Llyn Foulkes

Born in Yakima, Washington, in 1934, Llyn Foulkes lives and works in Los Angeles.

Collections include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Hammer Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art; Exhibitions include the Pasadena Art Museum (1962); Oakland Art Museum (1964); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1967); Newport Harbor Art Museum (1974); Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (1995–96, traveled to Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati; Oakland Museum of California; Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY; and Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1996–98), and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013). Foulkes participated in the IX Bienal de São Paulo (1967) and Documenta 13, Kassel, Germany (2012), and won the Prize for Painting at the Biennale de Paris in 1967. As a musician, he has played drums with City Lights (1965–71) and The Rubber Band (1973–77), and currently performs as one-man band The Machine.