Born :
1964, Dearborn, Michigan. Lives
and works in Hong Kong.
EDUCATION
1988 -
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2011 -
Charles LaBelle, Number One Gallery,
Bangkok
- Charles LaBelle, Saamlung, Hong Kong
2010 -
Charles LaBelle, MobArt at the Hong Kong
Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kong
- Charles LaBelle, Walter Maciel Gallery,
Los Angeles
2009 -
Lines of Flight, Stage 1, Hong Kong
- California Suite: Selected Works 1993 – 2009,
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
2008 -
Charles LaBelle, Para/Site Central, Hong
Kong
- Charles LaBelle, Maass Gallery, Purchase
College, NY
- Polis / Persona, Lawrimore Project,
Seattle
2007 -
Fieldworks, Tony Wight, Chicago
- Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
- Buildings Entered 1997-2007,
Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley CA
2006 -
Sugar Hill Suite, Tony Wight/Bodybuilder
& Sportsman, Chicago
2005 -
Columbus Suite, Rebecca Ibel Gallery,
Columbus OH
2004 -
Miami Drift, Lemon Sky, Miami
- Driftworks, Roberts & Tilton, Los
Angeles
2003 -
Intervals + Intensities, Ten in One Gallery, New
York
2002 -
Darkness and Light, Bodybuilder and Sportsman,
Chicago
- Holiday, Traywick Gallery,
Berkeley
- Dearborn, Roberts & Tilton Gallery,
Los Angeles
2001 -
Horror of Light, Pomona College Museum of
Art, Pomona, CA (catalogue)
- Sunset at Dawn, Rebecca Ibel Gallery,
Columbus OH
2000 -
Illuminated Trees, Traywick Gallery,
Berkeley
- Disappearer, Roberts & Tilton, Los
Angeles (catalogue)
1999 -
Night Moves, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles
(catalogue)
1998 -
Manifestation, Post Los Angeles
1997 -
Charles LaBelle, University of Texas, San
Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
1995 -
Works on Paper, domestic setting, Los
Angeles
1993 -
Colonies II, Robert Berman Gallery,
Santa Monica
1992 -
Colonies, Philippe Briet Gallery,
New York
SELECTED
PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 -
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2011 -
Taking Time, Nou Gallery, Taipei
- Size Matters, Walter Maciel Gallery,
Los Angeles
- Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2010 -
Charles LaBelle and Scott Ingram,
Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2009 -
Urban Alienation, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong
Kong
- Of People and Places,
Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
2008 -
The Silver Shed, New York
- to: Night; Hunter College Art
Galleries, New York
- Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose CA
- Urbanity on Paper, Anna Kustera Gallery, New
York
- Person of the Crowd,
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2007 -
What a Beautiful Space You Have,
Claremont College Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
- The Uncertainty Principle,
Northern Illinois University Museum, Dekalb IL
2006 -
Local Transit, Artist’s Space, New York
2005 -
In the Neighborhood of Infinity,
Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 - In
Focus: Themes in Contemporary Photography, Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo
- Rimbaud (curated by Max Henry),
I-20 Gallery, New York
- Topographies, San Francisco Art
Institute (traveled, catalogue)
2003 -
I am a curator, Chisenhale Gallery,
London
- Justine LaCroix, Marseille
2002 -
Cut, Colored, Pulled and Burnt,
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Glow:
-
Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
(curated by Francis Colpitt), ArtPace and University of Texas, San Antonio (travelled, catalogue)
- Liminal Spaces, Center for Curatorial
Studies, Bard College, New York
2001 -
... a preacher and a bible...,
Galerie La Friche, Marseilles, France
- In Through the Outdoors,
Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
- Wattage & Friendship,
Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin
- In the City (Curated by Lorelei
Stewart), Gallery 400, Chicago
- Travelogue, Orange County Center for
Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
- Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle,
Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
2000 -
Under the Influence: New Art from LA,
Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
- Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter,
Sala Diaz, San Antonio
- Cleaning Up, University of Southern California Art Gallery,
Los Angeles
- Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum,
Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)
- Night Moves, Santa Barbara
Contemporary Arts Forum
1999 -
Venus, Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna
- The Mourning After, Barnsdale Municipal Art
Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998 -
Some Related Areas (curated by Brad Spence),
Art Gallery, University of California Irvine
- Wings of Desire,Walter McBean Gallery, San
Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1997 -
CA 9001-185, W139, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
1996 -
True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1995 -
Its Only Rock
'n Roll (curated by David Rubin), Contemporary Arts
Center,Cincinnati, Ohio (catalogue, traveled)
- Rezone, DiverseWorks, Houston,
Texas
1994 -
Let the Artist Live, Exit Art/The First World,
New York
- For Your Pleasure......,
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
- Altered Egos , Santa Monica Museum of
Art (catalogue)
- Mapping (curated by Frances
Colpitt), University of Texas, San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio
(catalogue, traveled)
- Le Temps d'un Dessin,
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France (catalogue, traveled)
1993 -
Poverty Pop, Exit Art/The First World,
New York
1992 -
In Flux, Gallery 400, Chicago
- Evidently, Dooley Le Cappellaine
Gallery, New York
- Fever, Exit Art/The First World,
New York (traveled)
- A/C Project Room, New York
- Crusoe (Refiguring Reality),
Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
GRANTS,
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
2007 -
MacDowell Colony Fellow
2006 -
Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Swing Space Grant
2003 -
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellow
-
Triangle France/ La Friche de la Belle de Mai Residency, Marseilles,
France
- Los Angeles Metropolitian Transit Authority
Project Award
2000 -
Getty Trust Fellowship
1995 -
Art Matters Fellowship
Artist’s
Books
2011 -
“Corpus,” MCCM Creations, Hong Kong
- “Architecture from the Outside,” Ood Press, Los Angeles/ Rio de Janeiro
SELECTED
ARTICLES, REVIEWS AND CATALOGS
2011 -
Warden, Kathleen Suraya. “Charles
LaBelle and Michael Lee at the 2011 Singapore Biennale,” Asian Art News,
p. 127-129 (images)
- Palmer, Daniel. “2011 Singapore Biennale,”
Frieze, May
- Peckham, Robin. “Photo Tour Singapore Biennale
2011,” Randian, April 27 (images)
- Yao, Pauline.
“2011 Singapore Biennale,” Art Agenda, March 18 (image)
- Singapore Biennale 2011 Catalogue. Text by Nuit Banai and artist’s folio p. 234
2010 -
Bryan, Kate. “Charles LaBelle at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical
Sciences,” Asia Art News, July/August
p95
(images)
- Batten, John.
“Personal Mapping,” Perspective,
July p.24 (images)
- Agnew, Mary. “Eye Spy,” Time Out Hong Kong - Peckham, Robin. “LaBelle at HKMSS,” ArtSlant
(images)
- Teh, Yvonne. “Charles LaBelle,” South China
Morning Post, May 27 (image)
- In Magazine, April + May (images)
- Anonymous. “Archaeologies of the future by
Charles LaBelle,” Post Internet (A Project of the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts’ Writers Grant
Program), April 22
2009
-
Lam, Yuki. “Artistic
Documentation,” Today’s Living, December , p 46-49 (images)
- Visualingual. “Archaeologies of the Future,”
Oct 10 (images)
- Hackett, Regina. “Charles LaBelle- Archaeologies of the
Future,” ArtsJournal.com, Sept (image)
-
Szupinski, Joanna,. “Charles
LaBelle at Traywick Contemporary,” Artweek, May (image)
2008 -
Lippens, Nate. “Time Space
Location: Catching Charles LaBelle’s Drift,” Arcade, June (image)
- Shipley, Jonathan. “Charles LaBelle
(review),” Art Lies!, Summer (image)
- Demetre, Jim. “Charles LaBelle at Lawrimore
Project,” Art Dish (image)
- Lippens, Nate. “Videos at Lawrimore Take Us
Far and Wide,” Seattle PI, March 20 (image)
- Grant, Adriana. “Charles LaBelle and his Bare Chest,” Seattle
Weekly, March19 (image) -
Genocchio, Benjamin. “A Walk on
the Wild Side, and Then Some,” New York Times, February 10 (image)
2007 -
Grabner, Michelle. “Charles
LaBelle- Fieldworks,” Time Out Chicago, Oct. (image)
- Ewing, John. “Charles LaBelle: Sugar Hill
Suite,” Art Lies, Issue 53, Spring (image)
- Wilson, Michael. “Charles LaBelle at Anna Kustera Gallery,”
Artforum, April (image)
2006 -
Jones, Amelia. Self/Image:
Technology, Representation and the Contemporary Subject. Routledge, p 110-115
- Wienstein, Lauren. “Charles LaBelle: ‘Sugar Hill Suite,’” Time
Out Chicago, April 13-20
- Artner, Alan.
“Charles LaBelle’s ‘Sugar Hill Suite,’ Chicago Tribune, March 31
2004
-
Daigle, Claire. “Rimbaud at I-20
Gallery,” Art Papers, November/December p. 49 (image)
- Frank, Peter.
“Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Art Review, November 2004
(image)
- Baker, Kenneth. “LaBelle Adrift at Traywick,”
San Francisco Chronicle, October 23 (image)
- Wood, Eve.
“Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Flash Art, Oct. (image)
- Knight, Christopher. “The Result of Aimless Drifting,” Los Angeles Times, August 6 p. E6
- Smith, Roberta. “Rimbaud,” New York Times, July 30
- Buck, David.
“Topographies,” Artweek, June 2004
- “Topographies,” Exhibition Catalogue, Essays
by Steve Dietz, Jeanne Przblysky and Noah Snyder,
- San Francisco Art Institute and the Fellows
of Contemporary Art, Artist Folio pg. 6A
2003 -
Colpitt, Frances. “Charles
LaBelle & Randy Wray: Sudden,”
ArtLies! Issue 41, Winter 2003-4,
p. 94
- Goddard, Dan. “Visionary Art,” San Antono
Express-News, November 13 (image)
- Matlick, Justin. Critics’ Choices: Charles LaBelle,” Chicago
Reader, Jan. 3-9
2002 -
Zwartjes, Arend. “Glow: Aspects
of Light in Contemporary American Art,” Artlies, Fall 2002, p. 95-96
- Baker, Kenneth. “LaBelle at Traywick,” San
Francisco Chronicle, October 12, p. D10
2001 -
“Horror of Light,” Exhibition Catalogue, Pomona College Museum of Art
- Fryer-Kohles, “Street of Dreams Under a
Lens,” The Columbus Dispatch, Sept. 30, 8F (image)
- “Sunset at Dawn,” Exhibition Catalogue,
Rebecca Ibel Gallery
- “Hollywood 101,” project for Zing Magazine,
Spring/ Summer (image)
- Starker, Melissa. “Here’s Looking at You,” Columbus Alive, May
10 (image)
- Helfand, Glen. “Charles LaBelle, Traywick
Gallery,” Art on Paper, Jan-Feb. (image)
2000 -
Meyer, James. “Top Ten: Charles LaBelle,” Artforum, December, p. 114
(image)
- “Disappearer,” Exhibition Catalogue, Essay by
Jacqueline Cooper, Smart Art Press, Santa Monica
- Thornson, Alice. “Under the
Influence: Young Artists Celebrate LA’s Culture,” Kansas City Star, October 21
-
Harvey, Doug. “Charles LaBelle at Roberts & Tilton,” Art Issues, p.
48 (images)
- Moreno, Gean. “Polis as Playground:
Contemporary Artists in Urban Space,” Art Papers, September/October,
p. 28-35, (images)
- Zellen, Jody. “Rites of Passage,” d’Art
International, p. 27 (image)
- Cooper, Jacqueline. “The Fashion Show,” New
Art Examiner, May, P. 56 (image)
- Tumlir, Jan.”The Fashion Show,” Art &
Text, May-July, p. 94-95
- Allherholm, Milou. “Narstudie Los Angeles,”
Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), April 12, p B3 (image)
- Harvey, Doug. “Gallaria,” LA Weekly, April
7-13, p. 47 (image)
- Knight, Christopher. “In Charles LaBelle’s
World Things are Inside-Out,” Los Angeles Times, March 17,
p. F25 (image)
- Crowder, Joan. “Working on those Night
Moves,” Santa Barbara Press-News, March 17, p. 3 (image)
- Meeker, Cheryl. “Drive By: Snapshots from the
Cultural Landscape,” Art Papers, January/February p. 57 (image)
- Colpitt, Frances. “Charles LaBelle at Lemon
Sky,” Art in America, January, p. 126 (Image)
1999 -
Ise, Claudine. “Articulating Grief Though the ‘Art of Loss’,” Los
Angeles Times, April 16, p. F30 (image)
- Frank, Peter. “The Mourning After,” LA
Weekly, April 13
- “The Mourning After,” (exhibition catalogue),
Los Angeles Municiple Art Gallery, essay by Susette Min
1998 -
Curtis, Cathy. “When Seeing Isn’t Believing,” Los Angeles Times, Oct. 15
1997 -
Finkel, Jori. Review of Refusalon
Show, San Francisco Express, May 23, p. 52 (image)
- Goddard, Dan.
“Stained Bedsheets Underlie LaBelle’s Embroidered Art,” San Antonio
Express-News, January 29
1996 -
True.Bliss. (exhibition catalogue), Essays by David Greene and Julie
Joyce, Artist’s Folio
p.21,
- Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
- “Abstract Eroticism”, Art & Design #47,
organized by Michael Petry, p. 20-21
1995 -
It’s Only Rock and Roll (exhibition catalogue), Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinatti, organized by David S. Rubin - Kandel, Susan. "Art of Mixing," Los Angeles Times,
June 22, p. F4
1994 -
Hess, Elizabeth. "No Exit Art," Village Voice, October 11, p.
109
- Jones, Amelia. "Taro Chiezo, Michael
Cohen, LouAnne Greenwald, Charles LaBelle and Marie Lafia at domestic
- setting," Artforum, October, p. 109
- Wilson, William. "Santa Monica's
Exquisite Deceptions," Los Angeles Times, July 16, p. F4
- Altered Egos (exhibition catalogue), Essays
by Karen Moss and Amelia Jones, Artist's text, p. 39-42, color folio
p. 77, Santa Monica Museum of Art,
Santa Monica
- Mapping (exhibition catalogue), Essay by
Frances Colpitt, p19, Artist's folio, p. 31, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Le temps d'un Dessin (exhibition catalogue),
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France
1993 - Ostrow, Saul. "On Kawara and Six Other
Artists," Flash Art, September, p. 79 (image)
- Pagel, David. "Charles LaBelle at Robert
Berman Gallery," Artforum, May, p.110-111 (image)
- Greenstein, M.A. "Edgy in Edge
City," Artweek, April 22, p. 16-17 (image)
- Taylor, Simon. "Charles LaBelle at
Philippe Briet," Art in America, March, p. 114-115(image)
- Kandel, Susan. "Charles LaBelle's
Bourgeois Revolution," Los Angeles Times, January 28, p. F8
- Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices: Fever,"
Village Voice, January 5, p. 56
1992 -
Smith, Roberta. "The Los Angeles Art World's New Image," New
York Times, Dec. 29, p. B1
- Hess, Elizabeth. "Pillows to Post
(Graffiti)," Village Voice, November 17, p. 109 (image)
Public
and Private Collections
Museum
of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Berkeley Art Museum; Albright Knox Gallery,
Buffalo; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Deautsche Bank Collection; The Stuart
& Judy Spence Collection; Microsoft Collection; Hewlett-Packard Collection;
Nationwide Collection; Banana Republic Collection