Charles Gaines

Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines is celebrated for his photographs, drawings, and works on paper that investigate how rules-based procedures construct order and meaning. In 2015, he presented a critically acclaimed retrospective exhibition at the Hammer Museum, which travelled from the Studio Museum in Harlem shown in 2014. His work was also featured in recent major group exhibitions including The Freedom Principle (Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 2015), 56th Biennale di Venezia (Venice, Italy, 2015), Prospect.3 New Orleans (Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2014), and the Montreal Biennale (2014). In 2013, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and presented the solo exhibition, Notes on Social Justice, at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. In 2012, Gaines was the subject of a mid-career survey at the Pomona College Museum of Art and the Pitzer College Art Gallery in Claremont, California. His works are in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. He is currently represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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