem, June 5-25 "Sunshine & Noir: Art in LA 1960-1997," curated by Lars Nittve and Helle Crenzien, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, May 16 - September 7; travels to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, November 15 - February 1, 1998; Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy, May 8-August 23, 1998; and UCLA at The Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, September 16, 1998 - January 1999. Catalogue "Silent & Violent: Selected Parkett Artist Editions", curated by Daniela Zyman (from the MAK Museum in Vienna), The MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles, March 20-August 31 "1997 Whitney Biennial," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, March 20-June 15, catalogue "Nicole Eisenman, Karen Kilimnik, Raymond Pettibon," Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany, March 7-April 19 "10 Year Anniversary of the Kunsthalle Bern," Kunsthalle Bern, January 29- March 2, catalogue 1996 "a/drift," curated by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, October 20-January 5, 1997 "Sammlung Speck," Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany, September 17- November 17 "Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, curated by Nancy Doll and Michael Darling "Sampler 2: More Videos from Southern California," David Zwirner Gallery, NY, organized by Diana Thater "Chaos, Madness: Moods in Contemporary Art," Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, curated by Johannes Gachnang, July 19-October 31 "My Hollywood," Gallery 258, Los Angeles, June 11 - September 2 "NowHere: Work in Progress," curated by Iwona Blazwick, Louisiana Museum of Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 15 - September, catalogue "L.A. Stories," Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, May - June "Ideal Standard Life," curated by Art Dynamics, Inc., Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan, April 26 - May 5 "The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art," Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, April 26-July 26 "Sammlung Volkmann zeigt: FAUSTRECHT DER FREIHEIT," Kunstsammlung Gera, Berlin, April 13-May 27; Neues Museum Weserburg, June 22- September 15, catalogue "Answered Prayers," Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, April 6-May 12 "Sugar Mountain," White Columns, New York, March 29 - May 12 "New Art on Paper 2, acquired with funds from the Hunt Manufacturing Co.," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadephia, curated by Innis Howe Shoemaker, March 15-May 26. "Horner, Pettibon, Baechler," Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, February 27 - March 5 "Sex and Crime. On Human Relationships," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, curated by Dietmar Elger, February 18 - May 12, catalogue 1995 "It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, traveled through 1998, curated by David S. Rubin, catalogue, ill. "Strung Into the Appolonian Dream...," Feature, New York, NY "Komix," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY "Smells like Vinyl," Roger Merians Gallery, curated by Sarah Seager and Thaddeus Strode, New York, NY 1994 "Dessins, 1894-1994," 14/16 Verneuil, Paris, France "SoggettoSoggetto," Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy; curated by Francesca Pasini and Giorgio Verzotti (catalogue: essays by F. Pasini, G. Verzotti, and Antonella Russo) "Temporary Translation(s) - Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie: Sammlung Schurmann," Deichtorhallen, Hamburg "Dysfunction U.S.A.," Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, curated by Peter Halley and Robert Nickas "It's a Tough World Out There: Drawings by Mike Kelley, Joyce Pensato, and Raymond Pettibon," Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, curated by Charles Wylie "And," Feature, New York "(Tiny) Shoes," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by D-L Alzarez "Up the Establishment: Reconstructing the Counterculture," Sonnabend Gallery, New York; curated by Dan Cameron for Independent Curators, Inc. "Please Dont Hurt Me," Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Cabinet Gallery, London; curated by Jack Jaeger "The Use of Pleasure," Terrain, San Francisco, CA; curated by Robert Nick "Endstation Sehnsucht," Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; curated by Bice Curiger (catalogue) "Desire & Loss," Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH "pendulaire avant la lettre," Galerie Beaumont, Luxembourg Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece "Projets et Dessins," Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, France "Can You Always Believe Your Eyes: Recent American Drawings," Museum of Contemporary Art DeBeyerd, Breda, The Netherlands "Don't Look Now," Thread Waxing Space, New York; curated by Joshua Decter (catalogue) "Sampler," Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy; curated by Paul McCarthy "Pen and Ink," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA; curated by Michael Darling "Passing Through," Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland; curated by Ugo Rondinone "[cut] - Los Angeles - 90Õernes kunstscene," Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Den- mark; Galeri F 15, Moss, Norway; Sweden "Grammarians," Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA; curated by Michael Anderson 1993 "PROSPECT 93," Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; curated by Peter Weiermair (catalogue) "Richard Prince, Raymond Pettibon, Sean Landers," Galerie Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany "Six Mois a Paris," Air de Paris at Cafe Beaubourg, Paris, France "Summer Selections: Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Vide___áo," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA "Projet Unite," Unite d'Habitation, Firminy, France; curated by Yves Aupetitaillot and Robert Fleck (catalogue) "Sex Money Politics," Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C. (catalogue) "Drawing the Line Against AIDS," Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, SoHo, NY, NY; curated by John Cheim, Diego Cortez, Carmen Gimenez, Klaus Kertess (catalogue) "Mongrel Muse/Works on Paper," Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Silkeborg, Den- mark; curated by Troels Andersen (catalogue) "Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image," Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana-Champaign, IL; University Gallery in Chicago: I Space, Chicago, IL; curated by Jerry Savage and Dan Socha "Urban Analysis," Barbara Braathen Gallery, NY, NY; curated by Maynard Munrow Studio I, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany; curated by Tim Neuger "Summer Reading," Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 1992 "LAX," Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria (catalogue) "Live in Your Head," Heligen Kreuzerhof, Vienna, Austria; curated by Robert Nickas (catalogue) "Twenty Fragile Pieces," Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland; curated by Gianni Romano (catalogue: essay by Gianni Romano) "DIRTY DATA," Sammlung Schurmann, Ludwig Forum fur internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany "New Deal," Bruno Brunnet Galerie, Berlin, Germany "Connections: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections," The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA "True Stories," ICA, London, England "L.A. Art and the Art of the Nineties," Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria "Drawn in the Nineties," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; curated by Joshua Smith, (catalogue) "How It Is," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Jonathan Seliger "Just Pathetic," American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY; curated by Ralph Rugoff "The Clinic," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Ralph Rugoff "Drawings," Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "DIN A 4," Galerie + Edition Koch, Kiel, Germany "Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990's," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los An- geles, CA; curated by Paul Schimmel, (catalogue: essays by Paul Schimmel, Norman Klein, and Lane Relyea) "Works on Paper," Galerie Giesela Capitain, Cologne, Germany; curated by Friedrich Petzel 1991 "Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissom," Sue Spaid Fine Art and Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Examples Cool and Lonely," Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA "The Kelly Family," Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne, Germany; curated by Wolfram Aue and Tim Neuger "No Man's Time," Villa Arson, Nice, France; curated by Eric Troncy, (catalogue: text by Christian Bernard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Jean-Yves Joannais, and Eric Troncy) "AIDS Timeline," included in Group Material's installation of the AIDS Timeline at the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Letters," Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY "Presenting Rearwards," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Ralph Rugoff, (catalogue: essay by Ralph Rugoff) "Multiples," Feature Gallery, New York, NY "Gang Bang," Air de Paris, Paris, France "Dangerous," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Synthetic History," Parker Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Works on Paper," Thea Westreich, New York, NY, curated by Friedrich Petzel "Childhood Revisited," Rena Bransten Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "videos and a film about some schmoes who are trying to conform (yet miss)," Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL "Louder," Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL; curated by Tony Tasset and Kathryn Hixson 1990 "Total Metal," Simon Watson, New York, NY; curated by Richard Phillips, (catalogue: text by Richard Phillips) "Drawing the Line," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Just Pathetic," Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; curated by Ralph Rugoff, (catalogue: essay by Ralph Rugoff) "Drinking and Driving," (exhibition of art commissioned for The Progressive Corporation's 1989 Annual Report), Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; curated by Toby Lewis 1989 "Amerikarms," Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY "Art as Religion," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Problems with Reading/Rereading," Rhona Hollman Gallery, Chicago, IL; cu- rated by Jeanne Dunning and Hirsch Perlman "Office Party," Feature Gallery, New York, NY 1988 "Near Miss," Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL "Cartoon-Like," MoMing Art Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Jeanne Dunning 1987 "Art of Politics," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1986 1985 Selected Awards and Honoraria Museum Collections Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany Sammlung Hauser + Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Stiftung Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Tate Gallery, London, England Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY For more information, email michael@michaelpetronkogallery.net
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