Glicksman, Hal

Hal Glicksman curated many key contemporary art exhibitions in Southern California the 1960s and 1970s, and helped establish and foster important Southern California art institutions. As a preparator at the Pasadena Art Museum under the leadership of Walter Hopps, Glicksman worked on the important Marcel Duchamp retrospective in 1963. He designed and installed the United States presentation for the Eighth São Paulo Bienal in Brazil in 1965 and served as assistant curator for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's exhibition, Art and Technology. He also curated and prepared exhibitions for the Pomona College Art Gallery; Corcoran Gallery of Art; University of California, Irvine, Art Gallery; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art; Otis Art Institute Art Gallery; Santa Monica Arts Commission and Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. Glicksman exhibited the work of numerous contemporary artists, and curated multiple exhibitions of Chicano art and assemblage art in California. In 1981 he founded his own gallery, Percept, with a focus on space and light art, and served as the founding director of the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1985.

From the description of Hal Glicksman papers, circa 1927-2010. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 668137238

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