Lora Reynolds Gallery

Born Montreal, Canada, 1965
Lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA

Education
1995-97
Master of Fine Arts, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1993-94
RAKB, Rijkskademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1988-91
ESAV, Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland

Solo Exhibitions
2010
• Dream Baby Dream, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2009
• Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
2008
• Once We Were Trees, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
• Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
• Monica De Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland
• Christophe Daviet-Thery, Livres et Editions d’Artistes, Paris, France
2007
• Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Soul Keepers, Patrick Painter, Los Angeles
2006
• Save Me Up, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
• Wonderland, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas
• Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Italy
2005
• Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
•&: Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
• CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d’art Biel Bienne, Switzerland
2004
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2003
• The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• DreamSpace, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2001
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
• Hammer Projects: Francesca Gabbiani, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2000
• Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
• go to the rainbow, Gallery I-20, New York, NY
• fancy, Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1998
• Memories to chew, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland (Placette Award)
• Gallery I-20, New York, NY
1996
• Gallery Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009       
• Trouble in Paradise: Examinig Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2008
• My Generation, Spichernohe, Köln, Germany
• Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, MoMA New York, NY
• Wall Rockets: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
2007
• Double XX-rated: Where The Girls Are, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY
• 5 rencontres d’artistes, &: Aurelie Geslin Christophe Daviet thery, Paris, France
• Summer Show, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
• Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
2006
• Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA
• New Trajectories: Relocations: Recent painting, drawing and multi-media work from the
• Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles, Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
• Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists’ Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art    
• Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005
• Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
• Project Ruinart with &:, Paris, France
• Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
• The Dogs(curator), Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2003
• Galerie Tache-Levy, Antwerp, Belgium
• Light and Spaced Out, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, France, traveled to Fonds Regional d?Art Contemporain, Brest, France
• Within, Alongside and Between Spaces, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• Painting On The Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Play It As It Lays: 17 Artists From Los Angeles, The London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London, England
• Cut; Francesca Gabbiani, Simon Periton, Eva Rothschild, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
• New Prints 2001/Summer, International Print Center, NY
• By Hand: Pattern, Precision, & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA (August 28 ? October 14)
2000
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
• Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999
• Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
• hair styling, Toasting Agency Project, Paris, France
• the temptations (Curated by Dennis Cooper), Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998
• dog days are over (Curated by Nicholas Tremblay), Swiss Cultural Center, Paris, France
• Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer (Curated by Bice Curiger), Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Shirn
• Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
• Malibu Sex Party, Purple Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
• 504 (Curated by John Armleder), Center for Art, Media & Design, Braunschweig, Germany
1996
• confrontations, Museum of Art, Nyon, Switzerland
• Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
• Young Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (Providentia Award)
• OCE Collection, Museum Bonnefeld, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1995
• Lost Property, Great Western Studios, London, England; W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland

Selected Bibliography
• Egan, Maura. “Whirls of Interiors,” The New York Times Magazine , Spring 2008
• Torzini, Gaia. “Mostre/Alla Sara Meltzer Gallery “Be My Mirror di Francesca Gabbiani. Specchi delle nostre brame.” America Oggi , November 25, 2008
• DiPietro, Monty. “Collages Catch a Fire, New art scene,” The Japan Times, March 9, 2006
• Shirazi, Reza. “Francesca Gabbiani: Wonderland,” Voices of Art Magazine, vol 14.1, 2006
• “Scare me up,” Window of Arts , April 2006
• “Francesca Gabbiani, Scare me up,” Studio Voice , April 2006
• DiPietro, Monty. “Collages Cathch a Fire, New art scene,” The Japan Times , March 9, 2006
• “Scare me up,” Tokyo 2006
• LeBlanc, Sydney. “Slicing wood and steel for a collage artist’s studio,” New York Times, Dec. 29, 2005
• “Francesca Gabbiani,” FRAME Art Magazine, September/October 2005
• Goddard, Donald. “Review: Francesca Gabbiani,” New York Art World, June 2004
• Where to buy? Francesca Gabbiani, The Week, April 16, 2004
• Bonnet, Frederic. “Made in L.A.,” Vogue, Paris, France, June 2003, p 214
• Within, Alongside and Between Spaces, Doris Berger, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany, 2003
• Gingeras, Alison. “Painting on the Move,” Artforum, New York, November 2002, p 181
• Cooper, Bernard. “Speak, Memory,” Los Angeles Magazine, Los Angeles, November 2002, pp 138-141
• Smith, Roberta. “Europe Shows the Staying Power of Paint,” The New York Times, July 21, 2002
• Sorkin, Jenni. “Francesca Gabbiani, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles,” Frieze, London, • Issue 65, March 2002, pp 92-93
• Young, Paul. “Collage Chemist,” Angeleno, Los Angeles, No 16, January/February 2002, pp 146-147
• Wood, Eve. “Beautiful Dislocation,” artnet.com, New York, January 9, 2002
• Bovier, Lionel. (ed.), “Across: Swiss Art 1975-2000,” Geneva, Skira, 2001, pp 84-85
• I annaccone, Carmine. “Francesca Gabbiani: Bugdom,” Artext, Los Angeles, No 74, August-October 2001, pp 46-47
• Ise, Claudine. “Francesca Gabbiani (exhibition catalogue),” Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001
• Myers, Holly. “Francesca Gabbiani at UCLA Hammer Museum,” LA Weekly, Los Angeles, March 23-29, 2002
• Cheng, Scarlet. “Look Ma, No Computers,” Los Angeles Times - Calendar Sunday, Los Angeles, August 26, 2001, p 52
• Fratto O’Brien, Draza. “Francesca Gabbiani at the UCLA Hammer Museum,” Artweek, Los Angeles, 2000
• Dunlop, Jennifer. “Francesca Gabbiani at Karyn Lovegrove,” Art Issues, Los Angeles, November/December 2000, p 46, Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, June 16, 2000
• Hainley, Bruce. “Spellbound: Karyn Lovegrove Gallery,” Artforum, New York, January 2000, pp 119-120
• “Hair Styling: The Cut of the Month: Francesca Gabbiani, When Farrah’s Hair was Everywhere,” Search for Art, Bologna, Italy, No 3, January 2000
• Hainley, Bruce. “Francesca Gabbiani: I-20,” Artforum, New York, Vol 37, No 2, October 1998, p 126
• Nicol, Michelle. “feature on a few artists from Freie Sicht aus Mittelmeer,” Bolero Magazine, Zurich, June 1998, pp 58-69
• “Francesca Gabbiani: I-20,” Contemporary Report, June 1998
• Curiger, Bice and Hans Ulrich Obrist. “An interview about Swiss Art and Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmer,” Artforum, New York, 1998
• Hainley, Bruce. “Malibu Sex Party, Purple,” Artforum, New York, Vol 36, No 6, February 1998, p 98
• Curiger, Bice. Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, 1998, pp 162-163, 294
• Dennis Cooper & Francesca Gabbiani, Memories to chew (exhibition catalogue), Geneva, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 1998
• Cooper, Dennis. Vicious (exhibition catalogue), New York, USA, I-20 Gallery, 1998
• Auguste, chien d’aveugle (exhibition catalogue), Geneva, Foundation Moet et Chandon Suisse pour l’Art, 1997, pp 68-71
• Cooper, Dennis. “Too Cool for School,” Spin Magazine, New York, July 1998, pp 86-94
• Young, Paul. “An A for Art,” Buzz Magazine, Los Angeles, June/July 1997, p 34
• Uwe Schwarzer & John Armleder (eds.), 504 (exhibition catalogue), Braunschweig, Germany, Center for Art, Media and Design, 1997
• Cooper, Dennis. “The Best of ‘96,” Artforum, New York, November 1996, p 13
• Louis Lucker and Rutger Pontzen, OCE Collection (exhibition catalogue), Maastricht, The Netherlands, Museum Bonnefeld, 1996, p 82
• “Glove” and “The Dogs”, Zapp Magazine, Amsterdam No 4, 1995 Time: 2 minutes
• Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue), Glarus, Switzerland, Kunsthalle Glarus, 1995
• Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue), Neuchatel, Switzerland, Musee des Beaux-Arts De Neuchatel, 1994
• Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue), Bienne, Switzerland, Centre Pasqu?Art, 1993
• John Armleder, Christian Bernard & Olivier Mossett, Peinture (exhibition catalogue), Geneva, Art & Public, 1993, pp 18-19

Awards and Distinctions
1998
Placette Award, Geneva, Switzerland
1996
Providentia Award, Switzerland
1995
Federal Award of Art, Switzerland
1994
Uriot Award, RAKB, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Federal Award of Art, Switzerland

Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Microsoft Art Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles
OCE Collection, The Netherlands
The UCLA Hammer Museum
Yale University Art Gallery
CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland
City of Geneva, Switzerland
National Collection, Switzerland