Ernest Trova
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.”
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.
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
1969
Dunkelman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Pace Gallery, New York
1968
Hanover Gallery, London
1967
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Pace Gallery, New York
1966
Hanover Gallery, London
Pace Gallery, New York
1965
Pace Gallery, New York
1964
Hanover Gallery, London
1963
Pace Gallery, New York