ARTISTS
CHARLES LaBELLE
American, b. Dearborn, MI, 1964
Lives and works in New York
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EDUCATION
1988-90 Graduate Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
1988 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008
Buildings Entered: Hong Kong Block, Para/Site Central, Hong Kong
Charles LaBelle: Sugar Hill Suite, Maass Gallery, Purchase College, NY
Polis/Persona: A Selection of Video and Projected Work 1993-2006, Lawrimore Projects, Seattle, WA
2007
Fieldworks, Tony Wight / Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL
BLDGS ENTERED, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, CA
Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
2005
Sugar Hill Suite, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago, IL
2004
Miami Drift, Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, Flordia
Intervals + Intensities, Ten in One Gallery, New York, New York
Driftworks, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Someplace/Sometime, Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Darkness and Light, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dearborn, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Holiday, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
2001
Horror of Light, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (catalogue)
Sunset at Dawn, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (catalogue)
2000
Illuminated Trees, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley
Disappearer, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1999
Night Moves, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998
Manifestation, Post, Los Angeles
1997
New Work, Post, Los Angeles
Charles LaBelle, University of Texas, San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
1995
Works on Paper, domestic setting, Los Angeles
Charles LaBelle, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1993
Lodger, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery and Philippe Briet Gallery, New York
Colonies II, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
1992
Colonies, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York
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SELECTED PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
The Twentyfirst, The Silver Shed, New York, NY
Twenty Years Ago Today, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008
to : Night, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, NY
Urbanity On Paper, Anna Kustera, New York, NY
2007
What a Beautiful Place You Have, Claremont College Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
The Uncertainty Principle, Northern Illinois University Museum, Dekalb, IL
2006
Local Transit, Artist's Space, New York, NY
2005
In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Contemporaries, Red Cat Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
In Focus: Themes in Contemporary Photography, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Rimbaud (curated by Max Henry), 1-20 Gallery, New York, NY
Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute (traveled, catlogue)
2003
I am a curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Galerie Justine LAcroix, MArseille, France
2002
Cut, Colored, Pulled and Burnt, Hyde Park Arts Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Michael Rooks)
Glow: Apsets of Light in Contemporary American Art (curated by Francis Colpitt), ArtPace and University of Texas, San Antonio (traveled, catalogue)
Liminal Space, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard college, New York, NY
2001
...a preacher and a bible..., Triangle, MArseilles, France
In Through the Outdoors, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Wattage & Friendship, Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin
Group Show of Gallery Artists Bodybuilder & Sportman, Chicago
Bloodlines, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
Reflection, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
In the City (Curated by Lorelei Stewart), Gallery 400, Chicago
Travelogue, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
Infinte Jest, Ten-in-One Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Tan Lines, Paradise Gallery, Dallas
Under the Influence: New Art from LA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter, Sala Diaz, San Antonio
Cleaning Up, University of Southern California Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)
Night Moves, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
The Fashion Show, Georges, Los Angeles
1999
Venus, Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna
Drive-By, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley
The Mourning After, Barnsdale Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998
Post Gallery, Los Angeles
Some Related Areas (curated by Brad Spence), Art Gallery, University of California Irvine
Interior, Post, Los Angeles
Wings of Desire, Walter McBean Gallery,
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1997
Lemon Sky, Los Angeles
CA 9001-185, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Martha Benzing, Charles LaBelle & Robert Levine, Refusalon, San Francisco
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GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2003
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center Study Fellowship
La Belle de Mai Residency Fellowship, Marseilles, France
2000
Getty Trust Fellowship
1995
Art Matters Fellowship
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2004
Daigle, Claire. "Rimaud at 1-20 Gallery," Art Papers, November/December. p.49
Frank, Peter. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Art Review, November.
Baker, Kenneth. "LaBelle Adrift at Traywick," San Fransisco Chronicle, October 23.
Wood, Eve. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Flash Art, October.
Knight, Christopher. "The Result of Aimless Drifting," Los Angeles Times, August 6, p. E6.
Smith, Roberta. "Rimbaud," New York Times, July 30.
Buck, David. "Topographies," Artweek, June 2004
"Topographies," Exhibiton Catalogue, Essays by Steve Dietz, Jeanne Przblysky and Noah Snyder, San Francisco Art Institute and the Follows of Contemporary Art, Artist Folio, p.6A
2003
Colpitt, Frances. "Charles LaBelle & Randy Wray: Sudden," ArtLies!
Issue 41, Winter 2003-04, p. 94
Goddard, Dan. "Visionary Art" San Antonio Express-News, Novermber 13.
Matlick, Justin. "Critics' Choice: Charles LaBelle,"
Chicago Reader, January 3-9
Wood, Eve. "Geography of Mind," Artnet, January.
2002
Zwartjes, Arend. "Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art," ArtLies, Fall, p. 95-6.
Baker, Kenneth. "LaBelle at Traywick," San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, p. D10.
Koppman, Debra. "Charles LaBelle," Artweek, September, p. 6
Goddard, Dan. "Curator See the Light," San-Antonio Express-News, August 25, p. 6H
2001
"Sunset at Dawn," Exhibiton Catalogue, Rebecca Ibel Gallery
"Hollywood 101," project for Zing Magazine, Spring/Summer
Starker, Melissa. "Here's Looking at You," Columbus Alive, May 10.
Helfand, Glen. "Charles LaBelle, Traywick Gallery," Art on Paper, January/February.
2000
Meyers, James. "Top Ten: Charles LaBelle," Artforum, December, p. 114.
"Disappearer," Exhibiton Catalogue, Essays by Jacqueline Cooper, Smart Art Press
Thornson, Alice. "Under the Influence: Young Artists Celebrate LA's Contrived Culture," Kansas City Star, October 21.
Harvey, Doug. "Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton," Art Issues, p. 48
Moreno, Gean. "Polis as Payground: Contemporary Artists in Urban Space," Art Papers, September/October, p. 28-35.
Zellen, Jody. "Rites od Passage," d'Art International, p. 27.
Cooper, Jacqueline. "The Fashion Show," New Art Examiner, May, p. 56.
Tumlir, Jan. "The Fashion Show," Art & Text, May-July, p. 94-5.
Allherholm, Milou. "Narstudie Los Angeles," Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), April 12, p. B3.
Harvey, Doug. "Galleria," LA Weekly, Arpil 7-13, p. 47.
Knight, Christopher. "In Charles LaBelle's World Things are Inside-Out," Los Angeles Times, March 17, p. F25.
Crowder, Joan. "Working on those Night Moves," Santa Barbara Press-News, March 17, p. 3.
Meeker, Cheryl. "Drive By: Snapshots from the Cultural Landscapre," Art Papers, January/February, p. 57
Colpitt, Frances. "Charles LaBelle at Lemon Sky," Art in America, January, p. 12
1999
Ise, Claudine. "Articulating Grief Through the 'Art of Loss'," Los Angeles Times, April 16, p. F30.
Frank Peter. "The Mourning After," LA Weekly, April 13
"The Mourning After," (exhibition catalogue), Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, essay by Susette Min
1998
Curtis, Cathy. "When Seeing Isn't Believing," Los Angeles Times, October 15.
Webster, Mary Hull. "Wings of Desire at the San Francisco Art Institute," Artweek, April, p. 19
1997
Finkel, Jori. Review of Refusalon Show, San Francisco Express, May 23, p. 52.
Roche, Harry. "The Merry Month of May," San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 21.
Goddard, Dan. "Stained Bedsheets Underlie LaBelle's Enbroidered Art," San Antonio Express-News, January 29, p. 12G.
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SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
The Microsoft Collection, Seattle, WA