Exhibitions

Native California artist primarily interested in the interaction of earth materials and man made materials ie: glass, cement, natural oxides, steel, water, light reflection. Work is architectually specific.

One Person Exhibitions | Selected Group Exhibitions

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1970
·Art Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles: “Venice, California ‘70.”
1971
·Los Angeles County Museum of Art: “ Twenty-four Young Los Angeles Artists.”
·Walker Art Center: “ New Works for New Spaces.” Minneapolis, Minnesota (catalogue)
·La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art: “Earth, Animal Vegetable, Mineral.” California
·Henry Gallery, University of Washington: “ Ten New Works from the Walker Art Center.” Seattle, Washington
1972
·Betty Gold Gallery: “Chuck Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill, Ron Cooper- Drawings.” Los Angeles
·Govett Grewster Art Gallery: “ The State of California Painting.” New Plymouth, New Zealand (catalogue)
·Pasedena Art Museum: “West Coast Art from the Permanent Collection.” California
·ACA Galleries: “Looking West.” New York (catalogue) “Guy Dill/Laddie John Dill.”
·Margo Leavin Gallery: “Sculptor’s Drawings.” Los Angeles
1973
·Loreto-Hilton Center, Webster College Art Gallery: “ Some California Artists.” St. Louis, Missouri
·Art Gallery, California State University Northridge: “Jerry Anderson,Greg Card, Laddie John Dill and Peter Lodato.”
·San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “ A Selection of American and European Paintings from the Richard Brown Baker Collection.”
1974
·Art Gallery University of California, Irvine: “ Irvine Faculty.”
·Santa Barbara Museum of Art: “ Fifteen Abstract Artists.”] California (catalogue)
·Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College: “Light”, Claremont, CA
·Jack Glenn Gallery: “Fifth Annual Summer Show.” Corona Del Mar, California
·Art Gallery, Boise State University: “Richard Yokomi and Laddie John Dill.” Boise, Idaho
1975
·Newport Harbor Museum: “Modern and Contemporary Sculpture.” Newport Beach, California
·Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University: “Three California Painters.” Waltham, Massachusetts
·Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art: “Current Concerns"
·Margo Leavin Gallery: “Drawings.” Los Angeles
·University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: “ A View Through.” (catalogue)
·Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles: “18 UCLA Faculty Artists.” (catalogue)
·Newport Harbor Art Museum: “New Acquisitions, Extended Loans, and Selected Works from the Permanent Collection.” Newport Beach, California
·La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art: “ University of California at Irvine: 1965-1975.” La Jolla, California (catalogue)
·Otis Art Institute: “Hecho en Mexico.” Los Angeles
1976
·Mount San Antonio College Art Gallery: “ Expressions in New Media.” Walnut Creek, California
·James Corcoran Gallery: “Selected Sculpture Objects.” Los Angeles
·Dootson-Calderhead Gallery: “California Show.” Seattle
·San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era.” Also: Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
1977
·Security Pacific National Bank: “Large Scale Paintings from the Collection of the Security of Pacific National Bank.” Los Angeles (catalogue)
·Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute: “Spectrum ‘77 (Painting-Sculpture).” Kansas City, Missouri (catalogue)
·Otis Art Institute: “Corporate Art Collection.” Los Angeles
·Laguna Beach Museum of Art: “Selections from Private Collections- Orange County.” California
·Douglas Drake Gallery: ‘Laddie John Dill/ Gary Sutton.” Kansas City, Missouri
·Seattle Art Museum: “Recent Acquisitions ‘77.” Washington
1978
·University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach: “Black Dolphin Prints.”
·galerie d + c Mueller-Roth: “Bilderhauerxeichnungen.” Stuttgart, West Germany (catalogue)
·Grapestake Gallery: “Threee from L.A.” San Francisco Indianapolis Museum of Art: “Painting and SculptureToday.” Indiana (catalogue)
·Trisolini Gallery, Ohio University: “Contemporary Prints from Landfall Press.” Athens, Ohio
·Albright-Knox Gallery:”Painting of the ‘70’s.”
1979
·Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach: “Selections from the Frederick Weisman Company Collection of California Art.” Also: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
·E.B. Crocker Art Gallery: “Aspects of Abstract.” Sacramento, California
·Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton: “California Perceptions: Light and Space.” (catalogue)
·American Academy of Arts and Letters: “Hassam Purchase Fund Exhibition.” New York
·Dobrick Gallery: Group Show-New Space.” Chicago
1980
·Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford: “California Drawings.” Conneticut
·Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery: “It’s All Called Painting.” Los Angeles
·Landfall Gallery: “Drawings,” Chicago
·Charles Cowles Gallery: “Group Show.” New York
·James Corcoan Gallery: “Group Show.” Los Angeles
·Zola Leiberman Gallery: “Group Show.” Chicago
·Gensler Associates: “Michael Todd/Laddie John Dill.” Los Angeles
·University Art Gallery, California State University, Dominguez Hills: “Laddie John Dill: An Installation.” Los Angeles
1981
·Museum of Contemporary Art: “Twentieth Century North American Painters.” Sao Paulo, Brazil
·La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art: “ Artists Quilts: Quilts by Ten Contemporary Artists with Ludy Strauss.” California Also: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, San Jose, California, and University Art Gallery, University of Texas, Arlington, Texas (catalogue)
·Art Center College of Design: “DECADE: Los Angeles Painting in the ‘70’s.” Pasadena, California
·Fox Graphics Gallery: “Selected Prints Published by Landfall Press.” Boston
·Washington Project for the Arts: “Neon Fronts: Luminous Art for the Urban Landscape.” Washington D.C.
·James Corcoran Gallery: “Summer Group Show.”Los Angeles
·Thomas Babeor Gallery: “A California Summer.” La Jolla, CA
·Tower Gallery, Inc.: “California Artists: Sculpture and Paintings.” Southhampton, New York
·Judith Christian Gallery: “Forty Famous Californians.” New York
·Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College: “Professor’s Choice.” Claremont, California
·Sheldon Gallery, University of Nebraska: “The Kansas City Show.” Lincoln, Nebraska
·Art Gallery, California State University, Northridge: “Abstraction in Los Angeles, 1950-1980: Selections from the Murray & Ruth Gribin Collection.”
1982
·Montgomery Art Gallery, Pomona College: “ Contemporary Triptych .” Claremont, California
·Nagoya City Museum: “ L.A. Art: An Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings.” Nagoya, Japan (catalogue)
·Art museum, Sonoma State University: “Sculpture ‘82, A Contemporary Survey.” Sonoma, California (catalogue)
·Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris: “Exchange entre Artisites 1931-1982, U.S.A.” Paris, France
·Contemporary Arts Museum,: “The Americans: The Collage.” Houston, Texas (catalogue)
·James Corcoran Gallery: “For the Los Angeles Public Theater.” Los Angeles
·Palos Verdes Art Center: “Relationships.” Palos Verdes, CA
·Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery: “Selections from the Security Pacific Collection.”
·Thomas Babeor Gallery: “Group Summer Show.” La Jolla, California
1983
·Corcoran Gallery of Art: “Second Western States Exhibition: 38th Corcoran Biennial.” Washington D.C.
·Linda Farris Gallery: “Drawings by Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Tom Holland and Laddie John Dill.” Seattle, Washington
·Welton Beckett Associates: “Art in L.A.” Los Angeles
·Gumps Gallery: “Monotypes and Etchings from 3EP Publications.” San Francisco
·Art Gallery, California State University, Fullerton: “Charles Arnoldi and Laddie John Dill.” (catalogue)
1984
·Helen Lindhurst Gallery, University of Southern California: “3EP Ltd. - Selected Prints, 1979-1984.” Los Angeles
·Museum of Contemporary Art: “The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980.” Los Angeles
·Koplin Gallery: “Olympiad: Summer 1984.” Los Angeles
·Phillipe Bonafont Gallery: “The Artist and The Theatre: Set and Costume Designs by Artists.” San Francisico
·Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery: “Major Works by California Artists.” Los Angeles
·Museum of Contemporary Art: “The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980.” Los Angeles
·Madison Gallery: “Neon on my Mind.” Albuquerque, NM
·Santa Barbara Museum of Art: “Art of the States: Works from a Santa Barbara Collection.”
·Welton Beckett Associates: “Interactive Arts: Art and Architecture.” Santa Monica, California
·Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine: “Selections from the Bill and Merry NorrisCollection.”
·World Headquarters, Bank of America: “Selections from the Bank of America Corporate Art Collection.” San Francisco
·Ruth Bachofner Gallery: “Original Work on Paper by Southern California Artists.” Los Angeles
·Fuller Goldeen Gallery: “Stars.” San Francisco
·Gloria Luria Gallery: “Selected Works.” Bay Harbor, Florida
1985
·Palo Alto Cultural Center: “Unity of Opposites: Art about Aechitecture.” Palo Alto, California
·Functional Art Store: “Screens by Artists.” Los Angeles
·Art Gallery, California State College, Stanislaus: “California; A Celebration of the Land.”
·San Jose Art Gallery: “Works on Paper.” San Jose
·Charles Cowles Gallery: “Abstract Relationships.” New York
·Cedars- Sinai Medical Center: “Selections from the James Cocoran Gallery.” Los Angeles
·San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: “art+architecture+ landscape: The Close Pegase Design Competition.”
·James Corcoran Gallery: “ California- Sculpture.” Los Angeles
·Ruth Bachofner Gallery: “Accent on Glass.” Los Angeles
·Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles: “Black and White Drawings from the David Nellis Collection.”
·Chrysler Museum: “Contemporary American Monotypes.” Norfolk, Virginia
1986
·Pace Gallery: “Monotypes.” New York
·Art Gallery, St. John’s College: “Foundry/Process.” Sante Fe, New Mexico
·Loyola Law School Gallery: “Lawyers Collect.” Los Angeles
·Art Center College of Design: “Pasadena Collects: The Art of Our Time.” Pasadena, California
·Thomas Babeor Gallery: “Selected Works .” La Jolla, CA
·Wallace Wentworth Gallery: “Paperworks Now.” Washington D.C.
·The Works Gallery: “Artists Works.” Long Beach, California
·Chemical Gallery: “A Mixture of Mediums.
·Selections from the Chemical Bank Art Collection.” NewYork
·Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles: “Teaching Artists, The UCLA Faculty of Art and Design.”
·Cirrus: “A Southern California Collection” Los Angeles
1987
· Allied Arts Council of Southern Nevada/First Interstate Bank Regional Art Collection, Las Vegas, Nevada
·The Works Gallery: “A View Through/Revisited.” Long Beach, California
·Korean Cultural Service: “CURRENTS- Eight Contemporary Artists, American & Korean.” Los Angeles
·University of Hawaii at Manoa: “Glass: Another View.” Honolulu, Hawaii
·University of Hawaii at Manoa: “Glass: Another View.” Honolulu, Hawaii
·Pence Gallery: “Works on Paper.” Santa Monica, California
·Yurakucho Asahi Gallery: “Prints by Los Angeles.” Tokyo Japan (traveling exhibition)
·Sena Galleries West: Arnoldi/Coope/Dill, Santa Fe, New Mexico
·Stanford University Museum of Art: “The Anderson Collection Two Decades of American Graphics, 1967-1987.” Stanford, California
·Scott Hansen Gallery: “Summer Selected Works.” New York
·James Corcoran Gallery: “ From the Sixties and Seventies.” Santa Monica, California
·Elizabeth Leach Gallery: “Cirrus Editions, Ltd.” Portland, OR
1988
·Parallel Gallery: “California Gold.” Del Mar, California
·Erie Art Museum: “Paper Thick/Forms and Images in Cast Paper .” Erie, Pennsylvania
·Spaso House: “Twentieth Century American Art.” Moscow, USSR
·Thomas Babeor Gallery: “Summer 1988/Selected Works.” La Jolla, California
·James Corcoran Gallery: “Lost and Found In California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art.” Santa Monica, CA
·Santa Monica Heritage Museum: “Art and Architecture.” Santa Monica, California
·Roberts Art Gallery/Santa Monica High School:“FourArtists-Guy Dill, Laddie John Dill, Peter Alexander, Francine Matarazzo.” Santa Monica, California
·Galleries of the Claremont Colleges: “Professors Choice III.” Claremont, California
·The Art Store: “Vessels.” curated by Sharon Truax, Los Angeles, California
·California Arts Council and The Phebe Conley Gallery, The President’s Gallery, California State University,Fresno: “Art in Public Buildings.”
1989
·Works Gallery: “Three American Artists- Peter Alexander, Charles Arnoldi, Laddie John Dill.” Long Beach, CA
·Site 311: “Selections: 9 Los Angeles Artists.” Pacific Grove,CA
·Kornbluth Gallery: “Collector Prints and Drawings.” Fair Lawn, New Jersey
·Lincoln Plaza Art Gallery: “State of California : Art in Public Buildings, 1978-88.” Sacremento, California
·Angeles Press/Westside Arts Center:“A Collectors Afternoon.” Los Angeles, California
·LJ Gallery: “First Summer Group Show.” Newport Beach, CA
·Madison Art Center: “Coming of Age: Twenty one Years of Collecting by the Madison Art Center.” Madison, WI
·Andrea Marquit Fine Arts/ Boston, Massachusetts
·Gensler and Associates: Selected Works from the Corporate Collection of Pacific Enterprises, “Contemporary American Artists and Sculptors.” Los Angeles
·Galeria Joan Prats/Ediciones Poligrafa: “Daylight Savings.” Barcelona, Spain
·Sena Galleries West: “Group Show.”Santa Fe, New Mexico
·Interni Design Inc.: “Group Show.” Irvine, California
·Linda Farris Gallery: “20th Anniversary Year.” Seattle, WA
1990
·Old City Hall Gallery: “Art in Public Buildings 1978-89.” Redding, California
·Phoenix Art Museum: Contemporary Forum, Ianuzzi Gallery: “Laddie John Dill and Harry Bertoia.”
·United States Embassy, Ankara, Turkey, Frederic Weisman Foundation
·Transamerica Building,: “Artists Quilts.” San Francisco, CA
·Eve Mannes Gallery: “Group Abstraction Show.” Atlanta , Georgia
·Christopher Grimes Gallery: Gallery Artists/Group Exhibition “ Paintings, Sculpture, Works on Paper.” Carmel, California
·LJB Gallery: “2nd Annual Group Show.” Newport Beach, CA
·Andrew-Shire Gallery: “California Now.” Los Angeles, CA
·Works Gallery South: “Laddie John Dill/Lita Albuquerque.” Costa Mesa, California
·Greg Kucera Gallery: “Pilchuck Print Program 1990/Monotype Exhibition.” Seattle, Washington
1991
·Sharon Truax Fine Art/Art Store Gallery: “Vessels.” San Francisco, California
·Riverside Art Museum: “One over One: ContemporaryMono- types from Smith Anderson Press.” Riverside, California
·Ersgard Gallery: “Constructive Concepts.” Santa Monica, CA
·The University of Hawaii Art Gallery: “The 4th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition.” Honolulu, Hawaii
·Tacoma Art Museum: “Glass: Material in the Service of Meaning.” Tacoma, Washington
1992
·Stremmel Gallery: “Small Works,” Reno, Nevada
·U S West, NewVector Group: “Prints from Pilchuck and Centrum.” Bellevue, Washington
·Valerie Miller Fine Art: “New Works, Charles Arnoldi, Woods Davy, Laddie John Dill, Michael Rubin.” Palm Desert, California
·Museum of Contemporary Art: “Recent Acquisitions: Selected New Works in the Permanent Collection and Marcia Simon Weisman Collection.” Los Angeles, CA
·Patricia Correia Gallery: “Point of View.” Venice, California
·The Works Gallery: “The Spirit of Matter.” Long Beach, CA
·Remba Gallery: “Different Places, Different Views.” Santa Monica, California
·Gallery at the Plaza: “The Last Picture Show.” Los Angeles, CA
·Laguna Art Museum: “Sticks and Stones.” Laguna Beach, CA
·Gallery of Functional Art: “Magnetism: Force follows Function.” Santa Monica, California
·Magidson Gallery: Group Show/Selected Works,Curated by Susan Rush. New York, New York
1993
·Whatcom Museum: “Clearly Art: Pilchuck’s Glass Legacy.” Bellingham, Washington. Traveling Exhibit.
·Laguna Art Museum: “75 works, 75 years: Collecting the Art of California.” Laguna Beach, California
·Bank America Gallery/South Coast Metro Center: “5 guys” Costa Mesa, California
·Charlotte Jackson Fine Art: “Group Show.” Santa Fe, NM
·The Chrysler Museum: “Clearly Art/Pilchucks Legacy.” Norfolk, Virginia
·Stremmel Gallery: Group Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994
·Spring Street Gallery: “L.A. Rythms.” Los Angeles, CA
·Boritzer/Gray/Himano: “Big Littles.” Santa Monica, CA
·Gallery Eden: “Jewels in the Heights.” Rowland Heights, CA
·Stremmel Gallery: “All Things Great but Small.” Reno, NV
1995
·Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University: “Selections from the Frederick Weisman Museum of Art.” Malibu, California
·UCLA Art Rental and Sales Gallery at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center: “ New Visions Los Angeles in the 90’s.” Los Angeles, California
·California State University, Fullerton: “Shape: Forming the L.A. Look.” Fullerton, California
1996
·Deanna Miller Fine Art: “Paperworks.” Santa Monica, California
·The Irvine Museum: “The Golden Land.” Irvine , California
·Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum: “Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections.” Santa Barbara, California
·Santa Monica College of Design, Art & Architecture: Faculty and Student Exhibition. Santa Monica, CA
·Artcore Brewery Annex: “Art You Can Live With.” Los Angeles, California
·Deanna Miller Fine Art: “Far East Meets West/Collabrative Art Works.” Santa Monica, California
·Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art: Pepperdine University “California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art.” Malibu, Callifornia
·Milwaukee Art Museum: “Landfall Press: 25 Years of Printmaking.” Milwaukee, Wisconsin
·Palm Springs Desert Museum: Steve Chase Art Wing and Education Center. Palm Springs, California
·Gallery 258 : “MASTERPIECES “R” US”.” Beverly Hills, California
1997
·Bakersfield Museum of Art and the Todd Madigan Gallery: “Process Art West Coast, ‘70’s, ‘80’s , ‘90’s.” Bakersfield, California
·Susan Street Fine Art: “Artscape ‘97.” Solana Beach, California
·Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art: “5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Frederi R. Weisman Collections.” Malibu, California
·Stremmel Gallery: “all things great but small.” Reno, Nevada
·Armand Hammer Museum: “ L.A. Currents.” Los Angeles,CA
1998
·Downey Art Museum: “Full House.” Downey, California
·Ochi Gallery: “Best of the Best.” Sun Valley, Idaho
·Gallery 258: “Faculty Show/Santa Monica College of Design, Art & Architecture.” Beverly Hills, California
·Nevada Museum of Art: “The Art of Collabrative Printmaking: SmithAnderson Editions.” Reno, Nevada
·Skidmore Contemporary Art: “Gold.” Malibu, California
·Cal State L.A.: “Coastal Abstraction-Transcendance.” Los Angeles, California
1999
·Addison/Ripley Fine Art: “10 x 10.”, Washington D.C.
·California Center for the Arts: “THE ECLECTIC EYE. Selections from the Frederick R.Weisman Collections.” Escondido, California
·Watts Tower Arts Center: “Living with Art: Selected works from the collection of Alitash Kabede.” Los Angeles, California
·Armory Center for the Arts: “radical past: contemporary art & music in pasadena, 1960-1974.” Pasadena, California
·Norton Simon Museum: “Selections from the Permanent Collection.” Pasadena, California
·Molly Barnes Gallery: “Screens and Totems.” Santa Monica, California
·BGH Gallery: “200/2000/200.” Santa Monica, California
2001
·Museum of Neon Art: “Neon Art from the ‘50’s, ‘60’s & ‘70’s” Los Angeles, California
·Chouinard: “A Living Legacy.” Oceanside Museum, Oceanside, California
·Skidmore Contemporary Gallery: Group Show, Malibu, California
·Anthony Seraphin Gallery: Group Show, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2002
·Skidmore Contemporary Gallery: Group Show, Malibu, California
·Laguna Art Museum: “Surf Culture.” Laguna Brach, California
·The Art & Cultural Center: “Beyond The Surface.” Fallbrook, California
·Pepperdine University: “California Art from the Richard R. Weisman Foundation.” Malibu, California
2003
·Pepperdine University: “Recent Aquisitions.” Malibu, California
·The Art & Cultural Center: “Beyond The Surface 2.” Fallbrook, California
2004
·Patrick Olson Gallery: Group Show, Detroit, California
·LAX, Group Show, Terminal One, Los Angeles, California
·Ruth Bachofner Gallery: AGL Above Ground Level, Santa Monica, California
2005
·Weisman Art Museum: West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach 1962-78 Minneapolis, Minnesota
·Laurie Frank/Media Rare Gallery at Off Main Gallery Atelier Richard Tullis: Unique Works on Paper Santa Monica, California
·Chevron Gallery: Inagural Group Show, Irvine, California
·Surfrider Foundation Prestents: Art for the Ocean, Chelsea Piers, NYC
·Santa Monica Museum of Art : Ingognito Santa Monica, California