Born: 1964, Dearborn, Michigan. Lives and works itinerantly
Education:
1982 1988 B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2013 Cinema Studies: Selections from the Dwelling Archive, Galerie Steph Tham, Singapore
Selections from the Dwelling Archive, Galeria Duemila, Manila
2011 Charles LaBelle, Number One Gallery, Bangkok
Guilty, Saamlung, Hong Kong
2010 Corpus, MobArt at the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences, Hong Kongs
Charles LaBelle, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 Lines of Flight, Stage 1, Hong Kong
California Suite: Selected Works 1993 – 2009, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley
2008 Charles LaBelle, Para/Site Central, Hong Kong
Charles LaBelle, Maass Gallery, Purchase College, NY
Polis / Persona, Lawrimore Project, Seattle
2007 Fieldworks, Tony Wight, Chicago
Sugar Hill Suite, Anna Kustera, New York
Buildings Entered 1997-2007, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley CA
2006 Sugar Hill Suite, Tony Wight/Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago
2005 Columbus Suite, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus OH
2004 Miami Drift, Lemon Sky, Miami
Driftworks, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
2003 Intervals + Intensities, Ten in One Gallery, New York
2002 Darkness and Light, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
Holiday, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley
Dearborn, Roberts & Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Horror of Light, Pomona College Museum of Art, Pomona, CA (catalogue)
Sunset at Dawn, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus OH
2000 Illuminated Trees, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley
Disappearer, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1999 Night Moves, Lemon Sky, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998 Manifestation, Post Los Angeles
1997 Charles LaBelle, University of Texas, San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas
1995 Works on Paper, domestic setting, Los Angeles
1993 Colonies II, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
1992 Colonies, Philippe Briet Gallery, New York
SELECTED PROJECTS AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 The Collector, Uppsala Museum of Art, Uppsala Sweden
Huis Rotterdam, Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam
Color Theory, Sonoma Valley Art Museum, Sonoma CA
Do Not Destroy, Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
2011 Taking Time, Nou Gallery, Taipei
Size Matters, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
2010 Charles LaBelle and Scott Ingram, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
2009 Urban Alienation, Blue Lotus Gallery, Hong Kong
Of People and Places, Louisiana State University Museum of Art, Baton Rouge
2008 The Silver Shed, New York
to: Night; Hunter College Art Galleries, New York
Road Trip, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
Urbanity on Paper, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York
Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
2007 What a Beautiful Space You Have, Claremont College Museum of Art, Riverside, CA
The Uncertainty Principle, Northern Illinois University Museum, Dekalb IL
2006 Local Transit, Artist’s Space, New York
2005 In the Neighborhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 In Focus: Themes in Contemporary Photography, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo
Rimbaud (curated by Max Henry), I-20 Gallery, New York
Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute (traveled, catalogue)
2003 I am a curator, Chisenhale Gallery, London
Justine LaCroix, Marseille
2002 Cut, Colored, Pulled and Burnt, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art (curated by Francis Colpitt), ArtPace and University of Texas, San Antonio (travelled, catalogue)
Liminal Spaces, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
2001 ... a preacher and a bible..., Galerie La Friche, Marseilles, France
In Through the Outdoors, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Wattage & Friendship, Muller-DiChiara Gallery, Berlin
In the City (Curated by Lorelei Stewart), Gallery 400, Chicago
Travelogue, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
2000 Under the Influence: New Art from LA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter, Sala Diaz, San Antonio
Cleaning Up, University of Southern California Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Utopia, Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway (catalogue)
Night Moves, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
1999 Venus, Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna
The Mourning After, Barnsdale Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1998 Some Related Areas (curated by Brad Spence), Art Gallery, University of California Irvine
Wings of Desire,Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
1997 CA 9001-185, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1996 True Bliss, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (catalogue)
1995 Its Only Rock 'n Roll (curated by David Rubin), Contemporary Arts Center,Cincinnati, Ohio (catalogue, traveled)
Rezone, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
1994 Let the Artist Live, Exit Art/The First World, New York
For Your Pleasure......, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica
Altered Egos , Santa Monica Museum of Art (catalogue)
Mapping (curated by Frances Colpitt), University of Texas, San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio (catalogue, traveled)
Le Temps d'un Dessin, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France (catalogue, traveled)
1993 Poverty Pop, Exit Art/The First World, New York
1992 In Flux, Gallery 400, Chicago
Evidently, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
Fever, Exit Art/The First World, New York (traveled)
A/C Project Room, New York
Crusoe (Refiguring Reality), Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York
GRANTS, AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS:
2007 MacDowell Colony Fellow
2006 Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Swing Space Grant
2003 Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study and Conference Center Fellow
Triangle France/ La Friche de la Belle de Mai Residency, Marseilles, France
Los Angeles Metropolitian Transit Authority Project Award
2000 Getty Trust Fellowship
1995 Art Matters Fellowship
