Biography |
| 1941 | Born in Long Beach, California |
| 1960 | California State University, Long Beach |
| 1963 | Los Angeles College of Art & Design |
| 1964 | Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, receives BFA; MFA 1967 |
| 1968 | Receives Young Talent Grant, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles |
| 1968 | Instructor Minneapolis College of Art & Design |
| 1973 | Teaches Advanced Sculpture, Princeton University |
| 1974 | Receives Guggenheim Fellowship for Sculpture |
| 1976 | Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship |
| Teaches graduate sculpture at Yale University |
| 2000 | Finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| Lives and works in New York City. |
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Selected Solo Exhibitions |
| 2009 | Sculptures and Drawings 1966 – 2009 (Part 1), Nolan Judin, Berlin |
| Hands, Handles, Blades: Cleaver Configurations 1969-2009, Mary Boone Gallery, New York |
| Munich Diary – African Sketchbook, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 2008 | Voltage, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| Dwight Hackett Projects, Santa Fe |
| 2007 | Double Join, Metropol Kunstraum, Munich |
| 2006 | Zeichnungen und Collagen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporanea, Porto |
| Mary Boone Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Mary Boone Gallery (in cooperation with David Nolan), New York |
| Drawings and Sculpture, Danese Gallery, New York |
| 9g-Wagner Diagrams, ICA Variations, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Accumulated Vision, ICA Philadelphia |
| 2003 | A Survey of Drawings 1966-2003 and Two New Sculptures, Galerie Judin, Zurich |
| Scrapbooks: Books to Drawings 1998-2003, Cabinet des estampes du Musée dʼart et dʼhistoire, Geneva |
| Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 2002 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 2001 | Texas Gallery, Houston |
| Black on Blue, Danese Gallery, New York |
| Recent Drawings/Early Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Drawings 1966-2000, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 2000 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| Nelly Aman Gallery, Tel Aviv |
| 1999 | Diagrammatic Silhouettes: Large Scale Drawings from 1987, Danese Gallery, New York |
| Catalogued Confined, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco |
| Malmö Konsthall, Sweden |
| Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles |
| 1998 | Smatterings: Works on Paper 1967-1998, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Staatliche-Kunstsammlungen, Dresden |
| Zeichnungen, Keramische Werkstatt Margaretenhöhe, Essen |
| 1997 | Diagrams of Thought, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Danese Gallery, New York |
| 1996 | Galerie Zell-am-See, Austria |
| Bunker Coagulations, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| Sculpture and Drawings, Galerie Georges-Philippe and Natalie Vallois, Paris |
| 1995 | Barry Le Va: Pages from a Sketchbook - Japanese Lacquerware, |
| Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1994 | Barry Le Va: Zeichnungen 1965-1993, Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Munich |
| Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany |
| 1993 | Barry Le Va: Collage and Drawing 1988-1993, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris |
| 1992 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 1991 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1990 | The Texas Variations, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 1989 | Woodblock Prints and Related Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| Sculpture, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Glass, Bullets, Cleavers, 1968-1970, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
| Sculpture, Texas Gallery, Houston |
| 1988 | Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Barry Le Va 1966-88, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery; Newport Harbor Art Museum; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, New York |
| 1987 | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 1986 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1985 | Texas Gallery, Houston |
| 1983 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | P.S. 1, Long Island City |
| Beaver College, Beaver |
| Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto |
| Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco |
| 1981 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| The New Gallery, Cleveland |
| 1980 | Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England |
| Michelle Lachowsky, Brussels |
| Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| Otis Art Institute, Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles |
| 1979 | New Museum, New York |
| Hartnell College Gallery, Salinas |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1978 | Texas Gallery, Houston |
| Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | Wright State University, Dayton |
| 1976 | Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| Sonnabend Gallery, Paris |
| Texas Galley, Houston |
| Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1975 | Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco |
| Claire Copley Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Bykert Gallery, New York |
| Espace 5, Montreal |
| Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada |
| 1974 | Texas Gallery, Houston |
| Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, Hartford |
| Bykert Gallery, New York |
| Toselli Gallery, Milan |
| 1973 | Felix Handshin Gallery, Basel |
| Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| Zwirner Gallery, Cologne |
| Bykert Gallery, New York |
| 1972 | Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| Bykert Gallery, New York |
| Ursula Wevers Gallery Projection, Cologne |
| 1971 | Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London |
| University of Utrecht, The Netherlands |
| 1970 | Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| 1969 | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis |
| Ohio State University, Columbus |
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Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 2009 | Sites, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 2008 | Before and After Science, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York |
| Collage Effect, 1301 PE Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Drawing Through It, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Otis: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles |
| Beuys and Le Va: Compare and Contrast, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Moved, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York |
| Symmetries, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York |
| 2002 | Phenomenal Bodies, Drammens Museum, Drammen |
| From Pop to Now, Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus |
| Five Sculptors Drawings: Drawings from the Seventies, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | After Image: Drawing Through Process, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| Circa 1968, Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal |
| Walking, Danese Gallery, New York |
| Barry Le Va, Kirsten Ortwed, Lawrence Weiner, Malmö Konsthall, Sweden |
| Drawings from the Sixties: Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Keith Sonnier, Richard Tuttle, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York |
| 1998 | Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir, Danese Gallery, New York |
| Summer Group Show, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 1997 | Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Laying Low, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
| 1995 | 1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Drawings from a Private Collection, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| Attitudes/Sculptures 1963-1972, CAPC Musee dʼArt Contemporain, Bordeaux |
| 1994 | Painterly Thought, Raab Galerie, Berlin |
| 1993 | European and American Drawings 1961-1969, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 1992 | American Art: 1930-1970, Lingotto, Torino |
| The New Museum Auction: 15th Anniversary Benefit Auction, New York |
| 1991 | New Editions, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London |
| Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Barry Le Va, Terry Winters, Galerie Faust, Geneva |
| Immaterial/Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza Equitable Center, Phillip Morris, New York, |
| A View from the Sixties: Selections from the Leo Castelli Collection and the Michael and Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York |
| 1990 | The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| Concept-Decoratif: Anti-formalist Art of the 70's, Nahan Contemporary, New York |
| Conceptual Art, Conceptual Forms, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris |
| Galerie Faust, Geneva, (with Mel Bochner, Carroll Dunham, Terry Winters) |
| Grounded: Sculpture on the Floor, The University of Michigan, Museum of Art, Ann Arbor |
| Geometric Abstraction, Greene Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands |
| Between Geometry and the Gesture, Galerie Georges-Philippe Vallois, Paris, |
| 1989 | Works on Paper, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles |
| A Decade of American Drawing: 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles |
| New Works by Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Sonnabend Collection, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Musée d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trent, Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto; Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffman Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| Recent American Prints, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 1987 | 1967: At the Crossroads, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
| Drawings, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore |
| Points of Contact, Laurie Ruben Gallery, New York |
| Knoebel, Le Va, Nauman, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| Drawings from the Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh |
| Early Concepts from the Last Decade, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York |
| Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield |
| Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York |
| 1986 | American Eccentric Abstraction, Blum Helman Gallery, New York |
| Art from Two Continents, Bruce Helander Gallery, Palm Beach |
| Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-75, Palacio De Velazquez Parque Del Retiro, Madrid |
| Europe/America, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 1985 | Margaret Roeder Gallery, New York University, New York |
| 1984 | Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Large Drawings, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown |
| Minding Measure: Measuring Mind, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York |
| Large Drawings: Le Va, Morris, Nauman, Serra, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago |
| 1983 | Object, Structure, Artifice, University of South Florida Art Galleries, Tampa, |
| Language, Drama, Source & Vision, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| Sculptor as Draftsman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Drawing Conclusions, A Survey of American Drawings 1958 to 1983, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles & San Francisco |
| Shift, Neuberger Museum, Purchase |
| Varieties of Sculptural Ideas, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York |
| Young Talent Awards, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles |
| 1982 | Documenta (7), Kassel |
| Prints by Contemporary Sculptors, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven |
| Abstract Drawings 1911-1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Great Big Drawings, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge |
| Beyond Measurement, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln |
| Shift LA-NY, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach |
| 20th Century Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1981 | Working Drawings, Hunter College, New York |
| Drawing Distinctions: Tendencies in American Drawings of the Seventies, Louisiana Museum, Humlebæk; Kunsthalle Basel; Städtische Galerie, Lenbachhaus, Munich |
| Variants: Drawings by Sculptors, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston |
| Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings, Elise Meyer Gallery, New York |
| New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield |
| Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Contemporary Drawings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York |
| Drawing Acquisition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1980 | Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh |
| Reasoned Space, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon |
| Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy ICA, Philadelphia |
| Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Ed Thorpe Gallery, New York |
| 1979 | Drawings About Drawing Today, The William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill |
| Traditions in Minimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield |
| 1978 | Summer Group Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| Installation, Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa |
| New York Now, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| Contemporary Drawing New York, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara |
| Documenta (6), Kassel |
| 1977 | Andre, Le Va, Long, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D,C, 1977 | |
| Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Drawings (Barry Le Va, Sol Lewitt), Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco |
| Installations (Andrea Blum Freya Hansell, Barry Le Va), The Renaissance Society, Chicago |
| 3 Installations (Vito Acconci, Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va), Sonnabend Gallery, New York |
| 1976 | Renaissance Society, Chicago |
| Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham |
| Group Exhibition, Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Rene Block Gallery, Berlin |
| Line, Visual Arts Museum, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia |
| 1975 | Mel Bochner, Barry Le Va, Dorothea Rockburne, Richard Tuttle, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati |
| Fourteen Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore |
| U,S,A, Drawings III, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, |
| 1974 | 71st American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago |
| Drawings: 70's, Hartford Art School, Hartford |
| 1973 | Options and Alternatives, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven |
| American Drawings 1963-73, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Drawings, Bykert Gallery, New York |
| 1972 | Documenta (5), Kassel, Germany |
| 1971 | American Drawings, Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany |
| Whitney Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| Seven Artists, 7 Works, Ricke Gallery, Cologne |
| Prospect, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf |
| 1970 | 955,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada |
| Art in the Mind, Allen Art Museum, Oberlin |
| Projections, La Jolla Museum of Art, San Diego |
| Nine Artists, Nine Spaces, Minnesota State Arts Council, Minneapolis |
| Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1969 | Conception-Perception, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco |
| Appearing-Disappearing Object, Newport Center of Arts, Balboa |
| Anti-Illusion: Procedure and Materials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 557,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle |
| 1968 | 2 Painters, 1 Sculptor, California State College, Los Angeles |
| 1967 | Lytton Center of Visual Arts, Los Angeles |
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Publications |
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Monographs And Catalogues |
| 2005 | Ingrid Schaffner, Rhea Anastas, Pamela M, Lee, and Paul Virilio, Accumulated Vision, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. |
| Barry Le Va, Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks, 1969-2003, Rotterdam: Distributed Art Pub Inc. |
| 2000 | Klaus Kertess, The Hugo Boss Prize, New York: Guggenheim Museum. |
| 1997 | Asmund Thorkildsen and Kunstnernes Hus, Laying Low, Oslo: Kunstnernes Hus. |
| 1995 | Attitudes/Sculptures: Barry Le Va, Bordeaux: CAPC Musee dʼ Art Contemporary de Bordeaux. |
| Jonathan Fineberg, Art Since 1940 - Strategies of Being. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. |
| Klaus Kertess, et all., 1995 Whitney Biennial, New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, Harry N. Abrams Inc. |
| 1994 | Barry Le Va, Munich Diary: African Sketchbook, Rotterdam: Distributed Art Pub Inc. |
| 1992 | Kunst werkt, Art Works: International Modern Art in the Industrial Working Environment, Amsterdam: Peter Stuyvesant Foundation. |
| Barry Le Va, Barry Le Va: Dreaded Intrusions -Institutional Templates, Munich: Verlag Fred Jahn |
| 1990 | Daniel Wheeler, Art since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present, The Vendome Press: New York. |
| The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Hesse, Smithson, Tuttle, Nauman, Serra, Le Va, Saret, Sonnier, Benglis, Shapiro, New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 1989 | Barry Le Va: Glas, Geschosse, Beile, 1968-1970, Mönchengladbach: Städtisches Museum. |
| Darlene Tong and Carl E. Loeffler, Performance Anthology: Source Book of California Performance Art, San Francisco: Last Gap. |
| 1988 | Klaus Kertess and Elaine A. King, Barry Le Va: 1966-1988, Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press. |
| 1986 | Between Geometry and the Gesture: American Sculpture 1965-1975, Madrid: Palacio de Velazquez, Parque del Buen Retiro. |
| 1981 | Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, Amherst: University Gallery Amherst University of Massachusetts. |
| New Dimensions in Drawing 1950-1980, Ridgefield: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. |
| 1977 | Barry Le Va - Accumulated Vision: Extended Boundaries, Dayton: Wright State Universities Art Galleries |
| Robert Pincus-Witten, Post-minimalism, New York: Out of London Press. |
| 1976 | 200 Years of American Sculpture, New York: Whitney Museum. |
| Andre, Le Va, Long, Washington: Corcoran Gallery of Art. |
| 1975 | Barry Le Va, Notes by the Artist, in Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle, Cincinnati: The Contemporary Arts Center. |
| 1974 | Art Now '74: A Celebration of the American Arts, Washington: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. |
| Peter Plagens, Sunshine Muse, Contemporary Art on the West Coast, New York: New York Praeger. |
| 1973 | American Drawings, 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. |
| 1970 | Contemporary American Sculpture, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 1969 | Anti-Illusion: Procedures, Materials, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art. |
| 1968 | Barry Le Va, Drawings 1967-77, Salinas: Hartnell College Gallery. |
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Reviews |
| 2005 | Carroll Dunham, Black Whole, Artforum March 2005: 206-11. |
| Nancy Princenthal, Reconfiguring Barry Le Va, Art in America May 2005: 134-9 (cover illus: Bunker Coagulation (Pushed from the Right)) |
| Martin Friedman, Barry Le Va's Secret Sculpture, Art in America May 2005: 140-3. |
| Elaine A. King, Accumulated Vision: A Conversation with Barry Le Va, Sculpture September 2005: 34-41. |
| Ken Johnson, Barry Le Va: 9G-Wagner Variation II, The New York Times September 30, 2005: E29. |
| Staff, Barry Le Va, The New Yorker October 10, 2005: 20. |
| Robert Ayers, Barry Le Va, Art News November 2005: 178. |
| David Cohen, Poetic Minimalism, The New York Sun November 3, 2005: 14. |
| Robert Storr, Best of 2005, Artforum December 2005: 242-3 (cover illus: Shots from the End of a Glass Line). |
| 2004 | Roberta Smith, The Man Who Made Sculpture Out of Meat Cleavers, The New York Times September 12, 2004: 92. |
| 1999 | Alfred Mac Adam, Barry Le Va, ARTnews, Nov 1999: 192-193. |
| Michael Brennan, Painter's Journal, artnet.com 29 Oct 1999. |
| 1997 | Saul Ostrow, Barry Le Va, Bomb Magazine, Summer 1997: 54-59. |
| Jerry Saltz, Barry Le Va, Time Out New York February 27 – Mar 6, 1997: 41. |
| 1995 | Michael Kimmelman, A Quirky Whitney Biennial, The New York Times, Mar 24 1995: C1+. |
| Peter Schjeldahl, One Man Show: Klaus Kertess's Biennial Moyen Sensuel, The Village Voice, Apr 4, 1995: 72-73. |
| Catherine Francblin, Barry Le Va: Art Work in Expansion, Artpress Sep 1995: E9+. |
| 1994 | Adachiara Zevi, Barry Le VA: il principio distibutivo del caso/ distributive principle of the case, L'Architettura Cronache e Storia Jan 1994: 55-8. |
| 1992 | Alain Kirili, Who's Afraid of Abstract Modeling?, Tema Celeste Apr 1992: 54-7 |
| 1990 | Jerry Tallmer, Look Back at New Ideas, New York Post March 2, 1990: 30. |
| Roberta Smith, Sculpture, But Not Strictly So, The New York Times March 3, 1990: 11. |
| Roberta Smith, Sculpture at the Whitney: The Radical Years, The New York Times March 9, 1990: C1+. |
| Kay Larson, Starting Over, New York Magazine, Mar 19, 1990: 81-82. |
| 1989 | Robert C. Morgan, Barry Le Va at Sonnabend, Flash Art, Jan/ Feb 1989: 125. |
| Roberta Smith, Barry Le Va, The New York Times, Feb 17, 1989. |
| Christopher Knight, Le Va's Puzzles Create Chaos Out of Order, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb 5, 1989. |
| Marjorie Welish, Barry Le Va, Art News, 1989 March: 172. |
| David Pagel, Barry Le Va, Arts Magazine, May 1989: 95. |
| 1988 | Bill Homisak, Le Va's Minimalist Moments in Time, Philadelphia Tribune, Nov 13, 1988. |
| 1986 | David Lurie, American Eccentric Abstraction 1965-1972, Arts Magazine March 1986. |
| Ronny Cohen, A New Look At Big Drawing, Drawing Sep/Oct 1986. |
| Stephen Ellis, At Order's Edge, Art in America Jul 1986: 98-107. |
| 1984 | Therese Lichtenstein, Works on Paper, Arts, Jan 1984. |
| Helen A. Harrison, Trying to Bridge the Gap between Seeing and Knowing, The New York Times Feb 5, 1984. |
| 1983 | Klaus Kertess, Barry Le Va's Sculpture: Ellipsis and Ellipse, Artforum Jan 21, 1983: 58-64. |
| William Zimmer, Before and After Look From, The New York Times Oct 30, 1983. |
| 1982 | Barbara Zucker, Barry Le Va Sonnabend, Art News Mar 1982: 131. |
| 1981 | Vivien Raynor, Art: 'Twisted Chains' from Barry Le Va, The New York Times, 13 March 1981. |
| Burt Chernow, New Dimension in Drawing, Art News May 1981. |
| 1976 | David Bourdon, Is This a Geometry Class?, Village Voice Jan 26, 1976. |
| Nancy Foote, Barry Le Va, Sonnabend Gallery, Artforum 1976: 66-67. |
| John Russell, 200 Years of Sculpture Honors Nation, The New York Times March 17, 1976. |
| Valentin Tatransky, Vito Acconci/ Mel Bochner/ Barry Le Va, Arts Jan 5, 1976: 27. |
| 1975 | Scott Goodman, Barry Le Va at Weinberg Gallery, Art in America Sep 1975: 76. |
| Jeff Perrone, Barry Le Va at Weinberg Gallery, Artforum May 1975: 83-4. |
| 1974 | Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Barry Le Va, Bykert Gallery Downtown, Artforum, Sep 1974: 79-80. |
| 1973 | K. Baker, Barry Le Va At Bykert Gallery, Art in America, Sep 1973: 117- 122. |
| Bruce Boice, Barry Le Va, Bykert Gallery Downtown, Artforum, Jun 1973: 82. |
| Peter Frank, Reviews and Previews, Art News, May 1973: 83. |
| Bernhard Kerber, Rudolf Zwirner und Rolf Ricke: Ausstellung, Art International, Summer 1973: 81-2. |
| Rosemary Mayer, Group Show, Bykert, Arts, March 1973: 72. |
| 1971 | Barry Le Va, Notes on a Piece by Barry Le Va: Extended Vertex Meetings: Blocked, Blown Outward, Studio International, Nov 1971: 178-179. |
| Liza Bear and Willoughby Sharpe, Discussions with Barry Le Va, Avalanche, Fall 1971: 62-75. |
| Cindy Nemser, Subject-Object Body Art, Arts, Sep 1971: 41-2. |
| 1970 | Willoughby Sharpe, New Directions in Southern California Sculpture, Arts Summer 1970: 35-8. |
| 1969 | Larry Rosing, Barry Le Va and The Nondescript Distribution, Art News Sep 1969: 52-3. |
| Barbara Rose, The Politics of Art -Part III, Artforum May 1969: 46-51. |
| Jane Livingston and Peter Sels, Two Generations in L. A, Art in America Jan/Feb 1969: 92-7. |
| Robert Morris, Notes on Sculpture-Beyond Objects, Artforum Apr 1969: 50-4. |
| 1968 | Fidel Danieli, Some New L.A. Artists, Artforum Mar 1968: 47. |
| Jane Livingston, Barry Le Va: Distributional Sculpture, Artforum Nov 1968: 50. |
