Lari Pittman

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Lari Pittman is an American painter renowned for his large-scale, densely layered, and vividly colored works that explore themes of identity, politics, and queer experience.

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instanceOf contemporary artist
human
painter
awardReceived Association of Art Museum Curators Award for Excellence
Skowhegan Medal for Painting
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1952-01-01
educatedAt California Institute of the Arts
employer University of California, Los Angeles
familyName Pittman
fieldOfWork painting
genre abstract painting
figurative painting
givenName Lari
hasWorkInCollection Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
influencedBy Latin American art
Pattern and Decoration movement
Pop art
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement contemporary art
postmodern art
name Lari Pittman
nationality American
notableExhibition Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence (Hammer Museum, 2019)
Lari Pittman: Orangerie (Hammer Museum)
notableFor densely layered compositions
exploration of identity
exploration of queer experience
large-scale paintings
politically engaged art
vividly colored works
notableWork A Decorated Chronology of Insistence and Resignation
Once a Noun, Now a Verb #1
occupation painter
professor
placeOfBirth Los Angeles
residence Los Angeles
sexualOrientation gay
spouse Roy Dowell
theme desire
history
identity
politics
queer experience

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Matthew Marks Gallery represents Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman name Lari Pittman