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Rives Granade
Painting
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Rives Granade's colorful, abstract paintings explore the line between representations of physical reality and the gestures that uncover interior perceptions of reality. Select public collections include: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marciano Art Foundation, The Hara Museum of Art (Tokyo), and Mobile Museum of Art. Select publications include: New American Paintings (twice), Vice, and Artillery. He holds a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.
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EDUCATION
2008 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2002 B.A. Philosophy, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015, Red Poem, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2011, Mancave, Duncan Miller Project Space, Santa Monica, CA
2011, Special Feature, Marine Contemporary, Venice, CA
2010, Love Force, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023, L.A. Made, Tappan, Los Angeles, CA
2016, TBD, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Katie Bode)
Circle of Truth, Curatorial Assistance Gallery, Pasadena, CA - traveling nationally (curated by Laura Hipke and Shane Guffogg)
2015, Here There Be Tigers, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan (curated by Kio Griffin)
2014, Myself is Another, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2014, Salon no. 9, Marine Projects, Venice, CA
2012, Coming Together, Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011, Metallic, PØST, Pasadena, CA
2011, Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011, Brann, Kino Kino Centre for Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway
2010, Boom, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
2009, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY
2009, Salon no. 2, Marine Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2008, Steven Wolf Fine Arts at Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL
2008, Valuemax, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008, Face Value, Work Sound, Portland, OR
2008, Post-Boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2008, Wilderness, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008, Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece
2007, Fun Time, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007, Bay Area Artists Contemplate the African Diaspora, SF Arts Gallery and SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA
2007, Presence and Pretense, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006, Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2006, Marking the Spot, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006, Migration, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006, Contemplating Inappropriateness, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006, Figure Head - Figure Caster, Catchi Art, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Marciano Art Foundation
The Hara Museum of Art (Tokyo)
Mobile Museum of Art
SELECTED PRESS
2018 - Artillery
2017 - New American Paintings
2016 - Vice
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