Koplin Del Rio

TEACHING
1999-2005 Otis College, Los Angeles, CA; Life Drawing Instructor, Foundation Department
1992-1993 UCLA, Los Angeles, CA; School of Fine Arts, Design Department; Visiting Lecturer
1987 California State University, Long Beach, CA; Visiting Artist
1983 California State University, Los Angeles, CA; Life Drawing Instructor
1980 California State University, Northridge, CA; Painting Instructor
1978 Northern State college, Aberdeen, SD; Artist-in-Residence

GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS
1977 National Endowment for the Arts, Artists’ Fellowship (painting)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 DJ Hall: 35 Year Retrospective, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palms Springs, CA
Full Circle, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2005 Now and Then, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2002 Magic-Time, Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1999 Golden Moments, Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara CA
1998 OK Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1997 D.J Hall: Up Close and Personal: Selected Works 1976 - 1996, Palos Verdes Art Center,
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
1996 Golden Moments, Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
1994 Precious Moments, Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 D.J. Hall: A Ten Year Survey, California Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, CA
1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1988 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1986 “Selected Works 1974 – 1985”, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park,
Los Angeles, CA
1985 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1983 Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1982 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1982 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1981 Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman College, Orange, CA
1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1977 Albert Contreras Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Albert Contreras Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 "The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957-2007, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
2009 L.A Noir, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 West Coast Drawings: Drawings VIII, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
Home Grown, LA Art House, West Hollywood, CA
2009 Femme on Femme, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA
2009 L.A. Noir, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2009 Impressionist and Modern Masters: Nature and Light, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Spring, CA
2008 Not Without Form, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, NV
2008 Magnolia Edition Tapestries, Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA
2007-2008 About Face: Portraiture Now, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2007 AgsS, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, Culver City, CA
2007 Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Molly Barnes
2007 Representation 2007, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY
2007 Greetings From The American Dream, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside CA
2006 Contemporary Artist Conjure Limited Edition GicleÈ Prints, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 An Assessment of Contemporary Figuration, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2006 Tapestries, Sullivan Goss, Santa Barbara, CA
2005 Painted Ladies: Six Southern California Painters, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2005 Drawings as Preparation, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Drawings VII, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
Artists Council 35th Annual National Juried Exhibition, D.J. Hall Why Make Art and What Makes it Good? Lecture and Awards presentation, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Speculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
Traveled to: Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA and Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2001 Skin Deep, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
2001 Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern California Art, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA; traveling to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; and the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2000 Go Figure, O.K Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1999 State of the Artist, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1996 L.A. Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Art Rental Gallery at Armand Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, CA
1996 Drawn from L.A., The Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1994 Selected Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1992-1993 Realism/ Photorealism, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992 Faces, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY
1992 California Dreamin’, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
1992 The 56th Annual National Mid – Year Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1992 The Articulated Thumbprint, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
1991 The Heart of America: The O.K. Harris Collection, Dada Building, Fukuoka City, Japan
1991 Retrospective-Prospective, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Individual Realities, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveling to Tsukashin Hall, Osaka, Japan
1991 Her Story, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1990 New Work - New York, Galerie Barbara Silverberg, Montreal, Canada
1989-1990 Collectors Choice, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
1989 American Pop Culture Today III, Laforet Museum, Harajuku, Japan
1989 Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments, Security Pacific Gallery, South Coast Metro Center, Costa Mesa, CA
1989 The Figure Revisited, The Gallery at Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, NY
1987-1988 Everydayland: Imagined Genre Scene Painting in California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA
1988 Sense of Place, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1988 De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
1987 Los Angeles Today, Contemporary Visions, Amerika Haus, West Berlin, West Germany
1987 Present Perspectives: 1975-1985, Fresno Art Center and Museum, Fresno, CA
1987 Feasts, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ
1987 The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected by Ivan Karp, Norton Center for the Arts,
Centre College, Danville, KY
1987 Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Inst. of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1986 Looking In, Looking Out: Contemporary Portraits by Women Artists, Montgomery Gallery, Galleries of Claremont Colleges, Claremont, CA
1986 Recent Works of Paper, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1985 Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Self-portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific Bank Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Representational Drawing Today, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
1984 In Celebration, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica
1984 O.K. Harris Artists, Royal Palm Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1984 A Broad Spectrum: LA Contemporary Painters and Sculptors ’84, The Design Center of LA,
Los Angeles, CA
1984 So Called, So Cal, Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, CA
1983 A Heritage Renewed, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA;
Traveling to: Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1983 L.A. Seen, University Art Galleries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1983 The LA Postcard Project: Part 1, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Drawings by 50 California Artists, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
1983 Generations, Conejo Valley Art Museum, Thousand Oaks, CA
1983 Faces Since the Fifties-A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1982 New Directions: Contemporary American Art from the Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ; traveling to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK;
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1982 Portraits, Concord Gallery, New York, NY
1982 O.K. Harris Master Artists, O.K. Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ
1982 Photo-realism Revisited, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Pleasures and Pastimes, Concord Gallery, New York, NY
1982 The Real Thing: Southern CA Realist Painting, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1981 The Figure and Its Postures, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA
1981-1983 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Traveling to: Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal; Salas De Exposciones de Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, West Germany
1981 Changes: Art in America 1881-1981, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
1981 New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1981 Decade- Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1981 Be My Valentine, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
1980 Collectors Choice, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MI
1980 Photo-Realist Painting in California: A Survey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1979 Recent Los Angeles Painting, Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1979 Portraits 1979, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Realist Painters: Los Angeles, Arco Center for Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA
1978 100+ Current Directions in Southern California Art, Los Angeles Institute for Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1978 Figurative Realism ’78, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Beyond the Photograph, County of Los Angeles Cultural Arts Center, Sylmar, CA
1977 Billboards, Eyes and Ears Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (15 x 60 foot hand-painted bill board at La Cienega and Santa Monica Blvds.)
1977 Beyond the Garden Wall, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1976 The Art Rental Gallery Presents, Art Rental Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
1976 The Figure in Contemporary Realism, Long Beach City College Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1976 Boehm Gallery, Palomar College, San Marcos, CA
1976 Realism, Albert Contreras Gallery, Hollywood, CA
1975 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Twenty-First Annual All California Juried Show, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna, CA
(First Prize)
1975 Palos Verdes Fifteenth Annual All California Juried Show, Palos Verdes Art Museum,
Palos Verdes, CA
1974 Twentieth Annual All California Juried Show, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY: BOOKS
2004 Path of the Bighorn, Bighorn Institute, Palm Desert, CA
1999 Contemporary Art in Southern California, Mark Johnstone, Craftsman House- G &B Arts Int’l, Sydney, Australia
1998 Allegory of the Supermarket, Stephanie Brown, University of Georgia Press, Athens, GA (cover)
1993 Masquerade, Maurice Tuchman, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA
1989 Exposures, Women and Their Art, Betty Ann Brown and Arlene Raven, New Sage Press
1989 Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, Sylvia Moore, Mid March Arts
1988 Inside the L.A. Artist, Marva Marrow, Introduction Josine Ianco-Starrels, Gibbs M. Smith, Inc., Peregrine Smith Books, Salt Lake City, UT
1981 Contemporary American Realism Since 1960, Frank H. Goodyear, New York Graphic Society
1980 Billboard Art, Sally Henderson, Robert Landau, Chronicle Books
1977 Big Art, Environmental Communications, David Greenberg, Katheryn Smith, Stuart Teacher, Running Press

BIBLIOGRAPHY: EDITIONS/PUBLICATIONS
1989 1990 Women Artists Calendar, Cedco Publishing Company, San Rafael, CA,
1988 1989 California Artists Calendar, California/International Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY: CATALOGS
2007 About Face: Portraiture Now, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
2004 Painted Ladies, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Cultural Affairs Office, City of Carlsbad, CA
2000 Representing L.A., Frye Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, Gordon L. Fuglie, 2000
1999 D.J. Hall: Golden Moments, Reynolds Gallery, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA
1997 D.J. Hall: Up Close and Personal, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA,
Introduction: Ann Morris; Interview with Josine Ianco-Starrels
1992 56th National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH,
Introduction: Louis A. Zona
1991 Her Story, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1989 Art in the Public Eye: Selected Developments, Security Pacific Gallery, South Coast Metro Center; Mark Johnstone
1988 Everydayland: Imagined Genre Scene Painting in Southern California, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA ; Elaine Dines Cox
1987 Sense of Place, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles; de Saisset Museum,
Santa Clara University; Text: Robert McDonald
1987 Mainstream America: The Collection of Phil Desind, Butler Institute of American Art,
Youngstown, OH; Introduction: Louis Zona
1986 D.J. Hall: Selected Works 1974-1985, Municipal Art Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs,
Los Angeles, CA; Introduction: Josine Ianco-Starrels
1985 Self Portraits by Women Artists, Security Pacific Bank Gallery at the Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; Tressa Miller
1983 A Heritage Renewed- Representational Drawing Today, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA; Phyllis Plous
1983 Faces Since the 50’s, A Generation of American Portraiture, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1982 The Real Thing, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Lynn Gamwell
1981 Decade- Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA; Laurence Drieband
1981 Changes: Art in America 1881-1981, Marquette University Committee on the Fine Arts, Marquette, WI; Mary L. Ladish
1981 New Directions, Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ; Sam Hunter
1980 Photorealist Painting in California: A Survey, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; William Spurlock

BIBLIOGRAPHY: PERIODICALS
2008 Venice Magazine, “DJ Hall: Retrospective Reflections” Katrina Kaufman, June 2008, p. 70-75
2008 ArtScene, “Previews of Exhibitions: DJ Hall”, Marlena Donahue, (Vol. 27 No. 10), June 2008, Cover Image, p. 16-18
2008 Angeleno Magazine, “California Slate of Mind”, (Vol. No. 83), p. 74-76
2005 Art & Antiques, West Hollywood, “The Spirit of Creativity Thrives in the City of Angeles”, March, ss130 & ss134
2005 Palm Springs Life, Art and Culture Section, “Returning to the Scene”, Steven Biller,
December, p. 10,11, 52
2005 Desert Magazine, “Artistic Differences”, Robert Menifee, November, p. 63
2005 Art News, National Reviews Section, Richard Chang, October, p. 173
2004 Palm Springs Life, “Painting a Legacy”, Lydia Kramer, Jan., p. B11
2004 Southwest Art, “Pool Party: Six California Artists Talk about Their Attraction to Swimming Pools”, Richard Mahler, July, pgs. 126- 131
2003 Hwy 111, cover, Summer
2001 Juxtapose, “Representing LA, Pictorial Currents in Contemporary Southern California Art”,
Gordon L. Fuglie, May/June, p. 47-57
2000 Smithsonian Archives of American Art Journal, (Vol. 40, No. 1&2), “West Coast”,
Paul J. Karlstrom, p. 39, 42
1998 Art Venues (Orange County Promotion Guide for Artists), “D.J. Hall,” Spring
1997 Palm Springs Life, “Pool Hall: The Bearable Lightness of Being,” Robert Crane,
Nov., p. 46-47
1996 Harpers Magazine, Cover, June
1994 Watercolor ‘94 (American Artist Publication), “Finding The Light Through Gouache:
D.J. Hall’s Newest Paintings”, Carmi Weingrod, Fall, p. 62-69
1991 Artweek, (Vol. 22, No. 25), “Los Angeles Realism: A Conversation with D.J. Hall,"
Victoria Martin, Aug. 1, p. 17
1987 L.A. Style, “Facing the Facts: L.A.’s Women Artists Look at L.A. Women," Robert Crane, Dec.,
p. 103-105
1987 Artweek, “ A Sense of Displacement," Nancy Kay Turner, November 21
1986 Los Angeles Times Magazine, “A Marriage of Art and Architecture," Virginia Gray,
Aug. 24, p. 30-33
1986 Reliance, “ My Heart," (quarterly published by Fronville Homes Inc., Yokohama, Japan),
Issue #2, April, p. 16-17
1986 Artweek, “The Good California Life," Merle Schipper, Feb. 22, p. 5
1985 Ranch & Coast Magazine, “At the Galleries," William Kingsland, Aug. 15, p. 32
1985 Artweek, (Vol. 16, No. 8), “Women Look at Themselves," Marina La Palma, Feb. 23, p.1
1984 Artweek, “Surveying Drawing in California," Robert McDonald, Jan. 21
1984 Studio International, (vol. 196, No. 1004), California Drawing," Chris Martini
1983 Images & Issues, (Vol. 3, No. 6), “D.J. Hall at O.K. Harris," Katherine Howe, May/June, p. 62
1983 Artweek, (Vol. 14, No. 113), Representational Drawing: The Power of Subjectivity,"
Ruth Weisberg, April 12, p. 1
1982 Artweek, (Vol. 13, No. 21), Surveying Southern California Realist Painting," Ruth Weisberg, June 5, p. 1
1982 Art Express, (Vol. 2, No. 2), “Realism’s," John Perreault, March/ April, p. 34-38
1981 New West Magazine, (Vol. 6, No. 1), Jan., cover
1981 Artweek, (Vol. 12, No. 33), “On the Beach," Lynn Gamwell, Oct. 10, p. 4
1981 Journal, (Vol. 4, No. 37), “ Representational Drawing Today," Phyllis Plous, Sept./Oct., p. 50-56
1981 Images and Issues, (Vol. 2, No. 1), “Decade/ Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies,"
Sandy Ballatore, Summer, p. 40-43
1981 Art In America, (no. 4), “Pasadena Puralism: The Painting 70’s," Walter Gabrielson,
May, p. 63
1981 New West Magazine, (Vol. 6, No. 1) January Cover
1980 Art das Kunstmagazin, (C1084E, Nr. 12), “SraBenkunst made in USA, December, pp. 45-54
1979 Artweek, (Vol. 10, No. 19), “Looking at others, Peter Clothier, May 12, p. 3
1978 Artweek, (Vol. 9, No, 40), “Photographic Foundations,” Stephen Axelrod
1977 Art News, (Vol. 76, No. 7), “Review of Shows,” September, pp. 119-120
1977 Artweek, (Vol. 8. No. 16), “D.J. Hall’s Commentary on Vanity”, Anne Staunton, April 16.
1977 Artweek, (Vol. 8, No. 16), “Art Moves Outdoors”, Suzanne Muchnic, February 19, p. 1
1977 New West Magazine, (Vol. 1, No. 4), “Your Message Here: An Incomplete History of Billboards”, February 14, pp. 50-54
1976 Artweek, (Vol. 7, No. 44), “Southland Realists”, Sandy Ballatore, December 18, p. 4
1975 Artweek, (Vol. 6, No. 27), “All California”, August 9, p. 4
1975 Artweek, (Vol. 6, No. 14), “On the Beach”, April 5, p. 8

BIBLIOGRAPHY: NEWSPAPERS
2008 Los Angeles Times, “Sunny Views, Deeper Shades”, Suzanne Muchnic, June 29, p. F8
2005 Los Angeles Times, “Art Review: Lingering in the Light”, Holly Myers, July 1, p. 23
2005 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Art Review: Ladies and Dreamscapes”, Robert L. Pincus, June 30, p. 37
2005 The San Diego Union-Tribune, Datebook, “Ladies and Dreamscapes”, June 30, pg. 37
2005 North County Times, “Six Artists Study Women’s Nature in “Painted Ladies”, Pam Kragen, June 2, pg. 19
2005 The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Spanglish Lessons”, Norma Myer
2004 New York Times, “Art: Off the Canvas and Onto the Big Screen” M.G. Lord, December 19, p. 40
2000 Seattle Post-Intelligencer, “Inside LaLa Land: Frye show exposes a swatch of a grit”, Judy
Wagonfield, Dec. 22, p. 17
1999 Santa Barbara News Press, “Endless Summer: Golden Moments”, Martha Donelan,
Sept. 8, p. D6
1999 The Independent, “The Reviews: Uncomfortable Accuracy”, Lindsay Rust, September 2, p.35
1996 Los Angeles Times, “Art Review: Golden Moments of Nostalgia and Affection Found in Hall’s Paintings”,
William Wilson, Dec. 10, p. F3
1992 Los Angeles Times, “ Art Review: D. J. Hall Unmasks L.A.’s Excruciating Aging Process," William Wilson, June 2, p. F5
1992 Los Angeles Times (Westside/ Valley), “Light Color and Darker Meanings," Nancy Kapitanoff, May 24, p. 66-67
1992 Daily News, “Her Art Life Not As Easy As It Looks," Meg Sullivan, May 15, L.A. Life p. 49
1989 New York Times, “ In ‘The Figure Revisited’, Figural Energy is Explored," Vivien Raynor,
April 30, p. 32
1988 Los Angeles Times, “Discontent Roils Under the Surface of ‘Everydayland’ Exhibition”,
Suzanne Muchnic, Oct. 1
1988 San Jose Mercury News, “Provocative Shows at de Saisset”, Dorothy Burkhart, Jan. 22
1987 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Art Review: Los Angeles from Three Artists,' Points of View," Suzanne Muchnic, Nov. 9, p. 1
1987 USC Trojan Family, (Vol. 20, No. 2), “Sense of Place," John Farrell, p. 16-17
“Reflective Surfaces: The Lush and Gleaming world of D.J. Hall," John Farrell, Nov., p. 18
1987 The Princeton Packet, (Princeton, NJ), cover photograph, December 4-13
1987 Courier News, (Bridgewater, NJ), “Gallery Offers Feast for the Eyes”, Emmanuel Haller,
December 13, 1987
1986 The Entertainer: The Daily Breeze/News-Pilot, “The Extraordinary Realism of
D.J. Hall," Susan Christian, Oct. 3, p. 20-22
1986 Focus: Evening Outlook, “D.J. Hall Creates Fantasy World from Reality," Susan Christian, Sept. 26, p. 12-13
1986 L.A. Life, “Art/News & Notes: Poolside Life Featured in Hall Retrospective," Diana Rico, March 3
1986 L.A. Weekly, “D.J. Hall at Barnsdall Municipal Gallery," Peter Clothier, February 14-20, p. 55
1986 San Francisco Chronicle, E, “Turning A Cold Eye on Lush L.A. Life," Kenneth Baker, Feb.13,
1986 Evening Outlook, “Artist Looks at Life Around the Pool," Susan Sanford-Wakefield, Feb. 11
1985 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Putting Themselves Into A Real Picture”, Robert L. Pincus,
February 2
1984 Miami Herald, “Making Art on a Big Scale”, Helen Kohen, February 19
1983 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “”’Sense of Humor’ Freed Her Palette”, Suzanne Muchnic,
December 27, p. 1-4
1983 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “The Galleries: Reviews”, Suzanne Muchnic, June 17, pp. 2-4
1983 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Santa Barbara Drawing Show: Heritage Renewed”,
Suzanne Muchnic, March 15, pp. 1-2
1982 L.A. Reader, “It’s The Real Thing-But Not Quite”, Betty Brown, May 28, pp. 16-19
1982 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Distinction in Realist Painting”, William Wilson, May 19, pp. 2-4
1982 News Post (Laguna Beach, CA), “Realism Exhibit Gets Emotional Responses”, Diana McSweeney, May 6
1982 Los Angeles Times, “Realist Painting in Laguna Beach” Josine Lanco-Starrels, April 25
1981 Baltimore Sun, “Feeding and Flexing Your Neuroses in SoHo, or Browsing Through a Graffiti Conversation”, Elizabeth Stevens, Febraury 6
1980 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Figurative Photos Meet the Abstract”, William Wilson, April 27,
pp. 93-95
1979 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “Exhibition with a Message”, William Wilson, October 7, p. 93
1979 Los Angeles Times Calendar, “The Portrait, New Life for an Old Form”, William Wilson, April 29, p. 1
1978 Los Angeles Times, “Symbolisis of Camera and Canvas”, Suzanne Muchnic, April 1
1975 Los Angeles Herald Examiner, “Laguna Features a Summer of Art”, July 20, p. E7

TELEVISION/RADIO COVERAGE
1990 “Appreciating Art”, produced by Marilyn Bekker, Los Angeles, CA for Financial News Network, aired: November 19, 20, 22, 24, 25 (throughout the U.S.)
1989 “Castaway’s Choice”, Produced for KCRW and hosted by John McNally; Los Angeles, CA, aired on KCRW, Los Angeles, CA: October 14, and throughout the U.S. during the rest of the year
1982 “D.J. Hall: Real Life in Venice”, Produced by Robert Crane and Dana Bieber, Video Systems Network, Los Angeles, CA, aired on KCET-TV in April, televised throughout the rest of the year and on Times Mirror Cable

THEATER DESIGN AND FILM
2003-04 Fine Art Consultant, “Spanglish”, Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Sony Pictures/Gracie Films, Director/Producer: James L. Brooks
1983 Designed the artwork for entire sets of “A Sense of Humor”, written by Ernest Thompson, produced by Robert Fryer and Frank VonZerneck in association with Centre Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, CA

PUBLIC ART
LAX, Terminal 1, Los Angeles, CA, “Youth Takes Flight” project, designed artworks and
installation, “Let’s Take A Trip Through The Universe”, Gates 1 and 2 and Main Concourse

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
GTE, Thousand Oaks, CA
Bank of America, Los Angeles, CA
Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Commodities Corporation, Princeton, NJ
Kemper Insurance Company, Chicago, IL
Domino Corporation, New York, NY
Stephens Inc., Little Rock, AR
Caravan Products Inc., Totowa, NJ
Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
American University, Washington, D.C.
Gerald E. Buck Foundation, Laguna Hills, CA