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Biography
Born: 1957 St. Louis, Missouri
Education: B.A. University of California, Davis
Solo Exhibitions
2011 “Inventions and Recollections”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 "Contradictory Resemblances", Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2005 "Dream Houses & Undisclosed Locations", Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2003 "One Thing Makes Another: A Survey of Work, 1991-2003", Galveston Art Center,
Galveston, TX. Traveled to Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
and Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX ( brochure )
Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2001 "Oughts and Noughts", Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA
2000 Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
1999 At One Extreme..., Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 The Picture Makes..., Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1996 The Reasoner's Instinct, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Priere de toucher, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles,
1994 Insofar as the Eye Can See, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Braille Paintings, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles
1993 Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
1992 Constellations and Fables, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Black and White Windows/ Opened and Closed Doors, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1989 Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
Madrona Gallery, San Pedro, CA
Group Exhibitions
2010 “Catalyst,” American University Museum, Washington, DC
2005 "Color", Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 "Faculty Exhibition", Glassell School of Art, Houston ( catalogue )
"Eye Text", Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
( 2 person show with Roger Boyce )
"Abstract Concepts", Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
"Pink", Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston
2003 "Minatures", Hookes-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
"Twisting and Turning", Bluestar, San Antonio, TX ( brochure )
"Genetic Expressions: Art after DNA", Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
2002 "Systems order Nature", Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
"Works on Paper", McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2001 "Big as Texas", DiverseWorks, Houston
"The Work of Pyramid Atlantic", University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2000 "The Changing Face of Portraiture", Chapman University, Orange, CA (brochure)
"The Culture of Class", Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
"Objects of Desire", David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
1999 Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21stCentury, Meridian
International, Washington, DC, traveling internationally.
Wordsmiths, Islip Art Museum, Islip, New York. Karen Shaw, curator
Hypersalon, Emerson Gallery/McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
Summer Print Show, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1998 Paintings: Chance & Necessity, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, traveling.
Prints: Chance & Necessity, Goya-Girl Press, Baltimore
Recent Acquisitions: Prints, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
A Sampling of Recent American Prints, Addison Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Paullina Cupana, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Abstraction: A Pleasured Reticence, M-13 Gallery, New York
New Work, School 33, Baltimore, MD
A Study in Collaboration, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
1997 Remote Sensing, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
Multiple Identities, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
1996 Transformal, Wiener Secession, Vienna. Maia Daminanovic, curator
Citie Internationale des Arts, Paris
The Apartment Show, Paris. Alain Kirili, curator, Fine Art
Work Center, Provincetown, MA
1995 Pittura/ Immedia: Painting in the 90's, Neu Galeried am Landesmusuem und Kunstlerhouse,
Graz, Vienna. Peter Weibel, curator
Spatial Metaphors, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc, Washington, DC
1994 Crosscurrents ‘94, University of Maryland at College park. Andrea Pollan,cur.
Transtextualism, Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles. Sabina Ott, curator
Art Sites 6, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC
Jetlag, Galerie Martina Detterer, Frankfurt, Germany. Gert Rappenecker, cur.
1993 The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Sex Money Politics, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
Language Made Visible, Jamison/Thomas Gallery, Portland, OR
Off the Mall, Organization of American States, Washington, DC
Lingua Pittura, Emerson Gallery, McLean, VA, Andrea Pollan, curator
Season's Summary, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Cryptics, School 33, Baltimore, MD
Anderson Ranch Art Center, Aspen, CO
1992 New Works on Paper by Gallery Artists, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Michael Byron, Christopher French, Steven Miller, Anton Solumoukha, Elga Wimmer
Gallery, New York
The Collector, Rockville Arts Place, Rockville, MD
1990 Marsha Mateyka Gallery
1988 Ninth Annual Benefit Auction, Washington Project for the Arts, Washingotn,DC
Art Auction'88, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
The Critic as Artist, Creative Growth Gallery, Oakland, CA
Grants and Awards
2003 Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County Fellowship
1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship
1996 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
1993 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Public Collections
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Goethe-Institut, Washington, DC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, Louisiana
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
Hewlett-Packard, New York and Atlanta
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Sallie Mae, Inc., Washington, DC
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