Randy West
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EDUCATION
1986 MFA California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1984 BFA Ball State University, Muncie, IN
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Tethered, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Bird Rabbit Snake, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Bird Rabbit Snake, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles,CA
2004 Pretty, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
2003 Vines [video projection set design], Here Theater Project, New York, NY
Bird Rabbit Snake, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Pretty, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Lines of Sight, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Bird Rabbit Snake, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Lines of Sight, Parson School of Design, New York, NY
1996 Seascapes, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Seascapes, Thomas Barry Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Seascapes, Agnes Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1995 Seascapes, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Seascapes, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Water + Ice, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Flowers + Grass, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pasadena City Installation, Pasadena Arts Commission, CA
1990 On Our Way to Heaven, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Harbor College, Los Angeles, CA
1986 California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Ball State University, Muncie, IN
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 Artist's Choice: Photography in an Expanded Field, MASS MoCA
2013 Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA
Coming Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1, Brooklyn Rail, NY
2012 Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University
Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences, Charleston, West Virginia
2011 The Unseen Eye, Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, International Museum of Photography and Film, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Cornell fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL
Bumping into Intangibles, Hostetter Gallery, The Pingry School, Martinsville, NJ
2010 The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
2009 Recent Acquisitions, United States Federal Reserve, Washington, DC
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Pingyao, China
The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
On the Surface, drawing on paper invitational. Clement Gallery, Troy, NY
Forces of Nature, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond the Document: Color Field Photography, Arts Council of Princeton, Princeton, NJ
Bird Rabbit Snake, Paris Photo, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
Bird Rabbit Snake, Art Basel Miami, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2008 Framing AIDS, Queens Museum, Queens, NY
2007 Enlightened Development, Art + Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Bird Rabbit Snake, Art Basel, Bruce Silverstein Gallery
2002 Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, IN
Aquaria, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz
Aquaria, International Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria
Oceans, National Resource Defense Counsel
[Some] Photography [Abstract], Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000 Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
About Photography, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Female, Wessel + O'Connor, New York, NY
Thin Air, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Seachange, International Center for Photography, New York, NY
Seachange, San Diego Contemporary Art Museum
1998 Seachange, Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
Portraits 19th & 20th Century, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Oceans & Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
1996 Small Works V, Parson School of Design, New York, NY
Swimmers, Washington Center for Photography, Washington, DC
1995 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
H2O, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
Paul Morris Gallery, Hedrick Martin Institute, New York, NY
1994 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 London Lighthouse to Benefit AIDS Research, London, England
1991 Pasadena's Choice, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Los Angeles Photography Center, CA
Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Los Angeles Photography Center, CA
1987 Photography, Etc., Marcuse Pheifer Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA
Zeus Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
National Aperture '86, NC
 
GRANTS/AWARDS/COMMISSIONS
2012 43/45 Brooks, Venice Collaborative, Venice, CA
2009 Ocean Front, Venice Collaborative, Venice, CA
2006 Aaron Siskind Fellow, New York, NY
2001 Hedda Sterne Residency, Amagansett, NY
1989 City of Pasadena Arts Grant, CA
1985 Alhmanson Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Encore, Indianapolis, IN
 
COLLECTIONS
Untited States Federal Reserve, Washington, DC
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Center for Creative Photography, Houston, TX
Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Aaron Siskind Foundation, New York, NY
Meili Collection, New York, NY
Beck-Odette Collection, New York, NY
Fredrick Fischer Collection, San Francisco, CA
Ritts/Hayden, Los Angeles, CA
Koslow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Latham & Watkins Collection, Los Angeles, CA
City of Pasadena, CA