MEL RAMOS BORN July 24,1935, Sacramento, CA EDUCATION Sacramento State College, B.A. 1957; M.A. 1958 TEACHING EXPERIENCE 1958-60 Elk Grove High School 1960-66 Mira Loma High School 1965-66 Sacramento State University 1966 Arizona State University, Tempe 1966 California State University, Hayward

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Franklin House Collection, San Francisco, CA; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Kunsthaus Darmstadt, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Neue Galerie Stadt Aachen, Germany; The Oakland Museum, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum, WA; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

AWARDS
1986 National Endowment for the Visual Artists Fellowship Grant
1986 United States/France Exchange Fellowship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1964+65 Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY; 1965 David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; 1967 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA; 1971 Galerie Richard Fonchke, Ghent, Belgium; 1971 French & Company, New York, NY; 1971 Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland; 1972 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT; 1973 Madison Art Center, WI; 1973 Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA; 1974 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1976 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1977 The Oakland Museum, CA; 1978 Church Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; 1978 Galeria Plura, Milan, Italy; 1979 Galeria Cadaques, Spain; 1980 "Mel Ramos: A Twenty Year Survey," The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; 1981 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1985 "The Four Seasons," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1986 Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL; 1986 "Mel Ramos - Early Paintings," Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, West Germany; 1987 Studio Trisorio, Naples, Italy; 1989 "Beauty And The Beast," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1989 "The Artist's Studio," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, catalog; 1991 "Mel Ramos - The Heroines of 1962-64," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, catalog; 1993 "Mel Ramos: The Unfinished Painting Series," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; 1994-95 "Mel Ramos - Retrospective," Germany and Austria traveling exhibition: Kunstverein Lingen, Lingen; Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel; To Vienna under title "Mel Ramos: Pop Art Images," Hochscule fŸr Angewandte Kunst in Wien

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1959-61 "Winter Invitational," Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; 1963 "Pop Goes The Easel," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; 1963 "Pop Art USA," Oakland Art Museum, CA; 1963 "Mixed Media and Pop Art," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; 1963 "The Popular Image," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; 1964 "U.S.A. Nouvelles Peintures," American Embassy, Paris, France; 1964 "El Bienal Americana de Arte," Cordoba, Argentina; 1965 "Pop Art Nouveau Realisme, Etc." Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; 1969 "Pop Art Revisited," Heyward Gallery, London, England; 1969 "Human Concern and Personal Torment," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; 1970 "Festival of Contemporary Art," Municipal Art Museum of Yokahama, Japan; 1974 "Pop Art," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; 1975 Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, West Germany; 1975 "The Great American Nude," The New York Cultural Center, NY, Catalog; 1976 "Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, Catalog; 1978 "Aspeckte der 60er Jahre," Nationalgalerie, West Berlin; 1983 "Modern Nude Paintings: 1880-1980," National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; 1991-93 "Pop Art," traveling exhibition: Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Museum Ludwig At Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany; Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; The MontrŽal Museum of Fine Arts, QuŽbec, Canada; 1993 "Slittamenti," Venice Biennale, Italy; 1997 "Feminine Image", Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, catalog

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1963 Coplans, John. "Pop Art--U.S.A.," Art in America, New York, Vol.51, No.5, October; 1963 Factor, Donald. "Six Painters and the Object and Six More," Artforum, San Francisco, Vol.2, No.3, September, pp.13-14; 1963 "Pop Pop," Time Magazine, August, 30; 1963 Rose, Barbara. "Dada Then and Now," Art International, Zurich Vol.7, No.1, January 25, p.24; 1965 Coplans, John. "Art News From San Francisco," Art News, New York, January, p.63; 1965 Rose, Barbara. "Filthy Pictures," Artforum, Los Angeles, pp.20-25; 1965 "Superfans and Batmaniacs," Newsweek, New York, February 16, p.89; 1967 Alloway, Lawrence. "Art As Likeness," Arts Magazine, New York, May, pp.34-39; 1967 Ashton, Dore. "The Distance From 1926 to 1966," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.41, No.3, January, pp.28-33; 1967 Restany, Pierre. "Le Nu Moderne," Plexus, Paris, France, April/May, pp.105-112; 1969 Plagens, Peter. "Los Angeles," Artforum, New York, December, pp.74-75; 1969 Restany, Pierre. "L'Art Contemporian est le Language de la Revolution Sexuelle," Plexus, Paris, December, pp.89-105; 1970 Suzuki, Shiroyasu. "Mel Ramos 1935-," Mizue, Tokyo, Japan, No.783/4, pp.64-79; 1974 Hughes, Robert. "The Instant Nostalgia of Pop," Time, New York, April 15, pp.80-83; 1974 Perreault, John. "Classic Pop Revisited," Art in America, New York, Vol.62, No.2, March/April, pp.64-68; 1974 Truewoman, Honey. "Realism in Drag," Arts Magazine, New York, Vol.48, No.5, February, pp.44-45; 1974 Battcock, Gregory. "New York," Art and Artists; 1975 Tono, Yoshiaki. "American Pop Art and After," Mizue, Tokyo, Japan, February, No.839, pp.5-29; 1975 Hecht, Axel. "Kunst mit prallen Puppen," Stern Magazin, Hamburg, West Germany, May 15, pp.96-102; 1976 Davis, Douglas. "Two Faces of California," Newsweek, New York, September 6, pp.52-54; 1979 Radice, Barbara. "Micromusei in Serie," Casa Vogue, Milan, Italy, September, pp.135-138; 1979 Shirey, David. "Looking Back at the Future," The New York Times, November 11; 1991 Larson, Kay. "Top of The Pop," New York Magazine, September 30, pp. 72-73; 1991 Hughes, Robert. "Wallowing in the Mass Media Sea," Time, October 28, pp. 102-103

SELECTED BOOKS
1965 Rublowsky, John. Pop Art, Basic Books, New York; 1966 Crispolti, Enroco. La Pop Art, Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, Italy, pp.83-84; 1966 Lippard, Lucy. Pop Art, Praeger-Random House, New York; 1969 Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art, Prentice Hall-Abrams, New York, pp.567, 601, 1064; 1969 Compton, Michael. Pop Art, Hamlyn House, Middlesex, England; 1969 Russell, John. Pop Art Redefined, Thames & Hudson, London, England; 1971 Tono, Yoshiaki. Art Now/New Age: The Pop Image of Man, Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, Japan, Vol.4; 1972 Hunter, Sam. American Art of the 20th Century, Harry N. Abrams Inc., New York, p.291; 1973 Sager, Peter. Neue Formen des Realismus, Verlag M. Dumont Shauberb, Cologne, West Germany; 1974 Gerdts, William. The Great American Nude, Praeger Publishers, New York, NY; 1975 Claridge, Elizabeth. The Girls of Mel Ramos, Playboy Press, Chicago, IL; 1977 Pierre, Jose. An Illustrated Dictionary of Pop Art, Eyre Methuen, London, England, pp.37, 126; 1980 Ramos, Mel. Mel Ramos: Watercolors, Lancaster-Miller Publishers, Berkeley, CA; 1986 Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art, (third edition), Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, NY, pp.448, 471; 1994 Mel Ramos - Pop Art Images, with text by Robert Rosenblum, Benedikt Taschen Verlag, Cologne, Germany; 1995 Lucie-Smith, Edward. Art Today, Phaidon Press, London, England, p.23 ill.