Tom Wudl
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Represented by LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
1948 Born in Cochabamba, Bolivia
1958 Immigrated to United States. Settled in Los Angeles, CA
Education:
1966-70 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1970 B.F.A. from Chouinard Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions:
2013 "Reflections of the Flowerbank World", LA Louver, Venice, CA
Cuesta College Art Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
2012 "Tom Wudl: Works From 1971-1979", LA Louver, Venice, CA
2011 "immensities and infinities: further specimens from the flowerbank world", LA Louver, Venice, CA
2009 "specimens from the flowerbank world", LA Louver, Venice, CA
2005 LA Louver, Venice, CA
2003 "Tom Wudl: You've got to Be Kidding!?", William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2002 Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
LA Louver, Venice, CA
2000 "Tom Wudl Paintings", Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 LA Louver, Venice, CA
1996 LA Louver, Venice, CA
1994 "Chthonic Garden", Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, CA
1993 "Recent Paintings", LA Louver, Venice, CA
1991 LA Louver, Venice, CA
1987 LA Louver, Venice, CA
1983 LA Louver, Venice, CA
1982 "Tom Wudl: Paintings 1975-1982", Arco Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1981 Malibu Art and Design Center, Malibu, CA
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1980 Annina Noisei Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Colleges of Creative Studies Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Janus Gallery , Venice, CA
Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1976 Krebs Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974 Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1973 Daytons Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN
1973 Ron Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
1971 Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2013 "Tapping the Third Realm", Ben Maltz Gallery, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Group Show", LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Letters From Los Angeles Part II: Identity & Self-Identity Through Text in Art", Jack Rutberg Fine
Arts
2012 "Letters From Los Angeles: Text In Southern California Art", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
2011-12 "California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, in conjunction with
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
“A Tribute to Beatrice and Philip Gersh: Gifts to the Museum of Contemporary Art”, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, October 16, 2011–April 2, 2012
"Greetings from L.A.: Artists and Publics, 1950-1980, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles,
CA; traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlne, Germany
2011 “California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation”, in conjunction with
"Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980”, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, CA
“Wudl Studios: A Creative Collective”, Compact Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
“California Art: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", Frederick Weisman
Museum, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
“Loose Canon”, LA Louver, Venice, CA
“Southern California Painting, 1970’s: Painting Per Se”, curated by Peter Frank and David
Eichholtz, David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
“Some Assembly Required: Assemblage and Collage”, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2010 “Artist’s Museum”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Able-Bodied”, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
2009 “California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948-2008,” Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
2008 "Some Paintings: The 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennial," Curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 “Made in California: Contemporary California Art From the Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation,” 15th Anniversary Celebration, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,
Pepperdine University, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Driven to Abstraction”, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2003 "LAPD Los Angeles Pattern and Design" Rosamund Felson Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 "August 2002," LA Louver, Venice, CA
2001 "Chouinard: A Living Legacy," Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA(traveled to
Kruglak Gallery, Mira Costa College; Boehm Gallery, Palomar College)
"Tom Wudl/Peter Shelton" Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 Group Exhibition, LA Louver, Venice, CA
1994 "Three Visions," Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1993 " Menagerie: Animal Images by Contemporary Artists," The Hope Street Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"On Water," Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Elegant, Irreverent & Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California," California State University,
Fullerton, CA (catalogue)
1991 "Individual Realities in the California Art Scene," Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
1990 "Faces," Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA in cooperation with the Santa Barbara Museum of
Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1989 "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1988 "Perpetual Motion," Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA in cooperation with the Santa
Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1987 "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985," the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA
1985 "Sunshine and Shadow: Recent Painting in Southern California," Fischer Gallery, University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1984 "American/European: Painting, Drawing & Sculpture," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"New Standard," Otis-Parsons School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1983 "California Current," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"The Painting Show," Sonoma State University Art Gallery, Rohnert Park, CA
1982 Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
"Changing Trends," Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
Otis-Parsons Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Contemporary Los Angeles Artists," Nagoya City Museum, Japan
1981 "Major Work by Six Artists," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"California: A Sense of Individualism," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Portraits," University of California, Irvine, CA
"Decade," Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1979 "West Coast Abstract Painting and Sculpture," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
"Selections from the Fred Weisman Collection of California Art," Corcoran Gallery, Washington,
D.C.
Faculty show, Claremont College of Art, Claremont, CA
1978 "Works on Paper," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 "Unstretched Surfaces," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians," Baxter Art Gallery, California
Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1976 "Four Artists," LA Louver, Venice, CA
"Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
1974 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Seventy First American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1973 Paris Biennale, Paris, France
1972 Documenta Number Five, Kassel, Germany
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Fifteen Los Angeles Artists," Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
1971 "New Paintings in Los Angeles," Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
"Off the Stretcher," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Selected Public Collections:
Art Center College of Design
The Capital Group Companies Ltd., Los Angeles, CA
The Contemporary Museum of Honolulu, HI
Environmental Lobbying Fund
Frederick Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT
Orange County Museum of Art, Orange County, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pepperdine University Museum of Art, Malibu, CA
Walt Disney Company, Burbank, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors:
1975 Received N.E.A. Fellowship Grant
1972 Received "Young Talent Award" Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Teaching HIstory:
1993- Private Instruction
1997-99 Instructor, Figure Drawing in the Animation Department, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1981-94 Instructor, Otis-Parsons School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1979-84 Lecturer, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1978-79 Lecturer and Graduate Advisor, Department of Fine Arts, Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
1976-77 Lecturer and Graduate Advisor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Instructor, University of California, Irvine, CA
1975 Instructor, Art Center college of Design, Pasadena, CA
