Biogaphy
Born 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Lives and works in New York, USA.
Education and Teaching
1969
Professorship at California State College, Los Angeles, California
Professorship at University of California, Irvine, California
1964 – 1968
Professorship at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1964
Professorship at University of California Extension, San Diego, California
Professorship at Pasadena Museum School, Pasadena, California
1959 – 1964
Professorship at La Jolla School of Art, La Jolla, California
1953 – 1954
Studies at Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
Grants and Awards
1981
Artist in Residence, Normal, Illinois State University, Illinois
1979
Visiting Artist, University of California, Santa Barbara, California
1978
Artist in Residence, Robertson Center for the Arts and Sciences, Binghamton, New York
(under a grant from the New York State Council on Art)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
Don Dudley: Recent Work, Magenta Plains, New York, NY, USA
2019
Don Dudley: Early Work, Magenta Plains, New York, NY, USA
2018
Don Dudley. Activated Walls and Recent Works, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2017
Don Dudley. Recent Work, Magenta Plains, New York, NY, USA
2013
Don Dudley. Modular Spaces, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2011
I-20 Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1985
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984
Running Dream, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
1982
CUNY Baruch College, New York, NY Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1981
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1979
University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
1978
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1977
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1976
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany
1975
John Doyle Gallery, Paris, France
1964
I Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
1963
Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1961
I Gallery, La Jolla, CA, USA
1959
La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA, USA
1958
New Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Emotion and Structure, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2018
Gaps in the Record: Vanguard Print Culture in San Diego, San Diego HIstory Center, San Diego, CA, USA
Position Matters, Curated by Saul Ostrow, Minus Space & Galerie Richard, New York, NY, USA
2017
No Transport, Super Dakota, Brussels, BE
2015
In the Abstract: Mid-Century San Diego Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside, CA, USA
2012
Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts 1960-1964, curated by Dave Hampton, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, USA
Est-3: Southern California in New York (Los Angeles Art from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection), curated by David Pagel, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
2011
Painting in Parts, curated by Michael Klein, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, USA
1989
Between the Sacred and the Profane, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne
1986
Intericon 1986, Copenhagen, Denmark
1985
Painting ’85, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984
Activated Walls, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Art Galaxy, New York, NY, USA
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1983
Projekt 18, Copenhagen, Denmark
1982
Special Installation, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, NC, USA
1981
Color on Structure, Patterson College, Wayne, NJ, USA
1980
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Summer exhibition, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979
Corners, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
1978
Double Take, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
1977
New Abstract Objects, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, USA
Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New Work/New York, Gallery of July & August, Woodstock, NY, USA
1975
14 American Artists, Galerie Litho, Teheran, Iran
USA Contemporary Artists, Galerie Du Grands, Hornu, Belgium
Works on Paper, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Artists in the University of California, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA, USA
Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
1974
Drawings, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
American Painting Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art (traveling exhibition)
Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1972
Four New York Painters, New Gallery, Cleveland, OH, USA
New Abstract Painting, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
1959 – 1964
Numerous California and southwest group exhibitions
Selected Bibliography
2017
Thomas Zander (Ed.): Don Dudley. Activated Walls, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany. (monograph)
2015
Thomas Zander (Ed.): Don Dudley, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany. (monograph)
2013
“Modular Spaces“, Art + Auction, Jul./Aug. 2013.
2011
Schmerler, Sarah, “Don Dudley: I-20.”, Art in America, Mar. 2011.
Johnson, Ken, “Don Dudley,” The New York Times, Jan. 7, 2011.
Finch, Charlie, “The Don”, Artnet Magazine, Jan. 18, 2011.
Ostrow, Saul, “Lost Opportunities: The Early Work of Don Dudley”, East of Borneo, Jan. 26, 2011.
Romanovgrave.org., video interview, Apr. 15, 2011.
Beta Germano, Brasil Vogue, Dec. 2011.
1983
Cohen, Ronny, “Drawing Now in NYC: The New Pictorial Image of the Eighties”, Drawing Magazine, Jan./Feb., 1983, pp. 97-101.
1982
Carpenter, Gilbert, “Art on Paper since 1960”, Catalog, Nov./Dec., 1982.
1980
Henry, Gerrit, “Don Dudley”, Artnews, Jan. 1980, p. 166-67.
Zimmer, William, Review, Soho Weekly News, Jan. 24, 1980.
Onorato, Ronald, “corners, mit”, Artforum, Jan. 1980.
1979
Perlberg, Deborah, Review, Artforum International Magazine, Jan. 1979.
Blaisdell, Gus, “Don Dudley”, Arts Magazine, Sept. 1979.
Zimmer, William, Review, Soho Weekly News, Sept. 1979.
Taylor, Robt, Review, Boston Sun, Globe, Oct. 7, 1979.
Nahum, Katherine, “Hayden Exhibit”, Newton Times, Oct. 17, 1979.
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Memphis
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Becton Dickinson, Paramus, New Jersey
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Prudential Insurance Co., New York
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Shearman & Sterling, New York
Simon Thatcher & Bartlett, New York
Southeast Banking, Miami, Florida
TRW, Cleveland, Ohio
William R. Mercer, Inc., New York
