Bio

EDUCATION:

1966 B. A., History, University of California, Santa Barbara

1970 MFA, Cornell University, New York

TEACHING:

1981-    Professor of Art, University of Southern California

PUBLIC WORKS, COMMISSIONS, AND COLLABORATIONS :

Relay, 1980, Santa Barbara College, Santa Barbara Arts Commission with a grant from the National Endowment Art in Public Places Program.

Tripoli, 1981, Pace Corporation Hotel grounds, Columbus, Ohio.

Untitled, 1983, ridge beam post, Hack residence, Monterey, New Hampshire.

1983, Commissioned by the California State Arts Commission along with Peter Shelton, Mark Lere and Lloyd Hamerol, with Barton Meyers, architect and Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect to design a museum promenade, Exposition Park, L.A., CA. 

1987, Finalist, Architect/Artist design team, Linear Park, Downtown San Diego.

1989, Finalist, Architect/Artist design team, Children’s Museum, Arts Park, Los Angeles.

Why Se Pac Art, 1989, eight permanent post structures, Security Pacific Art Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA, Fred Fisher, architect.

Syzygant, 1990, ridge beam post, Brownell house, Laguna Beach, CA.

Evolation, 1990, Carnation Co. Headquarters, Glendale, CA, set in park designed by Michael Davis, Jud Fine, artists and Richard Thomas, SWA landscape architects..

Politic,1990, central lobby, Doubletree Hotel, Pasadena.

A2+B2 = C2, 1991, two 75’ diagonal cable works, entrance, Colorado Place, Santa Monica.

Circuit, 1991, Pacific Enterprises, Ist Interstate Bank Building, Downtown Los Angeles.

1993, design team artist with Polshek and Partners, architects, Santa Barbara Bowl Master Plan.

Spine, l993, Los Angeles Central Library, Maguire Gardens, Los Angeles, California, Bertram Goodhue and Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates, architects, Lawrence Halprin, landscape architect.

1993, Artist consultant to the design team for the California Academy of Sciences Master Plan, San Francisco, CA.

1994, Finalist with Barbara McCarren, Memorial Park to Ernesto Galarza, San Jose, CA.

1995, Artist Consultant to the Design Team, Martha Schwartz, Inc., Boston, for the HUD Building Plaza re-design, Washington, D.C.

1995, Proposal finalist to design the Music plaza, library plaza and sculpture garden for Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA.

l995, Semi-finalist, Cleveland State Univ. 17th-18th Street Block Project, Cleveland, Ohio.

1996, Finalist in collaboration with Kennedy/Jenks, engineering, to design a Dry Weather Runoff Reclamation Facility to be located at the base of the pier, Santa Monica, CA.

1996, Finalist to design and execute the primary art plan for the new downtown campus of the University of Texas, San Antonio.

SCAN, 1996.  35’ dia. x 8’(H), text etched and in filled on stainless steel, lights, computer, stone. Employee entrance plaza Culver Studios Office Building, Culver City, CA, Cooper Robertson, architects, Campbell and Campbell, landscape architects.

The Midden and The Menhir, Puvungna Plaza, 1996.  18,000 sq. foot plaza design with incorporated art works referencing mythic and contemporary gathering spaces, Wilson Assoc., executive architect, Los Altos Market Center, Long Beach, CA.

1997, One of four artist selected to execute artworks at four historic mission sites along the Mission Trails Project, San Antonio, Texas.

1997, Selected with artist Barbara McCarren as Lead Artist to design, integrate and execute, in collaboration with RRM Design Group and Richard Best, architect, the art plan for the Venice Beach Ocean Front Walk Refurbishment Plan.

1998, Finalist, lead artist for the new Central Library, Nashville, TN

1998, Proposal finalist, artwork for the Sam Nunn Federal Center, Atlanta, Georgia

MARK, 1995-99.  33 midden distance markers defining, exampling and demonstrating the word “mark”.  Ventura River Trail, 6.5 mile, bike and hike park, lead artist with Curtis Stiles, landscape architect and Boyle Engineering, City of San Buenaventura, CA.

MAIZ, 1996-2000, César Chavez  Park, with Barbara McCarren.  A 23 acre interactive landscape, in collaboration with RJM, landscape Architects, Long Beach, CA.  .

Modestopo, 1998-2000, in collaboration with artist Barbara McCarren, 10th Street Place City/County Civic Plaza with integrated water feature, Modesto, CA.

Eureka, 2002 an integrated art plan for the lobby of the new Department of Education building (CAEE Project), Sacramento, CA.  Scott Johnson design architect, Greg Gidez, Fentress Bradburn, design/build architect.

Split Mound, 2002, in collaboration with artist Barbara McCarren, an integrated environmental art work for the San Francisco Zoo; San Francisco Arts Commission. 

Steve Winkle, Field Paoli, architect, Robert La Rocca, landscape architect.

Stone Tree Inverted Post Bound Water Light , 2003, 57th Avenue Metro Light Rail Station, Highland Park, Pasadena Blue Line.

Seven Spots and a Line, 2006, art landscape plan for the L.A. Metro Orange Line, 13 mile landscape plan for the San Fernando Valley alignment.

Waterline CED/PS #9, 2009, with Barbara McCarren, The Strand, Huntington Beach, CA.  CIM Group, Gensler, Architects, Paul Bettenhousen, landscape  architect.

Figure, 2015. McCarren/Fine, Rowland Heights Community Center, Integrated art plan for the plaza, Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

2017, McCarren/Fine conceptual design approved to finalize and construct the art plan for Shoreline Gateway Plaza, Long Beach, CA. Anderson Pacific, developer, carrier johnson + CULTURE, architects, RELM, landscape architects.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Allen Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles; Berkeley Museum of Art, University of California; Capital Group Foundation, Los Angeles; De Sassiet Museum, Santa Clara University, CA; Gas Company, Los Angeles; Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA; Lannan Foundation, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum Stuki, Lodz, Poland; New Mexico University, Las Cruces; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach; Pace Foundation, Washington; Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles; Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, CA; Power Art Institute, University of Sidney, Sidney, Australia; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Security Pacific Bank, Los Angeles; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; Washington University Art Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA

PUBLICATIONS:

Fine, Jud, (Nothing New), 1974, Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Fine, Jud, Or: An Introduction, 1974, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York and Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Fine, Jud, Discourse, 1974, self-published, Los Angeles.  Re-printed in Tracks: A Journal of Artists’ Writings, Volume 2, Number 2, Spring, 1976

Fine, Jud, Walk, 1976, self-published, Chicago

Fine, Jud, “Polynesian/Polyhedron”, for Revolutions, the Art Record, (LP record), 1981, Green Street Recording and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Fine, Jud, Red Green, 1988, in Jud Fine, l988, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Fine, Jud and Reese, Harry, Spine, 1993, Los Angeles Library Association, Los Angeles, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS :  (* denotes catalogue)

l972 Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Brand Art Center, Los Angeles

l973 Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

1974 Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis

Lucrezia de Domizio, Pescara, Italy

1975 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

The Ohio State University Art Museum, Columbus

Galerie Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium

Berenson Gallery, Miami, Florida

1976 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

1977 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago

* California State University, Fullerton

1978 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1979 College of Creative Studies Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1981 Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1982 Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Dart Gallery, Chicago

1983 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston

1984 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1985 A Physical Narration Without Plot, Installation Gallery, San Diego

* Jud Fine Ca. l985, Los Angeles Municipal Art Galleries, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles

1987 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

1988 * Jud Fine, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

1989 Jud Fine, De Sassiet Museum, Santa Clara, California

2005 Currency, McCarren/Fine (with Barbara McCarren), Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.

2016 * And/Or: McCarren/Fine, University Art Museum, Calif. State University, Long Beach.

2018 Box Storm: McCarren/Fine, Christine Nichols Project, Los Angeles, CA 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:  (* denotes catalogue)

1972 * Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany.

* Attitudes ‘72, Pasadena Museum of Modern Art, Pasadena, California.

5 L.A. Artists, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.

* Art Council Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles.

1973 The Wall Object, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California.

* 8th Biennale de Paris, Paris, France.

1974 Seven Sculptors – New Involvement with Materials, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston.

Images, Words, the New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio.

* 7lst American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

* Edinburgh Summer Art Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland.

1975 * Primitive Presence in the 70’s, Vassar College Art Gallery.

* Drawings – U.S.A., Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany.

* Word/Number Image, Sarah Lawrence College, New York, New York.

1976 * U.S.I.A. Traveling Exhibition, Japan and Asia.

* Drawing/Disegno, Cannaviello Studio d/Arte, Rome, Italy.

* Painting and Sculpture Today ‘76, Indianapolis Museum of Art.

1977 * View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.

* Words at Liberty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois.

* Cornell Then, Sculpture Now, Sculpture Now, Inc., New York, New York.

1978 * Three Sculptors, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.

1979 * California Hybrid, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, New York.

From Allan to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas.

* Aspects of Abstract, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.

1980 * Architectural Sculpture, Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Pasadena, California.

* Sculpture in California, 1975-1980, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. 

* Lewis Contemporary Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va. 

1981 * Messages, Words and Images; Traveling Exhibition, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Penn.

* Southern California Artists: 1940-1980, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA.

* Downtown Los Angeles, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, traveled to eight other institutions.

1982 * Sculpture Sacramento, City of Sacramento, California, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts. 

* 100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, California.

* Exchange Between Artists: An Experience for Museums, Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France; Museum Stuki, Lodzi, Poland; Museum of Contemporary Art, L.A., CA.

1983 * New Talent Awards – 20 Years, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, L.A., CA.

1984 * Art of the States, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.

* California Sculpture; Musee D’Art Contemporain de Bordeau, France; Stadtiche Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England; Sonja Henies og Niels Onstads. 

1985 Out of the Ooo Cloud – Artists Salute the Return of Halley’s Comet, Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, and Light Gallery, New York, New York.

1986 Voyages, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

* 1976 -1986: Ten Years of Collecting Contemporary American Art, Wellesley College Museum, 1987.

1987 * Prints by Los Angeles Artists, Yurakucho Asahi Gallery, Tokyo and Nishinomiya Civic Gallery, Osaka, Japan.

1988 Recent Acquisitions, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna, California.

1992 Artists’ Masks, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.

1994 Picasso to Christo; Evolution of a Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Selected Works From the Collection, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Summer

Selections From the Permanent Collection, Newport Harbor Art Museum, July 19 – Oct. 2.

1995 New Visions For Historic Neighborhoods – Environmental Design and Architectural Concepts For Northeast Los Angeles, Weingart Galleries, Occidental College, L.A.

1996 withdrawing, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, Jan. 13 – Feb. 17.

LACMTA Commissioned Artists, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles, Feb. 14 – April 7.

2002 *Thai-American Exchange Exhibition, Silpakorn University Art Center, Bangkok.

2004 *Pan Asian American Exhibition III, Hanoi University of Fine Arts, Vietnam.

2005 *WivesHusbands, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA.

2008 Thirty Years of Drawing, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY

2014 Starting Here, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, May

17 – August 10, 2014