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 Illeana Sonnabend Gallery in New York. Dill's list of exhibitions include galleries and museums from such venues as Seoul, Paris, Nogoya, Japan; and Helsinki, Findland; 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, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for painting. He has also taught extensively at UCLA, UCIrvine, Art Center in Pasadena, and lectured in numerous universities and art institutions across the United States.
1943 Born in Long Beach, California
1964 - 1968 Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, BFA 1968. Lives in Venice, California
1975 National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship
1979 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1982 National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Fellowship
1983 California Arts Council, Art in Public Buildings Program Grant
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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, Los Angeles, 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
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Orange County Museum of Art, California
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California
Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Santa Barbara Museum, Santa Barbara, California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, California
Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin