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John Divola
John Divola (Los Angeles, USA 1949) lives and work in Los Angeles, USA. He holds a BA from California State University, Northridge and a MFA from University of California, Los Angeles.
Divola’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions, most recently at Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Kunstverein Freiburg. His work is part of the collections of the J.Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Fotomuseum Winterthur; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among many others.
John Divola, As Far As I Could Get, installation view LACMA, Los Angeles, 2012
John Divola.
Since the 1970s, John Divola has used photography to explore themes of neglect and disuse in his native Southern California. Throughout his multi-dimensional practice, Divola has often used uninhabited structures and the surrounding environment as studio for his own idiomatic work. Divola’s career spans over four decades, focusing on the conceptions and limitations of photography. Although the physical subjects that John Divola photographs range from buildings to landscapes to objects in the studio, his concerns are conceptual: they challenge the boundaries between fiction and reality, as well as the limitations of art to describe life.
John Divola, Zuma #25, 1978/2006. Archival pigment on rag paper
61 x 76,2 cm (24 x 30 in)
John Divola, Zuma #52, 1978/2006. Archival pigment on rag paper
61 x 76,2 cm (24 x 30 in)
John Divola, Zuma #21, 1978/2006, Archival pigment on rag paper 61 x 76,2 cm (24 x 30 in)
John Divola, Zuma #73, 1978/2006, Archival pigment on rag paper 61 x 76,2 cm (24 x 30 in)
John Divola, As Far As I Could Get, 1996/1997
Epson 11880, Ultrachrome Pigment, Museo Silver Rag
81.3 x 55.9 cm (32 x 22 in)
John Divola, As Far As I Could Get, 1996/1997
Epson 11880, Ultrachrome Pigment, Museo Silver Rag
81.3 x 55.9 cm (32 x 22 in)
John Divola, Abandoned Painting C
Archival pigment print
44 x 54 in
John Divola, Abandoned Painting I
Archival pigment print
44 x 54 in
John Divola, Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, D13F11, 1996-98. Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in
John Divola, Dogs Chasing my Car in the Desert, D07F30, 1996/2001
Gelatin silver print, 50.8 x 61 cm
John Divola, Dogs Chasing my Car in the Desert, D29F06, 1996-98
Gelatin silver print, 20 x 24 in
John Divola, Dyptichs / Untitled (83DPT10) Fan & Ice, 1983
Vintage Cibachrome print 50.8 x 61 cm, 20 x 24 in
John Divola, Isolated Houses, N34°14.383’W116°14.758’, 1995-98, HP Vivera Pigment on Epson Exhibition Fiber, 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in)
John Divola
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Born 1949, Los Angeles, USA.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
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1971 BA California State University, Northridge
1973 MA University of California, Los Angeles
1974 MFA University of California, Los Angeles
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2022 John Divola, Yancy Richardson Gallery, NYC, USA
2021 Brugge Photo Festival, Brugge, BE
John Divola: I'm Not There, 2/3 galeria, Bucuresti, RU
John Divola, Zuma, Palm Springs Art Museum, USA
2019 Vandalism, Robert Morat Galerie, Berlin, DE
Isolated Houses, Office Baroque, Brussels, BE
STRATUM/Clive Wearing’s Dilemma, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, USA
2018 John Divola, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA
2017 Physical Evidence, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
John Divola, Time to Stop, Gallery Pedro Alfacinha, Lisbon, PT
The Green of This Notebook, Maccarone Gallery, NYC
2016 Dents And Abrasions, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA
Theodore Street Project, Maccarone Gallery, NYC
2015 Despite Intentions, Pedro Alfacinha Gallery, Lisbon, PT
2014 Clive Wearing’s Dilemma, Wallspace Gallery, NY
2013 Echo Chamber, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, USA
Sand for the Desert, Photo Levallois, Levallois, France
John Divola: As Far As I Could Get, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
John Divola: As Far As I Could Get, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
John Divola: As Far As I Could Get, Pomona College Museum of Art, CA
2012 Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, UK
Surface Conditions: The Photographs of John Divola, Kunstverein Freiburg, DE
Notes on the Observer, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica
2011 John Divola: Vandalism, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Trees of the Forest, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
Present Tense, Riverside Art Museum, USA
2010 The Green of this Notebook, LAXART, Los Angeles, USA
2009 Dark Star, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, USA
2007 G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA
Edenhurst Gallery, Palm Desert, USA
2006 Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, USA
Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005 Arles Recontres De La Photographie, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, FR
Artificial Nature, G.Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA
2004 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA
2003 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2001 Los Angeles Panoramas, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milano, IT
Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Isolated Houses, Janet Borden Gallery, NYC, USA
Palm Springs Museum of Art, Jorgensen Gallery, USA
2000 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA
Continuity, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
1998 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 Wooster Gardens, New York
Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York
1996 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1995 Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wooster Gardens, New York
Seven Song Birds and a Rabbit, Jan Kesner gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1994 Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, USA
1993 G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, USA
1992 Part II: Large Scale Photography Work, Jan Kesner gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Part I: 4 Landscapes, Jan Kesner gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Jayne Baum Gallery, New York, USA
Rewdex Contemporary Art Gallery, Kyoto, JP
1990 Galerie Niki Diana Marquardt, Paris, FR
1987 Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, JP
Gallery Min, Tokyo, JP
1986 Jayne Baum Gallery, New York
1985 John Divola: Selected Work, 1974-85, Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, Barnsdall Park, CA, USA
1983 The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
1982 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM, USA
1981 Gallerie Del Cavallino, Venice, IT
1980 The Photographers Gallery, Melbourne, AU
1979 Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Camera Obscura, Stockholm, SE
Print Galleri, Copenhagen, DK
1978 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Image Gallery, Aarhus, DK
1976 The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
1975 Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, USA
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover MA
American Museum of the Moving Image, NY
Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Australian National Gallery
Autry National Center: Museum of the American West, LA, California
University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, California
Benton Museum of Art, Pomona College, Californai
Bibliotheque Nationale, France
Canadian Center for Architecture
Carnigie Institute, Detroit, Michigan
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Chapman University Collection of Art, Orange, California
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Centro Galego De Arte Contemporana, Spain
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Californi
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California
Haggerty Museum, Marquette University
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Josslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska
Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Art, Tokyo, Japan
Krannart Art Center, University of Illinois, Champain, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Museo de Serralves, Spain
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Australia
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Philadelphia Art Museum, Pennsylvania
Picker Art Gallery. Colgate University, Hamiliton, NY
Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, California
Portland Art Museum. Portland, Oregon
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Tate Museum of Art, London, United Kingdom
The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
The University of California, Los Angeles, Grunwald Center, L.A., California
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los ANgeles, California
UC Riverside, California Museum of Phototgraphy
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Verginia Museum of Fine Art
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Washington Consortium, Bellingham, Wahington
Whitney Museum of Art, New York, New York
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Divola John, Scapes, Skinnerboox, 2022
Divola John, Terminus, Mack Books, 2021
Divola John, Chroma, 80 pages, Skinnboox, 2020
Divola John, Vandalism, 120 pages, Mack Books, 2018
Divola John, John Divola: San Fernando Valley, 46 duotone plates, 60 pages, Nazareli Press, 2014
Divola John, LAXNAZ, original artwork, 22 plates, 32 pages, limited edition of 100, Nazraeli Press, 2011
Divola John, The Green of this Notebook, Original Artwork, 41 four color plates, 44 pages, Nazraeli Press, 2009
Divola John, 7 Dogs, Nazraeli Press One Picture Book #45, 7 Images Original Artwork, 20 pages, 2007
Divola John, As Far As I Could Get, 13 images, 28 pages, Farewell Books, 2007
Divola John Continuity, book published by RAM Publications and Smart Art Press 1998
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