| Born April 10, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio, lives in Malibu, California ACADEMIC Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1968 AWARDS "Young Talent Award" Los Angeles County Museum of Art Contemporary Arts Council, 1969 "Wittkowsky Award" Art Institute of Chicago, 1972 "Artist Fellowship" National Endowment for the Arts, 1974 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975 "Maestro Fellowship" California Arts Council, 1982 "Artist Fellowship" National Endowment for the Arts, 1982 SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1996 Works on Paper: Gouaches and Monotypes, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California Charles Arnoldi, A Mid-Career Survey: 1970 - 1996, Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica, California (catalogue) Charles Arnoldi: New Monotypes, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York 1997 Charles Arnoldi Monotypes: A Survey 1987-1996, Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, Minnesota Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York Charles Arnoldi: New Work, Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota 1998 New Works: Charles Arnoldi, Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, Texas 1999 Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Chac-Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, California Charles Arnoldi: Painting and Sculpture, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York 2000 Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California 2001 Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Charles Arnoldi: Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, California 2002 Charles Arnoldi, Harmony of Line and Color, Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Busan, Korea (catalogue) 2003 Charles Arnoldi, Works on Paper: A Thirty-Year Survey, 1972 - 2002, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California Charles Arnoldi, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Charles Arnoldi: New Works, Modernism, San Francisco, California 2004 Charles Arnoldi Paintings, Dwight Hackett projects, Santa Fe, New Mexico Charles Arnoldi 2004 Paintings and Gouaches, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, RB Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, California Charles Arnoldi Recent Paintings, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California 2005 Modernism, San Francisco, California Charles Arnoldi: New Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California 2006 Museum of Design Art and Architecture, Culver City, California SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1996 California Color, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska Under Glass, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California New Talent, New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Between Reality and Abstraction, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art Gallery at the Cannery, Las Vegas, Nevada 1997 California: State of the Art/Art of the State, Chac Mool Contemporary Fine Art, West Hollywood, California All Blue, Almost, Westfall Art, Newport Beach, California A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California The View from Denver, Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria Art Foundry Editions Santa Fe at Knoedler New York, Knoedler & Company, New York, New York Collaboration/Transformation: Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery of Pomona College, Claremont, California Wood Work, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, New York Six L.A. Painters, Tasende Gallery, West Hollywood, California Household Goods, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas Collector's Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas 1998 The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Illinois Coastal Abstraction - Transcendence, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, California Gold, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California Forms of Thought, William Turner Gallery, Venice, California Lee Mullican: His Influence and Associates, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California Collector's Show, The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Graphic Abstraction in America: A View From the First Century, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California (catalogue) 1999 The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California The California State Senate Contemporary California Art Collection 1998-99, State Capitol Building, Sacramento, California Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, California Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California (catalogue) Group Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York 2000 Group Show, Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida On Paper: Drawings, Paintings and Collages, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California Black, White and Bronze (Charles Arnoldi and Larry Bell), Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, California Don Gummer / Charles Arnoldi, Eckert Fine Art, Naples, Florida Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California An American Focus: The Anderson Graphic Arts Collection, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California The Intuitive Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising Museum Foundation Galleries, Los Angeles, California 2001 Art in the Circle, Manhattan Heights Annex, Manhattan Beach, California Chouinard: A Living Legacy, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California Underfoot, Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue - travels through Fall 2004) 2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Poetic Natures, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary California Works on Paper, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 2002 Selected Abstract Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, California Paintings and Photographs, Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California Selected Works, Modernism, San Francisco, California The Third Dimension, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles, California Contemporary American Art, Embassy of the United States of America, Vienna, Austria (catalogue) 2003 Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University, Bakersfield (catalogue) Red on Red, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia Paper Works, Patricia Correia Gallery, Santa Monica, California California Artists of the Robert Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery, New York, New York American Art: Wilfred Davis Fletcher Collection, Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho (catalogue) Peter Alexander, Charles Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California Image + Energy, Selections from the Haskell Collection, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida Cahiers d'Art: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Modernism, San Francisco, California Lost But Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, 1920-2002, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (catalogue) 2005 Paint on Metal, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona (catalogue) Unique Works on Paper, Atelier Richard Tullis, Media Rare Gallery at Off Main, Santa Monica, California Off the Wall, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California Inside Out: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York Flow, Berman/Turner Projects, Santa Monica, California The First 80 Years, 1925-2005, Los Angeles Art Association/Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California (catalogue) California Gold, Tobey C. Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, California (catalogue) 2006 Abstract Paintings by Gallery Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, California L.A. Art Scene: Selected Works by Local Artists from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Beverly Hills Municipal Gallery, Beverly Hills, California Breaking Out! Sculptural Explorations in Metal & Wood, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1995 Finch, Liz. "What's On Guide." The Argonaut, May 18, 1995, Cover photo, p. 19. Frank, Peter. "Pacific-Pacific, Four + Four." Prism/Arts of Pan-Pacific, Winter, 1995, Cover photo, pp.30-33. Madigan, Nick. "Open-Door Policy." The Outlook, May 18, 1995, pp. A1, A9-10. Turner, William. "Chuck Arnoldi." Venice, May 1995, pp. 77-80. 1996 Frank, Peter. "Art Picks of the Week: Ed Moses, Charles Arnoldi." LA Weekly, July 19-July 25, 1996, p. 132. Jaffe, Matthew. "Beyond the stereotypes in Venice." Sunset, May 1996, p. 42. Muchnic, Suzanne. "Charles Arnoldi at Fred Hoffman." ArtNews, September 1996, p. 138. Quinn, Joan Agajanian. "Charles Arnoldi." Chatter, April 1996, pp. 38-39. 1997 Bell, J. Bowyer. "Charles Arnoldi at Tony Shafrazi." Review, February 15, 1997, p. 37. Frank, Peter. "Art Picks of the Week." ("Six L.A. Painters" at Tasende Gallery) LA Weekly, December 5-11, 1997, p. 158. 1998 Kaplan, Peggy Hall. "Arnoldi Reigns in His Prodigious Imagination." Malibu Surfside News, November 5, 1998, p. 21. 1999 Clothier, Peter. "National Reviews: Charles Arnoldi at Chac-Mool." ArtNews, April, 1999, p. 124. Ise, Claudine. "Art Reviews." Los Angeles Times, February 5, 1999, p. F25. 2000 Goodrich, John. "Charles Arnoldi: Recent Works Charles Cowles Gallery." Review, January 15, 2000, p. 15. Johnson, Ken. "Art In Review." The New York Times, January 7, 2000, p. E44. Leffel, Caitlin. "SFAIE Gains Steam." Art & Auction, September 2000, p. 131. Margulies, Dany. "Tubular Tuber Man." The Malibu Times, April 13, 2000, p. B1. Vincent, Steven. "Whatever Happened To...?" Art & Auction, November 2000, pp. 168-177. 2001 Bonetti, David. "Arnoldi's Abstracts Invigorate." San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2001, pp. C1, C4. Johnson, Ken. "Art Guide - Galleries: Chelsea." The New York Times, September 14, 2001, p. E28. 2002 Keeps, David. "Renaissance Hollywood." Architectural Digest, May 2002, pp. 174-177, 251. Sheets, Hilarie M. “New York Reviews:Charles Arnoldi.” ArtNews, January 2002, p. 119. 2003 Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week: Charles Arnoldi/Werner Drewes.” LA Weekly, February 21-27, 2003, p. 134. Ollman, Leah. “A Few Themes, Too Many Variations.” Los Angeles Times, February 7, 2003, p. E31. "Continuing: Charles Arnoldi." Los Angeles Times, March 2, 2003, p. E61. “Continuing and Recommended.” Art Scene, March 2003, p. 21. 2004 Biller, Steven. “Dynamic Duo.” Palm Springs Life, December 2004, pp. 30-32. 2005 “Looking at the Big Picture,” Los Angeles Times, October 6, 2005, p. E3. BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES Charles Arnoldi. Osaka: Gallery Kuranuki, 1991. Soho at Duke: Five Artists from Charles Cowles Gallery. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Museum of Art, 1991. The Art Collection of Pacific Enterprises. Los Angeles: Pacific Enterprises, 1991. Charles Arnoldi. New York: Charles Cowles Gallery, 1994. Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century. Los Angeles: The Hillcrest Foundation, 1995. Payden & Rygel Collection, Los Angeles: Payden & Rygel, 1996. Charles Arnoldi, A Mid-Career Survey: 1970-1996, Los Angeles: Fred Hoffman Fine Art, 1996. Open a Door, Honolulu: The Contemporary Museum, 1996. Graphic Abstraction in America: A View From the First Century, Long Beach: California State University, Long Beach, 1998. Carrier, David. Garner Tullis and the Art of Collaboration, New York, 1998. Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Pasadena: Armory Center for the Arts, 1999. Harmony of Line and Color, Charles Arnoldi, Busan: Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, 2002. Made in California: Selected Works/The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Bakersfield: Todd Madigan Gallery, 2003. Riquelme, Kathleen and Levick, Melba. The Studio Book, New York: Universe Publishing, 2003. Paint on Metal, Tucson: Tucson Museum of Art, 2005. The First 80 Years, 1925-2005, Los Angeles: Los Angeles Art Association, 2005. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, South Carolina Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee Menil Foundation, Houston, Texas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York National Gallery of Art, Sydney, Australia Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, California Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey |