|
|
Ernie Barnes Biography
|
 |
 |
|
1956 - 1960 |
|
Studied art at North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
|
|
1984 |
|
Official Sports Artist for the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
|
|
1985 |
|
Named the first Sports Artist of the Year, United States Sports Academy
|
|
1990 |
|
Awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, North Carolina Central University, Durham, NC
|
|
1996 |
|
Selected by the National Basketball Association to commemorate the NBA's 50th anniversary
|
|
1999 |
|
Awarded the University Award, the highest honor by The University of North Carolina Board of Governors
|
|
2004 |
|
Named America's Best Painter of Sports, American Sport Art Museum & Archives, Daphne, AL
|
|
2007 |
|
A Tribute to Artist and NFL Alumni Ernie Barnes, sponsored by the NFL and Time Warner, New York City, NY
|
|
2009 |
|
Died: Los Angeles, CA
|
|
|
| Selected Exhibitions |
|
|
|
2005
|
|
Back to Black: Art, Cinema & Racial Imaginary, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
|
|
1995
|
|
20th Century Masterworks of African-American Artists, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY (traveling group exhibition)
|
|
1972 - 1979
|
|
The Beauty of the Ghetto (traveling solo exhibition)
|
|
1978
|
|
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC (solo)
|
|
1965
|
|
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|