| Born | 1949, Los Angeles, CA |
| EDUCATION | |
| 1970 | B.A. University of California at Irvine |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2016 | "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with Amy Gerstler, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2015 | "History in the Making", Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Chandlerisms", Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA | |
| 2013 | "Slice of Life", Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Second Nature", Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2011 | "Alexis Smith: Early Works", Thomas Soloman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2009 | "Imitation of Life", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Play it as it Lays", Thomas Solomon Gallery at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA | 2004 | "LUST/RUST/DUST", Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2003 | "Living Dangerously", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "The Sorcerer's Apprentice and Past Lives: Installations by Alexis Smith and Amy Gerstler", The University of Wyoming Art Musuem, Laramie, WY | |
| 2002 | "Local Color", David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO |
| "Real World: Collage Works 1981-2002", Modernism, San Francisco, CA | |
| "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with Amy Gerstler, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Deigo, CA | |
| "An Embarrassment of Riches", Lawrence Rubin Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", with Amy Gerstler, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
| "Fools Rush In", Ameringer Howard, Boca Raton, FL | |
| 1999 | "Words to Live By", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "A Matter of Taste", J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1995 | "The Farmer's Daughter", Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| "Cherished Notions", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "The Wonder Years, 1973-1983", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1993 | "Alexis Smith", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Looking for America", Pasadena City College Art Gallery, Pasadena, CA | |
| 1991 | "Alexis Smith: Public Works", Mandeville Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA |
| "Alexis Smtih", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| 1990 | "Eldorado (On the Road, Part II)", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1989 | "Past Lives", Josh Baer Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Past Lives", with Amy Gerstler, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 1988 | "On the Road", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1987 | "Same Old Paradis", Grand Lobby Installation, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| "Alexis Smith + Joseph Cornell: Parallels", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | |
| 1986 | "Viewpoints: Alexis Smith", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
| "Currents: Alexis Smith", The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| 1985 | "Jane", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 | "Selections from Christmas Eve, 1943", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1982 | "Christmas Eve, 1943", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1990 | "Satan's Satellites", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Chinese Junk", Clocktower, New York, NY (variation on "Cathay", installation in "Museum as Site" Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981) | |
| 1981 | "U.S.A.", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Stardust", Bing Theater, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Stardust", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA | |
| 1980 | "Raymond Chandler's L.A.", Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "New World", commissioned installation, "House & Garden Magazine", CondéNast Studios, New York, NY | |
| Northern Montana Gallery, Nothern Montana College, Havre, MY | |
| "Stardust", theatrical performance with Heidi Hardin, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art | |
| 1979 | "The Room on the Other Side of the Mirror", installation, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| "The Magic Mountain", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Autumn Sonata", window installation, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) Downtown Window, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1978 | "Aprile Foole", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| "The Magic Mountain", Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Medium", performance, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "The Art of Magic, Close-up", performance with Tony DeLap, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA | |
| 1977 | "Tales of Mystery and Enchantment", Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Alexis Smith", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1976 | "Star Material", Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA |
| "Alexis Smith", San Jose State University, San Jose, CA | |
| "Scherherezade the Storyteller", performance, CARP, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1975 | "Anteroom", installation, CARP, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Rapido", installation, Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| "Alexis Smith", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Classics Illustrated", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA | |
| 1974 | "Alexis Smith", Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | "Los Angeles: A Fiction", Musée d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Lyon, France |
| "Forms of Identity: Women Artists in the 90s", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |
| "Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California", Craft & Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2016 | "Los Angeles: A Fiction", Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway |
| "A Retrospective Space: UC San Diego's University Art Gallery", UC San Diego Faculty Club, San Diego, CA | |
| "Holdings: Selections from MCASD's Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA | |
| "Collected", Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Physical: Sex and the Body in the 1980s", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "CALIFORNIA 101: Art from the Collection", Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| 2015 | "A Performative Trigger: Radicals of Irvine", University Art Gallery at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, Irvine, CA |
| "Drawing in L.A.: the 1960s and 70s", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2014 | "The Avant-Garde Collection", Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| 2013 | "L'Objet Trouve: Readymade, Rectified and Reassembled", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Freeway Studies #1: This Side of the 405", Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2012 | "Arctic Summer", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | "Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
| "Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981", The Geffen Conemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "The Feminine Canvas", Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "High Fidelity: Selections from the 1960s and the 1970s", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diege, | |
| 2010 | "S, M, L", Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Works in Edition", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2009 | "elles@centrepompidou", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| "Glue, Paper, Scissors", Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Reading Standing Up", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2008 | "Selections from the Imagery Estate Winery Permanent Collection"Curated by Bob Nugent, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA |
| "index: conceptualism in California from the permanent collection" The Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Summer 2008", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2007 | "Made in California: Contemporary California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation", The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, CA |
| "SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA's Collection", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Evidence of Movement", The J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, Orange COunty Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA | |
| "Wack!, Art and the Feminist Revolution", The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, MoMA, Long Island City, NY, VAncouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada | |
| "Corpus Humorous", Shatford Library, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA | |
| "Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2006 | "The Searchers", White Box, New York, NY |
| 2005 | "Nineteen Plus One: Artists-in-Residence Retrospective Exhibition", Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA |
| "After Cézanne", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Conceptual Photography from the Collection", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA | |
| "Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Southern Exposure", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| "The Poetics of Travel", Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "WivesHusbands", Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2004 | "Now and Then Some", Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Calremont, CA |
| "100 Artists See God", The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, Traveled to Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston | |
| 2003 | "Raid the Icebox", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2002 | "Quasi Come: The Beauty of Fake and Forgery in Literature and Art", Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Cowboys, Indians & The Big Picture", McMullen Museum, Boston College, Boston, MA | |
| "Some Assemblage Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America", Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, Traveled to Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL | |
| "Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Parallels and Intersections: Art/Women/California 1950 - 2000", San Jose Art Museum, San Jose, CA | |
| "C.O.L.A. 2002", Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1987 | "American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture", American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY |
| "Roy Dowell, Daniel Mendel-Black, Alexis Smith", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2001 | "Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism; Site Santa Fe 2001 Bienniel", Site Santa Fe, NM |
| "Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel", California State University, Fullerton, CA | |
| "Seeing or Believing", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Evidence of Love; Romance, Desire, & Fantasy", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Postmodern Americans: A Selection, The Menil Collection", Houston, TX | |
| "A Way with Words: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art", Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY | |
| 2000 | "Made in California", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Library", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "12 Divas", Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "The Big Go Stands for Goodness: Corita Kent's 1960s POP", Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Michael Duncan, traveled to: Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, Art Gallery, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX | |
| 1999 | "Radical P.A.S.T.: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960-1974", Norton Simon Museum of Art, Armory Center for the Arts, The New Pasadena Gallery, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design, CA |
| "The Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections", California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA | |
| 1998 | "90069", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1997 | "A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, traveled to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Scene of the Crime", UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Continuity & Contradiction", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, CA | |
| "Landfall Press: 25 Years of Printmaking", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI | |
| "Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1970-1996", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, Traveled to: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ, Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IA, University of Texas, Austin, TX, San Jose Museum of Art, SAn Jose, CA, Marco Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE | |
| "Untitled (Reading Room)", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Commercial Art", Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Art Works: The Paine Webber Collection of Contemporary Masters", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Traveled to: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL | |
| "New Visions: Los Angeles Art in the 90's", Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1994 | "Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal", Institute of Contemporary ARt, Boston, MA, Traveled to: Contemporary ARt Museum, Houston, TX, Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary ARt, Jacksonville, FL, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, Phillbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI |
| "The Art Cup", Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Graphic Language: Printmaking and Popular Culture, 1960-1990", Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME | |
| "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997", Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark | |
| "Drawings", Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX | |
| "Romance", Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | |
| 1993 | "Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection", Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
| "A Complete Hand of One Suit", Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV | |
| "LA Stories", Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Transitional Realities", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA | |
| "Western Myth: Twentieth Century Update", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO | |
| "Collage and Assemblage", Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY | |
| "Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph, 1960-1980", Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, traveled to DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln Park, Lincon, MA, The Friends of Photogrpahy, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA, Montgomery Museum of fine Arts, Montgomery, AL, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, De Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA | |
| "Connections: Explorations in the Getty Center Collections by Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Alexis Smith, Buzz Spector", The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, CA | |
| "The Edge of Childhood", The Heckscher Museum, New York, NY, curated by Barbara Coller | |
| "Hollywood, Hollywood", Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, ARt Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA | |
| "Transforming the Western Image in the 20th Century American Art", Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, The Rockwell Museum, Corning, NY | |
| 1991 | "A Passion for Art/Watercolors and Works on Paper", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Addiction", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| "Framed", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience", Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY | |
| "Poets/Painters Collaborations", Brooke Alexander Edition, New York, NY | |
| "20th Century Collage", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to: Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France | |
| "Crossing the Line: Word and Image in Art, 1960-1990", MontgomeryGallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA | |
| "Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990", Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, Traveled to: Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City, OK, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX | |
| 1989 | "Image World: Art and Media Culture", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| "Selections from the Beatrice and Philip Gersh Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments", Security Pacific Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA | |
| "Forty Years of California Assemblage", Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE | |
| "A Brave New World: John Baldessari/Vernon Fisher/Stephen Prina/Ed Ruscha/Alexis Smith", Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, UK | |
| "Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85", Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH, Traveled to: New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA | |
| "Contemporary American Collage, 1960-1985", Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, Traveled to: Benson Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, Lehigh University Gallery, Bethlehem, PA, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV | |
| "Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art", James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA | |
| "Auto-Perceptions: Los Angeles Artists and the Car", Gallery 1220, Perloff Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Striking Distance", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA | |
| 1987 | "comic iconoclasm", Institue of Contemporary Arts, London, UK, Traveled to: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD |
| "Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, Traveled to: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Walker Art Center, MN, San Antonio Art Insitute, San Antonio, TX, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO | |
| "Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions", Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany, Traveled to: Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Avant-Garde in the Eighties", Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Concept/reality: Los Angeles Public Art", University Art Gallery, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, and The Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Michelle Isenberg and Bob Privitt | |
| "The Years of Passage, 1969-75", Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA | |
| 1986 | "Text & Image: The Wording of American Art", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY |
| "Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, cA | |
| "A Southern California Collection", Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Rememberances of Things Past", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA | |
| "Teaching Artists: The UCLA Faculty of Art & Design, Wight Art gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Passages: A Survey of California Women Artists, 1945 to Present", Fresno Arts Center and Museum, Fresno, CA | |
| "Gentleman's Choice", The Woman's Building Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Spectrum: In Other Words", The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | |
| "Contemporary Art from Southern California", U.S. Embassy, Helsinki, Finland | |
| "Hollywood: Inside and Out", Los Angeles, Municipal Art Gallery | |
| 1985 | "Art Out", Claremont Graduate School Art Department, Claremont, CA |
| "Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL | |
| "Critical Messages: The Use of Public Media for Political Art by Women, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL | |
| "Selections from the Permanent Collection", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA | |
| "Artpark", Lewiston, NY | |
| 1984 | "Selections from the Merry and Bill Norris Collection", Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine |
| "Verbally Charged Images", Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, Traveled to USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, Art Gallery, California State College, San Bernardino, CO, Blanden Memorial art Musuem, Fort Dodge, IA, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI, Independent Curators, INc., New York, NY | |
| "Crime and Punishment: Reflections of Violence in Contemporary Art", Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA | |
| "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| "Significant Others", Patty Aande Gallery, San Diego, CA | |
| "MacArthur Park Public Art Program: Phase I-IV", Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank, Ag, Zurich", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| "Contemporary Collage - Extensions", Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College, Pomona, CA | |
| "Directions 1983", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC | |
| "Exchange Between Artists: Poland - U.S.A.", The Douglas Hyde Gallery, University of Dublin, Ireland | |
| "Young Talent Awards, 1963-1983", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Cultural Excavations: Recent and Distant", Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Inaugural Exhibition", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Perspectives of Landscape", Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA | |
| "The Comic Art Show", Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtwon Branch, New York, NY | |
| 1982 | "Contemporary Los Angeles Artists", Nagoya City Museum, Nagoya, Japan, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,CA |
| "New Work", Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Une Experience Museographique: Echange Entre Artistes, 1931-1982, Cologne - U.S.A.", Musé e d'Art Moderne, Paris, France | |
| "The Americans: The Collage", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX | |
| "Poetic Objects", Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC | |
| 1981 | "Poetic Visions", Otis Art Institute at Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA |
| "Words as Images", The Renaissance Society at Bergman Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL | |
| "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Messages", Freedman GAllery, Albright College, Reading, PA | |
| "Humor in Art", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Museum as Site: Sixteen Installations, (Cathay Installation)", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1980 | "Views Over America", Junior Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| "Tableau", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Southern California Drawings", Joselott Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT | |
| Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN | |
| "Xmas in July", Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Words and Numbers", Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ | |
| "Drawings", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1979 | "Storytelling in Art", American Foundation for the Arts Museum, Miami, FL |
| "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Paper on Paper", San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA | |
| "Words and Images", Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA | |
| "Decade in Review", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Kunstler Schaufenster", window installation "Stairway to the Stars", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria | |
| "American Narrative/Story of Art, 1968-78", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, Traveled to Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA | |
| "Paris Biennal a Nice, Musée de Nice, France | |
| "Paris Biennal a Strausbourg, Strausbourg, France | |
| "Southern California Styles of the 60's and 70's, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| "Narration", Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA | |
| "Gallery as Lithography Studio", California State University, Fullerton, CA | |
| 1978 | "Three Generations: Studies in Collage", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1977 | "Artists' Books", Mills College, Oakland, CA |
| "Narrative Themes/Audio Works", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Paris Biennal a Nice, Musée de Nice, France | |
| "The American Section of the Paris Biennale", Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY | |
| "Gold & Silver", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY | |
| "Via Los Angeles: Asher, Burden, C. Davis, Hunt, Ruppersberg, Smith", Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR | |
| "AutobiographiCalifornial Fantasies", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Southland Video Anthology, Part I", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA | |
| "Los Angeles", Penthouse Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| "New Selections: New Talent Award Winners", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
| "Both Kinds", Contemporary ARt from Los Angeles", University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA | |
| "Four Los Angeles Artists: Foulkes, Goode, Smith, Wheeler", Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY, Traveled to: Corocoran Gallery of American Art, Washington, DC, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT | |
| "Work, Image, Number", Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY | |
| "Visual/Verbal", The Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| "University of California at Irvine, 1965-75", La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| "Word Works", Art Gallery, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA | |
| "Works Selected by Nicholas Wilder", Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV | |
| "Greater Magic, Mungar, Smith, Titus", Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA | |
| "Margaret Lowe, Barbara Munger, Alexis Smith, Margaret Wilson", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| "Southern California Attitudes", Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA | |
| SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
| Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Capital Group Companies, Inc., Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Chase Manhattan Bank, North America | |
| The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI | |
| The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA | |
| The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY | |
| Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA | |
| Ohio State University, Columbus, OH | |
| Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, OH | |
| San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA | |
| Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA | |
| The Stuart Collection, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA | |
| The UBS PaineWebber Collection | |
| Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | |
| The Walt Disney Company, Los Angeles, CA | |
| The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY | |
