PETER LODATO
BORN
1946, Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1969-71 Graduate studies in Art, California State University, Northridge
1969 B.A., California State University, Northridge
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1995-99 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1981-86 Otis/Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
1979-83 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1975-76 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1975 University of California, Irvine
AWARDS
1988 Brody Foundation Grant
1977 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 William Turner Gallery, CA
2020 William Turner Gallery, CA
2017 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 EMBLEMA Museum, Terzigno (Naples), Italy
2009 Zane Bennett, Santa Fe, NM
2008 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Castello / Childs, Phoenix, AZ
2005 Berman / Turner Projects, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Modernism, San Francisco, CA; William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA; Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Manne Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA; Installation, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Bakersfield Museum, Bakersfield, CA; William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA; Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2000 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA; Peter Lodato: From Painting to Installation, Selected Works, 1980-2000, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA: catalogue; William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1998 William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1997 Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Manne Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1996 William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA; Open Studio, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1993 Special Projects - Installation, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA
1991 Silver Tower, Public Art Project, Brunswick Square, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Wrathful Means Project No. 2, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
1989 Painting, Drawing & Sculpture, Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 La Porta, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Angeline, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; La Lane Noire, Hunsaker-Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; La Mer, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1982 Peter Lodato, Otis/Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; China, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Peter Lodato, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
1981 Mediation, Art Gallery of the Sibell-Wolle Fine Arts Building, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Dust, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA: catalogue
1980 Similarities and Opposites, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Special Exhibition, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Special Projects Room, P.S. 1, Queens, NY
1976 Peter Lodato, Minneapolis College of Fine Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN; Sisters, Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Peter Lodato, CARP, Roger Wong Studio, Los Angeles, CA; Peter Lodato, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine: catalogue
1973 Peter Lodato, Michael Walls Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1971 Peter Lodato, Brand Art Center, Glendale, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2024 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2024 Intersect Palm Springs, Palm Springs, CA
2022 SEIS GALLERY, Los Angeles, CA
2021 Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA; Gallery Art 1307, Naples, Italy
2014 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 California Museum of Photography, UCR, Riverside, CA
2007 William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA; American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Patrick Olson Gallery, Plymouth, MI
2003 Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
1999 Radical Past: Art and Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1995 Charles Arnoldi, Kris Cox, Charles Hill, Peter Lodato, William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
1992 Survey of California Art, 1960-90, Aspen Center for Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
1991 Salerno Incontri-Arts / Rassegne della Ressegne Amalfi Arte, Salerno, Italy: catalogue; Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Vessels (Collaborative Exhibition), Sharon Truax Fine Art and The Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 20th Century Watercolors: Yesterday and Today, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1988 Sculpture Da Camera (Chamber Sculptures), Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1987 America, America, 4 Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte, Antichi Arsenali della Republica, Amalfi Arte, Amalfitana, Amalfi, Italy
1985 Peter Liashkov, Peter Lodato, Susan Rankaitis, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; New Ways of Seeing, Marilyn Pink/Master Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles, CA
1984 A Broad Spectrum, Design Center of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA; Contemporary Watercolors, Pink’s Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA; California Watercolors, California State University, San Diego, CA; Reflections, Lonny Gans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Summer Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Nancy Yewell Collection, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA: catalogue; Environs 2; Union Avenue, Art Gallery, Loyola School of Law, Los Angeles, CA; Drawings by 50 California Artists, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1982 Painted Installations, 80 Langston Street, San Francisco, CA; New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Rebounding Surface, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Avery Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1981 1981 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York: catalogue; Nine and The Wall, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA; Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA: catalogue; Group Show, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Forty Famous Californians: Recent Unique Works on Paper, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY; 7 from 703, Gensler and Associates/Architects, Los Angeles, CA
1980 New Work, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 John McLaughlin, James Hayward, Peter Lodato, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Christmas in July, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; California Perceptions: Light and Space; Selections from the Wortz Collection, Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA: catalogue
1977 100 Plus Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Faculty Exhibition, School of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA: catalogue
1975 Eight Artists from L.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; Group Exhibition, Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Group Exhibition, Leslie Collins Art Gallery, Dallas, TX; Market Street Program: Nine Los Angeles Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; Jerry Anderson, Greg Card, Laddie John Dill and Peter Lodato, Fine Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge, CA
1972 Los Angeles: Fourteen Painters, Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; 24 Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1970 Nine Artists, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Bard College: Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
College of Purchase, State University of New York: Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Syracuse University: Joe and Edith Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Michael Zakian, Peter Lodato: From Painting to Installation, Selected Works, 1980-2000, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, exhibition catalogue, 2000.
Dottie Indyke, “Peter Lodato,” New Mexican Pasatiempo, January 9, 1998.
Marina Walker, “Lit From Within,” Santa Barbara News, April 4, 1997.
Allison Lee Solin, “Finding The Center,” The Independent, April 3, 1997.
Peter Clothier, review of exhibition at Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, ArtNews, February 1990, p. 164.
Kenneth Baker, “Peter Lodato,” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Forum, November 1985, p. 114.
Frances Colpitt, “Peter Lodato at Burnett Miller Gallery in Los Angeles,” Art in America, September 1985, p. 114.
Kristine McKenna, “Art Galleries,” review of exhibition at Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles Times, Part V, May 10, 1985.
Merl Shipper, “A Haven for Post-Modernism,” Artweek, May 25, 1985.
Suzanne Muchnic, “New Listing: Four Rooms with a View,” review of exhibition at Otis/Parsons, Los Angeles Times, Calendar, February 10, 1982.
Robert L. Pincus, “Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, April 16, 1982.
Ralph C. Bond, “On and Off the Wall,” Artweek, March 7, 1981, p. 5.
Lora Pethik Brown and Jane Cope Pence, Nine and the Wall, California State University, Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA, 1981.
Flora Cater, “Peter Lodato’s Meditation at UC Boulder,” Artspace: Southwestern Contemporary Arts Quarterly, Fall 1981, p. 66.
Robert Hughes, “Quirks, Clamour and Variety,” Time Magazine, Vol. 117, No. 9, March 2, 1981, p. 84.
Christopher Knight, “A Decade of L.A. Painting Crammed into One Exhibition,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, March 8, 1981, Part E, p. 7.
Mark Johnstone, “Exploration and Installation,” Artweek, October 24, 1981, p. 5.
Suzanne Muchnic, “Odd Couple Interested in Illusion,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, October 4, 1981, p. 91.
John Perrault, “A Singular Pluralism,” The Soho News, February 11, 1981, p. 27.
Whitney Museum of American Art, Biennial Exhibition, New York, 1981.
William Wilson, “The Wall, Not Just to Hang Pictures,” Los Angeles Times, February 27, 1981, Part VI, p. 10.
William Wilson, “A Cocktail Party of the Second Kind,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, March 1, 1981, p. 80.
Melinda Wortz, “Abstract Painting in Los Angeles 1950-1980: Selections from the Murray and Ruth Gribin Collection,” Journal: A Contemporary Arts Magazine, September-October, 1981.
Richard Armstrong, “California,” Flash Art, March-April, 1980, pp. 30-31.
Hunter Drohojowska, “Artbeat: Peter Lodato’s Sensitivity to the Inobvious,” L.A. Weekly, January 18-24, 1980.
Adrienne Rosenthal, “The Illumination of Seeing,” Artweek, January 2, 1980, pp. 1, 20.
William Wilson, “Review,” Los Angeles Times, January 26, 1980.
Joseph E. Young, “Artist’s Paintings go Beyond the Edge of the Canvas,” The Arizona Republic, January 20, 1980.
Michael Kurcfeld, “Visible Means of Support,” New West, October 9, 1979, vol. 3, no. 21, p. 106.
Susan Larsen, “Where Conceptual Meets Perceptual,” Artnews, January 1979, pp. 94, 96.
Melinda Wortz, California Perceptions: Light and Space, Selections from the Wortz Collection, Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA, 1979.
Faculty Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 1977.
William Wilson, “Irvine Exhibits Lodato, Pashgian,” Los Angeles Times, December 22, 1975, Part IV, pp. 6-7.
Fidel Danieli, “Painterly Experiences,” Artweek, 20 December 1975, pp. 5-6.
Melinda Wortz, Peter Lodato, University of California, Irvine, 1975.
Elena Canavier, “Peter Lodato: Wall Works,” Artweek, February 24, 1973, Vol. 4, No. 8, pp. 1, 12.
Fidel Danieli, “Objects as Infinite Space,” L.A. Weekly News, 1973, Part IV, p. 4.
Barbara Hansen, “Hamburgers Feature a Satiric Bite,” Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1971, Part IV, p. 1.
April Kingsley, “Los Angeles,” The Art Gallery, Summer 1971, pp. 21, 74.
Hilton Kramer, “Los Angeles: Now the ‘In’ Art Scene,” New York Times, June 1, 1971, p. 21.
Maurice Tuchman and Jane Livingston, 24 Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 1971.
William Wilson, “Two Shows Give Southlanders a Broad Look at What’s New,” Los Angeles Times, Calendar, June 13, 1971, p. 48.
SELECTED ART CRITICISM BY ARTIST
Michael Asher, Documenta 5, Kassel, West Germany, 1972.
“Three Los Angeles Sculptors: Lloyd Hamrol, George Herms, Bruce Nauman,” catalogue statement for exhibition at The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, September 16 to October 24, 1975, published in Journal: A Contemporary Arts Magazine, No. 8, November-December 1975, pp. 50-57.