Brian Gross Fine Art: Artists: Roy De Forest

b. North Platte, Nebraska, 1930; d. Vallejo, California, 2007
Education: 1950-52; California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; 1953; San Francisco State College, B.A.; 1956; San Francisco State College, M.A.
Teaching: 1965-82; University of California, Davis; 1964-65; California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California; 1964; San Quentin Prison, San Rafael, California; 1964-65; Junior Center of Arts and Sciences, Oakland, California; 1961-62; San Francisco State College; 1960-61; Contra Costa Junior College, San Pablo, California; 1958-60; Yakima Junior College, Yakima, WA; 1955-58; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Solo Exhibitions: 2021; Roy De Forest: Selected Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2020; Roy De Forest, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York; 2019; Roy De Forest: Works on Paper, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, California; 2017; Man of Our Times: Drawings by Roy De Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest, Oakland Museum of California; Civic Art Collection in Focus: Roy De Forest, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, California; 2015; Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2013; Roy De Forest: A Simple Life, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 2012; A Figure of Our Times, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; Bark!, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California; 2009; Painting the Big Painting, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2008; Roy De Forest: A Memorial Exhibition, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 2006; Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; 2005; George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 2004; Recent Paintings, IMAGO Galleries, Palm Desert, California; 2002; LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM; 2001; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; 1999; Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; 1997; New Constructions, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 1996; George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California; 1994; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1993; New Paintings and Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 1992; John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1991; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California; 1990; Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California; Stanford Museum of Art, Stanford, California; Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California; 1989; Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California; Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; 1988; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California; Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California; Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL; 1987; Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; 1986; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1985; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; 1984; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1983-84; The Early Constructions, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California; 1983; University of California, Riverside, California; Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL; 1982; California State University, Chico, California; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1981; Enter the Enchanted De Forest, (print commission), Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France; 1980; E.B. Crocker Museum of Art Invitational, Sacramento, California; Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR; Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Californianada; Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR; Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California; Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis; Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; 1979; Fresno City College, Fresno, California; 605 East 3rd Street Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; 1978; Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California; Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Gallery of Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California; Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco; 1977; Institute of Contemporary Art with Robert Hudson, Boston, MA; Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France; Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; 1976; Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1975; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1974; Galerie Allen, Vancouver, British Columbia, Californianada; Shasta College, Redding, California; Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum, TX, Glenbow-Alberta Art Gallery, Californialgary, Alberta, Californianada; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1973; Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France; Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1972; Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York; 1971; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California; Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA; Gallery Marc, Washington, DC; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1969; Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz; San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California; 1967; City College of Sacramento Art Gallery, California; 1966; Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Peninsula Gallery, Menlo Park, California; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1965; Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1963; De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1962; Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; San Francisco Art Association Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1961; Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1960; Paintings and Boardism by… Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Stone Court Gallery, Yakima, Washington; 1959; Stone Court Gallery, Yakima, Washington; 1958; East & West Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1955; East & West Gallery, San Francisco, California
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; 2020; 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; exhibition catalog; 2019; Dilexi Gallery: The Early Years, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; exhibition catalog; Ridin’ the West: Works by Roy De Forest and Dana Hart-Stone, Edward M. Dowd Art & Art History Building Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; exhibition catalog; Landscape Without Boundaries: Selections from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis; 2018–19; Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (traveled to High Museum, Atlanta, GA); 2018; 20 Sonoma Collectors, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California; reverberations: A Visual Conversation, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California; 2017; Genesis Belanger, Melissa Brown, Roy De Forest, Mimi Gross, curated by Dan Nadel, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, New York; 2016; Mustard Road, The Battery SF, San Francisco, California; The Butterfly Effect: Art in 1970s California, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California; 2015; What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York; 2014; What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, RISD Museum, Providence, RI; Fertile Ground, Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; 2007; REMIX, One Post Street, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; Roy De Forest, Gerald Walburg, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California; 2005-2006; Sit Down! Artist Bench Invitational, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, California; 2004–2005; The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selections from The di Rosa Preserve — Art and Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California; 2003; Three Masters: Roy De Forest, Jack Earl, Richard Shaw, Mobilia Gallery, Californiambridge, MA; Gallery Artists Summer Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Animality, Roy De Forest and Others, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA; Sculpture 2003, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, California; 2002; A Slow Time in Arcadia: Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley 1960-2002, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Trillium Press: Past, Present, and Future, Kala Institute Galleries, Oakland, California; 2001; Robert Hudson and Roy De Forest: Recent Work, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; Hounds in Leash, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; 2000; The Animal in Contemporary Art, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV; The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; 1998-2001; Roy De Forest & Gaylen Hanson, Paris Gibson Square Museum. Great Falls, Montana; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota; 1999; Wild Beasts, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, traveled to: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; A Quarter Century of Works on Paper, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California; 1998; Wild Things: Artists' Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1997-98; Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; 1997; A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA; 1996; 1996 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; It Figures, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX; Going Places, Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Artful Humor, Gallery in the Champion Lobby, Stamford, CT; Out of Toon: Another Look at Art and Comics, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York; The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1995; Paper View, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO; Group Exhibition, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, New York; California in the 1960's: Funk Revisited, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York; Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1994; X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum, California; Masters of Mischief II, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York; 1991; Large Scale Works On Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1986; American Art Today: The Figure in the Landscape, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami; 1985; Pastel, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, New York; Skowhegan Visiting Artist Exhibition, Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME; Fortissimo! 30 Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; 1984; The Studio, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; 20th Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, The Arkansas Arts Center; Bob and Roy and Karen and Friends, Creative Growth Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1982; A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; 20th Century Images of George Washington, Frances Tavern Museum, New York, New York; Northern California Art of the 60s, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California; The West as Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, California; Drawings by Painters, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; 1981; Humorous California Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California; American Painting of the 60s and 70s, Columbus Museum of Art, OH; The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, University of Houston, TX; Alternative Realities in Contemporary American Painting, University of Minnesota; Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, California; Welcome to the Candy Store!, Crocker Museum Invitational, Sacramento, California; Forty Famous Californians, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, New York; 100 New Acquisitions, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; 20th Century Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Remember It's Only Art, Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, California; Fashion Mode, Gallery de la Raza/Studio 24, San Francisco, California; 1980; Tamarind Institute Invitational, Albuquerque, NM; The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Figurative Art: Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Roy De Forest, Janis Provisor, Gaison, and Wurm, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, La Jolla; American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; The Candy Store, De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, California; Visions and Figurations, California State University, Fullerton, California; A.A.D.H.J.M.N.P.S.S.T.T., Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis; Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Drawings: The Pluralistic Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; 1979; Images '79, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN; Decade in Review: Selections from the 70s, Whitney Museum, New York, New York; Works from the Collections of Mills Alumnae, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California; National Drawing Annual, Central Washington University; 5 from Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California; The Palm Gallery, San Diego; 1978; Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; West Coast Artists, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Dog Images Through the Century, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California; 6th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Yugoslavia; Artists Working in Wood, University of California; 1977-78; Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Recent Works on Paper, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; 1977; Late 20th Century Art: The Lewis Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; New in the 70s, University of Texas, Austin; Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL; Works on Paper, San Jose Museum of Art, California; 1976-77; Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1976; Large Scale Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York; Six from California, Washington State University Museum, Pullman; 1975; Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Art on Paper: 1975, The Dillard Paper Company and the Weatherspoon Guild, NC; 1973; The Small Format, Saint Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, California; Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; American Drawings 1963-1971, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena, California; 1972; A 20th Century Bestiary, Art Department Gallery, San Jose State College, San Jose, California; Crown Point Press, San Francisco Art Institute, California; Richmond Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California; Sacramento Sampler I, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California; Sacramento Delta Show, San Francisco Art Institute, California; An Invitational Exhibition of Intimate Works, Art Department Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno; It's for the Birds, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California; The Crocketts, Student Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Hayward, California; California Works on Paper: 1950-1971, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California; 1971; The Fantasy Watercolors of Roy De Forest, The Sculpture World of David Gilhooly, The Leadville Galleries, Sun Valley, ID; Roy De Forest: Drawings, James Pennuto: Sculpture, Kenneth Price: Silkscreens, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California; Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California; Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, California; Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver; 1970; Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Drawings by Roy De Forest, Harold Schlotzhauer and Franklin Williams, The Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, California; Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California; Acid Painters of San Francisco, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California; Dwight Boehm Gallery, Polomar College, San Marcos, California; Toys of the Artist, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California; 1969; The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; 1968; Summer Group Show, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1967; Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; 1966; 2e Salon International de Galeries pilotes (Dilexi Gallery presentation, including: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Richard Van Buren, Wilfred Zogbaum), Mus e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; 1965; The Eighth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Young California Artists, Macy's, New York, New York; Imagadventure, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Special Group Exhibition: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Hassel Smith, H.C. Westermann, Richard Van Buren, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Twelfth Exhibition of contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign; The Drawing Society Regional Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California; 1964; Bay Area Art for the Collector, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Arts of San Francisco, Part II, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Four California Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL; 67th American Exhibition-Directions in Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, Stanford Museum, Stanford, California; 67th American Exhibition, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL; Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California; Drawings and the Like: Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Leslie Kerr, Frank Lobdell, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Richard Van Buren, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1963; Fourth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Alvin Light, Leslie Kerr, Hassel Smith, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Works by San Francisco Artists, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1962-63; Fifty California Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; 1962; The Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Selections – Gallery Artists, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Some Points of View - 62, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, California; Small Collages, Constructions and Watercolors by Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Fred Martin and Nell Sinton, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California; 8 Large Works: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Leslie Kerr, Alvin Light, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1961; Group: Anderson, Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Gordin, Jess, Kauffman, Kerr, Light, Moses, Neri, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Trave, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1960; Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Craig Kauffman, Leslie Kerr, Alvin B. Light, Edward Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Philip Roeber, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; New Forms-New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York; A Look at Recent Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1959; A Rationale for Modern Art, The American Federation of Arts, New York, New York; Group Show: Including works by Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Kanter, Kauffman, Moses, Neri, Remington, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Valledor, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; GROUP SHOW Small Works in Varied Media by: Willam A. Bengston, Sy Boardman, Joan Brown, Charles Cajori, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Sam Francisco, Norman Kanter, Craig Kauffman, Bernard Langlais, Lois Lazarus, Alvin Light, Fred Martin, Edward B. Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Milton Resnick, Arthur Richer, San Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; 1958; John Altoon, B. A. Bengston, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, James Budd Dixon, Muriel Francis, Craig Kaufman, Ed Moses, Arthur Richer, Irene Taverner, Sam Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dion Vigne, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Larson Gallery, Yakima Junior College, Yakima, WA; Six San Francisco Painters, Brata Gallery, New York, New York; (Inaugural Group Show), Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1957; Painting and Sculpture Now: Some Contemporary Statements by Artists of the Bay Region, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Action 3, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Survey of Pacific Coast Art, Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Annual Watercolor, Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; 1955; Second Annual Group Show, 6 Gallery, San Francisco, California; Action 1, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California; III Biennal, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil; 1954; A New Language in Painting, Kaufman Gallery, New York, New York; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; 1953; King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, California; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Selected Public Collections: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Art Institute of Chicago, IL; Berkeley Art Museum, University of California; Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; California College of the Arts, Oakland, California; Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; City and County of San Francisco; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California; Denver Art Museum, CO; Des Moines Art Center, IA; di Rosa, Napa, California; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Californiambridge, MA; Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Honolulu Museum of Art, HI; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH; Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Oakland Museum of California; Palm Springs Art Museum, California; Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; Portland Art Museum, OR; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; San Jose Museum of Art, California; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence; University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT


		b. North Platte, Nebraska, 1930 d. Vallejo, California, 2007 Education 1950-52 California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco 1953 San Francisco State College, B.A. 1956 San Francisco State College, M.A. Teaching 1965-82 University of California, Davis 1964-65 California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California 1964 San Quentin Prison, San Rafael, California 1964-65 Junior Center of Arts and Sciences, Oakland, California 1961-62 San Francisco State College 1960-61 Contra Costa Junior College, San Pablo, California 1958-60 Yakima Junior College, Yakima, WA 1955-58 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Solo Exhibitions 2021 Roy De Forest: Selected Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2020 Roy De Forest, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York 2019 Roy De Forest: Works on Paper, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2017 Man of Our Times: Drawings by Roy De Forest, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California Of Dogs and Other People: The Art of Roy De Forest, Oakland Museum of California Civic Art Collection in Focus: Roy De Forest, San Francisco Arts Commission Main Gallery, San Francisco, California 2015 Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2013 Roy De Forest: A Simple Life, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York 2012 A Figure of Our Times, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California Bark!, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California 2009 Painting the Big Painting, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2008 Roy De Forest: A Memorial Exhibition, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York 2006 Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California 2005 George Adams Gallery, New York, New York 2004 Recent Paintings, IMAGO Galleries, Palm Desert, California 2002 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1999 Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA 1997 New Constructions, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York 1996 George Adams Gallery, New York, New York Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California 1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1993 New Paintings and Drawings, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York 1992 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1991 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California 1990 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California Stanford Museum of Art, Stanford, California Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California 1989 Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California Marilyn Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1988 Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, California Natsoulas / Novelozo, Davis, California Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1987 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 1986 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1985 Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York 1984 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1983-84 The Early Constructions, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California 1983 University of California, Riverside, California Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL 1982 California State University, Chico, California Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1981 Enter the Enchanted De Forest, (print commission), Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France 1980 E.B. Crocker Museum of Art Invitational, Sacramento, California Fountain Gallery, Portland, OR Susan Whitney Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Californianada Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York 1979 Fresno City College, Fresno, California 605 East 3rd Street Gallery, Los Angeles, California Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York 1978 Libra Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gallery of Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, California Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco 1977 Institute of Contemporary Art with Robert Hudson, Boston, MA Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France Clark/Benton Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York 1976 Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1975 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Retrospective, Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1974 Galerie Allen, Vancouver, British Columbia, Californianada Shasta College, Redding, California Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Worth Art Museum, TX, Glenbow-Alberta Art Gallery, Californialgary, Alberta, Californianada Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1973 Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1972 Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York 1971 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA Gallery Marc, Washington, DC Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 1969 Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1967 City College of Sacramento Art Gallery, California 1966 Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Peninsula Gallery, Menlo Park, California Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1965 Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1963 De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1962 Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, Los Angeles, California Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California San Francisco Art Association Gallery, San Francisco, California 1961 Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1960 Paintings and Boardism by… Roy De Forest, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Stone Court Gallery, Yakima, Washington 1959 Stone Court Gallery, Yakima, Washington 1958 East & West Gallery, San Francisco, California 1955 East & West Gallery, San Francisco, California 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 2020 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; exhibition catalog 2019 Dilexi Gallery: The Early Years, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California; exhibition catalog Ridin’ the West: Works by Roy De Forest and Dana Hart-Stone, Edward M. Dowd Art & Art History Building Gallery, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California; exhibition catalog Landscape Without Boundaries: Selections from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis 2018–19 Outliers and American Vanguard Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC (traveled to High Museum, Atlanta, GA) 2018 20 Sonoma Collectors, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, California reverberations: A Visual Conversation, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, California 2017 Genesis Belanger, Melissa Brown, Roy De Forest, Mimi Gross, curated by Dan Nadel, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, New York 2016 Mustard Road, The Battery SF, San Francisco, California The Butterfly Effect: Art in 1970s California, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, California 2015 What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, New York 2014 What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, RISD Museum, Providence, RI Fertile Ground, Art and Community in California, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California 2007 REMIX, One Post Street, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, California Roy De Forest, Gerald Walburg, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, California 2005-2006 Sit Down! Artist Bench Invitational, Montalvo Gallery, Saratoga, California 2004–2005 The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selections from The di Rosa Preserve — Art and Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC; di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California; Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California 2003 Three Masters: Roy De Forest, Jack Earl, Richard Shaw, Mobilia Gallery, Californiambridge, MA Gallery Artists Summer Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York Animality, Roy De Forest and Others, Linda Hodges Gallery, Seattle, WA Sculpture 2003, Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento, California 2002 A Slow Time in Arcadia: Roy De Forest and William T. Wiley 1960-2002, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York Trillium Press: Past, Present, and Future, Kala Institute Galleries, Oakland, California 2001 Robert Hudson and Roy De Forest: Recent Work, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California Hounds in Leash, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM 2000 The Animal in Contemporary Art, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California 1998-2001 Roy De Forest & Gaylen Hanson, Paris Gibson Square Museum. Great Falls, Montana; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, Washington; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota 1999 Wild Beasts, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana, traveled to: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND A Quarter Century of Works on Paper, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California 1998 Wild Things: Artists' Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1997-98 Collector’s Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 1997 A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Mixing Business with Pleasure, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 1996 1996 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR It Figures, SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX Going Places, Summer Group Show, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York Artful Humor, Gallery in the Champion Lobby, Stamford, CT Out of Toon: Another Look at Art and Comics, George Adams Gallery, New York, New York The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995 Paper View, Cohen Berkowitz Gallery, Kansas City, MO Group Exhibition, Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, New York California in the 1960's: Funk Revisited, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York Objects of Desire, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1994 X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, New York Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum, California Masters of Mischief II, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York 1991 Large Scale Works On Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 1986 American Art Today: The Figure in the Landscape, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami 1985 Pastel, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, New York Skowhegan Visiting Artist Exhibition, Colby College Museum, Waterville, ME Fortissimo! 30 Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1984 The Studio, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York 20th Century American Drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, The Arkansas Arts Center Bob and Roy and Karen and Friends, Creative Growth Gallery, San Francisco, California 1982 A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 20th Century Images of George Washington, Frances Tavern Museum, New York, New York Northern California Art of the 60s, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, California The West as Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, California Drawings by Painters, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 1981 Humorous California Artists, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California American Painting of the 60s and 70s, Columbus Museum of Art, OH The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, University of Houston, TX Alternative Realities in Contemporary American Painting, University of Minnesota Alumni Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, California Welcome to the Candy Store!, Crocker Museum Invitational, Sacramento, California Forty Famous Californians, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, New York 100 New Acquisitions, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York 20th Century Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Remember It's Only Art, Civic Arts Center, Walnut Creek, California Fashion Mode, Gallery de la Raza/Studio 24, San Francisco, California 1980 Tamarind Institute Invitational, Albuquerque, NM The Figurative Tradition and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA Figurative Art: Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Roy De Forest, Janis Provisor, Gaison, and Wurm, Mandeville Gallery, University of California, La Jolla American Drawings in Black and White: 1970-1980, Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York The Candy Store, De Saisset Art Museum, Santa Clara, California Visions and Figurations, California State University, Fullerton, California A.A.D.H.J.M.N.P.S.S.T.T., Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Drawings: The Pluralistic Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1979 Images '79, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN Decade in Review: Selections from the 70s, Whitney Museum, New York, New York Works from the Collections of Mills Alumnae, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California National Drawing Annual, Central Washington University 5 from Hansen Fuller Goldeen Gallery, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, California The Palm Gallery, San Diego 1978 Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York West Coast Artists, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH Dog Images Through the Century, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California 6th International Exhibition of Original Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Yugoslavia Artists Working in Wood, University of California 1977-78 Roy De Forest, Robert Hudson, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Recent Works on Paper, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI 1977 Late 20th Century Art: The Lewis Foundation, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA New in the 70s, University of Texas, Austin Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Works on Paper, San Jose Museum of Art, California 1976-77 Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1976 Large Scale Works on Paper, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, New York Six from California, Washington State University Museum, Pullman 1975 Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Art on Paper: 1975, The Dillard Paper Company and the Weatherspoon Guild, NC 1973 The Small Format, Saint Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, California Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York 1973 Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York American Drawings 1963-1971, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York The Betty and Monte Factor Family Collection, Pasadena, California 1972 A 20th Century Bestiary, Art Department Gallery, San Jose State College, San Jose, California Crown Point Press, San Francisco Art Institute, California Richmond Area Artists, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Sacramento Sampler I, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California Sacramento Delta Show, San Francisco Art Institute, California An Invitational Exhibition of Intimate Works, Art Department Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno It's for the Birds, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California The Crocketts, Student Art Gallery, Diablo Valley College, Hayward, California California Works on Paper: 1950-1971, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California 1971 The Fantasy Watercolors of Roy De Forest, The Sculpture World of David Gilhooly, The Leadville Galleries, Sun Valley, ID Roy De Forest: Drawings, James Pennuto: Sculpture, Kenneth Price: Silkscreens, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, California Shasta College Art Gallery, Redding, California Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 1970 Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Drawings by Roy De Forest, Harold Schlotzhauer and Franklin Williams, The Arleigh Gallery, San Francisco, California Candy Store Gallery, Folsom, California Acid Painters of San Francisco, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California Dwight Boehm Gallery, Polomar College, San Marcos, California Toys of the Artist, Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California 1969 The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1968 Summer Group Show, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1967 Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley 1966 2e Salon International de Galeries pilotes (Dilexi Gallery presentation, including: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Richard Van Buren, Wilfred Zogbaum), Mus e cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland 1965 The Eighth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Young California Artists, Macy's, New York, New York Imagadventure, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Special Group Exhibition: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Rodger Jacobsen, Leslie Kerr, Alan Lynch, Deborah Remington, Charles Ross, Hassel Smith, H.C. Westermann, Richard Van Buren, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Twelfth Exhibition of contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign The Drawing Society Regional Exhibition, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 1964 Bay Area Art for the Collector, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Arts of San Francisco, Part II, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Four California Artists, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL 67th American Exhibition-Directions in Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, Stanford Museum, Stanford, California 67th American Exhibition, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California Drawings and the Like: Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Leslie Kerr, Frank Lobdell, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Richard Van Buren, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1963 Fourth Selection by the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Sidney Gordin, Alvin Light, Leslie Kerr, Hassel Smith, Wilfrid Zogbaum, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Works by San Francisco Artists, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1962-63 Fifty California Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California 1962 The Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Selections – Gallery Artists, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Some Points of View - 62, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, California Small Collages, Constructions and Watercolors by Roy De Forest, Tony DeLap, Fred Martin and Nell Sinton, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California 8 Large Works: Jeremy Anderson, Joel Barletta, Roy De Forest, Leslie Kerr, Alvin Light, Deborah Remington, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1961 Group: Anderson, Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Gordin, Jess, Kauffman, Kerr, Light, Moses, Neri, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Trave, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1960 Group Show: Jeremy Anderson, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Craig Kauffman, Leslie Kerr, Alvin B. Light, Edward Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Philip Roeber, Hassel Smith, Sam Tchakalian, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California New Forms-New Media I, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York A Look at Recent Bay Area Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1959 A Rationale for Modern Art, The American Federation of Arts, New York, New York Group Show: Including works by Barletta, DeFeo, De Forest, Kanter, Kauffman, Moses, Neri, Remington, Roeber, Smith, Tchakalian, Valledor, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California GROUP SHOW Small Works in Varied Media by: Willam A. Bengston, Sy Boardman, Joan Brown, Charles Cajori, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Sam Francisco, Norman Kanter, Craig Kauffman, Bernard Langlais, Lois Lazarus, Alvin Light, Fred Martin, Edward B. Moses, Manuel Neri, Deborah Remington, Milton Resnick, Arthur Richer, San Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California 1958 John Altoon, B. A. Bengston, J. DeFeo, Roy De Forest, James Budd Dixon, Muriel Francis, Craig Kaufman, Ed Moses, Arthur Richer, Irene Taverner, Sam Tchakalian, Julius Wasserstein, Dion Vigne, Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Larson Gallery, Yakima Junior College, Yakima, WA Six San Francisco Painters, Brata Gallery, New York, New York (Inaugural Group Show), Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, California Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1957 Painting and Sculpture Now: Some Contemporary Statements by Artists of the Bay Region, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Action 3, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California Survey of Pacific Coast Art, Reed College, Portland, Oregon Annual Watercolor, Drawing and Print Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California 1955 Second Annual Group Show, 6 Gallery, San Francisco, California Action 1, Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, California III Biennal, Museo de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1954 A New Language in Painting, Kaufman Gallery, New York, New York Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California 1953 King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, California Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Selected Public Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Anderson Collection at Stanford University, California Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock Art Institute of Chicago, IL Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York California College of the Arts, Oakland, California Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, California Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris City and County of San Francisco Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California Denver Art Museum, CO Des Moines Art Center, IA di Rosa, Napa, California Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, Indianapolis, IN Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Californiambridge, MA Fralin Museum of Art at The University of Virginia, Charlottesville Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Honolulu Museum of Art, HI Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Oakland Museum of California Palm Springs Art Museum, California Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA Portland Art Museum, OR Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California San Jose Museum of Art, California Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California Seattle Art Museum, WA Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst University of Michigan Art Museum, Ann Arbor, MI University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT