RON LINDEN
365 W. 7th ST.  San Pedro, CA 90731  T/F 310..600.4873  <ronmon@dslextreme.com>

 

 

MFA  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

BFA   University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

School of the Art Institute of Chicago

 

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2016     in the MEANTIME..., Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2014     Ron Linden, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, CA

2013     Space + Substance, California State University

Domingues Hills

2010    GALLERY 478, San Pedro, California

2008    CUE PROJECT, Cue Art Foundation, New York, NY

2007    JANCAR GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

2002    STORAGE, Santa Monica, California

2001    STORAGE, Santa Monica, California

2000    GALLERY 478, San Pedro, California

1989    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1987    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1986    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1985    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1983    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1982    DOWNTOWN GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1981    DOWNTOWN GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1979    LAICA (Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art) Los Angeles

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2015    Warschaw/Winter II, San Pedro, CA

2014    Kamikaze @ POST, w. Elizabeth Medina , Los Angeles

Warschaw/Winter, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2014    14...Featuring, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2013    (Southern) California Drawing, Orange Coast College Arts Pavilion Gallery, Costa Mesa. CA

2012    PSST: Art in San Pedro, 2000 – 2012, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2009    MT. ST. MARY’S COLLEGE, Brentwood, CA, “Insight/Inside LA”

2007    WARSCHAW GALLERY, San Pedro, California

2006    RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, Riverside, CA, “Driven to Abstraction: Southern California and the

Non-Objective World, 1950-1980

2006    the brewery project, “praxis”, Los Angeles

2004    SANTA MONICA MUSEUM OF ART, “Incognito”

2002    ARTS MANHATTAN, “Close Proximity”, Manhattan Beach, California

1999    PASADENA ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS, “Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in

Pasadena, 1960 – 1974, Pasadena California

1998    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, Laguna Beach, California

1992    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, Laguna Beach, California

1991    FINE ARTS GALLERY, University of California, Irvine

1990    ANGLES GALLERY, “Squaresville”, Santa Monica, California

1989    RIVERSIDE ART MUSEUM, “The Metaphoric Chair’, Riverside, Callifornia

1988    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1987    FINE ARTS GALLERY, University of California, Santa Barbara

1986    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1985    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1985    DESIGN CENTER OF LOS ANGELES, “To the Astonishing Horizon”, L.A. Visual Art ‘85

1984    OVSEY GALLERY, Los Angeles, California

1982    LAGUNA ART MUSEUM, “Changing Trends: Content/Style”, Laguna Beach, California

1982    MOUNT ST. MARY COLLEGE, “3 Painters”, Los Angeles, California

1982    ORANGE COAST COLEGE, “Painting”, Orange, California

1982    P.S. 1, “Critical Perspectives”, Long Island, New York

1981    ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, “Decade: L.A. Painting in the Seventies”, Pasadena, CA

1978    BAUM-SILVERMAN GALLERY, “The Subject is Object”, Los Angeles, California

1975    UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM, “Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles”, Berkely, CA

1973    FINE ART GALLERY, California State University, Northridge

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2010    Lyn Kienholz, L.A. RISING, SoCal Artists Before 1980, CIAF

2007    Catherine Taft, ( An essay on Ron Linden’s solo exhibition curated by Peter Plagens . . .)

2007    Peter Plagens, Ron Linden @ the CUE Foundation, NYC, catalog essay/ Curator’s Statement

2007    Mario Naves, New York Observer, “Picasso’s Ghost”, Ron Linden @ the CUE Foundation

1999    Peter Plagens, “Crown City Chronicle”, catalog essay, “Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music

in Pasadena, 1960-1974”, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts

1997    Peter Plagens, “Art Above the Fray”, Civilization Magazine, Oct./Nov.

1989    Frances Colpit, “Ron Linden at Ovsey”, Art in America, May, ‘89

1989    Suvan Geer, LA Times, Feb. 17

1987    Linda Sher Saltzman, “Illusion and Allusion”, Artweek, Dec. 12

1987    Marlena Donahue, LA Times, Nov. 27

1986    Mark Anderson, L.A. Weekly, May 30-June 5

1986    Suzanne Muchnic, L.A. Times, May 2

1985    Marlena Donahue, L.A. Times, January 18

1983    Melinda Wortz, “Ron Linden at Ovsey Gallery”, Art News, Sept ‘83

1983    Isabel Anderson, “Questioning Marks and Symbols”, Artweek, June 4

1983    Robert Pincus, L.A. Times, June 3

1982    “Changing Trends: Content/Style”, Exhibition catalog, Laguna Art Museum

1982    Peter Plagens, “Critical Perspectives” Exhibition catalog, P.S. 1, New York

1981    Peter Plagens, “Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies”, Exhibition catalog

1981    Walter Gabrielson,  “Pasadena Pluralism: The Painting 70’s”, May ‘81

1981    Suzanne Muchnic, L.A. Times, March 27

1979    Suzanne Muchnic, “Ron Linden, Gwen Murril”, Artweek, March 31

1978    Peter Plagens, “Play It as It  L,A.’s”, Art in America, Sept./Oct.

1975    Jeff Perrone, “Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles”, Artforum, Summer ‘

1975    Peter Plagens, “Both Kinds: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles”, Exhibition catalog

 

 

ARTS-RELATED EMPLOYMENT

 

2009-       Curator / Director, TransVagrant Projects, Los Angeles

2005-       Curator/ Director, Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

2002-       Adjunct Faculty, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA

2000-       Gallery Director/ Adjunct Faculty, Los Angeles Harbor College

1989-93   Graduate Faculty, University of California, Irvine

1978-79   Visiting Artist, San Francisco Art Institute

1977        Visiting Artist, Vancouver College of Art, Vancouver, BC

1974-76   Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1972-73   Adjunct Faculty, California State University, Northridge, CA

1967-72   Ass’t Professor of Art, Bradley University, Peoria, IL

 

 

AWARDS/GRANTS

 

1978   National Endowment for the Arts, individual artist’s grant in painting