MANUEL NERI

 

 

BORN:

 

1930

Sanger, CA

 

                       

EDUCATION:

 

1956-58

California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

1951-56

California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA

1951-52

University of California, Berkeley, CA

1949-50

San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA

 

 

TEACHING:

 

1965-90

University of California, Davis, CA

1963-64

University of California, Berkeley, CA

1959-65

California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS:

 

1995

Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, Honorary Doctorate

1992

California College of Arts and Crafts, Honorary Doctorate

1990

San Francisco Art Institute, Honorary Doctorate

1985

San Francisco Arts Commission, Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture

1982

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy Institute Award in Art

1980

National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant

1979

Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

1970-75

University of California at Davis, Sculpture Grant

1965

National Art Foundation Award

1963

San Francisco Art Institute, 82nd Annual Sculpture Award

1959

Nealie Sullivan Award, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco

1957

Oakland Art Museum, Purchase Award in Painting

1953

Oakland Art Museum, First Award in Sculpture


COMMISSIONS:

 

1994

Marble sculpture Aurelia Roma for Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1987

North Carolina National Bank: Commission for marble sculpture Espanola for NCNB Tower,

Tampa, FL

 

The Linpro Company: Commission for marble sculpture Passage for the Christina Gateway

Project, Wilmington, DE

 

U.S. General Services Administration: Commission for marble sculpture Ventana al Pacifico for

U.S. Courthouse, Portland, OR

1980-82

Office of the State Architect, State of California: Commission for marble sculpture Tres Marias

for The Bateson Building, Sacramento, CA

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

 

2003

Sculptures and Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Metamorphosis: Recent Figurative Sculpture, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA *

2002

Gesture Studies, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

White Sculpture and Dream Drawings, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

 

Japonais, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

 

Sculpture / Drawings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

2001

Paintings and Sculpture: 1958 – 1970, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

2000

Recent Bronzes, Marbles, Plasters and Drawings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Recent Works, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

 

Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999

Drawings & Sculpture, Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV

 

Bronze Sculpture and Drawing, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CA

 

Sculptures & Drawings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

 

Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

1998

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

 

Recent Work, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

 

Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA

 

Sculpture and Drawings, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

1997-98

Early Work, 1953-1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveled to San Jose

Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

1997

Recent Marble Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

Recent Works, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA

 

San Marco Art Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA

 

Sculptures et Dessins, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris France

 

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Recent Drawings, Bronze and Marble Sculpture, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

 

Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

 

 

1996-99

A Sculptor's Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveled to Laumeier

Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

1996

Recent Drawings and Sculpture, Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

1995-96

Classical Expressions: Sculpture and Drawings, Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas,

NV *; traveled to: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ and Santa Fe, NM

1995

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Recent Drawings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO

 

Sculptures et Dessins, Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France

1994

Master Artist Tribute III, Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA *

 

Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

 

Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Fl

1993

Painted and Unpainted, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY *

 

Drawings and Sculpture, University of Alabama Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, AL

 

New Work: Marbles, Bronzes and Works on Paper, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Recent Work, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA *

 

Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

 

Works on Paper, Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

1992

She Said: I Tell You It Doesn't Hurt Me, Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA

 

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

 

Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1991

Drawings, Part I, 1953 – 1974, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

 

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

 

Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1990

Bronzes, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Dominican College, San Rafael, CA *

 

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Works on Paper, Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN

 

Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL

1989

Plasters, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA *

 

Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

 

New Works: Marble and Plaster, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Sculpture and Drawings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

Sculpture of the 1980s, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ *

1988

A Personal Selection, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA

 

Recent Sculpture and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1987

San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX

 

Sculptures and Drawimgs, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1986

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY        

1985

Sculpture and Drawings, Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, CA*

 

 

1984

The Human Figure: Sculpture and Drawings by Manuel Neri, Art Gallery, California State University,

Chico, CA

 

Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland *

 

Sculpture and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC

1983

Sculpture and Drawings, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, DC

1982

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1981-83

Drawimgs and Bronzes, The Art Museum Association; traveled to: Redding Museum and Art

Center, Redding, CA; Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA; Gardiner State University Art Gallery, Stillwater OK; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR; Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA; Florida International University, Miami, FL; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

1981

Sculpture & Drawings, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA *

 

Sculpture / Drawings, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA

 

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1980

Sculpture and Drawings, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA

 

Drawings, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

 

Grossmont College Gallery, El Cajon, CA

1979

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA

1977

Recent Sculpture and Drawings, ArtSpace/Open Ring, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

1976

Manuel Neri, Sculptor, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA *; traveled to Utah Museum of

Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT

 

The Remaking of Mary Julia: Sculpture in Progress, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA

 

Neri Sculpture, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, NY

1975

Sculpture and Drawings, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1974

Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

 

Sculpture and Installations, Davis Art Gallery, Stephens College, Columbia, MO

1972

Sacramento State College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA

 

New Sculpture, Davis Art Center, Davis, CA

1971

Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV

 

Arts of San Francisco: Manuel Neri, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

 

Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1970

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

St. Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA

1969

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

1968

Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1966

Neri Sculpture, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1964

Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA

1963

Neri Sculpture, New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1960

Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1959

Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1957

The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA


 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

 

2001

Kinds of Drawing, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA *

 

Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

 

Selected Modern Works, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism – Select Works, Hackett-Freedman Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

2000-01

Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900 – 2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,

Los Angeles, CA

2000

Modern Masters: Works on Paper, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Maquettes, Models and Muses Figurative Sculpture - Rodin to the Present, Winston Wachter

Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY

 

Generations II, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA

 

Summer Reading, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID

 

Summer 2000, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Omaggio a Modesto Lanzone: Artists, Galleries & Friends, Museo ItaloAmericano,

San Francisco, CA

 

Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT

1999-2000

Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House: Exhibition VIII, Jacqueline Kennedy

Garden, The White House, Washington, DC

1999

California Classics: Highlights from the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Isetan

Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to: Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui City, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; Tochigo Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigo, Japan

 

Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

 

What Is Art For?, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

 

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

 

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

 

Holiday Selections: Recent Work by Gallery Artists, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute: Artists Who Transformed American Culture,

Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Twenty-Five Treasures, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Self Images, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA

 

Large Paintings, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

 

A Theatre of Art III, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM & Scottsdale, AZ

 

The Figure in California Art, Robert Aichele Fine Arts, Menlo Park, CA

 

A Theatre of Art II, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM & Scottsdale, AZ

 

The Winter Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1997

The View from Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, Museum Moderner

Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

 

Cast Contemporary Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry, Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College,

Walla Walla, WA

 

The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR