Lari Pittman, a painter who lives and works in Los Angeles, completed both his undergraduate and graduate work at the California Institute for the Arts. His work is featured in numerous collections including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has earned international recognition with recent solo exhibitions including the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY; Greengrassi, London, England, the Monika Sprüth-Philomene Magers Gallery, Münich, Germany and Regen Projects in Los Angeles, CA. In 2006, Pittman received an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design, and has been included in four Biennial Exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. He teaches Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, CA.