Richard Godfrey received his M.F.A. in 1978 from the San Francisco Art Institute and his B.F.A. in 1977 from the San Francisco Art Institute with additional studies from the Carnegie Mellon University and Cleveland Art Institute. Since relocating to Los Angeles, he has shown his work internationally and is represented in many private, corporate and public collections.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute 1978 (Studied under Tom Holland and Ron Linden)
B.F.A. San Francisco Art Institute 1977 (Studied under Peter Voulkos and Robert Hudson)
SELECTED MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2009 | “Asto Museum International Art Exhibition,”Asto Museum, Seoul, Korea. |
“GBIAF,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea | |
2008 | “Gwanghamoon Art Festival,” XXIX Olympiad, National Foundation of China, Beijing, China |
“Gwanghamoon Art Festival,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea | |
2007 | “Gwanghamoon Art Festival,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea |
“Asto Museum International Art Exhibition,” National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea | |
“Simultaneous Simplicity,” Korea Art Center, Beijing, China | |
2006 | “Palette Momes,” Musee Adzak, Paris, France |
2005 | “Eastern Lights, LELA. Bangkok Museum of Art, Bangkok, Thailand |
2004 | “Jeju International Art Festival,” Kidang Museum, Jeju, Korea |
2000 | “Time,” Riverside Museum of Art, Riverside, CA |
SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Musee d’Adzak, Paris, France 2008 L2Kontempory, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Phantom Gallery LA, Pasadena, CA
5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA
2006 | M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA |
Bert Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
2005 | Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA |
Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA | |
2004 | Cal Poly Pomona, Pomona, CA |
Asto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
2003 | Denise Roberge Gallery, Palm Desert, CA |
Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA | |
2002 | Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA |
Artemis Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
GROUP EXHIBTIONS
2009 “Fresh,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA “AIAF,” Asto Museum , Seoul, Korea “GBIS,” Sejong Culture Center, Beijing, China
2008 “GIAF,” XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, China “GISF”, Sejong Culture Center, Seoul, Korea “New Traditionalists, D A Foundation, Pomona, CA
2007 “GIAF,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “AIAF,” National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea “Simultaneous Simplicity,” Korea Art Center, Beijing, China “Hausguests,” Haus Gallery @ the Brewery Project, Los Angeles, CA “1st International Art Festival,” Asto Museum, Longbeach, CA “Drive By,” Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA
2006 “Far and Wide,” M. J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA
2006 “Let There Be Light“, Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA | |
2006 “Idyllwild Faculty Art Exhibition”, Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA | |
2005 | “Situational Prosthetics”, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA |
“Autumn Lights”, Cal Trans Plaza, Los Angeles, CA | |
“5 Year Anniversary Exhibition“, Bedlam Arts, Los Feliz, CA | |
2004 | “Three”, Anke Wehner Hausverwaltung Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
“Boston - Los Angeles“, Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA | |
2003 | “Vessels”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
COLLECTIONS:
Kaiser Permante, Denver, CO National Assembly Library, Seoul, South Korea Weisman Collection, Beverly Hills, CA University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Richard Godfrey’s work has been written about in many articles and catalogs by numerous writers, critics and authors, including Mat Gleason, Thomas Albright, Peter Frank, Bill Lazarow and Susan Kandell.
Extended Resume
1978 M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1977 B.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California 1971 Cleveland Art Institute, Cleveland, Ohio 1970 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2009 “2009 GBISF” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “2009 ASTO AIAF” ASTO Museum, Seoul, Korea “2009 ASTO Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA “Fresh,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “GIAF,” National Foundation of China, XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, China “Diverse Directions, “Korea Art Center,
Beijing, Republic of China “GIAF,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “Different and Coexist,” USA - Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Asto Museum of Art, Wrightwood, CA “2nd International Art Festival in Wrightwood,” Asto Museum,
Wrightwood, CA 2007 “GIAF,” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “Simultaneous Simplicity,” Korea Art Center, Beijing, Republic of China “1st International Art Festival in Longbeach,” Asto Museum, Longbeach, CA “Asto International Art Festival, National Assembly Library,
Seoul, Korea 2006 “Palette Momes,” Musee Adzak, Paris, France 2005 “Eastern Lights,” LELA, Bangkok Museum of Art, Bangkok, Thailand 2004 “Jeju International Art Festival,” Kidang Museum, Jeju, South Korea 2000 “Time,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
“MOCA Art Auction 2000,” Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA 1998 “Illusion,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA 1997 “Pyong - Taek International Arts Festival,” Pyong - Taek City Museum
Pyong - Taek, Korea “International Exchange Show,” Kitashyushu Art Museum, Kitashyushu, Japan 1986 “Perceptions,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Julie Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Musee d’Adzak, Paris, France Asto Museum, Wrightwood, CA
2008 L2Kontemporary, Los Angeles, CA Bunny Gunner, Pomona, CA 2007 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA 2006 Bert Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles, CA Warschaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA
2004 CalPoly Pomona, Pomona, CA Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA Asto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Bedlam Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Denise Roberge Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA
2002 Armory Art Center, Pasadena, CA Denise Roberge Art Gallery, Palm Desert, CA Artemis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA Toyota USA, Torrance, CA 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA
2000 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA Edward Giardiana Contemporary, Art Annex, Santa Ana, CA Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys, CA
1999 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA Edward Giardrina Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA 1998 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Cerro Coso Community College, Ridgecrest, CA 1997 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA 1996 Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
Random, Los Angeles, CA LA Artcore, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA Random, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Patricia Correia Gallery, Venice, CA Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Patricia Correia Annex, Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
1990 Roark, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Santa Barbara Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Rancho Santiago College (Santa Ana College), Santa Ana, CA Barnsdall Junior Arts Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1988 Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA 1987 Seawright Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, CA 1984 Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA 1994 James Turcotte Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1983 Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Chevron Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 Bridge Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1980 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA 1980 Center for the Visual Arts, Oakland, CA 1979 Sun Gallery, Hayward, CA 1977 Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada 1976 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
GROUP SHOWS
2009 “2009 GBISF” Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “2009 ASTO AIAF” ASTO Museum, Seoul, Korea “Fresh,” MOCA, Los Angeles, CA “2009 ASTO Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA “Installation,” Silva White Gallery, Ventura, CA “Home,” L2Kontemporary, Pasadena, CA
2008 “Gwanghamoon International Art Festival - 2008,” “Sejong Cultural Center,” Seoul, Korea “Different and Coexist,” USA - Japan Contemporary Art Exhibition,
Asto Museum of Art, Wrightwood, CA “Pasadena Artwalk,” Phantom Galleries, Pasadena, CA “Group Exhibition,” Malibu Living Gallery, Malibu, CA “Poipztlan,” DA Foundation, Pomona, CA “Gwanghamoon International Art Festival,” Sejong Cultural Center,
Seoul, Korea “Diverse Directions,” Korea Art Center, XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, Republic of China “2nd International Art Festival in Wrightwood,” Asto Museum, Wrightwood, CA “Idyllwild Summer Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA “The New Traditionalists,” DA Foundation, Pomona, CA “Atelier - Showroom,” M. J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA “Downtown Diaspora,” Roark, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Annual Downtown Artists’ Grant Exhibition,” Dangerous Curve,
Los Angeles, CA “Haus Guests,” Haus Gallery@Brewery Projects, Los Angeles, CA “1st International Art Festival in Longbeach, Asto Museum,
Longbeach, CA
2007 “Simultaneous Multiplicity,” Gwangwhamoon International Art Festival - 2007, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “Asto International Exhibition,” National Assembly Library, Seoul, Korea “Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2006 “Drive By,” Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena, CA “Let There be Light,” Phantom Galleries LA, Pasadena CA “Artist Group Exhibition, M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA “Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA “Gallery Gardens,” Caltrans, Eli and Edythe Broad Plaza,
Los Angeles, CA “Palette Momes,” Musee Adzak, Paris, France “The Last Show,” Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “On View,” Warchaw Gallery, San Pedro, CA “Far and Wide,” M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA “Three Painters’” Bedlam Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005 “Situational Prosthetics,” New Langton Street, San Francisco, CA “Lantern of the East,” LELA, Bangkok Museum of Art, Bangkok, Thailand “Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA “5 Year Anniversary, Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “LA Art Fest” Downtown Arts Festival, Los Angeles, CA “Group Gallery Exhibition” Asto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Autumn Lights,” Cal Trans Plaza Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Art of the Collector,” M. J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA “1st Anniversary Group Show,” M.J. Higgins, Los Angeles, CA “Circa ‘75,” New Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
2004 "THREE,” Anke Wehner Hausverwaltung Gallery, Berlin, Germany “Boston <--> LA,” Columns, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA “Jeju International Art Festival, Kidang Museum, Jeju, North Korea “Mirror, Mirror..,” Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA “Asto International Art Festival,” Asto Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Saints and Sinners,” Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “S6X,” 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA
2003 “Vessels,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “The Usual Suspects,” Bedlam Art Salon, Los Feliz, CA “The X-Mas Show at Bedlam,” Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “Quema del Diablo,” 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA
“Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition,” Parkman Exhibition Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2002 “Quema del Diablo,” 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA “Atelier 02,” Denise Roberge Gallery. Palm Desert, CA “Idyllwild Faculty Exhibition, “Parkman Exhibition Center,
Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA
2001 “Buy Art,” Bedlam Art, Los Feliz, CA “Forty Something,” 5ifty Bucks, Pomona, CA “4 Artists,” Robostudios, Brewery Artwalk. Los Angeles, CA “I am in this Show,” 5ifty Bucks, Los Angeles, CA “Made in Los Angeles,” 777 Figueroa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Project Mayhem,” 5ifty Bucks, Los Angeles, CA “Collaborations,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station,
Santa Monica, Ca “Spurgeon Experience,” Santa Ana, CA 2000 “Collaborations,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station,
Santa Monica, CA “Spurgeon Experience,” Santa Ana, CA “Fishing for Art,” 5ifty Bucks, Los Angeles, CA “Group Exhibition,” Bedlam Art Salon, Los Feliz, CA “Brick,” Los Angeles, CA
1999 “Time,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA “Group Show ‘99,” Edward Giardino Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA “Summer Faculty Show,” Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 1998 “Illusion,” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA “Show and Tell,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
1997 “Abstract Synergism,” Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Hodge Podge,” Spanish Kitchen, Los Angeles, CA “Art You Can Live With,” LA Art Core, Brewery Annex,
Los Angeles, CA 1996 “Shades of Green,” Gensler and Associates, Santa Monica, CA “In Your Pocket,” Luckman Gallery, University of Los Angeles,
California, Los Angeles, CA “Green,” Factory Place Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Miracle of 19th Street,” Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
1995 “Light,” Patricia Correia Gallery, (Inaugural Exhibition), Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA “Invitational,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA “Bergamot Gallery Exhibition,” Gensler and Associates, Santa Monica, CA
“Selections,” Knoll Design, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
1995 “In the Pocket,” Random Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Dada Tour,” 1995,” Los Angeles, CA “Windows,” Full Moon Gallery, FAR, Los Angeles, CA “Miracle of 19th Street,” Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA
1994 “Invitational,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Venice, CA “Showcase,” Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica, CA “Dada,” Los Angeles, CA “Far Bizarre 1994,” Los Angeles, CA “West Coast Sculpture,” Artyard, Denver, CO
1993 “Dada,” Los Angeles, CA “Light,” Patricia Correia Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA “Contemporary Artists,” Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 “ART/LA 93,” Los Angeles, CA
“Overview,” Artspace, Los Angeles, CA 1991 “Downtown Show,” American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 “December Show,” American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Red Zone,” Los Angeles, CA
1989 “Present Tense,” American Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Four Los Angeles Artists,” Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Laguna Art Museum Annual,” Laguna Art Museum,
Laguna Beach, CA 1988 “Trompe L’oeil, The Magic of Deception,” Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA “Art for All Seasons,” Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, CA 1986 “Sculptural Deceptions,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA “Magical Mystery Tour ‘86,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1985 “Light and Dimension,” Gensler and Associates,
Los Angeles, CA 1984 “Gallery View,” Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 1983 “New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA “Magical Mystery Tour ‘83,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Group Show,” Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1982 “New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” University of California, Northridge, CA
“12th International Sculpture Conference,” San Francisco, CA 1981 “New Work,” Modernism, San Francisco, CA 1980 “Three Bay Area Artists,” Pro Arts, Oakland, CA 1979 “Teachers and Students,” Anna Gardener Gallery,
Stinson Beach, CA
1976 “M.F.A. Exhibition,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1975 “Prints,” Transamerica Gallery, San Francisco, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles, CA Felderman/Keatinge and Associates, Los Angeles, CA Gonzales and Goodale, Pasadena, CA Korea National Assembly Library, Seoul, South Korea LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO University of California, Los Angeles, CA Reign, Beverly Hills, CA Reactor Films, Santa Monica, CA
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
David and Carol Bishop, Los Angeles, CA Kate Borroughs, La Canada, CA Patricia Correia, Topanga, CA Rolo Castillo, Pomona, CA Mia Dinnely, Malibu, CA Susie Eaton, Pomona, CA Jim Fittipauldi, Los Angeles, CA Suzanne Geary, Los Angeles, Gail Gayle, Hollywood, CA Eric Gottheif, Los Angeles, CA Diane and Peter Grey, Los Angeles, CA Kim Grover, New York, NY Ika Gufar, Los Angeles, CA Michi Itami, New York, NY
M. Hahn, San Pedro, CA
E. Hoffman, Harrisburg, PA Brenda Hurst, Los Angeles, CA Michael Hughes, Las Vegas, NV Carline and Lars Jorgensen, Los Angeles, CA Kim Kaufman, Los Angeles, CA Ann Quinn, Los Angeles, CA Raymond Y. Newton, Los Angeles, CA Soren Kenner, Copenhagen, DK Shelah Lehrer-Graiwer, Los Angeles, CA Frances and Mark Leonard, Los Angeles, CA Marium Lewis, Chicago, CA Edna Lopez, S. Pasadena, CA Jendle Lowry, Claremont, CA Ron Linden, San Pedro, CA Midge and George Lyn, Los Angeles, CA Jason Luk, Los Angeles, CA Vea Marx, Oakland, CA James Michael Mahoney, Yarmouth, ME Richard Montoya, Los Angeles, CA Lilli Muller, Los Angeles, CA Arturo Nunez, Los Angeles, CA Michael O’Neil, Moniceito, CA Sarah Phrommer, Los Angeles, CA Allison and Jeffrey Pinchuk, Los Angeles, CA Rick Robertson, Los Angeles, CA Robert Reynolds, Los Angeles, CA Rick Serrato, Whittier, CA Michael Salerno, Los Angeles, CA Larry Scarpa, Venice, CA William Steck, Cleveland, OH Robin Trousedale, San Pedro, CA Tara Thomas, Los Angeles, CA Raymond Y. Newton, Los Angeles, CA Lyzzy and James Wilcox, Los Angeles, CA Norton Wisdom, Los Angeles, CA Emerson Woelfer Estate, Los Angeles, CA Tracy Vacarro, Pasadena, CA Jayir Zorthian Estate, Alta Dena, CA
TEACHING
Idyllwild Arts, (Summer Program), Idyllwild, CA, 2009 - 1997 Chairman - Instructor (Painting and Drawing) ISLS, “Teen Art - Spanish Workshop,”
Playa De Tamarindo, Costa Rica 2008, 2007 Ragan Art Academy, Friends of the Junior Arts Center, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA 2005 - 1998
Staff Instructor (Painting and Drawing)
Ragan Art Academy, Friends of the Junior Arts Center 1998 -1996 Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA Director - Staff Instructor (Drawing)
Idyllwild Arts, (Summer Program), Idyllwild, CA, 1998 Staff Instructor (Painting and Drawing) Ragan Art Academy, Friends of the Junior Arts Center 1998 -1996
Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
Director - Staff Instructor (Drawing)
Barnsdall Junior Arts Center,
City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department Staff Instructor (Drawing and Ceramics) 1997-1989
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Evenings for Educators, Visiting Artist, 1995 – 1994
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, Teaching Assistant (Drawing/Tom Holland) 1978
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA Teaching Assistant (Drawing/Robert Hudson) 1977
EDUCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS
“Picture This,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2008
“Primed”, Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2007
“Portfolio Eight,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2006
“Life Draw” Larry Bell, Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2005
“Portfolio Eight,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2006
“Life Draw” Larry Bell, Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 2005
“Ragan Art Academy Graduation Exhibition,” Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA 2005
“Summer Exhibition,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA 1998 - 2005
“Inkworks,” Ragan Art Academy, Brewery Artwalk, Los Angeles, CA 2005
“Ragan Art Academy Graduation Exhibition,”
Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA 2004
“International Students’ Exhibition, Nagoya, Japan 2004, 2005, 2006
“Nagoya City Angel Project,” LANSCA, 2004
“Innercity,” Gale Galye, California Arts Council Grant,
Barnsdall Arts Foundation 2004
“My Book,” Allison Saar, Miller Workshop Fellowship, Barnsdall Art Foundation, 2003
“Community,” Kim Abeles, Miller Foundation Workshop, Barnsdall Arts Foundation, 2003
“Figuration,” Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica Mall, Santa Monica, CA, 2002 “Sony Mural,” Robbie Conal, Farragut Elementary School, Culver City, CA, 2001 “Painting and Drawing,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, 2000 “Student Show,” Parkman Art Center, Idyllwild Arts,
Idyllwild, CA, 1999 “Working on the Metro...Together,” Los Angeles, CA, 1999 “Via Marisol Mural,” Los Angeles Cultural Affairs,
Los Angeles, CA, 1999 “Student Painting and Drawing,” Idyllwild Art Gallery Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, 1998 “Selected Works,” Ragan Art Academy, Taylor Family Gallery, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, 1998 “Ink,” Ragan Art Academy,
Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA, 1998 “Student Review,” Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, 1998 “Fox Storytelling Mural,” Sony Pictures, Commonwealth Elementary
School, Los Angeles, CA, 1997 “Gesture and Form,” Childrens’ Art Gallery, Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997 “Junior Arts Center 30th Anniversary Exhibition,” Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1997 “Sunday Open Sunday,” Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1998-1996 “Gestural Directions,” Ragan Art Academy, Childrens’ Art Gallery, Barnsdall Junior Arts Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1996 “Mount Washington Elementary School Mural,” Los Angeles, CA, 1995 “Barnsdall Junior Arts Center 25th Anniversary Mural,” Los Angeles, CA, 1994
DEMONSTRATIONS AND LECTURES
Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA Los Angeles Valley College, Los Angeles, CA Woodbury University, Burbank, CA Korea National University, Seoul, Korea LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles Unified School District, Los Angeles, CA Santa Monica City College, Santa Monica, CA Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA Gene Autry Museum, Los Angeles, CA Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA University of California, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA Pacific Design Center, West Week 2000, Los Angeles, CA
FILM, TELEVISION, RADIO, MEDIA
2008 “Blue Cross of Rhode Island,”(Commercial Advertisement),
Space Program, Los Angeles, CA 2007 “Mat Gleason Seven,” Artscene Visual Radio, December 24, 2007 2003 “The Inspired Vessel,” Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Life and Times, Val Zavala’s, KCET 2000 “Panic,” Artisan Productions (Donald Sutherland, William H. Macy, and Ulla Thurman) “The Kid,” Disney Productions (Bruce Willis) 1994 “Art in the Park - Barnsdall Art Park,” Channel 56, Los Angeles, CA
CATALOGS AND PUBLICATIONS
“Third World Art Festival - WAF)), Korean Cultural Center, XXIX Olympiad, Beijing, Republic of China “Gwanghamoon International Art Festival 2008,” Gallery Guide, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “Difference and Coexistence - 2008,” Asto Museum of Art, Gustav Yim, Tokyo, Japan; Los Angeles, CA “Gwanghamoon International Art Festival 2007,” Gallery Guide, Sejong Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea “Lantern of the East,” International Art Festival, Srinakharinwirot
University, Bangkok, Thailand 2005 “Situational Prosthetics,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA 2005 “1st Jeju International Art Festival, Jeju Museum of Art, Gustave Yim,
Jeju, Korea, 2004 “MOCA Art Auction 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Jeremy Strick, Los Angeles, CA, 2000 “Most Art Sucks,” Mat Gleason, 1998 “3rd Pyong Taek International Art Festival,” Pyong Taek City Museum, Washimi Tetsuhiko,
Pyong Taek, Korea, 1987 “DADA TOUR,” Los Angeles, CA 1995, 1996 “California Art Review,” Les Krantz, 1998 “Trompe L’Oeil” Mukenthaler Cultural Center, Norman Lloyd,
Fullerton, CA, 1988 “Space/Light/Equilibrium - an Installation by Richard Godfrey,” Rancho Santiago College Art Gallery, Shifra Goldman,
Rancho Santiago College, Santa Ana, CA 1986
“New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” Judith Dunham and Christopher Brown, San Francisco Art Institute/University of California, Northridge, CA1981
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
California Arts Council Grant City of Los Angeles Letter of Recognition City of Los Angeles Letter of Appreciation Downtown Artists Grant
ORGANIZATIONS, AFFILIATIONS, AND REPRESENTATIVES
Downtown Artists Project Grant National Endowment for the Arts Republic of Germany Arts and Sciences International Fellows Armory Center of the Arts, Pasadena, CA Asto Museum of Art, Longbeach, CA Barnsdall Arts Foundation (Friends of the Junior Arts)
(Board Member 2002 - 1998) Idyllwild Arts California Arts Education Association
(Regional Representative (2006) DA Foundation, Pomona, CA Dangerous Curve (exhibiting artist), Los Angeles, CA Downtown Artists Project Association (artist member) Idyllwild Arts Academy, (Summer Program), Idyllwild, CA LA Artcore, Los Angeles, CA (associate member) Los Angeles Sister City Association, (Nagoya, Japan) Museum of Contemporary Art, Charter Member 2007 - 1982 Pasadena Fine Arts Club, Pasadena, CA Phantom Galleries LA, Los Angeles, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Anderson, Isabel “Reviews,” Artweek, Volume 30, Issue 3, March 1999 Albright, Thomas “New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” Art News, Volume 82, No.4, April 1983 Bachofner, Ruth “Selecting Art,” Designers West, Volume 32, No. 4, January 1984 Balbinbin, Lucia “Corporate Art,”
Designers West, Volume 32, No. 32, January 1984 Boone, Lisa “Shining Through,” Los Angeles Times, January 5, 1997 Brown, Christopher and Dunham, Judith
“Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” Exhibition Catalog, 1982 Bussel, Abby “Ship to Shore,” Interior Design, Volume 69. No. 3, 1998 Cotter, Christine “Where All the Lights are Bright,” Los Angeles Times,
October 23, 2005 Chang, Cindy, “Ungallery - Now You see it, Now you Don’t,”
Weekend Calendar, Los Angeles, Times, December 28, 2006 Ciitzen X,” Grant Winners - Hurrah, Citizen LA, Vol. 2, No.5, May 2007 Curtis, Cathy “Calendar Art Review,” Los Angeles Times,
February 17, 1988 Curtis, Cathy “Sculptural Deceptions,” Chevron Art Gallery USA,
Exhibition Catalog, April 1982 Derrick, Lisa “City of Night,” Los Angeles New Times, May 20, 1999 DiMichele, David “Downtown Lives - Exhibitionism Warehouse Style,
Downtown News, P. 22, November 5, 1994 Dunham, Judith “Quabba,” Artweek, May 29, 1979 Dyson, John 2008 World Art Festival, Exhibition Catalog Faist, Jennifer “On the Cover,” Gallery Guide, February 1999
Fried, Helene “Emanuel Walter Gallery Annual,”
San Francisco Art Institute, Exhibition Catalog, April 6, 1976 Frank, Peter “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, April 10, 1994 Frank, Peter “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, December 20, 1996 Frank, Peter “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, December 9, 2004 Frank, Peter “Pick of the Week,” L.A. Weekly, December 9, 2005 Frederich, Kristina, Downtown News, November 4, 2004 Frederich. Kristina, Downtown News, July 3, 2006 Gardner, Colin “Portfolio,” LA Reader, September 19, 1984 Gleason, Mat “Richard Godfrey at Patricia Correia Gallery,”
Gallery Guide, December 1996
Gleason, Mat, Most Art Sucks - Five Years of Coagula, Smart Ass Press, Volume IV, No. 36, 1999 Gallery Guide, December 1996
Gleason, Mat “Richard Godfrey’s Militant Modernism,” Visions Art Quarterly, winter, 1995 Gleason, Mat “Cyber Artist Profile: Richard Godfrey,” Coagula #18, October 1995
Gleason, Mat “Spin Cycle - Artist Richard Godfrey Brings Danger and
Light to Dangerous Curve,” Downtown News, January 12, 2005 Gleason, Mat “preview,” Arscene, January 2008 Goldman, Shifra “Space - Light - Equilibrium,” Exhibition Catalog
Rancho Santiago College, February 1988 Haithman, Diane “Spotlight will be on Caltrans,” Art Notes, Los Angeles Times, October 16, 2005 Heffley, Lynne “Out and About,” Calendar Weekend, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1998 Hughes, Michael “Notations of Time: Richard Godfrey’s Investigations into the Ephemeral,” Coagula # 60, December 2003 Ianco-Starrels, Josine “Art News,” Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1988 Ianco - Starrels, Jossine “Magical Mystery Tour 1976 - 1986,” Exhibition Catalog, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, 1987 Isacson, Gene “Richard Godfrey,” Art Forum Newsletter, Santa Ana College, Volume 7, No. 1, September 7, 1987 Jerald, Jonathan, “Richard Godfrey - A Matter of Light,” Citizen, Volume 2 No. 1, January 2007 Jerald, Jonathhan, “TheBiscuit: an Accidental Art Exhibition,”
CitizenVol 2, No. 5, May 2007 Kandel, Susan “Art Reviews,” Los Angeles Times, January 9, 1997 Kinnear, Stephanie, “Whole Life Times,” February 2007 Kelly, Jeff “New Bay Area Painting and Sculpture,” Vanguard,
Volume 12, No. 3, April 1983 Krantz, Les “The California Art Review,” 1989 Lake, Cindy “Exhibitions,” Artweek, May 31, 1980 Lake, Cindy “Installations,” Newsletter, Oakland
Center for the Visual Arts, June 1980 Lasarow, Bill “Previews of Exhibitions,” Artscene, Volume 16, No. 5, January 5 1997 Lasarow, Bill “Preview of Exhibitions, Artscene, Volume 18, No. 5, January 1998 Lowman, Nat “Situalational Prosthetics,” New langton Street Projects.
January 19. 2005 Lloyd, Norman “Trompe L’oeil,” Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 1988 McKig, Jean “Minimal Artist’s Work Saturated with Color,”
Visual Arts, Desert Times, June 9. 2002 Ogg, Eric “Gallery: Warschaw,”Rave,Vol 12 ,No. 48, December 2, 2005 Oliver, Barret, Valley Star, “Entertainment, “Modernists Worksby Godfrey: A Refreshing Change of Pace,” Thursday, March 9, 2000 Pincus, Robert “The Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, September 7, 1984 Rico, Diana “Art/News,” LA Daily Life News, December,
No.1, Sept.11, 2008
Rico, Diana “Art/News,” LA Daily Life News, December 13, 1985
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