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		Born 1925 Chicago, IL Died 2012 Los Angeles, CA Education 1960 MA, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA 1949 BA, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1943 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Awards 1989 Grant for Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts 1983 Grant for Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts Solo Exhibitions 2021 Karl Benjamin: Selected Paintings 1967–1978, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; Exhibition catalog 2019–20 The Karl Benjamin × Comme des Garçons Project, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA 2018 Karl Benjamin: Alphabet Paintings, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI 2017 Karl Benjamin: The Alphabet, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA 2014 Karl Benjamin – The Late Paintings, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2011 Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950–1980, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA 2009 Karl Benjamin: Paintings and Installation, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2008 Karl Benjamin, Brian Gross Fine Art at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA The Vibrant Edge: Paintings of Karl Benjamin from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA 2007 Dance The Line—Paintings by Karl Benjamin, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA A Conversation with Color: Karl Benjamin, Paintings 1953-1995, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 2006 Karl Benjamin: India Ink Drawings from the 1950’s, Lawrence Markey Gallery, San Antonio, TX 2005 Karl Benjamin: Drawings 1950–1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA Selected Paintings: 1953–1994, The Claremont Community Foundation, CA 2004 Alphabet Series: 1964-1965, Brian Goss Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Karl Benjamin: Paintings from 1950-1965, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2003 Stripe Paintings: 1979-1981, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2001 Karl Benjamin: A Selected Retrospective, Cuttress Gallery, Pomona, CA (Mostly) Random Rectangles, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1998 Karl Benjamin: Paintings From the 50’s and 90’s, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1995 LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA 1994 Karl Benjamin: The Pomona Years, 1979-1994, A Retrospective, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA 1992 Karl Benjamin: Paintings 1955-1990, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 1991 Karl Benjamin: Paintings 1955-1990, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Karl Benjamin: Recent Paintings, Fong-Spratt Galleries, San Jose, CA 1990 Karl Benjamin: A Ten Year Survey, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1989–90 Karl Benjamin: A Retrospective, 1955-1987, Redding Museum and Art Center, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding CA; Travelled to: Richard H. Reynolds Gallery, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA and the Art Galleries of California State College at Northridge, Northridge, CA 1988 Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1986 Karl Benjamin: Recent Paintings, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Karl Benjamin: Selected Works 1979–1986, Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA Hemmerdinger Gallery, Palm Springs, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA 1985 Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA 1984 Hank Baum Gallery, San Francisco, CA Univeristy of California at Santa Barbara, CA 1983 Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1982 Stella Polaris Gallery, Los Angeles, CA California State University at Bakersfield, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1981 Abraxas Gallery, Newport Beach, CA Karl Benjamin: Paintings of the 50s, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1980 Survey 1970-1980, University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Cheney-Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, WA Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1979 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA 1978 Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA Karl Benjamin: Recent Paintings, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1977 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1975 Chaffey College, Alta Loma, CA Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1972 University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1971 William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA 1970 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT. Jefferson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. 1969 Mount San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 1968 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1966 Hollis Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1965 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jefferson Gallery, La Jolla, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1964 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Hollis Galleries, San Francisco, CA 1963 Wooden Horse Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1962 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1961 La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA Bolles Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1960 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Lang Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA 1959 Esther-Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1958–59 Paintings by Karl Benjamin: Abstract Classicism, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1958 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1956 Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, CA University of Redlands, Redlands, CA 1955 Jack Carr Gallery, Pasadena, CA 1954 Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1953 Claremont Book and Art Gallery, Claremont, CA University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Group Exhibitions 2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog The Responsive Eye Revisited: Then, Now, and In-Between, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY Shaping Wood, Shaping Artists, the Ontario Museum of History & Art, organized by the Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation, Ontario, CA Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, Kasmin Gallery, NY 2019–20 Bold Abstractions: Paintings from the Thoma Collection, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL 2018–19 Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT 2018 California: North and South, Heather James Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Intersecting at the Edge: Karl Benjamin, Heather Gwen Martin and Eric Zammitt, Claremont Museum of Art, Claremont, CA 1960s California Hard-Edge, Flowers Gallery, London, UK 2015 Post-Op: ‘The Responsive Eye’ 50 Years After, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2014 Recent Acquisitions, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI 2012 Pasadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951–1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA The 186th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY 2011–12 Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, CA Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1945–1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany 2012 The House That Sam Built: Sam Maloof and Art in the Pomona Valley, 1945–1985, Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA 2011 Color Field Revisited, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and 1970s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Southern California Hard Edge: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Helen Lundeberg, John McLaughlin, Art Paris, Louis Stern Fine Arts exhibiting, Paris, France Structured Color, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY Softcore / Hard Edge, The Art Galleries of Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2010–11 Karl Benjamin: Under the Influence, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA Softcore Hard Edge, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Alberta, Canada 2010 Wall-to-Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948–2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Explorations in Black and White: The 1930s through the 1960s, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY Looking Forward Looking Back: The Collection in Context, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV 2008–09 Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 2008 Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV 2007–09 Birth of the Cool; California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin 2007–08 Burgoyne Diller and Hard-Edge Abstraction: Underpinnings and Continuity, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY 2007 After Image: Op Art of the 1960's, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, New York. Optic Nerve—Perceptual Art of the 1960's, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio Painting <=> Design, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA Freedom to Experiment, American Abstraction, 1945-1975: Expressionism, Optical Art & Hard Edge, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY 2006 A Little SoCal Abstraction, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the Non-Objective World, 1950-1980, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA Peace Tower (recreation of 1966 original) in conjunction with the Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Geometric Abstraction: Two Generations, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY 2005–06 Collection Histories/Collective Memories: California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA 2005 Evolution in Abstraction: Antecedents + Descendents, D. Wigmore Fine Art, New York, NY The First 80 Years, Los Angeles Art Association, West Hollywood, CA Twenty Years and Counting: An Exhibition Celebrating the dA Center for the Arts, dA Center for the Arts, Pomona, CA 2004–05 Human Presence: Works from the Museum's Collection (The Geometry of Color/The Singular Body), San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA The Los Angeles School: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, June Harwood, Helen Lundeberg and John McLaughlin, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Daimler Chrysler Collection: Minimalism and After III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, Germany The LA that Influenced My Eye, Sullivan Goss: An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA Conversations with the Collection: A Selection from the Permanent Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940's-1970's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 2003 (Un)Taped: An Exhibition of Hard-Edge Paintings by Karl Benjamin and Mark L. Emerson, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA Another Abstract Classicist, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Austere Geometry (1955–1975), Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY Ideal Abstraction 1955–1965: Karl Benjamin and Norman Bluhm, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY Hard Edge and Op Prints from the 70s to Present, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 Four Abstract Classicists: Karl Benjamin, Lorser Feitelson, Frederick Hammersley, and John McLaughlin, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 2000 Vertical Chords, Harris Gallery, University of La Verne, La Verne, CA Four Abstract Classicists Plus One, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1998 Elusive Paradise: Los Angeles Art from the Permanent Collection, Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Convergences, The Art Galleries at Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 1997 Eyedazzlers, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Generational Abstractions, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Geometric Abstraction 1937-1997, Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 1996–97 On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angles, CA 1996 California Focus, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA California Artists: Genres of the 20th Century, Henley Gallery, Chapman University Some Grids: The Theme of the Grid in 20th Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1993 Four Abstract Classicists, West Coat Hard Edge, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA California: Art from the 1930s to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 3 Artists: Common Origins, Different Paths, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA; Travelled to Kemper Gallery and Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Journey Into Art, LA Artcore 5th Annual Awards Benefit, Los Angeles, CA 1992 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Phinney Gallery, Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1991 Post War Geometric Concepts, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY 1990–92 Turning the Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920–1956, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA; Travelled to: Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX; Nora Eccles Harrison Art Museum, Logan, UT; Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art, Santa Barbara CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA 1990 Geometric Abstraction, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Karl Benjamin, Steve Schlichtenmyer, Art Gallery at The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY 1989–90 Blueprints for Modern Living, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Then and Now, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA A Decade of Abstraction, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA 1988 The Linear Thread, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA 1987 California's Painting from the 60s, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Contemporary Prints by West Coast Artists, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA Pomona College Centennial Faculty Exhibition, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA Insights, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA 1986–87 Four Abstract Classicists: A Look at 1950s California Hard-Edge Painting, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, NY 1985–86 Ten California Colorists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding Museum & Art Center, Redding, CA; Travelled to: San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Montgomery Galleries, Pomona College, Claremont, CA; University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1985 Color Forms, "Gallery at the Plaza", Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, CA Drawings from the David Nellis Collection, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Color, Color, Color, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA A Focus on California, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Twentieth Century: The SFMMA, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA 1983 Contemporary American Printmaking, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA The Museum Collection, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA 1982 Color in Contemporary Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Los Angeles Hard Edge, Tobey Moss Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Travelled to: Fine Arts Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA 1981 California Artists: 1940–1980, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Pacific Coast Museum Selection, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. 1980 West Coast: Art for the Vice-President's House, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Travelled to: Vice-President’s residence, Washington, D.C. 1979 Black and White Are Colors, Montgomery & Lang Galleries, Pomona College and Scripps College, Claremont, CA Art, Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Travelled to: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA Los Angeles Abstract Painting, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Travelled to: University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA 1978 A Painting Show, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA 1977 California: 5 Footnotes to Modern Art History, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, and Cologne, West Germany Four From California, Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, IL Archives of American Art: California Collecting, Oakland Art Museum, CA; Travelled to: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Three From California, Francine Selders Gallery, Seattle, WA Los Angeles Hard Edge: The Fifties and Seventies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 35th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Southern California Festival of the Arts, Laguna Beach, CA 1976 Painting and Sculpture in California: the Modern Era,San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Travelled to: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C. 1971 Pacific Cities Loan Exhibition, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1969 Los Angeles Annual Art Exhibition, Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA 1968 Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s from the Collection of Gifford and Joann Philips, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 1967 30th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Contemporary American Painting, The White House, Washington D.C. California Art Festival, Lytton Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA 1966 85th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA American Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Contemporary California Art from the Lytton Collection, Lytton Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA California Painters and Sculptors Invitational, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Drawings, Gallery Dache, New York, NY Peace Tower, Los Angeles, CA 1965 The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Travelled to: St. Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Pasadena Art Museum, CA; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD Art Across America, Mead Corporation, New York; Travelled to: M. Knoedler & Co., New York, NY; Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA; Philadelphia Commercial Museum, Philadelphia, PA The Colorists, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA California Artists, Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX Survey of Contemporary Art, Speed Museum of Art, Louisville, KY Denver Museum Annual, Denver Museum of Art 1964 New Accessions, USA, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO California Hard Edge Painting, Pavilion Gallery, Balboa, CA Selections from the Asher Collection, University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Painted Sculpture, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA 1963 Liturgical Art, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA 1962 50 California Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Travelled to: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Travelled to: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA The Artist's Environment West Coast, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX; Travelled to: Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Wight Art Galleries, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1961–62 Pacific Profile, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California; Travelled in Western States by Western Association of Art Museums 1961 Painting from the Pacific United States, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand California Artists, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 1960 Purist Painting, American Federation of Arts, White Art Museum, Ithaca, NY; Travelled to: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; North Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1st Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, La Jolla Art Museum, La Jolla, CA 1959–60 Four Abstract Classicists, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Travelled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Queen’s College, Belfast, Ireland New Talent, American Federation of Arts, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; Travelled to: Time, Inc., New York, NY; Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL; Howard University, Washington D.C. California Painters Under 35, Wight Art Galleries, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 1949-1959: A Decade in the Contemporary Galleries, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA Kaleidoscope, Taos, NM 1958 Arts of Southern California II: Painting, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1957 California Drawings, Pomona College, Pomona, CA; Travelled to: University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA 1956 Art in Architecture, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Eighth San Gabriel Valley Artists Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA 1955 Faculty Exhibition, Pasadena School of Fine Arts, Pasadena, CA 10th Annual Newport Harbor Exhibit, Newport Beach, CA 1954 14th Annual Invitational Art Exhibit, Chaffey Art Association, Ontario, CA Artists Should Know, Los Angeles Art Association, Los Angeles, CA 39th Annual California Art Exhibit, San Bernardino, CA 1953 Falk-Raboff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 5th Annual San Gabriel Valley Artists Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA Selected Public Collections Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California at Berkeley, CA Cheney Cowles State Museum, Spokane, WA Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA Pitzer College, Claremont, CA Pomona College, Claremont, CA San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA Santa Cruz County Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA Scripps College, Claremont, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Sheldon Memorial Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Gardens, San Marino, CA University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM University of Redlands, Redlands, CA Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Washington State University, Pullman, WA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY