Peter Alexander
Claire, 2006

Vico, 2008

Squall, 2005

Untitled, 2005

Leveche, 2005

Muna, 2006

Morelos, 2006

Espita, 2006

Corozal, 2006

7/7/15 (Flo Lemon Yellow Wedge), 2015

Black Stroke #53, 2017

Black Stroke #60, 2017

Black Stroke #62, 2017

Black Stroke #64, 2017

Black Stroke #66, 2017

Black Stroke #56b, 2017

Black Stroke #43, 2017

Westwood, 1994

Oasis, 1994

Born
Los Angeles, CA, 1939
Died
Santa Monica, CA, 2020
Education
1965-66
M.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1964-65
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
1963-64
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1962-63
University of California, Berkeley
1960-62
Architectural Association, London, England
1957-60
University of Pennsylvania
Residencies
2007
Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California
1996
California State University Long Beach, Summer Arts Festival
1983
Sarabhai Foundation, Ahmedabad, India
1982
Centrum Foundation, Washington
1981
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1976
California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach California
1971
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Special Projects / Awards
2014
California Art Award 2014, by the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2003
Commissioned mural for the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Music Center of Los Angeles, CA
1994
Commissioned sculpture for the 777 Building, Los Angeles, CA, Cesar Pelli, architect
1992
Chamber Music Society of Los Angeles, festival poster
1990
Commissioned mural for Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA
Commissioned poster for Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
1989
Commissioned painting for Santa Monica Municipal Airport, CA
1988
Eight West Coast Artists, a print project arranged by Ediciones Poligrafia, Barcelona, Spain
1985
Commissioned art for Rebecca’s Restaurant, Frank Gehry, architect
1984
Amphitheatre of Light: A Prelude to the XXIII Olympiad, Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA
1980
Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
1975
Paramount Pictures, prop drawings for the film Day of the Locust
1971
PBS Documentary, Artists of America series
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Peter Alexander, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2021
DEEP DIVE, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA;
Exhibition catalog
Peter Alexander: Early Works 1965–1972, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Peter Alexander, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Alexander, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Light in Place: Peter Alexander Prints and Paintings, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Peter Alexander: Recent Work, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
COLOR, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Peter Alexander, Thomas Zander Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2017
Peter Alexander: Pre-Dawn LA, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Alexander | LAX, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2016
Peter Alexander: Sculpture 1966–2016, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Peter Alexander, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Peter Alexander: Los Angeles Riots, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
The Color of Light, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Peter Alexander, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2013
Nyehaus, New York, New York, NY
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
2012
Nye+Brown, Los Angeles, CA
212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2011
Franklin Parrasch Gallery with Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Nyehaus, New York, NY
Velvets and Palms, Gallery g169, Santa Monica, CA
2008
To Dive For, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2007
Pasadena City College, College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
Water Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Patrick Olson Gallery, Plymouth, MI
Godt-Cleary Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002
Peter Alexander: Tropics, Brian Gross at One Post Street, San Francisco, CA
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Fairmont Miramar Hotel, Santa Monica, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2001
Semi Plein Air Paintings of Laguna. Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2000
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1999
Peter Alexander: In This Light, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Travelled to: Donna Beam Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998
Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997
Peter Alexander: Black and White, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
1996
Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1994
Peter Alexander: Paintings from Ceasar’s Palace, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Peter Alexander: Las Vegas, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992
Century: A Painting by Peter Alexander, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Peter Alexander: The Velvet Paintings, Charles Whitchurch Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Peter Alexander: Skycam, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Peter Alexander: Drawings & Monotypes, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1990
Peter Alexander: Sculpture 1966–72, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989
The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1988
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1987
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986
Gallery 454 North, Los Angeles, CA
1985
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982
ARCO Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1975
Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, CA
Comsky Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
California State University, Long Beach, CA
1974
University of California, Irvine, CA
1973
Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, CA
1972
Morgan Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Art in Progress, Munich, Germany
Jack Glenn Gallery, San Diego, CA
1971
Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1969
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
Locksley/Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1968
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
FRAMED 2: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, and Paul Sarkisian, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
FRAMED: Works by Peter Alexander, Robert Arneson, Andrew Belschner, Roy De Forest, Adam Fowler, Dana Hart-Stone, Robert Hudson, Ed Moses, Ruth Pastine, Paul Sarkisian and Andrea Way, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2021
On the Edge: Los Angeles Art 1970s–1990s from the Joan and Jack Quinn Family Collection, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
2020–21
Fall 2020 Group Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog
Bending Light, Pace Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
Bloom of Joy, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2019
Summer Group, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
The Edge of Light: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on California Abstraction, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA
Made in California: Art + Photographic Portraits of Artists by Shimabukuro, Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino
Made in California: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R Weisman Art Foundation, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
2018
First Glimpse: Introducing the Buck Collection, University Art Gallery and Contemporary Arts Center Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA
Endless Summer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Elemental, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017
Cool, Calm Collected | Selected works by Gallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2016
Selected works by Gallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Made in California, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
Burning Small Fires, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Alexander/Robin Mitchell, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Radiant Space, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
2015
California Light, Sturt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, La Canada-Flintridge, CA
Night Begins the Day, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Let There Be Light Revisited, Gazelli Art House, London, England
Ethereal, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
In Barcelona, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2014
Surface to Air, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA
The Last Plastics Show, Nyehaus/Dorfman Projects, New York, NY
Environmental Impact, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Celebration, Inauguration of the Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2013
20th Annniversary Exhibition, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Local Fish, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape Into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Nature of Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Totally 80’s, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2012
Peter Alexander, Laddie John Dill, Judy Chicago, Nolan Judin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Berlin 1950-1980, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Transcending Abstraction, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2011
California Art, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
The Lords and the New Creatures, Nye + Brown, Los Angeles, CA
Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950–1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Venice in Venice, Foundation 2021, Venice, Italy
Abstraction, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
What’s New Pussycat, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Square Dancing, Nyehaus, New York, New York, NY
The Last Plastics Show, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
2010
Elements of Nature, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California and City of Lancaster Museum, Lancaster, CA
Perspective 2010, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
The Last Plastics Show, Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art, Culver City, CA
Swell, Nyehaus, Metro Pictures and Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Shades of Blue, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Primary Atomsopheres: California Minimalism 1960-1970, David Zwirner, New York, NY
2009
Let There Be Light, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Elements of Nature, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
The Beast in Me, Bowman/Bloom Gallery, New York, NY
Draw the Line, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Modern and Contemporary Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Rutberg Fine Arts, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
2008
Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Body and Soul: American Art from the Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Fresh Air, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
Nepotism, LA Contemporary Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Imaging and Imagining California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
The Left Coast, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Gallery Artists, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
SoCal, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Julius Shulman/Peter Alexander: Light and Space of California, Archer School for Girls, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Cetre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
Beyond Geometry, Miami Art Museum, FL (catalogue)
Wilder, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York and Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
California Landscapes, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Drawings, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Safe and Warm in L.A., Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Peter Alexander, Jack Bush, Tony Delap, Friedel Dzubas, John McCracken, The Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Cities of Promise: Imaging Urban California, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Los Angeles Artists, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Above Ground Level, Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, California and
Terminal One, Los Angeles International Airport
2003
Made in California: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation Collection, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA, and Todd Madigan Gallery at California State University, Bakersfield, CA
L.A.’s Finish Fetish, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
California Artists of the Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Velvet Kruise, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
Dutched: A Personal Touch, Art Galleries of California State University Northride and Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Arte Terciopelo Negro/Black Velvet Art, Galeria ICBC Tijuana, Instituto de Cultura de Baja California, Tijuana, Mexico
Cowboys, Indians and the Big Picture, McMullen Art Gallery, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Surf Culture, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
California Art from the Collection of Frederick R. Weisman, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
2001
Minimalism Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Contemporary Configurations—Peter Alexander, Meridel Rubenstein and Ted Orland, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA
Representing L.A., Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
California Contemporary Art Collection 2001, The California State Senate, State Capitol, Sacramento, CA
Brian Gross Fine Art: Gallery Artists, Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, CA
Representing L.A., Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2000
On Paper: Drawings, Paintings and Collages, Skidmore Contemporary Art,Malibu, CA
Work on Velvet, Barbara Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900–2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Minimalism, Then and Now, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Representing L.A., Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1999
Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Radical Past: Contemporary Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960–74, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Digital Frontiers: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
Self Images, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
18th Century High Tech-Angeles Press at the End of the 20th Century, Hiromi Paper International, Santa Monica, CA
Leeteg Tribute, Copro/Nason Gallery, Culver City, CA
1998
The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Digital Frontiers: Photography’s Future at Nash Editions, International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY; Travelled to: Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, CO; College of Fine Art, Gainesville, FL; Bergstrom-Mahler Museum, Neenah, WI; Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH; Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN
Light and Space, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1997
Approaching the Figure, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
California Rush, Susan Rush Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, NY
Return to Light and Space, RTKL International Exhibit Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Las Vegas, Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Disparate Landscapes, Gensler Associates, Los Angeles, CA
L.A. Current: A Media Fusion, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Art Rental and Sales Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Printmaking Society 14th National Exhibition, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles,CA
Anniversary Fiesta, Manne Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1996
Paintings of the New Landscape, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Opening Exhibition: Peter Alexander, Billy Al Bengston, Jessie Homer, Don Bachardy, Westfall Art, Venice, CA
California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Graham Nash/Nash Editions, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Grounded: Suburban Landscapes, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
City of Vapor, Tatischeff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995–98
Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century, organized by the Hillcrest Foundation, Los Angeles, California; Travelled to: Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, HI; Scottsdale Center for the Arts,Scottsdale, AZ; Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
1995
Nocturnes, Night Works, Frederick Spratt Gallery, San Jose, CA
Best of the West, Zero One Gallery, Hollywood, CA
City Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
Shoes or No Shoes, Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Oostende, Belgium
Paper Presence, Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition, Denis Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
A California Collection, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Presence in Minimal and Postminimal Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Ellen Johnson Gallery of Modern Art, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
P.L.A.N.: Photography Los Angeles Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Landscapes, Figures and Still Lifes, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Landscape: A Concept, Steven Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Quintessential California, FACT Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA
1994
Selected Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
Best of the West, Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
City Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, CA
The Frederick Weisman Collection, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1993
Sculpture and Multiples, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
75 Works, 75 Years: Collecting the Art of California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
L.A. Stories, Jack Rutberg gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Context, Boritzer Grey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992
Abstraction in the Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, and Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagisaki, Japan
California Cityscapes, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
The Presence of Absence: Minimal, Conceptual, and Contemplative, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
Best of the West, Zero One Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Inscapes, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
The Last Picture Show, Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Smarts c/o SMMoA, City of Santa Monica Art Bank Collection, Santa Monica, CA
1991
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Gallery for Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1990
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
Artists’ Artists, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
California Portfolio, Galeria Joan Prats, New York, NY
Lithographs and Etchings, Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selections from the Carnation Company Collection, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Collector’s Choice for the Nineties, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA
California Now, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Open House, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Heal the Bay, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Minimal, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Gallery for Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Finish Fetish: LA’s Cool School, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Perspectives of Realism, Louis Stern Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1989
Ed Hamilton: Master Printer, University of Arizona, Tucson
Daylight Savings Time, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain
1987
Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1986
Peter Alexander/Nicholas Wilder, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, CA
1985
Spectrum: Los Angeles, Hartje Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Made in India, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Peter Alexander/Nicholas Wilder, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Golden Land, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1984
An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1982
Echange entre Artistes, 1931-1982: Pologne-USA, Museum of Modern Art, Paris and Museum of Modern Art, Lodz, Poland
1978
The Weisman Collection, California State University, Long Beach
1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1973
The State of California Painting, Auckland City Art Museum, New Zealand
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1971
Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space, UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1970
300: New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
1969
New Materials and Methods, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fourteen Sculptors: The Industrial Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Highlights: 1968–69, Larry Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
A Plastics Presence, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Other Ideas, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI
Here and Now, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
1967
Small Images, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Southern California, University of California, San Diego, CA
West Coast Now, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Plastics: Los Angeles, California State College, Los Angeles, CA
Made of Plastic, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
Public Collections
Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Akron Art Museum, OH
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Des Moines Art Center, ID
Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Honolulu Museum of Art, HI
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA
J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth,TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
New York Public Library, Spencer Collection
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Princeton University Art Museum, NJ
Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, NY
San Diego Museum of Art, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Vancouver Museum of Art, British Columbia, Canada
Voorhees Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY