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John Bankston
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John Bankston
Electric Air 2007
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John Bankston
No. 4 2005
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Biography |
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Education |
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1990 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Painting |
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1989 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
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1985 University of Chicago, AB, Biology |
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Awards |
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2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant to Sculptors and Painters |
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2002 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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2002 Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship |
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2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award |
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2001 ArtCouncil Grant to Individual Artists |
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1993 Outstanding Ford Foundation Fellow |
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1988-90 School of the Art Institute of Chigago, Trustee's Fellowship |
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Exhibitions |
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2007 |
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Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted, 1907-2007, SFSU Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2007 |
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Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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2007 |
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Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2006 |
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John Bankston: Locating Desire, de Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of SF, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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2006 |
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John Bankston: A place in the woods, Vacio 9, Madrid, Spain (solo) |
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2006 |
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black alphabet - contexts of contemporary African-American art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland |
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2005 |
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African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
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2005 |
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The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2005 |
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Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
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2005 |
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Celebrating Heritage: Art and the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (four person show with Mike Henderson, David Huffman and Dominique Moody) |
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2005 |
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Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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2005 |
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Spice Boxes an Inveitational: Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA |
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2005 |
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Eureka Fellowship 2002-2004, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
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2004 |
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Comics Stripped, Off the Preserve! Gallery, di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, CA |
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2004 |
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East of the Sun and West of the Moon, White Columns, New York, NY |
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2004 |
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Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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2003 |
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John Bankston: Wild West, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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2003 |
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A Chance Romance, Galerie Zink & Gegner, Munich, Germany (solo) |
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2003 |
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Comic Release, Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University |
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2003 |
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2002 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
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2003 |
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Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
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2003 |
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American Art Today: Faces & Figures, The Art Museum at Florida International Univers |
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2002 |
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Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2002 |
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Fantasyland, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY |
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2002 |
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John Bankston: Temptation and Desire, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA (solo) |
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2002 |
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The Capture and Escape of Mr. M, Chapter 2, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2001 |
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Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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2001 |
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John Bankston: Lovers, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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2001 |
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The Capture and Escape of Mr.M, Chapter I, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (solo) |
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2001 |
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Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Travled to Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA |
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2001 |
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Breathless, Lombard-Freid Fine Art, New York, NY |
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2001 |
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Comic Relief, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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2001 |
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Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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A Big Picture Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
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Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
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Countdown, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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1999 |
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John Bankston: Recent Work, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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