Channa Horwitz

Education

1972 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, B.F.A.
1960 - 1963 California State University, Northridge, California
1950 - 1952 Art Center School of Design, Pasadena, California

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007 Variances, SolwayJones, Los Angeles
2005 Language Series, SolwayJones, Los Angeles (catalog)
1999 Structures, University of Judaism – Platt Gallery, Los Angeles, curator Victor Raphael.
1996 Paintings, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles. Curator Noel Korten
1994 Performance, UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1990 Paintings, The Drawing Room, Malinda Wyatt, Curator, Tucson, Arizona
1988 Paintings and Drawings, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles. Curator, Maria de Alcuaz
1983 Drawings and Prints, Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, California
1981 Drawings and Prints, Malinda Wyatt Gallery, Venice, California
Drawings, Union Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, California
1978 Performance, International Performance Palazzo de Congressi, Bologna, Italy
Performance, Ferrara, Sala Polivalente, Ferrara, Italy
Performance, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
1976 Drawings and Performance, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Drawings, Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada
Drawings, Salvatore Ala Gallery, Milan, Italy
1974 Drawings, Woman‘s Building, Los Angeles
Drawings, University of California, Irvine, California
Drawings and Performance, University of California, San Diego
1973 Performance, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
Cal Arts, Orchestrated Stairwell 1 + 2
1969 Drawings, Sculptures, Multi-Media Performance, Orlando Gallery, Encino, California
1964 Paintings and Drawings, Valley Center of Art, Encino, California
1963 Paintings, California State University, Northridge, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2008 Uses of the Real : Originality, Conditional Objects, Action/Documentation and Contemplation, The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at Utah State University, Logan, Utah
2007 Woman Artists of Southern California Then and now, curated by Bruria Finkel, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 Strings, Strokes, Structures : Four Artists and Generative Logic, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Percussion Music, SolwayJones, Los Angeles
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in form, 1940s-70s, LACMA (catalog)
Art/Music, The Colburn School or Music, Curator Jan Turner Colburn, Los Angeles
Beyond Text, Performance, Poem Opera, Beyond Baroque, Venice, California
Heroes and Heroines, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana Village, Santa Ana, California
2003 Art/Music, The Colburn School of Music, Curator Jan Turner Colburn, Los Angeles
Group Show, Mount St. Mary‘s College, Jose Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Women of the Book, Starr Gallery, Leventhal-Sidman Community Center, Newton, Massachusetts
The Chai Show, University of Judaism, Los Angeles
2002 Six Artists, Finegood Art Gallery, Bernard Milkin Jewish Community Campus, Los Angeles
Women of the Book, Brandstater Gallery, La Sierra University, Riverside, California
2001 Women of the Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
2000 Women of the Book, Library at the University of Pennsylvania, Detroit, Pennsylvania
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Boca Raton and Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Finegood Art Gallery, Bernard Milken Jewish Community Campus, Los Angeles
Drawings, Pardo Lattuada Gallery, New York, New York
1999 Kutztown University, Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, Pennsylvania
University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tempe, Arizona
1998 Structures & Layers, Mount St. Mary‘s College, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery
1996 Women of the Book, Curator Judith Hoffberg, Finegood Art Gallery, West Hills, California
Paintings, Pardo View Gallery, New York, New York
1996 Visual Rhythms - Geometric Abstraction in Recent Paintings, Drawings and Collages, Occidental College, Dept. of Art History and the Visual Arts, Los Angeles
1994 UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Elegant, Irreverent and Obsessive - Drawing in Southern California, curated by Mike McGee, Main Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, California
1992 Los Angeles Juried Exposition, curated by Henry Hopkins, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles
Drawing in Los Angeles, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica
Group Show, Curated by Malinda Wyatt, Jan Turner Gallery
1991 The Legacy of Karl Blossfeldt, Curated by Malinda Wyatt, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Cross <+> Curren ts: Books from the Edge of the Pacific, curated by Judith A. Hoffberg, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Traveled to California State University, Hayward; Ringling School of Art Gallery, Sarasota, Florida; Oregon School of Arts & Crafts, Portland, Oregon, 1991-1993
1990 Overtures, Irvine Medical Center Art Gallery, Irvine, California
1987 Undercover, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, California
1986 Books, Curated by Judy Hoffberg, University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, California
1985 Undercover: Books as Format, Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona,
Three Sensibilities, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California
1984 Books, University of California at Los Angeles
Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Silent Auction, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, California
The First Decade, Center for Book Arts, New York, New York
1983 Books, Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, California
1982 Silent Auction, Pasadena Art Alliance, Pasadena, California
1981 The Intimate Object, Curator, Sandy Ballatori, Images and Issues Magazine, Gallery, Los Angeles
System, Inquiry, Translation, curated by Eric Siegeltuch, Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Forecast of the Season, curated by Eric Siegeltuch, Touchstone Gallery, New York, New York
USA Women Artists 1980, Museo De Arte Contemporara, Da Universidade De Sao Paolo, Brazil, Catalogue
1979 Visual / Musical Permutations, University of California, Irvine, California
Musical Drawings, P.S.1, Brooklyn, New York
Visual Poetry / Language Art Show, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California
1978 Artwords & Bookworks, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Co-curators, Judith A. Hoffberg, Joan Hugo)
100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Rare Day Exhibition, St. Augustine School, Santa Monica, California
The Poetry of Systems, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California (Dr. Susan C. Larsen, Curator), Exhibition and Performance, Catalogue
1977 Two Artists, Contemporary Art Forums, Encino, California
Rare Day Exhibition, St. Augustine School, Santa Monica, California
100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
1976 Three Directions, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, California, Catalogue
Video Interviews, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Via Los Angeles Six Artists, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
1974 Group Show, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, New York
Rare Day Exhibition, St. Augustine School, Santa Monica, California
1973 Small Image Show, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Group Show, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1970 Drawing and Performance, „E.A.T. Show at U.S.C.,“ University of Southern California, Los Angeles
1969 Group Show, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1968 Group Show, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
1965 All City Outdoor Art Festival, Winner‘s Circle, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles
1964 Paintings, Feigen Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Show, Pasadena Museum, Pasadena, California
Group Show, California Watercolor Society, Los Angeles, California
1963 Group Show, University of Oregon Art Museum, Eugene, Oregon
1963 Group Show, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, California
Group Show, Larson Gallery, Yakima Valley College, Yakima Valley, Washington
1962 Group Show, Art Center of Greater Victoria, Victoria, Canada
Group Show, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Group Show, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
James D. Phelan Award Show, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, California
Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, California
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
Hartford Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Laguna Beach Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Rutgers University, Zimmerlin Museum, June Wayne, coll. Prints and Drawings
Security Pacific National Bank, Los Angeles, California
University of Santa Barbara, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
Volt Industries, Orange County, California

GRANTS

1978 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, Artist Fellowship
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