A world of exhibitions
Explore the exhibitions of CHARLES VILLIERS ART IN THE MAKING, where each showcase is a journey through creativity and innovation. Stay informed on upcoming events and relive the highlights of past successes.
C H A R L E S V I L L I E R S
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 The Secret Organics Primrose Hill London England.curated by Alfred Munkenbeck
2006 Control Drama, Downey Museum of Art, Archival Ink Jet Prints, Downey, CA
2001 Young Man on his way to the Spirit World, Virtual Air Gallery, Cyberspace
1995 Soul Trap, Sculptures, Sullivan - Goss, “An American Gallery” Santa Barbara, CA
1995 Paintings from London, Abante Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
1993 From the Artist Collection, Spago, Cesars Palace, Las Vegas, NV
1991 New Paintings, GH2 Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA
1989 Large Scale Paintings & Sculpture, Natoli - Ross Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 The Metal Primate Variables, Future Perfect, Los Angles, CA
1988 A Tale of Three Cities, Diane Nelson Gallery, Orange County, CA
1986 New Bronzes & Paintings, Chiat - Day Corporation, New York, NY
1985 The Procreation Paintings, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Selected Works, & Installations, Scratch, Venice, CA
1984 Twin Self, Art Space, Los Angeles CA
1984 New Work, Drawing, Paintings and Sculptures Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Chop Wood, Metro Gallery, in conjunction with The China Club, Hollywood, CA
1983 Auras, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
1983 New Paintings, Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 In a Moment of Time, Lawrence Silver Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
1982 New Work as an Installation, Arco Center, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Etching & Drawings from Spain, John Greenburg Gallery, London, England
1977 Osiris, Richard Mann Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1972 Drawings & Woodblocks, Gallery Palma, Majorca, Spain
1970 Charles Villiers - Installation, Hans Morris Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007 Group Exhibition, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
The Arbutus Project, Ink Jet Prints & Video Insulation
BC, Canada
1997 From out of nowhere The Thinking Space,
Hoxton Square, London, England
1996 Gallery Artists, Abante Fine Art, Portland, Oregon
1995 The Native American, Sponsored by, Black Elk Speaks, Los Angeles, CA
1991 The Final Exhibits - Part II. Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
City of Angles, GH2 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Animal Rites, Studio Leonardo Gavinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group show, Diane Nelson Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
The First Show, Modern Multiples, curator, Richard Duardo Los Angeles, CA
Best of the 1980’s Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
A Continuing Study in Multiples, Transamerica Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Gallery Diane Nelson Gallery, Orange, CA
L.A. Arts, Leonardo Gavinci Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Creative Existentialism, Blue Note Experimental Group Exhibition,
Chicago, Illinois
Artist from the Center of the Universe, Natoli - Ross Gallery, Santa Monica,
1984 New Mannerism, Davies, Long Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Davies & Brown, Los Angeles, CA
Car and Culture, Museum of Contempory Art,.in conjunction with
Olympic Arts Festival curator, Richard Koshalek, Los Angeles, CA
Studio Show, Robert Miles Runyan, Los Angesles, CA
Car Plays, Mark Taper Forum, curator, Julie Lazar, LosAngeles,CA
Light and Dimension, curator, Ruth Bachofner,Gensler & Associates.
Metro Rail, in association with L.A.V.A. Los Angeles, CA
Art and the Familiar Object, Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles, CA
Twentieth Century Sculture, The Jones Gallery, Huntington Beach, CA
Tubular Art, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1983 Predictions, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Urban Suite, Monoprint Portfolio, Angeles Press, Metro Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA
Thought Forms, Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Spring Wave, curator, Barbara Lazaroff, Spago, Hollywood, CA
Art and Soul, Stella Polaris Gallery, Carl G. Jung Institute Benefit
Summer Show New West Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Monoprints from Angeles Press, curator, Bruce Richards; Art Space,
Los Angeles, CA
Emerging Artists, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Images and Issues, curator, Sandy Ballatore -Nelson,
Santa Monica, CA
1982 Similar Views, Yaacov Agam, Eugene Jardin, Charles Villiers
Gallery Artists, Gallery West, Los Angeles, CA
Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Cedars Sinai, curator, Marcia Weisman, Los Angels, CA
Video installation, At Sunset, curator, Jim Budman, Hollywood.CA
Sex at Exile, Exile Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lawrence Silver Gallery, Los Angeles. CA
Metro Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Kirk De Gooyer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Figuration / Abstraction, Galerie Kirsten Riche, Hamburg, Germany
1980 Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1978 Summer Exhibition, The Royal Academy, London, England
Celebrity Show, Sotherby Park Bernet, London, England
Layton Gallery, London, England
Gimpel Fils Ltd., London, England
1974 Shinno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
American Painters in Paris, C.I. P., Paris, France
Galley Artists, Gallery Palma, Majorca, Spain
SELECTED COMMISSIONS
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art & Culture / New Museum,
Project / Downey
2007 180 Music “Saudade” Stephen Bishop CD Cover & Booklet
Minneapolis, Minnesota
2003 Unit 29 Video Projects, Direction & Production, BC, Canada
2000 Digital Ink The Black Totem, Cyber Entanglements, BC, Canada
1997 J. Colin, “Faith” Fourteen Large Scale Sculptures, Montecito, CA
1997 Spago, Wolfgang Puck - Barbara Lazaroff, Nude Woman With
Crown & Goat, Large Scale Painted Insulation, Hollywood, CA
1991 Mondrian Hotel, Arnold Ashkenazi “ The Light House” Large Scale Painting,
Los Angeles, C
1988 Modern Multiples, The Metal Primate Variables
1987 The Carriage House, Jay Chiat - Bronze Commission for Interior, NY. N.Y.
1986 Jay Chiat, Robert Miles Runyan, Cast from Eden – Bronzes,
A Series of Seven1986 Scratch Restaurant, Sculptural Entrance & Building Exterior,Venice, CA
1984 MOCA, in conjunction with. Mark Taper Forum, Car & Culture,
The Thirty-Foot Spinning, Triptych
1983 The Laurence Gregar Group, The Urban Suite, Mono-Print Portfolio,
Los Angeles, Ca
1970 Motion Graphics, - John Whitney Sr. “ Binary Bit Patterns,”
Computer Animated Short Film - Musical Direction & Composition,
Pacific Palisades, CA
1960 Ian Fleming, Initial Drawings for “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang,”
London, England