Curriculum Vitae and Biography
| Born August 17, 1917, Snow Hill, Alabama. |
EDUCATION
| B.S. Alabama State Teachers College. Montgomery, Alabama, 1943
Master of Social Service Administration. Atlanta University. Atlanta, Georgia, 1948 Bachelor of Fine Arts. Chouinard Art Institute. Los Angeles, California, 1956 |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 1999 | Random Transformations: Assemblages by Noah
Purifoy. Allen Priebe Gallery,
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. October 13 - November 7, 1999. Oshkosh Wisconsin |
| 1998 | Assemblages by Noah Purifoy. Mendenhall Gallery,
September 12-October 4, 1998. Pasadena, CA. |
| 1998 | Noah Purifoy: Outside and in the Open. Retrospective. Oakland
Museum of California
July 20-October 15, 1998. Oakland, CA. |
| 1997 | Noah Purifoy: Outside and in the Open. Retrospective. Clark
Atlanta University Art Galleries.
January2-March 30, 1998. Atlanta, GA. |
| 1997 | Noah Purifoy: Outside and in the Open. Retrospective. African-American
Museum.
January 25-July 27, 1997. Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | Purifoy Now and Then. The Corridor Gallery of Art.
August 16-September 13, 1996. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1995 | Desert Tombstones. Rachele Lozzi Gallery. May 16-June 30. Los
Angeles, CA.
concurrent with Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art. UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum. April 25-June 18. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1995 | Assemblages. Mountainview Memorial Gallery.
May 16-June 15. Altadena, CA |
| 1995 | Legends. Artists' Salute to Black History Month.
February 4-February 12. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1993 | As Is In Joshua Tree. Tara's Hall. April 1, 1993-May 14, 1995.
Los Angeles,
CA. Now a permanent exhibition for new works |
| 1989 | A New Place To Be. Museum of African American Art.
August 24-October 15. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1988 | Gallery at the Old Masonic Lodge. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1971 | Environmental Experience. Brockman Gallery. March 7-26. Los Angeles, CA. |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 1999-2000 | A Piece @ A Time. Watts Towers Arts Center. December 12-January 22. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1996 | Purifoy Now and Then. The Corridor Gallery of Art. August 16-September 13. East Hollywood, CA. |
| 1995 | Homecoming. First Twenty-Five Years at the Watts Towers Art Center. City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department. March 13-April 30. |
| 1995 | Environments: Extending the Artist's Realm. California Afro-American Museum. December 1994-December, 1995. Los Angeles, CA |
| 1995 | African American Representations of Masculinity. Museum of African American Art. May 6-June 3. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1994 | Connections II. Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities. March 12-June 30. Santa Monica. CA. Commission. |
| 1993 | Off the Wall. Porter Randall Gallery. November 6-December 31. La Jolla, CA. |
| 1993 | I Remember: Thirty Years After the March on Washington; Images of the Civil Rights Movement 1963-1993. Corcoran Gallery. Washington, D.C. |
| 1990 | Celebrations. The Fisher Gallery. January 30- March 3. University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1989 | 19 Sixties: A Cultural Awakening Reevaluated 1965-1975. California Afro American Museum. April 7-October 2. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1977 | African Festival of the Arts and Culture. Lagos, Nigeria. |
| 1975 | Black Artists in California. Governor's Office. August 15- October 6. Sacramento, CA. |
| 1975 | West Coast 74: The Black Image. Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1974 | The Negro in American Art. Fine Arts Galleries. San Diego, CA. |
| 1973 | University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA. |
| 1972 | Los Angeles 1972: A Panorama of Black Artists. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. February. Los Angeles CA. |
| 1972 | Garbage Needs Recycle Exhibition. U.S. Office of Information. September 15-24. Berlin, Germany |
| 1971 | University of Iowa. Iowa City, Iowa. |
| 1971 | Kalamazoo Institute of Art. Kalamazoo, Michigan. |
| 1971 | Local Black Artists. Compton College. February 7-19. Compton, CA. |
| 1971 | Contemporary Black Artists of America. Whitney Museum of American Art. April 6- May 16. New York, N.Y. |
| 1971 | Black American Artists. Chicago Bell Galleries. January 13-February 5. State Tour.Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1971 | Five Black Artists: Benny, Bernie, Betye, Noah and John. Lang Art Gallery, Scripps College. March. |
| 1970 | Huntington Galleries. Knoxville, Tennessee |
| 1969 | 12 Afro-American Artists. Nordness Galleries. New York, N.Y |
| 1969 | Microcosm 69. Long Beach Museum. National Tour. Long Beach, CA. |
| 1968 | 66 Signs of Neon. Washington Gallery of Modern Art. May 18-June 7. Washington, D.C. |
| 1967 | University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley, CA. |
| 1966 | The Negro in American Art. One Hundred and Fifty Years of Afro-American
Art.
September 11-October. UCLA Dickson Center. Los Angeles, CA. |
| Member, California Arts Council. 1976-1987. Appointed by Governor Jerry Brown. |
| Founder, Watts Towers Art Center. Los Angeles, CA. 1964. |
| Co-Founder. Watts Summer Festivals. Los Angeles, CA. 1966. |
| Creator, 66 Signs of Neon. A Traveling Exhibition of 66 Pieces of Sculpture fashioned from Debris from the Watts Rebellion. 1966. Los Angeles, CA. |
| Co-Founder. Company Theatre (later Provisional Theatre). Los Angeles, CA 1966. |
AWARDS
| Visual Artist Award, The Flintridge Foundation, Pasadena, Ca 1997-1998 |
| Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1997 |
| Lannan Foundation, Getty Trust Fund for Visual Arts, California Community Foundation for touring Retrospective, 1996 |
| Florsheim Art Fund, 1996 |
| Gottlieb Foundation, 1995 |
| Pollock Krasner Foundation, 1993 |
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