Faculty/Staff Directory
Charles Gaines
Art Faculty
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Phone: 661.253.7746
Fax: 661.259.5871
Room: A113A
Charles Gaines received his BA from Jersey City State University and his MFA from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He has had over 60 one-person shows and several hundred group exhibitions in the US and Europe. Exhibitions include: Blues For Smoke, Bennett Simpson, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (Sept. 2012); All Of This And Nothing, Hammer Museum Invitational, curated by Anne Ellegood and Douglas Fogle, Los Angeles, CA (Jan. 2011); Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 – 1980, Curator: Prof. Kellie Jones, Hammer Museum, (2011); State of Mind/Art from California Circa 1970, Berkeley Art Museum and Orange County Museum of Art, co-curated by Constance Lewallen and Karen Moss, (October 2011); Under the Big Black Sun: 1974-1981, Paul Schimmel, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2011); “Dance / Draw”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, (2011); "Locations", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (2011); Other exhibitions include: The Artist Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, CA (October 2010); Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (November 15-May 3, 2011); Venice Biennale, Robert Storr, curator, Venice, Italy, (2007).
He is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art in New York; Whitney Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA), Studio Museum, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego & La Jolla, Calif.; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA., Awards include, California Community Foundation Art Fellowship (2011), United States Artist (2007); National Endowment for the Arts (1975).
He has been on the Faculty of the California Institute of the Arts since 1989.
