Biography
Timeline:
Selected Public Collections:
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Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles native, was born in Long Beach and attended Santa Monica High School. He graduated from Chouinard Art Institute in 1968. At age 28, Dill had his first one-man exhibit at the Illeana Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Dill's list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as Seoul, Paris, Nogoya, Japan; and Helsinki, Findland; to New York, Kansas City, Seattle, and throughout Northern and Southern California. Laddie is the recipient of two National Endowment grants; one for sculpture and one for painting, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UCIrvine, Art Center in Pasadena, and lectured in numerous universities and art institutions across the United States. |
Timeline:
| 1943 | Born in Long Beach, California |
| 1964 - 1968 | Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, BFA 1968. Lives in Venice, California |
| 1975 | National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship |
| 1979 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1982 | National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship |
| 1983 | California Arts Council, Art in Public Buildings Program Grant |
Selected Public Collections:
| · Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California · Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. · Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois · Caldwell Museum, Humboldt, Tennessee · Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California · Greenville County Museum, South Carolina · Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California · Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A. , California · Louisiana Museum, Denmark · Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California · Museum of Contemporary Art, San Paulo, Brazil · Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York · Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California · Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas |
· Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California · Oakland Museum, Oakland, California · Orange County Museum of Art, California · Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California · Phillips Collection, Washington D.C. · Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona · Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California · San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California · Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington · Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. · UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California · Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii · Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California |