Laddie John Dill

Laddie John Dill, a Los Angeles native, was born in Long Beach and attended Santa Monica High School. He graduated from Chouinard Art institute in 1968. At age 28, Dill had his first one-man exhibit at the Ileana Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Dill’s list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as Seoul, Paris, Nagoya, Japan, Helsinki, and Finland; to New York, Kansas City, Seattle, and throughout Northern and Southern California.

Laddie is the recipient of two National Endowment grants; one for sculpture and one for painting, as well as a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UCIrvine, Art Centre in Pasadena, and lectured in numerous and art institutions across the United States.

SELECTED PUBLIC WORK:
Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago Illinois
Caldwell Museum, Humboldt, Tennessee
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, California
Greenville County Museum, South Carolina
Laguna Beach Museum of Art Laguna Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA. California
Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Paulo, Brazil
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California