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BIOGRAPHY

David Bates

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

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