Charles Arnoldi was born in Dayton, Ohio, moved to Los Angeles and attended Chouinard Art Institute. After first one artist exhibition was in 1971 at the Riko Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, he began exhibiting with the Nicholas Wilder Gallery in Los Angeles. He also showed at the Texas Gallery, Houston; Robert Elkon, NY; Dobrick Gallery, Chicago; James Corcoran, Los Angeles; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco; and Charles Cowles Gallery, NY. His museum shows include “Unique Prints,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art; “Recent Paintings” at University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery; University Art Museum, CalState Long Beach; and the Busan Metropolitan Art Museum, Korea. He exhibited with Fred Hoffman Fine Art, Santa Monica; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY; Modernism, San Francisco; Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA; Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica; Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles; The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu; and the Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA.
Arnoldi's work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Pace Gallery, NY; Pasadena Art Museum; Sidney Janis Gallery, NY; documenta 5, Kassel, Germany; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla; and Museum of Modern Art, NY. He received the Young Talent Award from the L.A. County Museum Contemporary Art Council in 1969; the Wittkowsky Award from the Art Insitute of Chicago, 1972; Artist Fellowship, NEA; John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975; and in 1982 he received a Maestro Fellowship from the California Arts Council and an NEA Artist Fellowship. The artist lives in Malibu, CA.