Sam Gilliam  (American, 1933) 

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Sam Gilliam Biography
1933   Born: Tupelo, MI
1952 - 1955   B.A., Fine Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1958 - 1961   M.A., Painting, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1980   Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville
1990   Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Northwestern University
  Lives and works in Washington, DC
Selected Exhibitions
2007   SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
2006   SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2005   Sunlight: New Paintings, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2004   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)
2002   Slats, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2001   From Shiraz, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert CA
1999   Works '99, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washingon, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998   Sam Gilliam in 3-D, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (solo)
Installation USIA, Santago, Chile
1997   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
1996   J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisviile, KY
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago,IL
Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1995   44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1994   Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington,D.C.
1993   Golden Windows Inside Gold, an installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, NY (solo)
1992   Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Installation, Helsinki, Finland
1991   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.
1986   Abstraction/Abstraction, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
1977   Le Peinture et le Tissu, Museum of Modern Art, Lyon, France
1975   34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1974   Cut, Bend, Spindle, Fold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1972   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
1971   Works for New Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1969   Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

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