Wally Hedrick

Born in Pasadena, California, 1928
Died in Bodega Bay, California, 2003

Education

1947                 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles CA
1954                 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland CA
1953-1955          California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco CA
1956-1958          San Francisco State University, San Francisco CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016
The Absence of Light: Black Paintings (1957-2003), The Box, Los Angeles

2010
Wally Hedrick, The Box, Los Angeles

2008
Wally Hedrick: War Room, The Box, Los Angeles

2007
Wally Hedrick: Estate Sale, Michael Kohn Galley, Los Angeles

2003
Wally Hedrick, Linc Art, San Francisco
Wally Hedrick: Pre-emptive Peace, Sonoma State University Art Gallery

2000
Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1999
Wally Hedrick: Provisions, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa

1996
Wally Hedrick: Madonnas, Gods & Goddesses, King-Heller Gallery, Bodega Bay

1994
Classic Hedrick, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland
Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1990
Wally Hedrick: Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1985
Wally Hedrick: Selected Works, San Francisco Art Institute (catalogue)

1984
Wally Hedrick, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco 

1982
Wally Hedrick, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1967
Wally Hedrick, San Francisco Art Institute 

1963
Wally Hedrick, New Mission Gallery, San Francisco


Selected Group Exhibitions

2019
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965 – 1975, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Dilexi Gallery: Seeking the Unknown, co-curated with Laura Whitcomb, Parker Gallery, Los Angeles

2018
Walking Point, Greene Naftali, New York, NY

2017
Animal Farm, curated by Sadie Laska, The Brand Foundation, Greenwich, CT 
The Rat Bastard Protective Association, curated by Anastasia Aukeman, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
Bruno Serralongue and Wally Hedrick, Air de Paris, Paris, France

2016
The Rat Bastard Protective Association, curated by Anastasia Aukeman, The Landing Gallery, Los Angeles

2013
SIGHT / VISION: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2012
Painting, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955–1965, curated by Michael Schwager. DiRosa, Napa, California
The Historical Box curated by Mara McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, London
The Historical Box, curated by Mara McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth, Zurich

2011
Wally Hedrick and William T. Wiley, The Mayor Gallery, London.
Beyond Tradition: Art Legacies at the Richmond Art Center, in celebration of the Richmond Art Center's 75th Anniversary.

2010
Sunless, curated by Walead Beshty Thomas Dane Gallery, London
I.G.Y. curated by Todd Levin.  Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
Oakland Museum of California Grand Reopening May 2010

2011
Bella Pacifica, Bay Area Abstraction, 1946-1963, A Symphony in Three Parts, David Nolan Gallery, New York; Nyehaus, New York; Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York

2009
Looking For Mushrooms–Beat Poets, Funk and Minimal Art: Art and Counterculture in San Francisco around 1968, Museum Ludwig, Cologne Sight Vision Revisited, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2008
Mysteries, curated by Melissa E. Feldman, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Freedom of Expression: Political Art in an Age of Uncertainty, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University
American Pop, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento

2007 
The Creamery: FUNK ART etc from Bodega, the 8 gallery, San Francisco
Artists of Invention: A Century of CAA, Oakland Museum of California

2005
The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain: Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve, Napa. Traveled to Washington, D.C., Palm Springs, CA, Santa Cruz, CA (catalogue)

1995–96
Beat Culture and the New America 1950-65, Whitney Museum of American Art. Traveled to Minneapolis, San Francisco (catalogue)

1992
Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu III, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1990
The Six Gallery, Natsoulas-Novelozo Gallery, Davis (catalogue)

1986
Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu II, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1986
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1986, Los Angeles CountyMuseum of Art (catalogue)
19862nd Annual Newport Biennial: The Bay Area, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (catalogue)

1983
Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1976
The Modern Era: Painting and Sculpture in California, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)

1974
Poets of the Cities: New York & San Francisco 1950–1965, Dallas Museum of Art. Traveled to San Francisco, Hartford (catalogue)

1962
New Paintings of Common Objects, Pasadena Art Museum

1959
Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)


Selected literature