Peter Zokosky / Resume and Exhibition History
Born
1957 California
Education
1981 M.F.A.,
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1979 B.A., University of California,
Riverside, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2004 The
Other side of Nature II, Davis &
Cline Galleries, Ashland, OR
2002 Under the Skin, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
2001 Peter Zokosky, The Nature of
Being, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola
Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1998 Mostly
Water, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art,
Santa Monica, CA
Clown,
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Paintings, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Legitimate
Paradox, Felicita Foundation,
Escondido, CA
1989 Recent
Work, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Peter
Zokosky Oil Painting Exhibition,
Hsiung Shih Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Peter Zokosky, Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
Recent Paintings, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Paintings, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Rio
Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1981 Otis
Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Inland
Empire Gallery, Riverside, CA
Group Exhibitions
2007 Luck of the Draw, Hunsaker/Schlesinger
Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Otis-L.A. Nine
Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA
The Likeness, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
2005 California: New Old
Masters, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
Contemporary
Drawing as Preparation, Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Maine
Project, Judson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 100
Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art
Center, Santa Ana, CA
Mystery, Andlab,
Los Angeles, CA
Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger
Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Shakespeare as Muse, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR
Mark Making,
Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland OR
A Selection of Portraits from The Doug Simay Collection, Riverside Art Museum,
Riverside, CA
Natural Forces: Earth, Air, Fire and Water, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2003 Image & Enigma, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Juxtapoz 8th
Anniversary Art Show, Track 16
Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger
Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
L. A. Sampler, Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
Paintings,
Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
Drawings VI,
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 Representing
LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art,
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Dreamscapes, Contemporary Surrealist Landscapes, Wignall Museum/Gallery
Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Representing LA: Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern
California Art, Art Museum of South
Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
2000 Representing LA: Pictorial
Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Sassy Sexy Sweet Sordid Surreal, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Eccentric Visions, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
The Changing Face of Portraiture, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Drawings V, Koplin Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Another Drawing Show...,
Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Bastards: A Collaborative
Exhibition, Davison Galleries,
Seattle, WA
Means to an End: An Exploration of Drawing, Montgomery Gallery Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Story Tellers, Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1998 Drawings, Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
The Drawing Group, An Emerging School of Los Angeles, Laband Art Gallery,
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Works from the Gallery Collection, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
Subliminal Fictions, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
1997 Bastards:
Individual and Collaborative Works,
Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Santa Monica, CA
ReconFigured: I and II,Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
Kids =n Dogs, http: //Strikingdistance.com
Real, Is It?, Louis
Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA
5 Easy Pieces, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
1996 Seeking
Balance: An Artistic Journey,
Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
Imaginary Realities: Surrealism Then and Now, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA
LA Figures,
Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pushing the Envelope, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Drawn from L. A., Art Center College of Design, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Still life...Still Here, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 In
Their Own Image, Art Intistitute of
Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
Fifty...Objects, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Pacific-Pacific 2: Four + Four More, LASCA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA/Seoul, South Korea
Las Vegas or Bust, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
Beyond Appearance, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA
Corpus Callosum, Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 The
Way of the Flesh, Mt. San Antonio
College Gallery, Walnut, CA
September,
Jerrold Burchman Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Beyond Appearance, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
The Committed Image, Fine Arts Gallery, Mt. San Jacinto College, San
Jacinto, CA
Paradox,
Louis Newman Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA
1993 Drawings
III, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
First Annual Juried Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Elegant,
the Irreverent and the Obsessive:
Drawing in Southern
California, California State University Fullerton,
Fullerton, CA
1992 Virgin
Territories, Long Beach Museum of
Art, Long Beach, CA
Greatest Hits, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings II,
Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Telephone,
South Coast Metro Center, Costa Mesa, CA
1991 Mental Map, B
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Individual Realities in the California Art Scene, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Seibu Tsukashin Hall, Amagaski,
Japan
Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
6-35, FHP
Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1990 Humans
Being, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Long
Beach Celebrates the National Endowment for the Arts, FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Collecting on a Shoestring-Jeri Coates Collection, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Twelve and Under-Selected Small Images, Fine Arts Gallery, Golden West College
Ginza Gallery, Tokyo & Nagoya, Japan
1988 Michael
Axelrod/Peter Zokosky, El Camino
College Art Gallery, Torrance, CA
Folk Images: The Animal Kingdom, Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
Changing Visions: California Then and Now, Pacific Bell, San Ramon, CA
1987 The
Current Landscape, Mathes Cultural
Center, Escondido, CA
Contemporary Southern California Art, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Contemporary Southern California Art, from the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
AIDS Project Los Angeles Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art in the Hall, West Hollywood City Hall, West Hollywood, CA
1986 Two
Person Show, Fine Arts Gallery, Mount
St. Mary=s College, Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; The New
York Academy of Art, New York, NY; City Art Gallery, Raliegh, NC
Animal Magnetism, Century Gallery, County of Los Angeles Department of Parks and
Recreation, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Natures, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
Recent Acquisitions, Security Pacific Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
1985 The
Astonishing Horizon, LAVA, Los
Angeles, CA
10th Anniversary Thank You Show, Newspace, Los Angeles, CA
The Romantic Landscape, The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
The Spiritual Eye, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
Two Person Show, Los Angeles Southwest College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Occidental
College, Los Angeles, CA
Vine Street Studios, Los Angeles, CA
Jim Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art 170, Los Angeles, CA
1983 17
Artists= Self Portraits, A Limited Edition Portfolio and Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Otis
Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Otis
Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Inland
Empire Gallery, Riverside, CA
1978 University
of California, Riverside, CA
Inland Empire Gallery, Riverside, CA
North Light Gallery, Tempe, AZ
Soho Camera Works, Los Angeles, CA
Arts Related Employment
2005 J.
Paul Getty Museum, The Painting Techniques of Jacques-Louis David, Lecture/Demonstration series.
J. Paul Getty Museum, The Drawing Materials and
Methods of Rembrandt, class.
California State University at Long Beach, Instructor
of Anatomy for Artists.
From 2000 to Present.
2004 J.
Paul Getty Museum, The Drawing Hour, Plein
aire sketching class
J. Paul Getty Museum, Painting with Pastels, pastel class.
2002 J.
Paul Getty Museum, Sculpting the Human Figure, clay sculpting class.
2001 J.
Paul Getty Museum, Sculpting the Human Figure, clay sculpting class.
J. Paul Getty Museum, The Drawing Techniques of
Raphael,
Lecture/Demonstration series.
2000 J.
Paul Getty Museum, Renaissance Panel Painting, Lecture/Demonstration
series.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Point of View Gallery Talk, Public lecture on Rembrandt.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Instructor of Analytical
Figure Drawing, Figure Painting, Head Drawing and Introduction to Drawing,
from 1995 to 2000.
Awards/Grants
2004 Robert
M. MacNamara Foundation Residence Grant, Westport Island, Maine
Ucross Foundation Residence Grant, Clearmont, Wyoming
2003 Robert M. MacNamara Foundation
Residence Grant, Westport Island, Maine
1991 Roswell
Artist in Residence Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
1987 N.E.A.,
Visual Artists Grant in Painting
1979 Chancellors Grant, University of
California, Riverside, CA
Bibliography:
Books
Contemporary Art in Southern California, Mark Johnstone, Craftsman House, Sydney, Australia, 1999
Zoo: Animals in Art, Edward Lucie-Smith, Watson-Guptill Publications, New
York, 1998
Mundo Animal, Antonio Di Benedetto, Xenos Books, Riverside, CA, 1997
Being Human, Ethics, Environment, and Our Place in
the World, Anna L. Peterson,
University
of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, 2001
An
Audience with an Elephant, and
Other Encounters on the Eccentric Side,
Byron Rogers, Aurum Press, London , England, 2001
Documentary Film
Under the Skin:: The Art of Peter Zokosky, Ann Dunsky and Steve Dunsky, Cottage Films, 28 minutes
Articles/Review
2004 The
Korea Daily, December 6
Ashland Mail Tribune, September 17
Ollman, Leah, Los Angeles Times, August 13
Los Angeles Times, August 27,
Harper=s Magazine, reproduction of painting, March
Frank, Peter, Artweek, February
2002 Scarborough, James, Art
Press, December
Daswani, Kavita, W, November
supplement
Gilbert, Rick, Artweek, April
Koppman, Debra, Artweek, June
2001 Scarborough, James, NY Arts, December
Frank, Peter, L. A. Weekly, October 9
Anderson, Isabel, Artweek,
November
Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, October 14
Gottlieb, Shirle, Artscene, October
Gottlieb, Shirle, Long Beach Press-Telegram, September 28
Calder, Diane, Artscene, September
2000 Wagonfeld,
Judy, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
December 22,
Crouch, DeAnne Musolf, Santa Barbara News-Press, September 24
Gunnin, John, Juxtapoz, January/February
1999 Updike, Robin, The Seattle Times, August 24
Gilbert, Rick, Pasadena Star News, March 19
O=Brien, Pat, Riverside Press Enterprise, January 19
Gilbert, Rick, Laguna News-Post, April 8
1998 Steen,
Ron, Panik #6
Pagel,
David, Los Angeles Times, May 22
Miles, Christopher, Artweek, July/August
Tapley, George, Artweek, April
Wilson, William, Los Angeles Times, April 11
1997 Ackerman,
Gerald. Fuglie, Gordon. The Art of Greater Los Angeles in the 1990=s, Vol. 7,
no. 1
Frank, Peter, L. A. Weekly, October 17
Pagel, David, Los Angeles Times, October 2
1996 Ackerman,
Gerald, American Arts Quarterly,
Spring 1996
Register, Kathy, Pasadena Star News, April 19
Frank, Peter, L. A. Weekly, April 22
1995 Ackerman,
Gerald, Cosi, May
O=Brien, Draza, Las Vegas Weekly, May 15
Alter-Gilbert, Gilbert, Asylum Annual, 1995
1994 Zokosky, Peter, Psychological Perspectives, Summer
Wilson,
William, Los Angeles Times,
January 28
Frank,
Peter, LA Weekly, March 4
Lasarow,
Bill, Art Scene, March
1992 Scarborough, James, Press Telegram
Curtis,
Cathy, Los Angeles Times
Scarborough,
James, Visions Magazine, Summer
Knaff, DeVorah, The Press Enterprise, May 17
Mendenhall, Lauri, Costa Mesa Daily Pilot, May 21
Littlefield, Kinney, Orange County Register, May 24
Curtis, Cathy, Los Angeles Times, May 11
1991 Fujinami,
Noriko, Art Sphere Magazine
Littlefield,
Kinney, Press Telegram, May 5
1990 The
Sciences, May/June
Clothier, Peter, ARTnews, February
Pagel, David, Arts Magazine, January
Christensen, Judith, San Diego Union, February 22
Ondash, E=Louise, Times Advocate, February 23
Ollman, Leah, Los Angeles Times, January 26
1989 Picot,
Pierre, Artweek, October 28
Donohue, Marlena, Los Angeles Times, October 27
Andreoli-Woods, Lynn, Reader, October 22
Berland, Dinah, Los Angeles Times, October 25
Tokyo Journal, February
Asahi Shinbun, Tokyo, February 21
An, An, Tokyo, February 3
1988 Chang, Hsin Lung; Lu, Rong-Zhi, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly
#7
Berland,
Dinah, Press Telegram, July 7
The Press-Enterprise, April 3
Artweek,
February 5
Donohue, Marlina, Los Angeles Times, January 29
1987 Visions
Magazine, Winter
China Post, April
4
Taiwan Art News, April
Hsiung Shih Art, April
1986 McKenna,
Kristine, Los Angeles Times, April
18
Balletore, Sandy, LA Weekly, May 2
Artist, China, April
Public Collections
The Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Chemical Bank of New York, New York, NY
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher, Los Angeles, CA
Home Savings of America, Irwindale, CA
Kaufman and Broad, Paris, France
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Major Clients Agency, Inc., Century City, CA
Pacific Bell, San Ramone, CA
The Sun America/Kaufman and Broad Home Corporation,
Los Angeles, CA
Union Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Private Collections
Roger Allers, Santa Monica, CA
Donald Anderson, Roswell, NM
Darrel & Marsha Anderson, Laguna Beach, CA
Stuart Arends, Roswell, NM
Lawrence Barth, Los Angeles, CA
Teresa Bates, Torrance, CA
Jay Belloli, Alata Dena, CA
James Bohnen, Chicago, IL
Bradly Bontems, Los Angeles, CA
Jan Book, Venice, CA
Elisa Greben Crystal, Pasadena, CA
Glenn Cunning, Costa Mesa, CA
Jean Davis, Los Angeles, CA
Gregg Doty, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Durnin, Long Beach, CA
Judy Dubrawski, Brentwood, CA
Danny Elfman, Topanga, CA
Daniel Eltinge, Los Angeles, CA
Greg Escalante, Sunset Beach, CA
John Frame, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Judith Friedman, Playa del Rey, CA
Lendon Flanagan, Los Angeles, CA
John Fortenberry, New York, NY
Rick Gilbert, Huntington Beach, CA
Whoopie Goldberg, Los Angeles, CA
Joni and Monte Gordon, Los Angeles, CA
F. Scott Hess, Los Angeles, CA
David Hoberman, Los Angeles, CA
Carla Kirkegy, Los Angeles, CA
Page Klune, Ketchum, ID
Miles Knudsen, Los Angeles, CA
David Kronen, Canoga Park, CA
Alan Landau, Santa Monica, CA
Michael Levin, New York, NY
Doris Lindstrom, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrew Maldonado, Long Beach, CA
Deborah Mannis, Los Angeles, CA
Judie Marcuse, Long Beach, CA
Steve Martin, Beverly Hills, CA
Michael McMillen, Santa Monica, CA
John Mermis, Long Beach, CA
Cecilia Miguez, Pasadena, CA
Bryan Noguchi, El Cerrito, CA
Manuel Ortega, Pasadena, CA
Mark and Margaret Park, Los Angeles, CA
Greg and Marcela Phillips, Pacific Palisades, CA
Paul A. Prosperi, Palm Beach, FL
Ronnie Rubin, Santa Monica, CA
Barry and Helene Sacks, Los Angeles, CA
Philip Scaturro, New York, NY
Luis Serrano, Los Angeles, CA
Mo Shannon, Chatsworth, CA
Mr. and Mrs. Mel Shulman, San Francisco, CA
Ron Steen, Pasadena, CA
Mim Spertus, Los Angeles, CA
Arnold Stiefel, Beverly Hills, CA
Jon Swihart, Santa Monica, CA
John Tartaglione, Sierra Madic, CA
Evie Tavasci, Sherman Oaks, CA
Robert and Regena Tavasci, Rossmoor, CA
Cheryle Trammell, New York, N. Y.
John Weston and Jim McBroom, Irvine, CA
Daniel Wheeler, Los Angeles, CA
Marlene Whitley, Santa Monica, CA
Yale Udoff, Los Angeles, CA
Art Vincent, Albuquerque, NM
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Zifkin, Beverly Hills, CA
Doug Zuber, Scottsdale, AZ