Bio
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
- 2012 Illuminations, George Lawson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
- 2010 Other Spaces, Pulliam Gallery, Portland, OR
- Transference, Modernism, Inc., San Francisco, CA (catalog)
- 2009 Phantom Spaces, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (catalog)
- 2007 On Locations, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2006 Other Light, Modernism, Inc., San Francisco, CA
- On Location, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2004 Light Fiction, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Fine Art, Santa Monica, CA
- 2003 Modernism, Inc., San Francisco, CA
- 2001 Modernism, Inc., San Francisco, CA
- 1999 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- 1988 Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2011 Scalding Hot, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
- TIMEless, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Incognito 2011, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
- Works:248-269, Marine Contemporary Art Salon, Santa Monica, CA
- 2010 Small Works, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Stormy Weather, George Lawson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- Perspectives 2010, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV
- Group Show, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- 2009 Manifestation, Carl Berg Projects, Los Angeles, CA
- Summer Group Show, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Three person show, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 2007 LA in NY Art Fair, Carl Berg Gallery, New York, NY
- Bridge Art Fair, Chicago, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
- Bridge Art Fair, Miami, Kidder Smith Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2006 Los Angeles Art Now, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway
- 2004 Singing My Song, Acme Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- 25th Anniversary Show, Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Show and Tel, Zimmer Children's Museum/Jewish Federation of Los Angeles
- 2003 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
- Attack:Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2002 New Romantics, Greenwood Chebithes Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- Selected Works, Modernism Inc., San Francisco, CA
- Debra Owen Gallery, San Diego, CA
- 2001 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
- 2000 Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
- 1995 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Second Nature, Director's Guild, Los Angeles, CA
- 1994 Serious Beauty, Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
- Serious Beauty II, Stuart Katz Gallery, La Jolla, CA
- 1991 Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY
- 1987 White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
- 1986 Studio Two, New York, NY
- 1982 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
- 1978 Introductions, Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
- Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
- Frederick W. Wright Gallery, UCLA, CA
- College Art Gallery, New Paltz, NY
SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS
- 2009 Visiting Artist Lecturer, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
- 2006 New American Paintings #67, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
- 2004 The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, New York, NY
- 2004 Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY
- 1987 - 1988 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, New York, NY
- 1979 - 1980 Fulbright/DAAD Fellowship, Munich, Germany
- 1978 Ford Foundation Travel Grant
- 1977, 1978 Teaching Assistantship Grant
- 1977, 1978 Mabel Wilson Richards Scholarship
- 1977 Anna Bing Arnold Scholarship
- 1975 Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude
EDUCATION
- University of California, Los Angeles, MFA (Painting)
- University of California, Los Angeles, BA (Fine Arts)
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAHY
- Patti Oleon: Transference, exhibition catalog with essay by Jonathan Keats, Modernism, Inc. Gallery, May 2010
- Preview "Perspectives 2010" at Stremmel Gallery, Reno News & Review, May 2010
- Patti Oleon at Pulliam Gallery, Willamette Weekly, Portland, OR, by Richard Speer, May 12, 2010
- Patti Oleon at Modernism, by Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, March 27, 2010
- Transference, Patti Oleon at Modernsim, Art Slant, by Anna Hygelund, San Francisco, April 2010
- Patti Oleon at Lora Schlesinger, Coagula Magazine.com, January 2010
- Phantom Spaces, exhibition catalog, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, October 2009
- Deftly Utilizing Forms of Light, by Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, June 2004
- Patti Oleon: On Locations, by Cate McQuaid, The Boston Globe, October 18, 2007
- Pollock Krasner Foundation, 20th Anniversary Catalog, 2004
- New American Paintings, No.67, curated by Tumelo Mosaka, The Open Studios Press, Boston, MA
- Modernism:Twenty-Five Years 1979-2004, essay by Jonathan Keats, 2004
- Light Fiction, Patti Oleon At Hunsacher/Schlesinger Fine Art, Art Scene, 2004
- New Romantics, OC Weekly, by Rebecca Schoenkopf, 2003
- Oleon Takes The Object Out Of Context, by Collin Gardner, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, 1988
- Art "Pick of the Week", LA Weekly, by Jan Breslaver, November 1988
- Patti Oleon at Roy Boyd, Galleries Around Town, Los Angeles Times, by Marlena Donohue, November 18, 1988