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Biography - Brad Davis

Born

1942 Duluth, Minnesota

Education

1961 St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
1962 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1963 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1966 University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, B.A.
1970 Hunter College, New York, Graduate work

Selected One Person Exhibitions

1992 “Recent Paintings,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1990 “Brad Davis,” Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL
1989 “New Landscapes,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Drawings,” Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1988 “Brad Davis: Hanging Lake Falls Series,” Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1987 “Landscapes: A Collaboration in Bronze and Ceramic,” with Brad Miller at Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1986 Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1984 “Brad Davis/Janis Provisor,” McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX
“The Pines: Brad Davis,” The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1983 Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1982 “Ceramics Collaboration,” with Ned Smyth, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1981 Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1980 Tony Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1979 Mayor Gallery, London, England
Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1977 “The Garden,” A collaboration with Ned Smyth at Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1975 Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1972 98 Greene Street Loft, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

1992 “The Midtown Flower Show,” Midtown Payson Galleries, NY. Traveled to
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
1991 “Landscape Paintings,” Annina Nosei Gallery, NY
“In Bloom,” ABC, NY
1990 “Re-entry into Painting, 1969-1974,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Pattern and Decoration Revisited,” The Mayor Gallery, London, England
“Summer Group Show,” Joanne Lyon Gallery, Aspen, CO
1989 “Visions and Visionaries: Contemporary Landscapes,” Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
“The Natural Image: Nature as Image in Contemporary Art,” Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
1988 “Intimate Environments,” McIntosh Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“The Unnatural Landscape,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Land,” ACA Contemporary, NY
1987 “Colorado Drawings,” Arvada Art Center, Arvada, CO
“Panoramas and Prospects,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Americana,” Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
“The Fabric Workshop: A Decade of Pattern,” The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1986 “Woodcuts,” Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
“Dog Days of August,” Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, NY
“Paysages Contemporains,” Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels
“Black & White,” Organized through the Museum of Modern Art Advisory, NY
“Made in China,” Organized through the Museum of Modern Art Advisory, NY
1985 “A New Beginning,” Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
“Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century,” The J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
“Picture Frame, Frame Picture,” Gabrielle Bryers, NY
“Anniottanta,” Bologna, Italy
“Homework,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1984 “Five Painters in New York,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“The Innovative Landscape,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Arabesque: Grand Gestures in Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts,” Bette Stoler Gallery, NY
1983 “New Decorative Works from the Collection of Norma and William Roth,” Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
“New Decorative Art,” The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
“Back to the USA,” Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Germany. Traveled to Rheinische Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Sweden.
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Inaugural Exhibition, Part I: An Historical Overview,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Part II: New Works,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1982 “Recent Drawings on a Large Scale,” Stockton State College, Ponoma, NJ
“Aspects of Post-Modernism,” Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“New York Now,” Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover. Traveled to Kunstverein, Munich; Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Kunstverein fru die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf.
“Decoration and Representation,” Alberta College Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
1981 “Pattern: Painting,” South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, Berkeshire, England
“ICA Street Sights 2,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“Aspects of Post-Modernism: Decorative and Narrative Art,” Squibb Gallery, E.R. Squibb & Sons, Inc., Princeton, NJ
“Landscape: Sam Cady, Brad Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Neil Jenney and Joe
Zucker,” Holly Solomon Gallery
“The Pattern Principle,” Ohio University, Lancaster, OH
“Selections from Holly Solomon Editions,” Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
“The Decorative Image,” McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“The Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art 20th Anniversary Exhibition,”
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Alternatives in Retrospect: An Historical Overview 1969-1975,” The New
Museum, NY
“A New Bestiary: Animal Imagery in Contemporary Art,” The Institute of
Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
1980 “Les Nouveaux Fauves - Die Neuen Wilden,” Neue Galerie/Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany
“Dekor,” Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, West Germany. Traveled to
Amerika House, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England.
“Nouvelle Tendance de la Peinture Americaine,” Daniel Templon, Paris
“Drawings: The Pluralist Decade,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“The Pluralist Decade,” The United States Pavillion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. Traveled to Kunstforeningen Museum, Copenhagen, Sweden;
Henie Onstad Museum, Onstad, Norway; Biblioteca Nationale, Madrid, Spain;
Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
“Decoration,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“Davis, Smyth, MacConnel,” Holly Solomon Edition, NY
1979 “Patterning and Decoration on Paper,” The Mayor Gallery, London, England
“Food and Frameworks,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
Albrecht Habermann, Cologne
1978 “Landscape/Cityscape,” Art Gallery, State University College, Potsdam, NY
“Pattern and Decoration,” Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
“Gold and Silver,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1977 “Collection in Process - Milton Brutton and Helen Herrick,” Moore
College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Painting ‘75/’76/’77,” Sarah Lawrence College Gallery, Bronxville, NY.
Traveled to The Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH.
1976 “Contemporary American Artists from New York,” Artworks Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1975 “Artists’ Toys,” The Clocktower, NY
“Group Show,” Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
“Purchase Show,” Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
1974 “Fantastics and Eccentrics,” Museum of the State University of New
York at Troy, Troy, NY
1973 “American Drawings ‘63-‘73,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1972 Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1967 Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN
1966 “Some Young Minnesota Artists,” University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1964 Walker Art Center Biennial, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Public Collections

Birmingham Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Neue Galerie/Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany
Saarland Museum, Saarbracken, West Germany
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Awards

1988 NEA, Individual Artists Grant