1944

Born in Charleston, South Carolina

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California

1967

MFA, Rochester Institute of Technology, School of Art and Design

1966

BA, Jersey City State College

Selected Exhibitions

2018

"Charles Gaines," Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

"Faces 1: Identity Politics," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (Link)

2016

“Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series II," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

“Numbers and Trees: Central Park Series I," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

"Grids: Numbers and Trees III, and Palm Trees II," Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris, France

2015

"Charles Gaines: Gridwork, 1974 - 1989," Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)

"Charles Gaines: Librettos: Manuel de Falla/Stokely Carmichael", presented in conjunction with exhibition at Hammer Museum, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA

2014

"Charles Gaines: Gridwork, 1974 - 1989," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

2013

"Notes on Social Justice," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2012

"In The Shadow of Numbers, Charles Gaines Selected Works from 1975-2012", Pomona College Museum of Art and Pitzer Art Gallery, Pomona and Claremont, CA

2011

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2008

Manifestos, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany

2007

Greenhouse, LAX><ART, Los Angeles, CA

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, Venice, Italy (curated by Robert Storr)

Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

2006

Drawings from the Explosion and the Randomized Text Series, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects

Snake River, collaboration with Edgar Arceneaux and the LA Philharmonic, REDCAT, Los Angeles

Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Austria (curated by Clara Kim and Stella Rollig)

Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005

Steve Wolf Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2004

Survey exhibition 1991-2004, Triple Candie, New York, NY

2003

Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, Phoebe Conley Art Gallery

2002

Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, Luckman Fine Art Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles

2001

Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, Adoline Kent Award Exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2000

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

The Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC), two one-person shows, Charles Gaines and Kara Walker, City University of New York, NY

1997

Brigitte March Galerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1996

Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1995

Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA

1993

Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

1991

Charles Gaines: A Survey Exhibition, 1979-1991, Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris; John Weber Gallery, New York, NY; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY; Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989

JohnWeber Gallery, New York, NY

Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Fresh Visions, Santa Monica, CA

1988

Gallery Lavignes-Bastille, Paris, France

Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

1987

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1985

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

1984

Artist of the Month Exhibition, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1981

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1980

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

1979

Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA

1978

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1975

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1972

Cinque Gallery, New York, NY

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, cA

1971

Louisville School of Art, Anchorage, KY

1969

State University of New York, College at Oswego, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2021

"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2018-2019

"No Time," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2018

"Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

“The World to Come: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Anthropocene,” Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL (Link)

"C’est Comme Vous Voulez - As You Like It,” Praz Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA

“Take Me (I’m Yours),” Academie de France a Rome, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy (Link)

“A Measure of Humanity,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

2017

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL

“Never Free to Rest,” kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

“Solidary and Solitary: The Joyner / Giuffrida Collection,” presented by the Helis Foundation, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA; travelling to the Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame University, South Bend, IN; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), University of California, Berkeley, CA (Link)

Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico

“Field Guide,” Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada (Link)

“Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection,” Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

“Dimensions of Black,” Jam Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA

“Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (Link)

“The Score,” Ian Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia

2016

Drawing Dialogues: The Sol Le Witt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Performing the Grid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Collge of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

“S/Election,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“LA Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA

“Rhona Hoffman 40 Years,” Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Cailfornia 101: Art from the Collection, AD&A Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA

"From Minimalism to Algorithm," The Kitchen, New York, NY

2015

America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

"All the Worlds Futures," 56th International Art Exhibition, curated by Okwui Enwezor, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (Link)

Charles Gaines | Carla Guagliardi | Franka Hrnschemeyer, Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger, Norway

Performing the Grid, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Collge of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY

The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL; travelling to the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA (2016)

2014

"Sites of Reason: A Selection of Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Prospect New Orleans Biennial, curated by Franklin Sirmans, New Orleans, LA

"Boursier-Mougenot, Conner, Echakhch, Gaines, Marclay, Oldenburg/van Bruggen," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

2013

"Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Adicott Collection Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA

2012

Blues for Smoke, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

ANOMALIA, University of California San Diego, CA

"Mind the Gap", Kent Fine Art, New York, NY

2011

Shared Sensibilities: Sol LeWitt and His Friends, Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center, Waterbury, CT

"Locations", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Dance / Draw, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

All Of This and Nothing, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Human Nature Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Ground Control, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980 UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; MoMA P.S. 1, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Travelling to: UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver , BC Canada, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, The Bronx Museum, New York, NY; and the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL

2010

Summer Group Show, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Edgar Arceneaux, Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Rodney McMillian, Charles Gaines, Nery Gabriel Lemus, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

The Artists Museum: Los Angeles Artists 1980-2010, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Noir Complex, Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria

Conceptual Works from the Collection, University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara, CA

2009

Collection: MOCAs First Thirty Years, 1980 Now, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

"Oz: New Offerings from Angel City", Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico

Attempt to Raise Hell, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Downtown, San Diego, CA

30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

Charles Gaines/ Terry Adkins Collaborative: Part of Get Weird (performance), New Museum, New York, NY

30 Seconds off an Inch, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY

WRONG: a program of text & image, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles, CA, curated byJibade-Kahlil Huffman

Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC, NY

2008

Thunderbolt Special: The Great Electric Show and Dance after Lightnin Hopkins, curated by Terrry Adkins, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA

Weighing and Wanting Musuem of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Entre Chien et Loup, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

Wild Signals Artistic Postions between Symptom and Analysis, Wuerttembergischer Kunsverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Idea, Text and Image, the Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR

2007

Im Wort, Kunsthalle Gppingen, Gppingen, Germany

Read Me: Text in Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA (curated by Malik Gaines)

From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Kapinos Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2005

Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Hommage to Friedrich Schiller, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Kamm Gallery Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Kamm, Berlin, Germany

2004

Fade (1990-Present): African American Artists in Los Angeles, a Survey Exhibition, Luckman Gallery and the University Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA (curated by Malik Gaines)

Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Recherche-entdeckt! Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten (Research-discovered! Picture Archive of the Invisibilities), Sixth Esslingen International Photo Triennial, Galerie de Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar

Group Show, Arena Gallery, Santa Monica, CA., curated by Bruria Finkel

2003

Structure of Difference: Painting, Sculpture, and Photography of the Past 50 Years, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Rhythm of Structure, Fire Patrol No. 5 Gallery, New York, NY

Urban Aesthetics 2003, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Prints from Segura Press, group show, New Mexico State University Art Museum, NM

The Night of the Hunter, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Selections from the LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2002

Math Art, Art Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL

What About Hegel, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

2001

Installation of Airplanecrashclock, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Rhapsody, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tucson, AZ

Song Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers, a project by Steven Hull. Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY

2000

Deep Distance-Die Entfernung der Fotografie, Kunsthalle Basel; curated by Wilhelm Schrmann

A Selective Survey of Political Art, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Mixed Media: Selections from the Segura Publishing Archives, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Pictures of Other Peoples Bodies, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, organized by Wilhelm Schmann

LandschaftStadtlandschaft (LandscapeCityscape), Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany

Landscape Memories, organized by Steven Hull, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Touring the Frame, organized by Charles Gaines, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998

"other related areas," Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA

1996

Castles, two person collaboration, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

1995

Recent publications, Chicago Art Fair, Segura Press, Tempe. Arizona, Chicago, IL

1994

Cologne Art Fair, Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany; Cologne, Germany

Earthworks and Landscapes, Fuel Gallery, Seattle, WA

Paper Work, John Weber Gallery, New York City, NY

Group show (works from the collection), Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA

1993

The Naming of the Colors, White Columns, New York, NY

Artists Writing Reading Room, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

L.A. Next: Six Los Angeles Artists, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, (collaboration on a work by Robin Kahn), The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1992

Open Mind: The LeWitt Collection, Wadswoth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

Force/Sight, International Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Presteneck, (Stein am Kocher), Wurzburg, Germany, organized by Brigitte March

No Justice, No Peace, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Counterweight, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum Santa Barbara, CA

LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition (simultaneous exhibitions by several participating arts institutions), Otis Art Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1990

The Grid: Organization and Idea, Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Patterson, NJ

1989

Landscape Visions, Office of the Chancellor, CSU Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA

1988

Cologne Art Fair (Brigitte March Gallery), Cologne, Germany

1986

Work from the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1985

Artists Forum: Selected Faculty Artists form the California State University, Office of the Chancellor, Los Angeles

Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State University, Los Angeles

Process and Construction, sponsored by Archives of Contemporary Thought, Brigitte March Gallery, Kunstlerwerkstatt and Lenbachaus Museum; Kunstler Werkstatt and Lenbachaus, Munich, Germany

Work from the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Auckland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Everhart Art Museum, Scranton, PA; The Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY

Selections from the William Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

1984

Work From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Contemporary Watercolors, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

1982

Numero Quattro, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland

Works form the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Wesleyan University Art Museum, CT (travelling in 1984)

Selections, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI

Selections, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont at Burlington, VT

1981

Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (traveling in 1982)

New Dimensions in Drawing: 1950-1980, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Post Modernist Metaphors, organized by Horace Brockington, The Alternative Museum, New York

Artists from the John Weber Gallery, Florida International University, Tamiami Trail, Miami, FL

1980

Prints from the Landfall Press, Melinda Wyatt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Artists from the John Weber Gallery, University of South Florida Art Galleries, College of Fine Art, Tampa, FL

Benefit Show for the Center for the Performing Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

An Exhibition of Drawings from the Margo Leavin Gallery, California State College, Bakersfield, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

Systems, Inquiry, Translation, Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

1979

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Gallery Artists Summer Show, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Gallery Artists Show, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

The Grid, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL

Portraits, Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO

Exchanges, Henry Street Settlement, New York

1978

Recent Publications, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL

Minneapolis College of Arts and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Grand Forks; Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Art Museum of North Texas, Corpus Christi; Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Numerals, Dartmouth College Gallery, University Art Gallery, Hanover, NH; University of North Dakota,

Yale University Galleries, New Haven, CT

Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, curated by Rainer Crone, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (travels in 1978-79)

Works on Paper, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

John Weber Invitational, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY

1977

Golden West College, Los Angeles, CA

1976

Golden West College, Los Angeles, CA

1975

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1974

Black Artists Recent Attitudes, California State University, Fresno, CA

1973

Oakland Museum (permanent installation), Oakland, CA

California Arts Council, Sacramento, CA

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2023

Godfrey, Mark, Katy Siegel, Aria Dean, Laura Owens, Glenn Adamson. “Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection,” Gregory R. Miller & Co, ARTBOOK D.A.P., New York, NY pg 110, 2023

2021

Sorkin, Jenni. "Art in California," Thames & Hudson Inc., United Kingdom, pp 186

2018

Gaines, Charles, ‘Charles Gaines’, in: The Brooklyn Rail, October

Gaines, Charles, ‘The Double Consciousness of the Lincoln Memorial’, on: www.artforum.com, November 1 (Link)

2011

Gaines, Charles, Ben Patterson: The History of Gray Matter From the Avant-Garde to the Postmodern, catalog essay for, Benjamin Patterson: Born in the State of Flux/us, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2008

Gaines, Charles, The New Cosmopolitanism, California State University, Fullerton

2005

Gaines, Charles, reprint of Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism in the catalog Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, (originally printed in the catalog Theater of Refusal, University of California, Irvine), Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, January

2004

Gaines, Charles, Edgar Arceneauxs Search for Meaning Among Infinite Variations, Afterall, Sept.

2003

Gaines, Charles, Art, Post History and the Paradox of Black Pluralism, Merge, vol. 12, 2003, Stockholm, Sweden, p. 52.

Gaines, Charles, Surviving Alaska: Michael Joos Sublime Transformations. Michael Joo exhibition catalog, Institute of Technology Art Gallery, Boston, MA

2001

Gaines Projects 1995-2001, catalogue essay Adoline Kent Award exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1999

Gaines, Charles, Avant L.A. Letter, commentary, letters section, Artforum, February

Gaines, Charles, Memories: The Art of Kyung Won Moon, from the catalog, Kung Won Moon, Park Ryu Sook Gallery, Soul, South Korea

Gaines, Charles, Art and the Search for Origin Amidst the Scent of Flowers, from the catalogue Origins, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA.

Gaines, Charles, "Metonymy and the Defamiliarization of Objects," Lurid Stories: Charles

1996

Gaines, Charles, "Hotter Than July," Margo Leavin Gallery exhibition, Art + Text, #55, September, pp. 12, 16

1995

Gaines, Charles, commentary on the Whitney Museum exhibition "Black Male," World Art, January

Gaines, Charles, "Bear Stories," Framework, Volume 7, Issue 3, 1995, Los Angeles, California, p. 5

1994

Gaines, Charles, "Untitled," Color This! A Collection of Los Angeles Artists' Drawings, (Los Angeles:

Foundation For Art Resources, Inc. [FAR]), 1994, p. 44

1993

Gaines, Charles, "Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," Catalogue, (UC Irvine)

Gaines, Charles, "The Devil and Mona Lisa: Confessions of an Art Heckler," New Art Examiner, December, pg. 24

Gaines, Charles, "Manifesto," Promotional Copy, edited by Robin Kahn, (New York: Mimi Somerby, S.O.S. International, and B.R.A.T.), 1993, p. 33.

1990

Gaines, Charles, "Sandra Rowe: Androgyny and the Janusian Split," Catalogue (UC, Riverside), CA

Gaines, Charles, "Sandra Rowe: Androgyny and the Janusian Split,"Journal of Social Theory in Art Education, J.S.T.A.E., #10, April, pgs 158-163

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2015

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Sutton, Kate, Practice Makes Perfect, Artforum, March 14

Zellen, Jody, Charles Gaines, ArtScene, April

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Smith, Roberta, Review: Art for the Planets Sake at the Venice Biennale, New York Times, May 15

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2014

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2013

Berman, Aniko, Review: Charles Gaines, Paula Cooper Gallery, Flash Art, November December (Link)

Plagens, Peter, "Charles Gaines, 'Notes on Social Justice,'" The Wall Street Journal, September 28

Cotter, Holland, "Review: Charles Gaines, 'Notes on Social Justice,' " New York Times, September 27

Ricardo Phillips, Rowan, "Critics' Picks: Charles Gaines at Paula Cooper Gallery," Artforum, September 23 (Link)

Yoshi Tani, Ellen, Charles Gaines and Sol Lewitt at Paula Cooper NYC, Daily Serving, September 17

Schwabsky, Barry, Post-White? On Blues for Smoke: The Whiteys adventurous, awkard attempt to explore abstract art through the blues, The Nation, May 20

2012

Gaines, Malik, City after Fifty Years Living: L.A.s Differences in Relation, Art Journal, Vol. 71, No. 1, Spring

Michno, Christopher, Featured Review: Charles Gaines, Artillery, Vol. 7, Issue 2, November/December, p. 46

2011

Wood, Eve, Charles Gaines at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, art ltd, November

Hotle, Michael Ned, Differential Equations, Artforum, October

Soto, Paul, Infinite Re-Combination: Q & A with Charles Gaines, Art in America, September 12

Auf dem Freeway zur Kunst, ART Magazine, September

Knight, Christopher, Charles Gaines Manifestos at UCLA Hammer Museum, The Los Angeles Times, February 7

Simonson, Lily, Looking at Los Angeles, Ephermerality and Eternity in All of This and Nothing, Art:21Blog, February 24

Mizota, Sharon, All of This and Nothing at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Times, March 2

Finkel, Jori, Galleries join Pacific Standard Time, The Los Angeles Times, January 20

Poundstone, William, All of This and Nothing at the Hammer, ARTINFO, January 30

Ta, Jennifer, Hammer Museums All of This and Nothing adds the extra to the ordinary, Daily Bruin, Jan 31

Holte, Michael Ned, Charles Gaines: Form and Content, International Review of African American Art, Vol. 23, No. 3

2010

Merjian, Ara H., 30 Seconds off an Inch, Frieze, Issue 130, April

Stillman, Nick, Edgar Arceneaux, Charles Gaines & Rick Lowe, Bomb, Number 111, p.50-57, Spring Issue

2009

Boehm, Mike, MOCA celebrates 30 years and a rebirth, Los Angeles Times, November 8

2008

Johnson, Ken, Art In Review: Charles Gaines, New York Times, November 6

Chang, Richard, A Broader Biennial, Orange County Register, October 26

Buitron, Michael, 2008 California Biennial at the OCMA and Beyond, Leap Into the Void (blog), October 25

Chang, Richard, California Biennial reaches beyond the Golden State, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, October 24

Mizota, Sharon, Eureka moments, Los Angeles Times, October 19

Kilston, Lyra, Los Angeles: Field Guide, Modern Painters, October

Melrod, George, California Biennial: Lauri Firstenberg Interview, art ltd., October

Whats Up, Collection in Context: Four Decades, The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Summer

Seyfarth, Ludwig, Explosions Im Hirn, (Explosions in the Brain), Artnet, June 25

Explosions by Charles Gaines, (video), Vitascope, June

Chang, R, O.C. Museum of Art hires guest curator for biennial, The Arts Blog, ocregister.com, February 11 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZTu51BbG18&eurl=http://www.vitascope.de/kinosaal/c06.html)

Globalization of the Biennial Wave, Art in Asia Magazine, No. 4, March - April

Smith, Terry, The World From Europe: Mega-Exhibitions from Spring 2007, X-TRA Contemporary Art

Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 3, Spring

2007

Ostendorf, Yasmine, De Schoonheid Van Een Ramp, Mister Motley, December

JS, United States Artists winners, Flash Art Online, November 20

Fragoza, Carribean, LAXART Benefit Art Auction Draws Energetic Crowds and Funds, Flash Art Online, November 16

Boehm, Mike, USA Fellows puts artists in a flattering light, Los Angeles Times, November 15

Ann Hamilton and Edgar Arceneaux Among Winners of Fifty USA Fellowships, Artforum.com, November 15

Siegal, Katy, The Buck Stops Here, Artforum, September

Ollman, Leah, Smoggy side of L.A. Greenhouse, Los Angeles Times, August 10

Mizota, Sharon, Clarity in every crisis, Los Angeles Times, July 29

Brooks, Amra, Must See Art: Charles Gaines Greenhouse, LA Weekly, July 25

Bedford, Christopher, Charles Gaines at LAXART, Artforum, July 19

Wrigley, Paul, The 52nd International Art Exhibition, Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts, Australia, July

Levin, Kim, Death in Venice, The Brooklyn Rail, July

Schjeldahl, Peter, Big Ideas, New Yorker, June 25

OKeeffe, Alice, The art of a good time, New Statesman, June 21

Mustroph, Tom, Fragezeichen ber Venedig, Neues Deutschland, June 19

Czppan, Gabi, Augenschmaus statt Angstschweiβ, Focus, June 13

Kač, Maja, Policentrična umetnost tega trenutka, Triera (Slovenia), June 12

Kač, Maja, Policentrična umetnost tega trenutka, RTV Slovenija, June 12

Haun, Anne, Das grosse Kunst-Ragout, artnet, June 11

Venice Art Biennale 2007, designboom.com, continuously updated June-November

Finkel, Jori, A Reluctant Fraternity, Thinking Post-Black, New York Times, June 10

Schirrmeister, Benno, Isa Genzkens l fr Kunst-Programm, taz.de, June 9

Mathonnet, Philippe, A Venise, lart shumanise, Le Temps, June 9

Lacayo, Richard, And A Bit More On Storr, Time Magazine, June 8

Huber-Lang, Wolfgang, Zwischen Museum und Katastrophengebiet, Wiener Zeitung, June 8

De Sanctis Mangelli, Flavia, Paesaggi di Guerra, lUnit, June 7

Moshayedi, Aram, Charles Gains + Edgar Arceneaux, Art Papers, January/February

2006

Pagel, David, Connecting beauty, suffering, Los Angeles Times, December 22

Blumenstein, Ellen, L.A. Confidential, Monopol, November/December

Ollman, Leah, Forks abound in Snake River, Los Angeles Times, October 4

Muchnic, Suzanne, The Art Explosion, Los Angeles Times, October 1

Snake River, Photography Now, July/August/September

Rume und Kulturen verflochten, Krone O, May 19

Ausstellung, O Nachrichten, May 2

Kunst: Snake River im Lentos, Obersterreichblicke, May

Das sterreich-Kalendarium, Reisemagazin, May

Aktuelle Ausstellungen, Neues aus Linz, May

Thek, Franz, Sprache von Fluss und Musik, O Nachrichten, April 29

Hofleitner, Johanna, Der Lauf der Dinge, Schaufenster, April 28

Hutter, Andreas, Das Linzer Lentos als Kino und als Filmproduzent, Neues Volksblatt, April 28

Haderer, Gerhard, Snake River, sterreichisches Pressebro (oepb.at/linz), April 28

CB, Watchlist, Der Standard, April 27

Snake River im Lentos, Tips, April 25

Snake River, Schaufenster, April 21

Edgar Arceneaux und Charles Gaines: Snake River, freikarte.at, April 3

Snake River: Charles Gaines and Edgar Arceneaux, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz and the Roy and Edna

Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT show catalogue), Ed. Karen Jacobson

2005

Cotter, Holland, (mention in a review of Rodney McMillian exhibition), New York Times, January 21

2004 Haithman, Diane, Crossing Generations, Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section, January 19, p. 2.

Harvey, Doug, Color Theory, Fade to Black, LA Weekly, February 13-19, 2004, p. 55.

Cotter, Holland, Charles Gaines Survey Exhibition: 1991-2004, New York Times, p. B31, April 30

2003

Iwona Blaswick, Conference Report: Beauty rears its ugly head again, re Charles Gainess The Paradox of Black

Pluralism, Art Monthly, No. 265, pp. 44-45, April

2002

Calder, Diane, Charles Gaines, artscenecal.com, April

2001

Miles, Christopher, Charles Gaines, Artforum, February, p. 158.

Bonetti, David, "Gaines probes darkness in 'Lurid Stories' show," review, San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, p. C1

Helfand, Glen, "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines," The San Francisco Bay Guardian, July 4-10, Vol. 35, No. 40, p. 73.

Olson, Marisa S., "Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines at the San Francisco Art Museum", Artweek, September, Vol. 32, Issue 9, pp. 19-20

Gaines, Malik, Remember the Grid, Untitled, Summer 2001, No. 25

2000

Sirmans, Franklin, review of Weber show, John Weber Gallery, Time Out/New York, issue #238, April 13-20

Myers, Holly, "Disasters in the Making," Los Angeles Times, December 29, p. F32

1999

Intra, Giovanni, La struttura mobile, article, Tema Celeste, No. 72, January/February, pp. 50-55

Pagel, David, Glimpses of the Drama in LA Settings, Los Angeles Times, July 16, p. F31

1998

Klein, Jennie, "Circumventing the Center: Identity Politics and Marginalization," Postmodern Perspectives, Howard

Risatti, ed., (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice Hall), 1998, pp 273, 297-99, 300-301

Intra, Giiovanni, review of "Airplanecrashclock", Richard Heller Gallery, Art/Text, #59, p. 89, November, 1997-January, 1998, p. 89.

"Transfiction I," Wienlexicon Kunstkalender, #34, review, Charim Klocker Gallery, April

Curtis, Cathy, "When Seeing Isn't Believing, Orange County Calendar, Los Angeles Times, Oct. 12, p. F 2

Schoenkopf, Rebecca, "Cool World: Alternative environments are neat!" review of "other related areas," U. C. Irvine Art Gallery, Orange County Weekly, October 23-29, p. 29

Walsh, Daniella, "A visit to 'Other Related Areas,' " review of "other related areas, U. C. Irvine Art Gallery, Fine Arts, review, Orange County Register, October 25, p. 26

1997

Intra, Giovanni, Charles Gaines, Art/Text, 1997

Otto, Susan, review of "Airplanecrashclock", review, Richard Heller Gallery, Art in America, December, p. 99

1996

Knight, Christopher, "There's Evidence of Good Work Found at 'Scene of Crime.' "Los Angeles Times, July 29,sec. F, p. 1.

Hale, David, Was victims fate merely in the stars? Fresno Bee, February 17, p. H4

1995

Gerstler, Amy, "Night/Crimes", Artforum, Vo. 34, No. 1, September, p. 97.

Zellen, Jody, "Night/Crimes", Art Press, September, p. 11

Frank, Peter, "Art Picks of the Week," L. A. Weekly, Vol. 17, No. 28, June 9-15

Brooks, Rosetta, "The Metaphysics of Murder: Charles Gaines Work Explores the Human and the Cosmic", L. A. Village View, p. 39, June 2-8

Nolan, Timothy, review of Night/Crimes, Lewis Baltz at Gallery Ram and Charles Gaines at the Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica Museum show, Artweek, p. 26, June

Green, David, "Net Gaines: Making a Case for "Night/Crimes.", Los Angeles Reader, May 26

Kandel, Susan, review of "Night/Crimes," Santa Monica Museum, Los Angeles Times, April 20

1993

Waddington, Chris, "Pieces don't make a whole at CAC show." Lagniappe, November 5, pgs. 23-25

Veneciano, Daniel, review of "No Justice, No Peace," New Art Examiner, February

1992

Pagel, David, "Becoming Unraveled, LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition", Los Angeles Times, December 11

1991

Chattopodhyay, Collette, Charles Gaines, Artweek, July 18

Ger, Suvan, Group Effort Using Science Pays Off, The Los Angeles Times, July 19

1990

Hale, David, article, FSU ties intact as Gaines leaves for Cal Arts, The Fresno Bee, September 9

1989

Fresh Visions," Los Angeles Times, Aug. 25

1985

Vivien Raynor, Art: The Conceptualists, New York Times, July 12

1982

Liebman, Lisa, Charles Gaines, Art Forum, Vol. 20, No. 6, pg. 88, February

1980

Review of "Systems, Inquiry, Translation," Art Forum, Nov

1979

Muchnic, Susanne, review of Margo Leavin Gallery exh., Los Angeles Times, July 7

Review of Fresno Exhibition., West Art

Review of "The Grid," The New Art Examiner, May

Article, Print Collectors Newsletter, Chicago, July

"Exchanges," Soho News, NYC, May 30

Hale, David, Gaines: All Systems Are Go, The Fresno Bee

Frank, Peter, "Exchanges, "Village Voice, June 18

New Art Examiner, April

Alloway, Lawrence, review of "Exchanges," New York Times, June 8

Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, April 2

San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 7

1978

Article, Fresno Bee, December 13

Hale, David, All Systems Go, Fresno Bee, August 13

Brengelman, Paula, The Big Raisin, Aug 1978, vol. 2, Issue 8, Titled "New Gaines Book, book

Marjorie Del Parker, "Bolomey and Gaines at Fresno Art Center," West Art, July 13, p. 3

1975

Hoesterey, Ingeborg, review of Whitney Biennial, New York, Art International, May 15, pg 54

1972

Cinque Gallery exhibit, Art News, May

"Recent Paintings of Charles Gaines at Cinque Gallery", New York Amsterdam News, Vol. 1 No. 7, April

Wilson, William, "Lumber and Beds and USC", The Los Angeles Times, October 23

Catalogues

2019

English, D., Barat, C., and Lowery, G. D. (2019). Among Others, Blackness at MoMA. Pg 208-209. Museum of Modern Art.

2017

Galpin, Amy, ‘Time As Landscape. Inquiries of Art and Science’, Winter Park: Cornell Fine Arts Museum

2016

Franke, Anselm, Stephanie Hankey, and Marek Tuszynski, “Nervous Systems: Quantified Life and the Social Question,” Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

Martin, Courtney J., “Four Generations: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection of Abstract Art,” New York, NY

2014

Sirmans, Franklin, Prospect.3: Notes for Now, Prospect New Orleans, DelMonico-Prestel

2012

Simpson, Bennett, Blues for Smoke, catalogue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Prestel

2011

Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, Hammer Museum, Delmonico-Prestel

Dance/Draw, ICA Boston, Hatje Cantz

State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, catalogue, University of California Press

2008

Entre Chien et Loup, catalogue, Kent Gallery, New York, NY

2006

Snake River: Charles Gaines & Edgar Arceneaux, catalogue, REDCAT, Los Angeles and Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz

2005

Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

2004

International Review of African American Art, , Rhythm of Structure, photo of Charles Gaines, Numbers and Trees, vol. 19, no. 3

Recherche-entdeckt! Bilderarchive der Unsichtbarkeiten (Research-discovered! Picture Archive of the Invisibilities), catalog for the Sixth Esslingen International Photo Trienial, Galerie de Stadt, Esslingen am Neckar, Revolver: Archiv fr aktuelle Kunst, Andreas Bur and Ludwig Seyfarth, editors

2001

Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, San Francisco Art Institute Publication, Adaline Kent Award exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Vol. 4, No. 3, Summer, p 9

Gaines, Malik, "Remember the Grid: Charles Gaines interviewed by Malik Gaines," article, Untitled, UK summer, No. 25, p. 22, 23

Song Poems: Lyrics into Songs into Videos, Posters and Album Covers, a project by Steven Hull, Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York City, June

2000

Pagel, David, Themes Out of School: Art and Education in Los Angeles, catalogue for the Creative Artist Agency Collection, (Los Angeles: CAA ), April, p. 51

Franklin Sirmans,Lurid Stories: Charles Gaines Projects 1995-2001, catalogue essay Adaline Kent Award exhibition, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

1999

Johnstone, Mark, Contemporary Art in Southern California, (Sydney: Craftsman House), pp. 72-75

1998

Birrell Studio, Eagle Rock, California

More than Meets the Eye: Triennale der Photographie, catalogue, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

1997

Von Maur, Karin, Magie der Zahl: in der Kunst des 20 Jahrhunderts, catalogue, Stadtsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Hull, Steven, Im Still In Love With You, catalogue, Steven Hull, Twentieth Century Century Womens Club,

1995

Gamblin, Noriko, Night/Crimes, brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, April, 1995

Art Walk, '95, Venice Family Clinic, Venice, CA, May, 1995

1993

Gookin, Kirby, The Naming of the Colors, White Columns, New York City, April

Gerstler, Amy, L. A Next: Six Los Angeles Artists, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, October 1

1992

Force/Sight, International Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Presteneck, Brigitte March, Wurzburg, Stuttgart, Sept.

No Justice, No Peace, California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles,Ca., October,

Hugo, Joan, Counterweight, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, Ca., November

Gerstler, Amy; Fehlau, Fred, LAX, THE LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, December

1989

Landscape Visions, Office of the Chancellor, Art Gallery, CSU Long Beach, Ca., January

1988

Artists Forum: Selected Faculty Artists from the California State University, CSU, Los Angeles, Oct.

Gookin, Kirby, Charles Gaines, Catalogue, Lavignes-Bastille Gallery, Paris, Jan

1985

Process Und Konstruktion, 1985 in Munich, Archives of Contemporary Thought, Galerie Brigitte March, June

Black and White Drawings from ther David Nellis Collection, California State University, Los Angeles, Ca

Selections from the William Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1981

Artists from the John Weber Gallery, (brochure), John Weber Gallery, New York City

Paoletti, John, No Title: Selections from the Collection of Sol LeWitt, Wesleyan University, Ct., Oct.

Brockington, Horace, Post modernist Metaphors, The Alternative Museum, New York City, April

Anderson, Richard E., New Dimensions in Drawing, 1950-1980, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Ct., May

Posner, Helane, Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, Chase Manhattan Bank

Miller-Keller, Andrea; Ravenal, John B., From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, ICI Curators, 1985-86

1979

Lippard, Lucy; Exchanges, Henry Street Settlement, New York City, April

Portraits, (brochure), Center for the Visual Arts, Apen, Co.

1978

Rainer Crone, Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, (ill.)

Landfall Press, Inc., Chicago, IL., Dec

1975

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, (ill.)

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2018

REDCAT Gala Honoree, Los Angeles CA

2015

CAA Artist Award for a Distinguished Body of Work

2013

Guggenheim Fellowship

2008

Faculty Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

2007

United States Artists Fellowship

Norton Family Foundation Grant, Los Angeles

2004

Durfee Foundation Grant, Los Angeles

California Institute of the Arts, Deans Grant, Valencia, CA

2001

Adoline Kent Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

1977

National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Public Collections

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Galerie der Stadt Esslingen, Esslingen, Germany

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Lentos Museum, Linz, Austria

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Pennsylvannia Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, Canada

Santa Fe Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM

Stadtishche Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY

Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY