Biografia

1962 Born, Los Angeles, California

1983 A.A. Porterville College, California

1985 B.A. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

 

1999 “Symposium – Printmaking: The Collaborative Art” Panelist at LACMA

2003 Founding member of PHARMAKA

2004 Guest Lecturer SCAD “The Search for Truth in the Land of Make Believe, A Good

Painting Cannot Lie” Savannah, Georgia

2006 Curator – “Portraits”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA

Accompanying catalogue written by Shane Guffogg, Preface by Christopher Monger

2008 Curator – “Love at First Sight”; the Collection of Molly Barnes

Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA catalog published

“Marks on Paper”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA

“Outside the Inside, Outside”, Art from the LAMP art community

Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA catalog published

“Between Here and There”, Liz’s Loft, Los Angeles, CA

2009 “New Mythologies”, Pharmaka, Los Angeles CA.

Guest on Molly Barnes radio show Art Talk

Juror, “Provisional Art”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA

2011 Curator – “Realm of Realism” LA Mart, Los Angeles, CA

2013 Guest Lecturer, La Joya Middle School, Visalia, CA

2014 Guest Lecturer, The Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Guest Lecturer, The Imperial Academy of Arts Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Guest Lecturer, Lindsey Middle School and College, Lindsey, CA

Guest Lecturer, Porterville College, Porterville, CA

2016 Curator – “Portraiture – An Exhibition”, Lindsay Museum, Lindsay, CA

2017 Guest Lecturer, Academy of Art Baku, Azerbaijan

Curator – “Portraiture – An Exhibition”, Orange County Center Contemporary Art,

Santa Ana, CA

2018 Curator – “The Circle of Truth”, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

2019 Curator – “Raymond J. Barry: Butterflies, Words and Colors”, The LODGE,

Los Angeles, CA

Curator – “The Circle of Truth”, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

2021 Curator – “The Circle of Truth”, Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA

2022 Guest Lecturer – “The Masters Class”, Marika Pardanelli, Producer, Budapest, Hungary

2023 Guest Lecturer – “The Masters Class”, Marika Pardanelli, Producer, Budapest, Hungary

Guest Lecturer – “Creator’s Salon”, Parasol & VC Projects, Rita House, Los Angeles, CA

Curator – “The West of the Unknown”, featuring paintings by Brent Hudspeth, and

bronze sculptures by Frederick Remington , The Lindsay Museum, Lindsay, CA

 

SOLO Exhibitions

2023 Shane Guffogg: “Music Within the Patterns”, with pianist Anthony Cardella; featuring

painting, lecture and performance curated by VC Projects, El Nido, Los Angeles, CA

Shane Guffogg: “Maximalism/Minimalism”, with Pianist Anthony Cardella; Art & Music

Immersion. curated by VC Projects, at Schoenfeld Symphonic Hall, USC, Los Angeles,CA

Shane Guffogg: “Xingu”, Rita House, presented by Parasol, and VC Projects, Los Angeles,

featuring paintings by Shane Guffogg, piano performance by Anthony Cardella

Shane Guffogg: “Xingu”, The Blue Room at El Nido, Los Angeles, curated by VC

Projects, featuring painting and piano performance by Anthony Cardella

2022 Shane Guffogg: “Blue” The Blue Room at El Nido, Los Angeles, curated by VC Projects

Shane Guffogg: “The Present as Future is Past – Conversations Through Art”

El Nido, Los Angeles, CA curated by VC Projects and Vramyan Interiors

Shane Guffogg: “Translations of Being Through Sight and Sound” El Nido, curated by

VC Projects, Los Angeles, CA (art exhibition and opera performance, Shooka Afshar,

Soprano, Anthony Cardella, Piano

2021-2022 “One Picture Show: Shane Guffogg”, SPACE 1028, Los Angeles, CA

2021 Shane Guffogg: “40 Years of Self-Portraits”, Orange County Center for Art

Santa Ana, CA

2020 Shane Guffogg: “Path of Light”, Casa Regis Center for Culture and Contemporary

Art Mosso Valdilana, Italy

2019 Shane Guffogg: “New Paintings”, MUSE, Miami, Florida

2017 Shane Guffogg: “The Observer is the Observed” The Gallery of the Museum Center,

Baku, Azerbaijan

Shane Guffogg: “Dance of Thought” Manhattan Beach Art Center, Manhattan Beach, CA

2016 Shane Guffogg: “Crossings” Porterville College, Porterville, CA

2015 “The Art of Shane Guffogg”, (1981 – 2015) 35 years Retrospective,

The Lindsey Museum, Lindsay, CA

Shane Guffogg: “New Paintings”, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Il.

Shane Guffogg: The Observer is the Observed” The Imperial Museum of Fine Arts,

St. Petersburg, Russia

“Shane Guffogg” Paintings, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA.

2014 “32 Paintings and Counting” Seagram Gallery, Marlborough, LA CA

“Lumen Lapsus” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA

www.blouinartinfo.com chosen for Top Exhibitions of the week

2013 “The Annunciation of Ginevra de Benci” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA

reviewed Artscene magazine, Arts Ltd magazine, The Huffington Post

2012 “1990 – 2012: A Retrospective” Pianta Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy

reviewed Napoli Cronaca, featured on Rai TV – Unomattina Caffè

Ginevra de Benci” Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Ill.

2011 “At the Still Point” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA

2010 New Paintings, Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA

2009 “Communion” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA Reviewed Artscene magazine

2008 “Paintings” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Brentwood, CA Reviewed Artscene magazine

“Avalon” Citi Group, One Sansome St. San Francisco, CA, Jan Casey and associates in

conjunction with Geras Tousignant Gallery

“The Future as Past is Present- Paintings for 2001 to 2006” 425 Market St.

Bank of America, San Francisco, CA Jan Casey and associates in conjunction with

Geras Tousignant

2006 “Passionately Non-objective”, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

In conjunction with the Riverside Museum

2006 “Painting with Light”, Studio Blue Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 “Between Heavens”, Barone Odom Gallery, Rome, Italy 2004

2004 When Each Was Both, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL.

D2 Arts Los Angeles, CA

2000 Featured Artist / Grossart.com

1999 New Paintings / Transamerica Gallery, Los Angeles, CA curated by Patrick Ela

1998 Stills / Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, continued

1997 Stills / Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Reviewed L.A. Weekly, Pick of the Week

1996 Paintings and works on Paper from 1992-1996

Richard Iri Loft Laguna Beach, CA,

1995 New Paintings / Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles CA Reviewed L.A. Times

 

GROUP Exhibitions

2023 “The Circle of Sam Francis”, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA, May

– September 2023

“Homage to Sam Francis” Slow Art Day April 15, 2023 exhibition, curated by VC

Projects, contributing artist group exhibition featured online: https://www.vcprojects.art/

homage-to-sam-francis-slow-art-day

2022 “AU 79PR Spring Show”, Journe Residence, Los Angeles, CA, April 2022

EXPO Chicago, Tim Yarger Fine Arts, Chicago, Illinois, April 2022

“Influence of Place” Museo Ercolanense – Reggia Borbonica di Portici, Naples, Italy

Curated by Cynthia Penna

2021 “The Sun is the Same” Laurel Hills Residence of David Thompson Assemblage+ 5 person

exhibition, curated by Gross Art for Los Angeles Art Week, Los Angeles, CA

“The art of Art”, Pop up exhibition, Villa Pacifica, Los Angeles, CA curated by GrossArt/

for Hierony Vision

“In Your Absence Something can be Born”, El Nido, Los Angeles, curated by VC Projects

“Flower Festival 2021” www.herati.art International Online Group Exhibition

2020 “Agent of Ordinary Pleasures” The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA curated by Victoria Chapman

2019 “House of L x Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty House Party”, in support with

San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX

“House of L x Kuper Sotheby’s International Realty House Party”, Austin, Texas

“Libertà”, Gallergry, curated by Gryanne Stunnenberg, Venice, Italy

“Woman’s Secrets”, Art Tower, Arts Council Azerbaijan, Baku Azerbaijan

“The Circle of Truth”, Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA

2018 “Glasstress Ptuj Slovenija”, Galerija mesta Ptuj / Ptuj City Gallery, Prešernova 29, Ptuj, SI

“The Mecca, California”, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA

“The Circle of Truth”, New Museum Los Gatos, Los Gatos, CA

“Chicago Print Crawl”, Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois

2017 “Portraiture – An Exhibition”, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art

Santa Ana, CA

“Diversity” Art Tower, Arts Council Azerbaijan, Baku Azerbaijan

Art Karlsruhe International Art Fair Modern and Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany

“Pastels” Lindsay Museum, Lindsay, California

Innsbruck Contemporary Art fair, Innsbruck, Austria

2016 Pop Austin, International Art Fair, Austin, Texas

“Portraiture – An Exhibition” Lindsay, Museum, Lindsay, California

Olympia Art Fair, London, England

2015 Pop Austin, International Art Fair, Austin, Texas

“Q4” Billboard Creative, curated by Mona Kuhn, Los Angeles, CA

“TOUCH / The L.A. Art Scene: Photographic Portraits of Artists by Jim McHugh

Paired with Original Artworks”, El Segundo Museum, El Segundo, CA

“Illumination” Pop Austin, International Art Fair, Austin, Texas

“The Green Show”, The Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA

“Contemporary Constructions and in the Studio”, California Center for the Arts,

Escondido, CA

2014 “Abstraction from 1911 to 2014” Leslie Sacks, Brentwood, CA

“Classical Values” Leslie Sacks, Brentwood CA

“Drawings” Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Ill.

2013 “Scope Miami” Fu Xin Gallery, Miami, FL

“Ink Miami” Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Miami, FL

“The Magnificent Seven” Pianta Villa di Donato, Naples, Italy

“Transitive” Fu Xin Gallery, Miami, FL

“Incognito” Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA

“Portraits of Joan Quin” John Wayne Airport, Orange County, CA

2012 Art Platform LA, Leslie Sacks Gallery

Art San Diego, San Diego, CA. Leslie Sacks Fine Art

“Inaugural Exhibition” Bert Green Fine Art, Chicago, Ill.

Art Bologna, Bologna, Italy, Fu Xin Gallery

2011 “Continuum- Francis, Ruscha, Guffogg Art Platform LA, Leslie Sacks Fine Art

2010 “Elements of Nature” Selections from the Frederick Weisman Foundation

Carnegie Museum, Oxnard CA, Museum of Art, New Orleans

2009 “For Those of Us Still Standing” Pharmaka, Los Angeles, CA

Marine Inaugural Group Show Venice, CA

2008 “Abstraction and Photography” Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA.

“Marks on Paper” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007 “Made in California- from the Weisman collection” Jewish University Los Angeles, CA

“LA Icons”, Lisa Coscino Gallery, Pacific Grove, CA

“Tres Desperados”, Pharmaka Gallery, Curated by Paul Ruscha

“Sister City Love Slam”, Englebrot, Berlin Germany

“Then and Now- Painters and Their Process”, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Viva Vetro! Glass Alive! Venice and America”, 1950-2006

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA

2006 “Non-Objectivity” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

in conjunction with the Riverside Museum

“Fin” Bedlam Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“How it Happens” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2005 “Liquid Los Angeles: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting”

Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, CA Curated by Leslie Jones

“Incognito” Santa Monica Museum Santa Monica, CA

“Small Wonders” Pharmaka Gallery Los Angeles, CA

“Taste” The Back Space/ GrossArt West Hollywood, CA

“Full Moon; The collection of Paul Ruscha” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Venice 2 Venice” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Art @ Home” Hill Street Loft/ GrossArt Los Angeles, CA

“Blue” Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Venice 2 Venice” V and A Gallery, Venice, Italy

“Mostracollettiva.03 ossessioni ossessive” Barone Odom, Rome Italy

Inside The Box/ Pharmaka, Bert Green Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Outside the Box / Pharmaka-Art, Los Angeles, CA

Reviewed by Peter Frank LA Weekly Pick of the Week

2004 Inaugurazione, Barone Odom Galleria D’Arte Contemporanea, Rome Italy

Reality of Abstraction, Abstraction of Reality

Shane Guffogg and John Scane Curated by Adam Gross / GrossArt

Greystone Mansion, Beverly Hills, CA

Modus Operandi, Michael Folonis, AIA, Santa Monica, CA Curated by Donna Napper

Pharmaka, Bedlam Downtown, Los Angeles, CA, reviewed Coagula

“Incognito” Santa Monica Museum Santa Monica, CA

Pharmaka, Bedlam Gallery Hillhurst, Los Angeles, CA

Pharmaka, Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2003 Courtyard Eleven, Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Hypertension Color, Thema Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Curated by Chip Tom

California 10 Contemporary/ Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL Curated by Chip Tom

2002 Merging Artist/ Spike Gallery NY, NY reviewed NYC Gallery Guide

Colors/ Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA Curated by Paul Rusconi

2000 Featured artist on Artnet.com, Abstraction of the 20th Century

Works On Paper / Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California

1999 BIG / Skidmore Contemporary Art, Malibu, California

Art for Tennessee Williams / The Zoo District, Los Angeles, California Reviewed in LA T

Drawn from the Artist Collections / The Armand Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, California catalogue available

Reviewed on KCRW Art Talk, reviewed L.A Weekly, Pick of the Year

Drawn from the Artist Collections / The Drawing Center New York

Reviewed in N.Y. Times by Roberta Smith May 21st, 1999 catalog published

1998 Hamilton Press Prints / University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City,

Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum Catalogue available

1997 Hamilton Press Prints / Pomona College, Pomona, CA

1996 One Apiece / The Corridor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Inaugural Show / RISK Loft, Laguna, CA

Six for Ninety Six / Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1995 International Artists Works on Paper / Fahrid Chaib Contemporary Art,

L.A. Artists / Fahrid Chaib Contemporary Art, Venice, CA

Museum Print Show / Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA

1994 Evening of Masque / Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA

The Gramercy / AMO Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Senses Of Reality / Soma Gallery, San Diego, CA

Serious Beauty II / Stuart Katz Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA Curated by Irit Krieger

Reviewed Orange County ,L.A. Times

1993 Serious Beauty / Metropolitan Museum, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Irit Krieger

Gallery Artist Group Show / The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

What’s Next! / Soma Gallery, San Diego, California

Focus: The Integrity of Structure / The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA

Los Angeles Aids Project / Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1992 Gallery Artist Opening Show / Soma Gallery, San Diego, CA

1991 Abstraction for the Information Age The Works Gallery Costa Mesa, CA Curated by Irit

New Circle: American and Soviet Paintings /

Martin Luther King Center, Washington, D.C. Catalogue publsihed

1989 Painters and Photographers / Wade Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1987 Alumni Exhibition / California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA