Don Dudley
Born in Los Angeles, CA in 1930, Don Dudley’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at prominent institutions including MoMA PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1982) and New Museum of Contemporary Art (1984) in New York, NY. Throughout his seventy-year career, Don Dudley has challenged artistic conventions and the traditional concept of painting by incorporating industrial materials in his work such as aluminum, lacquer, homasote and plywood, creating subtle and sophisticated wall works that stand out for both their elegance and formal intelligence.
Dudley’s first solo presentation was at New Gallery in Houston, TX. Subsequent solo shows were held at La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA; I Gallery, La Jolla, CA; John Doyle Gallery, Paris, FR; Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf, DE; Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, FR; Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA ; Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY; I-20 Gallery, New York, NY; Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, BR; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, DE; and Magenta Plains, New York, NY. Select group exhibitions at major institutions include “Contemporary American Painting” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; “Double Take” at New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; ”Corners” at Vera List Art Center at MIT, Boston, MA; “Activated Walls” at the Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY; TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Dallas, TX; Annual Contemporary Art Auction, Dallas, TX and most recently, “Between Two Worlds: Art of California" at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA. Dudley lives and works in New York, NY and Kerhonskon, NY.
Born in 1930, Los Angeles, CA
Lives and works in New York, NY and Kerhonkson, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2020
Dallas Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Dallas, TX
2019
Don Dudley: Early Work, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2018
Don Dudley: Activated Walls and Recent Works, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, DE
2017
Don Dudley: Recent Work, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2013
Modular Spaces, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, DE
2011
I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Mendes Wood, São Paulo, BR
1985
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Running Dream, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1983
Project 18, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, DK
1982
Special Projects (Winter 1982), MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York, NY
City University of New York Baruch College, New York, NY
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, FR
1979
University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
1978
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, FR
1976
Galerie Alfred Schmela, Düsseldorf, DE
1975
John Doyle Gallery, Paris, FR
1964
I Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1963
Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961
I Gallery, La Jolla, CA
1959
La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1958
New Gallery, Houston, TX
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
Friends & Family, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Essentials, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, DE
2019
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, Dallas, TX
Dallas Art Fair, Magenta Plains, Dallas, TX
Annual Contemporary Art Auction, Dallas, TX
Independent Art Fair, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2018
Gaps in the Record: Vanguard Print Culture in San Diego, San Diego History Center, San Diego, CA
Position Matters, curated by Saul Ostrow, Minus Space & Galerie Richard, New York, NY
Independent Art Fair, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
2017
No Transport, Super Dakota, Brussels, BE
2015
In the Abstract: Mid-Century San Diego Painting and Sculpture, Oceanside, CA
2012
Contemporary Art Wins a Beachhead: The La Jolla School of Arts 1960-1964, curated by Dave Hampton, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
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
2011
Painting in Parts, curated by Michael Klein, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
1990
Between the Paradigms, Pt. IV; A Category of Objects as Yet Unnamed, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Between the Sacred and the Profane, Galerie Rahmel, Köln, DE (catalog)
1986
Intericon 1986, Copenhagen, DK (catalog)
1985
Painting ’85, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Activated Walls, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (catalog)
Art Galaxy, New York, NY
Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Special Installation, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, NC (catalog)
1981
Color on Structure, Patterson College, NJ (catalog)
1980
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalog)
Summer exhibition, Pam Adler Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Corners, MIT, Cambridge, MA (catalog)
1978
Double Take, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1977
New Abstract Objects, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY
New Work/New York, Gallery of July & August, Woodstock, NY
1976
14 American Artists, Galerie Litho, Tehran, IR
USA Cont. Artists, Galerie Du Grands Hornu, BE
Works on Paper, Galerie Tanit, Munich, DE
1975
Artists in the University of California, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA (catalog)
Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels, BE
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1974
Drawings, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Painting Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (circulating exhibition; catalog)
Paperworks, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1972
Four New York Painters, New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
New Abstract Painting, Vassar College, NY (catalog)
Annual of American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog)
1959 - 1964
Numerous California and southwest group exhibitions
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA
Becton Dickinson, Paramus, NJ
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Prudential Insurance Co., New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Shearman & Sterling, New York, NY
Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett, New York, NY
Southeast Banking, Miami, FL
TRW, Cleveland, OH
William R. Mercer, Inc., New York, NY
Foundation for Art and Preservation
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
