Bio

Patti Oleon was born in 1954 in Saint Louis, MO.

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EDUCATION

1975-8

MFA and BA University of California Los Angeles

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025

Coming Home, SHRINE, New York, NY

2024

Tomorrow Looks Like Yesterday, Lowell Ryan Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2023

Other Side of Night, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2022

Shifting Ground, Modernism Inc. Gallery, San Francisco,CA

2018

Sideways, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Somewhere Else, Modernism Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2017

Neither Here Nor There, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

2015

Another Way Around, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

Parallel Spaces, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas

Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Houston, TX

2013

Elsewhere, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA

2012

Selected Paintings, George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Transfigured Spaces, Modernism, Inc. San Francisco, CA

2010

Other Spaces, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR

Transference, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalog)

2009

Phantom Spaces, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)

2007

On Locations, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

2006

Other Places, Modernism, Inc.Gallery, San Francisco, CA

On Location, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004

Light Fiction, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA

2003

Other Light, Modernism, Inc. Galllery, San Francisco, CA

2001

Patti Oleon, New Work, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999

Patti Oleon, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1988

Patti Oleon, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Picturing Light: artists explore luminosity, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

Time-Being, Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

45th Anniversary Exhibition, Modernism Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2023

Sweets & Treats, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The de Young Open exhibition, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

Intersections/Disruptions, LaunchLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Summer Gallery Artists Exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

Sugar & Spice, Scotty Project Space, Berlin, Germany

2022

Pattern/Nature, Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Intersect Palm Springs with Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

It’s My House!, Porch Gallery curated by Cura Art, Ojai, CA

2021

Intersect Art Aspen, with Edward Cella Gallery, Aspen, CO

Gallery Artists: Summer Exhibition, Bentley Gallery, Phoenix, AZ

…And Elsewhere, Charles Long Projects Inaugeral Exhibition, Pomona, CA

Intersect 21 Artfair, a virtual exhibition, with Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Hope Made Visible, online group exhibition, Orth Contemporary, Tulsa, OK

2020

Created In Place, a virtual exhibition, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Between Worlds, Edward Cella Gallery at PDC, Los Angeles, CA

Estate and Gallery Artists, R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA

As Inside, So Outside, Yngspc online exhibition, co-curator David. B. Smith Gallery, CO

2019

Multiverse, George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

2017

Fog Design+Art Fair, Edward Cella Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Annual 2017 Auction, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2016

Dallas Art Fair, Cris Worley fine Arts, Dallas, TX

2015

Selected Paintings by Gallery Artists, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2014

6018 Wilshire Boulevard, Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Los Angeles, CA

Dallas Art Fair, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

Incognito 2014, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2013

Three Person Show, Cris Worley Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

2012

Illumination, Carl Berg Projects, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

The $99 Show, Irvine Fine Arts Center, curated by Carl Berg, Irvine, CA

Incognito 2012, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2011

Scalding Hot, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY

TIMEless, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA

Incognito 2011, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

Works: 248-269, Marine Contemporary Art Salon, Santa Monica, CA

2010

Stormy Weather, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Small Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Perspectives 2010, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2009

Manifestations, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

New Work, Three person exhibition, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2007

LA in NY Art Fair, Carl Berg Gallery, New York, NY

Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA

2006

Los Angeles Art Now, Galleri S.E. Bergen, Norway

2004

Singing My Song, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

25th Anniversary Show, Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA

Show and Tel, Zimmer Children’s Museum/Jewish Federation of Los Angeles

2003

Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho

Attack:Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002

The New Romantics, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Selected Works, Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA

Debra Owen Gallery, San Diego, CA

2001

Bay Area Artists, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

2000

Living Is Easy, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY

1995

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Second Nature, Director’s Guild, Los Angeles, CA

1994

Serious Beauty, Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Serious Beauty II, Stuart Katz Gallery, La Jolla, CA

1991

Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY

1987

White Columns Gallery, New York, NY

1986

New Work, Studio Two, New York, NY

1982

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1978

Introductions, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

Frederick W. Wright Gallery, UCLA, CA

College Art Gallery, New Paltz, N

Selected Awards and Honors

2022

New American Paintings #157, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2013

2013 Guggenheim Foundation Grant, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, NYC, NY

Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

2009

Visiting Artist Lecturer, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

2006

New American Paintings #67, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA

2004

The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York, NY

Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY

1987-1988

Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, New York, NY

1979-1980

Fulbright Fellowship, Munich, Germany

1978

Ford Foundation Travel Grant

1977-1978

UCLA Teaching Assistantship Grant

1977-8

Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship