Greg Colson is an American artist whose art is marked by the jarringly direct way he commingles material and conceptual elements. In his constructions, precisely rendered systems are disrupted and contradicted by the contexts they are placed in. By drawing out the poetry and humor in our social patterns, Colson seems to suggest there are limits to – and hazards inherent in – our obsession with efficiency, data, and analysis of every kind. Colson grew up in Bakersfield, California and lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe, including Patrick Painter Inc., LA; Sperone Westwater, NY; Kayne Griffin Corcoran, LA; Galleria Cardi, Milan; Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges; Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf; Baldwin Gallery, Aspen; and the Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL. His work is in many public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; The Musem of Modern Art, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, LA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA; Hammer Musuem, LA; the Panza Collection, Varese, Italy; Sammlung Rosenkranz, Berlin; Thomas Ammann Collection; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Born 1956, Seattle
EDUCATION
BA, California State University, Bakersfield, CA
MFA, Claremont Graduate School, CA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016 Thomas Park, Seoul, South Korea
2014 Eugene Binder, Marfa, TX
2013 Patrick Painter Inc, LA
2012 Patrick Painter Inc, LA
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2010 Griffin Contemporary, LA
2008 Griffin Contemporary, LA
2007 Griffin Contemporary, LA
2006 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2005 Griffin Contemporary, LA
2004 Griffin Contemporary, LA
2002 Sprovieri, London
Art Affairs, Amsterdam
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2001 Sperone Westwater, NY
Galleria Cardi, Milan
Griffin Contemporary, LA
1999 John Berggruen Gallery, SF
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
Griffin Contemporary, LA
1998 Milleventi, Milan
Griffin Contemporary, LA
1997 Angles Gallery, LA
1996 Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign
1995 Angles Gallery, LA
1994 Kunsthalle Lophem, Bruges
Sperone Westwater, NY
1993 Angles Gallery, LA
1992 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome
1991 Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
Sperone Westwater, NY
1990 Angles Gallery, LA
Sperone Westwater, NY
1988 Angles Gallery, LA
Lannan Museum, Lake Worth
1987 Angles Gallery, LA