CHARLES GAINES
Since the late 1970s, Charles Gaines (b. 1944) has been highly regarded as an important exponent of conceptual art. In his drawings, works on paper and photographs he continually investigates how rule-based processes and systems construct the experiences of aesthetics, politics and language. By employing multi-layered practices, including images, texts and grids, as well as working in a serial character, Gaines examines image structures and critically questions forms of representation. His formal and at times mathematic methods are often ruptured by mysterious and illogical elements and thus explore what constitutes the rational and the irrational, the objective and the subjective.
‘I liked to think about ideas and language and indeterminacies and so forth. And I was always thinking about “why did I do that” in a world where you were not supposed to think about such things. But then I ran into these artists—I mean also going back to Sol [LeWitt]— for whom the very idea of art was on the level of intellectual or critical propositions and said, “Well, you know, there are people in the world who are driven by thinking about art as an ideational space.” Generally, even though they were mostly pragmatists and empiricists, they were so very careful about the excesses of language with respect to artistic production. That’s where I was different. I was precisely interested in the excesses of language. My use of systems is not as an empirical or documentary tool. I use systems in order to provoke the issues around representation.’
Courtney J. Martin in conversation with Charles Gaines in Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989, The Studio Museum in Harlem, 2014
Image: Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series III: Tree #8, Andrea,
2016,
acrylic sheet, acrylic paint and photograph
, 81.3 x 61 x 9.5 cm.; 32 x 24 x 3 3/4 in.
Artist Interview
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Institutional Exhibitions
Biography
VITA
1944
Born in Charleston, USA
1966
B.A, Jersey City State College, New Jersey
1967
M.F.A, Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Art and Design, Rochester
2018
REDCAT Award
2019
Recipient of the Edward MacDowell Medal
Lives and works in Los Angeles
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Lentos Museum, Linz
Marciano Collection, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Rennie Collection, Vancouver
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Southern Trees
Hauser & Wirth, New York
2022
Gridwork: Palm Canyon Watercolors
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
2021
New Work: Charles Gaines
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Dia Beacon, Beacon
Multiples of Nature, Trees and Faces
Hauser & Wirth, London
2020
Drawings
Hauser & Wirth, St. Moritz
2019
Palm Trees and Other Works
Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
2018
Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Faces 1: Identity Politics
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2017
Numbers and Trees commission
Institute of Contemporary Arts, Miami
2016
Grids: Numbers and Trees III, and Palm Trees II
Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II
Susanne Vielmetter, Culver City, CA
Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series I
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2015
Charles Gaines: Librettos Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael
Art + Practice, Los Angeles
Gridwork 1974–1989
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (travelled from: The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York)
2014
Gridwork 1974 – 1989
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (travelled to: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles)
2013
Notes on Social Justice
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2012
In The Shadow of Numbers, Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012
Pomona College Museum of Art and Pitzer Art Gallery, Pomona and Claremont
2011
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
2008
Manifestos
Kent Gallery, New York
Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin
2007
Greenhouse
LA>
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (curated by Robert Storr)
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
2006
Drawings from the ‘Explosion’ and the ‘Randomized Text’ Series
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City
Snake River, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux and the LA Philharmonic
REDCAT, Los Angeles
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
Kapinos Gallery, Berlin
2005
Steve Wolf Gallery, San Francisco
2004
Survey exhibition 1991-2004
Triple Candie, New York
2003
Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001
Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, Fresno
2002
Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001
Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles
2001
Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, Adoline Kent Award Exhibition
Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Airplanecrashclock
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
2000
John Weber Gallery, New York
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
1997
Brigitte March Galerie99, Stuttgart
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
1996
Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno
John Weber Gallery, New York
Castles
Full Moon Gallery, Los Angeles
1995
Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica
1993
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno
1991
Charles Gaines: A Survey Exhibition, 1979-1991
Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris;
John Weber Gallery, New York;
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York;
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1990
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
1989
John Weber Gallery, New York
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Fresh Visions, Santa Monica
1988
Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
1987
John Weber Gallery, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1985
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1984
Artist of the Month Exhibition
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1981
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
John Weber Gallery, New York
1980
John Weber Gallery, New York
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1979
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Fresno Art Center, Fresno
1978
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
1975
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1972
Cinque Gallery, New York
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1971
Louisville School of Art, Anchorage
1969
State University of New York, College at Oswego, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Forest Through the Trees
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
Lifes
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Experimental Strategies in Art + Music
Houston
2021
Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America
New Museum, New York (catalogue)
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
UMLAUF Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin
Lives that Bind: a restorative justice installation
Santa Monica City Hall East, Santa Monica
How Do We Know the World?
Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA), Baltimore
Black American Portraits
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
20 Years Anniversary Exhibition Part 2
Vielmetter, Los Angeles
Next to You
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Photo Flux: Unshuttering L.A.
Getty Center, Los Angeles
The Beatitudes of Malibu
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
2020
Lives that Bind: a restorative justice installation
City Services Building Art Bank, Santa Monica
Drawing 2020
Gladstone Gallery, New York
To Form a More Perfect Union
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Artists for New York
Hauser & Wirth, New York
Garden of Six Seasons
Para Site, Hong Kong
2019
Words
Alexander Berggruen, New York
Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Generations: A History of Black Abstract Art
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Searching the Sky for Rain
SculptureCenter, New York
Process and Pattern
Wisch Family Gallery, Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford
Trees
Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, Paris
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
About Things Loved: Blackness and Belonging
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
California Artists in the Marciano Collection
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Mapping Black Identities
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection
Smart Museum of Art, Chicago
2018
The World To Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene
Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville
Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965 — 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
As You Like It — C´est Comme Vous Voulez
Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles
A Measure of Humanity
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Take Me (I'm yours)
L'Accademia di Francia, Rome
2017
Never Free to Rest
Kurimanzutto, Mexico City
On Another Note: The Intersection of Art and Music
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London
Field Guide
Remai Modern, Saskatoon
Active Ingredients: Prompts, Props Performance
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
Starless Midnight
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Dimensions of Black
Manetti Shrem Museum, UC Davis, Davis
Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/ Giuffrida Collection
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans;
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham (2018);
Snite Museum of Art, South Bend (2018);
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore (2019);
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2019), Berkeley
Time as Landscape - Inquiries of Art and Science
Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park
Projects 107: Lone Wolf Recital Corps
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Naming Rights
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
The Score
The Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Intermezzo
Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary
Collection
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
La Terra Inquieta
Milan Triennale, Milan
Excerpt
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
We need to talk... Artists and the public respond to the present conditions in America
Petzel Gallery, New York
2016
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts By Artists
Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Floor 3, L.A.C.M.A, Los Angeles
Rhona Hoffman 40 Years, Part I
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Trees in the Forest
Yale Union, Portland
Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia
California 101: Art from the Collection
AD&A Museum UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Performing the Grid
Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College, Los Angeles
From Minimalism to Algorithm
The Kitchen, New York
Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection
The Drawing Center, New York
2015
When Artists Speak Truth
8th Floor, New York
Afterword via Fantasia
Catherine Bastide Gallery, Brussels
The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music,1965 to Now
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (travelled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia)
Charles Gaines, Franka Hörnschemeyer & Carla Guagliardi
Galleri Opdahl, Stravanger
Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
America is Hard to See
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Paradox in Language: What I look at is never what I wish to see
University of California Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine
Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual
White Columns, New York
All the World’s Futures - 56th Biennale di Venezia
Various venues, Venice
2014
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Shangri La: Imagined Cities
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions
Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
State of Mind New California Art circa 1970
Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx
SITE, Santa Fe (travelled from Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver)
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown (travelled from UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MoMA PS1, Long Island City)
Blues for Smoke
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Adicott Collection
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno
2012
Blues for Smoke
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus)
State of Mind New California Art circa 1970
Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (travelled to Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx; SITE, Santa Fe)
Dance/Draw
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs (travelled from The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston)
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980
MoMA PS1, Long Island City (travelled from UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; travelled to Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown)
ANOMALIA
University of California San Diego, San Diego
Mind the Gap
Kent Fine Art, New York
2011
Shared Sensibilities: Sol LeWitt and His Friends
Mattatuck Museum Arts & HistoryCenter, Waterbury
Locations
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Dance / Draw
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (travelled to The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Sarasota Springs)
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ground Control
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Human Nature
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
All Of This and Nothing
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (travelled to MoMA PS1, Long Island City; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown)
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (travelled to UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver; SITE Santa Fe; The Bronx Museum, New York)
2010
Summer Group Show
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
The Artist’s Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980–2010
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Seventh House
Project Row Houses, Houston
Noir Complex
Magazin 4, Bregenzer Kunstverein (travelled to Brandenburgischer Kunstverein, Potsdam)
Project Row Houses, Houston
Man Son, Vom Schrecken der Situation
Galerien der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen Am Necker
Conceptual Works from the Collection
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Road to Hell is Paved...
Las Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles
2009
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, 1980–Now
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Oz: New Offerings from Angel City
Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Guadalajara
Attempt to Raise Hell
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown, San Diego
Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
30 Seconds off an Inch
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Wrong: A Program of Text and Image
Eighth Veil, Los Angeles
Charles Gaines / Terry Adkins Collaborative: Part of Get Weird
New Museum, New York
2008
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection
The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
Weighing and Wanting
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Entre Chien et Loup
Kent Gallery, New York
Wild Signals – Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis
Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Idea, Text and Image,
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland
Thunderbolt Special: The Great Electric Show and Dance – Commemorating Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins
Project Row Houses, Houston
2007
Im Wort
Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen
Read Me: Text in Art
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Best of Show, 10 Years
Kapinos Gallery, Berlin
2005
Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Hommage to Friedrich Schiller
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition
Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2004
Fade (1990-Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition
Luckman Gallery and the University Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles
Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles
Recherche-entdeckt! Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten, Sixth Esslingen International Photo Triennial
Galerien der Stadt Esslingen am Neckar, Esslingen am Neckar
Group Show
Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
Rhythm of Structure: The Mathematical Aesthetic
Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery, New York
2003
Urban Aesthetics 2003
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
The Night of the Hunter
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
Selections from the LeWitt Collection
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain
Prints from Segura Press
New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces
Structure of Difference: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography of the Past Fifty Years
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Rhythm of Structure: MathArt in Harlem
Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery, New York
2002
What About Hegel
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
Math Art
Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota
2001
Installation of Airplanecrashclock
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Song Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers
New York
Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson
2000
Deep Distance-Die Entfernung der Fotografie
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
A Selective Survey of Political Art
John Weber Gallery, New York
1999
Mixed Media: Selections from the Segura Publishing Archives
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale
Pictures of Other People’s Bodies
Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica
More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Landschaft—Stadtlandschaft (Landscape—Cityscape)
Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
Landscape Memories organized by Steven Hull
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
Touring the Frame organized by Charles Gaines
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
1998
Other Related Areas
University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
1997
Die Magie der Zahl
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
1996
Some Grids: The Grid in Twentieth Century Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1994
Earthworks and Landscapes
Fuel Gallery, Seattle
Paper Work
John Weber Gallery, New York
Group show (Works from the Collection)
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
1993
The Naming of the Colors
White Columns, New York
Artists Writing Reading Room
Side Street Projects, Santa Monica
L.A. Next: Six Los Angeles Artists
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis
Drawing Center, New York
1992
Coming Unraveled
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
Force/Sight
International Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Presteneck, Wurzburg
No Justice, No Peace
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
Counterweight
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition
Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles
1990
Drawing 1990
Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo
The Grid: Organization and Idea
Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Patterson
1989
Landscape Visions
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
1986
Work from the Collection of Sol LeWitt
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale
1985
Selections from the William Hokin Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Works from the Collection of Sol Lewitt
Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, Scranton
The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York
Process and Construction
Brigitte March Galerie, Munich
Künstlerwerkstatt und Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
Black and White Drawings fromt he David Nellis Collection
Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles
Artists Forum: Selected Faculty Artists from California State University
California State University, Los Angeles
1984
Contemporary Watercolors
University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego
Works from the Collection of Sol LeWitt
University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
1982
Selection from the Chase Manhatten Bank Art Collection
Fleming Museum of Art, University of Vermont, Burlington
David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence
Works from the Collection of Sol LeWitt
Wesleyan University Art Museum, Wesleyan University, Middletown
1981
Artists from the John Weber Gallery
Florida International University, Miami
Post Modernist Metaphors
Alternative Museum, New York
New Dimensions in Drawing: 1950–1980
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1980
Artists From The John Weber Gallery
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara
Systems, Inquiry, Translation
Touchstone Gallery, New York
An Exhibition of Drawings from the Margo Leavin Gallery
California State College, Bakersfield
Benefit Show for the Center for the Performing Arts
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Prints from the Landfall Press
Melinda Wyatt Gallery, Los Angeles
1979
Exchanges
Henry Street Settlement, New York
The Grid
Evanston Art Center, Evanston
Portraits
Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen
Gallery Artists Show
John Weber Gallery, New York
Gallery Artists Summer Show
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
1978
Works on Paper
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Numerals 1924-1977
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Numeral: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown
The New Gallery, Cleveland
Minneapolis College of Arts and Design, Minneapolis
Recent Publications
Landfall Press, Chicago
1977
Golden West College, Los Angeles
1976
Golden West College, Los Angeles
1975
Whitney Biennial 1975
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1974
Black Artists, Recent Attitudes
California State University, Fresno
1973
California Arts Council, Sacramento
Oakland Museum, Oakland
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Monographs
Studio Museum in Harlem (Ed.): Charles Gaines: Gridwork 1974-1989, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York 2014
Pomona College Museum of Art : Pitzer College (Ed.): In the shadow of numbers: Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012, Claremont 2012
Hammer Museum : University of California and Delmonico-Prestel (Ed.): Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Los Angeles, Munich and New York 2011
San Francisco Art Institute (Ed.): Lurid Stories : Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, San Francisco 2001
G. Hatje (Ed.): Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart 1997
Lavignes-Bastille (Ed.): Charles Gaines, Survey Exhibition 1979-1991, Paris 1991
Lavignes-Bastille (Ed.): Charles Gaines, Lavignes-Bastille Gallery, Paris 1988
Others
Prestel (Ed.): Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Prospect New Orleans/U.S. Biennial 2014
Museum of Contemporary Art (Ed.): Blues for Smoke, Los Angeles 2012
Hatje Cantz (Ed.): Dance/Draw, ICA Boston, Boston 2011
University of California Press (Ed.): State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, 2011
Douglas Walla (Ed.): Entre Chien et Loup, Kent Gallery, New York 2008
California Institute of the Arts/REDCAT (Ed.): Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, 2006
Contemporary Arts Museum (Ed.): Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Houston 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art (Ed.): Selections from the William Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago 1985
Henry Street Settlement, Louis Abrons Arts for Living Center (Ed.): Exchanges, New York 1979
Whitney Museum of American Art (Ed.): 1975 Biennial exhibition, New York 1975
Videos
Selected Press
Cultured Magazine October 2022
W Magazine October 2022
Frieze May 2022
Architectural Digest November 2021
SFMOMA March 2021
Artnet February 2021
The Financial Times January 2021
Flash Art Winter 2020/21
Studio International August 2015
Artforum February 2015
The Wall Street Journal July 2014
