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William T. Wiley Biography
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1956 - 1962 |
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BFA, MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
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1963 |
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Teacher: University of California, Davis, CA
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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What's It All Mean: William Wiley in Restrospect, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Watercolors ans Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Antidote, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, NY
The Figure, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
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2009
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Trust Us for Just Us, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Decline And Fall, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Instruments, Solway/Jones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord Between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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2008
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Fear Rules, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Punball: Only One Earth, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Boby and Soul, American Art from the collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson Collection, de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
Looking for Mushrooms, San Francisco and the Bay Area in the Sixties, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Grabhorn Institute, Spring Benefit (solo)
Art of Democracy: War and Empire, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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2007
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Choosing Things Over Time, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)
William T. Wiley, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection, Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC
Tribute to Peter Selz, b. sakata garo, Sacramento, CA
Charming Billy, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Urban Landscape, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
De-Natured: Beyond the Landscape, Tradition work from the Anderson Collection and the Anderson Graphic Art Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Pacific Light: California Watercolor Refracted 1907-2007, International Center for the Arts at San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
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2006
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Caught in the Rap Sure, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Why-Lee, Shot. C; Buzz, She Lest ‘em Vernon!, Zolla Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Barely Finished in Time, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2005
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Current Evidence: A Selection of Prints by William T. Wiley from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New Paintings and Prints, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
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2004
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The True Artist is an Amazing Luminous Fountain, Selected Works from the di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, The Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
Tamarind: 40 Years, a retrospective exhibition of 60 lithographs
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2003
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Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, Dickinson Roundell, Inc, New York, NY, and London, England
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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2002
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A Slow Time in Arcadia, George Adams Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1997
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1996
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Nothing Lost From the Original: William T. Wiley Looks at Art History, Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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1995
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1993
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Nothing Lost From the Original: William T. Wiley Looks at Art History, Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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1991
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William T. Wiley: Struck! Sure? Sound/Unsound, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Southeastern Center of Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (solo)
Robert Hudson: Sculpture/William T. Wiley: Painting, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1989
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
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1987
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Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
What is Not Music, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria (solo)
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1985
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Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974 - 84, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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1984
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Steal Witness for the Time Being, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; and Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (solo)
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1983
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1981
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Wiley Territory, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (solo)
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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1980
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American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1976
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Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
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1973
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Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands (solo)
Twenty-Five Years of American Painting: 1948 - 1973, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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1972
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American Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Documenta V, Kassell, Germany
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1971
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Wizdumb, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; and Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy (solo)
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1968
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Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Social Comment in America, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1967
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Funk, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
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1960
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San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Young America Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Philadelphia Museum of Art, Washington, DC
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Stedelijk van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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| Literature |
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2009
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Moser, Joann. What's It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009
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2007
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Wiley, William T. William T. Wiley: Selections from Two Exhibitions. San Francisco, CA: John Berggruen Gallery, 2007
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