1981 M.F.A., Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1976-77 Banff School of Fine Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada
1974 B.A., Western State College, Gunnison, CO
Awards
1992 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant - more this page
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Grant
1983 Artist in Residence Grant, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
Solo Exhibitions
2002 "Stuart Arends: Four splits, One Stand", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
"Six PAs, One Split, One Stand", Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2001 "Stuart Arends - Selected works 1980-2000", Roswell Museum and Art Center,
Roswell, NM (catalogue)
2000 "7 Sake Boxes," James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
"Sake Boxes," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 "Sake Boxes," Gallery Schlesinger (in cooperation with Craig Cornelius), New York, NY
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
"Metal Stacks & Preliminary Drawings," Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1997 Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Margulies-Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1995 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Number Drawings," Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1994 "Works from 1985-1994," Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, NY
"Celedon Works from 1989," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Kathleen Shields Contemporary Art Projects, Albuquerque, NM
1992 S. Bitter-Larkin Gallery, New York, NY
1991 Schmidt Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1990 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX
1984 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
1983 Oranges/Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Oranges/Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Street Level Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 "White on White", Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 "Structure", Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 "In the Details", Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001 "New Work: LA Painting", Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Patricias Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Figure Astratte" Palazzo Pallazicini Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy (catalogue)
2000 Teresita Fernandez/Stuart Arends", James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
"View" Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philidelphia, PA
1999 "Soft Stillness and the Night," Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy
Gallery Schlesinger, New York, NY
"Selections," Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, Cape Cod, MA
"That Certain Look: The Minimalist Tradition in New Mexico," University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1998-2003 "The Panza Di Biumo Collection, Artists of the Eighties and Nineties," Museo del Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (catalogue)
1998 "The Forty-Fifth Biennial, The Corcoran Collects," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Larry Becker Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
1997 "In touch with… Kevin Appel, Stuart Arends, Patricia Moisan, Carter Potter, Ross Rudel, David Simpson, Linda Stark," Renate Schroder Galerie +Edition, Koln, Germany
"Geometric Abstraction, 1937-1997," Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
"The Magic of Numbers," Staatsalerie Stuttgart, Germany (catalogue)
1996 "L'Ossessione Del Segno," Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
"Small Scale," Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
"Contemporary Art in New Mexico," Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
"The Panza Collection di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80's and 90's," Museo Di Arte Moderna E Contemporanea, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy (catalogue)
"…And They Call It Painting," Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (catalogue)
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1995 "Painting Outside Painting, 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
"Donation, Panza di Biumo," Museau Cantenello De Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (catalogue)
"Wax," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
"Uncommon Objects," Kathleen Shields Contemporary Projects, Albuquerque, NM
"Gridluck, " Marge Goldwater Inc., New York, NY
1994 "Serial," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 "Inad'vertently," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Volume: No Noise," Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
"Sublime Presence," Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1992 "Art by Numbers," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Selections from the Panza Collection," Museau Cantenello De Arte, Lugano, Switzerland (catalogue)
1991 "Painting into Object," Stark Gallery, New York, NY
"Squaresville," Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Not on Canvas," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Allan Graham/Stuart Arends," University of NM Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
1990 "Homage to the Square," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
Germans Van Eck, New York, NY
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Boite Alerte," Renee Fotouhe Fine Art, New York, NY
Bistborno Gallery, Malmo, Sweden
1988 Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, NY
"On the Wall off the Wall," Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
1987 "Lead," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Nailsworth," Mortimer Rooms, Christchurch Hall, Nailsworth Gloucestershire, England
1983 "Artist in Concert," Oranges/Sardines Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 "Stuart Arends/Robert Swan; Work Concerning Object/Paint," Street Level Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Bibliography
Jan Adlmann/Barbara McIntyre, Contemporary Art in New Mexico, Wichita, KS, G+B Arts International, 1996
Antonella Boisi, "Rooms of Art Reinvented," Interni, June 1996, 58-63.
Gerald Brown, "Stuart Arends at Larry Becker Contemporary Art," Philadelphia Weekly, December 17.
Robert W. Duffy, "Arends Proves That Less Can Be More," St. Louis Post Dispatch, December 4, 1991, 6-F.
Susan Harris, "Stuart Arends Work 1985-1996," Smith Book Fund, 1998.
Gerrit Henry, "Stuart Arends at S. Bitter-Larkin," Art in America, June 1992, 114.
Fil Inocencia, Jr., "Number Crunching," NuCity, April 12, 1995.
Karen Jones, "Stuart Arends at Bitter-Larkin," Tema Celeste, April/May 1992, 1997.
Jo Ann Lewis, "Painting Outside the Lines," The Washington Post, December 23, 1995 B-1/B5.
Anne Midgette, "Panza di Biumo Collection Again," The Art Newsletter 17, March 16, 1993.
Saul Ostrow, "History Is Now," The New Art Examiner, March 1996, 29-31.
William Peterson, "New Mexico: Growing Internationalism," Artnews, April 1992, 124.
Wesley Pulkka, "Artists draw on sacred expressions, layering," The Albuquerque Journal, June 9, 1996, D-8.
Howard Risatti, "Painting Outside Painting: The Corcoran Gallery of Art," Artforum, April, 1996,105-6.
Raphael Rubinstein, "Panza's Gift to Italy," Art in America, September 1996, 29.
Kathleen Shields, "Stuart Arends: Objects of Context," Artspace, July/August, 1990, 46-48.
Mark Van de Walle, "Santa Fe," Flash Art International, Summer 1995, 79.
Candelora Versace, "Radical Approaches to Space and Color," Pasatiempo, February 4, 1993.
Carol Vogel, "Guggenheim Hopes to Open Three Branches in Venice," The New York Times, June 22, 1995, C-13/14.
Malin Wilson, "Sublime Presence Comfy Descendant of 60's Minimalism," Journal North, February 4, 1993.
William Wilson, "Arends Whispers," Los Angeles Times, September 28, 1990 F-20.
Public Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Berlingieri Collection, Castello di San Basilio, Italy
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Museo Cantonale D'Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Villa Menafoglio Lilla, Verese, Italy
Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque Museum, NM
Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, WA
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Roswell Museum and Arts Center, Roswell, NM