SHARON ELLIS BIOGRAPHY

1955

Born in Great Lakes, Illinois
Lives and works in Los Angeles

EDUCATION

1984

Master of Fine Arts, Mills College, Oakland, California

1978

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of California, Irvine, California

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008

Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY

2006

California, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003

The Four Elements, Greenberg Van Doren Artemis, New York, New York

2002

Evocations, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; travel to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio and San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

2001

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1999

Times Of The Day, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1996

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
The Four Seasons, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California

1995

The Four Seasons, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1993

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1991

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1990

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California

1985

Beulah Land, New York, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007

Eden’s Edge: Art in L.A., The Hammer Museum, May 13 – September 2, 2007

2005

POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX; travel to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC, curated by David Pagel
California Landscape, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

2004

B25th Anniversary, The LA Years, Part II, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Flower Power, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France
Blue Sky, Pomona College of Art, Claremont, CA

2003

L.A. Post-Cool - Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

2002

L.A. Post-Cool - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Glow, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX; travel to The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX

2001

All Terrain: An Exploration of Landscape and Place, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia
The Importance of Being Earnest, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA

2000

Twisted: Urban and Visionary Landscapes in Contemporary Painting, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
Departures: Eleven Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, California
There is no spirit in painting, Le Consortium Centre dâArt Contemporain, Dijon, France
The New Wave: Recent Painting in Southern California, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California

1999

Another Country: The Constructed Landscape, Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, New York and Brent Sikkema, New York, New York
Happy Trails, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, California

1998

1998 Phoenix Triennial (curated by David Rubin), Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (catalog)
Painting From Another Planet (curated by David Pagel), Deitch Projects, New York, New York
California Current, Rare, New York, New York
Landscape, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, Washington

1997

Spot Making Sense (curated by David Pagel), Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

1996

Exchange, Galeria Galerie Camargo Vilaca, S‹o Paulo, Brazil

1995

Postmarked L.A., P.P.O.W., New York, New York
A Vital Matrix (curated by Jane Hart), Domestic Setting Gallery, Los Angeles, California (catalog)

1994

Promising Suspects, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut (catalog)
Current Abstractions, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
New Voices (curated by Lucinda Barnes), Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (catalog)

1993

Serious Beauty (curated by Irit Krygier for Art Project L.A.), Metropolitan Momentary Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Appraising the Preternatural (curated by Sue Spaid and Michael Anderson), Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Peculiar Paintings (curated by Randy Sommer), Woodbury University, Burbank, California
The Imp of the Perverse (curated by Alisa Tager), Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, New York
Sugar 'n' Spice, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California (catalog)
Germinal Notations: A Drawing Show, Food House, Santa Monica, California

1992

From the Studio: Recent Painting and Sculpture by 20 California Artists (curated by Philip E. Linhares), The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California (catalog)
California North and South, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado

1990

Six Painters, Matthew Scott Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Sublime Geometries, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, California

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

006

Dea, Cynthia. Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2006.
Ollman, Leah. “A Glorious Tribute to California,” Los Angeles Times, June 2, 2006.

2005

Pagel, David, "A Critique of Stinginess", Los Angeles Times, June 19, 2005.

2003

Cotter, Holland, "In Uptown Galleries and Museums, Heat and Light Aplenty," The New York Times, May 30, 2003.
"Goings On About Town," The New Yorker, June 9, 2003.
Ollman, Leah. "He Set Imagination Free," Los Angeles Times, Sunday, January 19, 2003.
Myers, Holly."Redefining Boundaries of whatâs Hip," Los Angeles Times, 28 July, 2003: E8.

2002

Fischer, Jack. "Super Natural, Painter Sheds Vivid Lights on World," San Jose Mercury News, November 20, 2002.
Zwartjes, Arend. "Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art," Artlies, Fall 2002.
Greene, David Allen. "Between Apocalypse and the Pacific, A Brief Guide to the Spots, Quirks and the Crannies of the LA Art Scene," Modern Painters, Summer 2002: 34-35.
Miles, Christopher. Flaunt, Spring Fashion Issue #32, 2002: 88-91.
Miles, Christopher. "Los Angeles Critics" Picks, Sharon Ellis, Long Beach Museum of Artä, Artforum, March 2002.
Albertini, Rosanna. "Sharon Ellis, Long Beach Museum of Art", artpress 278, April 2002.
Knight, Christopher. "Images of Nature's Landscape Reflect Complex Worlds Within," Los Angeles Times, 22 January 2002: F1,14.
"Best Bets," Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, 17 January 2002: 5.

2001

Pagel, David. "Art Reviews," Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2001: F24.

2000

Albertini, Rosanna. "Departures," art press 257, 2000: 69-71.
Allan, Lois. "'Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty' at the J. Paul Getty
Museum," Artweek, May 2000.
Armstrong, Robert. "The Art-Emotion Connection," Star Tribune
(Minneapolis, MN), 14 May 2000.
"Art issues: Showing the Work of Sharon Ellis," Art issues,
November/December 2000, No. 65: 34-39.
"Best Bets: February 27 - March 4 2000," Los Angeles Times Sunday
Calendar, 27 February 2000.
Campbell, Clayton. "The Visionary Landscape," Flash Art,
March-April: 61.
Crane, Tricia. "Getting the Getty," Brentwood News, March 2000.
Dailey, Meghan. "Glee: Paintint Now," Artforum, 2000 December.
den Hartog Jager, Hans. "Het paradijs is onsenietbaar," Cultureel
Supplement NRC Handelsblad, 29 September 2000.
Dickerson, Megan. "New Directions," The Daily Bruin, 6 March 2000.
Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter. "Uses of the Past," Town & Country,
April 2000.
Freudenheim, Susan. "The Getty's Link to the Living," Los AngelesTimes
SundayCalendar, 5 March 2000.
Goldman, Edward. "Art Talk," KCRW Radio 13 March 2000.
Harvey, Doug. "Monumental edibles at the Getty Contemporary," LA
Weekly, 10-16 March 2000: 37-38.
Hope, Nicholas. "The Getty Goes Retro," The Voice (Irvine Valley
College), 9 March 2000: cover, 4.
"In the Museums," Art-Talk, February 2000.
"Jaunts." Living in Stamford, 2000 November/December.
Johnson, Reed. "Getty Exhibit Marks Departure from Ordinary, Arrival of
Hip," Daily News (Woodland Hills, CA), 13 April 2000.
Johnson, Reed. "Impressions of the Getty," Press - Telegram, 20 April 2000.
Knight, Christopher. “Catching the ‘Next Wave’ of Painters,” Los
Angeles Times, 20 June 2000.
"L.A. Artists at Home," BRNTWD, March/April 2000: 80-81.
Lyons, Lisa. Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, (catalog), J. Paul Getty
Museum, Los Angeles.
"Major Contemporary Art Exhibition at The Getty," National Hispanic
News, 5 May 2000: 69-71.
"Major Contemporary Art Exhibition Opens at The Getty," La Prensa San
Diego, 25 February 2000.
Martin, Victoria. "'The Visionary Landscape' at Christopher Grimes
Gallery, Artweek, March: 18.
Pagel, David. "Fresh Riffs on a Theme," Los Angeles Times,
Wednesday, March 1: F1.
"Preview: Los Angeles," Artforum, January 2000.
Rentschler, P.J. "'Departures' featured at Getty," Viking (Long Beach City
College), Vol. 73, No. 14, 23 March 2000.
Roos, Robert. "Figuratie met Een Draai," Kunstbeeld, No. 10 2000.
Ross, Jr., Lawrence C. "Something Old, Something New," Westsider, 19
April 2000: 4.
Spaninks, Angelique. " Hedendaagse hallucinaties," KUNST-agena, 28
September 2000.
Spijkerman, Sandra. "Een verzameling bijzondere landschappen," Trouw,
1 November 2000.
Verstraten, Meggie. ""Verdraaide' Landschappen," Vereniging Vrienden
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, JRG. 6, Nr. 2, 2000 November: 4-6.
Vogel, Carol. "Inside Art: The Getty as Muse," The New York Times, 6
August 2000.
Van Gelder, Lawrence. "Footlights: Past to Present," The New York Times
The Living Arts, 26 February 2000.
Wolf, Sara. "A Departure for the Getty," The Orange County Register
encore section, 12 March 2000: 1, 22.
Wollheim, Richard. "A Letter from California," Modern Painters, Autumn
2000: 32-5.
Wyszpolski, Bondo. "When Art Wears Many Hats," Easy Reader, 23
March 2000.
Zimmer, William. "Serious Abstract Paintings With a Nonserious
Message," The New York Times, 31 December 2001

1999

Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. "Art & Architecture," Los Angeles TimesCalendar Section, Sunday, February 21: 58-59.
Duncan, Micheal. "Sharon Ellis at Christopher Grimes," Art in America December 1999: 118.
Iannacone, Carmine. "Sharon Ellis," frieze (No. 47), June July August: 94.
Knight, Christopher. "Ellis: Fascination in the Remains of Passing Day," Los Angeles Times, Friday, March 12: F34.
Miles, Christopher. "Sharon Ellis," Artforum, Summer: 160-161.
Zellen, Jody. "From Rorschach to the Sublime," d'Art International, Spring/Summer 1999 : 29.
"Getty Commissions artists for show," Daily News (Woodland Hills, CA), 1999.
"Morning Report: Getty Commissions," Los Angeles Times, 4 August 1999.

1998

Cotter, Holland. "Painting From Another Planet," The New York Times, June 24: E35.
Kandel, Susan. "Sharon Ellis," Cream. Phaidon Press, London: 108-111.
Nilsen, Richard. "Nice Tri," The Arizona Republic, Aug.20: 41.
Pagel, David. "Visual Stimulation in L.A.," Flash Art, Summer: 116-120.
Pagel, David. "Aperto Los Angeles," Flash Art, March/April: 75-77.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Ultraloungerie: New Painting from Los Angeles," The Village Voice, June 23, Vol. XLII No. 25.
Schwendener, Martha. "Planet Hollywood," Time Out New York, 62.

1997

Pagel, David. "Out of This World," Art issues, Jan./Feb.: cover, 22-24.
Smith, Roberta. "The Horror: Updating the Heart of Darkness," The New York Times, Sunday, June 1.
Spaid, Sue. "Cosmopolitan Nights," Art/Text, no. #57, Spring: 38-41.
Thorson, Alice. "Grand Arts show brings sense and style of the summer season," The Kansas City Star, Friday, July 4: 24.
Tumlir, Jan. "Sharon Ellis at Christopher Grimes Gallery," X-Tra, vol. 1, no. 1: 9-11.

1996

Betz, Martin. "Sharon Ellis: The Four Seasons," (catalogue) Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
Kandel, Susan. Los Angeles Times, Thursday, Oct. 24.
Melrod, George. "Earth Science," Art & Antiques, October.

1995

Crockett, Tobey. Art in America, November: 121-22.
Greene, David A. "Light Bright: Sharon Ellis, Hard-Milled Eye Candy," Los Angeles Reader: 29.
Kandel, Susan. "Sharon Ellis: An Eye for Post-Symbolism," The Los Angeles Times, May 29: F8.
Kandel, Susan. The Los Angeles TimesCalendar Section,Thursday, May 25.
The Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, Sunday, May 14: 61.

1994

Greene, David A. "Virtual Reality," Los Angeles Reader, March 25: 17.
Tumlir, Jan. "Processes and Properties," Artweek, March.
Utter, Douglas. "New Voices,ä Allen Memorial Art Museum, The New Art Examiner, November: 48.

1993

Eaton, Halle. Picturebook, November/December.
Frank, Peter. "Intriguing Works by New Generation of Women Artists," PressöTelegram, March 12.
Heartney, Eleanor. ãThe Imp of the Perverse,ä ARTnews, September.
Pagel, David. The Los Angeles Times, September 17: F21.
Roth, Charlene. "Kitchen Fiction," Artweek, May 20:3.
Saltzgaver, Harry. "Sugar 'n' Spice More Than Just Nice," Grunion Gazette, March 4.

1992

Baker, Kenneth. "'Studio Show' a Bright Light in Dark Times," San Francisco Chronicle Datebook, July 5: 44.
Curtis, Cathy. "Nice'n Subversive," The Los Angeles Times, (Orange County Edition), March 18.

1991

Geer, Suvan. "Group Effort Using Science Pays Off," The Los Angeles Times, July 19: F16.
Tager, Alisa. "Colors," Lapiz, October.

1990

Anderson, Michael. "Los Angeles Reviews,ä Contemporanea, October.

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