Timeline

1968
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee BFA
1970
University of Hawaii, Manoa Campus, Honolulu, HI MFA

Exhibitions

2013
Superimposition, Donna Leatherman, New York, NY (solo)
2008
Aldrich Undercover, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2007
Beyond a Gift of Time, Current Work Former Fellows of the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program," Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2007
Inquiries, Donna Leatherman, New York, NY (solo)
2003
Saints and Gods, group show of paintings, Galerie 311, New Orleans, LA
2000
Self-Reflections-a glance in the Mirror, group show of paintings in the Pfizer Corporation's exhibition space, east 42nd Street, NYC, curator: Dorothy Solomon
1998
Invitational, Memphis Arts Festival-Brooks Museum, Memphis,TN
1997
Permanent Collection, Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico “Teamwork” Krasdale Foods Corp. Gallery, White Plains, N.Y.
1991
Co-operative Labor A & B, two panels (8.5 feet X 12 feet - 11.5 feet X 6.5 feet) commission, PATH, Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J. “Sam Houston’s School” 72 inches Sq., oil on canvas, Tennessee Heritage Collection, First Tennessee Collection, First Tennessee Bank of Memphis, Memphis, TN
1990
Creative Process, traveling exhibition-N.Y. area, Bronx Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Lincoln Center Public Galleries
1989
Miami Mix, commission, (8 feet X 12 feet) collection of City of Miami- located: Coconut Grove Convention Center, Miami, Florida
1988–1989
Art & the Law, sponsored by West Publishing Co. International traveling exhibition (catalog)
1988
Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico, installation -solo
1987
Schreiber/Cutler, Inc. New York, New York -solo
1986
mural, Ascent-Descent; PATH, The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, located: entrance to the Christopher Street PATH station, Christopher Street, west of Hudson, New York, NY. Sponsored by the Public Art Fund.
1985
Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, New York -solo
1984–1985
Innocence and Experience, Greenville County Museum, Greenville, South Carolina, (catalog). Also traveled to First Street Gallery, N.Y.C.
1984
The New Portrait, Institute for Art And Urban Resources (P.S.1), Long Island City, N.Y., (curated by: Jeffrey Deitch, catalog)
1982
Gallery Yves Arman, New York, New York -solo
Stylistic Plurality, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y. (catalog)
1981
Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ(solo) Memphis: Six Artists, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN
1980
Gallery Yves Arman, New York, New York -solo
On Paper, Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, Virginia (catalog)
New York Realists- 1980, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill, N.Y. (catalog)
1979
24th Annual Contemporary American Painting, Lehigh University, Lehigh, PA 15th Anniversary Show of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT, Jeff Fuller Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Works on Paper” Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee -solo
1978
Five New Painters, Soho Center for Visual Arts New York, NY
1974
Vault Gallery, Boston, MA(Solo)
1973
Scott Gallery, Atlanta, GA(Solo), Second Georgia Artists Show, High Museum, Atlanta, GA, New Acquisitions, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
1972
North Lite Gallery, Memphis, TN(solo), Scott Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Solo)
1971
Pacific Grove Art Center, Monterey, CA (solo)
1970
Foundry Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI(solo), Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI, “Mid-South Exhibition”, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN
1969
Tennessee Painting Today, Cheekwood Museum, Nashville, TN, Artists of Hawaii, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1968
Southeastern College Art Conference Exhibition, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

Public Collections

Collection of The University of Massachusetts, Boston
Christopher Street PATH Station Mural, Ascent/ Descent by Biff Elrod Restoration
Tennessee State Foundation for the Arts, Nashville, TN
Cheekwood Botannical and Art Museum, Nashville, TN
The Butler Institute of American Art
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, New Mexico
Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
The National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
The Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Tennessee State Foundation for the Arts, Nashville, TN
Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Rhodes College of Art, Memphis, TN

Literature

2006
Elrod, Biff, NY Arts Magazine, online feature, 2006.
2003
MacCash, Doug. “TACKLING POP CULTURE : Sports paintings score extra points for taking art to the mainstream.” The Times-Picayune, Sept 29, 2003.
1988
Myles, Eileen, Art in America, review, Vol. 76, no. 3., March, 1988 pp. 156-7. reproduction.
1986
“Fourteen Reasons Why New York is New”, The New York Times, October 3, 1986. , reproduction.
1986
The New York Times, September 3, 1986 , reproduction.
1985
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, Vol. 60. no. 3., November , 1985, p.130.
1985
Niers, Gert, Aufbau , Germany June, 1985, reproduction.
1984
Klein, Ellen Lee, Arts Magazine, review: “Rambunctious” show, March,1984
1982
Hollfelder, Jack, Art Papers, Interview, Vol. 6., no. 2., March-April 1982 , pp.4-6.
1982
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, Vol. 56., no.10., June 1982, p.20.
1980
Schjeldahl, Peter, "33 Artists Offer 33 Views of Realism", The New York Times, Art (Westchester Section), April 13, 1980