E D U C A T I O N
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. BFA
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
E X H I B I T I O N H I S T O R Y
S E L E C T E D S O L O S H O W S
2018 “WHOA!” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2017 “Peripheries” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2014 “Continuum” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Parallels” – Blackboard Gallery, Studio Channel Islands Art Center, Camarillo in tandem with solo show of woven tapestries by Michael Rohde.
2012 “New Paintings” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 “New Fades” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 “Reflections: Forms & Fades” – Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland. OR (Tandem solo)
“Richard Bruland / Steve Klein” – Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, WA (Tandem solo)
2006 “Solo” Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica
“Richard Bruland” – Davis & Cline Gallery, Ashland, OR
2005 “Solo” - Mt. San Jacinto College Gallery, San Jacinto, CA
“Fades” - Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica
“Shadows & Fades -An Evolution from 1990 to 2005”- LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts, L.A.
2004 “Airs & Fades” - Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 “East of Western” - Gallery 825 Bergamot Annex, Santa Monica
2001 “Lines & Shadows & Fades (Oh My!)” - Ojala Gallery, Echo Park, CA
“Shadows & Fades” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles
“Shadows & Lines” - Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles
1999 “New Paintings” - Century Gallery, Sylmar, California
1998 “Selected Works 1990-1998” - SITE Gallery, Los Angeles
“New Works” - LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
1997 “Paintings” - LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles
S E L E C T E D G R O U P S H O W S
2020 “Open Show” Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
“Satutation” - SoLA Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
“Exhibition d’Art Minature” Kate Carvellas, Pasadena, CA
2019 “Winter Group Show” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2018 “IMAGINE” - Platt Gallery, American Jewish University
2017 “Winter Show” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2016 “Artful” – Platt Gallery, American Jewish University, Los Angeles
“Abstractions” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2013 “Summer Show” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2012 “Tarfest 10 Year Retrospective” – East Annex Gallery, Variety Building, Los Angeles
“Artist Invitational” – Conley Gallery, California State University, Fresno
2010 “Shades of Blue” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery
“Small Works” - Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 “Marked Intensity” – Mt. St. Mary’s College Gallery, Los Angeles
“Introductions…” - Lanning Gallery, Sedona AZ
2008 “Tarfest” – Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles. Juried by Howard Fox, LACMA
“New Directions” (3 person show) – B. Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY
“Little Light” (3 person show) – 98ten Fine Art, Irvine, CA. Curated by Sarah Park
2007 “Open Show 2007” – Gallery 825, Juried by Howard Fox, LACMA
“Winter Biannual” – LAAA South, Hermosa Beach, CA. Juried by Susan Cross
“Haus Guests” - Brewery Projects, Los Angeles. Curated by Bill Rabe & Nina Amsle
2006 “Saturation & Surface” – Gallery 825. Juried by Nancy Silverman-Miles
2005 “In The Abstract” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Juried by Carl Berg
“Incognito” – Santa Monica Museum of Art
2004 “Between 1-10” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Juried by Jack Rutberg
“White Planes” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Juried by Michelle Isenberg
2003 “National Juried Exhibition” - Palm Springs Desert Museum. Juried by Gordon Fuglie
“Things D’Art” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Juried by Mark Greenfield
“L.A. Metro” - University Gallery, Clarion University. Clarion, PA
2002 “Big Wave IV” - Andrew-Shire Gallery, Los Angeles . Curated by Young An
“Pacifically Designed” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles
“The Valentine Show” - L.A. River L’il Frogtown Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Frank Romero
“What’s Really Going On?” - Gallery 825, Los Angeles. Juried by Habib Kheradyar
2001 “Nature as Source” - LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles. Curated by Lydia Takeshita
1999 “Small Treasures” - Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Don O’Melveny
1998 “Rockies to the Pacific” - SITE Gallery, Los Angeles. Juried by Llyn Foulkes and Roland Reiss
“Biennial” - Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA. Juried by Jay Belloli
1996 “Visual Rhythms” - Coons Center Gallery, Occidental College, L.A. Curated by Hendrik Stooker
1995 “Open Juried Competition ‘95” - Century Gallery, Sylmar, CA. Juried by Etan Boritzer
1994 “Current Abstraction” - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, L.A. Curated by Noel Korten
1993 “Depayser” - Artspace Gallery, Woodland Hills, CA. Juried by Joni Gordon
1992 “Art & Critique” - SITE Gallery, Los Angeles. Curated by Scott Canty
“Haunted Visions/Celestial Ecstasy”- 801 N. Brand Gallery, Glendale. Curated by Gordon Fuglie
1988 “Small Works” - California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Curated by Jim Starrett
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
JENNIE ADLER, New York, NY
CAROL AUERBACH, Seattle, WA
ELLIE BLANKFORT & PETER CLOTHIER, Los Angeles, CA
SUMISHTA BRAHM, London, England
MARTIN BREST, Pacific Palisades, CA
MICHAEL COLLINS, Beverly Hills, CA
BOB CREWE, Los Angeles, CA
MIKE DUNLEAVY, Jr, San Francisco, CA
ALLEN EVANS, Los Angeles, CA
RICK & JEANINE FRIEDMAN, South Hampton, NY
MICHAEL GOLDBERG, Aspen, CO
JANET HARVER & MARK NESEMEIER, Louisville, KY
LUCIE HINDEN, Los Angeles, CA
NOEL KORTEN, Los Angeles, CA
HELEN LANDGARTEN, Los Angeles, CA
JAMES LAPINE, South Salem, New York, NY
KAREN NEWLIN, Rolling Hills Estates, CA
ALYSIA REINER, NY, NY
PAUL REISER, Los Angeles, CA
STEPHANIE & GREG ROSS, Los Angeles, CA
LOUIS STERN, Los Angeles, CA
UNIVERSITYof KENTUCKY, ALBERT B. CHANDLER HOSPITAL, Lexington, KY
R I C H A R D B R U L A N D i s r e p r e s e n t e d b y :
B. DEEMER GALLERY, Louisville, KY www.bdeemer.com
B I B L I O G R A P H Y
● ArtScene, Suvan Geer, Previews of Exhibitions, June-August, 2018
● Art and Cake, Richard Bruland and the Art of Bebop, August 2, 2017
https://artandcakela.com/2017/08/02/richard-bruland-and-the-art-of-bebop/
● Artweek.LA Vol. 160 July 14, 2014 William Bush Featured article: RICHARD BRULAND: Continuum http://artweek.la/issue/july-14-2014/article/richard-bruland-continuum
● Huffington Post - Arts & Culture, July 17, 2014 Richard Bruland and Sophia Dixon Dillo: Art Review
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-clothier/richard-bruland-and-sophi_b_5596881.html
● Los Angeles Times / Arts & Culture, Holly Meyers, December 7, 2012: Richard Bruland’s resonant paintings anything but simple. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/dec/07/entertainment/la-et-cm-art-review-richard-bruland-at-lora-schlesinger-gallery-20121204
● Simayspace, November, 2012 http://www.simayspace.com/November2012.html
● Huffington Post Arts & Culture, November 21, 2012http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-clothier/ed-moses-richard-bruland_b_2095036.html
● Artweek LA, Vol. 99 Oct 29, 2012 http://artweek.la/issue/october-29-2012/article/richard-bruland-new-paintings
● The Buddha Diaries, Peter Clothier, April 9, 2011 http://thebuddhadiaries.blogspot.com/2011/04/art-notes.html
● art ltd. Painters’ Painters, May/June 2010 pg.38
● What The Butler Saw, James Scarborough, Richard Bruland at Gail Harvey Gallery, 9/29/06 http://perhapsperhapsperhaps.typepad.com/what_the_butler_saw/2006/09/richard_bruland.html● LA Weekly, Peter Frank, Art Pick of the Week, Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2005
● ArtScene, Ray Zone, Continuing and Recommended, March, 2003
● ArtScene, Ray Zone, ArtScene at Twenty: the Writers Speak, April, 2002, http://www.artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/Articles2002/Articles0402/Writers0402/RZone0402.html
● Artweek, Isabel Anderson, Richard Bruland at Ojalá Fine Arts, Jan 2002
● ArtScene, Isabel Anderson, Continuing & Recommended, March, 2001
● Love & Rockets, Issue #31, pg. 28