Circum Vitae

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

 

Curatorial Vitae

 

TransVagrant.com

 

2016   ON BEING BLUE, Jay McCafferty @ 478, Gallery 478, San Pedro

Warschaw / Winter II, Warschaw Gallery San Pedro, CA

Neil Nagy: An Introspective, Warschaw Gallery + Gallery 478, San Pedro

2015  Warschaw / Winter

riverrun, Photography by Ray Carofano

Around Black, Paintings by HK Zamani

Sextet, Katy Crowe, William Mahan, Yong Sin, Gary Szymanski, Marie Thibeault & Ted Twine

2013   FLOWMASTER III, Merwin Belin, Troy Cherney, Dave Smith, Recent Works

PHILIPPA BLAIR, Labyrinth of Lines, Recent Paintings

2012   NATE JONES, Industrial / Abstract, Recent Works

PSST: Art in San Pedro, 2000 – 2012

MAGGIE LOWE TENNESON, Recent Paintings

2011   HEIDI POLLARD, Recent Works

5: on paper, Philippa Blair, Linda Day, Peggy Reavey, Yong Sin & Marie Thibeault

WILLIAM MAHAN, Close at Hand, Collage

2010   GARY SZYMANSKI, Sticks and Stones . . .,Recent Paintings

LOS ANIMISTAS, Tammy Singer, Arrendondo Antunez, Alberto del Rey

MERWIN BELIN, School of Belin/ A Mid-Career Survey (w. Catalog)

JAY McCAFFERTY, Ampersand: A Conversation With Coy Howard

 

Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA

 

2009   AT WORK, photography by Slobodan Dimitrov

2007   ABSTRACTORS, Recent work by LINDA DAY and TED TWINE

SAMPLER, Gallery Artists

CONNOR EVERTS, Selections from the King David Series

GARY SZYMANSKI, Recent Paintings

TONY DE LAP, Paintings & Drawings

2006   RAY CAROFANO, Terrene, Large Scale Prints

PETER PLAGENS, Investigators Soon Learned, Paintings on Wood

+ 3 Drawings of My Father

SUSAN JOSEPH, Sotto Voce/Drawings & Blow/Video

ERIC JOHNSON, Sculpture

RICHARD GODFREY, The Fathers, Recent Paintings

DOUG HENRY, The Collaborators, Video

ALI ACEROL, This is not a map…, Recent Paintings

 

Gallery 478, San Pedro, CA

 

2011   DECADE+, group exhibition

2006   COLLECTION AGENCY, group exhibition

2005   JAY McCAFFERTY, New Works

2004   OCTOBER ELEVEN, group exhibition

 

 

Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles Harbor College

 

2016   Finding North, Joshua Abarbanel

Allegory for the the Present, Merwin Belin + Denis Reed

2015   Crossing Boundaries, DeAnn Jennings + Nancy Webber

Harbor/ Then and Now, Nerissa Cook, Oscar Duarte, Christopher Hernandez, Elizabeth Medina, Eduardo Silva.

2014   Lessons Learned, Hyung Mo Lee 

2012   ANN MITCHELL, Unmade & Winter’s Light, New Photographs

RAY CAROFANO, Time Out of Mind, Recent Photographs

2011   COLEEN STERRITT, Rehab, Recent Sculpture

MAXWELL HENDLER, Seen and Unseen, Selected Works

2010   KATY CROWE, Rebidishu Two, Recent Paintings

COY HOWARD, From Hand to Mouse/ From Furniture to Architecture

TED TWINE, String Theory

2009   MERWIN BELIN & DAVE SMITH, Detourned, Recent Works

2005   GARY SZYMANSKI, Recent Paintings

2004   ANTHONY FRIEDKIN, Incarceration, photographs

VOYCHEK SZASZOR, King UBUsh presents…

JULIE SCOTT, Squeeze Play, Recent Paintings

2003   RAY CAROFANO & MARK DUNHAM, P.O.V., Two Photographers

LINDA KING, 1030 Drawings

DAVE SMITH, Recent Paintings

2002   TAHIR FATAH, Notes from a Turkish Jail, Recent Paintings

ALI ACEROL, Soft Knead, Recent Sculpture & Painting

MARC KRIESEL, Al’s Bar (art & economics)

2001   SLOBODAN DIMITROV, At Work, Photographs

FLOWMASTER REDUX, Merwin Belin, Troy Cherney, Dave Smith

RAY CAROFANO, X-Section, Photographic Survey, 1966 – 2000

 

Sunyata Gallery, San Pedro, CA

 

1999   FLOWMASTER, Merwin Belin, Troy Cherney, Dave Smith