Selected Group Exhibitions

2019    The Edge of Light: Historic and Contemporary Perspectives on California Abstraction, Huntington
            Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

            A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place, Cal State University Fullerton Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA

            DILEXI ● Totems and Phenomenology, Parrasch Heijnen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017    Works on Paper, The Elkon Gallery, New York, NY

            Mustard Road, The Battery, San Francisco, CA

            Ciel Bergman, Tony Delap, Sam Erenberg, Carol Saindon, Coastline Community College
Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

            Drawings, Prints & Graphic Works by Sculptors, Alpha 137 Gallery, New York, NY

2016     California Dreaming, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

2015     Space Between, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

Plastic, Nueberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Op Infinitum: ‘The Responsive Eye’ Fifty Years After, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

            Craig Kauffman, Tony DeLap, Dewain Valentine, Tom Jenkins, John Paul Jones, Lancaster
Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

            California Printmakers 1950-2000, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

            Selected Works by Gallery Artists, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

            In the 60s, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2014     The Anderson Collection at Stanford University, CA

Permanent Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA

2013     Space, Place, and Order, Rena Bransten  Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Specific Objects, Susan Inlet Gallery, New York, NY

            Next to Nothing, Coastline College Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA

            Summer Group Exhibition, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2012     PINK, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

            Summer of Jack: Jack Brogan Part 3, Katherine Cone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            California Past and Present, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

            Perception: Tony DeLap, Jeremy Kidd, John Okulick, Leslie Sacks Contemporary, Los
Angeles, CA

2011     Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art In Southern California,
1964-1971, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

            Southern California Painting: 1970’s Painting: Per Se, David Richard Contemporary, Santa
Fe, NM

2010     Outside the Lines: The Drawing in Contemporary Art, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA

2009    Le Petit Objet, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA

            Collecting California: Selections from Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2008    Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA

2006    MoCA MINSK presents FROM AMERICA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus

2005    Wilder, A tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery Los Angeles, 1965-1979, Franklin
Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

2004    White on White, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2003    California Artists of the Robert Elkon Gallery, The Elkon Gallery Inc., New York, NY

2002    Inside the Sixties, Le Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland

2000    Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA

1999    Material Issues: Recent Gifts from the Collection of Katherine and James Gentry, San
Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

1998    L.A. Cool, Rocket Gallery, London, England

1997    A Hotbed of Advanced Art, Four Decades of Visual Arts at UC Irvine, Art Gallery, UCI, CA
Sensuality in Abstraction, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            A Sphere of Influence, Focus VI: Orange County Artists, John Wayne Airport, Santa Ana,
CA

1996    Black and White, Gallery Seomi, Seoul, Korea

            Microsoft Artwalk 12: Print Exhibition, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA

            Generations: The Lineage of Influence in the Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, CA

            Index 17, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1995    Made in L.A. The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

            Pasted Papers: Collage & the 20th Century, Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA

            Permanent Collection: Object and Image, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach,
CA

            Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, California State University, Fullerton, CA

            From Behind the Orange Curtain, Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA

            Geometric Abstraction, Allene LaPides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1994    The Singular Print: A Survey of Contemporary Monotypes, Aurobora Press, San Francisco,
CA

1993     The Elegant, the Irreverent and the Obsessive: Drawing in Southern California, Dorothy
Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1992    Conversations About Magic (Tony DeLap, Bruce Conner), Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles,
CA

1991     Finish Fetish: LA's Cool School, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA

            Constructive Concepts, Ersgard Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1989     Simple in Appearances, Mark Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1988    Art for the Public. New Collaboration, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

            The Ties That Bind, Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1987     Works on Paper, Modernism, San Francisco, CA

            Concept/Reality, Los Angeles Public Art, University Art Gallery, Pepperdine University,
Malibu, CA

1986    Drawing & Sculptures: Selected Works by 8 Contemporary Artists, Long Beach Museum
of Art, Long Beach, CA

            A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1985    Modern American Printmaking, Amerika-Haus, Hannover, Germany

            New Acquisitions Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

            Collection of Richard Brown Baker, San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA

1984    The Dilexi Years, 1958-1970, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1983    Living with Art, Two: The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch, Miami University
Art Museum, Oxford, OH

1982    One Hundred Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA

            The Carolyn and Jack Farris Collection: Selected Contemporary Works, La Jolla Museum
of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

            Northern California Art of the Sixties, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA

            Aspects of Sculpture, John Beggreuen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

            Resources/Reservoir: CCAC 75Years, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

            Drawings by Painters, University of California, San Diego, CA

            Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC

            Long Beach Museum of Art, California

            The Oakland Museum of Art, California

1981     Forty Famous Californians, Judith Christian Gallery, New York, NY

            Los Angeles Painting: The Decade, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

            Nine and the Wall, California State University, Fullerton, CA

            Southern California Artists 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA

            Two Decades, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, NY

1980    Drawing: At The Henry, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

            Southern California Drawings, University of Hartford, CT

            Jack Brogan Projects, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA

1979    Painting Hybrids, Rosenberg Gallery, New York

            A Painting Installation, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA

            Our Own Artists, Art in Orange County, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach,
CA

            Light and Space. Selections from the Wortz Collection, Main Art Gallery, California State
University, Fullerton, CA

            Beggruen at Art Center, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

            Change, Inc. West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

            Los Angeles Abstract Painting, University Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside,
CA

1978     In the Realm of the Monochromatic, Renaissance Society, Bergman Gallery, University of
Chicago, IL

            California Hybrids, Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY

            Drawing Explorations: 1930-1978, Janus Gallery, Venice, CA

            Change, Inc. West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

            Beggruen at Art Center, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

1977   Private Images: Photographs by Painters, LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

            35th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington,DC

            Watercolors and Related Media by Contemporary Californians, Baxter Art Gallery,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

           Photographs by Southern California Painters and Sculptors, College of Creative Studies
Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

            Invitational American Drawing Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA

            Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, National Collection of Fine Arts,
Washington, DC

1976    Artists from Los Angeles, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

            Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, CA, and National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC

1975   Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

            A Decade of Collecting, 1965-1975, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

            University of California at Irvine, 1965-1975, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA

            DeLap, McCafferty, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

1974    Sculpture in the Sixties, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

           Modern and Contemporary Sculpture, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

           Opening Exhibition, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute,
Washington, DC

            Public Sculpture, Urban Environment, Oakland Museum of Art, CA

            Contemporary American Sculpture from the Whitney Museum of American Art, The
Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL

1973   Contemporary Collector: Diane Zlotnick, Pomona College Montgomery Art Center,
Pomona, CA

1972   West Coast ’72 Invitational, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA

            Sculptor’s Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

            Looking West, A.C.A. Gallery, New York, NY

            The Wall Object, La Jolla Museum of Art, CA

1971     Show of Past Winners / Carborundum Company Sculpture Commissions, A.F.A. Gallery,
New York, NY

            Contemporary American Art from Orange County Collections, Newport Harbor Museum,
Newport Beach, CA

1970    Trio, Three-Man Show (DeLap, Gallo, Hesse), Owens-Corning Fiberglass Center, New
York, NY

            Drawings of 3 Sculptors: Tony DeLap, Nigel Hall, William Tucker, Robert Elkon Gallery,
New York, NY

            National Drawing Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1969    A Los Angeles Aesthetic, University of California, Irvine, CA

            West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Museum of Art, CA

            Drawings 1969, Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

            Microcosm, Long Beach Museum of Art

1968    Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY

            The Collection of Hanford Yang, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT

            The West Coast Show, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

            Faculty ’68, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA

1967    Sculpture of the 60s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

            Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

            Art Ojectif, Stadler Gallery, Paris, France

            The Mathematical Muse, The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College,
Claremont, CA

            The 1960s, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

            Nuove Technique D’Immagine, Palazzo Dei Congressi, San Marino, Italy

            New Sculpture and Shaped Canvas, California State College, Los Angeles, CA

            California Art Festival, Lytton Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA

1966   Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, NY (catalogue)

            New Modes in California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art,
CA

            Twenty-One Alumni, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA

            Ten from Los Angeles, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

            Five Sculptors’ Drawings: Los Angeles and New York, Art Gallery, University of California,
Irvine, CA

            Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

            2eme Salon International de Galeries-Pilotes, Lausanne, Switzerland

1965   The Responsive Eye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY     

New Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

            Science Age Totems, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

            American Painting and Sculpture Show, Museum of Modern Art, Baden-Baden, Germany

            Five at Pace, Pace Gallery, New York, NY

            The Highlights of the 1964-1965 Seasons, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, CT

            California Painting and Sculpture, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art

            Paintings by UC Artists, San Francisco, CA

            Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

1964    Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)

            Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA

            de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA

            West Coast Painting and Sculpture Invitational, Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto,
CA

            67th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture,
Chicago, IL

            2nd Bienal Americana de Arte (LGA: Kaiser International), La Universidad Nacional de
Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Argentina

            Arts Council, London, England

            Summer Survey, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

            Richmond Art Center, CA

            American Exhibition Center, Paris, France

1963     Sculpture in California, Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA

            Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA

            West Coast Sculpture Today, Kaiser Center, Oakland, CA

            University of Wisconsin

            New Art in the Bay Area, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

            Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA

1962     Stanford Invitational

             DeLap, DeForest, Martin, and Sinton, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

Anderson Collection at Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

California State University, Long Beach, CA

Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY

Chapman University, Orange, CA

Claremont College Art Galleries, Claremont, CA

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

City of Fujinomiya, Japan

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

The City of Inglewood, CA

Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

Le Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Switzerland

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles International Airport, Terminal One

Miami University, Oxford, OH

Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Nickle Galleries, University of Calgary, Canada

Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, UT

Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR

Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

The City of San Francisco, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

The City of Santa Monica, CA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY

Tate Modern, London, England

University of California, Berkeley, CA

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Honors and Awards

2017     Laguna Art Museum, Wendt Award

2015     Orange County Museum of Art

2009     Chapman University, Orange, CA Doctor of Arts

2002     Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA, Doctor of Humane Letters

2002     Pacific Art Foundation, 6th American Visual Achievement Award

2000     Helen Modjeska Cultural Legacy Award, Arts Orange County

1989     Centinela Gateway Competition for Santa Monica Arts Commission Sculpture Project, Awarded Commission

1989     Distinguished Alumnus Award, Alumni Council, The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA

1983 National Endowment for the Arts, $25,000 Fellowship Grant, Highest Award for Painting

1975     1st Prize, Los Angeles Department of Airports, Statewide Sculpture Competition, Los Angeles, CA

1974     University of California Regents' Creative Arts Fellowship, (study of Haida Indian totems)

1966     A.F.A. Ford Foundation Grant, Museum-in-Residence Program, Haverford, PA

1964     Nealie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Selected Bibliography

Veness, Piers. “Hiding and Revealing | The paintings of Tony DeLap.” Saturation Point. October 2018. Web.

Knight, Christopher. “Tony DeLap's hybrids of painting and sculpture are impossible objects.” The Los Angeles Times. March 16, 2018.

Holmes, Jessica. “Tony DeLap” Painting, Sculpture & Works on Paper 1965-2013.” The Brooklyn Rail. n.p., May, 2015. Web.

Catalogue, "Best Kept Secret: UC Irvine,1964 -71," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach. Illus.

Lab, Walter, “Tony DeLap, Modern Times,” Royal Projects, Indian Wells, March 2009, The Art Magazine, Illus.

Frank, Peter, “The Illusionist,” Tony DeLap at Patricia Faure, Art Ltd., November, 2007, Illus.

Catalogue, “Los Angeles 1955-1985.” Centre Pompidou, Paris, Illus.

Humblet, Claudine, “La Nouvelle Abstraction Americaine 1950-1970,” Illus. 2003 Skira, Italy

Catalogue, "Tony DeLap" Bruce Guenther, Orange County Museum of Art, CA, 2000.

Catalogue, "Tony DeLap The House of the Magician: An Installation of Reconstructed Works from 1967-1979, Essays by Mike Magee, Peter Clothier and David Pagel. California State University at Fullerton, CA Feb. l994. Illus.

Catalogue, "Finish Fetish: LA's Cool School," The University of Southern California, 1991, Illus.

Catalogue, "Tony DeLap and The Floating Lady. The Artist/Magician as Magician/Artist" VARI studios, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1988. Illus.

Knight, Christopher. "L.A.'s Art Direction. Five Painters Help Shape the City's New Cultural Image," GQ Magazine, Aug. 1983, p.136, Illus.

Catalogue, “The 35th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting & Sculpture,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Feb. 1977, Illus.

Masheck, Joseph, "Tony DeLap's Shapely Paintings," Arts Magazine, April 1976, Illus.

Rose, Barbara, "Current Events," New York Magazine, p.71, Feb.1973

Schjeldahl, Peter, The New York Times, Jan .15, 1970, p.27D

Solomon, Alan. "Tony DeLap, The Last Five Years: 1963-1968,” UC Irvine,CA 1969 Illus. Catalogue.

Catalogue, "Pittsburgh International," Carnegie Institute, Oct. 1967. p.252

Catalogue, "American Sculpture of the Sixties,” LA County Museum of Art, Apr. 1967. Illus.

Coplans, John, “Circle of Styles," Art in America. June, 1964. Illus.