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- 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.
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