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David Bates    (American, 1952)

 David Bates - Winter Moon h: 42 x w: 30.5 in / h: 106.7 x w: 77.5 cm
David Bates
Winter Moon 1989
 
  

Biography
1952 Born in Dallas, TX
1975 BFA, Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX
1977 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum New York, NY
1978 MFA, Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX

Collections

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
National Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Art Institute, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
University of Houston, Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut


Exhibitions
2007 Bates: Paintings from the Texas Collections, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX (solo)
2006 David Bates: Grassy Lake, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana-solo
David Bates: Drawing Retrospective 1978 - 2005, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas-solo
2006 David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2006 David Bates: Drawing Retrospective: 1978-2005, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX (solo)
2005 Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery
Texas: Grassy Lake, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 David Bates: Small Paintings and Works on Paper, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2004 David Bates: Night Vision, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas -solo
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates: Paintings & Reliefs, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas -solo
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection Julia J. Norrell, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Art in Embassies Program: Switzerland and Liechtenstein, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
2003 David Bates: Poems, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana -solo
2002 David Bates: Nudes, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California -exhibition catalogue -solo
2001 David Bates: Black and White, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York -exhibition catalogue -solo
2000 David Bates: Paintings, Wood Reliefs, and Sculpture, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas -exhibition catalogue -solo
Memory and Material, Constructions and Compilations, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY
1999/2000 Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, Meridian International Center Washington DC (traveled)
1999 David Bates,DC Moore Gallery New York, NY -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates: Still Life, Museum of Southwest, Midland, Texas -solo
David Bates: The Gulf Coast, Galveston Arts Center (traveled) Galveston, TX
he Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts Escondido, CA
WATER: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art Charleston, SC (traveled)
1998 David Bates, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX -exhibition catalogue -solo
New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit, NJ
Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery New York, NY
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX
Wild Things: Artists' Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
avid Bates and Betty Woodman: Paradox in Paint, Wood, and Clay, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts Summit, NJ
1997 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art Austin, TX
Southwestern Bell Presents: American Images: The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art, , Museum of Fine Arts (traveled) Houston, TX
5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Federick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine U. Malibu, CA
1996 David Bates: Selected Works 1980-1995, Contemporary Arts Center Abilene, TX (traveled to Tyler Museum of Art, TX) exhibition catalogue -solo
John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA -exhibition catalogue -solo
Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX -exhibition catalogue -solo
Feast for the Eyes, Austin Museum of Art Austin, TX
New Talent - New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
1995 David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY -exhibition catalogue -solo
Wildlife, California Center of the Arts Museum Escondido, CA
1994 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA -exhibition catalogue -solo
Outside: In, Outsider and Contemporary Artists in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Assoc., Laguna Gloria Art Museum Austin, TX
The Label Show: Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1993 David Bates, The Art Museum at Florida International University Miami, FL -exhibition catalogue -solo
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York- exhibition catalogue -solo
Still Life 1963-1993, Gerald Peters Gallery Santa Fe, NM
1992 John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA exhibition catalogue -solo
Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY -exhibition catalogue, solo
Mind & Beast; Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, Traveling Exhibi, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Wasau, WI
1991 John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
The Landscape in 20th Century Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa, OK
1990 Concentrations 23: Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX
Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans, LA
Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
1989 Eugene Binder Gallery Dallas, TX
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI
John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts Washington DC
1988 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
The 1980's: A New Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
David Bates, Forty Paintings, Moden Art Museum of Fort Worth (Traveled) Fort Worth, TX
Grassy Lake: Works on Paper by David Bates, University Gallery University of Delaware, Newark, DE
1987 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
1987 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1986 The Texas Berlin Art Exchange, Amerika Haus Berlin, Germany
Eugene Binder Gallery Dallas, TX
Texas Gallery Houston, TX
Arthur Roger Gallery New Orleans, LA
1985 Betsy Rosenfield Gallery Chicago, IL
John Berggruen Gallery San Francisco, CA
The Innovative Still Life, Holly Solomon Gallery New York, NY
50th Anniversary Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
1984 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Traveling Exhibi, The Museum of Art; Museo Tamayo Fort Lauderdale, FL; Mexico City, Mexico
Texas Gallery Houston, TX
1983 Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
DW Gallery Dallas, TX
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA

Literature
2006 Brewer, Philip, and Charles T. Butler, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Lines of Discovery: 225 Years of American Drawings, (exhibition catalogue) Columbus, OH: The Columbus Museum of Art; illus. p. 230
2006 Klein, Michael. David Bates. Grassy Lake (exhibition catalogue) New Orleans, LA: Arthur Roger Gallery
2006 Serwer, Days Jacquelyn. David Bates. (exhibition catalogue) New York, NY: DC Moore Gallery
2005 Black Water, (exhibition catalogue) John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Driesbach, Janice, and Daniel A. Siedell. Singular Expressions: Nine Artists. Lincoln, Nebraska: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery.
2004 Little, Carl. David Bates: Paintings and Drawings. DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
2004 Karnes, Andrea. David Bates: Night Vision. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2003 Van Keuren, Philip. David Bates: Poems. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2001 Mitchell, Charles Dee. David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Art in America. March 2001: 189-190.
2001 olfe, Townsend. National Drawing Invitational, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Drawing Research and Education, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR.
2001 Wei, Lilly. David Bates. DC Moore Gallery, New York
2001 Van Keuren, Philip. David Bates: Black and White. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2000 Oliver-Smith, Kerry. The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida.
1999 Spring, Justin. David Bates. New York, NY: DC Moore Gallery.
1999 Tobler, Jay, ed. The American Art Book. London: Phaidon Press (reproduction).
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