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).
