JIM SULLIVAN
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, 1939
EDUCATION
1962-63 Graduate work, Stanford University, California
1961 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Rhode Island School of Design
1960-61 European Honors Program in Rome
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2004-05 Project Space, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1990 Anne Jaffe Gallery, Bay HarborIslands, Florida
1988 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1986 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1984 Dart Gallery, Chicago
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1983 Gallerie Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, Germany
1982 Folker Skulima Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1981- Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston
1980 Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1979 Suzanne Mathews Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
Willard Gallery, New York
1974 Fischbach Gallery, New York
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973 Webb and Parsons Gallery, Bedford Village, New York
Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York
1971 Paley & Lowe Gallery, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 New Acquisitions, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
2010 Real(ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota , Fla.
2008 Hudson River Painting, Then and Now, Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY
2008 Glory of Landscapes, Pelham Art Center, Pelham NY
2007 Flying the Coop, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York NY
2006 Group Show Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York NY
2017. Painting 1979-80 Nasher Museum, Durham, North Carolina
2006. “Circles”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
.2006. "Other Places” Jonathan Shorr Galery, New York
2005. “Large Tiny, Tiny Large” Carrie Secrest Gallery, Chicago
2004. “Summertime” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1996. “The Art of Baseball”, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, California
1995. “Drawings and Maquettes” Nardin Gallery, Somers, New York
1994. “Drop Dead Painting” Igor Foundation” New York
1993. “20 Years”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1992. “Visit to the Doctor”, Foster Goldstrum Gallery, New York
1990. “Art on Paper”, Witherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1989-90 “Collectors Exhibition”, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
1990 “Animal Life” One Penn Plaza, New York
1989. “25th Anniversary Gala Exhibition” Ann Jaffe Gallery, Bay Harbor Gallery, Bay Harbor, Fla.
1988. “Classical Myth and Imagery”, The Queens Museum, Flushing, N.Y.
1988. “Contemporary American Drawing”, Wake Forest University, Winston Salem, N. Carolina
1988. “Cunningham Dance Foundation Benefit”, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1988. “East Side- West Side” Helander Gallery, Palm Beach
1988. “Evening of Contemporary Art”, Bayly Art Museum, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.
1987. “Diamonds are Forever”, N.Y.State Museum, Albany, New York, Travelling to Baltimore, Chicago Public Library, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinncinati, Museum of Art, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, N.Y. Public Library, New York, Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, Fla. Oakland museum,Cal., Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
1987. “Collectors Choice”, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida. “The Dog Days of August” RISD in New York, Diane Brown Gallery. New York., “Works on Paper”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York.
1986. “It’s a Dogs Life”, St. Pauls Companies, Minnesota
1985. “Winter Solstice”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
1985. Anderson Fine Art Center, Anderson, Indiana, “Beyond Antiquity: Classical References in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass. Cunningham Benefit, Castelli Gallery, New York, “The Male Animal”, Downtown Gallery, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington. “Past and Present Part 2”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, N.Y. “Putti for our Time”King Street Gallery, New York, “Summer Pleasures”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York.
1984. “Collectors Gallery XVII”, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas. “Contemporary Still Life Painting, Florida International University, Miami, Fla. “Faculty Art Exhibit”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, “A Feast for the Eyes” Museum of Modern Art’ New York, “Flowers in Art”, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, “Jim Sullivan”,Gallery 99, Miami, Fla. Rockefeller Retrospective” Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem, North Carolina.
1983 “American Still Life 1945-83” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, Travelling to: Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, N.Y., Portland Art Museum, Oregon, “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, “Artist’s Baseball Celebration” Smith artworks, Cooperstown, N.Y. “Dogs”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, “Intoxication”, Monique Knowlton Gallery, N.Y. “New York Painting Today” Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pa., “Tulips” Impressions Gallery, Boston
1982. “Figures of Mystery”, The Queens Museum, Flushing, N.Y., “Drawing/New Directions” Summit art Center, Are Jersey, “Major New Works: Tenth Anniversary Show” Nancy Hoffman Gallery,N.Y. Narrative Settings” Josef Gallery, New York, New Images and Pattern and Decoration” Neuman Collection, Kalamazoo, Michigan. “Works on Paper” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York.
1981-82 “Group Show”, Fulbright scholarship recipients, I.I.E., New York
1981. “Group Show”, McNay Art, San Antonio, Texas. “Group Show”, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, “Group Show”, Thorpe Intermedia, Sparkill, New York, “Group Show”, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, “Major New Works”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, “New York Gallery Showcase”, Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City
1980 “Group Show”, Webb & Parsons,New Caanan, Connecticut
1979. “Two Man Show” ( with David Hockney) Carol Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, “View from the Valley” Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York.
1978. “Gallery Artists”, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1977. “Group Show” Penn State University, Pennsylvania, “Group Show”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. “Recent Works on Paper”, Madison art Center, Wisconsin
1976. “Contemporary American Art” Worcester Art Museum, Mass. “Contemporary Art in Atlanta Collections” The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, “Group Show”, Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1975. “Contemporary Art”, Halper Gallery, Palm Beach, Fla., “Group Show”, Daniel Frishman Gallery, Osterville, Mass., “Group Show” Gallery 118, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1974. “Group Show”, Indiana State University, “Group Show”, Rochester, Minnesota “Summer Group Show, Fischbach Gallery, New York.
1973. “Six Painters of the Seventies”, University of North Carolina, “Works on Paper”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary art, Ridgefield, Conn. “Painting in America” sponsored by Art in America, Decorative Art Center, New York, “Invitational” American Institute of Arts and Letters, N.Y,
1972. “Acquisitions Exhibitions” Worcester art Museum, Mass. “Four New York Painters”’ Parker 470, Boston, Mass. Group Show” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash. D.C. “Group Show” Penthouse Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., “Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis, Indiana, “Painting on Paper” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn. “Viewpoints Six” Colgate University, Hamilton, New York.
1972 Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1971. “Americans’, Glauber-Poons Gallery, Paris, France. “Beautiful Painting”, Columbus Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio. “Lyrical Abstraction”, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.
1971. “Lyrical Abstraction” Whitney Museum, New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albany State Museum, Albany, N.Y., The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn., The Butler Institute of American art, Youngstown, Ohio. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Miami Dade Junior College, Miami, Florida. Owens Corning College, Toledo, Ohio. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. Whitney Museum of American Art, Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts. Duke University Nasher Museum, Durham, North Carolina. Ulrich Museum, Wichitaw, Kansas
TEACHING 1966-1995 Professor of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.
Fellowships and Grants
1982 National Endowment for the Arts in Painting
1973 American Academy of Arts and Letters Ronenthal Award
1972 Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting
1961-62 Fulbright Fellowship to Paris in Painting
1960-61 Rhode Island School of Design award to study at the R.I.S.D. school in Rome