AL SOUZA
BORN:
| 1944 |
Plymouth, MA |
EDUCATION:
| 1970-72 |
MFA, Painting: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 1967-70 |
Art Students League, New York, NY |
| 1962-67 |
BS, Civil Engineering: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
TEACHING:
| 1992-2004 |
University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 1991 |
University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA |
| 1988-92 |
San Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
| 1987-88 |
East Texas State University, Commerce, TX |
| 1987 |
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 1982-87 |
Clark University, Worcester, MA |
| 1981 |
University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 1980-81 |
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
| 1979-80 |
University of North Texas, Denton, TX |
| 1974-77 |
Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 1973-79 |
Smith College, Northampton, MA |
SELECTED GRANTS:
| 1999 |
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program |
| Ucross Foundation Grant |
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| Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Artist Fellowship Award |
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| 1997 |
Pollock-Krasner Foundation |
| Roswell Foundation Grant |
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| 1990 |
California Arts Council Artist Fellowship |
| 1987-88 |
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship |
| 1985, 1981 |
Massachusetts Council on the Arts Fellowship |
| 1978-79 |
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship |
RESIDENCIES:
| 2001 |
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy |
| 2000 |
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
| 1999 |
Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Clearmont, WY |
| 1997-98 |
Roswell A.I.R. Program, Roswell, NM |
| 1996 |
International A.I.R. Programme, Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom |
| 1995 |
Schloss Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria |
| 1988 |
Galerie Zietkunst, Kitzbuhel, Austria |
| 1973 |
Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
| 2004 |
Al Souza: Mix Master, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN* |
| Inverse Warp Field, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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| 2003 |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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| 2002 |
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX* |
| Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
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| Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
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| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 2001 |
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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| 2000 |
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX* |
| Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 1998 |
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX |
| Roswell Museum of Art, Roswell, NM * |
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| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 1997 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| 1996 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA |
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| Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX * |
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| Guernsey College, Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom * |
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| 1995 |
Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX |
| 1994 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1992 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
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| 1991 |
Quint-Krichman Projects Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
| Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| 1990 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1989 |
Galerie Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbuhel, Austria |
| Mark Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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| Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
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| Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA * |
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| Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX |
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| 1988 |
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX * |
| Galerie Zeitkunst, Innsbruck, Austria |
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| Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| 1987 |
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
| Galerie Hanns Christian Hoschek, Graz, Austria |
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| 1985 |
Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| 1984 |
Galerie Seben Stern, Steyr, Austria |
| Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT |
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| Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA * |
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| 1983 |
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1982 |
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| OK Harris West, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY * |
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| Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX * |
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| Galerie Seben Stern, Steyr, Austria |
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| 1981 |
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany * |
| Work Gallery/Phillipe Vogt, Zurich, Switzerland |
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| Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria * |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1980 |
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
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| Brown University, Providence, RI |
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| Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| 1979 |
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH |
| Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA * |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1978 |
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
| Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1977 |
Student Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Museum of Angouleme, Angouleme, France |
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| Canon Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1976 |
Museum of Brest, Brest, France |
| Galerie Ecart, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| Cronin Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| American Cultural Center, Paris, France * |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| 1975 |
Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria |
| Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
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| OK Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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| * = Catalogue |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2004 |
The DeCordova Annual Exhibition, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA * |
| Material Possibilities, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX |
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| 2003-04 |
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA* |
| 2003 |
Sweet Tooth, COPIA: American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa, CA * |
| Red on Red, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
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| For the Birds, Galveston Arts center, Galveston, TX |
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| 2002 |
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY * |
| Whimsy, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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| Contemporary Narrative, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL |
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| Contemporary American Art, Embassy of the United States of America, Paris, France * |
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| 2001 |
Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc., New York, NY |
| 2001 Collector's Show, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR |
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| Picture Prone, Avram Gallery, Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, NY |
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| Play, Pavel Zoubok, Inc., New York, NY |
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| Behold, Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts, Portland, OR * |
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| Material Whirled, Art in General, New York, NY * |
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| 2000 |
2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY * |
| 1999 |
International Communication Art Biennale, Society for the Culture of Living, Sabac, Yugoslavia |
| 1998 |
3 Texas Artists, Alfred University, Alfred, NY |
| The Portrait Show, West End Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Der Vogel Selbsterkenntnis, Tiroler Volkskunstmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria * |
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| Blurred Boundaries, Winter Street Art Center, Houston, TX |
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| 1997 |
A Wink and a Nod, Sally Sprout Gallery, Houston, TX |
| Art Patterns, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| The Glass Canvas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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| Primarily Paint, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Money Talks…, Lesikar Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Overlays, Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX |
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| Picture Play, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX |
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| 1996 |
Texas Modern and Post-Modern, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| Morph: Meta(morph)osis and Bio(morph)ism in Contemporary Sculpture, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX * |
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| Painting in an Expanding Field, Bennington College, Bennington, VT |
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| 1995 |
Texas Art ’95, Cullen Center, Houston, TX |
| In Flux, West End Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 1995 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA * |
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| Convergence, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| 1994 |
The Big Picture – Large Scale Paintings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| Miniatures, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
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| Stories, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| The Exquisite Corpse, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX |
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| 1993 |
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
| Fur, Fins, Feathers and More, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX |
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| Personal Attachments, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
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| Western Myth: Twentieth Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO * |
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| Transient Décor, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, NY |
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| Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| 1992 |
Wit & Whimsy: Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| Out of Bounds, The Word Becomes Art, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ |
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| Fotografien, Galerie Prism, Bozen, Austria |
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| Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1990 |
The Painted Word, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA |
| Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
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| 1989-90 |
Fantasies, Fables and Fabrications, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH; traveled to: Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art, Oostende, Belgium; Museum at the Palazzo Mangari, Fiesole, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Antwerp Belgium * |
| 1989 |
Messages from the South, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX |
| Gesammelte Werke, Kunsthalle des Salzburger, Salzburg, Austria * |
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| Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| Texas Realism, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
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| Talent in the 80’s, Federal Reserve Bank, Washington, DC |
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| Painted Stories and Other Narrative Art, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX |
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| The American Cowboy: Reality and Reactions, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
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| 1988-89 |
Art & the Law, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; traveled to: Metro Convention Center, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Temple University, Philadelphia, PA; Rose Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA * |
| 1988 |
Summertime Blues, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| The Contour Line, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Habitat, Peregrine Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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| 1987 |
Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| Artists Response to Architecture, Nave Museum, Victoria, TX; traveled to: Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX; The Museum, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX |
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| 1986-87 |
Lo Del Corazon: Heartbeat of a Culture, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA; traveled to: Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI * |
| 1986 |
Seventh Heaven, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
| 50 Years of Modern Color Photography, Koln Messe, Germany |
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| Kunstlerbucher-Buchoblekte, University of Oldenburg, Germany |
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| The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX * |
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| Photo-Synthesis, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA |
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| 1985 |
Comic Relief, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| Impact Images, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA * |
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| Signs, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY * |
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| The Book as Container of Ideas, Universitat Oldenberg, Germany |
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| Ten, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA * |
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| 1984 |
Boats and Planes: Notions of Movement, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX |
| Still Lifes, Museum of Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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| 1983 |
The Horse Show, Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY |
| Language, Drama, Source and Vision, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY * |
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| Landscape, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ |
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| Fragment/Fragmentary/Fragmentation, New Britain Museum of Art, CT * |
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| 1982 |
Target III: In Sequence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX * |
| Repeated Exposure, Nelson Gallery of Art, Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, MO |
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| Homage to Cornell, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY |
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| Bay State Photography, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA |
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| 1981 |
To Be Continued, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; International Center of Photography, New York, NY * |
| Art & the Law, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN |
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| 16th Sao Paolo International Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
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| Vienna International Foto Biennale, Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria |
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| New England Relief, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Representation, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN |
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| 1980 |
Kunst als Photographie, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria; Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria |
| Das Sofortbild, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurter, Germany |
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| Response, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX * |
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| Beyond Photography ’80, Alternative Museum, New York, NY * |
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| Texas Photographers 1,2,3,4, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX |
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| Other Media, Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL * |
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| Maps, Charts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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| 1979 |
Art in Boxes, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA |
| Small is Beautiful, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA; Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, PA |
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| Photographie als Kunst / Kunst als Photographie, Tiroler Landesmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria; traveled to: Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz, Austria; Museum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria |
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| Outside the City Limits, Picker Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; traveled to: Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Frostburg State College, Maryland, NY |
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| 1978 |
Painting & Sculpture Today, 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN * |
| Color Photography, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY |
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| Time: The Reproductive Media, Hartford Art |