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Biography - William T. Wiley

Born

1937 Bedford, IN. Currently lives in Forest Knolls, CA

Education

San Francisco Art Institute, CA. B.F.A, 1959, M.F.A, 1962

Solo Exhibitions

2009 “What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect” Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington, DC
“William T. Wiley: Retropspective of Editioned Prints” Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA, The Contemporary Art Museum of Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
2008 “Only One Earth—Punball” Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
2007 “William T. Wiley” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“William T. Wiley: Choosing Things Over Time” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2006 “William Wiley” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Selected Prints by William T. Wiley” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2004 “William T. Wiley,” Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
“More Than Meats the I, William T. Wiley”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
“More Than Meats the I, William T. Wiley,” Falkirk Cultural Center, San Rafael, CA.
“William T. Wiley: 60 Works for 60 Years,” from the collection of the Belger Arts Center’s, Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO.
“William T. Wiley, Maps,” Trillium Press, Brisbane, CA.
2003 “The World According to William T. Wiley,” Main Art Museum, California State University, Fullerton, CA.
“William T. Wiley: New Watercolors-My Country is it thee?” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“William T. Wiley: Before Math & After Math I,” S-MOVA at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts, Santa Rosa, CA.
2002 “William T. Wiley: Before & After,” Boise Art Museum, Boise , ID.
“William T. Wiley: Before & After,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“William T. Wiley: Skullpture!” b.sakata garo, Sacramento, CA.
“William T. Wiley: New Works on Paper,” Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA.
“William T. Wiley,” Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID.
2001 “William T. Wiley: No Bull,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO.
“William T. Wiley: Unobjektive Art,” Marsh Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D. C.
2000 “William T. Wiley: Recent and Releavant,” Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ & Santa Fe, NM.
“William T. Wiley: The String Theory….is it…Sound? Yours as Ever, Marked Twine,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA.
1999 “William T. Wiley: ‘Doubtsidersarte,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“William T. Wiley” Locks Gallery, Philladelphia, PA.
1998 “When Prints Don’t Work,” U.M.K.C. Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
1997 “The Missing Artists EQUVXZ & Modest Scale,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco
1996 “Out of Mind,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“William T. Wiley: 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 San Francisco Art Institute,” Rena
Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“William T. Wiley: Seed Com,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska,Lincoln, Nebraska
The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA.
1995 Walker Hill Museum, Seoul, Korea
“Selections from the Forest Hill Series,” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“William T. Wiley: What’s Missing?” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C.
1994 Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
“Forest Series,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
“Afterburner,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA and Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
“Realistic Abstractions, Where Now and Then Collide,” Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC.
1992 “William T. Wiley: Modern As Hell,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
“One Man’s Moon,” Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 “California Artists, Mike Kelley, Brad Dunning and William T. Wiley,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“What is Not Dancing In Time,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
“William T. Wiley – New World Odor,” Max Protetch Gallery, NY
Marsha Matejka Gallery, Washington D.C.
“William T. Wiley: Struck! Sure? Sound/Unsound,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., traveling to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
1990 Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
1989 Fuller‑Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“William T. Wiley: A Decade of Prints,” Landfall Press, NY
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, D.C.
1988 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY
Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1987 “William T. Wiley: What Is Not Drawing,” L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
“What is Not Music,” Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany and Galerie
Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
1986 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Yellowstone Art Center, Yellowstone, WO
Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Recent Paintings and Drawings,” Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY and Moore College, Philadelphia, PA
“Steal Witness for the Time Being,” Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. Traveled to: Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Boise Art
Gallery, Boise, ID; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA;
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.
1985 Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada and Frumkin & Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL*
1984 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS
1982 Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA. Traveled to: Morgan
Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS; University of Wisconsin‑Eau Claire, Eau
Claire, WI; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.
1981 The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; Traveled to Florida International University,
Miami, FL and University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
“Wiley Territory,” curated by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to:
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY*
1980 Hansen‑Fuller, San Francisco, CA
“Prints and Sculpture,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.
Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, Seattle, WA.
Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Realities Gallery, Melbourne, Australia and Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane,
Queensland, Australia 1979 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
1978‑79 Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
1978 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“William T. Wiley: Paintings, Drawings, Constructions,” Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
1977 “Suite of Daze,” Chicago Art Institute, Book Show at Print Gallery, Chicago, IL
“New Publications,” Landfall Press Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
1976 Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Museum of Modern Art Project Room, NY
Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, CA
1975 “Three One‑Man Shows: William T. Wiley, Dorothy Hood, Armando Morales,”
Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
“Graphics,” retrospective organized by Landfall Press, Chicago, IL. Traveled to Morgan Art Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS; Barbara Okun Gallery, St. Louis, MO; Delahunty Gallery, Dallas and Houston, TX; Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Anneke Whatley Gallery, Keystone, CO; Ball State University, Munsee, IN; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; Helen Schlien Gallery, Boston, MA; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO; Peter M. David Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI.
1974 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Utah Fine Arts Museum, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1973 Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1972 Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
James Manolides Gallery, Seattle, WA
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Odyssia, Rome, Italy
Galerie Richard Froncke, Ghent, Belgium
1971 Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy
“William T. Wiley,” a traveling exhibition. Touring to the following: University Art
Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; University of Pennsylvania
Institute of Contemporary Art, PA; Chicago Art Institute, IL; Corcoran
Gallery, Washington, DC
1970 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1969 Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1968 Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1967 Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1965 Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1964 Staempfli Gallery, NY
1962 Staempfli Gallery, NY
1960 San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
Staempfli Gallery, NY

Group Exhibitions:

1960 “Young America”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1961 “American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Winter Invitational”, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
“Painting and Sculpture Show”, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1962 “American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Some Points of View ‑‑ ‘62”, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
“90 Years of Bay Area Art”, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
“Fifty California Artists”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1963 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture”, Krannert Museum of Art, University of Illinois, Champaign‑Urbana, IL
“Arts of San Francisco”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1964 “Current Painting and Sculpture in the Bay Area”, Stanford
University Art Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1965 “Contemporary American Drawings”, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1966 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“The Media of Art Now”, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
“Current Trends in American Art”, Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN.
1967 Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of AmericanArt,New York, NY
“American Sculpture in the Sixties”, Los Angeles County Museum.
“Funk Show”, University of California at Berkeley, CA
“Pittsburgh International”, Pittsburgh, PA
“Towards a New Metaphysics”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
1968 Dwan Gallery, NY
“Social Comment in America”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Wellington‑Ivest Collection, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1969 “Spirit of the Comics”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“New Methods and Materials”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Violence in Recent American Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“National Drawing Exhibition”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Human Concern, Personal Torment”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“When Attitude Becomes Form”, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
“U.S.A. Groupe”, Musee des Beaux‑Arts, American Library, Brussels, Belgium
1970 “Centennial Exhibition”, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
“Kompas IV Exhibition”, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
“Symbol and Vision”, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Looking West”, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
“American Painting, Foundation Maeght, Paris, France
1971 Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Kent State Memorial Exhibition, Kent State, OH
“Art on Paper Invitational”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
“The Good Drawing Show”, St. Mary’s College of California Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
1972 “After Surrealism: Metaphors and Similes”, Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
“Working in California”, Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Documenta V”, Kassel, Germany
“Studio Marconi”, Cologne Art Fair, West Germany
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“Working in California”, Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis, IN
“Sacramento Sampler”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA and Sao Paulo, Brazil
“A Ladder Show”, Artists Contemporary Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1973 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD
“Twenty‑five Years of American Painting: 1948‑1973, Des Moines Art Center, IA
“The Small Format”, St.Mary’s College of California Art Gallery, Moraga, CA
“Extraordinary Realities”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1974 “Surrealistic‑Bildrealitat 1924‑1974”, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1974”, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana‑Champaign, IL
“Art Now 1974”, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC
1975 “California Gold”, JPL Gallery, London, England.
“Image, Color and Form: Recent Paintings by Eleven Americans”, The Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Barbara Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC
“Faculty Show”, Memorial Union 4th Floor Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
“Group Drawing Show”, Walnut Creek Arts Exhibition Center, Walnut Creek, CA
“Corcoran”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Words and Images”, Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1976 “200 Years of American Sculpture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
“Contemporary Images in Watercolor”, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
“6 from California”, Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
“3 from California”, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
1977 “Artist’s Maps”, Philadelphia College of Art, PA
“Drawings of the Seventies”, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Works on Paper”, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
“American Narrative/Story Art: 1967‑1977, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
“Recent Art from San Francisco”, Den Haag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Recent Media”, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
“Invitational Drawing Exhibition”, Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, San Diego, CA
“New in the 70s”, University of Texas, Austin, TX
“California Bay Area Art ‑‑ Update”, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
“Recent Works on Paper”, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
“American Drawing 1927‑77”, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
1978 “Aesthetics of Graffiti”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Narration”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“Works on Paper”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“Cartoons”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“American Painting of the 1970’s”, Albright‑Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Sixth International Exhibition of Original Drawings”, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
“The Seventies: New American Painting”, a show organized by the
New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY and touring Eastern Europe.
1979 “Words and Images”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“The First Western States Biennal Exhibition”, Western States
Art Foundation, Denver, CO, touring to: Seattle Museum of Art,
Seattle, WA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
“Bay Area Painters”, traveling exhibition sponsored by the Western
Association of Art Museums.
“Same Bed, Different Studio: Eight Artist Couples”, Falkirk
Community Cultural Center, Kentfield, CA
1980 “For Objects for Drawings for Objects for Drawing for Four Men”,
Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Prints from the Landfall Press: a Gift from Allan Frumkin”, David
and Alfred Smart Gallery, University of Chicago, IL
“Watercolors”, Frumkin and Struve, Chicago, IL
“American Drawing in Black and White: 1880‑1980”, Brooklyn Museum, NY
“8 Funny Artists”, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
“American Painting of the 60s, and 70s: The Real, The Ideal,
The Fantastic (Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art),
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL
“Drawings: At the Henry”, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“Venice Biennale”, Venice, Italy
“Soundings”, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1981 “Drawing Acquisitions”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“The Collection of Sol Lewitt”, Wesleyan University in Association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, Middletown, CT
“Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection”,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst; University of Vermont, Burlington; Brown University, Providence, RI
“Drawings: The Pluralist Decade”, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennslyvania, Philadelphia, PA and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Artist and Printer (six American Print Studios)”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX
“The Slant Step”, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
“The Image of the House in Contemporary Art”, Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, TX
1982 “A Private Vision; Art of the Sixties from the Graham Gund Collection,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“The Destroyed Print”, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, NY
“Western American Art in California Collections”, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
“The Americans: The Collage”, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
“100 Years of California Sculpture”, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Northern California Art of the Sixties”, De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA
“Portents from the West”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1983 “1983 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“A Sense of Humor”, Visual Art Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK
“Minimalism to Expressionism”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Language, Drama, Source, Vision”, The NewMuseum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
“California Drawings”, Modernism, San Francisco, CA
“The Sculptor as Draftsman (Selections from the Permanent Collection) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Henderson, Wegman, Wiley and Allen”, Sun Valley Center, Sun Valley, ID
“Inside Self, Someone Else”, The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
“20 American Artists, Sculpture 1982”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1984 “An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“In the Studio”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“New Dimensions”, Akron Art Museum, OH
“Return of the Narrative”, Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
“Indiana Influence”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
“First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940‑1980”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984‑8 “Large Drawings”, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL; Madison Art Center, WI; Anchorage Museum of Fine Art AK; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1985 “Outline‑Cutout‑Silhouette”, Allan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974‑84”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
“Cinquante ans de dessins americains: 1930‑1980”, Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux Arts, Paris
“Chain Reaction”, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Centennial Celebration”, Crocker Art Museum”, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1986 “Individuals‑A Selected History of Contemporary Art: 1945‑1986,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“70’s into 80’s: Printmaking Now”, Lois and Michael Torf Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“In Black and White”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
“First Impressions: Recent Monotypes by 15 Artists”, Alan Frumkin Gallery, NY
“Drawings”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
“American Artists in Jewelry”, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Text and Image”, Holly Solomon Gallery, NY
1987 “For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“American Artists in Jewelry”,Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“In Defense of Sacred Lands”, The Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
“Paintings‑Drawings‑Sculpture”, Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Cream of California: Prints”, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
“Prints and Drawings by 17 Bay Area Masters”, Natsoulas Novelozo Gallery, Davis, CA
“The Artists of California: A Group Portrait in Mixed Media”, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA touring to Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA and Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
“Art Against Aids”, Benefit for American Foundation for Aids Research, New York, NY
“20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art”, touring to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
“South Africa: State of Emergency”, Galleria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA
1988 “Lost and Found in California: Four Decades of Assemblage Art”, Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Not So Naive: Bay Area Artists and Outsider Art”, San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
“1988: The World of Art Today”, Milwaulkee Art Museum, Milwaulkee, WI
“Committed to Print”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Welcome Back”, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
“Images from Wood”, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Allan, Henderson, Hudson, Wiley: Nothing Springs to Mind”, University of the Pacific Gallery, Stockton, CA
“Terry Allan, Mike Henderson, William T. Wiley”, Cuesta College Art Gallery
“National Drawing Invitational”, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK
1989 “Coming of Age:Twenty-One Years of Collecting by the Madison Art Center”, Madison, WI
“Rain of Talent: Umbrella Art”, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, traveling to American Craft Museum, New York, NY; Wustum Museum of Fine Art, Racine, WI; Clark County Cultural Affairs Gallery, Las Vegas, NV; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; Globes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago Circle, IL; Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA. Traveled through 1994.
1990 “Politics in Press”, Landfall Press, New York
“Another View: A Selection of Contemporary Prints Curated by Alfred University Printmaking Faculty”, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
1990-91 “The 65th Annual Competition of Prints, The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1991 “Large Scale Works on Paper”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Academy Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting an Sculpture”, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letter, New York, NY
“Critical Reactions”, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Contemporary Woodblocks From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort Meyers, FLA
Group Show, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1992 Group Show, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
“Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades”, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
“44th Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition”, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Color Block Prints of the 20th Century”, American Associated Artists, New York, NY
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Clearly Art”, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, traveling to : Crocker Art Musuem, Sacramento, CA; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Brunnier Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. Traveled through 1995.
“Arneson, De Forest, Hudson, Wiley: Selections from the Anderson Collection”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1993 “Double Bill: Co-operation & the Lack of it” (with William Allan), Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington D.C.
“In The Spirit of John Cage”, 20 artists’work dedicated to his memory, Jerigan Wicker Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 “The Forest Series and New Paintings”, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA
“Advice and Dissent: Collaborative Work: William Allan, Robert Hudson, William T. Wiley”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections”, Oakland Museum of Art
1996 “Marks, Metaphor and Magic: New Editions by Pat Steir, Tom Marioni and William T. Wiley”, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
1997 “The Art Orchestra” California Palace of Fine Art, San Francisco, CA.
1998 “Collaborations - William Allan, Robert Hudson, William Wiley” Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
“Art From Around The Bay: Recent Acquisitions” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
1999 “California Classics: Highlights from the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,” Tokyo, Japan; Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui Japan; MOMA Wakayama Japan, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan.
“25h Anniversay of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden , Washington , DC.
“Art at the End of the Century: cotemporary Art form the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Wisconsin.
“Making Change - 100 Artists interpret the Tzedakah Box” The Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
“Meaning and Message - Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
“Piecing It Together - A Visual Journal” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“The Permanent Collection - Into the 21st Century” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“What Is Art For?” Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
“The lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, Kemper Museum Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO.
“Celebrating Modern Art, The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings, 1940-2000” Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
“Different Strokes - Selections from the Permanent Collection” University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
“Sharks Inc., 1976-2001 a 25 year Retrospective” Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Landfall Press - 1970 – 2000” H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
“Pay Attention…I Hope You Learned Your Lesson” The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
“Crossroads in American Sculpture,” New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.
“Laila Twigg Smith” the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu Hawaii
“Nature Remains,” di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA.
“Material World - From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop” Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
“The Not-so Still Life: A Century of California Still Life Painting and Sculpture,” San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Zen and Modern Art,” University, Art Gallery, California State University Hayward, CA.
“State of the Art 2003 Biennial Watercolor Invitational, Siena Heights University, Klemm Gallery, Adrian, MI and Parkaland Art Gallery, Champaigne, IL.
“Andy Warhol and the Pop Aesthetic - Permanent Collection and Loans” ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2002-2004 “Tamarind: 40 Years,” a retrospective exhibition of 60 lithographs traveling to the following venues: Toledo Museum of Art, OH, Muskegon Museum of Art, MI; Center for Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO; University of Richmond Museum, Richmond VA; William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA; Kennesaw Sate University Art, GA; University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM.
2004 “The True Artist is and Amazing Luminous Fountain, from the di Rosa Presreve” Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC.
2005 “The Anniversary Show” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
“The Intimate Collaboration: 25 Years of Tearberry Press,” San Francisco Art Institute; Walter & McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA.
“The Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio - Drawn to Representation” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2006 “Summer Selections” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Visual Politics - The Art of Engagement” The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington, DC
“New Acquisitions – Prints” ASUART - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

Awards

2005 Lifetime Achievment Award, Southern Graphics International Conference Washington DC
1968 Nealie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute Purchase Prize
Creative Arts Award, University of California at Davis
1962 Sculpture Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Painting Prize, 65th Annual Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago

Selected Public Collections

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum at Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, OH
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia