Manuel Neri
Biography
BORN
1930 Sanger, CA
EDUCATION
1949-50 San Francisco City College, San Francisco, CA 1951-52 University of California, Berkeley 1951-56 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland 1956-58 California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco
TEACHING
1959-65 California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA 1963-64 University of California, Berkeley 1965-90 University of California, Davis
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1953 Oakland Art Museum, First Award in Sculpture 1957 Oakland Art Museum, Purchase Award in Painting 1959 Nealie Sullivan Award, California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco 1963 San Francisco Art Institute, 82nd Annual Sculpture Award 1965 National Art Foundation Award 1970-75 University of California at Davis, Sculpture Grant 1979 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship 1980 National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant 1982 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy-Institute Award in Art 1985 San Francisco Arts Commission, Award of Honor for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture 1990 San Francisco Art Institute, Honorary Doctorate for Outstanding Achievement in Sculpture 1992 California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA, Honorary Doctorate 1995 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, Honorary Doctorate
COMMISSIONS
1980-82 Office of the State Architect, State of California, Commission for marble sculpture Tres Marías for The Bateson Building, Sacramento, CA 1987 North Carolina National Bank, Commission for marble sculpture Española 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 Pacífico for U.S. Courthouse, Portland, OR 1994 Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1957 The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 1959 Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1960 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June 20–July 16 1963 New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Neri Sculpture, July 20–August 17 1964 Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA 1966 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Neri Sculpture 1968 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1969 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1970 St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1971 Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno San Francisco Museum of Art, Arts of San Francisco: Manuel Neri, August 6– September 5. Brochure Quay Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri at Quay, November 9–27 1972 Sacramento State College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Work by Manuel Neri, March 22–April 18 Davis Art Center, Davis, CA, Manuel Neri: New Sculpture, October 27–November 16 1974 Art Gallery, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA, February 13–March 8 Davis Art Gallery, Stephens College, Columbia, MO, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Installations, October 3–23 1975 Quay Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, April 1–26 1976 Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York, Neri Sculpture, March 16–April 10 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA, The Remaking of Mary Julia: Sculpture in Process, May 4–15 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Manuel Neri, Sculptor, Sept. 21–Nov. 28. Travel: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, March 12–May 1, 1977. Catalogue 1977 ArtSpace/Open Ring, E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Manuel Neri: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, July 22–August 20. Catalogue 1979 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, May 15–June 9 1980 Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, April 1–30 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, Manuel Neri: Drawings, July 1–31 Grossmont College Gallery, El Cajon, CA, November 10–December 10 1981 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Manuel Neri, January 15–March 1. Catalogue Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, February 7–28. Brochure The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, Manuel Neri: Sculpture/Drawings, May 7–June 5 The Art Museum Association, Manuel Neri: Drawings and Bronzes. Travel through 1983: 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; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock; Abilene Fine Arts Museum, Abilene, TX; Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA; Florida International University, Miami; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI; Laumeier International Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. Brochure John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, November 17–December 19 1982 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, November 7–27 1983 Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington, DC, Manuel Neri, Sculpture and Drawings, January 26–February 22 1984 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri, Sculpture and Drawings, February 23–March 24 Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC, March 1031 Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, The Human Figure: Sculpture and Drawings by Manuel Neri, March 26–April 13 Gimpel-Hanover & Andre Emmerich Galerien, Zurich, Switzerland, April 16–June 7 1985 Robert Else Gallery, California State University, Sacramento, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, October 15–November 12. Catalogue 1986 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, February 1–March 1 1987 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, March 14–April 22 San Antonio Art Institute, San Antonio, TX, November 24–December 22 1988 College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, Manuel Neri, A Personal Selection, April 14–May 21. Brochure John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri: Recent Sculpture and Drawings, April 28–May 28 James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, October 29–November 27 1989 Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, March 10–April 3 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Manuel Neri, New Works: Marble and Plaster, April 29–May 27 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Manuel Neri: Plaster, May 25–July 23. Catalogue Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, June 1–July 9 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Manuel Neri: Sculpture of the 1980s, November 18–December 25. Catalogue 1990 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, March 21–April 21 Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, Manuel Neri: Bronzes, August 10–October 21. Catalogue Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, Manuel Neri: Works on Paper, October 19–November 13 San Marco Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA, November 15–December 15 Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Coconut Grove, FL, Manuel Neri, December 28–January 23, 1991 1991 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, Manuel Neri, February 2–23 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, Manuel Neri: Drawings, Part I. 1953–1974, April 7–May 19 Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Manuel Neri, April 12–June 15 Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Manuel Neri, June 1–August 31 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, Manuel Neri: Drawings, Part II. 1974–1991, October 13–December 6 1992 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, March 5–April 4 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, March 27–May 2 Margulies\Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, May 7–June 11 Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA, She Said: I Tell You It Doesn't Hurt Me, June 5–August 16 1993 Bingham Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, January 8–31 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Manuel Neri, New Work: Marbles, Bronzes and Works on Paper, January 28–March 6 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, February 11–March 9 University of Alabama Art Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Manuel Neri–Drawings and Sculpture, March 26–May 2 Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY, Manuel Neri: Painted and Unpainted, July 31–September 19. Catalogue Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Manuel Neri: Recent Work, August 31–October 2. Catalogue 1994 Margulies/Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, February 2–23 Hearst Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA, Manuel Neri: Master Artist Tribute III, November 11–December 23. Catalogue Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, December 2, 1994–January 15, 1995 1995 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France, Manuel Neri: Sculptures et Dessins, January 21–February 28 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, March 11–April 15 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri: Recent Drawings, May 23–June 24 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Manuel Neri: Bronze Sculpture and Drawing, November 10, 1995–January 6, 1996 Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas, Manuel Neri—Classical Expressions: Sculpture and Drawings, November 16–December 31. Travel: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, February 15–March 16, 1996; Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, July 5–30, 1996. Catalogue 1996 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, Manuel Neri: Recent Drawings and Sculpture, February 9–March 7 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Manuel Neri: A Sculptor’s Drawings. Travel: Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, June 1–August 11; Academy of Art College, San Francisco, April 13–May 17, 1997; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE, August 22–October 26, 1997; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, February 1–March 29, 1998; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, April 24–June 21, 1998. Catalogue 1997 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Manuel Neri: Early Work 1953–1978, February 1–May 5. Travel: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, June 7– September 14; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, January 10– May 3, 1998. Catalogue The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Manuel Neri: Recent Marble Sculpture, February 1–May 5. Brochure San Marco Art Gallery, Dominican College, San Rafael, CA, Manuel Neri, March 3–29 Galerie Claude Samuel, Paris, France, Manuel Neri: Sculptures et Dessins, March 18– April 25 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Manuel Neri, March 22–April 26 Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri, May 27–June 28 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Manuel Neri: Recent Works, June 15– September 7 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Manuel Neri, June 30–July 31 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Manuel Neri: Recent Drawings, Bronze and Marble Sculpture, November 8, 1997–January 3, 1998 1998 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, March 7–31 Loggia, 1998 Decorators’ Show House, Crosby Estate, Hillsborough, CA, April 26– May 24 Robert Mondavi Winery, Oakville, CA, Manuel Neri, May 3–July 2 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, October 21, 1998–January 24, 1999 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Manuel Neri, November 14–December 31 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York,, Manuel Neri – Recent Work, December 1, 1998– January 9, 1999 1999 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, Manuel Neri: Sculpture, February 6–March 2 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, Manuel Neri: Sculpture & Drawings, May 19–June 19 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Manuel Neri, September 11–October 16 Stremmel Gallery, Reno, NV, Manuel Neri: Drawings and Sculpture, October 14–November 6 2000 Campbell Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, February 15–March 20 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Manuel Neri: Recent Works, July 7–August 1 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Manuel Neri: Recent Bronzes, Marbles, Plasters and Drawings, September 5–October 26 2001 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, Manuel Neri, April 7–May 1 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri, Paintings and Sculpture: 1958–1970, October 4–27. Catalogue 2002 B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA, Manuel Neri/Japonais: Sculpture and Paintings on Paper, May 2–June 1 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, Manuel Neri: Sculpture/Drawings, November 1– December 28 2003 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Manuel Neri—Metamorphosis: Recent Figurative Sculpture, February 6–March 29. Catalogue Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, March 22–April 19 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Manuel Neri: Sculpture and Drawings, June 29–July 28 2004 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, Collaboration and the Creative Process: Artists' Books by Manuel Neri and Mary Julia Klimenko, April 16–June 4 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Manuel Neri: Recent Marble Sculpture, June 3– July 31
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1955 The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1957 The 6 Gallery, San Francisco, Bruce McGaw/Manuel Neri, January 1959 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Paintings by Sam Francis, Wally Hedrick, and Fred Martin, Sculpture by Wally Hedrick and Manuel Neri, February 3–22 1960 Batman Gallery, San Francisco, Group Show, December 1961 Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, The Nude, September 1962 Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA, Some Points of View–'62, October 30– November 20. Catalogue Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, San Francisco 9 Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (exhibition with Joan Brown) San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Works in Clay Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY 1963 San Francisco Art Institute, Some New Art in the Bay Area, March–April Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley CA, Thirty Sculptors, June 1–23 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, California Sculpture Today, August 4–September 15 San Francisco Art Institute, 82nd Annual Invitational Primus-Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1964 Stanford University Art Museum, Stanford, CA, Current Painting and Sculpture of the Bay Area, October 8–November 29. Catalogue David Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles, Joan Brown/Manuel Neri, November–December 1965 San Francisco Museum of Art, Bay Region: Prints and Drawings (two-artist show with Wayne Thiebaud), January 12–February 21 1966 University of California, Irvine, Abstract Expressionist Ceramics. Travel: San Francisco Museum of Art
Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Slant Step Show, September1967 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Funk Art, April 18–May 29 California State College, Fullerton, Recorded Images/Dimensional Media, October 20– November 12 1968 Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, The West Coast Now, February 9–March 6. Travel: San Francisco and Los Angeles San Francisco Museum of Art, On Looking Back: Bay Area, 1945–1962, August 8– September 8 University of Nevada, Reno, Sculpture Invitational. Catalogue 1969 Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, The Repair Show, March 13–April 4 Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Artists: Leonard Edmondson, Joseph Raffael, Manuel Neri, August 8–31 Jason Aver Gallery, San Francisco, Four Man Show: Tony De Lap, Craig Kauffman, Ed Moses, Manuel Neri, December Reed College, Portland, OR, Six Bay Area Artists 1970 Memorial Union Gallery, University of California, Davis, Garden Show, January University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, The Eighties, March 17–April 12 San Francisco Art Institute, Manuel Neri and William Geis, September–October Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture 1971 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Sculptured Lines (with Harold Paris and Gerald Walburg), July 27–September 5 University of Nevada, Reno, Manuel Neri and William Wiley, October St. Mary's College Art Gallery, Moraga, CA, The Good Drawing Show, October 30– November 26. Catalogue 1972 E. B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA, Sacramento Sampler I, April 1–May 7. Travel: The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1973 Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA, A Ladder Show, October 6–31. Catalogue San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Drawing Invitational 1974 San Francisco Museum of Art, A Third World Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, June 8–July 28. Catalogue 1975 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Public Sculpture/Urban Environment, September–December JPL Gallery, London, England, Sculptors as Draughtsmen JPL Gallery, London, California Gold (Sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency), October 15–November 21. Travel through 1978 to Museums and galleries in Europe, the Middle East, and India. Catalogue 1976 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY, Graphics from the International Institute of Experimental Printmaking, February 12–March 6 San Francisco Museum of Art, California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, September 3, 1976–January 2, 1977. Travel: National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC. Catalogue San Francisco Art Institute, Other Sources: An American Essay, September 17– November 7. Catalogue Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, The Handmade Paper Object, October 29–November 29. Travel: The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL. Catalogue Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, The Biennale of Sydney, November 11–December 19. Catalogue 1977 Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL, California Bay Area Art-–Update, May 6– June 15. Catalogue Kenmin Prefecture Hall, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo/Bay Area Exchange of Contemporary Art: Kenmin Prefecture Hall, Tokyo/80 Langton Street San Francisco, October 25–November 12
Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Washington, DC, Paper as Medium. Travel. Catalogue Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro 1978 University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, Bay Area Art of the 60's and 70's, The Gift of Dr. Sam West, January 8–March 19. Catalogue Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, A Century of Ceramics in the United States 1878–1978. Catalogue 1979 Independent Curators, New York, NY, Masks. Travel in US through 1981 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 10" x 10" 1980 San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, Sculpture in California 1975–1980, May 9–June 22 International Sculpture Center, Washington, DC, The Eleventh International Sculpture Conference Exhibition, June Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, NY, Contemporary Naturalism: Works of the 1970s, June 8–August 24. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 20 American Artists, July 24–September 7. Catalogue 1981 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Art Institute Alumni:Selections from the Permanent Collection, January 8–March 8 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, San Francisco Alumni Exhibition, January 9– March 9 Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Davis School: Prints and Drawings, January 24–February 22 Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA, The Sun Gallery, July 24–August 30. Catalogue Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Variants: Drawings by Sculptors, October 15, 1981–May 30, 1982 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibit, November 16–December 20 1982 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Paintings and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards, March 8–April 4 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, Paintings and Sculptures by Recipients of Art Awards, May 19–June 13 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Bay Area Sculpture from the Collection, Summer The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 100 Years of Sculpture, August 7–October 17. Catalogue Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA, Forgotten Dimension: A Survey of Small Sculpture in California Now. Traveled by the Art Museum Association: San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA; Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal; Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO; Florida International University, Miami; Laumeier International Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton. Catalogue Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Memorial Union Art Gallery, and Pence Gallery, University of California, Davis, Sculptors at UC Davis: Past & Present, September 20– October 29. Catalogue DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA, Northern California Art of the Sixties, October 12–December 12. Catalogue 1983 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Resource/Reservoir, CCAC: 75 Years, January 13–February 27. Brochure Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, The United States of the Arts, February 1–March 13. Brochure Seattle Art Museum, Recent West Coast Acquisitions, February 12–April 26 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection/ Sculpture, April–June 5 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bay Area Collects, April 21–June 26 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, California Contemporary: Recent Work of Twenty-three Artists, May 1–29. Catalogue Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, The Sixth Day, May 8–June 15. Catalogue Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, Sculpture Now: Recent Figurative Works, October 11–November 13 1984 Spokane Center Gallery, Eastern Washington University, Cheney, Figurative Bronze Sculpture, January 13–February 23 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, Painters at UC Davis, Part I: 1950s–1960s, January 23–February 21 California State University, Long Beach, Figurative Sculpture: Ten Artists/Two Decades, March 13–April 29. Catalogue Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, Drawings Since 1974, March 15–May 13. Catalogue Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Sculpture Show (Organized by California/International Arts Foundation), June 2–August 12. Travel: CAPC (Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux), Bordeaux, France; Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, England; Sonja Henies og Neils Onstads Stiftelser, Høvikodden (Oslo), Norway. Catalogue The Oakland Museum, Dilexi Years, October 13–December 1 Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, Works in Bronze, A Modern Survey, November 2–December 16. Travel through 1986. Catalogue Seattle Art Museum, American Sculpture: Three Decades, November 15, 1984–January 27, 1985 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 36th Annual Purchase Exhibition: Hassam and Speicher Fund, November 19–December 16. Brochure San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The 20th Century: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Collection, December 9, 1984–February 17, 1985. Catalogue 1985 Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Santa Barbara Collects, Part I, January 26–March 24. Catalogue The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945–1980, June 15–August 18 The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Body & Soul: Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, September 5–October 12. Travel: Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL; Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection, November 7, 1985–January 12, 1986. Travel to: De Cordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA; Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin; Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI. Catalogue Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Contemporary Bronze: Six in the Figurative Tradition, November 19, 1985–January 19, 1986. Travel: Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KS; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA. Catalogue 1986 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, Cal Collects, April 2–May 18. Brochure Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY, Figurative Sculpture: The 80s, June 10–July 3 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Sculpture: 1959–1980, July 20– August 24 Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL, Collectors' Choice, October 1986–February 1987 North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, Casting Across America: An Artist Selects, October 10–November 9 1987 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, California Figurative Sculpture, January 30–March 15. Catalogue Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Thirty From 25, April 24– May 22. Catalogue Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, Contemporary Hispanic Art in the United States, May 2–July 26. Travel: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Museum of Fine Arts and Museum of International Folk Art, Santa Fe, NM; Denver Art Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Catalogue Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa, OK, The Eloquent Object, September 20, 1987–January 3, 1988. Travel: The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA. Catalogue Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Sculptors' Works on Paper, September 28–October 14 American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 39th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, November 16–December 13 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Sculptors on Paper: New Work, December 5, 1987–January 31, 1988. Travel: Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Catalogue 1988 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Sheldon Sampler: One Hundred American Masterworks. Catalogue Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, West Coast Contemporary, July 14–August 14 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920–1970, September 29, 1988–January 27, 1989. Travel: El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, PR; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL. Catalogue Leavenworth Carnegie Arts Center, Leavenworth, KS, Contemporary Masters Kansas Tour: Selections from the Collection of Southwestern Bell Corporation, November 4–December 26. Travel in Kansas: Kansas to Baker Arts Center, Liberal; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University; Salina Arts Center, Salina; Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia; Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka. Catalogue Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Art on Paper, November 13–December 11 Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Cast in Walla Walla, November 14–December 16 Art Department Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, Counter Visions: Pioneers in Bay Area Art, November 16–December 9. Brochure 1989 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, Marmo: The New Italian Stone Age, March 16–April 30. Catalogue Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, A.C.D.H.H.H.J.N.P.P.S.T., April 23–May 24 Security Pacific Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sculptural Intimacies: Recent Small-Scale Work, November 12, 1989–January 6, 1990. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950–1965, December 14, 1989–February 4, 1990. Travel: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Catalogue 1990 Natsoulas/Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA, Lyrical Vision: The '6' Gallery, 1954–1957, January 12–February 23. Catalogue Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, National Drawing Invitational, March 1–April 8 Barbara Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, DC, Manuel Neri, Erik Levine, Mel Chin, June 5–July 28 Queens Museum, Queens, NY, The Expressionist Surface: Contemporary Art in Plaster, June 9–August 1. Catalogue Butler Institute, Youngstown, OH, California A-Z and Return, June 24–August 19. Catalogue 1991 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Large Scale Works on Paper, February 21– March 16. Catalogue Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Sculpture: Visions Transformed III, July 5–August 9 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, New Acquisitions, September 11–November 17 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA, Sculptural Perspectives for the Nineties, October 6–December 29. Catalogue Museo Estudio Diego Rivera, Mexico City, Pasión por Frida, October 11, 1991– January 31, 1992. Travel. Catalogue 1992 Colorado University Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, Visiting Artist Program: 20th Anniversary Show, January 15–February 22. Catalogue. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, California North and South, February 13–April 15 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Gifts and Acquisitions in Context, May 21–July 5 1993 The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM, The Human Factor: Figurative Sculpture Reconsidered, March 14–July 4. Catalogue Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, Beyond the Bay: The Figure, May 12–June 27 Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA, Now and Again: Figure and Landscape, October 2–November 21 Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX, Human Nature–Human Form, October 30– December 12. Brochure American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, 45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition, November 8–December 5 1994 Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Lyricism & Light, January 20–April 24. Brochure Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, California in the '70s: Bay Area Painting and Sculpture Revisited, March 2–30 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the Di Rosa Collection, March 11–May 8. Catalogue Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Spring/Summer Exhibition, May 21–September 30. Catalogue Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, The Essential Gesture, October 15– December 31. Catalogue The White House, Washington, DC, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House, October 1994–February 24, 1995. Brochure 1995 Nationsbank Plaza, Charlotte, NC, Black & White & Read All Over, January 16– October 31. Catalogue San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture (Inaugural Exhibition), January 18–April 25 Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, California in the 1960s: Funk Revisited, February 1–28 Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, Working Together: Joan Brown and Manuel Neri, 1958–1964, March 21–April 29. Catalogue Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, Spoleto Festival USA, March 26–June 11 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Recent Acquisitions, April 12–June Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA, Concept in Form: Artists' Sketchbooks & Maquettes, October 5, 1995–January 7, 1996 Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA, A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, November 1, 1995–January 28, 1996 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Beat Culture and the New America, 1950–1965, November 8, 1995–February 4, 1996. Travel: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco. Catalogue California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, Treasures of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, November 11, 1995–March 3, 1996 1996 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, The Robert Arneson Tribute Exhibition, May 22–June 15. Brochure San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Illustrious History 1871–1996, November 12–December 11. Travel: Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York; Montgomery Gallery and John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco. Catalogue John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, Beat Galleries and Beyond, October 9–November 8 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, 48th American Academy Purchase Exhibition, November 4–December 1 Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA, 20th Century Art from the Museum’s Collection, November
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, Collection Highlights: 1945 to the Present, April 12, 1996–June 1, 19971997 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, The 4th Annual Artists’ Valentine, January 21–February 8 Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS, Twenty-First Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, February 19–March 19. Catalogue Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria, The View from Denver: Contemporary American Art from the Denver Art Museum, July 4, 1997–Spring 1998. Travel: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO. Catalogue Sheehan Gallery, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, Cast Contemporary Sculpture from the Walla Walla Foundry, August 30–September 28. Brochure Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, A Theater of Art, November 13–December 31 1998 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Works on Paper, March 21–April 25 Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, and Scottsdale, AZ, A Theatre of Art II, August 28– October 17. Brochure Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM and Scottsdale, AZ, A Theatre of Art III, November 14–December 31. Brochure 1999 The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, What is Art For?: William T. Wiley & Mary Hull Webster & 100 Artists, March–July 25 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Large Paintings, May 11–June 19 San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Into the 21st Century: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 23–September 12. Catalogue Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, Self Images, July 10–August 3 Isetan Museum of Art, Japan, California Classics: Highlights from the Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 10– August 8. Travel in Japan: Fukui City Art Museum, August 13– September 12; Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, September 19– October 24; Tochigo Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, October 31– December 5. Catalogue Denver Art Museum, Modern and Contemporary Galleries, July 31– December 5 Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Twenty-Five Treasures, September 7– October 9. Catalogue Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute: Artists Who Transformed American Culture, October 1– 30 The White House, Washington, DC, Twentieth Century American Sculpture at The White House: Exhibition VIII, October 1999–October 2000. Brochure Campbell-Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, Holiday Selections: Recent Work by Gallery Artists, November 16–December 18 2000 Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT, 32nd Annual Art Auction, January 29–March 10. Catalogue Museo ItaloAmericano, San Francisco, Omaggio a Modesto Lanzone: Artists, Galleries & Friends, March 23–June 4 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, Summer Exhibition, June 9–July 28 Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID, Summer Reading, August 4–September 1 Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Riva Yares 2000: The First 35 Years, September 1– October 16. Travel: Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, November 4–December 31. Catalogue B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA, Generations II, October 24–December 2 Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Modern Masters: Works onPaper, December 2, 2000–January 27, 2001 2001 Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Kinds of Drawing, March 13–April 13. Catalogue Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ, Summer Exhibition, July 21– September 16. Catalogue Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Selected Modern Works, August 2– September 1 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism—Select Works, September 6–October 27. Catalogue 2002 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA, CCAC Tribute, June–July Riva Yares Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, A Theater of Art IV, August 9–September 30 2003 Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ, Color, January 18–-March 20 Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA, American Artists in Tuscany, July 9–August 23 Scott White Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, Form & Conscience: Figurative Art from Mid-Century to Present, July 11–August 30 Carl Schlossberg Fine Arts at the Peninsula Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA, The Peninsula Show 2003, November 1–9 2004 Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, Small-Scale Sculpture: Movement and Form, February 5–March 27