Raymond Pettibon
Born 1957 in Tucson, Arizona
Lives and works in Venice Beach, California.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Raymond Pettibon: Hard in the Paint, David Zwirner, New York
Raymond Pettibon, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Raymond Pettibon: The Punk Years (1978-86), Florida Atlantic University Schmidt Center
Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
2009
Raymond Pettibon, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Raymond Pettibon: Repeater Pencil, World Class Boxing, Miami
Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon: Hipnostasis, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
California [two-person exhibition]
2008
Punk Epocha: 70 Drawings from the Eighties, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva [catalogue]
Raymond Pettibon, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Raymond Pettibon: Recent Work, Cutting Room Floor Show, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Raymond Pettibon: Seminal Early Work (1978-1988), Regen Projects, Los Angeles [catalogue]
[St.] Raymond Pettibon[e]: 1978-1986, Specific Object/David Platzker, New York
2007
Here’s Your Irony Back (The Big Picture), David Zwirner, New York
Raymond Pettibon, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2006
The Holy Bible and THE END: Ed Ruscha/Raymond Pettibon, Pomona College Museum of Art,
Claremont, California [itinerary: Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts; San
Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California] [catalogue] [two-person exhibition]
Raymond Pettibon, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain [itinerary: Kestner
Gesellschaft, Hanover] [Spanish catalogue published in 2006; German catalogue
published in 2007]
Raymond Pettibon, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Raymond Pettibon: Whatever It is You’re Looking for You Won’t Find It Here, Kunsthalle Wien,
Vienna [catalogue]
2005
Arshile Gorky/Raymond Pettibon, Aurora, Trento, Italy [two-person exhibition]
Raymond Pettibon, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
Raymond Pettibon, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [artist’s book]
Raymond Pettibon: New Work, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin [catalogue]
2004
Raymond Pettibon: New Work, David Zwirner, New York
Raymond Pettibon: Selected Works from 1982 to 2003 & Speaks Volumes, 1995, Blondeau Fine
Art Services, Geneva
Raymond Pettibon: Winged Heart und andere Drucke, Graphische Sammlung, Zurich
2003
The American Short Stories: Saul Steinberg/Raymond Pettibon, Museum of Contemporary Art,
North Miami, Florida [catalogue] [two-person exhibition]
Drawings dessins, M du B, F, H & g, Montreal
Raymond Pettibon, David Zwirner, New York
Raymond Pettibon, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna
Raymond Pettibon, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Raymond Pettibon, Sadie Coles HQ, London
Raymond Pettibon: Drawings 1979-2003, Museion, Bolzano, Italy [itinerary: Galeria d'arte
moderni di Bologna, Bologna, Italy] [catalogue]
Raymond Pettibon: Early Work, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
2002
Raymond Pettibon, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Raymond Pettibon, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart,
France
Raymond Pettibon: Plots Laid Thick, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona [itinerary: Tokyo
Opera City Art Gallery; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands]
[Spanish and Japanese catalogues]
2001
Raymond Pettibon: Wall Drawings, MAK Center for Art + Architecture, Vienna
Raymond Pettibon: The Wolfgang Hahn Prize Exhibition, Gesellschaft für Moderne Kunst am
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Toba Khedoori/Raymond Pettibon: L.A. Stories, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London [two-person
exhibition]
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Draw: Mexico City, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City
Endless Summer/Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
The Ephemeral, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam
Fractional Systems: Garage Project II, The Mackey Garage, MAK Center for Art and
Architecture, Los Angeles
Framed: Drawings in Motion, SmartSpaces and The Drawing Center, New York
Hareng Saur: Ensor and Contemporary Art, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.),
Ghent [catalogue]
Houdini: Art and Magic, The Jewish Museum, New York [itinerary: Skirball Cultural Center, Los
Angeles; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin] [catalogue forthcoming]
Just Love Me: Regard Sur Une Collection Privée, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
(MUDAM), Luxembourg
Le Meilleur Des Mondes, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Liverpool Biennial, International 10: Touched, Liverpool [catalogue forthcoming in 2011]
Playboys and Killjoys, Ambach & Rice, Seattle
Route 1: R for Replicant, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Shudder, Drawing Room, London
SITE Santa Fe Eighth International Exhibition: The Dissolve, Santa Fe, New Mexico [catalogue]
Sunless, Thomas Dane Gallery, London [curated by Walead Beshty]
Swell, Art 1950-2010, Nyehaus and Metro Pictures, New York
Thank You for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, Tucson
Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona [catalogue]
Tom of Finland and Then Some, Feature Inc., New York
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Works on Paper from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2009
Barry McGee, Ed Templeton, and Raymond Pettibon, CircleCulture Gallery, Berlin
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Diabolique, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina Public Library, Regina, Canada
Looking at Music: Side 2, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Mapping the Studio: Artists from the François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
[catalogue]
Rock Paper Scissors, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California [catalogue]
Seeing the Figure Anew: Selections from the Darrel and Marsha Anderson Collection, Orange
County College Arts Pavilion, Costa Mesa, California
Where Is the Wind When It Isn’t Blowing, Der Kunstverein, Hamburg
2008
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California [catalogue]
Animations/Fictions: Works from the FNAC Collections/Fonds National d’Art Contemporain,
Paris, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Endless Summer, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, California
Faces and Figures (revisited), Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York [catalogue]
First Show: Contemporary Art from The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem
Flying Start 1978-1982, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin [curated by Collier Schorr] [catalogue]
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York
Krazy! The Delirious World of Anime + Comics + Video Games + Art, Vancouver Art Gallery
Landscope, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Listen Darling…The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais,
Portugal
Lots Of Things Like This, Apexart, New York
Pivot Points: Part 2, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami at Goldman Warehouse, Miami
Political Correct, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York and Maccarone, New York
Rock My Religion, Domus Artium, Salamanca, Spain
Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Primo Marella Gallery,
Milan
Sonic Youth Etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE, Nazaire, France [itinerary: Museion, Bolzano, Italy;
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo,
Madrid] [catalogue]
Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney [catalogue]
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, Museum of Contemporary Art Pacific Design Center,
Los Angeles
Un monde d’images, Fonds régional d’art contemporain de Picardie, Amiens, France
Under Pain of Death, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York
The Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
2007
52nd Venice Biennale: Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Venice [catalogue]
America Today: 300 Years of Innovation, National Art Museum of China, Beijing [itinerary:
Shanghai Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai] [catalogue]
Beautiful People, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Come, come, come into my world, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Cascais,
Portugal
Cult Fiction, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England [itinerary: Nottingham Castle, Nottingham,
England; Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Aberystwyth Art Gallery,
Aberystwyth, Wales; Tullie House, Carlisle, England] [catalogue]
Don’t Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna’s Collection (Martina Yamin, Class of
1958), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
[catalogue]
Emerson vs. Nietzsche, China Art Objects at Cottage Home, Los Angeles
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS
Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York [catalogue]
Fantasmagoria: Dibujo en Movimiento, Fundación ICO, Madrid [catalogue]
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
[catalogue]
For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary, Lisbon
Half Square, Half Crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France [catalogue]
Hammer Contemporary Collection Part II, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
The Heart, Wellcome Trust, London
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England
[itinerary: Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France] [catalogue]
Imagination Becomes Reality: Conclusion, ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie,
Karlsruhe, Germany [catalogue]
In Flux: New Acquisitions, Ikon Ltd. Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ‘Round), Lizabeth Oliveria, Los Angeles
L.A. Desire (Part 2): Dedicated to the Memory of Brent Petersen (1972–2007), Galerie Dennis
Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Mad Love: Young Art from Danish Private Collections, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst,
Ishøj, Denmark
Other Scenes, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Paint It Blue: ACT Art Collection Siegfried Loch, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst,
Bremen, Germany
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London [catalogue]
Running Around the Pool: Contemporary Drawing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
[catalogue]
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago [itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida; Musée d'art
contemporain de Montréal] [catalogue]
There is never a stop and never a finish: In memoriam Jason Rhoades: Werke aus der Friedrich
Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für
Gegenwart, Berlin [catalogue]
True Love Always, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
True Romance: Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
[itinerary: Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany] [catalogue]
Yäq, La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico
2006
Block Party: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, California [catalogue]
Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York [itinerary:
KW Berlin Institute for Contemporary Art; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma,
Rome] [catalogue published in 2007]
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig,
Germany [catalogue]
Los Angeles, 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [catalogue]
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
[catalogue]
Mental Image, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Once upon a Time in the West - Part One, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Open House, Ellipse Foundation, Lisbon [itinerary: Ellipse Foundation Art Centre, Cascais,
Portugal] [catalogue]
Os anos 80: Uma topologia/The 80s: A Topology, Museu Serralves, Porto [catalogue]
Parallel Visions: Outsider and Insider Art Today, Galerie St. Etienne, New York
A Piece of History: From L.A….But Not in Paris, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Prophets of Deceits, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco [catalogue]
Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
[catalogue published in 2007]
Sound Zero: Art and Music from Pop to Street Art, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
Surprise Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Table Top, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York
Text Formed Drawing, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs,
Connecticut
Thank You for the Music (London Beat), the gallery at sketch, London
Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection Meets Zaha Hadid, Hara Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo [catalogue]
Works on Paper, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005
After Cézanne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Art of Engagement: Paintings, Drawings, Prints & Sculpture, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los
Angeles
Bidibidobidiboo: Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin [catalogue]
Big Bang: Destruction and Creation in 20th Century Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
A Decade of Art, Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles
Desenhos: A-Z [Drawings: A-Z], Porta 33, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal [catalogue published in
2006]
Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Early Work, David Zwirner, New York
Eccentric Modern, Foundation-to-Life Exhibition Space, Mount Kisco, New York
Fragile, Analix Forever, Geneva
Goetz Meets Falckenberg: Works from the Goetz Collection and the Falckenberg Collection,
Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg [catalogue]
La Beauté de l’Enfer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne Salzburg [catalogue]
Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper,
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Masters of Collage: From Picasso to Rauschenberg, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona [catalogue]
Romance (A Novel), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
There is No Such Thing as the Real World, Galleri MGM AS, Oslo
Viviseccion Dibujo Contemporaneo, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City
2004-2009 Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio [itinerary: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Orange County
Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California; Contemporary Museum, Baltimore;
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida; Triennale,
Milan; Tri Postal, Lille, France; Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland; La Casa Encendida,
Madrid] [catalogue published in 2004]
2004
100 Artists See God, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida [itinerary: The Jewish Museum, San
Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Memorial Art Gallery,
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London;
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia; Albright College
Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville,
Tennessee] [catalogue]
2004 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [catalogue]
Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
Eye of the Needle, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für
Gegenwart, Berlin [catalogue]
Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stüttgart
Global World/Private Universe, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
I Hate You: The Falckenberg Collection Meets Louisiana, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst,
Humlebæk, Denmark [catalogue]
In Situ: Installations and Large-Scale Works in the Permanent Collection, Museum of
Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Joyce in Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin [catalogue]
La Fabrique du Sensible, Musée departemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart,
Rochechouart, France
Marilyn: From Anastasi to Weegee, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
O.K., America!, Apexart, New York
Off the Record: Sound Arc, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Power Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York