Leo Krikorian
Exhibitions
Born in Fowler, CA 1922
Died in Yreka, CA 2005
EDUCATION
Art Center School, Los Angeles
Black Mountain College (Professors: Ilya Bolotowsky & Josef Albers)
San Francisco Art Institute (Painting Professors: Hassel Smith, Clyfford Still); Photography professors: Minor White & Ansel Adams)
The Film School (cinema) Half Moon Bay, CA
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, NC
Brigham Young University Museum, Provo, UT
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville, NC
Hickory Museum of Art, Hickory, NC
Musee de Cholet, Cholet, France
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Ligonier, PA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018-2019 Leo Krikorian, Dixie State University, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT
2011 Leo Krikorian: Godfather of the Beats, Yvonne Torres Fine Art, Rockland, ME
2010 Leo Krikorian: Geometric Abstraction, Central Utah Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
2004 Leo Krikorian: Implied Space, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, NC
2004 Leo Krikorian: Geometric Abstractions, Northwest Reno Gallery, Reno, NV
2003 Leo Krikorian, Bay Model Gallery, Sausalito, CA
2001 Leo Krikorian, Mill Valley Book Depot, Mill Valley, CA
1999 Leo Krikorian: paintings, Art Center Gallery, Clatsop Community College, Astoria, OR
1998 Leo Krikorian, Musee de Cholet, Cholet, France; Organized by the Conseil Municipal, and curated by Gilles Bourdoleix, Marie de Cholet
1998 Leo Krikorian, City of Carlsbad, Carlsbad, CA
1996 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Arlette Gimeray, Paris
1996 Leo Krikorian, The Studio, Napa, CA
1995 Leo Krikorian, Galerie du Temple, Paris
1994 Leo Krikorian, Galerie du Temple, Paris
1993 Concrete Concepts: The Career of Leo Krikorian, Scarritt Arcade and the Power & Light Building in Kansas City; Organized by Institute of Modern Structural Art & Art Research Center, Kansas City, MO
1993 Leo Krikorian, Carol Dabbs Gallery, Los Altos, CA
1993 Leo Krikorian, Galerie d’Art International, Paris
1992 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Henide, Paris
1992 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Façade, Paris
1992 Leo Krikorian: New Paintings from Paris, Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Busche, Cologne, Germany
1992 Leo Krikorian, Kwarjin Galerie, Amsterdam
1992 Leo Krikorian, La Maire de Paris, Paris
1991 Leo Krikorian, La Maire de Paris, Paris
1991 Leo Krikorian: Abstract Paintings, Twin Cranes Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Muscade, Paris
1991 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Façade, Paris
1991 Leo Krikorian, Maska International Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Leo Krikorian: Geometric Abstractions, Fordham University. Exhibited at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
1990 Leo Krikorian, Espace d’art Contemporain, Paris
1990 Leo Krikorian Paintings, Frank Bustamante Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Leo Krikorian: hedendaags consturctivisme, Time is Art Gallery, Den Haag, The Netherlands
1990 Leo Krikorian, Musee Victor Duhamel, Mante-la-Jolie
1990 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Metaphore, Paris
1990 Leo Krikorian, Espace d’art Contemporain, Paris
1990 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1989 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Francois Palluel, Paris
1989 Leo Krikorian, Galerie Liliane Francoise, Paris
1989 Leo Krikorian, Espace d’art Contemporain, Paris
1989 Leo Krikorian, Kuuk Galerie, Rotterdam
1989 Galerie Kwartjin, Amsterdam
1988-90 Fridholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1988 Esta Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
1988 International Center, Hammersmith, London
1988 Galerie Sontag, Paris
1988 Mobilarion Matignon, Paris
1998 Espace Sotenec, Paris
1987 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1987 Giis Centre Wems, Paris
1987 Abbaye Royale du Moncel, Maxence, France
1986 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1985 915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1985 Art Expo, Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
1985 Army Engineers Corps, Sausalito, CA
1984 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1983 Leo Krikorian: tableaux et vitraux, Galerie La Passarelle, Paris
1983-93 Leo Krikorian: Permanent Exhibit, Atelier, Paris, traveled to San Francisco, CA, Sausalito, CA
1976 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1975 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1974 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1973 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1972 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1971 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1971 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1970 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1970 1915 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA
1969 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1969 The Book Depot, Mill Valley, CA
1968 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1967 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1966 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1965 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1964 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1963 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1963 The Enigma, San Francisco, CA
1962 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1962 The Enigma, San Francisco, CA
1961 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1961 The Enigma, San Francisco, CA
1960 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1960 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1960 The Enigma, San Francisco, CA
1959 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1959 The Kettle, Sausalito, CA
1958 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1957 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1957 The Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1956 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1956 The Six Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1955 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1954 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1953 The Place, San Francisco, CA
1952 Vesuvius, New York, NY
1950 Metart Gallery, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 viewshed, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, NC
2023 The Abstract Impulse, Sears Art Museum, St. George, UT
2022-2025 Minds, Bodies, and Spirits: Black Mountain College and the Beats of the north Beach Scene, 1953-1960. Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
2022 adVANCE! Modernism, Black Liberation + Black Mountain College, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheveille, NC
2021 A Lasting imprint: Rendering Rhythm and Motion in the Art of the Black Mountain College. Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN.
2017 Permanent Collection Exhibition, Greenville Art Museum, Greenville, NC
2016 The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections, Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, Asheville, N
2006 Greetings from Black Mountain College, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 California Armenian Pacific Standard Time, Garboushian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
2002 Geometric Abstractions, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
1995 Cerle & Carre, Vallejo, CA.
1995 Photography as Experiment and Structure, The Studio Gallery of Fine Art, Napa, CA
1994 Visual Dimensions: New Spatial Structures. The Studio Gallery of Fine Art, Napa, CA
1994 Fridholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1992 Realites Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
1992 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1991 Realites Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
1991 Bustamante Gallery, New York
1991 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1991 Salon de Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 Realites Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 Bustamante Gallery, New York
1990 Traveling Group Show, Tokyo, Nikko, Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka
1990 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1990 Salon d’ Art de Mantes La Jolie, Hotel de Ville, Martes Le Jolie, France
1990 Salon de Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1990 Lyrical Vision: The 6 Gallery, 1954-1957, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
1990 Leo Krikorian, Fridholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1989 Bustamante Gallery, New York
1989 Realites Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris|
1989 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1989 Salon d’ Art de Mantes La Jolie, Hotel de Ville, Martes Le Jolie, France
1989 Salon de Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1989 Fridholm Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
1988 Leo Kirkorian, Albert Gleizes & Hans Steinbrenner, Galerie Michele Heyraud, Paris
1988 Realites Nuovelles, Grand Palais, Paris
1988 Galerie Kwartijn, Amsterdam
1988 Gallery 1900-2000, Paris
1988 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1988 Salon d’ Art de Mantes La Jolie, Hotel de Ville, Martes Le Jolie, France
1988 Salon de Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1987 Salon d’Art Contemporain, Bagneux, France
1987 Espace Delpha, Paris
1987 Salon Les Artistes Francais, Grand Palais, Paris
1987 Realites Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
1987 Academie International de Lutece, Paris
1987 Gallery 1900-2000, Paris
1987 Centre Culturel Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essones, France
1987 Salon d’ Art de Mantes La Jolie, Hotel de Ville, Martes Le Jolie, France
1987 Salon de Comparaisons, Grand Palais, Paris
1985 Pacific Grove Art Center, Monterey, CA
1985 Orange County Art Fair, Newport Beach, CA
1975 A Kind of Beatness: Photographs of a North Beach Era, 1950-1965. Focus Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1974 New Baltimore Independent Film Museum, Baltimore, MD
1952 Paintings by Paul Shumaker, Russell Hartley, Pat Cucaro, Phillip Roeber, Janet Schrock; Camera Studies by Leo Krikorian, 12 Adler Place, San Francisco, CA