Charles Gaines (Artist)

Charles Gaines (born 1944) is an American artist whose work interrogates the discourse of aesthetics and politics. Taking the form of drawings, photographic series and video installations, the work consistently invokes the use of systems as generative part of the artist's practice. His work is rooted in Conceptual Art and he is committed to its tenets of engaging cognition and language. There is a strong musical thread running though much of Gaines' work evident in his repeated use of musical scores as well in his engagement with the idea of indeterminacy, as similar to John Cage.

Charles Gaines was born in Charleston, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Jersey City State College in 1966, and earned his M.F.A. from School of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology in 1967. Since 1989, Gaines been a faculty member at the California Institute of the Arts, influencing many young artists who studied with him, including Edgar Arceneaux. In 2008 he taught at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

After his first New York City exhibition at Cinque Gallery in 1972, Charles Gaines was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. In the 1980s, Charles Gaines was represented by and had solo exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery and John Weber Gallery in New York. He has shown at Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, Young Hoffman in Chicago, Richard Heller Gallery in San Francisco, and Galerie Lavignes-Bastille in Paris, among others. In 2006 Gaines began to exhibit with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, and in 2014 with Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

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