Ernest Trova

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Biography

A self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor, Trova was born in St. Louis. Best known for his signature images and figures, the Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single “work in progress.”

Ernest Trova

Biography

A self-trained American surrealist and pop art painter and sculptor, Trova was born in St. Louis. Best known for his signature images and figures, the Falling Man, Trova considered his entire output a single “work in progress.” Trova used classic American comic character toys in some of his pieces because he admired their surrealism. He began as a painter, progressing through three-dimensional constructions to his mature medium, sculpture. Trova’s figures function as metaphorical signs of rational man and his journey through life. These works embrace with quiet dignity and infinite variations and adaptations, the artist’s lifelong investigation of man’s movement through life, both individual and collective.

Trova’s gift of forty of his works led to the opening of St. Louis County, Missouri’s internationally renowned Laumeier Sculpture Park. With his “Falling Man” series of images and figures, Ernest Trova created one of the defining artistic images of his career, part classical-part futuristic figure.

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Exhibitions

2007

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

2006

O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York

2005

Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

2004

Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri

1999

Lococo-Mulder Fine Art, St. Louis, Missouri
Boca-Raton Museum of Art, Boca-Raton, Florida
Stein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1996

Stein Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1990

ACA Galleries, New York City

1989

Philip Samuels Fine Art, St. Louis. Missouri

1987

Trova Studio, St. Louis, Missouri
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Posner Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1986

Trova Studio, St. Louis, Missouri
Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

1984

Pembroke Gallery, Houston, Texas

1983

Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Pace Gallery, New York

1982

Pace Gallery, New York

1980

Pace Gallery, New York
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

1978

Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri

1977

Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
University of Texas Art Museum, Austin, Texas

1976

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Pace Gallery, New York

1975

Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Kingpitcher Gallery for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pace Gallery, New York

1974

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

1973

Pace Gallery, New York

1972

Galerie Charles Kriwin, Brussels, Belgium
Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pace Gallery, New York

1971

Fundacion Eugenio Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Pace Gallery, New York

1970

Galerie + Verlag, Hanover, Germany
Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany
Gimpel Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Hanover Gallery, London
Pace Gallery, New York