LORI NIELSON
626-347-7711
lori.k.nielson@gmail.com
EDUCATION
1980-1982
Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California-M.F.A.
Teaching Assistantship, Scrips College, Claremont, California
Fellowship Award, Claremont Graduate School
1976-1980
Herron School of Art + Design, Indiana University Indianapolis, Indiana - B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Dark Depths, The Arroyo Arts Collective Blue Wall Alcove, Avenue 50 Studio Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019 - Tornado Paintings: Art Wall, The Designory, Inc, Long Beach, CA Curator: Mauricio Machuca
1984 - Painting Dichotomies, Design Matrix, Santa Ana, CA
1983 - Recent Paintings, Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont, CA
1982 - Paintings, East Gallery, Claremont Graduate School, CA
1981 - Barriers, Salathe Gallery, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026
2026 Abstract National Exhibition, Deuce - 1st Place Award, Mark Arts, Wichita, Kansas - Juror: Joan Fullerton
2025
Ada Pullini Brown and Friends, Fall 2025 Brewery Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA
Celebrate! Abstract Art, SCWCA at Bevery Hills Art Show (BHAS), Beverly Hills, California
Telephone: Whispering a Message Among Art Forms, worldwide online art game based on the children’s game “Telephone.” URL: Telephonegame.art
Heads 2025, Art Division at the Laguna College of Art and Design Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA - Curators: Luis Serrano and Dan McCleary
2024
Open Call: All Media 2024, Studio Channel Island, Camarillo, CA Juror - Mika Cho
Heads, Art Division Gallery, Los Angeles, CA - Curators: Luis Serrano and Dan McCleary
23/ME, Coastline Art Gallery, Coastline College, Newport Beach, CA - Curator David Lee
2023
Open Call: Apophenia, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, CA
2010
2010 Los Angeles Juried Exhibition, LAMAG, Los Angles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jurors - Franklin Sirmans, Ali Subotnick
For Roland, Claremont Graduate University Art Alumni Exhibition, Bunny Gunner Gallery, Pomona, CA
1996
So. Where’s The Car, The Designory, Inc, Long Beach, CA
Get Back: A Claremont Graduate School Exhibition, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Saga Introductions, The Brewery Artist Lofts, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Dawn Arrowsmith
1987
Small Packages, Design Center of Los Angeles Theatre Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Image/Ambiguity, The Transamerica Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Drawing/Painting: 8 Artists From 5 Schools of Art, Mount San Antonio College Art Gallery, Walnut CA
13 Nimbus, Design Center of Los Angeles Theatre Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Two, Chrysalis Gallery, Claremont California
Holiday Show, Ibis Fine Arts, Ltd, Los Angeles, CA
1983
Color And Constructivism, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1982
35 x 35, Riverside Art Center and Museum, Riverside, CA
1308 Factory Place, Los Angeles, CA
EXHIBITION REVIEWS
Small Is Beautiful, Los Angeles Times, “Editorials of the Times” Monday January 2, 1995, page B14
Muchnic, Suzanne, "This is Constructivism?", Los Angeles Times (Monday, January 31, 1983 part VI page l)
COLLECTIONS (Private/Public)
Ada Pullini Brown, Alhambra, CA
Design Matrix, Santa Ana, California
Ellen Akins, Corona Del Mar, California
Catherine Metzger, Bloomington, Indiana
Brad Luther, Indianapolis, Indiana
Hyatt Regency Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey
Dennis Garcia and Laura Brouse, Claremont, California
Pomona College, Claremont, California