About Charles

Biography

Born: Greensburg, Pennsylvania, 1948
Education: East Los Angeles College, A.A.,1966-1969
University of California, Irvine, M.F.A., B.A. 1969-1973

Solo Exhibitions

2023 “Objects of Contemplation” ,Scholart Selection, San Gabriel, CA
“Simply Red”, Yiwei Gallery, Venice, CA
2017 Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 “Portability, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2015 “Formerly a Redhead”, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY
“Well, Well, Well”, 212 Gallery, Aspen, CO
2014 Paintings and Large Works on Paper, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2012 “Charles Hill Group Show”, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2011 “5X5” Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA
2010 “Ideomorphs” 212 Gallery, Aspen, Colorado2009 Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf
2008 “Black and White” Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica“Dapper”
212 Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Rocket Gallery, London
2005 Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2004 “Spirals, Dots, and Lines”, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Rocket Gallery, London
2003 Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2002 Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany, Rocket Gallery, London, England
2000 Brüning+Zischke, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999 Rocket Gallery, London, England
1997 Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1996 Rocket Gallery, London, England
1995 Steven Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Simon Lowinsky Gallery, New York
1993 l’Espace Champagne, Reims, France
1992 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1991 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1988 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Galleria Del Cavalino, Venice, Italy
1987 Centre d’action Culturelle de Saint Brieuc, France
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1985 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
1984 DBR Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago
Abbaye Saint Andre, Meymac, France
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland
1981 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco
Galerie Maurer, Zurich Switzerland
1980 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland
1978 Simon Lowinsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977 Fiberworks, Berkeley, California
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1976 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Maurer, Zurich, Switzerland
Stevenson & Palluel, Paris, France
1975 Galleria Del Cavallino, Venice, Italy
Galerie Arp, Paris, France
Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
1974 Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles
1973 Galerie Krebs, Bern, Switzerland
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Newspace Gallery, Newport Beach, California

Group Exhibitions

2022 “Printers Proof”, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2017 Poétique des Eléments, Folie a Tête, La Reole, France
2009 “Suivez la Ligne” Charles Christopher Hill-Francis Limerat,
212 Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2007 Charles Christopher Hill-Francis Limerat,
Domaine de Lescombes, Eysines, France
2006 “Driven to Abstraction”, Riverside Art Museum,Riverside, California
“Good to Go”, Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“L.A Minimalism Today”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California
2004 Galerie Andreas Brüning, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003 “The Art of Paint”, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, California
“Circular”, Rocket Gallery, London “As Long As It Takes”,
Pump House Gallery, Battersea Park, London
“D’ailleurs”, Abbaye du Ronceray, Angers, France
2002 “As Long As It Takes”, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
2000 “Made in California”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
2000 “Abstraction: Form to Field”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery,Portland, Oregon
1998 “LA Cool”, Rocket Gallery, London, England
1995 William Turner Gallery, Venice, CA
Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, “Subtle Voices”
1993 The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii,
“The First Five Years”Henry Bussière, Paris, France,
Signes & Formes “ Regards Croises”
1991 The Works Gallery, Long Beach , California
1988 Galerie Nicole Dortindeguey, Anduze, France, “Le Bambou”
1987 ISD Interiors, Los Angeles, California, “Multi Media Abstract Art”
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan,
“The Cutting Edge, New Directions in Handmade Paper”Traveling through 1989
1986 The Maryland Institute, College of Art, “Artists /Printmakers”
Bullocks Department Stores, Beverly Center, Los Angeles,
“Los Angeles Artists Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, “A Southern California Collection”
1985 University of Southern California,”Sunshine and Shadow”
Galerie Amak, Berlin ,Germany, “Spectrum Los Angeles”
Gallery at the Plaza, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles,
“Contemporary Monotypes”Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, N.Y.,
“American Abstaction, Four Currents”
1983 Hunsaker/Schlesinger, Los Angeles, CA“Four From Cirrus Editions”,
The Art Museum ofSanta Cruz County, Santa Cruz, California
“Of, On, or About Paper II”, USA Today, Arlington VA.
1982 “Drawings by Painters”, Long Beach Museum of Art,Long Beach, CA.
“Five Artists From The Cirrus Gallery”,
Galleria Del Cavallino,Venice, Italy“New American Paperworks”,
World Print Council, San Francisco, CA“Fifteen Los Angeles Artists”,
Gallery Scope, Los Angeles, CA
1981 “Los Angeles Printmakers 1973-1980 Part II”,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Forty Famous Californians”, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musée de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Total Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Musée des Beaux Arts, Angers, France

Awards

1976 New Talent , Los Angeles County Museum of Art,Los Angeles, California
National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
Mention Speciales du Jury, VIII Festival Internationalde la Peinture, Cagnes Sur Mer, France
1992 National Endowment for the Arts

Residencies

1993 Cité International Des Arts, Paris, France
Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France
1994 Eklisia, Gümüslük, Turkey

Academic Positions

1978 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1979 Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Department of Education
1981 University Of California, Los Angeles, California

Artist Books

1989 Charles Christopher Hill & Kristine McKenna,The Smells of Summer (1989)
published by Jacob Samuel, Santa Monica, California
1994 Charles Christopher Hill & John Yau, Mon Alias Mona Lisa (1994)
published by Collectif Génération, Colombes, France