Leo Valledor
Big Chief, 1974

Ultimateless, 1971

Desire, 1971

Invitation, 1970

Ghost Ring, 1968

Exit, 1970

The Blessing, 1970

No Boogie, 1969

Up Against the Wall, 1971

Pacificon, 1981

A New Slant, 1981

Aslantis, 1986

Spaced, 1976

Liberty Rock, 1980

TGIF, 1982

Ezistance, 1986

Yabstrack, 1985

b. San Francisco, CA, 1936
d. San Francisco, CA, 1989
Education
1953–55
California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute)
Teaching
1987
San Francisco Art Institute
1978
University of California, Berkeley,
1977
Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, California
Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2020
East-West Series 1968–71, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Exhibition catalog
Leo Valledor: Dimensional Space, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Leo Valledor, The Bridge (To Sonny Rollins), Kadist, San Francisco, CA
2018
A New Slant, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Leo Valledor: Color As Space, White Box, New York, NY
Leo Valledor: Curved, David Richard Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Leo Valledor: Color Space, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2012
Shapin’ Up, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2011
Play It By Eye, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008
Between Sound & Space: The Paintings of Leo Valledor, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006
Leo Valledor Selected Works, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Leo Valledor & Carlos Villa, Mendenhall Sobieski Gallery, Pasadena, CA
The Filipino Roots of Minimalism: Leo Valledor and Mario Yrisarry, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
1982–83
Leo Valledor: New Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1980
Leo Valledor: Paintings, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1976
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1974
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1973
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1966
Valledor, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
Robert Grosvenor Sculpture/Leo Valledor Paintings, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Leo Valledor/Robert Smithson/Sol LeWitt, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1959
Blue & Black Series, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1958
California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1957
Jazzus Series, 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1956
Compositions, 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog
2019
Dilexi Gallery: The Early Years, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog
Building the Building: SOMArts 40th Anniversary Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA
2018
Way Bay 2, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
2017
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Park Place Gallery: Founders and Friends, Then and Now, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Altered Spaces: A Psychedelic Legacy, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2016
Mustard Road, The Battery SF, San Francisco, CA
The Butterfly Effect: Art in 1970s California, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2014
David Richard Gallery "Sensation", Santa Fe, NM
2011-12
SFMOMA, 75th Anniversary show from the Permanent Collection: "Abstract Art in the U.S. 1955-65", San Francisco, CA
2008-09
Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Asian/American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents 1900–1970, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2006-10
Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
1988
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
1987
Bluxome Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985
San Francisco Art Institute
Redding Museum and Art Center, Shasta College, Redding, CA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA
1984
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Public Image, New York, NY
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
1982
Belca House, Kyoto, Japan
1978
Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA,
Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA
1977
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Lone Mountain College, San Francisco, CA
1976
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1975
Six Painters, Six Attitudes, The Oakland Museum of California
1974
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1971
East-West Series, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1970
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1968
Park Place Group, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Philips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1967
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Park Place Gallery, New York NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Instituto Torcuato de Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Museo del Arte, Caracas, Venezuela
Drew University, Madison, Wisconsin
New York University, NY
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1966
Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL
Lannan Foundation Museum, Palm Beach, FL
Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Art’65, American Express Pavilion, New York’s World’s Fair, Queens, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition, Latin America
World House Galleries, New York, NY
Young Masters, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
John Daniels Gallery, New York, NY
Van Bovenkamp Gallery, New York, NY
1964
Eleven Artists, Kaymar Gallery, New York, NY
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
Park Place Group, New York, NY
1961
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1959
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1958
Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1955
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1954-57
Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Selected Public Collections
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, State Fair Community College, Sedalia, MO
The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: “Fifty Works for Fifty States”
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT
Oakland Museum of California
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
US Department of State Art in Embassies Program, Washington D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Selected Bibliography
Shere, Charles. “Ideal Geometry”. The East Side View (February 12, 2018.)
Cotter, Holland. “When Artists Ran the Show: ‘Inventing Downtown,’ at N.Y.U.,” The New York Times, January 12, 2017.
Rachleff, Melissa. Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965. Essays by Lynn Gumpert, Billy Kluver, and Julie Martin. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 2017.
Roth, David M. “Leo Valledor @ Brian Gross,” Squarecylinder.com (February 22, 2016.)
Chun, Kimberly. “Art that Speaks to S.F.’s Past,” SFGate.com (January 20, 2016).
Morris, Barbara. “Leo Valledor: Play It By Eye at Togonon Gallery,” Art Ltd Magazine (Jan/Feb 2012.)
Henderson Dalrymple, Linda. The Fourth Dimension and Non-Euclidean Geometry in Modern Art, MIT Press, 2012.
Colpitt, Francis. “Space Explorers,” Art in America (February 2009): p 61.
Baker, Kenneth. “Forakis and Valledor at Togonon,” San Francisco Chronicle (October 25, 2008.)
Gordon Chang, Mark Dean Johnson & Paul Karlstrom. Asian American Art, A History, 1850–1970, Stanford University Press, 2008.
Henderson Dalrymple, Linda. “Park Place: Its Art and History,” Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960s New York, Blanton Museum of Art, 2008.
Daniell Cornell & Mark Dean Johnson (editors.) Asian/American/Modern Art—Shifting Currents, 1900–1970, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2008.
Amy, Michaël. “Leo Valledor and Mario Yrissary at Mitchell Algus,” Art in America (March 2007): p 178.
Schwendener, Martha. "ART AND SPACE: Park Place and the Beginning of the Paula Cooper Gallery,” The New York Times (February 19, 2007.)
Long, Jim. “The Filipino Roots of Minimalism: Leo Valledor and Mario Yrisarry at Mitchell Algus Gallery,” The Brooklyn Rail (November 2006.)
Cotter, Holland. “The Filipino Roots of Minimalism” The New York Times (September 29, 2006.)
Loleng, Stephanie Grace. “Provocative colors in Leo Valledor’s art,” Philippine News (April 26, 2006.)
Mizota, Sharon. “Selected Works: Paintings by Leo Valledor,” SF Weekly (March 29, 2006.)
Karlstrom, Paul J. Leo Valledor/Carlos Villa, MSG Gallery, Los Angeles and Shanghai, 2006.
Rinder, Lawrence. Leo Valledor: Selected Works, Togonon Gallery, San Francisco, 2006.
Elaine Kim, Margo Machida & Sharon Mizota. Fresh Talk, Daring Gazes, University of California Press, 2003.
Humblet, Claudine. The New American Abstraction, Skira/Seuil, 2003, Vol 3, pp 1893-1937.
Fitz Gibbon, John. The Pilot Hill Collection, Crocker Art Museum, 2002.
Seymour Howard and John Natsoulas. The Beat Generation Galleries and Beyond, John Natsoulas Press, 1996.
Albright, Thomas. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980: An Illustrated History, University of California Press, 1985.
Fleming, Dean. “Interview: Leo Valledor,” Ocular, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Fall 1981): pp 28–38.
Hopkins, Henry. 50 West Coast Artists, Chronicle Books, 1981.
Boettger, Suzaan. “Geometric Surfaces with Illusory Depth,” Art Week (August 16, 1980): p 5.
Stiles, Knut, “Leo Valledor at Modernism Gallery,” Art in America (Nov–Dec 1976.)
Martin, Fred. “Leo Valledor in Retrospect.” Art Week (September 4, 1976): p 18.
Frankenstein, Alfred. “The Man the Museum Overlooked” San Francisco Chronicle (August 20, 1976.)
Ballatore, Sandy. Four Solo Exhibitions: Nancy Genn, John Okulick, Jack Scott, Leo Valledor, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1976.
Frankenstein, Alfred. “Valledor’s Masterly Art/Clarity and Aloofness.” San Francisco Chronicle (February 21, 1974.)
Dunham, Judith L. “Leo Valledor Paintings,” Art Week (November 17, 1973): p 3.
Valledor, Leo. Leo Valledor/Selected Paintings/East-West Series; Exhibition brochure. San Francisco Art Institute, 1971.
Nordland, Gerald. Leo Valledor: East-West Series; Exhibition Brochure. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1971.
Battcock, Gregory (editor). Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, E.P. Dutton, 1968.
Lippard, Lucy R. “Perverse Perspectives,” Art International (March 1967.)
Green, Samuel Adam. Art For the City, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1967.
Glueck, Grace. “ABC to Erotic,” Art in America (Fall, 1966): p 107.
Berrigan, Ted. “Leo Valledor,” Art News (October, 1966): p 65.
Hutchinson, Peter. “Mannerism in the Abstract,” Art and Artists (September 1966.)
Aldrich, Larry. Highlights of 1965–66 Art Season, The Larry Aldrich Museum (July 1966.)
Smithson, Robert. “Entropy and the New Monuments,” Artforum (June 1966.)
Bourdon, David. “E=Mc2 a Go-Go.” Art News (January 1966) ill.
Swain, Richard. “Robert Grosvenor, Leo Valledor,” Art News (December 1965.)
O’Doherty, Brian. Art 65: Lesser Known and Unknown Painters: Young American Sculpture – East to West, American Express Corporation, NY, 1965.
O’Doherty, Brian. “Art: Avant – Garde Deadpans on Move. Kaymar Gallery Shows Recent Works,” The New York Times (April 11, 1964): p 22.