solo exhibitions
2021 paper & bronze (with Byron Ryono) • Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2020 Insignificance • Stewart Gallery, Boise, ID
2015 Resonance (with Alison Keogh) • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Turangalila • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Affinities (with Olga Seem) • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 The Milky Way • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Introspective Accretions • Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA
2008 Morphology • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Maritta Tapanainen (with Patrick Percy) • Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2007 From There to Here 1992–2007 • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Collages • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Natural Connection • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Maritta Tapanainen • Gallery Miyabi, Nagoya, Japan
2002 Maritta Tapanainen • Gallery Naufu, Gifu City, Japan
2000 Collages • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 Subtle Differences • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
group exhibitions, publications, and reviews
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 NOCTURNAL • Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2022 Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, CA
2022 curated by Joey Lehman Morris
2021 She Too! A Curated Collection of Art by Women • Denenberg Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 no rhyme or reason • Jack Fischer Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Supernature • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2015 The Tiny Picture Show • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2015 Vices Peculiar to These Eclectics: Contemporary Collage • Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Queens, NY
2015 Intricate Expanse • Lesley Heller Workspace, New York, NY • curated by Mario Naves
2014 Select Cuts & Alterations • Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Present Art XV • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Women and Collage • ADAA The Art Show, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
2013 Remix • Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2013 Some Like It Hot • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Remix • Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2012 Disparate Roots: Contemporary Collage • Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2012 Remix • The Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2012 I’ll Take You There: The Constructed Landscape • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center • Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA • touring exhibition,
2011 curated by Rachael Lawe and Pavel Zoubok
2011 Borders and Frontiers: Globalization, Temporality and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image • Oakland University Art Gallery,
2008 Rochester, MI
2011 Paper Works • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Pop Goes the World • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2015 New Works: Prints, Drawings, Collages • Clementine Haas Michel Brown Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2015 Conversaciones/Conversations • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Collage, London / New York • Fred [London] Ltd, UK • Co-curated with Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York
2009 Daughters of the Revolution—Women and Collage • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Insight/Inside LA • José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Gracias a la Vida • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 The Culture of Collage • Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA
2008 Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art • John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2008 Emphasis Santa Monica • Susan and Pete Barrett Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 1968/2008: The Culture of Collage • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Alchemy—Collage and Assemblage • 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
2007 Bits and Pieces: The Collage Impulse • Lehman College, Bronx, NY
2007 In Context: Collage + Abstraction • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Picking Up the Pieces • William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2006 The New Collage • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Cross Culture • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Intimate Revelation • Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR • curated by Josine Ianco Starrels
2006 Introspection • Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Collage • Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2005 COLLAGE Signs and Surfaces • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Mindscape • Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Contemplation • LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM • curated by Katherine Chang Liu
2001 By Nature’s Design • William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA
2000 . . . age • Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Abstraction • Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 Maritta Tapanainen, Echiko Ohira, Nancy Uyemura • LA Artcore, Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
1999 Kindred Spirits • Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA • curated by Josine Ianco Starrels
1997 Around Us—Recent Landscapes • José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, CA
1997 California Visions • Gallery Naito, Nagoya, Japan
1995 Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century • Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA • in collaboration with Peter Frank
1995 P.L.A.N. : Photography Los Angeles Now • Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Cups • Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 The Sticking Place—Space and Image in Contemporary Collage • Fine Arts Gallery, Long Beach City College, Long Beach, CA •
1992 curated by Peter Frank
1991 Collage—Montage • Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Expectations • Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sales and Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Accretions: Collage and Assemblage • Space Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Awards
2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2004 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Publications | Reviews
2021 West Marin Review—Prose, Poetry, Art - Vol. 10, 2021
2019 Posit—A Journal of Literature & Art - positjournal.com - Vol. 21, 2019
2015 Leah Ollman, Two artists’ work at Couturier Gallery negotiate chance and control – Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2015 • review
2015 Vices Peculiar to These Eclectics: Contemporary Collage, Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog
2012 Remix: Selections from the ICC, International Collage Center • exhibition catalog
2011 David Wallace-Wells, Pavel Zoubok on Collage - curator of our spring portfolio - the PARIS REVIEW, Spring 2011, No. 196
2011 Borders and Frontiers: Globalization, Temporality and Appropriation in the Contemporary Image, OUAG, MI • exhibition catalog
2011 Margarita Nieto, PAPER WORKS ArtScene Feb 2011 • review
2009 Daughters of the Revolution—Women and Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog
2009 Insight/Inside LA, José Drudis-Biada Art Gallery, Mount St. Mary’s College, CA • exhibition catalog
2008 Messages and Magic: Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, WI • exhibition catalog
2008 The Culture of Collage, Zoller Gallery, PA • exhibition catalog
2008 Emphasis Santa Monica, Susan and Pete Barrett Gallery, CA • exhibition catalog
2008 Maritta Tapanainen—Morphology, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog, essay by Peter Frank
2007 In Context: Collage + Abstraction, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog
2007 Maritta Tapanainen—From There to Here, Couturier Gallery, CA • exhibition catalog, essay by Stuart Denenberg
2007 Benjamin Genocchio, Collages Go to College, And Behave Accordingly - The New York Times, Dec. 16, 2007 • review
2007 Peter Frank, Art Pick of the Week, Three Hits of Ecstacy - LA Weekly, May 24, 2007 • review
2007 Matthew Wilder, Critics Pick: Maritta Tapanainen - Art Forum, May 10, 2007 • review
2007 Leah Ollman, Piecing Together this Thing Called Life - Los Angeles Times, May 4, 2007 • review
2006 Picking Up the Pieces, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, CA • exhibition catalog
2006 The New Collage, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog
2005 COLLAGE Signs and Surfaces, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, NY • exhibition catalog
2002 Leah Ollman, The World Evolves in Vibrant Collages - Los Angeles Times, May 3, 2002 • review
2000 Leah Ollman, Promising New World: Maritta Tapanainen - Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 2000 • review
2001 By Nature’s Design, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, CA • exhibition catalog
1995 P.L.A.N. : Photography Los Angeles Now, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA • exhibition catalog
show cards