Kevin Larmon - Biography


    BORN
1955 Syracuse, New York
 
       
    EDUCATION
1978 B.F.A. Binghamton University, New York
 
       
    SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
 

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Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY
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
 

 


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