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John Baldessari
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b. 1931
John Baldessari was born in National City, California. He attended San Diego State University and did post-graduate work at Otis Art Institute and Chouinard Art Institute and U.C. Berkeley. He has taught at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia from 1970 - 1988 and University of California at Los Angeles from 1996 - 2007.
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His art has been featured in more than 200 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Europe and in over 750 group exhibitions. His projects include artist books, videos, films, billboards and public works. His awards include the Americans for the Arts lifetime achievement award, the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts in California, the Oscar Kokoschka Prize from Austria and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany. Upcoming awards include an induction into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in May 2008, and the B.A.C.A. International 2008 in October 2008.He has received honorary degrees from the National University of Ireland, San Diego State University, and Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. Recent projects include; solo shows in New York, Europe, and Los Angeles, books, films, a curatorial project at the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington DC, and retrospectives at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien in Vienna, Austria (2005), the Kunsthaus Graz in Graz, Austria (2005), and at the Carré d'art, musée d'art contemporain in Nimes, France (2005). Upcoming projects and exhibitions include; Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht in Maastricht, Netherlands, Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, Galerie Meert Rihoux in Brussels, Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany, Fondazione Prada in Milan, and a traveling retrospective that begins at the Tate Modern in London in 2009. Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California.