CHARLES GAINES


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

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

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Cultured Magazine October 2022

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Frieze May 2022

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Architectural Digest November 2021

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SFMOMA March 2021

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Artnet February 2021

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The Financial Times January 2021

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Flash Art Winter 2020/21

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Studio International August 2015

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Artforum February 2015

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The Wall Street Journal July 2014

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