Chronology

Born in Bellingham, Washington of Ramon Catholic Irish-American and Mexican American parents, Connor Everts spent most of his early childhood in the Pacific Northwest. His father’s activities in the I.L.W.U meant a semi-nomadic life centered around major West Coast ports. While in the seventh grade the family returned permanently to California, his father’s birthplace, where he completed his public school education. After two years in the service he enrolled at the Chouinord Art Institute in Los Angeles under the G.I. Bill.

1948	Leaves Chouinard to pursue a more academic education.
1950	Attends University of Washington. First formal introduction to graphics.
1951	Leaves University of Washington. Continues to paint while working as a full time longshoreman.
1952	Lives in Mexico. Completes his BA at Mexico City College. Works as an assistant to David Alfaro Siquieros. Does a large body of work in etching. Visits numerous pre-Columbian sites.
1953	Studies art history at the Courtauld Institute, University of London. Visits continent. Work turns to Figure. Establishes Quiet Sun Press in California.
1954	Returns to Mexico and does another group of etchings. In the later part of the year returns to California, working nights as a longshoreman and painting days.
1955	One man exhibition: San Francisco. Wins painting prize at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Exhibits first pacific Coast Biennial.
1956	Founds Exodus Group. Exhibits San Francisco Museum of Art.
1957	Directs Exodus Gallery. One man exhibition includes Wallace Berman, Ed Keinholz and Everts.
1958	One man exhibition: Long Beach Museum of Art. Begins first series of large drawings up to 96 x 240 inches.
1959	One man exhibition: Bertha Lewison Gallery, Los Angeles. Lives in Chile. Visits pre-Columbian sites in Peru.
1960	One man exhibition: Pasadena Art Museum Museum. Guest artist at Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Industrial accident ends longshoring.
1961	One man exhibition: Imprisonment Series at Comara Gallery, Los Angeles. Appointed Chairman of Graphics Department, Chouinard Art Institute.
1962	Simultaneous one man exhibition at Comara Gallery in Los Angeles and Eric Locke Gallery in San Francisco.
1963	Founds los Angeles Printmaking Society and directs its gallery. Exhibits in four man exhibition, New York City. Starts studies in desperation, a series on the death of John F. Kennedy.
1964	One man exhibitions: Desperation Studies at Zora Gallery in Los Angeles and Claremont College in Pomona. Raid by Los Angeles Vice Squad results in a censorship trial. Exhibits in National Invitational Drawing Exhibition.
1965	One man exhibition: Silvan Simone Gallery, los Angeles. Second trial ends in artist’s exoneration. Chouinard fails to rehire Everts. Subject of police brutality.
1966	Guest artist and Instructor in painting and printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute. Guest artist All University of California Fine Arts Symposium.
1967	One man exhibition: Michael Walls Gallery, San Francisco. Award, Fourth international Artist Exhibition, Tokyo. Begins two year stint as visiting professor of fine arts at University of Southern California. Eight month’s work destroyed when Everts studio is vandalized.
1968	Does Ultra-Brite series and a series of self-portraits concerning his Federal Civil Rights trial. Serves as Chairman of Advisory Board, Los Angeles Municipal Art Department. Spends summer in Japan; while there organizes two exhibitions: Japanese Geometric Painting and Contemporary Japanese Drawing.
1969	One man exhibitions: Michael Walls Gallery in San Francisco and Los Angeles State College. Work also shown Museum of Modem Art in Tamarind Exhibit. Purchase Madrid Market to replace former studio.
1970	One man exhibitions: Boise Art Museum and Sonoma State College. One man exhibition of self-portraits (1949-1969) tours under auspices of Western Association of Art Museums. Exhibits in International Invitational. Artist in residence, California Institute of Technology. Long standing marriage breaks up. Spends summer on Skagit River, Washington. Moves into large studio, The Market.
1971	One man exhibitions: Harness College, San Jose Municipal Museum, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Exhibits in ‘Made in California , a Survey of California Graphics” Organizes an exhibition of Southern California prints: “Artist/Prints.” Attempts to return to waterfront.
1972	One man exhibitions: University of California, Cypress College, Oregon State University and Washington State College. Exhibits in First Czechoslovakian Biennial. Accepts teaching position at University of California at Riverside. Revisits pre-Columbian sites in Mexico. Work loses all figurative Elements.
1973	One man exhibitions: Brand Art Center and El Camino College. Mural installed at El Camino. Finishes Caroompussian Variations and commences a series of collages, Trash, after the death of his friend Salvador Allende.
1974	One man exhibition: Mechicano Gallery, East Los Angeles. Does series, Adonde, based on the death of Allende. Returns to painting with Sursum Corda Series.
1975	One man exhibitions: Redlands University: Edges Series at Harbor College Gallery, Subject of interview of UCLA Oral History Program. Leaves UC Riverside to become Artist in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. Beginning of E.P Series exhibited at Cranbrook Museum.
1977	Undertakes major renovation of studies and program at Cranbrook and does first print in a number of years. Exhibits in National Drawing Exhibition. Returns to California summers.
1978	E.P. Series exhibited in Cranbrook Museum of Art “Artist in Residence” show. Returns to Europe on lecture tour in England, Holland, France and Spain.
1980	One man exhibitions: E.P. Variations exhibited in “Move to the Middle: at a Detroit area gallery: Everts’ first print exhibition, “One Print’s Progress,” opens ot Cranbrook Museum of Art and travels under auspices of Western Association of Art Museums. Organizes the Detroit National Print Symposium. Does a series of ceramics with Jun Kaneko. Lectures in England and Scotland. Guest artist at the Black Dolphin Press in California.
1981	One man exhibitions. Des Moines Art Center and Alma College, Michigan. Resigns residency at Cranbrook. Teaches at University of Washington. Returns to California to begin a major renovation of The Market, his studio. Included in Bicentennial Exhibit of los Angeles Camly Museum of Art.
1982	One man Exhibition: World Print Council, San Francisco. Exhibits in ‘Made in Detroit”, exhibition in Detroit. His studio complete, he returns to his work after a nine month hiatus. Begins the Catharsis series.
1983	One man exhibition: “Connor Everts/Transitions” at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park, Los Angeles.
1984	Solo exhibition of the Simard Gallery, Los Angeles. Solo exhibition ‘Poster Variations’ at the Branstader Gallery, Loma Linda University.
1986	First exhibition of the Alpha II series at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art. Solo Exhibition at San Jose University, San Jose, California.
1987	Solo exhibitions: Ruth Bachoffner Gallery, Los Angeles and Whatcom Museum of Art, Bellingham, Washington.
1988	Solo exhibit, Printworks Gallery, Chicago. Made guest print at Wing Lake Studios, Michigan.
1989	Five separate solo exhibitions. Art Space Gallery, Fresno, Califomia, Ruth Bachoffner, Santo Monica, Thomas Center Gallery, City of Gainsville, Grinter Gallery, University of Florida.
1990	One man show, Printworks, Chicago. One man exhibit, Joy Emery Gallery, Detroit. Functionist High, a review of longtime L.A. artists, Traction Gallery, Los Angeles. Artist decides to refrain from One man exhibitions to concentrate on patenting.
1991	Returns from visiting old friends in England and begins work on new series.
1995	Trilogy, collages by Everts, Woelffer and Darrow at Claremont Gallery, Claremont, CA
1996	Group exhibition of masks by painters, Sotheby’s, NYC.
1998	Group show, Flowers Gallery, London.
1999	Group show, Flowers Gallery, London.
2000	Millennium Exhibition /Group show, Flowers Gallery, London.
2002	From Here To Back, A review of the Artist’s use of words in his work, 1948-2002. LA Artcore Center, Los Angeles.