Galerie Anke Schmidt

Education

2000 MFA University of Nevada / Las Vegas, NV (USA)

1997 BFA Otis College of Art and Design / Westchester, CA (USA)

1990 – 1993 Attended East Los Angeles College / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Drawings / L.A. Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

2012 Gajin Fujita: Uikyo-e in Contemporary Painting / Pacific Asia Museum / Pasadena, CA (USA)

2011 Made in L.A. / L.A. Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

2010 Desire / The Blanton Museum of Art / Austin, Texas (USA)

 Gajin Fujita / L.A. Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

2008 Pacific Tsunami Haunch of Venison / London (UK) / cat.

 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art / Kansas City, MO (USA)

2006 Twilight Blush / L.A. Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

 Zephyr: Paintings by Gajin Fujita Kemper / Museum of Contemporary Art / Kansas City, MS / cat.

 LA Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

 Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art / Kansas City, MO (USA)

2005 Contemporary Projects 9: Gajin Fujita and Pablo Vargas Lugo / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 LA Louver / Venice, CA (USA)

 Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2004 Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

2003 Kravets / Wehby / New York, NY (USA)

2002 L.A. Louver Gallery / Venice, California (USA)

2001 Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany)

2000 Kravets / Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Donna Beam Gallery / Las Vegas, NV (USA)

1999 Archie Grant Hall Gallery / Las Vegas, NV (USA)

Group Exhibitions

2014 SCRATCH / El Segundo Museum of Art / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 LA Heat: Mouth Altering Condiments / Chinese American Museum / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2013 My Kind of Disneyland / Märkisches Museum Witten / Witten (Germany)

 Lust Letters / Coagula Curatorial Chinatown / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Collectors Choice / Exit Art / New York, NY (USA)

2012 Gold / Museum Belvedere / Vienna (Austria)

 Art 43 Basel / International Art Fair / Basel (Switzerland)

 Curiosity / Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art / North Adams, MA (USA)

 Edo Pop: The Graphic Impact of Japanese Woodblock Prints / The Minneapolis Art Institute / Minneapolis, MN (USA)

2011 Gateway Japan / Torrance Art Museum / Torranc, CA (USA)

 Beyond Bling: The Influence of Hip Hop Culture in Contemporary Art / The John and Mable Ringing Museum of Art / Sarasota, Florida (USA)

2010 Street Text: Art from the Coasts & The Populist Phenomenon / 516 ARTS / Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)

 Able-Bodied / Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery / University of Nevada / Las Vegas, NV (USA)

 Desire: Six Los Angeles Artists / Pasadena Museum of California Art / Pasadena, CA (USA)

 Invisible City / Instituto Cervantes / Madrid (Spain)

 Desire / Blanton Museum of Art / Austin, Texas (USA)

2009 Pictures Of Words / curated by David Pagel / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

2008 In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor / Laguna Art Museum / Laguna Beach, CA (USA)

2007 Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art from the Neon Homeland / Las Vegas Art Museum / Las Vegas, NV (USA) / cat.

2006 Reflections of Beauty: Woman of Japan’s Floating World / Pacific Asia Museum / Passanda, CA (USA)

 Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art / Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in Barnsdall Art Park / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

2005 Drawn / Kravets/Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 POPulence / University of Houston / Houston, TX; traveling to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art / Cleveland, and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art / SECCA / Winston Salem, NC (USA )/ curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery

 Especial / Galerie Schmidt Maczollek / Cologne (Germany)

 Sweet Temptations – Dialoge mit der Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum / St. Gallen (Switzerland)

2004 The Charged Image – works from the collection of Douglas S. Cramer / Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford / West Hartford, CT (USA)

2003 talkingpieces / Museum Morsbroich / Leverkusen (Germany) / curated by Ute Riese

 Perpetuum Mobile / Galerie Rolf Ricke / Cologne (Germany) / curated by Günter Umberg

2002 21 Paintings from LA Robert V. / Fullerton Art Museum, California State University / San Bernardino, CA (USA)

 Talking Pieces Text and Image / Contemporary Art Museum Morsbroich / Leverkusen (Germany)

 Subject Matters: An Exhibition of Subject Driven Art / Kravets Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Einfach Kunst – Sammlung Rolf Ricke / Neues Museum / Nuremberg (Germany)

2001 Casino 2001 / Stedelijk - Museum Voor Actuele Kunst / Gent (Belgium) / curated by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn

 Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism / Site Santa Fe’s / Santa Fe, NM (USA)

 4th International Biennial / Santa Fe, NM (USA) / curated by Dave Hickey

 Rogue Wave LA Louver Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Installed Collection – Colletions Installed / Mason Gross School of the Arts / Zimmerli Museum of Art / New Brunswich, NJ (USA)

 Summer group show / Kravets Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Hard Boiled Wonderland / Luckman Gallery / Cal State LA / Los Angeles, CA (USA) / curated by Julie Joyce

 Spring / Kravetsf Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Before They Became Who They Are / Kravets Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA) / curated by Norman Dubrow

2000 Collectors Choice Exit Art / New York, NY (USA)

 Tan Lines / Purple Orchid Gallery / Dallas, TX (USA) / curated by Jane Callister

 Radar Love / Galleria Marabini / Bologna (Italy) / curated by David Pagel

 Ultra Lounge / Las Vegas, NV (USA) / curated by Dave Hickey

 New American Talent – 15 Texas Fine Arts Association / Austin, TX (USA) and travelling / curated by David Pagel

 Other Paintings / Huntington Beach Art Center / Huntington Beach, CA (USA) / curated by Julie Joyce

 Summer Group Show / Kravets Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

 Action Space / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

 Jacci Doizaki Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1999 Other Paintings / Huntington Beach Art Center / Huntington Beach, CA (USA) / curated by Julie Joyce

 Summer Group Show / Kravets Wehby Gallery / New York, NY (USA)

1998 Vincent Price Gallery / Los Angeles, CA (USA)

1997 Little Theater of Las Vegas / Las Vegas, NV (USA)