Born 1941, New York, NY.

Education

1961 BA, University of California, Los Angeles
1962 MA, University of California, Los Angeles
1963 MFA, University of California, Los Angles

Awards

1963 Exhibition Award, San Francisco Ford Foundation Purchase Award
1964 New Talent Purchase Grant, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1989 Heritage Artist Recognition Award, Heritage Museum, Santa Monica, Calif.

Selected Exhibitions

1960 Artists of Los Angeles and Vicinity Annual Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (juried by Clement Greenberg)
1965 Five Younger Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
1967 American Sculpture of the Sixties, (traveling exhibition), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1968 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
1969 Human Concern / Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
1970 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
1971 New Works by Los Angeles Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1972 12 Statements Beyond the Sixties, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
USA West Coast (traveling exhibition) Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hannover, Cologne, and Stuttgart, Germany
1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, New York
The Marriage of New York and Athens, The Whitney Museum of American Art (1973 – 1974)
1975 Private Spaces: An Exhibition of Small Scale Sculpture, University of California, Irvine
Seventieth American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1977 Art from Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1981 Decade: Los Angeles Painting in the Seventies, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1982 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (exhibition traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
1985 Boxes, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico, D.F., Mexico
1986 Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945 – 1986, Inaugural exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Chairs as Art, The Arts Club of Chicago
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Sculpture da Camera, Swabian Castle, Bari, Italy
Centro Cultural del Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1989 Forty Years of California Assemblage, (traveling exhibition) UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Blessings and Beginnings: Our Pathway to This Moment, Skirball Cultural Center and Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NB
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
1997 Sunshine and Noir, Art in LA, 1960 – 1997, (traveling exhibition) Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark & Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles,
CA
Hello Again! A New Wave of Recycled Art and Design, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland,
CA
Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas
Sensuality in the Abstract, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, CA
Trashformations: Recycled Materials in Contemporary American Art and Design, (traveling exhibition) Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA
1998 LA Current: Looking at the Light, 3 Generations of LA Artists, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2003 Recent Works by Tony Berlant, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2004 Tony Berlant: The Marriage of New York and Athens, new building of Gehry Partners, LLP, Los Angeles, CA
Bioballistic, Barnsdall Art Park Exhibitions
2005 WEST! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Pepperdine University
POPulence, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX, traveling to the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, and Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston Salem, North Carolina
Conversations, Natural History Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 The Left Coast, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
Hidden in Plain Sight, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
When God Was A Woman, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2008 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY
2009 More Than Meets The Eye, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2011 New Works, Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Commissions

1986 Rebecca’s Restaurant, Venice, California (Double Entry Doors. Restaurant design by Frank Gehry)
1987 San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA (mural)
1988 The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HI (museum doors)
1990 Fashion Institute of Design and Marketing, Los Angeles, CA (cladding for four columns)
1991 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (mural)
1992 Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA (mural)
1994 Faret Tachikawa Art Park, Tokyo, Japan (mural)
Washington National Airport, Washington, D.C. (mural)
1996 U.S. Federal Building and Courthouse, Sacramento, CA
1997 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, FBC Operations Building Lobby, Los Angeles, CA (mural)
1998 Wilshire Blvd Temple, Los Angeles, CA (mural)
1999 Junipero Serra State Office Building, Los Angeles, CA (cladding for two columns)
2000 Del Frisco’s Restaurant, New York, NY (mural

Selected Public Collections

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Fort Worth Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Worth, TX
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NB
Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT