BRUCE HOUSTON
BORN
1937, Iowa City, Iowa
EDUCATION
1974 MFA, University of Iowa, Painting
1965 MA, University of California, Los Angeles, California, Graphic Design
1961-2 Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California
1959 BA, University of Nebraska
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2001 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California
1992 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
1991 The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Andover, New Hampshire
1983 Twenty Years of Assemblage, Municipal Gallery Los Angeles, California
1982 West Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 The Toy Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
On The Road, Palm Desert Community Gallery, Palm Desert, CA
2001 Arts @ Project Toronto/Brooklyn, Toronto, Canada
2000 10-Year Anniversary, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
An Artistic Dialogue, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1999 Orlando, California State University Northridge, Northridge, CA (catalog)
Nefertete as Muse, Egyptian Museum, Berlin, Germany
1998 Jazz Club, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (catalog)
1993 Intersections, Art and Play, The Armory Center For the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1992 Mailbox Auction, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Detroit, MI
1991 Transportation, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1990 Humor, Satire and Irony, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage, Fredrick Wight Gallery, UCLA (Catalogue; Ann Ayres) Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno,
CA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
1988 Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California Homage to Hopper: Quoting the American Realist, Baruch College Gallery, New York, NY
Something Funny, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Fullerton, CA
1987 Born in Iowa: The Homecoming Exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa (Catalogue; Diane Koeppel-Horn)
Contemporary Southern California Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California (Catalogue; Victoria Lu)
Seriously Humorous, Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, California
1986 Southern California Assemblage Artists, 1940-80's, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California; University of California, Santa Barbara; Art Museum of Santa Cruz, California;
Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, California
(Catalogue; Betty Klausner)
American Heart, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1985 Fantastic, Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (Catalogue, Chris Bruce)
The Artist & The Toy, Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
Innocence and Experience, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina (Catalogue, Thomas Styron)
To the Astonishing Horizon, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, California (Catalogue, Peter Frank)
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California, California
Functional Art, Los Angeles, California
1984 Holiday Preview, The New Museum, New York, New York
Return of the Narrative Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California (Catalogue, Katherine Hough and Roberta Cove)
Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Small California Sculpture, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1984 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, New York
Ceci N'est Pas Le Surrealism, (California Idioms of Surrealism) Fisher Gallery, University of So. California, Los Angeles: Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York (Catalogue)
San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA
1983 Leisure America, Tampa Museum, Tampa, Florida (catalogue)
1981-83
Collage and Assemblage, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama: Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina: Roanoke Museum of Art,
Chattanooga, Tennessee: Robertson Center, Binghampton, New York: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1982 Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California
Microcosms from California II, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Imaginative Sculpture, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, California (Catalogue, David Rubin)
Of No Particular Theme, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology (Catalogue, Michael Smith)
Cactus and Palms, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
Forgotten Dimensions, Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California (Catalogue, George Newberg)
Miniatures '82, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
1981-82
Deja-Vu: Masterpieces Updated, Masterpieces Updated, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Cheney Cowles Memorial Museum, Spokane, Washington; Arapaho Community College, Roanoke, Virginia;
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
(Catalogue)
1981 The Personal Touch, Long Beach City College. Long Beach, California
Humor in Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Santa Ana College, Santa Ana, California
In a Major and Minor Scale, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Tableau, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Catalogue, Phil Garner)
San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA
1979 20th Century Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1978 Eccentric Los Angeles Art, Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, California
The First Biennial Juried Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(Catalogue, Josine Lanco-Starrels)
100 + Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California (catalogue, Bob Smith)
1977 Another Magical Mystery Tour, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Plastic Perspective, Los Angeles County Cultural Arts Center, Sylmar, California (Catalogue, Lukman Glasgow)
Quarterdeck: The Image and the Myth, Beverly Hills, California
Miniature, California State University, Los Angeles
(Catalogue, Sandy Ballatore)
1976 Redlands University, Redlands, California
Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
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