CONSTANCE MALLINSON BIOGRAPHY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California
2017 “Unmade” Jason Vass Gallery, Los Angeles
2015 “Free Painting” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
2012 Culver Art Center, UC Riverside, Riverside,Ca. “Matters of Decay”
2009 Pomona College Museum of Art “Project Series”
2009 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
2002 National Academy of Sciences, Washington,D.C.
1991 "Endless Painting," Los Angeles Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 "Solo Exhibition," Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1985 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1983 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1981 "Solo Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1970 "Solo Exhibition," Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association, Alexandria, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, “Pattern Painting”
“Regime” Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles
Edward Cella Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “Vernacular Environments”
“Valley Girls” Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California
2018 “The Feminine Sublime” Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, Ca.
“Artists Choose Artists” Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles
“L.A. Looking” , Lava Projects, Los Angeles, California
“Detritus”Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Elysium”, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Upland, California
2017 “The Art of Politics in L.A.” Brand Library, Glendale, California
“Into Action”, Into Action Spring Street Galleries, Los Angeles, California
“Los Angeles Painters”, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
“Book Club”, Durden and Ray Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Nature” Launch Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2016 “Urbanature” curated by Constance Mallinson Artcenter College of Design, Pasadena,Ca.
“Picasso’s Bastards”, Woodbury University Nan Rae Gallery, Burbank, California
2015 “After Living in the Room of Realities Nouvelle” Sonce Alexander Gallery, Santa
Monica, California
2014 “The Wood Show”, Arena One Gallery, Santa Monica
“The State of Portraiture” Autonomie Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca.
“Spirits in the Material World”, Hiatus Gallery, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition at Hilton Foundation, Agoura, California
Group Exhibition, California Lutheran University, Simi Valley, California
2013 “Pretty Vacant”, Los Angeles (curated by Yvette Gellis with Jann Williams)
“Resonating Images” Cal Lutheran University
“The Desert Show” Hudson and Linc, Los Angeles
“Dangerous Beauties” Sturrt Haaga Gallery, Descanso Gardens, Pasadena, Ca.
“The Four Seasons” Heather James Gallery, Palm Desert, California
“Decomposition”, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Arranged Art” Hudson/Linc, Los Angeles
“Small Works”, Ruth Bachofner Gallery
2012 “The Nature of Things” Ruth Bachofner Gallery, Santa Monica
“True Blue” Sangria Gallery, Los Angeles
“Unnatural” Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles
Torrance Art Museum “To Live and Paint in L.A.”
2011 “Second Nature” Zask Gallery, Palos Verdes, California
“Landscape Now”Andi Campagnone Projects, Pomona California
“Urbanature” On-line Exhibition Times Quotidian.com
2010 Raid Projects, Los Angeles, California, 3 person exhibition
The Grey Wall, Alias Book, Los Angeles, California
2008 "Some Paintings" LA WEEKLY Biennial, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 "Greener" Sketching Solutions For Climate Change, Symposium and Exhibition, Venice, Ca.
2007 "Coolglobes" Exhibition - City of Chicago
2006 Torrance Art Museum “Plainer – A Contemporary Take on Landscape”
Los Angeles Municipal Gallery “10 Years of C.O.L.A. Artists” (Traveling)
Los Angeles International Airport Exhibitions “Endless Painting”
2005 USC Fisher Gallery, “Contemporary Soliloquies on the Natural World”
“In House Outside: Claremont Graduate School, Curated by David Pagel
“The Poetics of Travel” LAX through LA Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Claremont Graduate School, “Recent Feminist Art”
2004 Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, “The Political Landscape”
2003 Claremont Graduate School, “Nine Artists”
The Art Gallery, Canoga Park, California: “Drawing A New Map”
(Sept.) Rosamond Felsen “Los Angeles Pattern and Decoration” curated by Michael Duncan
2002 Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles, California
C.O.L.A. 2002 recipients
2001 A.P.E.. Gallery, Northhampton, Massachusetts
Chase Foundation, Los Angeles, California
2000 Alterart, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, Ca. “The New Landscape”
1994 "The Layered Look," Santa Monica Museum, Santa
Monica,.California
1993 "Group Exhibition," Interart Gallery, New York
New York Raleigh Corporation, Los Angeles, California
1990 "Systems," Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
1989 "Ace Contemporary Exhibitions," Ace Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
1988 "Ace Contemporary Exhibitions," Ace Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
"California Landscape Art: Plein Air to the
Present," Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1987 "A History of Women Artists in California," Fresno
Art Museum, Fresno, California
1986 "A Southern California Collection," Cirrus Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
"A Change of Art," Bank of Los Angeles, Los
Angeles, California
1985 "Artpark Artists," Buscaglia Castellani Gallery,
New York, New York
"Group Exhibition," Los Angeles Visual Arts, The
Design Center, Los Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles,
California
"Landscape Now," University of California, San
Angeles, California
Seoul, Korea
Angeles, California
"Group Exhibition," Japanese American Culture
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Pomona College Museum of Art
San Jose Museum of Art
National Academy of Sciences, Washington,DC
BMI Software, Houston, Texas
Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, California
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Nat West Markets, Los Angeles, California
Prudential Insurance Company, Los Angeles, California
American Golf Corporation, San Diego, California
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, Los Angeles,
California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Wilshire Grand Hotel, Los Angeles, Ca. (Mural)
AWARDS AND GRANTS and PUBLIC ART
2013 Expo Line 26th and Olympic Bergamot Station Installation
2011 Santa Fe Art Institute, Residency Award, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Finalist, Metro Mural for El Monte Station
2007 Finalist, Branch Martin Luther King Branch Library, Los Angeles
2007 Coolglobe, Chicago, Illinois
2001 City of Los Angeles Artist Grant (C.O.L.A.)
2001 Finalist Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Public Art Commission
2000 Finalist King County Public Art Program, Water Control District Project
1998 Finalist California Supreme Court Mural Competition
1996 Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority Red Line Poster Winner
1994 Finalist Sunland Tujunga Branch Library
1986 National Endowment for the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1985 ARTPARK Lewiston, New York, Project Artist
1984 Djerassi Foundation, Residency Award, Palo Alto, California
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brewer, Gary “Studio Visit with Constance Mallinson, Art and Cake June 2019
Interview on “Savvy Painter” Podcast, February 2019 and continuing
“Forest for the Trees” Exhibition Catalog, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, Ca.2017
Mallinson, Constance, “The Feminine Sublime Exhibition Catalog”, Pasadena Museum of Ca. Art 2018
Heitzman, Lorraine, “The Feminine Sublime”, Art and Cake, 02/2018
Mizota, Sharon, Review of “The Feminine Sublime” at Pasadena Museum,, L.A. Times 05/29/18
Enholm, Molly, “The Feminine Sublime”, Fabrik Magazine, 05/08/2018
Bowen, Bliss, “Pasadena Weekly, “Bold Perspectives on Nature and the Environment” 01/2018
Gipe, Lawrence, Review in White Hot Magazine 7/9/2017
Osberg, Annabel, Review in Artillery Magazine, 9/19,/2017
Zellen, Jody, Review in Art and Cake, 06/2017
Knight, Christopher, Review of Brand Library Exhibition,L.A. Times, 12/2017
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Catalog for Exhjbition L.A. Painters, Bruno David Gallery Saint Louis 2017
Argonaut News Radio, June 1, 2016 “Station to Station”
KPCC News Radio,”Expo Line Atworks” 5/20/2016
Seed, John, “Free Painting”, The Huffington Post, Dec. 2015
Spiller, Nancy “measuring True Worth”, Arroyo Magazine 10/2015
Barrie, Lita: “Dangerous Beauties, A double Take on Nature” Artweek LA July 2013
Brown, Betty: “Pretty Vacant” Review; Artweek, L.A. Nov. 21, 2013
Enholm, Molly : “Dangerous Beauties”, Art Ltd. July/August 20013
Drohojowska, Hunter Segment of KCRW’s Art Talk, April 2012
Frank, Peter “Un-Natural” Fabrik Magazine Issue 16, Spring 2012
Huffington Post, Haiku Reviews, April 28, 2012
Brown, Betty, “Un-Natural” ArtScene, Vol.31 No.9 May 2012
Harvey,Doug “Pierre and the Lion” LA Weekly, May 20, 2010
Harvey,Doug “Snips and Snails” La Weekly, Sept. 11, 2010
Valencia, Rita “The Times Quotidian” Oct. 2009
Ollman,Leah, "So Very Natural,Yet So Theatrical", LA Times, Feb.6,2009
Miles, Christopher: Constance Mallinson at Angles Gallery, LA Weekly Jan. 30,2009
Knight, Christopher : It's Alive With Wit and Diversity, LA Times, Jan. 25,2008
Harvey, Doug, "Some Paintings" LA Weekly, Jan 11,2008
Pagel, David,Los Angeles Times, January 9,2006 “Each to Her Own Nature”
Los Angeles Times, April 27,2004 “Our Place in the World”
Los Angeles Times, June 8,2002 “Pop The Next Wave”
Frank, Peter LA Weekly, January 20-26,2006 “Contemporary Soliloquies on the Natural World”
LA Weekly, April 9,2004 “The Political Landscape”
Miles, Christopher “P&D in LA” Art in America Feb. 2004
New American Painting,Number 31, Open Studios Press, Wellesley, 4 Massachusetts
Dunlap, Doree “The Golden Land” OC Weekly, March 8, 1996
Frank, Peter, Artpick, L.A. Weekly, (January 19, 1995)
Los Angeles Times, Sunday Calendar, "Biennial LAX '94," (November 13, 1994).
Wilson, William, "Layered," Los Angeles Times, (November 30, 1994).
Rhoads, Thomas,"The Layered Look:Towards An Aesthetic Of Accumulation Among 6 L.A. Artists" published by Santa Monica Museum of Art for LAX '94.
Ribot Magazine, (Winter, 1993) and Spring 1995 issues
Gardner, Colin, "Review," Artforum, (November, 1991).
Darling, Michael, "Bittersweet Constance Mallinson at L.A. Municipal Gallery," Artweek, (10/24/91).
Knight, Christopher, "Dazzling View of the American Landscape," L.A. Herald Examiner, (December 1, 1988).
Curtis, Cathy, "Review," Los Angeles Times, (July, 1988).
(Prior to 1988 available by request)