Ronald Davis

Born: 1937, Santa Monica, CA

Education
1960-64    BFA, San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, CA)
1957-59    University of Wyoming (Cheyenne, WY)

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008    Ronald Davis: All the Presidents’ Rooms (Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM)
2007    3D/CG (Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM)
   Ronald Davis: Five Decades (Electric Works, San Francisco, CA)
2005    Selected Paintings, 1974 – 2004 (Galerie Dionisi, West Hollywood, CA)
2004    Music Series: 1983 – 1985 (Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM)
2002    Forty Years of Abstraction
        (Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH)
           Nushapes, Hinges, Diamonds (Victoria Meyhren Gallery, Denver, CO)
1998    Wax Series: 1996 – 1997 (Jaquelin Loyd Contemporary, Taos, NM)
1991    Large Sculpture (BlumHelman Los Angeles, Santa Monica, CA)
1989    Dodecagons: 1968 – 1969 (BlumHelman New York, NY)
1988    Spiral Series (BlumHelman New York, NY)
1984    New Music Paintings (Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA)
1981    Etchings, Drypoints, & Aquatints (Gemini GEL, Los Angeles, CA)
1979    Floaters (Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
1975    Selected Paintings (John Berggruen Gallery, Washington, DC)
1974    Snap Line Series/Large Canvas Paintings (Leo Castelli Gallery, NY)
1973    Large Acetates (Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
1972    Rectangle Interiors (Gallerie Dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy)
1971    Cutout Series: Slabs, Sawtooths, and Boxes (Leo Castelli Gallery, NY)
1970    Cutout Series: Blocks, Cubes, Slabs (Kasmin Gallery, London, UK)
1969    Truncated Pyramids, Interiors, Large L’s (Leo Castelli Gallery, NY)
1968    Dodecagons and Half Dodecagons (Kasmin Gallery, London, UK)
1967    Crab Series (Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)
1966    Slab Series (Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY)
1965    Monochromatic Series (Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA)

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009    Hopper Curates (Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM)
2008    Color as Field (Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO)
            SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
          (LACMA, Los Angeles, CA)
2007    Breaking the Mold (Oklahoma City Museum of Modern Art, OK)
2006     Driven to Abstraction (Riverside Art Museum, CA)
   Translucence (Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA)
2001    Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection (SFMOMA, CA)
2000    Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900 – 2000
            (LACMA, Los Angeles, CA)
1999     The Rowan Collection – Passion and Patronage
             (Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA)
1997    The View from Denver
            (Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria)
1988    Blue Chip Prints (Schwartz/Cierlak Gallery, Santa Monica, CA)
1987    Digital Visions: Computers & Art (Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY)
1985    Gemini, G. E. L.: Art and Collaboration (NGA, Washington, DC)
1984    Modern Sculpture from the Guggenheim (Allentown Art Museum, PA)
1982    Miró in America (The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX)
1981    Art in Los Angeles (LACMA, Los Angeles, CA)
1978    American Painting of the 1970’s (Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY)
1977    American Abstract Art Since 1945 (Guggenheim Museum, NY)
1976    Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era (SFMOMA, CA)
1974    Seventy-first American Exhibition (The Art Institute of Chicago, IL)
1972    USA (XXXVI International Biennial Exhibition of Art, Venice, Italy)
1971    Technics and Creativity, Gemini G. E. L. (Museum of Modern Art, NY)
1968    4 Documenta International (Ausstellung, Kasel, Germany)
1967   1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings
            (Whitney Museum, New York City, NY)