AL SOUZA
BORN:
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1944 |
Plymouth,
MA |
EDUCATION:
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1970-72 |
MFA,
Painting: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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1967-70 |
Art
Students League, New York, NY |
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1962-67 |
BS,
Civil Engineering: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
TEACHING:
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1992-present |
University
of Houston, Houston, TX |
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1991 |
University
of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA |
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1988-92 |
San
Diego State University, San Diego, CA |
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1987-88 |
East
Texas State University, Commerce, TX |
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1987 |
University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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1982-87 |
Clark
University, Worcester, MA |
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1981 |
University
of Houston, Houston, TX |
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1980-81 |
Rhode
Island School of Design, Providence, RI |
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1979-80 |
University
of North Texas, Denton, TX |
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1974-77 |
Amherst
College, Amherst, MA |
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1973-79 |
Smith
College, Northampton, MA |
SELECTED GRANTS:
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1999 |
Marie
Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program |
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Ucross
Foundation Grant |
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Cultural
Arts Council of Houston, Artist Fellowship Award |
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1997 |
Pollock-Krasner
Foundation |
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Roswell
Foundation Grant |
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1990 |
California
Arts Council Artist Fellowship |
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1987-88 |
National
Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship |
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1985,
1981 |
Massachusetts
Council on the Arts Fellowship |
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1978-79 |
National
Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship |
RESIDENCIES:
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2001 |
Rockefeller
Foundation, Bellagio Center,Bellagio,Italy |
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2000 |
Djerassi
Resident Artists Program, Woodside, CA |
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1999 |
Ucross
Foundation Residency Program, Clearmont, WY |
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1997-98 |
Roswell
A.I.R. Program, Roswell, NM |
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1996 |
International
A.I.R. Programme, Guernsey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom |
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1995 |
Schloss
Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria |
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1988 |
Galerie
Zietkunst, Kitzbuhel, Austria |
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1973 |
Edinburgh
Arts Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
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2003 |
Charles
Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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2002 |
Pillsbury
and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX* |
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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 |
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Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Reynolds
Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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2000 |
Pillsbury
and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX* |
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Quint
Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1998 |
Galveston
Arts Center, Galveston, TX |
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Roswell
Museum of Art, Roswell, NM * |
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Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1997 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Quint
Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA |
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1996 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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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 |
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1994 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Condeso/Lawler
Gallery, New York, NY |
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1992 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Gallery
Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
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1991 |
Quint-Krichman
Projects Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA |
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Barry
Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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1990 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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1989 |
Galerie
Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbuhel, Austria |
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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 * |
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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 |
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Galerie
Hanns Christian Hoschek, Graz, Austria |
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1985 |
Moody
Gallery, Houston, TX |
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Susan
Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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1984 |
Galerie
Seben Stern, Steyr, Austria |
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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 |
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OK
Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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1982 |
Dobrick
Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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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 * |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Galerie
im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria |
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OK
Harris Gallery, New York, NY |
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* = Catalogue |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
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2003 |
Sweet Tooth, COPIA:
American Center for Wine, Food & the Arts, Napa, CA * |
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Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA* |
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Red on Red, Savannah
College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA |
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2002 |
Artists to Artists: A Decade of the Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, NY * |
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Whimsy, Elizabeth
Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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Contemporary Narrative, Gallery
Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL |
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2001 |
Rupture & Revision: Collage in America, Pavel Zoubok, Inc., New York, NY |
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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 * |
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1999 |
International Communication Art Biennale, Society for the Culture of Living, Sabac, Yugoslavia |
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1998 |
3 Texas Artists,
Alfred University, Alfred, NY |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 * |
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1989 |
Messages from the South,
Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX |
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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 * |
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1988 |
Summertime Blues, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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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 |
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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 * |
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1986 |
Seventh Heaven, The
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
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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 |
|
1985 |
Comic Relief, Barry
Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX |
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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 |
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Still Lifes, Museum
of Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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1983 |
The Horse Show,
Robert Freidus Gallery, New York, NY |
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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 * |
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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 * |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
|
1978 |
Painting & Sculpture Today, 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN * |
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Color Photography,
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY |
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Time: The Reproductive Media, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT |
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Small Objects, Robert
Freidus Gallery, New York, NY |
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Contemporary Art & Modern Living, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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1977 |
Off the Beaten Path,
State University College, Potsdam, NY * |
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Outside the City Limits – Landscape by New York City Artists, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, NY * |
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The Target Collection of American Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; traveled
to: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX * |
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Warm Truths & Cold Deceits, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA; traveled
to: California State University, Chico, CA; University of California, Irvine,
CA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA * |
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Some Color Photographs,
Castelli Graphics, New York, NY |
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Porticas Visuais,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
|
1976 |
Photography as Art,
Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia; Gallery of Modern Art, Zagreb, Yugoslavia * |
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Sculpture Invitational,
Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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La Bienale di Venezia,
Swiss Pavilion, Venice, Italy |
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1975 |
Vargen, Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, Sweden * |
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1973 |
Edinburgh Arts ’73,
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
|
1971 |
Abstract Painting,
DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA * |
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* = Catalogue |
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS:
Anderson
Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Alternative
Museum, New York, NY