Resume
WILLIAM LANE
Born in Kalamazoo, Michigan
Lives in Seal Beach, CA
EDUCATION
1961 MA in Painting • University California of Los Angeles, CA
1958 BA in Art • University California of Los Angeles, CA
TEACHING
1998-2002 Art Gallery Director, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1969-96 Professor, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1981-92 Professor and Art Gallery Director, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
1975-77 Visiting Assistant Professor, UCLA, CA
1968-69 Assistant Professor, East Los Angeles, Monterey Park, CA
AWARDS
1987 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1969 All-City Art Festival, Purchase Award – Watercolor, LA, CA
1967 All-City Art Festival, Purchase Award – Oil, LA, CA
1966 All-City Art Festival, Honorable Mention - Oil, LA, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 Wanderings, Greenly Art Space, Signal Hill, CA
2018 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2018 Then & Now, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Whittier, CA
2017 Reductive Precision, Mt. St. Mary’s University José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Selected works from 2005-2015, LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
2015 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2013 Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2012 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 FIG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Miscelanea, The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA
1996 FIG gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Long Beach, CA
1981 United States Embassy & Honduran Institute of Interamerican Culture, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
1979 Vincent Price Gallery, East Los Angeles College, CA
1973 Brand Library Art Center, Glendale, CA
1969 Palos Verdes Art Museum, Palos Verdes, CA
1967 Ceeje Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1967 La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1962 French Alliance, Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Color Fields, Permanent collection from Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
2019 Four Abstract, Long Beach Creative Group Gallery, Long Beach, CA
2018 No Where is Home, Coagula Curatorial Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Abstraction, Santa Rosa College, CA
2013 Summer Group Show, Stone Rose Gallery, Long Beach
2007 Keep it Straight: Right Angles & Hard Edges in Contemporary Southern California Art, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
2002 Structure & Situation, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, CA
2001 Identity Transformation, Gallery of Provisional Municipal Council, Macau, China
2000 In The Abstract, El Camino College, Torrance, CA
2000 Abstraction, Santa Monica College, Santa Monica, CA
1997 L.A. New Art, Univrsity Castilla-La Mancha, Cuenca, Spain
1995 Restless Voices: Abstraction From Los Angeles, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, New York
1994 Very Visual Dialogue, Rancho Santiago College, CA
1991 Seductive Geometry, Los Angeles Abstract Art, Olga Dollar Gallery, San Fransico, CA
1990 Paintings from Southern California, American Cultural Center Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
1989 Long Beach Celebrates the National Endowment for the Arts, FHP Hippodrome Gallery, Long Beach, CA
1988 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State San Salvador, El Salvado
1988 20th Century European and American Watercolors-Yesterday and Today, Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
1979 Second Biennial, ARCO Center for Visual Art, LA, CA
1977 The Early Sixties at UCLA, Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, UCLA, LA, CA
1971 Ninth Annual Southern California Exhibition, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1967 Arts of Southern California–XVIII: Watercolor, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1966 Arts of Southern California–XVII: Painting, – ‘The Introspective Image’, Long Beach Museum of Art Long Beach, CA
1965 International Art Festival, Century City, CA
1961 California South, Fine Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
REVIEWS
Art Scene, September 2017, Mario Cutajar
Press Telegram, September 2013, Elizabeth Thomas
ArtScene, October 2013, Mario Cutajar
Daily Bruin, ‘Alumnus transcends all labels in latest exhibit’, May 1996, Rodney Tanaka
Art Scene, June 1996, Bill Lasarow
Catalogue essay, Edward Goodman, 1966
Catalogue essay, Peter Kosenko, 1966
Press Telegram, ‘Past Art Lives Anew in Bright New Work’, May 1994, Peter Frank
Press Telegram, ‘Lane’s Acrylic Works to show at St. Luke’s’, January 1989, Wendy Lee
Spectrum, ‘Lane is Awarded $15000 Art Grant’, December 1987, Denyse Carriedo
Long Beach California, Weekend Plus, ‘Artistic diversity with a theme’, September 1984, Shirle Gottlieb
Los Angeles Times, June 1977, ‘Art Students Double Fun with Copier’, Keith Takahashi
Los Angeles Times, July 1971, ‘Artist Makes Public Debut with Grand Scale Showing’, Keith Takahashi
The San Diego Union’s Art Critic, ‘Some Studies In Sparse Geometry’ September 1967, Dr. Armin Kietzmann
Daily Breeze, ‘Color Field Painting Revealed’, March 1969, Kathy Stark
Los Angeles Times, October 1967, Henry J. Seldis