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Sam Gilliam Biography
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1952 - 1955 |
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B.A., Fine Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
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1958 - 1961 |
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M.A., Painting, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
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1980 |
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Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville
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1990 |
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Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Northwestern University
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Lives and works in Washington, DC
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
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2006
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SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
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2005
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Sunlight: New Paintings, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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2004
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3, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Sam Gilliam, Folded & Hinged, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA; traveling to the Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS (solo)
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2002
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Slats, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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2001
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From Shiraz, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert CA
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1999
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Works '99, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washingon, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
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1998
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Sam Gilliam in 3-D, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (solo)
Installation USIA, Santago, Chile
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1997
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Of Fireflies and Ferris Wheels: Monastery Parallel, an installation Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany (solo)
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
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1996
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J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisviile, KY
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago,IL
Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
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1995
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44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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1994
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Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington,D.C.
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1993
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Golden Windows Inside Gold, an installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, NY (solo)
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1992
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Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Installation, Helsinki, Finland
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1991
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Gallery Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY
Nancy Drysdale/ de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
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1986
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Abstraction/Abstraction, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
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1977
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Le Peinture et le Tissu, Museum of Modern Art, Lyon, France
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1975
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34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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1974
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Cut, Bend, Spindle, Fold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1972
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Works for Spaces: Antonakos, Bladen, Gilliam, Irwin and Rockburn, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA ( catalogue )
XXXVI Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
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1971
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Works for New Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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1969
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Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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