UCLA Department of Art

SCULPTURE FACULTY

Hirsch Perlman’s works have been exhibited in solo shows at the Drammens Museum, Norway; Robert Miller Gallery, New York; Gimpel Fils, London; MinMin Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago; Monika Sprüth Galerie, Köln, Germany; Gallery Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain; Feature, Inc., and Cable Gallery, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; and The Renaissance Society, Chicago.

Selected group exhibitions include Middle Ground: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art; Cinematographic Video Works, Berliner Kunstsalon, Berlin; The Center is Anywhere and Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Seriously Animated, Philadelphia Museum of Art; Visions from America and the 1998 Biennial and the 2002 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; L.A. On My Mind, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles; The End of the Avant-Garde: Art as a Service, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany; Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Play of the Unsayable: Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20th Century, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels; A Dialogue about Recent American and European Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Perlman has taught at the Royal College of Arts; Cal Arts; University of Illinois; Claremont College; Yale University; University of California, Riverside; The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Otis College of Art and Design. His writings have appeared in Art Journal, Material, ArtUS, and Art Muscle. Perlman has received an Augustus Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Artists Fellowships, and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant.

BA, Yale University

CHARLES RAY
Professor

Charles Ray's recent solo exhibition at Regen Projects II in Los Angeles featured Hinoki, a carved sculpture inspired by a fallen tree and made over the last ten years in both Los Angeles and Osaka. In 1998, a retrospective survey of Ray’s work opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; it toured to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Solo exhibition venues include Regen Projects, Los Angeles; The Rooseum, Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden; The Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland; and this year, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway.

Ray’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including shows mounted at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Dallas Museum of Art. His work was featured in Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Guggenheim Museum, New York; Dreams and Conflicts: The Dictatorship of the Viewer, 50th Venice Biennale; Los Angeles 1955—1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris; After Cézanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; and The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900—2000, Whitney Museum of American Art. Ray has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; the 1997 Biennale de Lyon, France; the 1993 Venice Biennale, Italy; and Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany.

Ray has received grants from the Larry Aldrich Foundation; the National Endowment for the Arts; Art Matters, Inc.; Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation; the Canadian Arts Council (Visiting Foreign Artist Grant); The New Jersey Council for the Arts; and the Rutgers University Artists Fellowship.

MFA, Rutgers University; BFA, University of Iowa.

STAFF

STEVEN SIMON
Sculpture Area Supervisor

For over two decades, Steven Simon has provided technical instruction in the safe and efficient use of all the equipment, tools, materials and supplies in the Sculpture Area. To view Steven's exhibitions and permanent installations, go to www.solarsculpture.com

MFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts; BA, Cal State University Northridge

VISITING FACULTY

The Sculpture Area has hosted a wide variety of guest artists as visiting faculty. These include:

Julie Ault, Drew Dominick, Lisa Lapinski, Won Ju Lim, Euan Macdonald, Donald Morgan, Maria Nordman, Jorge Pardo, Jean-Marie Perdrix, Klaus Rinke, Yutaka Sone, Sarah Vanderlip, Suzanne Wright.