Russell Crotty

 

Né en 1956, à San Rafael, Californie, USA / Born in 1956, in San Rafael, California, USA

Vit et travaille in Ojai & Upper Lake, Californie, USA / Lives and works in Ojai & Upper Lake, California, USA

 

EDUCATION

1980 MFA, University of California, Irvine
1978 BFA (Honors), San Francisco Art Institute

 

Solo shows

 

2011
Aligned with the Coast, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Fragments from the West Coast: A Peculiar Surf Vernacular, Left Coast Books, Goleta, CA

2010
Globes, Drawings and Books, Michel Soskine, Inc., Madrid, Spain
Seascapes and Surf Works, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2009
Surf Works from 1988-2008, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2008
Field Guides and Globe Drawings, Galerie Ulrike Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
Panoramas and Specimens, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

2006
Russell Crotty: Books and Charts, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Twilight in the West, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CAs

2005
Russell Crotty, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Russell Crotty, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Russell Crotty, La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France

2004
Russell Crotty: Globe Drawings, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL

2003
Perspectives #138: Russell Crotty, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX; traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Globe Drawings, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

2002
Russell Crotty: New Work, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2001
The Universe from My Back Yard, Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalog)

2000
Russell Crotty: Recent Works, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Russell Crotty, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Western Skies, Sabine Wachters Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium

1998
Hiding Out on Solstice Peak, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997
Atlases, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

1996
Three Large Atlases, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Atlases, Cabinet Gallery, London, England

1994
Planetary Drawings, Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Russell Crotty, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (catalog)

1993
Coastal Diatribes, Cabinet Gallery, London, England

1992
Drawings, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Radix Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

1991
Drawings, Bess Cutler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

 

COMMISSIONS


2008 Embassy of the United States, Beijing, China; ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State
2004 Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
1999 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC


AWARDS


2011 One-month residency, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, Ireland

2008 Artists' Fellowship Programme, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
1999 Visual Arts Fellowship, Peter Reed Foundation, New York, NY
1991 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts


TEACHING


2003 Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001 Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles, CA (through 1999)

 

DIRECTOR


1991-92 The Guest Room, an experimental exhibition space in Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

 

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National D'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Valencia Arte Contemporaneo e Inversion, S.L., Valencia, Spain
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, FL
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
The Ballinglen Archive, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland

 

 

Group shows

2013

Drawing Now Paris, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Ballpoint Pen Drawing Since 1950, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
La Dernière Vague, part of This is (not) Music, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
(Southern) California Drawing, Frank M. Doyle Arts Pavillion, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

2012
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, (Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Collection), Jane Voorhees Zimmerli
Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ: traveled to Hafnarborg | The Hafnarfjör∂ur
Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjör∂ur, Iceland (2013)
Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Earth Sky Water, Michel Soskine Inc., Madrid, Spain
Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Watercolor, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
Images from North Mayo, Ballinglen Gallery, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland
Knowledges at Mt. Wilson Observatory, Mount Wilson Observatory, Angeles National Forest, CA

2011
Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
Compass: Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, The Berliner Festspiele, Berlin, Germany
Aether project at Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Drawn / Taped / Burned: Abstraction on Paper, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Surf's Up, Palos Verde Art Center, Rolling Hills Estates, CA

2010
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (catalog)
Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
Pivot Points IV: Selections from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Contemporary Prints, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Art Shack, (collaboration with Jed Lind), Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
Cosmic: Artists Consider Astronomy, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
Sculpture, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Select – Ideal Forms, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
Chelsea: Street Tree Signage Exhibit, Root for Trees, New York, NY
I am the Cosmos, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Where Oceans Converge, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ

2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog)
Nueva York, El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (catalog)
Attempt to Raise Hell, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was A Summer in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
All Over the Map, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

2008
Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Retour sur Terre! La Science et L'Art Racontent La Planete, Stade de France, Paris
to:Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY (catalog)
Summer 2008: Groupshow, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Scene/Seen: Recent Acquisitions from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex Permanent Collection, 1979-2006, Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

2007
Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, UK; traveled to CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporian, Bordeaux, France (catalog)
New Directions in American Drawing, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; traveled to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN and Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Mapping of the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Temptation of Space, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (catalog)
There's No Place Like Here, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA

2006
Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (catalog)
Book, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Entre-Deux Mondes, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
Art Inspires Music, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

2005
New Prints 2005/Autumn, International Print Center, New York, NY
Mapping Space: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Messages and Communications, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
The Great Outdoors; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
AxS: At the Intersection of Art and Science, California Institute of Technology and the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Very Early Pictures; Luckman Gallery, CA State University, Los Angeles, CA, traveled to Acadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Variations on the Picturesque, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Landings, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
L.A., Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, NY

2004
Intense Focus, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
A Grain of Dust, a Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (catalog)
Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
a very liquid heaven, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Story/Line, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
paper, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Off the Wall: Works from the JPMorgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, Greenwich, CT
Displacement: Contemporary Drawings, Gescheidle, Chicago, IL (publication)
Word Image, Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
Five Large Drawings, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers, Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
National Drawing Invitational, Wolfe Gallery, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
The UAM Diaries: 1973–2004 The Glenn Years, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC; CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog)

2003
Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, WA (catalog)
Bigger Than Us: Russell Crotty & Kelly McLane, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalog)
At the Edge of Science, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID
L.A. Post-Cool, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Group Exhibition, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
On Paper, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Exploring the Cosmos, Palos Verdes Art Center, South Bay, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection, University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA

2002
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, MoMA QNS, New York, NY (catalog)
Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Primal Screams and Song, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
Night Skies and Imaginary Coordinates, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
L.A. Post-Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Drawing on Space, FA Projects in collaboration with The Drawing Room, London, England
Group Exhibition, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
New in Town, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Personal Plans: The drawing – from life plan to world projection, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Cascade of Scales, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Lab Results, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (catalog)

2001
The Importance of Being Earnest, Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Star Cluster Drawings, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer 2001, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
By Hand, Cal State, Long Beach , CA
Panoramas, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland

2000
Made in California 1900-2000, Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
The Sea & The Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; traveled to the Gallagher Gallery and Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (catalog)
Works on Paper from California, Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
Surf Trip: Surf Culture Art and Artifacts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1999
WDAYANO?, Joseph Gross Gallery University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ (catalog)

1998
Lovecraft, South London Gallery, London, England
L.A. Drawing, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Dark Matter: Visual Explorations of New Physics, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, England; traveled to Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, England
Beyond Measure, Science in Art, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

1997
Distant Bodies, The Art Bank, Los Angeles; curated by Ruth Weisberg
Die Arbeit Des Zeichnens, Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists, Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
Slight, Norwich School of Art, Norwich, England; traveled to Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

1996
The Power of Suggestion, Notation and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
CA (catalog)
Drawn from LA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Investigations, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

1994
Drawing to the Nth Degree, Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
The Antidote, Centre 181 Gallery, London, England
Pen and Ink, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog)

1993
Newport Biennial, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalog)
Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, CSU Fullerton, CA
Works of Peace: 111 Artists, Galerie Bhak Young Duk, Seoul, Korea

1992
Drawing Show, Bliss, Pasadena, CA
Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Acquisitions, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Frame Multiplied and Extended, Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

1991
Wiled, Wild West Show, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

1990
Frontier Tales, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
Artists Journals (Umbrella), ART Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
 

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