WORKS | CV | PRESS | GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
Born in Panama City, Panama
Education
1973 MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
1971 BFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.
Selected Exhibitions
2011 Louisa Chase & Sally Egbert, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2008 Louisa Chase: Paintings & Drawings, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2005 Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2003 The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD (Catalogue)
Louisa Chase: Works on Paper, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
1998 Louisa Chase, Goya Contemporary & Goya – Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
1997 Foutouhi Cramer Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1996 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1992 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1991 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
Brooke Alexander, New York (catalogue with essay by Ann Lauterbach)
Tokyo Ginza Art Center Hall, Kyoto Art Center Hall, Kanazawa Art Center Hall
1989 Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1987 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1986 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
1984 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, ON
Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1983 Galerie Bäcker, Cologne, Germany Harcus-Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1982 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Artists Space, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2012 Aura & Angst, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2011 Domestic Goods, Curated by Ryan Wallace, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2009 Figurative Prints: 1980’s Rewind, Koss Gallery of the Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
2007 Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2006 Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
2003 Solar Plate Revolution, Greenport NY, Marblehead, MA, Portland, ME
Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (publication)
New Prints, International Print Center, New York, NY
Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Alumni Choice, Yale University School of Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2001 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (publication)
2000 Contemporary Prints, Selections from the Permanent Collection, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Collaborations, Trussardi Foundation, Maino Alla Scala, Milano, Italy
Goya Contemporary & Goya – Girl Press, Baltimore, MD
Gift to A Nation, Art in Embassies, Washington, DC (publication)
1999 The Stroke, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
1998 Trendje Internationl Litografiska Symposit, Sweden
New Prints, Goya Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
Master of Masters, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1997 Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1987 Farnsworth Museum, Portland, ME
Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri, Kansas City Gallery of Art (catalogue), Kansas City, MI
Three from New York, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Painters on Press: Recent Abstractions, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL
Abstraction per Se, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Monoprints by Painters, Tower Fine Arts Center, State University of New York, Brockport, NY
Painting, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Betsy Rosenfeld Gallery, Chicago, IL
Present Tense, Springs Art Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Contemporary Drawing: Existence, Passage and the Dream, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, NY
A Beastiary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
The Old and New Masters of the 20th Century, Daimary Exhibition Hall, Osaka, JAPAN
Landscapes, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1986 Making Their Mark, Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1979-1985, Cincinnati Art Museum; New Orleans Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Figure Speaks, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
The New Generation, the 80s American Painters and Sculptors, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Eclectic Eye, Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
Collaboration in Monotype, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
Monotypes 1915-1988, Ellen Sragow Gallery, New York, NY
Reflection: Art of the Eighties, Selections from the Collection of the Eli Broad Family Foundation, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
A Graphic Muse, Prints by Contemporary American Women, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI; Norton Gallery & School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Colorado Springs Fine Art Center; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, SC
Ten years of Collecting American Art, Selections from the Edward R. Downe, Jr. Collection, Wellesley College Museum, MA
The Smirgon Family Collection of Contemporary American Art, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, NA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA; Rockford Art Museum, IL; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sidney, Australia; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia; Art Brisbane, Brisbane, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; Munson-Williams- Proctor Institute, Utica, NY; The Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Landscape, Seascape, Cityscape, The New York Academy of Art with the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
A Summer of International Prints, Mira Godard Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Since 1980: Narrative Painting, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
American Painting 1975-1985: Collection of Aaron and Phyllis Katz, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Painting a Landscape: View of American Modernism, 1920-1984, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Drawing Acquisitions: 1981-1985, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Skowhegan School’s Faculty and visiting Artist Exhibition, Colby Art Museum, Waterville, ME
Contemporary American Prints, Recent Acquisitions, Louis Comfort, Tiffany Foundation
Purchases, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1984 Paradise Lost/Paradise Regained: American Visions of the New Decade, Venice Biennale, Giardini di Castello, U.S. Pavilion, Venice, Italy; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; Circulo des Belles Artes, Madrid, Spain; The National Gallery, Athens, Greece; The King Stephens Museum, Szelsfehervar, Budapest, Hungary; State Painting and Sculpture Gallery, Ankara, Turkey
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Landscape Painting in the East and West, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan; Kobe City Museum, Kobe, Japan
Night Lights, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
A Painting Show: Selections from a Private Collection, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
New Vistas: Contemporary American Landscape, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Images & Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
The Innovative Landscape: New Approaches to an Old Tradition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
A Decade of New Art, Artist Space, New York, NY
The Human Condition: Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Eccentric Images, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Narrative Painting, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Contemporary Prints, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
A Celebration of American Women Artist, Part II: The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York City, NY
Paintings, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art & Ideology, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
New American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M. HuntingtonArt Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
1983 Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
New Work/New York, Newcastle Salutes New York, Necastle-Upon-Tyne, England
The American Artist as Printmaker, the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
The Figurative Mode: Recent Drawings from New York City Galleries, Dawd Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York at Cortland, Cortland, NY
Perspectives of Landscape, Fuller-Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Surreal, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
New Image/Pattern & Decoration from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; David Alfred Smart Gallery of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Chase. Juarez, Zakanitch, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Art on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,NC
Selected Works, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Block Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Landscapes, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Currents II: A New Mannerism, Fine Arts Gallery, College of Fine Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Zeichnung Heute, Stadt Nürnberg Kunsthalle, Nürnberg, Germany; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft e.V., Hannover, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New Visions, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Selections from a Colorado Collection, University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder, CO
Painting and Sculpture Today 1980, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Image Transformed, Art Latitude Gallery, New York, NY
On Paper, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
New Work/New York, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1979 Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
American Painting: The Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Sheppard & Enoch Pratt Foundation, Towson, MD
Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO