Scott Grieger (born 1946) is an American artist based in Los Angeles. He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles, California and received a B.F.A. from California State University, Northridge in 1971. His work has been exhibited internationally for over 40 years. He is a Professor and Program Director of Painting in the Fine Arts program at Otis College of Art and Design.[1]

Grieger began his career during the 1970s in Los Angeles. As Suzanne Lacy writes, "There was a distinct advantage to living in Southern California’s non mainstream venues during the seventies, where an experimental art grew up outside of critical scrutiny and commercial interests."[2] Among the artists working in Los Angeles during this period were: Paul McCarthy, Chris Burden, Martha Rosler, Allan Sekula, Alexis Smith. Grieger sees his work as challenging conventional wisdom and revealing hidden assumptions in both art and culture.[3]

Selected exhibitions

• "Scott Grieger: Unamerican Activities" at Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California, 2000.
• "Scott Grieger: Let Freedumb Ring" at Patricia Faure Gallery, 1998.
• "LA Current: The Canvas Is Paper" at UCLA Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, 1998.
• "Scott Grieger: Impersonations and Combinations 1968-1973" at Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
• "Recent Drawings" at Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1979
• "Scott Grieger: Paintings 1974-1977" at L.A. Louver Gallery in Venice, California

Selected articles and reviews

• Drohojowska Philip, Hunter."This Time, the Joke Is on Us," Los Angeles Times, Sunday Calendar, February 1, 1998.[4]
• Frank, Peter."Art Picks of the Week," LA Weekly, February 27-March 5, 1998, p. 149.
• Rubin, David S. "It's Only Rock'n Roll," exhibition catalogue, Prestel, Munich, New York, 1995.
• "Art About Art," Museum of Modern Art, exhibition catalogue, 1979.
• Clothier, Peter. "Magic of Possible:Five Los Angeles Painters," Artforum, vol. 15, no. 8, April 1977, pp. 28–30.

Collections

Grieger’s work is in the permanent collections the following museums: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Awards

In 2010,Grieger received a Distinguished Educator Award, Otis College and the LAX Coastal Area Chamber of Commerce. In 1984, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Mid-Career Artist Award.

Video interviews

• "Out of Thin Air @LAX Artist Talk with Scott Grieger!" [5]
• "The O-Files: Scott Grieger" [6]

References