Selected WorksBiography
 
WALLACE BERMAN
Biography
 
 
Born

1926, Born in Staten Island, NY, USA

 

1976, Died in Topanga, CA, USA

 
 
Studies

1944, Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

1944, Attended Jepson Art School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 
 
 
Selected Solo Shows
 
2010

Wallace Berman – Verifax, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, CH

2009

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)

 

Verifax Collages, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, FR

 

SHE: Images of Women by Wallace Berman & Richard Prince, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008

All is personal: the Art of Wallace Berman, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK

2007

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2006

Semina Culture, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA, USA

2005

Aleph - A Film by Wallace Berman, The Jewish Museum of New York, New York, NY, USA

 

Wallace Berman, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2000

Wallace Berman - Art Is Love Is God - une introduction - 1957-1976, Mamco – musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, CH

1997
L.A.Louver, Venice, CA, USA
1993

Sermons, Ravings and Reminiscences on the Influence of a Truly Seminal Artist - Wallace Berman, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Wallace Berman/Collages, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX, USA

1992- 93

Wallace Berman, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL

1990

Wallace Berman, A Gesture Involving Verifax Collage, Photographs, Text and Sculpture, Louver Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998

Wallace Berman, A Retrospective, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA, USA

1982
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979
L. A. Louver, Venice, CA, USA
1978

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

 

Wallace Berman Retrospective, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

1977

Wallace Berman, Timothea Stewart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1974
Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA, USA
1973

One-day exhibition organized by Wallace Berman, Mermaid Tavern, Topanga, CA, USA

1968

Wallace Berman: Verifax Collages, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA

 

Wallace Berman: Verifax Collages, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

1967

Exhibition of Verifax Collages organized by Wallace Berman, Topanga Community House, Topanga, CA, USA

1965

Studio exhibition of Verifax Collages organized by Wallace Berman, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1957
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
 

Selected Group Shows
 
2009

In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists, X-Initiative, New York, NY, USA

 

MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

1968. Die Grosse Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE

 

Hot Spots, Milano-Torino, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, CH (catalogue)

2008

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1958 – 1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE (catalogue)

 

Looking for Mushrooms, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, DE (catalogue)

 

Traces du Sacré, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE;

Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

2007

Pioneers , CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Semina Culture; Wallace Berman and his Circle, Grey Art Gallery NYU, New York, NY, USA

2006

Los Angeles 1955-1965, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR (catalogue)

 

Radical Software - Art, Technology, and the Bay Area Underground, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA

 

Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and His Circle, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, USA (cataogue)

 

California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA

2005

Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY, USA

 

Semina Culture - Wallace Berman & His Circle, Santa Monica Museum Of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA

 

Tony DeLap & Wallace Berman, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

2004

Subway Series - The New York Yankees and the American Dream, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, NY, USA

 

Evidence of Impact: Art and Photography 1963–1978, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

 

Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK 

2003

Some Assembly Required - Collage Culture in Post-War America, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, USA

2002

Ferus, Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY, USA

2000

S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

1999

Group Show, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998

World Artsist for Tibet, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1996

Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA

1995

Neo-Dada: Redefining Art, 1958-1962, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, USA

 

Pacific Dreams: Currents of Surrealism and Fantasy in California Art, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA, USA