Biography
About
Larmon is a retired professor emeritus and Program Coordinator Art, Design, and Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York. He received a BFA from Harper College, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, and currently resides in upstate New York.
For over three decades, Kevin Larmon has received critical acclaim for creating paintings that lyrically explore the divide between abstraction and referential imagery. His work has been associated with the post-conceptualism and neo-conceptual art movements, which were prominent aspects of exhibitions of the early 80s East Village Gallery Nature Morte and with critics/curators Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo shaping the nature of painting after the rise of conceptual art. Larmon was also associated with Feature Inc., a gallery that was first established in Chicago in 1984, and eventually moved to New York City. His work is included in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin among others. He is the recipient of an Atlantic-Pacific Fellowship and a Pollack Krasner Foundation grant. Larmon retired from being an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator Art, Design, and Transmedia in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, New York in 2018. He received a BFA from Harper College, S.U.N.Y., Binghamton, and currently resides in upstate New York.
Solo Exhibitions
2021
West Kortright Center
Kortright NY
2020
“Art among the Goods"
Henry, Hudson NY
2018
“slipping in and out of phenomenom"
CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, Feb 24-April 7
2016
2 Person show with Lisa Beck "Where I End And You Begin"
CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, Nov 5-Dec 17
2008
Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY
2007
Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY
2005
Jason McCoy, Inc., New York, NY
2003
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY
2000
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1997
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1995
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
Rosefsky Gallery, Binghamton, New York
1994
State University of New York at Binghamton, New York
1993
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1992
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991
Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, New York
Galerie Montenay, Paris
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1989
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Berkeley University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1988
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1987
Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1985
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1984
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2022
"New Forms of Thought"
Curated by Peter Nagy
Nature Morte NY NY 2022, May 28-June 16
2021
“Sequences:Ode to Minor White”
Curated by Katherine Gass
Brattleboro Art Museum
2020
The Pursuit of Aesthetics
Artwork Created During Quarantine
A Virtual Exhibition, curated by Andrea Belag, Jun 18 – Sep 5
2017
CB1 Gallery “Hot summer in the City”
PS1 Stephen Harvey Fine Arts
2016
Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years after Infotainment
Elizabeth Dee Gallery Harlem, NY, Oct 29 - Dec 17
"PDF Object" Group Show
Mana Contemporary, Chicago May 2016
Dress the Form, Nancy Shaver Quilt Wall
Derek Eller Gallery NYC, June 2016
CB1 Gallery Summer Group Show, Los Angeles 2016
"Handmade" Apostrophe' S Gallery Syracuse NY Group Show
Andrew Havenhand, Ann Clarke, Tom Hall January 2016
2015
Nature Morte, May 2015
2014
Envoy Enterprises, New York
Hudson, October 2014
Point of Contact Gallery
Syracuse, NY
A Long History Cut Short, December through January
Syracuse University Faculty Show
Syracuse, NY
November through January
2013
Leslie Sacks Gallery Group Show, Los Angeles, CA
Other artists in the exhibition include Christo, Jim Dine, Pablo Picasso, Chuck Close, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Marino Marini, Henri Matisse, Karel Nel, Sam Francis, Helen Frankenthaler, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg, Sebastiao Salgado.
2010
Feature Inc, Tom of Finland and then some, New York, NY
Feature Inc, FREE show, New York, NY
Syracuse University Faculty show, Syracuse, NY
2009
Syracuse University Faculty show, Syracuse, NY
Florence Italy Faculty Show, Florence, Italy
2007
Feature Gallery ‘Thoughts’ Group Show, New York, NY
2006
Syracuse University Faculty Group Show, Syracuse, NY
2004
Team Gallery
2003
Fagginato Fine Arts London, UK
2002
Red Dot Group Show NYC
Curt Marcus Group Shows
2001
Curt Marcus Group Shows
2000
Curt Marcus Group Shows
1999
“The Cathedral Project: Liz Deschenes, Kevin Larmon, Donald Moffett,” Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1998
“Biomorphic Abstraction,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
1997
“It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art,” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix Arizona
1996
“The Baseball Show,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York (in collaboration with Craig Smyth)
“Peintures,” Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris
“Works on Paper,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1995
“It’s Only Rock and Roll,” Phoenix Art Museum, curated by David S. Rubin, traveling exhibition through August 1998 (catalogue)
“Group Exhibition,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“I Gaze A Gazely Stare,” Feature, New York
“Papiers Choisis,” Galerie Montenay, Paris
“Strung Into the Apollonian Dream,” Feature, New York
“In a Different Light,” University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (catalogue)
1994
“Contemporary Artists In New York,” Edobori Gallery, Osaka, Japan
“The Curator’s Egg,” Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
“Three From New York: Kevin Larmon, Michael Zwack, Peter Drake,” Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1993
“Timeless and Timely,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, curated by Douglas Maxwell (catalogue)
“Group Exhibition,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“Intimate Universe,” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York, curated by Michael Walls
1992
“28th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina (catalogue)
“Intimate Universe,” Michael Walls Gallery, New York
“Group Exhibition,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“Works On Paper,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
“How It Is,” Tony Shafrazi, New York
1991
“Group Show,” Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago
“New Work,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990
“Act Up Auction for Action,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“Innerst/Larmon,” Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis,Missouri
“Group Show,” Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1989
“300 Years of Still Life,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Nature Morte,” Galerie Montenay, Paris France
“Objects on the Edge,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York
“Art About Aids,” Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Pennsylvania, curated by David S. Rubin
“Selections from the Collection of Mark and Livia Strauss,” Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Galerie Georges Verney-Carron, Villeurbanne, France
1988
“Mark Innerst/Kevin Larmon/Michael Zwack,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Drawings,” Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Art at the End of the Social,” Rooseum, Stockholm, Sweden
“The Quality of Line,” The Forum, St. Louis, Missouri, Curated by James Schmidt
1987
“Still Life: Beyond Tradition,” Curated by Lisa Dennison, Visual Arts Museum, New York
“Between Abstraction & Reality,” Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
“Group Exhibition,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Head Sex,” Feature Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Drawn Out,” Kemper Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, curated by Andrea Belag
1986
“Modern Sleep,” curated by Collins & Milazzo, American Fine Arts Gallery, New York
“Group Exhibition,” Nature Morte Gallery, New York
“A Look at Painting,” R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York
“The Potent Image,” The Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey
Galerie Charles Cartwright, Paris
Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbour Island, Florida
“New New York,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
“Still Life/Life Still,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
“Aperto 86,” Venice Biennale, Corderie at the Arsenal, Venice, Italy
1985
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
“Infotainment,” traveling exhibition, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas; Rhona
Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Aspen Art Museum,Aspen, Colorado
“The Mystery Show,” Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New Jersey
“Final Love,” Cash/New House Gallery, New York, curated by Collins & Milazzo
“From Organism to Architecture,” curated by Ross Bleckner, New York
Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
“Smart Art,” Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, curated by Joseph Masheck
“Cult and Decorum,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York, curated by Collins & Milazzo
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1984
“Forced Sentiment,” Artists Space, New York, Zelermayer Gallery, Berlin, Germany, curated by RobertLongo
“Natural Genre,” Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, curated by Collins & Milazzo
“Still Life with Transaction,” International with Monument”, New York
1983
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1982
“Inaugural Exhibition,” Nature Morte Gallery, New York
“New Drawing in America,” Drawing Center, New York
1979
“Choices,” Drawing Center, New York
Bibliography
2015
Richard Milazzo review of Jeff Koons Hyperallergic
2014
Robert Gober MOMA Retrospective “The Heart is Not a Metaphor”(catalog)
2013
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2006
ARTLIFE, an essay by Lawrence Rinder
2004
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Artnet.com August
2000
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1999
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1998
Johnson, Ken “Biomorphic Abstraction,” New York Times, Friday December 11, 1998
1995
Rinder, Lawrence (essays by Blake, Naland and Scholder, Amy), In A Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, (exhibition catalogue), University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
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1993
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1991
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1989
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1988
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1987
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1986
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1985
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1984
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Collins, Tricia & Richard Milazzo,”Natural Genre,” catalog essay, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Falkon, Sylvia, “Kevin Larmon at Nature Morte,” The East Village Eye, June
Lichtenstein, Theresa, Arts Magazine, September
Moufarrege, Nicolas A., “East Village,” Flash Art, Summer
1983
“Painters and Writers,” Bomb Magazine, January
1982
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Kuspit, Donald, “New Drawing in America,” Artforum, April
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Awards
2004
Atlantic-Pacific Fellowship
1994
Pollack Krasner Foundation
Collections
Walker Arts Center Minneapolis, Minnesota
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.
McCrory Corporation Collection, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Progressive Corporation Collection, Cleveland
Prudential Insurance Company Collection, Newark, New Jersey