Kevin Larmon - Biography

		BORN 1955 Syracuse, New York

		EDUCATION 1978 B.F.A. Binghamton University, New York

		SOLO EXHIBITIONS
	2007 2005 2003 2000 1997 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1989 1988 1987 1985 1984	Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, New York State University of New York at Binghamton, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, New York Galerie Montenay, Paris Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Berkeley University Art Museum, Berkeley, California Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Nature Morte Gallery, New York Curt Marcus Gallery, New York Nature Morte Gallery, New York Nature Morte Gallery, New York

		GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
	2007	Feature Gallery 'Thoughts' Group Show
	2006	Syracuse University Faculty Group Show
	2004	Team Gallery
	2003	Fagginato Fine Arts London, UK
	2002	Red Dot Group Show NYC Curt Marcus Group Shows
	2001	Curt Marcus Group Shows
	2000	Curt Marcus Group Shows
	1999	"The Cathedral Project: Liz Deschenes, Kevin Larmon, Donald Moffett," Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
	1998	"Biomorphic Abstraction," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
	1997	"It's Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona
	1996	"The Baseball Show," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Craig Smyth) "Peintures," Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris "Works on Paper," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
	1995	"It's Only Rock and Roll," Phoenix Art Museum, curated by David S. Rubin, traveling exhibition through August 1998 (catalogue) "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York "I Gaze A Gazely Stare," Feature, New York "Papiers Choisis," Galerie Montenay, Paris "Strung Into the Apollonian Dream," Feature, New York "In a Different Light," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (catalogue)
	1994	"Contemporary Artists In New York," Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japan "The Curator's Egg," Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London "Three From New York: Kevin Larmon, Michael Zwack, Peter Drake," Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
	1993	"Timeless and Timely," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, curated by Douglas Maxwell (catalogue) "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York "Intimate Universe," Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, curated by Michael Walls
	1992	"28th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper," Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina (catalogue) "Intimate Universe," Michael Walls Gallery, New York "Group Exhibition," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York "Works On Paper," Curt Marcus Gallery, New York "How It Is," Tony Shafrazi, New York
	1991	"Group Show," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago "New Work," Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
	1990	"Act Up Auction for Action," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York "Innerst/Larmon," Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis,Missouri "Group Show," Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
	1989	"300 Years of Still Life," Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California "Nature Morte," Galerie Montenay, Paris France "Objects on the Edge," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York "Art About Aids," Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Pennsylvania, curated by David S. Rubin "Selections from the Collection of Mark and Livia Strauss," Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne, France
	1988	"Mark Innerst/Kevin Larmon/Michael Zwack," Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California "Drawings," Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York "Art at the End of the Social," Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden "The Quality of Line," The Forum, St. Louis, Missouri, Curated by James Schmidt
	1987	"Still Life: Beyond Tradition," Curated by Lisa Dennison, Visual Arts Museum, New York "Between Abstraction & Reality," Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri "Group Exhibition," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California "Head Sex," Feature Gallery, Chicago, Illinois "Drawn Out," Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, curated by Andrea Belag
	1986	"Modern Sleep," curated by Collins & Milazzo, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York "Group Exhibition," Nature Morte Gallery, New York "A Look at Painting," R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York "The Potent Image," The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey Galerie Charles Cartwright, Paris Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Island, Florida "New New York," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio "Still Life/Life Still," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles "Aperto 86," Venice Biennale, Corderie at the Arsenal, Venice, Italy
	1985	Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York "Infotainment," traveling exhibition, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aspen Art Museum,Aspen, Colorado "The Mystery Show," Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey "Final Love," Cash/New House Gallery, New York, curated by Collins & Milazzo "From Organism to Architecture," curated by Ross Bleckner, New York Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada "Smart Art," Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, curated by Joseph Masheck "Cult and Decorum," Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, curated by Collins & Milazzo Nature Morte Gallery, New York
	1984	"Forced Sentiment," Artists Space, New York, Zelermayer Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by RobertLongo "Natural Genre," Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, curated by Collins & Milazzo "Still Life with Transaction," International with Monument", New York
	1983	Nature Morte Gallery, New York
	1982	"Inaugural Exhibition," Nature Morte Gallery, New York "New Drawing in America," Drawing Center, New York
	1979	"Choices," Drawing Center, New York

		BIBLIOGRAPHY
	2006	ARTLIFE, an essay by Lawrence Rinder
	2004	Walter Robinson, JULY , DKS.com
	2004	Artnet.com August
	2000	Johnson, Ken "Kevin Larmon," New York Times, December, 2000
	1999	Robbins, David "The East Village 1979-1989," Artforum, October, 1999 Cotter, Holland "Review of Cathedral Show at St. John the Divine," New York Times, June, 1999 Arnig, Bill "Review of Cathedral Show at St. John the Divine," Time Out New York, June, 1999
	1998	Johnson, Ken "Biomorphic Abstraction," New York Times, Friday December 11, 1998.
	1995	Rinder, Lawrence (essays by Blake, Naland and Scholder, Amy), In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, (exhibition catalogue), University Art Museum, Berkeley, California Smith, Roberta, "Void, Self, Drag, Utopia (and 5 other Gay Themes)," New York Times, Sunday, March 26
	1993	Glueck, Grace, exhibition review, The New York Observer, Vol. 7, No. 16, April 26, p. 22 Hapgood, Susan, exhibition review, Art in America, Vol. 81, No. 7, July, p. 107 Licata, Elizabeth, "Small Wonders," The Buffalo News, Friday, April 9 Schwartzman, Allen, exhibition review, "Kevin Larmon at Curt Marcus," The New Yorker, May 3, p. 18
	1991	Rinder, Larry, Review, Flash Art, Vol. 24, No.160, October 1991, P. 171.
	1989	Decter, Joshua, "New York in Review," Arts, October Geer, Suvan, Los Angeles Times, November 3 Rubin, David, Art About Aids, catalogue essay Smith, Roberta, "Kevin Larmon," New York Times, Friday, May 19
	1988	Collins & Milazzo, Art at the End of the Social, catalog essay, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden Gipe, Lawrence, "Challenging Established Paradigms," Artweek, Los Angeles, February 20 Los Angeles Times, Review of Exhibition at the Michael Kohn Gallery Schwendenwien, Jude, "Reviews: Kevin Larmon, Nature Morte," ArtForum International, October Smith, Roberta, "Recent Met Acquisitions Survey Works of 80's," New York Times, Words and Image, Friday, April 15
	1987	Leonhart, Mark Michael, "Head Sex, An Orgy of Comprehension," Windy City Times, Thurday, July 23 Salvioni, Daniela, "Kevin Larmon, Curt Marcus," Flash Art, Summer 1987
	1986	Saltz, Jerry, Beyond Boundaries (New York: Alfred van der Marck Editions, 1986) Collins & Milazzo, "Tropical Codes, Kevin Larmon: Yellow Table," Kunstforum Indiana, Gary, "Venice as Usual," Village Voice, August 5 Norman, Sally, "New New Art," Dialogue, March Rinder, Larry, Nature Morte Review, Flash Art, May/June Robinson, William "New New York," New Art Examiner, June
	1985	Biegler, Beth, "Deconstruction C & M," (Collins & Milazzo), East Village Eye, July Cameron, Dan, "The Grounding Report," Arts Magazine, February 27 Indiana, Gary, Village Voice, February 27 Lawson, Thomas, "Infotainment," catalog essay
	1984	Collins, Tricia & Milazzo, Richard,"Forced Setiment," exhibition catalog, Artists Space, New York, New York Collins, Tricia & Richard Milazzo,"Natural Genre," catalog essay, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida Falkon, Sylvia, "Kevin Larmon at Nature Morte," The East Village Eye, June Lichtenstein, Theresa, Arts Magazine, September Moufarrege, Nicolas A., "East Village," Flash Art, Summer
	1983	"Painters and Writers," Bomb Magazine, January
	1982	Beck, Martha, & Keller, M. "New Drawing in America," catalog essay, The Drawing Center Kuspit, Donald, "New Drawing in America," Artforum, April Moufarrege, Nicolas A.k, "East Village," Flash Art, Fall/Winter

		AWARDS
	2004	Atlantic-Pacific Fellowship
	1994	Pollack Krasner Foundation

		COLLECTIONS Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. McCrory Corporation Collection, New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Progressive Corporation Collection, Cleveland Prudential Insurance Company Collection, Newark, New Jersey