Greg Colson’s art explores the tensions between different kinds of gestures, conflicting notions of order and accident, the big picture and small details. His works often reveal the condition of our lives in the information age, where, in Colson’s words, “the trivial and significant are put on equal footing.” Colson’s work is in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California. He is represented by Patrick Painter Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
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Born 1956 Seattle, Washington.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
EDUCATION
BA, California State University at Bakersfield, 1978
MFA, Claremont Graduate School, 1980
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016
Thomas Park, Seoul, South Korea
2014
Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX.
2013
Patrick Painter, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
2012
Patrick Painter, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2010
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2005
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Sprovieri, London, England
Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2001
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
1999
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
1998
Milleventi, Milan, Italy
Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
1995
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994
Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges, Belgium
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1993
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1991
Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1990
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1988
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL
1987
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
The Discovery of a Leak in the Roof of Marcel Breuer’s Wellfleet Summer Cottage, Curated by Matt Moravec, Off Vendome, New York, N.Y
Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Connection, Museum Lazienki Krolewski, Warsaw, Poland
Works on Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2015
Someplaces, Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Black & White, Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
2014
A Particular Kind of Solitude, Curated by Serra Sabuncuoglu, Elizabeth Street Garden, New York, NY
Man-Made, Thomas Park, Seoul, South Korea
Don’t Play At School, Maurizio Caldirola Arte Contemporanea, Monza, Italy
2013
Freeway Studies #1, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Giotto's O), Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland
Letters from Los Angeles, Jack Rutberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Astrazione Figurazione, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Works on Paper, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO.
2011
The Art Must Go On, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New Wallworks, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2010
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Mapping the Art, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
An Exploration of Identity, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
2009
Group Show, Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Conceptual Painting, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2008
Line Drive, Hamilton Press Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Ballkunstler, Museum der Bildenden Kunste Leipzig, Germany
John Baldessari, Greg Colson, John Hilliard, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Alternate Routes, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Vivisection: Contemporary Drawing, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico
Surprise, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Utopia, Gorinchem Museum, Gorinchem, The Netherlands
de cirkel, Galerie Ramakers, The Hague, The Netherlands
The Artist Turns to the Book, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Weather, Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2004
The Pontus Hulten Collection… Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
…so fresh, so cool! Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Of the Moment: Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
The Artists of ‘Faster Jim,’ Hamilton Press Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Maps as Muse, Hirschl & Adler, New York, NY
Donald Baechler, Greg Colson, Graham Gillmore, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Group Show, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
No Canvas, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
2002
Terra Incognita, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
First Impressions: The Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Selections from the Martin Z. Margulies Collection, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Good News, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Amerika-Europa: Sammlung Rosenkranz im Von der Heydt-Museum, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
2001
Ironical Instinct, Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
Panza Gift Show, Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
Breakstep, Inmo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2000
American Bricolage, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
hand-Made in U.S.A. Galleria Sprovieri, London, England
da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, Turin, Italy
Arte Americana: Ultimo Decennio, Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Italy
Panza: The Legacy of a Collector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Soft White, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Collaboration/Transformation: Lithographs from the Hamilton Press, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, CA (Traveled to: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK)
Recent Sculpture, Griffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Wood, Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, NY
1997
Book Obsession, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
CA 90001-185, W-139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paper Works, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Structures: Buildings in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
100 Years of California Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1996
Limited Edition Artists’ Books, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Tangles, Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
The Empowered Object, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Six Projects: Greg Colson, Ed Moses, Peter Shelton, Robert Therrien, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995
een actuele prive-verzameling, Sint-Lukasgalerij, Brussels, Belgium
A Sculpture Show, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Light (for the Dark Days of Winter), A/D. New York, NY
Too Cool: Assemblage and Finish Fetish in Los Angeles, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Presence: Recent Portraits, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Uncommon Objects, Kathleen Shields Contemporary Art Projects, Albuquerque, NM
1994
Art on the Map, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Artists’ Books from the Lapis Press, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mapping, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1993
Drawn in the ‘90s, Katonah Art Museum, Katonah, NY (Traveled to: Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL)
The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
The Return of the ‘Cadavre Exquis,’ The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada
1992
Greg Colson, Takashi Murakami, Jorge Pardo, Jon Tower, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Greg Colson, Guillermo Kuitca, William Wegman, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Oddly: 4 Los Angeles Artists, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA
1991
Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Third Newport Biennial: Mapping Histories, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Dots, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New American Art: Mary Beyt, Greg Colson, Christopher Wool, Ho Gallery World Art, Hong Kong
1990
Je Viens de chez le Charcutier, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Laboratory, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
12th International Biennial of Drawings: Working Drawings from Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
Referential Drawings, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1989
Greg Colson, Peter Greenaway, Nicolas Rule, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Outer Limits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Containers, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1988
Bocanegra, Colson, Scarpitta, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Black and White Abstraction, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Excavations, Otis/Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
1987
White Work, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
New Painting and Sculpture, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Greg Colson
Activities While Driving
2000
Color etching with spitbite
and sugarlift aquatints
and softground
Somerset soft white
textured paper
Image size 17" x 14"
Paper size 25½" x 22"
Edition of 35
Greg Colson
'How to Look Your Best' Survey
2000
Color etching with spitbite
and sugarlift aquatints
and softground
Somerset soft white
textured paper
Image size 17" x 14"
Paper size 25½" x 22"
Edition of 35
Greg Colson
Observed Shapes
2000
Color etching with spitbite
and sugarlift aquatints
and softground
Somerset soft white
textured paper
Image size 17" x 14"
Paper size 25½" x 22"
Edition of 35
Greg Colson
Recreational Surfing
2000
Color etching with spitbite
and sugarlift aquatints
and softground
Somerset soft white
textured paper
Image size 17" x 14"
Paper size 25½" x 22"
Edition of 35