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SELECTED PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2011 Arnett Hartsfield Bust, African American Firegihter Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Emerging First Man 12ft. bronze, Le Jardin Estates, Atlanta, GA
2005 Detroit Poet Laureate Naomi Long Madgett bronze life size bust Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
2000 Rosa Parks bronze portrait and three 12’ panels installation Rosa Parks Memorial Library,Troy State University, Montgomery, AL
SELECTED SPECIAL PROJECT COMMISSIONS
Rosa Parks Bust, bronze portrait, Smithsonian Institute National Portrait Gallery
Rosa Parks Congressional Medal of Honor Design, US Congress
Nelson Mandela Courage Award for TransAfrica Forum
Eugene McCabe and Randolph Guggenheimer,plaque/bas relief,North General Hospital
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 A Woman’s Journey, Retrospective ~ California African American Museum
2003 The Artwork of Artis Lane ~ M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 Emerging ~ G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 The Many Facets of Artis Lane ~ M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1997 Emerging Into Spirit ~ Satori Fine Art, Chicago, IL
1996 Emerging Spirit ~ Black Academy of Arts & Letters,Dallas,TX
1995 Emerging Into Spirit ~ Dilliard University, New Orleans, LA
1993 Emerging Into Spirit ~ Hammonds House Museum, Atlanta, GA
1993 Emerging Into Spirit ~ Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1993 Two Dimensions of Artis Lane ~ Pyramid Gallery, Little Rock, AK
1989 Images by Artis Lane ~ M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1989 Artis Lane ~ Isobel Neal Gallery Ltd., Chicago, IL
1987 The Soul of Artis Lane ~ G.R. N’Namdi Gallery, Detroit, MI
1984 Artis Lane: the Art ~ Brockman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Places of Validation, California African American Museum, Art & Progression, Los Angeles, CA
2010 CAAM’s 7th + Fig Showcase ~ arts>Brookfield, Los Angeles,CA
2009 Collaborations:Two Decades of African American Art ~ Hearne Fine Art, L.R, AK
2008 Daughters of the Diaspora ~ Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, AK
2007 The Art of Feminine Form ~ Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, AK
2007 In the Hands of African American Collectors ~ DuSable Museum, Chicago, IL
2006 Black Masters of the 21st Century II ~ 626 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Degas & New Mexico Sculptors Exploration in Bronze ~ Museum of Fine Arts New Mexico, NM
2005 15 Years 15 Artists ~ Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2004 White Linen Nights ~ Thelma Harris Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2003 Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective ~ M. Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 Just February: Works by African American Artists 1817-2002 ~ Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Prints by the Masters ~ M.Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 100 Executives ~ Joseph Bender Gallery, El Paso, TX
2001 Black and White ~ LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2001 Prints by the Masters ~ M.Hanks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 20th Century African American Icons, Series VI ~ Stella Jones Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 People, Places and Things ~ LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2000 From the States ~ National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
1997 Emerging Into Spirit ~ Royal Ontario Museum,Toronto, Canada
1996 Legends Artists’ Salute to Black History Month, Pasadena, CA
1996 Southwest ‘96 ~ Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
1995 Inside Visions/Outside the Mainstream ~ Horwitch Lew Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1994 African American Representations of Masculinity ~ Museum of African American Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Contemporary African American Artists, 1980-1994 ~ National Arts Club, New York, NY
1994 Figurative Sculpture/Representational Painting ~ Magulies-Taplin Galleries, Miami, FL
1993 An American Renaissance ~ Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1992 Santa Monica,Museum of Art, Santa Monica,CA
1989 American Resources, Selected Works of African American Artists ~ Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Affirmation ~ York Quay Gallery, Toronto, Canada
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Mr. & Mrs. Ted Arison, Carnival Cruise Lines
AT&T, Chicago, IL
Anheuser Busch
California African American Museum City of Albuquerque, New Mexico
Dilliard University, New Orleans, LA
Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin Holloway, Continental Cruise Lines
Howard University, Washington DC
Motown Records Corporation
National Portrait Gallery Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
National Council of Negro Women United Negro College Fund
Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood Weiser, Continental Companies
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Mr. & Mrs. Walter Annenberg
Ms. Maya Angelou
Mr. & Mrs. Clarence Avant
Ms. Diahann Carroll
President George & Barbara Bush
Ms. Natalie Cole
Kephra & Susan Taylor Burns
Mr. Don Cornelius
Mr. & Mrs. Bill Cosby
Miles Davis Family
Mrs. Nancy Davis
Mr. Morgan Freeman
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Getty
Mr. Cary Grant
Mr. Berry Gordy
Mr. & Mrs. Armand Hammer
Ms. Cathy Hughes
LaTonya & Samuel Jackson
Mr. Ervin Johnson
Mr. Quincy Jones
Mr. & Mrs. Michael Jordan
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kinsey
Mr. Henry Kissinger
Mr. Nelson Mandela
Mrs. Mattie McFadden-Lawson
Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Poitier
Mr. Lionel Richie
Mr. Steve Ross, Time Warner
Ms. Cicely Tyson
Oprah Winfrey
Mayor Coleman Young
Mr. & Mrs. James Worthy
SELECTED PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS: PAINTINGS
Mrs. Walter Annenberg
Barbara Bush
Dyan Cannon
Dr. Samuel Dubois Cook
Sammy Davis Jr.
Mrs. Henry Ford II
Aretha Franklin
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Getty
Mrs. George Getty II
Jennifer Grant
Dr. & Mrs. Armand Hammer
Audrey Hepburn
LaTonya & Samuel Jackson
Michael Jordan
President John F. Kennedy (for Frank Sinatra)
Mrs. Jaqueline Kennedy
Mr. & Mrs. Bernard Kinsey
Prof. Radford W. Logan
Mrs. Winnie Mandela and Mr. Nelson Mandela
Johnny Mathis
HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi
Mrs. Rosa Parks
Governor George Romney
Barbara Stanwyck
Mr. & Mrs. Sherwood Weiser
Prof. Charles H. Wesley
Oprah Winfrey
Mayor Coleman Young
SELECTED PORTRAIT COMMISSIONS: BRONZE
Stevie Wonder, Don Cornelius Productions, Los Angeles, CA
Lula Hardaway, Stevie Wonder (Stevie Wonder’s Mother), Los Angeles CA
Mary McLeod Bethune, National Council of Negro Women Building,Washington DC
Ms. Irene Dunne, St. John’s Hospital, Santa Monica, CA
Dr. Dorothy Height, National Council of Negro Women Offices, Washington DC
Ervin “Magic” Johnson, private collection, Beverly Hills, CA
Quincy Jones, private collection, Bel Air, CA
Dr. Lewis Latimer, AT&T Collection
Marian O’Fallon Oldham, Library, University of Missouri, St. Louis, MO
Rosa Parks, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
Dr. Frederick D. Patterson for the United Negro College Fund
Mayor Coleman Young, Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI
AWARDS
Luminary Award, "Light, Learning and Liberty," University of the West Indies, Toronto, Canada
Alain Locke International Art Award, Detroit Institute of Arts, Friends of African and African American Art, Detroit, Michigan
Life Time Achievement Award, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Dream of Los Angeles Award, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Torch Award, Legacy Ladies, Los Angeles CA
Women For Women Award, ML King Jr. General Hospital Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Legends Award, Artists’ Salute to Black History/Barbara Wesson, Pasadena, CA
Museum of African American Art Award, Los Angeles, CA
State of Louisiana Appreciation for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts, LA
Women of Excellence Award, Chatham-Kent Family YMCA, Ontario, Canada
Legacies Award, Black Students Alliance, Ontario College of Art & Design, Ontario, Canada
We See You Awards, Sisters at the Well, Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Cranbrook Art Academy, Bloomsfield, MI
University of Toronto,Toronto,
Canada Ontario College of Art, Ontario, Canada
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Kinsey Collection, KFA&E 2010
Distinctly Los Angeles, An African American Perspective, M. Hanks Gallery, M. Hanks Gallery Press 2009
COLLABORATIONS, Two Decades of African American Art 1988-2008, Hearne Fine Art, Blue Lotus Press, New York 2008
Studios and Workspaces of Black American Artists, Dennis L. Forbes, Forbes Press 2008
African American Art and Artists, Revised and Expanded Edition, Samella Lewis, University of California Press, 2003
Artis Lane Seeks The Divine, Women In The Arts, Jeanette Lee, National Museum of Women In The Arts, Fall 2000
Colleen Douglass, Artis Lane at M. Hanks Gallery, Our Times, Los Angeles Times, 2000
Marlena Donahue, Artis Lane, St. James Guide to Black Artists
Thomas Riggs, St. James Press, Detroit, 1997
Afrique Diaspora Noire Art Madagascar, Canada Revue Noir, June, 1997
Lindsay Davidson, Artis Lane Honored, Share Newspaper,Toronto, Canada, 1996
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RESUME SPECIAL PROJECTS & EVENTS
2012 Luminary Award, "Light, Learning and Liberty", University of the West Indies, Toronto Canada
2012 Alain Locke International Art Award, Alain Locke International Art Award
2011 The Art of Artis Lane, Solo Exhibition Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, CA
2009 First Lady, Michelle Obama, Unveiled Lane’s Bust of Sojourner Truth, sculpture installed in the United States Capitol
2009 Bust of Mary Ann Shadd Cary, an African Canadian/American heroine unveiled in Chatham, ON, Canada, installed in Freedom Park across the street from Lane’s childhood home
2009 President Barack Obama’s Sculpture unveiled by Mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa during African American Heritage Month
2008 Lane honored by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and City of Los Angeles with the Dream of Los Angeles Award
2007 A Woman’s Journey:The Life and Work of Artis Lane, Retrospective, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Awarded the Life Time Achievement Award by the California African American Museum