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		Born 1928 Pasadena, California Died 2003 Bodega Bay, California Education 1956–58 M.A., San Francisco State University 1953–55 B.F.A., California School of Fine Arts (now San Francisco Art Institute) 1954 California College of Arts & Crafts (now California College of the Arts), Oakland 1947 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Teaching 1974–93 College of Marin, Indian Valley Campus, Novato, California, Professor Emeritus 1994 University of California, Davis 1986 University of California, Davis 1972-73 San Jose State University 1960–70 San Francisco Art Institute 1958-59 San Francisco State University Selected Solo Exhibitions 2016 The Absence of Light: Black Paintings (1957–2003), The Box, Los Angeles 2010 Wally Hedrick, The Box, Los Angeles 2008 Wally Hedrick: War Room, The Box, Los Angeles 2007 Wally Hedrick: Estate Sale, Michael Kohn Galley, Los Angeles 2003 Wally Hedrick, Linc Art, San Francisco Wally Hedrick: Pre-emptive Peace, Sonoma State University Art Gallery 2000 Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1999 Wally Hedrick: Provisions, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa 1996 Wally Hedrick: Madonnas, Gods & Goddesses, King-Heller Gallery, Bodega Bay 1994 Classic Hedrick, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1990 Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1985 Wally Hedrick: Selected Works, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue) 1984 Wally Hedrick, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1982 Wally Hedrick, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1967 Wally Hedrick, San Francisco Art Institute 1963 Wally Hedrick, New Mission Gallery, San Francisco Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Dilexi Gallery: The Early Years, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA; exhibition catalog Dilexi Gallery: Seeking the Unknown, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles. Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC. House of the Sleeping Beauties, Sotheby's S|2, London. 2018 Collecting on the Edge, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan. Walking Point, Greene Naftali, New York. press release Way Bay, Berkeley Art Museum, University of California 2017 JEAN CONNER–WALLY HEDRICK–DEBORAH REMINGTON–FRANKLIN WILLIAMS, Karma Gallery, New York. Animal Farm, The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut Bruno Serralongue and Wally Hedrick, Air de Paris, Paris Rat Bastard Protective Association, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York 2016 Rat Bastard Protective Association, curated by Anastasia Aukeman, the Landing, Los Angeles 2013 SIGHT / VISION : The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 2012 Painting, The Box, Los Angeles Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955–1965, curated by Michael Schwager. di Rosa, Napa, California The Historical Box, curated by Mara McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, London The Historical Box, curated by Mara McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich 2011 Wally Hedrick and William T. Wiley, The Mayor Gallery, London. Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center, in celebration of the Richmond Art Center's 75th Anniversary. Featuring the work of many recognized artists who have been a part of the Center's history. Bella Pacifica, Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963, A Symphony in Three Parts, David Nolan Gallery, New York; Nyehaus, New York; Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York 2010 Sunless, curated by Walead Beshty, Thomas Dane Gallery, London I.G.Y., Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York Oakland Museum of California Grand Reopening May 2010. Collection Show 2009 Looking For Mushrooms–Beat Poets, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco around 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Sight Vision Revisited, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 2008 Mysteries, curated by Melissa E. Feldman, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco Freedom of Expression: Political Art in an Age of Uncertainty, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University American Pop, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento 2007 The creamery: FUNK ART etc from Bodega, the 8 gallery, San Francisco Artists of Invention: A Century of CAA, Oakland Museum of California 2005 The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve, Napa. Traveled to Washington, D.C., Palm Springs, CA, Santa Cruz, CA (catalogue) 1995–96 Beat Culture and the New America 1950-65, Whitney Museum of American Art. Traveled to Minneapolis, San Francisco (catalogue) 1992 Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu III, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1990 The Six Gallery, Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, Davis (catalogue) 1986 Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu II, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1986 2nd Annual Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (catalogue) 1983 Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 1976 The Modern Era: Painting and Sculpture in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue) 1974 Poets of the Cities: New York & San Francisco 1950–1965, Dallas Museum of Art. Traveled to San Francisco, Hartford (catalogue) 1962 New Paintings of Common Objects, Pasadena Art Museum 1960 Gangbang, Batman Art Gallery, San Francisco 1959 Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue) Honors and Awards 1999 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 1997 Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant 1993–94 The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1994 Award of Excellence, California State Fair 1993 Golden Bear Award, California State Fair 1991 Golden Bear Award, California State Fair 1985–86 Individual Artist Grant, funded by the San Francisco Foundation 1985 Adaline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, California 1982 The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1968 The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Public Collections Museum of Modern Art, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oakland Museum of California, California di Rosa Preserve, Napa, California San Jose Museum of Art, California Berkeley Art Museum, University of California Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, California Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California Mills College, Oakland, California San Francisco Art Commission Civic Art Collection, California Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah Bibliography Landauer, Susan, in Collecting on the Edge, Bolton Colburn, ed., Utah State University Press/Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, 2017 Aukeman, Anastasia, Welcome to Painterland: Bruce Conner and the Rat Bastard Protective Association, University of California Press, 2016 Dannenmuller, Sophie, Bruce Conner et les "Rats de l'art" (San Francisco, 1958-1962), Les Cahiers du Musee national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou, printemps 2009 Dannenmuller, Sophie, L'assemblage en Californie: une esthetique de subversion, LA FONCTION CRITIQUE DE L'ART, edited by Evelyne Toussaint, l'Universite de Pau, 2009 Smith, Richard Cándida, The Modern Moves West: California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009 Linhares, Philip, Artists of Invention: A Century of CAA, 2007, Oakland Museum of California Selz, Peter, Art of Engagement: Visual Politics in California and Beyond, 2006, University of California Press, Berkeley Berkson, Bill, "Without The Rose: DeFeo in Sixteen Americans," in Green, Jane & Levy, Leah (eds.) Jay DeFeo and The Rose, University of California Press, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003 di Rosa, Rene, Local Color: The di Rosa Collection, 1999, Chronicle Books, San Francisco Crow, Thomas, The Rise of the Sixties: American and European Art in the Era of Dissent, 1996, Abrams Perspectives Phillips, Lisa, Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965, 1996, Whitney Museum, New York The Beat Generation Galleries and Beyond, 1996, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA Smith, Richard Candida, Utopia and Dissent: Art, Poetry and Politics in California, University of California Press, 1995 Solnit, Rebecca, Secret Exhibition: Six California Artists of the Cold War Era,1990, City Lights Books, San Francisco Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery, 1990, Natsoulas Gallery, Davis CA Ayers, Anne, Forty Years of California Assemblage, 1990, University of California, Los Angeles Starr, Sandra, Lost & Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art,1988, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica Tuchman, Maurice, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, 1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Rubin, David, Wally Hedrick: Selected Works, 1985, Adaline Kent Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute Albright, Thomas, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, 1985, University of California Press, Berkeley Holland, Katherine, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: The Painting and Sculpture Collection, 1985 Hopkins, Henry, Painting & Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, 1976, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Parker III, Harry S., Poets of the Cities: New York & San Francisco 1950-1965, 1974, E.P. Dutton, New York Plagens, Peter, Sunshine Muse: Contemporary Art on the West Coast, 1974, Henry Holt, New York Lippard, Lucy, Pop Art, 1967, Praeger, New York Martin, Fred, Wally Hedrick/Sam Tchakalian, 1967, Balboa Pavilion Gallery, The Fine Arts Patrons of Newport Harbor Miller, Dorothy, Sixteen Americans, 1959, Museum of Modern Art, New York Selected Reviews Yau, John, A Celebration of the Rat Bastards: Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jean Conner, Jay DeFeo, George Herms, Wally Hedrick, and Others, Hyperallergic, posted May 13, 2017 Lopez, Pablo, Wally Hedrick at The Box, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles, 2016 Roth, David M., "Sight Vision: The Beat Era at Gallery Paule Anglim," SquareCylinder.com, posted 31 October 2013 Sam, Sherman, Critics' Picks, Artforum, July 2012 Searle, Adrian, "The Historical Box," The Guardian, review 5-24-2012 Harvey, Doug, "Wally Hedrick at the Box," L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices, Highlights from the fall season, 9-9-2010 Holte, Michael Ned, Wally Hedrick: The Box, Artforum, Summer 2008 Miles, Christopher, Wally Hedrick: War Room, LA Weekly, April 9, 2008 Frank, Peter, Wally Hedrick at Michael Kohn Gallery, LA Weekly, February 21, 2007 Solnit, Rebecca, Inventing San Francisco’s Art Scene: 1950s Bohemians Altered the World from Their Lofts in the City, San Francisco Chronicle, January 25, 2004 Baker, Kenneth, Wally Hedrick at Paule Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle, March 8, 1994 Bonetti, David, Wally Hedrick at Paule Anglim, San Francisco Examiner, March 4, 1994 Marcus, Greil, The Incredible Disappearing Art, San Francisco Focus, October, 1991 Yau, John, Wally Hedrick, Arts Magazine, Summer 1990 Van Proyen, Mark, Atypical Prototypes: The Art of Wally Hedrick, Artweek, April 27, 1985 Boettger, Suzaan, Painting from Raunch to Cotton Candy, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 1982 Albright, Thomas, Alternative to Mainstream, San Francisco Chronicle, March 26, 1982 Coplans, John, Wally Hedrick: Offense Intended, Artforum, May 1963