CRG Gallery
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Education
1980 MFA, University of California, Irvine
1978 BFA (Honors), San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Seascapes and Surf Works, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2009 Surf Works from 1988-2008, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Field Guides and Globe Drawings, Galerie Ulrike Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
  Specimens and Panoramas, Works on paper by Russell Crotty, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2006 CRG Gallery, NY
  twilight in the West; Hosfelt Gallery, san Francisco, CA
2005 Russell Crotty; Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France
  Russell Crotty; La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, France
  Russell Crotty; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Globe Drawings; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
2003 Perspectives #138: Russell Crotty; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX / Interview
  Globe Drawings; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2002 CRG Gallery, New York, NY (press release)
  Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 The Universe from My Back Yard; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (catalog)
2000 CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Western Skies; Sabine Wachters Fine Art, Brussels, Belgium
1998 Hiding out on Solstice Peak; Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Atlases; Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Three Large Atlases; Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Atlases; Cabinet Gallery, London, England
1994 Planetary Drawings; Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Russell Crotty; Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO (catalog)
1993 Coastal Diatribes; Cabinet Gallery, London, England
1992 Drawings; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Drawings; Radix Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
1991 Drawings; Bess Cutler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Drawings; Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2009 Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalog)
  Nueva York, El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain (catalog)
  Atempt to Raise Hell, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
  Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
  California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
  Cartographic Imagination: Mapping in Contemporary California Art, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco CA
  The Summer Show, CRG Gallery, NY
  The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was A Summer in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
  All Over the Map, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008 Glossolalia: Languages of Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Retour sur Terre! La Science et L'Art Racontent La Planete, Stade de France, Paris
  to:Night, Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, NY (catalog)
  Summer 2008: Groupshow, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2007 Rembrandt to Thiebaud: A Decade of Collecting Works on Paper, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA
  Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
  Mapping of the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  The Temptation of Space, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK
  CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
  New Directions in American Drawing, The Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia
  If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, Cornwall, UK
2006 Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
  "Art Inspires Music," Arizona State University Art Museum, curated by John Spiak, Tempe, AZ
2005 New Prints 2005/Autum, International Print Center New York, NY
  Southern Exposure; San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA
  Messages and Communications; The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
  AxS: At the Intersection of Art and Science; Cal. Institute of Technology and the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
  Landscape Show; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Very Early Pictures; Luckman Gallery, CA State University, Los Angeles, CA + Acadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
  New Dimensions in American Drawing; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA
  Landings; Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
  Variations on the Picturesque; Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
2004 A Grain of Dust, a Drop of Water; Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston; Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
  a very liquid heaven; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
  Story/Line; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
  Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
  paper; Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
  “Off the Wall: Works from the JPMorgan Chase Collection;” Bruce Museum of Arts and Sciences, Greenwich, CT
  Displacement: Contemporary Drawings; Gescheidle, Chicago, IL (publication)
  Word Image; Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT
  Five Large Drawings; Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Blue Sky: Visionaries, Romantics, Dreamers; Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont, CA
  National Drawing Invitational; Wolfe Gallery, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
2003 Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast and Contemporary Art; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (travelling to San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA; CCAC, San Francisco, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.) (catalog)
  At the Edge of Science; Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley, ID
  For the record: Drawing Contemporary Life; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
  On Paper; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
  Exploring the Cosmos, Palos Verdes Art Center; South Bay, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
  Bigger Than Us: Russell Crotty and Kelly McLane; curated by Michael Duncan, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (catalog)
  In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection; University Gallery, Fine Arts Center,
  University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA
2002 Drawing Now: Eight Propositions; MomA QNS, New York, NY (catalog)
  Miami Currents: Linking Collection and Community; Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Primal Screams and Song; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (catalog)
  Night Skies and Imaginary Coordinates; Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
  L.A. Post Cool; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
  Drawing on Space; FA Projects (in collaboration with The Drawing Room) London, England
  New in Town; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
  Personal Plans: The drawing – from life plan to world projection; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  Cascade of Scales; James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
  Lab Results; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (press release) (catalog)
2001 The Importance Of Being Earnest; Occidental College Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
  Star Cluster Drawings; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  By Hand; Cal State, Long Beach , CA
  Panoramas; Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland
2000 Made in California 1900-2000; Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Art on Paper; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
  The Sea & The Sky; Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA; travelling to the Gallagher Gallery,
  Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland (catalog)
  Works on Paper From California; Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
1999 WDAYANO?; Joseph Gross Gallery University of Arizona,Tucson, AZ (catalog)
1998 Lovecraft; South London Gallery, London, England
  L.A. Drawing; Galerie Kriinzinger, Vienna, Austria
  Dark Matter; Harris Museum, Prestton, Lancashire, England (travels)
  Beyond Measure, Science in Art; CRG Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Die Arbeit Des Zeichnens; Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
  Quartzose: 20 Los Angeles Artists; Galleri Tommy Lund, Odense, Denmark
  Slight; Norwich School of Art, Norwich, England, travelled to Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1996 The Power of Suggestion, Notation and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing; MOCA, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
  Drawn From LA; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  Investigations; Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  1995 Art on Paper; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1994 Drawing to the Nth Degree; Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  The Antidote; Centre 181 Gallery, London, England
  Pen and Ink; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
  Love in the Ruins; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
1993 Newport Biennial; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, (catalog)
  Science; Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
  The Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California; CSU Fullerton, CA
1992 Drawing Show; Bliss, Pasadena, CA
  Drawings; Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  New Acquisitions; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
  The Frame Multiplied and Extended; Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
1991 Wiled, Wild West Show; Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Frontier Tales; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA
  Artists Journals (Umbrella); ART Library, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Commissions
2008 embassy of the united states, Beijing, China
2004 Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
1999 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, drawing
Awards
1999 Visual Arts Fellowship, Peter Reed Foundation, New York
1991 Visual Arts Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
Teaching
2003 Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2001 Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1998 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California Los Angeles (Through 1999)
Catalogs & Publications
2007 The Temptation of Space; espace louis Vuitton, Paris, France
  If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition; tate st. Ives, Cornwall, uK (traveling to CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporian, Bordeaux, France)
  Copro/Nason Fine Art; A Catalogue Raisonne; last Gasp, san Francisco, CA
2006 Russell Crotty; Marquand Books, seattle (August 2006)
2005 Vitamin D; Phaidon Press Inc., New York, NY
  The Drawing Book: Traces of Thought and Intimacy; Black Dog Publishing, London, England
  Russell Crotty; Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve Paris (with La Criee Centre d’Art Contemporain de Rennes) France
  a very liquid heaven; The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2004 National Drawing Invitational, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2003 Russell Crotty: Globe Drawings. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, April 11 - July 6, Kansas City, MO
2002 Lab Results: Three Artists’ Residencies in the Sciences. Weatherspoon Art Museum.
2001 The Universe: A Convergence of Art, Music, and Science. Armory Center for the Arts.
2000 The Sea and the Sky, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, Pennsylvania; Susan Stewart, Patrick Murphy and Richard Torchia
1999 Seven Wonders of the World, Book Works, London, Matthew Higgs guest curator WDAYANO? University of Arizona, Tucson, Noel Korten
  1997 Mars Microprobe Mission Flip Book, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
  STOPSTOP 1997, Glasgow, Scotland
1996 The Power of Suggestion, Notation and Narrative in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, Cornelia Butler
1994 Russell Crotty, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri
  Love in the Ruins, Long Beach Museum of Art
1993 Hybrid Magazine, London, project page: "Visual Feature," April Picture Book, cover and pull-out, Issue #2
1992 Drawing Show, Bliss
1990 Frontier Tales, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)
Bibliography
2009 Campbell, Clayton, "Russell Crotty at Shoshana Wayne Gallery," Artweek, April, p.16
  Kate Williams, "Artist Russell Crotty Turns Tragedy into Beauty," Foam Magazine, October, pg. 32
2008 Kletke, Daniel, "Überführung in Die Neue Welt," artnet.de, April 10
  Meister, Helga, "Junge Kunst macht neugierig," Westdeutsche Zeitung, March 29
2007 Chin, Jit Fong, "An Overdue Summer of Love for Artists," Squeeze OC, July 6, p.27
2006 Hall, Emily, “Russell Crotty -- CRG Gallery”, Artforum, September, p.377-378
  Leffingwell, Edward, "Russell Crotty at CRG Gallery", Art In America, October 2006
  Christie, Jim "Design software weakens classic drawing skills", Washington Post, Wednesday, April 5, 2006
2005 Shaw, Kurt, ‘Messages’ images come in loud and clear, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, October 16th, 2005
2004 Moreno, Gean, Artpapers, Sept-Oct. Issue, p.43
  Sheets, Hilarie M., "The Universe at the Tip of His Ballpoint Pen," The New York Times, May 2, p.44
2003 Devine, John, "A Worlds View," Houston Press, Sept. 4
  Genocchio, Benjamin. "To Understand These Pictures, You May Need a Dictionary,"
  Art Review, The New York Times, Dec, 21st, p. 13
  Russell Crotty, Art in America, 2003-2003 Annual Edition
  Jelson-West, Christine, Russell Crotty: Contemporary Arts Museum, Arts Houston, p.30
  Weissman, Benjamin, Frieze, September, p.70-75 (illust.)
2002 Wilson, Michael, "Russell Crotty: CRG Gallery," Artforum, December, p.138-139
  Halle, Howard, "Papering the House," TimeOut, NY, Issue 371, Nov. 7
  Saltz, Jerry, "Good on Paper," The Village Voice, October 30
  Smith, Roberta, "Retreat From the Wild Shores of Abstraction," The New York Times, October 18, p. E31 & E33.
  Johnson, Ken, "Russell Crotty," The New York Times, October 18, p. E39.
  Camhi, Leslie, "Russell Crotty," The Village Voice, October 9.
  Halkin, Talya, "Gallery-Going," The New York Sun, September 26.
  The New Yorker, Sept. 23
2001 Myles, Eileen, "A Thousand Words: Russell Crotty Talks About His Atlases,"
  Artforum, September, 180-181
  Cooper, Jacqueline, "Russell Crotty - Shoshana Wayne Gallery", New Art Examiner, March, p.55
  Drohojowska-Philip, Huter, "Drawn to the Power of the Night Skies," L.A. Times Calendar, March 4, pp. 63-64.
  Myers, Holly, "Amateur’s Love of Astronomy Shines Through Sky-Scapes," Los Angeles Times Calendar, February 16, F28.
2000 Dunne, Aidan, "When the Sky’s not the Limit", The Irish Times, August 12
  Goddard, Donald, "Russell Crotty on the Edge," New York Art World Online, April
  Harvey, Doug, "Godawfulism," L.A. Weekly, November 16.
  Hughes, Robert, "A Flawed Ex-Paradise," Time, December 11.
  Mckenna, Kristine, "California Dreaming," Los Angeles Magazine, November
  Muchnic, Suzanne, "Inspired Leaps From the Lab to the Studio," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 27
  Muchnic, Suzanne, "In These United States of California," Los Angeles Times Calendar, September 17.
  Pincus, Robert L., "The California Condition," The San Diego Union-Tribune, Nov. 26.
  Princenthal, Nancy, "Russel Crotty at CRG," Art in America, December, p. 120.
  Sozanski, Edward J., A stripped-down, contemporary take on nature and the
  Sublime, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5.
  Weinraub, Bernard, "Beyond Tans and Tinsel," The New York Times, October 23.
1999 Darling, Michael; "Russell Crotty, Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles" Frieze, Issue 44, p. 80
  Linton, Meg; "Russell Crotty at Dan Bernier" Artweek, January
1998 Schmerler, Sarah. "Wishful Thinking," TimeOut New York, Issue 154, September.
1997 Timoney, Padraig. "Russell Crotty at Transmission," Art Monthly U.K., Jul - Aug, p. 34-36
  Duncan, Michael. "Russell Crotty at Dan Bernier," Art in America, May
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1994 Duncan, Michael. "L.A. Rising," Art in America, Dec., p. 72
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  Isaacson, Phillip. "Artists Make Their Marks at Baxter," Portland Press-Herald, Sept. 25
  Shepley, Carol. "Paper and Ink, Doodles and Ideas," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 20
1993 Wilson, William. "’Biennial’ Uses Humorous Paradox," Los Angeles Times, Oct. 9
  Dyer, Richard. "Russell Crotty at Cabinet," Art Press (France), June/ July
  Murphy, Kevin. "Linear Summer, The Work of Russell Crotty," Picture Book, Issue #2
1992 Frick, Thomas. "Russell Crotty at Bess Cutler," Art in America, June
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  Whitington, Luther. "L.A.’s New Look," Art in Auction, January
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1990 Clearwater, Bonnie. "Letter From Los Angeles," Art Press (France), July
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Director
1992 The Guest Room, an experimental exhibition space in Los Angeles, CA (cat.)
Public Collections
  Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris, France
  Valencia Arte Contemporaneo e Inversion, S.L., Valencia, Spain
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  New York Public Library, New York, NY
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
  Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
  San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA
  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
  High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
  Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
  The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
  Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
  ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center, Tempe, AZ
  Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
  Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
  The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland