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Biography - Italo Scanga

Born

1932 Lago (Calabria), Italy. Lived and worked in La Jolla, CA. Deceased August 2001.

Education

1961 M.A in Sculpture from Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2004 Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
Les Yeux du Monde, Charlottesville, VA 2005 Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA
2003 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, New York, NY
Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992 Helander, New York, NY
1989 Germans van Eck, New York, NY
Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
1988 “Memories & Poetics, Fourteen Stations, Troubled World”, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1987 “Italo Scanga Sculpture”, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
“Busts”, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Delahunty Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI
The Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
1981 “Fears, Saints, Tools”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 “Fear”s, Travor Sutton Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Drawings, Sculptures, Fears”, The Boathouse, Providence, RI
1980 Frank Kolbert Gallery, New York, NY
1978 The Clocktower Gallery, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY
Gallery 529, Toronto, Canada
1977 “Saints, Lamentations, Limitations”, Alessandra Gallery, New York, NY
1975 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Alessandra Gallery, New York, NY
1973 “Containers, Smells, Drawings”, The Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
“Saints Glass”, 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY
1972 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1971 Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Emily Dickinson: A Performance”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
1970 “The Concerto Landscape of a Rate and Precious Soul”, Woods‑Gerry Gallery, R.I.S.D, Providence, RI
Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Saints, Glass, Tools, Romance”, Atelier Chapman Kelly, Dallas, TX
1969 “Sculpture, Drawings: Scanga at Baylor”, Baylor Art Gallery, Baylor University, Waco, TX

Group Exhibitions

2006 Galleria Civica, Potenza, Italy, “Visionari Primitivi Eccentrici”
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, “Southern Exposure”
The RISD Museum, Providence, RI, “Export/Import: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art”
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI, “Reflections: RISD Painting and Sculpture Show”
2005 Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA, “Taking Shape: Pilchuck Glass School in the 70’s”
2004 Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA, “DNA/ART Two Generations”
2003 Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, “Turning Corners”
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI, “20 Years”
2002 Flanders Graphics, Minneapolis, MN, “Prints from Shark’s Ink”
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, “Dale Chihuly Italo Scanga: Brother to Brother”
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, “A Good Impression: 100 years of Printmaking in San Diego”
University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, “Object/Concept”
Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, RI, “Italo Scanga & Dale Chihuly”
Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, “Some Assembly Required”
2001 Carlsbad Sculpture Garden, Carlsbad, CA, “Animal Whimsy: A Wildlife Garden”
Flux Gallery, San Diego, CA, “Glass: An Exhibition of Glass Art Collaborations”
The Educational Alliance, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, “Fresh/Fresco: Contemporary Fresco Painting”
Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York, NY, “New Works: Ernest Silva, Italo Scanga”
Mingei International Museum, San Diego, CA, “Venini Glass Show”
1998 University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, “VisAlchemical”
The New York Armory Building, New York, NY, “SOFA”
The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, “Smith Andersen & the Art of Collaborative Printmaking”
University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA, “Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press”
1997 Bayly Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA, “Raw Vision, Raw World”
UCSD University Gallery, La Jolla, CA, “UCSD Visual Arts 30th Anniversary Faculty Exhibition”
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, “Thirty-five Years at Crown Point Press”
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, “Recent Glass Sculpture: A Union of Ideas”
Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, “West Coast Painting & Sculpture, 1997”
1994 “New Sculpture and small ‘Label’ Drawings from the 1960’s/1970’s”, Larry Becker Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 “Cruciformed: Images of the Cross Since 1980”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Western Washington University, Bellingham, OH; MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
1987 “Memento Mori”, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
“Bust Show”, Betsy Rosenfield, Chicago, IL
“The Fabric Workshop: A Decade of Pattern”, The University Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Prints at Promenade”, Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1986 “The Garner Tullis Workshop Monotypes”, Acme Art, San Francisco, CA
1984 “Artist’s Materials: Fabrics Designed by Artists”, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale‑On‑Hudson, NY
1982 “The Figure”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
“The Anxious Edge”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1981 Wave Hill Sculpture Garden, Bronx, NY
“Italians, American/Italians”, Crown Point Press Gallery, Oakland, CA
“Americans in Glass 1981”, Cooper‑Hewitt Art Museum, New York, NY
“The Figure”, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
“This Side of Paradise”, Concord Gallery, New York, NY
1980 “Sculpture 1980”, Stefanotti Gallery, New York, NY
“Masks, Tents, Vessels, Talismans”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1979 “Four in San Diego”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, CA
“Material Pleasures/The Fabric Workshop at ICA”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1978 “Despair (Five Artists),” Hallwalls, The Albright‑Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY
“Twelve Glass Artists”, The New York Experimental Glass Workshop, NY
“Contemporary Drawings: Philadelphia I”, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Salon stellt Vor”, Museum Folwang, Essen, Germany
1977 “Carpenter, Chihuly, Scanga”, The Seattle Museum of Art, WA
1976 “Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
“Artists’ Sketchbooks”, Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1975 “James Carpenter, Italo Scanga, Duff Schweininger, Willoughby Sharp, Miles Varner”, Brown Univerisity, Providence, RI
“Narrative Art”, Guelph University, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
“Half a Dozen Philadelphia Artists”, The Vick Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1974 “Narrative II”, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
“Artists Make Toys”, The Clocktower Gallery, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY
1973 “Made in Philadelphia”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Story”, John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
“Drawings and Prints”, The Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
1972 “Water Show – Invited by Yoko Ono”, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
“Projects Pier 18”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Hallway Show”, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1971 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY
“Biennial”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Untitled II”, Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“New Art as Art History”, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Six Sculptors, Extended Structures”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Depth and Presence”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1970 Sculpture Annual, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

Public Collections

Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
The Fogg Museum, Boston, MA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Milwaukee Art Center, WI
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Wright Art Center, Beloit, WI