Charles Fahlen: Vitae

Vitae

EDUCATION

California State University, San Francisco, California – B.A. 1962

Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California – M.F.A. 1965
Wikipedia: Otis Art Institute

Atelier 17, Paris, France – 1965

Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands – 1966
Wikipedia: Jan Van Eyck Academy

Slade School, University of London, Great Britain – 1967

Professor, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 1967-2000

SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2014: Parallels, Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, California
2012: Charles Fahlen, Quicksilver Mine Co., Forestville, California
2008: Let's Pretend, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, California
2003: Unexplained Mysteries, Locks Gallery Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
2000: Charles Fahlen: Architectural Construction from the 70’s, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991: Terra Incognita: The Recent Sculpture of Charles Fahlen, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Catalogue)
1989: Charles Fahlen, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Brochure Essay)
1987: Charles Fahlen, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Brochure Essay)
1985: Hazlett Memorial Awards Exhibition, Traveled in Pennsylvania to Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto; University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh; Philadelphia Art Alliance
1984: Charles Fahlen, Balanced Rocks and Geysers – Proposals for Public Works: New Sculpture and Drawings, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982: Charles Fahlen, Monuments, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981: Charles Fahlen, Proposals for Sculpture, Frank Kolbert Gallery, New York City, New York
1980: Charles Fahlen, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1979: Charles Fahlen, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1978: Charles Fahlen, Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York City, New York
1977: Charles Fahlen, 10 Dyptichs Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1976: Charles Fahlen, J. H. Duffy & Sons Gallery, New York City, New York, (Catalogue); Charles Fahlen, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Catalogue)
1975: Charles Fahlen, Stefanotti Gallery, New York City, New York
1974: Charles Fahlen, Henri 2, Washington, D.C.
1973: Charles Fahlen, Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Brochure)
1971: Trophies: Examples and a Plastic Animal Collection, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York City, New York
1967: Charles Fahlen, Dejong-Bergers Tentoonstellingen, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1966: Charles Fahlen, Gallery Passepartout, Copenhagen, Denmark

1998: Moore College of Art and Design — Grant
1994: Moore College of Art and Design — Grant
1991: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts — Individual Grant
1988: National Endowment for the Arts — Individual Grant
1986: Moore College of Art and Design — Grant
1985: Hazlett Memorial Award for Excellence in the Arts in Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts — Individual Grant
1984: Moore College of Art and Design — Grant
1982: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts — Individual Grant
1980: National Endowment for the Arts — Individual Grant
1967: Fulbright-Hays Grant
1965: Elsie De Wolf Traveling Fellowship

SELECTED PROJECTS

2002: Lunar Portal, commission for portal, 2nd Street Station, New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Hoboken, New Jersey
2000: River Ribbons, commission for walkways, Paterson Station, Paterson, New Jersey
1997: Untitled, commission for the Platform Elevator, Pedestrian Bridge Lighting and Mural at the 34th Street station, New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, (Phase 1), Bayonne, New Jersey
1996: Far Fields, commission for an interior site, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Untitled, commission for a beacon (light standard) prototype, New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail Transit System, Hudson and Bergen Counties, New Jersey
1995: Spiral Field, commission for an exterior site with landscape architect Carla Tiberi, Foran Hall, The Center for Agricultural Molecular Biology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Planning Team For Public Art Projects; New Jersey Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Waterfront Light Rail Transit System, 17 Sites; Hudson And Bergen Counties, New Jersey
1994: Diamond Park, commission for an urban park, Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991: Colter's Hell, commission for a temporary work in conjunction with Charles Fahlen, Terra Incognita, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
1990: Devil’s Tower, multiple object in an edition of 150, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1988: Tidal Park, commission in collaboration with artist Doug Hollis for city of Port Townsend, Washington
1987: For Potter's Field, commission with Poet Stephen Berg for a temporary work for Collaborations Inc.
(We The People — 200), Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
1985: Insites, commission in collaboration with artists Marie Gee and Lynn Denton for temporary work for City of Philadelphia, Municipal Services Plaza, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
1983: Untitled, commission for South Philadelphia Older Adult Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1982: Major, commission for Berger Associates for Postal Workers' House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sculpture/300, commission for temporary work in Rittenhouse Square for Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Rovers, temporary work, Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City, New York
1980: Oppenheimer Memorial, commission for Robert Oppenheimer Memorial Committee (not executed), Los Alamos, New Mexico; Site Works, commission for temporary work Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
1978: General Grant, commission for Mr. and Mrs. D.W. Dietrich II, Chester Springs, Pennsylvania
1977: Untitled, commission for Jack and Annette Friedland, Gladwyne, Pennsylvania; Untitled, commission for Morton Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1976: Untitled, commission for a temporary work, Artpark, Lewiston, New York

2011: Close at Hand, The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010: Four Decades, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008: Cave Paintings for a Modern Aesthetic, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2005: Works on Paper, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2001: Chuck Fahlen, Ray Johnson, and Ree Morton: Works from the Seventies, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000: Treasure Island Late 20th-Century Works by Eight Philadelphia Artists, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998: Pop/Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Biennial '98 at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
1996: Biennial '96 at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
1995: Options: Selections from the Contemporary Collection Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
1992: Artists Who Interpret the Earth and Its Systems, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sculpture Explorations, Gallery At The Gershman Y, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Hard Choices, Just Rewards, traveled in Pennsylvania to Blair Art Museum, Hollidaysburg; Johnstown Art Museum, Johnstown; University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburg, Pittsburgh; Everhart Museum, Scranton; Bruce Gallery, Einkorn University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Westminster College, New Wilmington; The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1991: Artists Choose Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Visions/Revisions: Selections from the Contemporary Collection, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; The Next Show, Gallery at the State Theater Center for the Arts, Easton, Pennsylvania
1990: Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: a Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,(Catalogue)
1989: Martha Diamond, Charles Fahlen, Lois Lane, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1987: New Attitudes, Recent Pennsylvania Abstraction, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania (Catalogue)
1986: Perspectives from Pennsylvania, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Perspectives on the '60s And '70s: Selections From the Permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York; Philadelphia Collects: European and American Art Since 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Catalogue); Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia (Catalogue)
1985: The Challenge of Collaboration, Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio, (Catalogue); Small Monuments, Tyler Gallery, Temple University Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984: A Growing American Treasure: Recent Acquisitions and Highlights from the Permanent Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Naturlich, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Selected Recent Acquisitions, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Catalogue); Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1983: Horses, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York City, New York; Works on Paper, Matthew Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1981: Possibly Overlooked Publications, Landfall Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Catalogue)
1980: Material Pleasures: The Fabric Workshop, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, (Catalogue)
1979: American Sculpture 1970-1980, Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, New Jersey; Eight Sculptors, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, (Catalogue); Contemporary Sculpture: Selection From The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York, (Catalogue); Masks, Tents, Vessels and Talismans, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Contemporary Pennsylvania Sculpture, William Penn Memorial Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1978: Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture, Institute of Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York; Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Art, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Constructs, Organization of Independent Artists,The Bleecker Renaissance, New York City, New York
1977: Spectrum '77, Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri, (Catalogue); Collection in Progress; Selections from the Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue)
1976: Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Philadelphia/Houston Exchange, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Philadelphia in Washington, Pyramid Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Sculptor's Drawings, The Fine Arts Building, New York City, New York; Artist's Sketchbooks, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Artpark Art 2, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York; PMA at MCA, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Summer Exhibition: Outdoor Sculpture, Merriewold West, Far Hills, New Jersey, (Catalogue)
1974: Seventy-First American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (Catalogue); Made In Philadelphia 2, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Recent Acquisitions, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1973: Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York, (Catalogue); Charles Fahlen, Grappler/Ray Johnson, Fingernails, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sneaker Show, Kornblee Galllery, New York City, New York; Books by Artists, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); New Generation, Richard Feigen, New York City, New York; Print Exhibition, Richard Feigen Graphics, New York City, New York
1972: Grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Portfolios and Series, Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; Henri 2 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1970: Ray Johnson's Correspondence School, Whitney Museum, New York City, New York
1969: Sculpture, Painting, Etc., Richard Feigen Gallery, New York City, New York; Drawing, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, New York
1968: Beyond Literalism, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Catalogue); American Drawing 1968, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (Catalogue); Philadelphia Now, The Vanderlip Stable, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California