Born in Dearborn, Michigan.

Education

2000

Getty Trust Fellowship

1998

Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

1990

Graduate Studies, Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

Lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

2005

‘Driftworks: Columbus,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2004

•‘Driftworks,’ Traywick Contemporary, San Francisco, California
•‘Miami Drift,’ Lemon Sky Projects, Miami, Flordia

2004

‘Intervals + Intensities,’ Ten in One Gallery, New York, New York

2002

•‘Darkness and Light,’ Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL
•`Dearborn,’ Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, California
•‘Holiday,’ Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California

2001

•'Horror of Light,' Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, California Ten in One Gallery, New York, New York
•'Sunset at Dawn,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio

2000

•'Illuminated Trees,'Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
•'Disappearer,' Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, California

1999

'Night Moves,' Lemon Sky, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)

1998

'Manifestation,' Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1997

•'New Work,' Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California
•'Charles LaBelle,' University of Texas, San Antonio Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas

1995

•'Works on Paper,' domestic setting, Los Angeles, California
•'Charles LaBelle,' Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1993

•'Lodger,' Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery and Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, New York
•'Colonies II,' Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California

1992

'Colonies,' Philippe Briet Gallery, New York, New York

2003

‘Ten Years in Columbus, Part 1,’ Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus,
Ohio

2001

•'In through the Outdoors," Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California 'Reflection,' curated by Carl Palazzolo and Rebecca Ibel, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
•'In The City,' Gallery 400 (Curated by Lorelei Stewart) Chicago
•'Traveloque,' Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
Ken Fandell and Charles LaBelle, Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago
•'Infinite Jest,' Ten-in-One Gallery, New York
•Bodybuilder & Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
•'Infinite Jest,' Ten in One Gallery, New York, New York

2000

•Sala Diaz, San Antonio, Texas
•'Tan Lines,' Paradise Gallery, Dallas
•'Under the Influence: New Art from LA, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City
•'Cleaning Up,' Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, USC Department of Fine Arts, Watt Hall, Los Angeles, California
•Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
•'Charles LaBelle & Chris Sauter,' Sala Dias, San Antonio, Texas
•Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
•'Utopia,' Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway
•'Night Moves,' Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
•'The Fashion Show,' Georges, Los Angeles, California

1999

•'Summertime '99,' Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
•'Venus,' Ehemals Raum Brasilica, Vienna
•'Drive-By,' Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
•'The Mourning After,' Barnsdale Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)

1998

•Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California
•'Some Related Areas,' curated by Brad Spence, Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine
•'Interior,' Post Gallery, Los Angeles, California
•'Wings of Desire,' Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

1997

•Lemon Sky, Los Angeles, California
•'CA 9001-185,' W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands
•'Martha Benzing, Charles LaBelle & •Robert Levine,' Refusalon, San Francisco, California

1996

'True Bliss,' Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)

1995

•Amanda Oberling Gallery, Los Angeles, California
•'It's Only Rock 'n Roll,' curated by David Rubin, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalogue, traveling exhibition)

'Rezone,' DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas

1994

•'Let the Artist Live,' Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York
•'For Your Pleasure . . .,' Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
•'Altered Egos,'Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California (catalogue)
•'Taro Chiezo, Michael Cohen, Charles LaBelle,' domestic setting, Los Angeles, California
•'Mapping,' curated by Frances Colpitt, University of Texas, San Antonio Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
•'Le Tempt d'un Dessin,' Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lorient, France (catalogue, traveling exhibition)

1993

'Poverty Pop,' Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York

1992

•'In Flux,' Gallery 400, Chicago, Illinois
•'Evidently,' Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York, New York
•'Fever,' Exit Art/The First World, New York, New York (traveling exhibition)
A/C Project Room, New York, New York
•'Crusoe (Refiguring Reality),' Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, New York, New York
•'Floored,' Bliss, Pasadena, California

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‘Topographies,’at the Walter and McBean Galleries, Artweek, Volume 33, Issue 5, June 2004
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ition catalogue, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1995, p. 95.
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Mapping, exhibition catalogue, essay by Francis Colpitt, University of Texas, San Antonio, p. 19, artist folio, p. 31, 1994.
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