Exhibitions

Upcoming Shows

Ordinary Extraordinary, Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, CA, Nov 22 - May 25, 2025 (Group Show)

Solo Shows

2023
Roland Reiss: Return to Painting, Peggy Phelps & East Galleries, Claremont, CA, Jan 17 - Feb 17

2021
Roland Reiss: The Castle of Perseverance, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 24 - May 28

2019
Unrepentant & Unapologetic Flowers, Plus Small Stories, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, May 18 - Sep 8

2018
Unrepentant Flowers and New Miniature Tableaux, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 28 - June 2

Unapologetic Flowers and Small Stories, Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, April 6 - July 8

2016
je t'aime - Recent Paintings + Drawings From The 1960s, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 24 - Aug 12

2015
1968, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sep 12 - Oct 11

2014
Floral Paintings And Miniatures, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Dec 11 - Jan 17

Roland Reiss: Paintings and Sculptures, Begovich Gallery, Fullerton, CA, Nov 8 - Dec 8 (catalogue)

Group Shows

2024
Light Matter, PST: Art and Science Collide, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Sep 14 - Nov 2

GREENHOUSE: Houseplants in Contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, July 27 - Sep 14

Twelve: Anniversary Exhibition, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, June 8 - July 6

2023
Legacy: 25 Years of Art and Community The Recent Years, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA, Oct 1 - Feb 19

Together in Time: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 26 - Aug 20

Sages Exhibition, Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA, May 13 - Aug 20

Light, Space, Surface: Selections from LACMA’s Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Apr 2 - Oct 1 (catalogue)

2022
Claremont Collects: Art, Creativity, Community, Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, May 21 - Sep 25

2019
Mid-Century Modern in Pomona, Progress Gallery, Pomona, CA, Nov 2 - Nov 26

90 Years of Ink: Prints from RAM’s Permanent Collection, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA, May 7 - Aug 23

The Seven Year Itch, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, April 6 - June 1

Painting from the Interior, Barbara and Art Culver Center of the Arts, Riverside, CA, Jan 19 - Apr 14

Collecting on the Edge: Part 2, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, UT, Jan 17 - May 4

2018
26 on 3rd, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, Nov 10 - Dec 16

2017
Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, June 20 - Aug 13

(re)Generation: Six Decades of Claremont Artists, Claremont Lewis Museum of Art, Claremont, CA, Nov 20 - Mar 26

2016
Mas Attack, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, Nov 12

Doppelgänger, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, April 2 - May 28

Selected Past Shows

Solo

2011
Roland Reiss, Personal Politics: Sculpture From The 1970s and 1980s, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA (catalogue)

2010
Set Theory: Roland Reiss, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalogue)

2007
Visibility: New Paintings, Toomey Tourell Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

2000
East China University, Shanghai, China

1996
San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA (Two-Person Exhibition)

1991
Roland Reiss: A Seventeen-Year Survey, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue). Traveled to University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ; Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY; and Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA.

1987
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

1986
Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981
Pittsburgh Art Center, Pittsburgh, PA
The Intimate Object, Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1980
Flow Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1978
Calgary Museum, Calgary, Canada
South Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada

1977
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1971
Retrospective Exhibition, Denver Center, University of Colorado, Denver, CO

1970
Southwest Missouri State College, Springfield, MO

1969
Paintings, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

1968
Paintings, Amarillo College, Amarillo, TX

Group

2011
Nel Vostro Spazio | In Your Space, Giacomo Projects Extended, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Everything’s Coming Up Roses, WG News + Art, Brooklyn, NY
Wanderership, Marc Chagall Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus

2010
No Soul For Sale, Tate Modern Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Artists’ Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2009
Trade Show, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Eskisehir and Ankara, Turkey
Nel Vostro Spazio, Giacomo Projects, Venice, Italy
California Calling, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

2006
ProAmerica, Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus

2001
What is Art, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Skin/Veneer Holding, Hiding, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro, CA
Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1993
Scale, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX

1987
Avant Garde in the '80s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Contemporary Southern California Art, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, CA
Contemporary California, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
California Figurative Sculpture, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

1986
Personal Environments, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

1984
Four Sculptors From The West: Reiss, Therrien, Bell, Dill, Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art of The States: American Work After the Sixties, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Crime and Punishment, Triton Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Clara, CA
Anxious Interiors, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

1982
documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Microcosms From California, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
100 Years of California Sculpture, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
20 American Artists: Sculpture, 1982, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1981
The Museum as Site, 16 Projects, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1979
Directions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

1977
Painting and Sculpture in California:  The Modern Era, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Private Images: Photographs by Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1976
Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art & The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Imagination, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Drawings, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA

1975
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Masterworks in Wood, Portland Museum, Portland, OR

1974
American Drawing, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA
Three Dimensional Word Works, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

1973
Last Plastics Show, California Institute of The Arts, Valencia, CA

1966
American Painting, Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan
Fantastic Art, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX

1965
Selected Painters, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KA

1963
82nd Annual Painting Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1962
Mid-America Annual Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

1961
Los Angeles County Museum Annual Painting Exhibition, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA