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BIOGRAPHY
1952 Born in Dallas, TX
Education
1978 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1977 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1975 B.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Solo Exhibitions Group Exhibitions
2007
David Bates: Paintings from the Texas Collections, The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX
2006
David Bates: Grassy Lake, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana*
David Bates: Drawing Retrospective 1978 - 2005, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2005
David Bates: Small Paintings and Works on Paper, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
2004
David Bates: Night Vision, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates: Paintings & Reliefs, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
David Bates: Black Water, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2003
David Bates: Poems, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
David Bates: Painting and Relief, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002
David Bates: Nudes, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
2001
David Bates: Black and White, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
2000
David Bates: Paintings, Wood Reliefs, and Sculpture, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
1999
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates: Still Life, Museum of Southwest, Midland, Texas
1998
David Bates, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
1997-99
David Bates: The Gulf Coast, Galveston Arts Center, TX; traveled to Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
1997 David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1996 David Bates: Selected Works 1980-1995, Contemporary Arts Center, Abilene, Texas; traveled to Tyler Museum of Art, Texas*
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
1995
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1994
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1993
David Bates, Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1992
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1991
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1989
David Bates, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1988-89
David Bates, Forty Paintings, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; traveled to Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii*
1988
Grassy Lake: Works on Paper by David Bates, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1987
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1986
David Bates, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1985
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
David Bates, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
David Bates, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983
David Bates, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Group Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions
2006
Shared Visions: Texas Artists Then and Now, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas; traveled to Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas; Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2005
Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery
Texas: Grassy Lake, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Singular Expressions: Nine Artists Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
A First Look: David Bates, Nancy Graves, Gene Davis, The Katzen Arts Center at American University, Washington D.C.
The Comeback Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2004
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection Julia J. Norrell, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Art in Embassies Program: Switzerland and Liechtenstein, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
2003
Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Pairings: Artists’ Selections from the Dallas Museum of Art Collection, The Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002
One Hunderd Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Sculpture, Drawings, and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Spring Forward: New Work from the Studio, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL*
Southeast Texas Re-collects, Southeast Texas Arts Council, Beaumont, Texas
2001
National Drawing Invitational, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Drawing Research and Education, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas*
Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Summer in the City, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
John Scott, Robert Colescott, and David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisianna
2000
Private Collections: Artists, Curators and Collectors, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida*
Memory and Material: Constructions and Compilations, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
1999-00
Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.; traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China; The CIPTA Gallery, Jakarta Arts Center, Indonesia; The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines; The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore*
1999
WATER: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; traveled to Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin*
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
Cutting Edges: Painters’ Woodcuts from Experimental Workshop, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College/City University of New York, New York
The Painted Canvas, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998
Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
David Bates and Betty Woodman: Paradox in Paint, Wood and Clay, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, New Jersey*
Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997
American Images: The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Contemporary Landscapes: The Enigma of Reason, The Hyde Collection of Art, Glen Falls, New York*
5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Structures: Building in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco ,California
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Texas*
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996
Feast for the Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, Texas
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.*
Establishment Exposed: Part I, Dallas Visual Art Center, Texas
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
New Talent - New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Figuratively Speaking, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995
47th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
XXV Years: An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
Wildlife, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994
The Label Show, Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusettes*
Vividly Told: Contemporary Southern Narrative Painting, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; traveled to The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina*
American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
Outside: In, Outsider and Contemporary Artists in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
1993
In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts*
Still Life 1963-1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
1992
People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, New York
Mind & Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art
Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Canton Art Institute, Ohio, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana*
1991-92
Island Inspired, Stephen F. Austin Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas; traveled to Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Texas (organized by Galveston Arts Center, Texas)*
Ship Shapes, Galveston Arts Center, Texas
1991
Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
American Realism & Figurative Art 1952-1991, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendi, Japan; traveled to The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Sogu Museum of Art, Yokohama; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi*
The State I’m In, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Landscape in 20th Century Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma*
Drawings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1990
Group Exhibition, Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, West Germany
Concentrations 23: Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Northwest by Southwest, Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, California; traveled to Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Sara Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas*
The Humanist Icon, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; traveled to New York Academy of Art, New York, New York; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas*
Tradition and Innovation, A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Printmaking in Texas in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas*
Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
1989
Contemporary Environments, General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, Connecticut
The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
The Unquiet Landscape, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NewYork; traveled to The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois
Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.*
10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Ministry of Culture of the USSR, InterCultura, Fort Worth, Texas, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Artist’s Union Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian S.S.R. Central Exhibition Hall, Lenigrad (organized by Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R.; InterCultura, Fort Worth, Texas; and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas)*
1988
The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Texas Art, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas*
The Fish Show, Brent Gallery, Houston, Texas
The 1980s: A New Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York*
Landscape Anthology, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
Recent Painterly Paintings, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, New York
1987
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York*
1986
The Texas Berlin Art Exchange, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany*
Sculpture and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Paravent, Artspace, San Francisco, California
Dog Days of August, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, New York
Group Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois*
1986
Texas Landscape 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas*
Contemporary Still Life, Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, New York
NYC: New Work, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
The Figure in Landscape, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1985
50th Anniversary Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
The Innovative Still Life, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
Drawings: Coast to Coast, Gallery One, Forth Worth, Texas
American Painting Today: Still Life, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida*
1984
New Landscape Painting, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York)*
New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; traveled to Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Aspects of New Narrative Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; traveled to Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island*
Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
American Still Life: 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; traveled to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Portland Art Museum, Oregon*
The 38th Corcoran Biennial of American Paintings, Second Western States Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona; The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Long Beach Museum of Art, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California*
1983
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; traveled to Quay Gallery, San Francisco, California*
Touch with your Eyes, Feel with your Mind: Surfaces in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, Texas*
* denotes exhibition catalogue
Museum Collections
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New york
Microsoft Art Collection
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisianna
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
San Francisco Art Institute, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
University of Houston, Blaffler Foundation, Houston, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York