BILL BARRETT

 

Born in Los Angeles, California

Education: B.S. and M.S. in Design, M.F.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

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2022 SCULPTURE AND PAINTINGS. Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI

2021-22 CHOREOGRAPHY OF ABSTRACTION, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2018 AN ARTISTIC TOUCH, Oklahoma State University year long outdoor sculpture installation          and maquette exhibition, Stillwater, OK

2017-18 ACTION ABSTRACTION outdoor sculpture exhibition on campus, Oklahoma State                 University, Stillwater, OK

2016 THE BRONZE TOUCH Taylor Graham Gallery, New York, NY

2015 EMANATIONS in BRONZE small original cast bronze and gold leaf maquette exhibition               LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2015 INQUIRE WITHIN Museum Exhibition at Reading Museum, Reading, PA, paintings and               sculptures

2012 Bill Barrett, DNA A painting and sculpture exhibition, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery,              Santa Fe, NM

2012 Bill Barrett, Sculpture and Paintings, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

2011 Bill Barrett, Paintings and Sculpture, Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

2010 Polyphonics, Iowa State University, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Ames,                              Synchronicities. Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

2008-09. Exquisite Balance, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

2008 Drawing Exhibition, Michigan State University, College of Arts and Letters,

        Kresge Art Center, East Lansing, MI

        LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

        Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

2007 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, AZ

2006 Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

2005 LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

2004 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

2002 Century Association, New York, NY

         Ira Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA

1982-2005  DeGraaf Fine Art, Saugatuck, MI

2001 McCormick Works of Art, Chicago, IL

        Kouros Gallery, New York, NY

        Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

2000 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJJ. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX

1998 J. J. Brookings Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997–98 Nardin Gallery, New York, NY

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

 

2023 MODERNIST GROUP EXHIBITION, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA

2022 HOLIDAY SHOWCASE Exhibition, LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2021-2022 UNCOMMON GROUND IV, Bridge Gardens, Bridgehampton, NY

2017-2018 Santa Fe Botanical Garden VISUAL POETRY Exhibition of 14 Outdoor Sculptures,               Santa Fe,NM. Yearlong exhibition

2015 GROUP MATRIX Inaugural Exhibition, STUX+HALLER Gallery, New York, NY

2012 Comune de Pontedera, Pontedera, Italy

2011 Friends of Finn Square in Tribeca, City of New York and NYC Parks and Recreation                    Department presents, 9/11 MEMORIAL SCULPTURE COMMEMORATING

        10th ANNIVERSARY

2009  20 Bildhauer-20Skulpturen, Villa Haiss Museum, Zell am Harmersback, Germany

2007 Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM) at Barker              Hanger, Santa Monica, CA

2005 U.S. Embassy Residence in Vatican City, The Holy See

2004 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

2003 Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

         LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

         Eckert Fine Art Gallery, Naples, FL

2002 Tenth Anniversary Invitational, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

2001 Ford Park Sculpture Exhibition, Art in Public Places Program, Vail, CO

        30th Anniversary Invitational Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Shidoni Gallery, Tesuque, NM

2000 Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NMSculpture

2000 International, New London, CTALVA Gallery, New London, CT

        Euro Galleries, Minneapolis

2000–1999 McCormick Works of Art, Navy Pier Expo, Chicago, IL

1999  Benson Gallery, East Hampton, NY

         The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

1995–99 Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick, NJ

1992–94.  97-98Navy Pier Exhibition, Chicago, IL

1998 Albright College Center For The Arts, Doris Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA

1997 Thomas McCormick Works of Art, Chicago, I

1992–97Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

1996 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

         Friends of Contemporary Art, Lewallen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM

         Armory Show, Kouros Gallery, NY

         Bologna-Landi Gallery, East Hampton, NY

1995–96 Outdoor Installation, Fenn Square. West Broadway and Varick Streets, New York, NY

1995  Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN

         Mongerson-Wunderlich Gallery, Chicago, IL

         La Quinta Sculpture Garden, La Quinta, C

1994  Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

         Turner-Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

         Benkert Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

         Philadelphia Expo, Philadelphia, PA

1988–94. Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1992  Kyoto Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

1991–921st Alabama Biennial, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

1991  Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM

         Kouros Gallery, Outdoor Sculpture Garden, Ridgefield, CT

1990  Tokyo Expo, Nina Owen, Ltd., Chicago, IL

1989-90 Sculpture Tour, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN

1989 International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

        Flat Iron Gallery, New York, NY

        Basel Expo, Basel, Switzerland

        Cavalier Gallery, Stamford, CT

        Food Center Sculpture Park at Hunts Point, Bronx, NY

1988 Ruth Vared Gallery, Easthampton, NY

        The Romanek Sculpture Garden, Chicago, IL

        Hudson River Museum, Sculptor’s Guild, Yonkers, NY

1987 Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

1984-87 Schulman Sculpture Garden, White Plains, NY

1986 Guild Hall Museum, Easthampton, NY

         Shidoni Contemporary Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Tesuque, NM

1984 Snug Harbor Museum, Staten Island, NY

1983 Sid Deutsch Gallery, New York, NY

1982-83 Phoenix Botanical Gardens, Phoenix, AZ

1982 The Great Garden Sculpture Show, Sculptural Arts Museum, Atlanta, GA

         International Sculpture Conference, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

1981 Botanical Gardens (outdoor show, Sculptor’s Guild), Bronx, NY

1970-81 Sculpture Center, Sixty-Ninth Street, New York, NY

1980 Sculpture Center, Sixty-Ninth Street, New York, NY“AREA” (outdoor show), Washington,             DC

1978–80“AREA” (outdoor show), Wards Island, NY

         American Mission Building, United Nations, New York, NY

1978 Lincoln Center, New York, NY

        Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY

        Alexander Milliken Gallery, New York, NY

        Foley Square (outdoor), New York, NY

        PS 1, Long Island City, NY

        Art Train, Michigan Art Train, Inc.

1975 The Society of the Four Arts Sculpture Competition, New York Cultural Center, Columbus           Circle, NY

1973–75 Storm King Art Center, Sculpture in the Fields, Mountainville, NY

1974 Large Outdoor Sculpture Show, Bach Festival, Bethlehem, PA

1973-74 Sculpture III, Department of Cultural Affairs, World Trade Center, Pratt Institute

          and LaGuardia Airport, New York, NY

1972 Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY

1970 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

1970 Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual, New York, NY

1966 University of the South, Sewanee, TN

1964 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

         The Bundy Art Gallery, Waitsfield, VT

1963 The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

1959-63 The Detroit Institute of Arts Shows, Detroit, MI

1959 Father/Son, Indiana Art Center, South Bend, IN

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Museum and University Collections:

 

 

911 Memorial Museum, New York, NY

Albright College, Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA

Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM

Aldrich Museum of Art, Ridgefield, CT  (sculpture destroyed)

Allan Houser Foundation, Permanent Collection, Santa Fe, NM

Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI.  paintings and sculpture

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL   Permanent Collection, sculpture and painting

Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Eastern Michigan University Library, Ypsilanti, MI

Fine Arts Museum of Oklahoma City, OK

Goddard Visual Art Center, Ardmore, OK

Grounds for Sculpture Museum, Hamilton, NJ

Guild Hall Museum of Art, East Hampton, NY

Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM

Henry Ford Community College. Dearborn, MI

Hope College, Music School, Holland, MI

The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY

Iowa State University, Art on Campus Collection, Gerdin Building, College of Business, Ames, IA

Iowa State University, Art on Campus Model and Maquette Collection, Ames, IA

Iowa State University, Department of Music and Theater, Ames, Iowa

International Foundation Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria

Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Las Vegas Museum of Art, Las Vegas, NV

McKnight Performing Arts Center, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK.

      Percent for Art project

Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

Montana Museum of Art and Culture, (paintings), Missoula, MT

Mitchell Wolfson New World Campus, Miami, FL

Museum of Outdoor Art, Englewood, Colorado

Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

Norfolk Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, McKnight Performing Arts Center

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK

Purdue University, Westville, IN

Pyramid Hill, Sculpture Park and Museum, Hamilton, OH

Reading Museum, Reading, PA

Rice University, Houston, TX

Runnymede Sculpture Farm, San Francisco, CA

Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

Stony Brook University, Louis and Beatrice Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology

Taos Museum of Art, Taos, NM

Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA

Trinity Medical Foundation, Fort Dodge, IA

University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Dentistry, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Michigan, School of Social Work, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Montana, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT

University of the South, Sewanee, TN

University of Syracuse, Syracuse, NY

Utsukushi-ga-Hara Open Air Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ

 

 

Selected Public Collections:

 

Ann Arbor City Hall, Ruby Church Memorial, Ann Arbor, MI

City of Ardmore, OK

City of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ

City of Scottsdale, AZ

Criminal Courts Building, Hartford, CT

New York City, New Dorp High School, Staten Island, NY    A Percent for Art Project

Nyack Plaza Mall, Nyack, NY

Pennington Park, Patterson, NJ

City of Palo Alto, CA

National September 11TH Memorial Museum, New York, N

 

 

 

Selected Private Collections:

 

200 Central Park South, Bernard Spitzer, New York, NY Spitzer Engineering

1615 L. Street, Washington, DC Spitzer Engineering

2001 K. Street, Washington, DC Spitzer Engineering

Belz Enterprises, Memphis, TN

Best Products Corporation, Richmond, VA

Bishop Ranch, San Ramon, CA

Brandywine Realty and Trust, Austin, TX

The Corinthian Building, New York, NY

Dell Corporation, Austin, TX

Eighty-One Mainstreet Associates, White Plains, NY

Garden Communities, La Jolla, CA

Hitachi Corporation, Kyushu Plant, Kanda, Japan

Jade Pig Corporation, Gaslight Village, Grand Rapids, MI

La Jolla Crossroads, La Jolla, CA

Lincoln National Life Insurance Company Foundation, Fort Wayne, IN

Lumiere Place Casino and Hotel, A Four Seasons Hotel, St. Louis, MO

Neiman-Marcus, Dallas, TX

Nemocolin Woodlands Resort, Farmington, PA

Pacific Enterprises, Law Library, Los Angeles, CA

Palazzo Hotel Resort Casino, Las Vegas, NV

Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, AR (Belz Enterprises, Memphis, TN)

Portman Corporation, Northpark Town Center, Atlanta, GA

Rockefeller Realty Corporation, #3 Embarcadero West, San Francisco, CA

Saint Vincent Hospital, Santa Fe, NM

Santa Fe Botanical Gardens, Santa Fe, NM

Schulman Realty Group, White Plains, NY                                 

Sempra Energy International, San Diego, CA

The Century Association, New York, NY

Tower Insurance Group, New York, NY

Trammell-Crow, Paramount, CA

Valley National Bank, Phoenix, AZ

The Robert T. Webb Sculpture Garden, Dalton, GA.

West Group, One Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, CA

 

 

Awards:

 

1994                 The Audubon Artists Silver Medal of Honor for Sculpture, NY

1992                 The Audubon Artists Chaim Gross Foundation Award for Sculpture, NY

1990                 The Audubon Artists Gold Medal of Honor for Sculpture, NY

1988                 Fiftieth Annual Guild Hall Artist Members Exhibition, Best Sculpture Award, 

                        East Hampton, NY    

1987                 Hakone Open-Air Museum Award, Japan

1986                 The R.S. Reynolds Memorial Award

1965                 Kalamazoo Area Art Exhibition/Art Center 1965-1966,

                         Second Annual Purchase, Kalamazoo, MI

                        Eastern Michigan University Ypsilanti Merit Award, Ypsilanti, MI

1964                 Forty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Works by Artists and Craftsman of the                                    Western Reserve, Jury Mention, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

                        Awarded an exhibition at the Kalamazoo Art Center, Kalamazoo, MI

1962                 Annual North Dakota Exhibition Prize in Sculpture, ND

                        Detroit Institute of Arts, Lewis Prize for Outstanding Work by a Michigan    

                        Teacher, Detroit, MI

1961                 Western Michigan Art Gallery Award for Sculpture, Grand Rapids, MI

1960                 Albert Kahn and Associates Award, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1958                 Tri Kappa Award, First Prize Sculpture, Ft Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, IN

                                         

 

 

 

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