BORN: 1932 - 2002 Hartford, CT

EDUCATION:
1971 MFA Degree, University of California, Los Angeles, California
1958-60 Studied at Pratt Institute and New York University, New York, New York
1954 BFA Degree, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

AWARDS:
1997 City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, Individual Artist Grant
1994 Selected for 1994 Residency Program at Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
1993 Selected Artist for Metro Red Line North Hollywood Station
1991 '85, '81 National Endowment for the Arts, Grant in Painting
1980 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Painting

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2001 San Jose Museum of Art, "Urban Invasion," San Jose, CA (catalog)
2000 Koplin Gallery, "Some Los Angeles Icons", Los Angeles, CA
1999 California State Fullerton Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
1994 Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, NV
1993 University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1992 Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1986 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 University of Southern California Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1984 Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1982 Cerro Coso College, Ridgecrest, California
1978-79 Traveling Exhibition: "Shopping Mall 1973-77, A Conceptual Perspective,"
        Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia
        Shepparton Arts Center, Victoria, Australia
        Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia
        University Art Museum, Brisbane, Australia
        Hamilton Art Gallery, Victoria, Australia
        Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
1977 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1974 Boise State University, Boise, Idaho
1970 Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1967 Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1966 Gallery A, Melbourne, Australia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005 “New Old Masters”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
        “Speculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa Barbara”,
              Laguna College of Art & Design, CA
2004 “Drawings VII”, Koplin Del Rio Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
2003 Speculative Terrain: from San Diego to Santa Barbara, Laband Art Gallery, LA, CA
        “Central Street Live” Penrith Regional Gallery and The Lewers Bequest, Sydney,
              traveling to: Macquarie University Art Gallery, Sydney
2000 "Dusk to Dawn: Nocturnal Landscapes," Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA
1999 "My First Work, Origins and Experiments", Pasadena City College Art Gallery,
              Pasadena,CA
1998 "Drawings IV", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "The Drawing Group: An Emerging School of Los Angeles?", Leband Art Gallery,
              Loyola Marymount Univ., LA, CA
        "Material Perfection: Minimal Art and Its Aftermath", University of Western Australia,
              Perth, Australia
        "Lightscapes", Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NV
        "COLA Artists Awards Show", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
1998 "A Place in The Sun: Artist and L.A. Public Spaces", Armory Center for The Arts,
              Pasadena, CA
1997 "Reconfigured: II Painting", Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "Reconfigured: II Drawing", Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "I Had a Dream: Australian Art in the 1960's", National Gallery of Victoria, LA, CA
1996 "Transit District: LACMTA Commisssioned Artists", LA Municipal Gallery, LA, CA
        "Urban/Sub/ Urban", Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Holly wood, CA
        "City of Vapor:Capturing the Transitory Reality of LA", Tatistcheff/Rogers Gallery,
              Santa Monica ,CA
        "Drawn From L.A.", The Armory Center, Pasadena, CA
1995 Koplin Gallery, West Hollywood, CA
        Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada
        "Landscape : The Continuum", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, CA
1994 "Parallax Views", Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993 "Daylight Fantasies & the Night's Dark Side", Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
        "Drawings III", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
        "XXII Anniversary Exhibition", Stremmel Gallery, Reno, Nevada
        "Faculty Exhibition", Art Institute of Southern California, Laguna Beach, CA
1992 "California Dreamin", Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA
        "From the Studio: Recent Painting & Sculpture by 20 California Artists",
              The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
        "Drawings II", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
        "Auto Exotica", Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada
1991 "The Final Exhibit", Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Drawings", Koplin Gallery, Santa Monica, California
        "Urban Landscape I", Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Eternal Ground/The American Desert", El Camino College, Torrance, CA
        "California Cityscapes", San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
        "Exit the Freeway", Security Pacific Corporation, San Francisco, CA
        "Addictions", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
        "Viva Las Vegas", Mark Masouka Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada
1990 "Contemporary Landscapes", Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "Real Vision: Four Diverse Views of Realism", Citrus College Art Gallery, Glendora, CA
        "Day and Night: The LA Urbanscape", Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro,
              CA & the Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, California
        "L.A. : A Special Report", Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Terra Fluxus: Contemporary Landscapes", California St. Univ.,
              Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
        "Central Street", Charles Nodrum Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1989 "The Pasadena Armory Show", Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
        "Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination or Reality",
              The Ruth Siegal Gallery, New York, New York
        "L.A.", An Exhibition sponsored by L.A. Weekly, Ackerman Auditorium,
              University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1988 "Reveal: New Works by Gallery Artists", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
        "Art and the Law", (traveling exhibition), Metro Toronto Convention Certre,
              Toronto, Canada; Temple University Law
        School, Philadelphia, Pennsylivania; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth
              University, Richmond, Virginia;
        Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1987 "In Retrospect and Prospect", Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
        "Reduced Scale", Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, California
        "Visiting Artists", Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California
1986 "Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, 1960-1985", Contemporary Art Center,
              New Orleans, Louisiana, and Academy of Fine Arts, New York, New York
        "Reaching the Summit: Mountain Landscapes in CA, 1900-1986",
              Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California,
              & Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
        "Three New Faculty Members", Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
        Group Exhibition, James A. Doolittle Theatre, LosAngeles, CA
        "Turning to the Landscape", University of Southern California,
              Atelier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
        "New Acquisitions: Selected Works from the Security Pacific Collection",
              Security Pacific Plaza, LA, CA
        "California Contemporary: Works from the Security Pacific Collection",
              Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
1985 "Views: Exterior and Interior", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
        "Off the Street", Cultural Affairs Department, Los Angeles, CA
        "Canyons, Arroyos and Oases: Desert Landscapes in Southern CA
        "1900-1985", Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California
        "To the Astonishing Horizon, New Approaches to Landscape by Southern
              Californians", Design Center of Los Angeles, CA
        "New Romantic Landscape", The Works Gallery, Long Beach, CA
        "Visiting Artists", Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
1984 "Los Angeles Painters on the Edge", Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
        "The Field Now", Heide Art Gallery, Bulleen, Victoria, Australia
        "Olympiad: Summer 1984", Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
        "A Broad Spectrum, Contemporary Los Angeles Painters and Sculptors '84",
              Design Center of Los Angeles, LA, CA
        "So Called, So Cal", Gensler and Associates, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Gallery Artists, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
        "Melbourne Mood - Cool Contemporary Art", Australian National Gallery,
              Canberra, Australia
1982 "Self-Portraits", Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
1978 "New Realism: Eight California Painters", Nevada Art Gallery, Reno, Nevada
1977 "Cityscapes: San Francisco and Los Angeles", DeYoung Museum
              Downtown Center, SF, CA
        "Drawings", Art Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Juried Show, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Norwalk, CA
1972 "James Doolin, Paintings - Rick Davis, Sculpture", Palos Verdes Art Museum,
              Palos Verdes, CA
        Juried Show, Jewish Community Center, San Diego, CA
1971 "American Portraits - Old and New", Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
        "Ninth Annual California Exhibition", juried show, Long Beach Museum of Art,
              Long Beach, California, Purchase prize.
        "The Situation Now: Object or Post-Object Art?", Central Street Gallery,
              Sydney, Australia
1968 "The Field", Survey exhibition, Victoria National Gallery, Melbourne, the
              Art Gallery of New S. Wales, Sydney, Australia
1967 "Black and White", Central Street Gallery, Sydney, Australia
        "Australian Young Contemporaries", Argus Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
1966 Gallery A, Melbourne, and Gallery A, Sydney, Australia
1965 American Gallery, New York, New York
1964 Seth Sieglaub Gallery, New York, New York

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1992 "James Doolin, Five Years of Painting", exhibition catalog w/ intro by
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PUBLIC AND CORPORATE COLLECTIONS:
        Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
        Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
        Carnation Company, Glendale, California
        Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
        Gulbenkien Fund Purchase, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
        Hines Corporation, Los Angeles, California
        The Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, California
        Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
        Los Angeles County Municipal Trasportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
        Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
        National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
        Newcastle Art Museum, New South Wales, Australia
        The Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
        Bank of America, Los Angeles, California
        State Gallery of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
        The University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
        Touche Ross and Company, Los Angeles, California
        James Lodge and Associates, Irvine, California