Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 47 |
| France | 3 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Franklin Parrasch Gallery, USA |
3 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1934 Born in Dodge City, KS (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 55 
Solo shows 8
2007
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| Im(press)ions - Edward Cella Art+Architecture, Los Angeles, CA |
2005
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| Billy Al Bengston - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
1988
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| Billy Al Bengston: Paintings of Three Decades - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1981
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| Billy Al Bengston - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1978
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| Recent Works by Billy Al Bengston - Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
1973
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| Billy Al Bengston Watercolors - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1969
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| Billy Al Bengston - Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT |
1968
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| Motel Dracula: Billy Al Bengston Lithographs - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 47
2013
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| The Permanent Collection - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
2012
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| Pacific Standard Time - Kunst in Los Angeles 1950–1980 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Est–3: Southern California In New York - Los Angeles Art From The Beth Rudin Dewoody Collection - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Ed´s Party - William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| The Postwar Era: From the Collection, 1945-1980 - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
2011
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| Civic Virtue: - Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA |
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| Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Southern California Painting: 1970s Painting Per Se - David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Venice in Venice - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Softcore Hard Edge - The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, AB |
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| Frank Gehry Selects - Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Wall to Wall - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Some (Old School) South Coast Guys - Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 - 2008 (Part I) - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Hot Spots - Rio de Janeiro / Milano - Torino / Los Angeles - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
2008
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| Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Summer Cool - Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Group Show: Thinking about Walter Hopps - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
2007
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, une exposition - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2006
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| Los Angeles 1955-1985 The birth of an art capital - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| California Modern - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
2005
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| Pink - Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA |
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| West! Frank Gehry and the Artists of Venice Beach, 1962-1978 - Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Wilder a tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979 - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| L’artiste éditeur - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| The LA That Influenced My Eye - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Group Show - Western Project, Culver City, CA |
2003
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| L.A.´s Finisch Fetish - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2002
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| Ferus - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Pay Attention…I Hope You Learned Your Lesson - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Pop Art: U.S./U.K. Connections, 1956-1966 - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
1999
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| SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: THE 1960S - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
1992
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| Contemporary Art from the Marcia Simon Weisman Collection - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
1990
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
1989
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| L.A. Pop in the Sixties - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
1982
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| The Americans: The Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1972
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| California Prints - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1967
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| 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1963
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| American Painting and Sculpture 66th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Dealer Directory 2 |
USA
| | Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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Collections 10

USA
| | Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, Claremont, CA
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| | Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
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| | Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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| | Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
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| | Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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