WILLIAM T. WILEY

 

BORN:

 

1937

Bedford, IN

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

1962

Master of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute,  San Francisco, CA

1961

Bachelor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

 

AWARDS:

 

1980

Australian Arts Council, traveling grant

1976

The Art Institute of Chicago, Bartels Prize, 72nd American Exhibition

1968

San Francisco Art Institute, Nealie Sullivan Award

 

Whitney Museum of American Art, Purchase Prize

 

University of California at Davis, Creative Arts Award

1962

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sculpture Prize

 

The Art Institute of Chicago, Painting Prize, 65th Annual Exhibition,

1961

Art in America, New Talent Award

1960

Oakland Annual, First Prize in Painting

 

California School of Fine Arts, Fletcher Award

 

California School of Fine Arts Festival, First Prize

1959

California School of Fine Arts, Painting Prize

 

 

SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:

 

2003

New Watercolors: “My Counrty, is it Thee?”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

2002

Before & After, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

William T. Wiley, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA

 

William T. Wiley: Before & After, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID

2001

No Bull, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO

 

Unobjektive Art, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

2000

Recent and Relevant, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Santa Fe, NM

 

The String Theory…Is It…Sound? Yours As Ever, Marked Twine, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1999

Doubtsidersarte, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)

1998

When Prints Don’t Work, William T. Wiley, U.M.K.C. Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO

1997

Realistic Abstractions, Where Now & Then Collude, Marsha Mateyka Gallery,

Washington, DC

 

Animal Writes, Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe NM

 

60 Works for 60 Years, Albrecht-Kemper Museum, St. Joseph, MO (traveled)

1996

Nothing Lost From The Original, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California Palace of

The Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

 

William T. Wiley Celebrates 125 Years of the S.F. Art Institute, Rena Bransten Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

 

Seed Com, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, U. of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE

 

Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1995

What's Missing, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Walker Hill Museum, Seoul, Korea

 

Selections from The Forest Series, Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University,

Harrisonburg, VA

1994

Recent Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

 

Forest Series, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

Afterburner, Rena BranstenGallery, San Francisco, CA

 

New Monotypes, June, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

1993

New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN

1992

Small Paintings, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

 

One Man's Moon..., Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1991

Struck! Sure? Sound/Unsound,  The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; traveled to

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA

 

Recent Paintings and Watercolors, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Robert Hudson: Sculpture/William T. Wiley: Paintings, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis

University, Waltham, MA

 

What Is Not Dancing In Time?,  L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

1990

William T. Wiley at Riva Yares Gallery,  Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

 

Graphics,  Persons & Lindell, Helsinki, Finland

1989

New Paintings, Constructions and Watercolors, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL;  Fuller Gross

Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

William T. Wiley at Crown Point Press, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA

& New York, NY

1988

William T. Wiley, A Decade of Prints, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois, & New York, NY

 

Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors,  Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

 

Recent Works on Paper,  Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Recent Paintings and Drawings,  Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California at

Davis, Davis, CA

1987

What Is Not Drawing?,  L.A. Louver, Venice, CA

 

What Is Not Music?,  Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany; Galerie Grita

Insam, Vienna, Austria

1986

Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY

 

Recent Paintings and Watercolors, Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY; Fuller Goldeen

Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

1985

Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL

1984

Steal Witness For the Time Being,  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,

CA; traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

 

L.A. Louver, Venice, California

1983

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1982

William T. Wiley: 1982,  Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA;

traveled to Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS; Foster Gallery,  University of Wisconsin, Eau Claiure, WI

1981

William T. Wiley, The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver,

BC, Canada; Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY

 

William T. Wiley, Florida State University Gallery and Museum, Tallahassee, FL; traveled

to Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, FL; U.S.F. Contemporary Art Museum, University of Southern Florida, Tampa, FL

1980

Realities Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane,

Queensland, Australia

 

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1979-81

Wiley Territory, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to Dallas Museum of Fine

Arts, Dallas, TX; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

 

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1978

Myra Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS

 

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1977

Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, France

1976

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1975

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1974

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1973

Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1972

University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;  traveled to:

Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1971

Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy

 

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1969

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL

1968

Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1967

Art Gallery, Mills College, Oakland, CA

1965

Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA

1964

Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1962

Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

1960

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

 

Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS:

 

2002

High Tech/Low Tech Hybrids: art in a digital age, Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Regional

Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA

 

Night Skies & Imaginary Coordinates: The Artist as Navigator, Palo Alto Cultural Center,

Palo Alto, CA

2001

Music in My Soul, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA

2000

Riva Yares 2000, the First 35 Years, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ & Santa Fe, NM

 

The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Kemper

Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

 

Fallout, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Celebrating Modern Art, The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

 

An American Focus: The Anderson Graphics Art Collections, California Palace of the Legion

of Honor, San Francisco, CA

 

Crossroads of American Sculpture, David Smith, George Rickey, John Chamberlain, Robert Indiana,

William T. Wiley, Bruce Nauman, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

 

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 1940-2000, Harvard

University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

 

Select Prints Shark’s Ink, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO

 

Made in California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA

1999

Art at the End of the Century: Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,

WI; traveled to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (catalogue)

 

Piecing it Together: A Visual Journey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

 

Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute: A Selection of Artists Who Reshaped American Culture,

Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA  (catalogue)

 

Making Change: 100 Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box, The Jewish Museum,

San Francisco, CA

 

25th Anniversary of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hirshhorn Museum and

Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (catalogue)

 

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

Tokyo, Japan; Kukui City Art Museum, Fukui, Japan; MOMA, Wakayama, Japan; tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan (catalogue)

1998

What is Art For? William T. Wiley and Mary Hull Webster, Oakland Museum of Art,

Oakland, CA

 

Collaborations: William Allan Robert Hudson, William Wiley, Palm Springs Desert Museum,

Palm Springs, CA

 

Art Making Book Making Art, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

 

The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Lead Into Gold, Arts & Consciousness Gallery, John F. Kennedy University Arts Annex,

Berkeley, CA

 

Form & Function of Drawing Today – 90’s, Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

 

A Singular Vision: Prints from Landfall Press, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

Summer Print Show, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC

 

Drawings, Marsha Mateyka gallery, Washington, DC

 

Drawings 1856-1996, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC

 

One to Another, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN

 

Art of the Americas: 100 Years of Collecting, Furman Art Gallery, Indiana State University,

Terre Haute, IN

1997

Art of the Americas Pride of Place, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA

 

New Collaborative Works, Robert Hudson, Richard Shaw, William T. Wiley, San Francisco Art

Institute, 505 Sansome Street Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Homage to George Herriman, Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

 

The Hirshhorn Collects, Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture

Garden, Washington, DC

 

20/20 CAF Looks Forward and Back, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,

Santa Barbara, CA

 

Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America, National Museum of American Art,

Washington, DC

 

Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery,

Lincoln, NE

 

Di Rosa Preserve, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA

 

Landfall Press: Twenty-Five Years of Printmaking, Milwaukee, WI & Davenport Art Museum,

Davenport, IA

 

New Collaborative Works Created at Magnolia Editions, Robert Hudson, Richard Shaw and

William Wiley, California State University, Hayward, CA

 

Thirty-Five Years at Crown Point Press, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Palace of

Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA

 

Generations: The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

 

Art-In-The-Woods, Overland Park, KS

 

48th Annual American Academy Purchase Exhibition, The American Academy of Arts and

Letters, New York, NY

1996

Imaginary Realities: Surrealism Then and Now, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA

 

Fables and Second Thoughts, Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University,

Emporia, KS

 

Working Proof, 20 Years of Prints from Shark’s Inc., U.C. Art Galleries, University of

Colorado at Boulder, CO

 

Signs & Symbols, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY

 

Figuratively Speaking, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA

 

Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts

Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

 

Contemporary Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and presses, National Museum of

American Art, Washington, DC

 

Mirth, Merriment and the Muse, National Institute of Art and Disabilities, Richmond, CA

 

Selections from the ISU Permanent Art Collection, Furman Art Gallery, Indiana State

University, IN

 

It’s Only Rock and Roll, Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts

Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue; traveled)

 

Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American

Art, New York, NY

 

The Stephane Janssen Collection of Contemporary American and European Art: In Memory of R.

Michael Johns, The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

 

Anniversary Gifts to the Collection, University of California, Berkeley, CA

 

Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum of Contemporary

Art, New York, NY

 

Timeless Paintings from USA, 17 Rue De Lille, France

 

Vested Power: Icons of Domination and Transcendence, Main Gallery, Visual Arts Complex,

California State University, Fullerton, CA

 

Andre Milan exhibits American Miniatures, Folka de S. Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Works from the Permanent collection of Painting and Sculpture, San</