Ron Rizk
Ron Rizk was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He received a diploma from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art and his MFA from the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana. He is a Professor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the University of Southern California Roski School of Fine Arts.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2004 Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Ettinger and Reynolds Gallery, Art Institute of Southern California,
Laguna Beach, CA
1995 Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1993 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1988 "Ron Rizk: A Survey 1978-86", Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Grand
Rapids, MI traveled to: Midland Art Council, Midland, MI; Jesse Besser Museum, Aplena, MI;
Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI; Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI; Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI;
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1986 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA
University Gallery, University of Southern California, CA
1975 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1974 Light Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Gallery 61, Newark, NJ
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010 "Reality Check, Contemporary Trompe l'Oeil Paintings", Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA
2009 "Summer Group Show", Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 ÒVisions Selections from the James T. Dyke Collection of Contemporary
Drawings,Ó Naples, FL and Little Rock, AK
2007 ÒThe Toy show,Ó Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, Ca
ÒRepresentation,Ó Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, NY and SanFrancisco, CA
2005 ÒIt ainÕt Necessarily So,Ó Davis and Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2005 ÒNew Old MastersÓ, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
2004 ÒDrawings VIIÓ, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2002 "Unconventional Views: New Concepts in Contemporary Still Life
Painting" Ettinger Gallery, Laguna College of Art & Design, Laguna Beach, CA
2000-01 ÒRepresenting LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art,
Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, traveled to South Texas Art Center,
Corpus Christi, TX and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1999 "Drawing the Line," Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Illusion-Tromp L'oeil And Slight of Hand", The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
"Allegorical Re/Visions", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Joan Roebuck Gallery, Lafayette, CA
Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 "Visual Fictions, Sensory Deceits", Fresno City College, Fresno, CA
"The Game Show", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1992 "The Allure of Illusion: Trompe L'oeil in Contemporary Painting", Nora
Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Utah
1987 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Selections from Ovsey Gallery", The College of Creative Studies Gallery,
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1986 "Fourteen Southern California Artists", Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
"Uncovering the Past-Tribute and Parody", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
"Selected Works From Ovsey Gallery", Bank of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
"Summer Group Exhibition", Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
"More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
"More Than Meets The Eye, The Art of Trompe L'oeil", Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
1985 Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Dec.)
Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July)
"Art and Travel", San Francisco International Airport, CA
1981-85 "Contemporary Trompe L'oeil Painting and Sculpture", National Traveling Exhibition to: Queens Museum, Flushing, NY, 1984-85
Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA 1984
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT 1984
Bellevue Art Center, Bellevue, Washington, 1984
The Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 1983
Boise Art Center, Boise, Idaho, 1983
Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1984
Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1983
1982 "Group Effort", Neil G. Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981 "Los Angeles Visual Arts Festival", Japanese American Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
1980 "New Talent", Allen Stone Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Reality of Illusion", National Traveling Exhibition:
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1979
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 1979
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HA 1980
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1980
University Art Museum, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 1980
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1980
1976 Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Palos Verdes, CA Two Person Show
1974 "The Uses of Realism", University of California, Riverside, CA
1973 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Four Person Show
1971 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Faculty Exhibition
Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los angeles, CA
Palos Verdes Museum of Art, Palos Verdes, CA, Three Person Show
1970 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Faculty Exhibition
1968 Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Three Person Show