Born in Chicago, Illinois

Lives and works Taos, New Mexico and Venice Beach, California

Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, USA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Larry Bell: The Last Women, Encore Gallery at Taos Center for the Arts, Taos, NM, USA

Larry Bell. New Works on Paper, Open Mind Space, Albuquerque, NM, USA

New Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Works on Paper, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

New Work, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

New Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Larry Bell: Fractions, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Cress Gallery of Art. Chattanooga, TN, USA

St. John’s College Art Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Made for Arolsen, Museum Abteiberg. Monchengladbach, Germany

Sumer #24, 3/8 @20, Billingsley Development Co. Dallas, TX, USA

Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven. Otterndorf, Germany

Center Galleries, Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA

Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Ottendorf, Germany

Glass and Paper, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

Maquettes from Sumer, Braunstein/Quay Gallery. San Francisco, CA, USA

Sumer Part I and II, Art et Industrie Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Larry Bell Untitled x 2, Denver Museum of Art, Close Range Gallery, Denver, CO, USA

Sumer: A Work in Progress, Harwood Museum. Taos, New Mexico, NM, USA 

Larry Bell Glass and Denim Constructions, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

Tampa Museum of Art, FL, USA

Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, USA

Galerie Montenay, Paris, France

Galerie Rolf Ricke, Köln, Germany

Galerie Kammer. Hamburg, Germany

Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York, NY, USA

Gemini Editions Limited, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, USA

Larry Bell, Major Glass Sculpture and Related Maquettes, New Gallery. Houston, TX, USA

Galerie Gilbert Brownstone & Cie, Paris, France

Light-Space-Time, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art. Cleveland, Part of Case Western Reserve University Centennial Celebration, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX, USA

Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho, USA

The Invisible Presence, Glass Art society Conference, Keynote Speaker, Los Angeles, CA

Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY USA

American academy and Institution of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

Installation of the Leaning Room”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Americans in Glass, Athenaeum Gallery, Manchester, England

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

Larry Bell: Major Works in Glass, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA

ARCO Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Museum of Fine Arts Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

On the Ellipse, Works by Larry Bell, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, USA

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Vapor Drawings, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Tally Richards Gallery of Contemporary Art, Taos, NM, Multiples Gallery, New York, NY, Sebastian-Moore Gallery, Denver, CO, USA

Solar Fountain Drawings, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX, USA

The Iceberg and Its Shadow, Washington University, St. Louis, MI, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, The Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA (1977) USA

Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Larry Bell, Malborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome (toured to Torino, Venice, Milan), Italy

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA

Galeria Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Los Angeles NOW: Larry Bell / Joe Goode / Ed Moses, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Hot Spots: Rio de Janeiro / Milano – Torino / Los Angeles, 1956 - 1969, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

DLA Piper Series: This is Sculpture, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art since 1945, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin, WI, USA

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957 – 1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Between the Lines: Five Artists and the Lucid, Curated by Peter Frank, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Made in California: Contemporary California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, 15^th Anniversary Celebration, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sensuality in the Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Black and White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Sculpture from the Sixties, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Translucence, Southern California Art from the1960’s & 1970’s, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV, USA

Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Sintra Museum of Modern Art, Sintra, Portugal

Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

Skulpurengarten Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Grounds for Sculpture, Mercerville, NJ, USA

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany

Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany

Galerie Nächt St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria

Sculpturen und Projectionen, Arolsen, Germany

Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

Spaso House, Moscow, USSR

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ, USA

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, USA

Arizona Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. USA

Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, USA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA

Museo de Arte Contemporanio de Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, USA

37th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. , USA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Tate Gallery, London, England

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Dokumenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

1965, ’67, ’69, ’79, ’81, ‘86

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, USA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA

Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

The Berardo Collection, Funchal, Portugal

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

City of Albuquerque Public Arts, Albuquerque, NM, USA

Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, Colorado Springs, CO, USA

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA

Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, NY, USA

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA

Metropolitan Bronco Football Stadium District & City of Denver, CO, USA

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IO, USA

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, USA

Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA, USA

The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA

Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Minneapolis Art Institute, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Musee Saint-Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Caracas, Venezuela

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA

Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York , NY, USA

Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

National Collections of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA

Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA, USA

Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico, USA

San Antonio Museum of Art , San Antonio, TX, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, TX, USA

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

Stedelijk Museum, Rotterdam, Holland

Tate Gallery, London, England

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Governor’s Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts (Visual Arts), State of New Mexico

National Endowment for the Arts, grantee

Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship

Copley Foundation, grantee