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Theodoros Stamos    (Greek/American, 1922-1997)

 Theodoros Stamos - Untitled (Paintings) h: 6.8 x w: 10 in / h: 17.3 x w: 25.4 cm
Theodoros Stamos
Untitled
 
 Theodoros Stamos - Untitled (Paintings) h: 11 x w: 29.5 in / h: 27.9 x w: 74.9 cm
Theodoros Stamos
Untitled circa 1950
 
 

Biography
1922 Born in New York
1936 Studied sculpture, under Simon Kennedy and Joseph Kouzal, at the American Artist School, New York
1951 Tiffany Foundation Fellowship
1950 - 1954 Taught at Hartley Settlement House and Black Mountain College, North Carolina
1955 Instructor, Art Students League
1956 National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, New York
1959 Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, Waltham, Massachusetts
1966 Lecturer, School of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York
1967 National Arts Foundation Award, Washington, D.C.
Mainichi Newspaper Prize, Tokyo International
1967 - 1968 Professor, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
1997 Died in Yannina, Greece

Exhibitions
2008 Theodoros Stamos: Infinity and Beyond, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY (solo)
Gallery Selections Summer 2008 - Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY
2007 A Culture in the Making, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism, Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York City, NY
2006 Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
The Alpha Bank Collection: Greek Art since 1920, MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
2005 Theodoros Stamos: An Exhibition of One of the "Irascibles," Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England) (solo)
Theodore Stamos: Six Select Paintings, Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
2004 Theodore Stamos : A Selection of Paintings, Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
2003 Theodoros Stamos, Florian Sundheimer Galerie, Munich (solo)
2002 British and American Art, Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England)
Perspectives II: Five Decades of Seminal Work, Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY
2001 British, European and American Art, Crane Kalman Gallery, London (England)
2000 Abstract Notions: Selections from the Permanent Collection, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
Modern Odysseys. Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Expresionismo Abstracto, Fundación Juan March, Madrid (solo)
1999 Color & Field, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century, Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY
1998 Kouros Gallery, New York (solo)
1997 Theodoros Stamos 1922-1997-A Retrospective, The National Gallery and Alexandros Soutzos Museum Athens, Greece
1996 Paper Work, , Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
1992 Black Mountain College/Scratching the Surface, Station Gallery Katonah, NY
1991 - 1992 Theodoros Stamos 1947-1963, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
1990 Recent Work, Louis Newman Galleries Beverly Hills, CA
1989 Stamos, Dorsky Gallery New York, NY
1988 20th Anniversary Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
1986 - 1987 Abstraction By American Masters Over 50, R.H. Love Modern Chicago, IL
1986 Stamos, Kouros Gallery New York, NY
1982 A Curator's Choice 1942-1963, Rosa Esman Gallery New York, NY
1982 Abstract Expressionism Lives, Stamford Museum Stamford, CT
1981 - 1982 Theodoros Stamos, Karen and Jean Bernier Gallery Athens, Greece
1980 Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York (solo)
Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (solo)
1979 Wichita State University, Kansas (solo)
1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York (solo)
Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg
1973 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (solo)
1972 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York (solo)
1961 - 1970 André Emmerich Gallery, New York (solo)
1969 Waddington Fine Arts Gallery, Montreal (solo)
1967 Spingold Theater Arts Center Gallery, Waltham, Massachusetts (solo)
1961 Galleria del Naviglio, Milan (solo)
1960 André Emmerich Gallery, New York (solo)
Gimpel Fils Gallery, London (solo)
1958 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (retrospective) (solo)
1956 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1954 Philips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C (solo)
1953 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1951 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1950 Philips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C (solo)
1949 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1948 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1947 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (solo)
1945 Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York (solo)
1943 Wakefield Gallery, New York (solo)
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