Biography

1926 Born in Long Beach, CA / 2018 Died in Venice, CA

 

1955 University of California, Los Angeles, B.A.

1958 University of California, Los Angeles, M.A.

 

Teaching Positions:

1968-1972 Instructor, University of California, Los Angeles 1975-1976

1977 Instructor, California State College, Bakersfield

1983 Instructor, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture

1985-1986 Instructor, California State University, Long Beach

 

Select Solo Exhibitions:

2018 The Armory Show: Ed Moses, Piers 92&94, New York

Diamond Jim, albertz benda, New York, NY

2016 Ed Moses: Painting as Process, curated by Barbara Rose, albertz benda, New York, NY

Ed Moses: First, Look at the Paintings. Then We’ll Shoot the Shit, Blain l Southern, London, UK

2015 Ed Moses: Drawings from the 1960s and 1970s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Ed Moses: Cross-Section, University Art Gallery, UC Irvine, CA

The Language of Paint: Selected Works, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica,CA

2013 Yesterday’s Tomorrow, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Green/Bronze, Charlottle Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

A Stone Mirror Reversed, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses, galleri s.e. Bergen, Norway

2012 New Works: The Crackle Paintings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses: Notions, Mark Borghi Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY

Phase I – Garden Of Forking Tongues (Bifurcated), Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Phase II – Garden Of Forking Tongues (Bifurcated), Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Shatterheads And Gwynn, Ernie Wolfe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Asap & Friends, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Lite, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

Through The Looking Glass With Ed Moses, Art Link, Seoul, Korea

2010 Wic Wack, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Paintings 2007-2009, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Brain Band, Ferus Gallery/Nyehaus, Los Angeles, CA

Ed Moses Paintings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2009 Ed Moses: Mutator, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

2008 Owlbo, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

No Works, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Ed Moses: Paintings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2007 Past, Here & Now Part 2, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Ed Moses: Primal And Primary Paintings 1975, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art

Past, Here & Now Part 1, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Ed Moses Paintings, Frank Lloyd & Bobbie Greenfield Galleries, Santa Monica, CA

2006 Ed Moses: New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Ed Moses: Tapestries And Paintings, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses: New Works, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London

Ed Moses: The Dune Series, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, NY

Monochrome Paintings 1975-1976, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 Paintings, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

The Jabberwock, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

2004 Pinned-Up 1974/2004, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses And Jimi Gleason, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

Otherwise: New Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Ed Moses, Robert Green Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA

Cross-Cut, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003 Criss-Cross, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

Ed Moses, La Louver Gallery, Venice, CA

Doublevision, Doublevision Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002 Cobra, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA

Broken Roja, Klein Artworks, Chicago, Il

Recent Paintings, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Ed Moses, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA

Crocker Plaza Installation, San Francisco, CA

2001 Abstraction: Ed Moses And Rana Rochat, Gallery Of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR

Ed Moses 2000-2001 Works On Paper, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Ed Moses And John Chamberlain, L A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA

Apparition & Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, Il

2000 Oh Ed And Bjork, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA E

d Moses, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Ed

Moses, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Ed Moses: Recent Paintings, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY

1999 Ed Moses, L A Louver Gallery, Venice, CA

Vision Usher, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

1998 Ed Moses, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

Ed Moses, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Ed Moses, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC

Ec-Topic: Drawings, 1998, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1997 New Paintings And Works On Paper, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX

Up Against The Wall, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1996 A Retrospective Of The Paintings And Drawings, 1951-1996, The Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,

CA

Elpoep Ebolg, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

At 70 From The 70’s, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995 Paint, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1994 Recent Paintings, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1993 Drawings, Earl Mcgrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Structural Reoccurrence & Cloud Cover Paintings 80’s & 90’s, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA

Denis Ochi Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

Apparition And What, Louver Gallery New York, NY

Recent Paintings And Drawings, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Ed Moses; Paintings And Drawings, Davis/Mcclain Gallery, Houston, TX

1992 Apparitions And What: Works On Paper, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Ed Moses, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc, Chicago, IL

1991 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Louver Gallery, New York, NY

1990 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Ed Moses: Prints, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA

1989 Louver Gallery, New York, NY

Gallery Kukje, Seoul, Korea

Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris, France

Ed Moses: Recent Paintings, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Ed Moses: Works On Paper, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1988 L. A. Louver, Venice, CA

Iannetti Lanzone, San Francisco, CA

1987 L. A. Louver, Venice, CA

Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1986 Gilbert Brownstone And Cie, Paris, France

The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA

School Of Fine Arts, Gallery B, California State University, Long Beach, CA

1985 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

 

Select Group Exhibitions:

2019 Family Affairs, ART1307 – Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy

Gallery181, 181 Fremont Street, San Francisco, CA

UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL

2017 Ed Ruscha, Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston, New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT

Dallas Art Fair, Ed Moses & Christopher Le Brun, curated by Barbara Rose, Dallas, TX

2016 UNTITLED. Miami Beach, Ed Moses, Thomas Fougeirol, & Tess Jaray, BoothB47, Miami, FL

Painting After Post-Modernism, curated by Barbara Rose, Vanderborght, Brussels, Belgium

2011 Under The Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Pacific Standard Time: Cross-Currents In L.A. Painting And Sculpture, 1950-1970, The J. Paul Getty Museum,

Los Angeles, CA

It Happened At Pomona: Art At Pomona College 1969-1972; Part II: Helene Winter At Pomona, Pomona

College Museum Of Art, Pomona, CA

Best Kept Secret: Uci And The Development Of Contemporary Art In Southern California,1964-1971, Laguna

Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Two Schools Of Cool, Orange County Museum Of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Artistic Evolution: Southern California Artists At The Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County

2009 Visionaire, Fellini Gallery, Shanghai, China

Los Angeles Now: Larry Bell / Joe Goode, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2008 Thinking About Walter Hopps, Patrick Painter Inc.

California In New York, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Paintings, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

Sensuality In The Abstract, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Black + White, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2006 Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Ed Moses, Kenneth Noland, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

Ed Moses, Craig Kauffman, Larry Bell: Drawings, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA L.A.:

The Four, Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France

2005 Triple Play, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

2002 August 2002, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

Growing Up In L.A., Davis/Keil, Naples, FL

2001 Watercolor: In The Abstract, Traveling Exhibit

Out Of L.A.: Six California Artists, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London, England

1999 Art From Stone: Prints From The Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1960- 1970, Norton Simon Museum,

Pasadena, CA

1998 Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music In Pasadena, 1960-1974,

Norton Simon Museum Of Art, Armory Center For The Arts, Pasadena CA

Sunshine & Noir, Art In L.A. 1960-1997, Ucla/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

La Cool, Rocket Gallery, London, England, And Bruning & Zischke, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Forty-Fifth Biennial: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998, The Corcoran Gallery Of Art, Washington, DC

The Edward R. Broda Collection, Orlando Museum Of Art, Orlando, FL Group Exhibition, L. A. Louver Gallery,

Venice, CA

1997 A Thought Intercepted, California Museum Of Art, Santa Rosa, CA

California: State Of The Art, Art Of The State, Chac Mool Contemporary Fine Art, W. Hollywood, CA

Forms Of Abstraction, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA

1996 Lobby Installation, Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, NY

Made In L.A.: The Prints Of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1995 Washi: Collaborations In Spirit, Beckstrand Gallery, Palos Verdes Art Center

Color Painting, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

The Art Show Or So, Where’s The Art, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Object And Image, Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport Beach, CA

California Collection, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA

Timeless Abstraction, Davis/Mcclain Gallery, Houston, TX

1994 Gallery Delaive B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands

In Plain Sight: Abstract Painting In Los Angeles, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX

1993 Tony Berlant, John Mccracken, Ed Moses, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

Art In Los Angeles; Eight Artists In The Sixties, Asher Faure, Los Angeles, CA

Elegant, Irreverent & Obsessive: Drawing In Southern California, Main Art Gallery, California State University,

Fullerton, CA

1992 Choice Encounters, The Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, CA American Drawings Since 1960, Los

Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The Last Picture Show: An Evolution Of Works By Los Angeles Artists, Bank Of America, Gallery At The Plaza,

Los Angeles, CA

1991 Recent Acquisitions, Part II – 1950-1991, Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco, CA

Moses, Richter, Scully, Louver Gallery, New York, NY

Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum Of American Art, New York, NY

1990 In Perfect Silence, Art Center College Of Design, Pasadena, CA

Abstraction: John Altoon, Sam Francis, Craig Kauffman, Jon Mclaughlin And Ed Moses, Nagoya City Art

Museum; Museum Of Modern Art, Shiga; Hara Museum Arc, Japan

1989 Galeria Joan Prats, New York, NY

L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1988 Visions Of Inner Space, Wright Art Gallery, University Of California, Los Angeles; National Gallery Of Modern

Art, New Delhi, India

1987 Prints By Santa Monica Bay Area Artists, Santa Monica Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA

After Pollock: Three Decades Of Diversity, Iannetti Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1986 New Acquisitions, National Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

International Invitational, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA On

The Road, Galerie Kulturtorvet, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Monotypes Courtesy Of Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

American/European: Painting And Sculpture, Part III, L. A. Louver, Venice, CA

1985 Sunshine And Shadow: Recent Paintings In Southern California, Fisher Gallery, University Of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA