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Gary Baseman

https://www.garybaseman.com/

Biography

Currently based in Los Angeles.
1986-1996 Based in New York City, NY
1982 B.A. in Communications, University of California, Los Angeles
1960 Born in Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Memento Moa, The Suter Art Gallery / Nelson, New Zealand
2022 Nine Lives, Wrong Gallery / Beijing, China
2019
Imaginary Friends, Tauranga Art Gallery / Tauranga, New Zealand
The Other Art Fair London, The Truman Brewery / London, UK
2018
The Other Art Fair Los Angeles, The Barker Hangar / Santa Monica, CA
2015
My Eyes Are Bigger Than My Stomach, Drake One Fifty / Toronto, Canada
HAPPY TOBY TO YOU!, Times Square Living Room Museum / Hong Kong, China
Secret Society, Colette / Paris, France
2014 
The Door is Always Open, Shanghai chi K11 Art Museum / Shanghai, China
Mythical Homeland, Summerhall / Edinburgh, Scotland
Play With Me, Or Else, Groove@CentralWorld / Bangkok, Thailand
The Door is Always Open, MOCA Taipei / Taipei, Taiwan
2013 
Mythical Homeland, Aqua Art Fair, Miami, FL
Mythical Homeland, Shulamit Gallery / Venice, CA
The Door is Always Open, Skirball Cultural Center / Los Angeles, CA
2012
Nightmares of Halloween Past, KK Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
Vicious, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea / Milan, Italy
The Omnipresent Toby, Innocean / Huntington Beach, CA
2011
Walking through Walls, Jonathan LeVine Gallery / New York, NY
2010
Dream Reality, Choque Cultural Gallery / Sao Paolo, Brazil
Dream Reality, Southern Arkansas University / Magnolia, AR
2009
La Noche de la Fusion, Corey Helford Gallery / Culver City, CA
Sacrificing of the Cake, Urbanix Gallery / Tel Aviv, Israel
2008
Knowledge Comes from Gas Release, Iguapop Gallery / Barcelona, Spain
2007
Hide and Seek in the Forest of ChouChou, Billy Shire Fine Arts / Culver City, CA
I Melt in Your Presence, Modernism / San Francisco, CA
2006 
6 Geschichte Der Neuzeit, Gallerie Engler / Berlin, Germany
Venison, Mercado Gallery / Barcelona, Spain
PERVASION -- The Art of Baseman and Biskup, Laguna Art Museum / Laguna Beach, CA
Manifestations of Desire, OX-OP Gallery / Minneapolis, MN

2005 
Bedtime for Toby, 2nd Street Gallery / Charlottesville, VA
Pervasive Art, Mercado Gallery / Barcelona, Spain
Dumb Luck in Asia / Taipei, Taiwan
A Moment Ago Everything Was Beautiful, Pasadena Museum of California Art / Pasadena, CA
The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Jonathan LeVine Gallery / New York, NY
For the Love of Toby, Billy Shire Fine Arts / Culver City, CA
Rites of Spring Fever, Mondo Bizzarro Gallery / Rome, Italy

2004 
Dunces, La Luz de Jesus / Los Angeles, CA
Happy Idiot and Other Paintings about Unattainable Beauty, Earl McGrath Gallery / New York, NY

2003 Open Wounds and Other Paintings about Vulnerability, OX-OP Gallery / Minneapolis, MN
Modular Populous: Baseman & Biskup, Tin Man Alley Gallery / Philadelphia, PA

2002
I Am Your Piñata, La Luz de Jesus Gallery / Los Angeles, CA
1999 
Dumb Luck and Other Paintings about Lack of Control, Mendenhall Gallery / Pasadena, CA
1992 
Nervous Twitches, Illustration Gallery / New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2021 ART FAIR TOKYO(MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY), Tokyo International Forum / Tokyo, Japan
2024 Wonderland, MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY / Tokyo, Japan
2023 Kiaf SEOUL (MEGUMI OGITA GALLERY), COEX Hall A&B / Seoul, Korea

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