Gajin Fujita

Born

1972 Los Angeles, California

Education

2000 MFA, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada

1997 BFA, Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester, California

1990-93 Attended East Los Angeles College, Los Angeles, California

Solo Exhibitions

2011 Gajin Fujita, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA October 13 – November 26,

2008 Pacific Tsunami, Haunch of Venison, London, England, April 25 – May 25

(catalogue)

2006 Twilight Blush L.A. Louver, Venice, California, November 16 – December 30

Zephyr: Paintings by Gajin Fujita, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,

Kansas City, Missouri, September 8 - November 5 (catalogue)

2005 Contemporary Projects 9: Gajin Fujita and Pablo Vargas Lugo, Los Angeles

County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, October 27– February

12

2004 Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany, October 28 – December 14

2003 Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York, October 18 – November 29

2002 Wicked Beauty, L.A. Louver, Venice, California, September 12 – October 12

Floating World Redux: Gajin Fujita and Yasumasa Morimura, Weatherspoon

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

August 11 – October 13

2001 Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany

2000 Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York

Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada

1999 Archie Grant Hall Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada

Group Exhibitions

2010 Desire, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, July – November

Invisible City, Instituto Cervantes, Madrid, Spain, February – March; traveled

to Instituto Cervantes, Berlin, Germany, April – May 2010; traveling to New

Delhi, India and Tokyo, Japan, 2011

Desire, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, TX, February 5

– April 25

2009 Construct and Dissolve Works on Paper by Artists from Los Angeles, Sabine

Knust, Munich, Germany, September 9 – October 6

All American: Defining Ourselves in a Time of Change, Salt Lake Art Center,

Salt Lake City, UT, July 1 – October 31

Art 40 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 10 - 14

Pictures of Words, curated by David Pagel, Galerie Schmidt Maczollek,

Cologne, Germany, April 23 – June 22

Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1986-2008, Harris Museum and Art Gallery,

Lancashire, England, March 28 – May 30; traveled to The Exchange,

Penzance, July 11 – October 3, 2009 and Bradford 1, November 13, 2009 –

February 7, 2010

2008 - 09 Prospect. 1 New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1, 2008 –

January 18, 2009

2008 Reclaiming: Inter-generation, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles,

California, October 3-5

In the Land of Retinal Delights: The Juxtapoz Factor, Laguna Museum of Art,

Laguna Beach, California, June – October

2007 - 08 Diaspora, curated by Dave Hickey, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas,

Nevada, September 30 – December 30; traveling to Laguna Museum of Art,

Laguna Beach, California, March 1 – June 1 (catalogue)

2007 Art 38 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 13 – 17

ADAA, The Art Show, New York, New York, February 22 – 26

Japan Inc., Kravets/Wehby, New York, New York, January 11 – February 24

2006 Reflections of Beauty: Woman of Japan’s Floating World, Pacific Asia

Museum, Pasadena, California, March 10 – June 18

Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in

Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, California, January 20 – April 2

Art 37 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 14 – 18

Negotiating Reality: Works from the Logan Collection, Victoria Myhren

Gallery, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, September 6 – November 19

2005 Drawn, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York, September 10 –

October 15

POPulence, curated by David Pagel, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston,

Texas, June 25-August 27; traveling to Cleveland Museum of Contemporary

Art, Cleveland, Ohio, September 16 – December 30, 2005, and Southeastern

Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, January 21 –

April 2

Color-Pattern-Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, March 5-May 15

Sweet Temptations, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Germany, February 6 – May 16

Art Attack, Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, California, February 17 –

March 23

Art 36 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 15 – 20

2004 The Charged Image: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, Joseloff

Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut, September 7 -

October 17

Art 35 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 16 -21

The Art Show, New York, New York, February 19 – 23

2003 Outlook International Art Exhibition Athens 2003, Athens, Greece, October 25,

2003 – January 25

Art 34 Basel, L.A. Louver, The International Art Show, Basel, Switzerland,

June 18 – June 23

ADAA, The Art Show, L.A. Louver, February 20 –February 24

2002 21 Paintings from L.A., Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State

University, San Bernardino, California September19 – November 16

Talking Pieces: Text and Image in Contemporary Art, Museum

Morsbroich/Leverkusen, October 20 – January 12,

The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, New York

Subject Matters: An Exhibition of Subject Driven Art, Kravets/Wehby Gallery,

New York, New York

2001 Casino 2001, curated by Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn, Stedelijk Museum Voor

Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, Site Santa Fe’s 4th

International Biennial, curated by Dave Hickey, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Rogue Wave, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Installed Collection/Collections Installed, Mason Gross School of the

Arts/Zimmerli Museum of Art,!New Brunswick, New Jersey

Summer Group Show, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York

Hard Boiled Wonderland, curated by Julie Joyce, Luckman Gallery, California

State University of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California

Spring, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York

Before They Became Who They Are, curated by Norman Dubrow,

Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New!York, New York

2000 Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, New York

Tan Lines, curated by Jane Callister, Purple Orchid Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Radar Love, curated by David Pagel, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy

Ultralounge:The Return of Social Space (with Cocktails), curated by Dave

Hickey, Nevada Institute of Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Nevada

New American Talent 15, Texas Fine Arts Association, curated by David Pagel,

Austin, Texas

1999 Other Paintings, curated by Julie Joyce, Huntington Beach Art Center,

Huntington Beach, California

Summer Group Show, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, New York

Action Space, Los Angeles, California

Annual Shikishi Exhibition, George J. Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American

Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, California

1998 Vincent Price Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Little Theater of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada

Art is Movement/Graffiti Show, Cal Poly Pomona University, Pomona,

California

DADA Show LA, Los Angeles, California

Leimert Park, Los Angeles Hip Hop Video Show, Los Angeles, California

Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles, California

LA Artcore, Brewery Annex Show, Los Angeles, California

Normally I Wouldn’t This Kind Of Thing Show, Otis College of Art and

Design, Los Angeles, California

Bolsky Gallery (curated by Terry Myers), Westchester, California

1996 LASO Group Show, Luna Sol Cafe, Los Angeles, California

DADA Show Downtown, Los Angeles, California

1995 Dia De Las Muertas, The Latino Museum, Los Angeles, California

DADA Tour, Japanese Pavilion, Los Angeles, California

Murals

2001 Beau Monde logo mural, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1993 Homeboy Tortillas, 3rd Street, Los Angeles, California

1992 Education/Anti-Gang Efforts, 4th Street, Los Angeles, California

1990 Earth Day, EC 2000, Pico & Union, Los Angeles, California

1989 Flight to The Angel, 3rd & Crocker, Los Angeles California