LARI PITTMAN
Professor
Painting and Drawing
E-mail: lpittman@ucla.edu

Pittman’s paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Surveys of his work include those held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Corcoran Gallery of Art; the Institute of Contemporary Art, London; the Villa Arson, France; and the Center for Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland. Pittman has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and showed work at Documenta X in Germany. Solo exhibitions include those held at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Greengrassi, London; Monika Sprüth-Philomene Magers Gallery, Munich; and Regen Projects, Los Angeles.

Among his group shows are Eden's Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Couples Discourse, Palmer Museum of Art; Los Angeles 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, San Jose Museum of Art; Disparities & Deformations: Our Grotesque, Site Santa Fe; Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art.

His paintings and works on paper are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporana, Monterrey, Mexico; Phoenix Museum of Art, Arizona; Yale University Art Museum; the Broad Foundation, Los Angeles; and numerous private collections worldwide.

Pittman has received a Getty Fellowship for the Visual Arts as well as three National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. The artist is represented by Regen Projects, Los Angeles; Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; Studio Guenzani, Milan; Atle Gerhardsen Gallery, Berlin; and Greengrassi, London.

MFA and BFA, California Institute of the Arts.