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Sam Gilliam

(American, 1933–2022)

Sam Gilliam

Marathon (ID #SG-M-20.03), 2003

25,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Marathon I (ID #SG-M-AP-I-36.03), 2003

15,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Lattice Memory (ID #SG-M-30.99), 1999

25,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Lattice Memory (ID #SG-M-31.99), 1999

25,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Marathon (SG-M-37.99), 1999

12,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Marathon (ID #SG-M-38.99), 1999

12,000 USD

Sam Gilliam

Dogon Suite, 2005

38,000 USD

Biography

Timeline

1933: Born: Tupelo, MI
1952 - 1955: B.A., Fine Art, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1958 - 1961: M.A., Painting, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
1980: Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at the University of Louisville
1990: Recipient, an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at Northwestern University
: Lives and works in Washington, DC

Exhibitions

2013: African American Art - Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
2012: Sam Gilliam: Contingencies - Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL
2011: Sam Gilliam: Paintings - Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
: Sam Gilliam: Close to Trees - American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
: Sam Gilliam: Flour Mill  - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
: Sam Gilliam - New Paintings - Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2009: Sam Gilliam : New Paintings - Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC
2007: SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (solo)
2006: SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2005: Sunlight: New Paintings, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
SAM GILLIAM: A Retrospective, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2004: 3, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Sam Gilliam, Folded & Hinged, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA; traveling to the Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, MS (solo)
2002: Slats, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2001: From Shiraz, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
Imago Gallery, Palm Desert CA
1999: Works '99, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washingon, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998: Sam Gilliam in 3-D, Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC (solo)
Installation USIA, Santago, Chile
1997: Of Fireflies and Ferris Wheels: Monastery Parallel, an installation Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany (solo)
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center of Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1996: J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisviile, KY
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Klein Gallery, Chicago,IL
Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1995: 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1994: Galerie Simmone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington,D.C.
1993: Golden Windows Inside Gold, an installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, NY (solo)
1992: Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
Michael H. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Installation, Helsinki, Finland
1991: Gallery Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY
Nancy Drysdale/ de Andino Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1986: Abstraction/Abstraction, Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
1977: Le Peinture et le Tissu, Museum of Modern Art, Lyon, France
1975: 34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1974: Cut, Bend, Spindle, Fold, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1972: Works for Spaces: Antonakos, Bladen, Gilliam, Irwin and Rockburn, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA ( catalogue )
XXXVI Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy
1971: Works for New Spaces, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1969: Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Public Collections

: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
: Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France
: Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
: Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin, Ireland
: Tate Britain, London (England)
: Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN
: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Mississippi Museum of Art MMA, Jackson, MS
: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK

Sam Gilliam

(American, 1933–2022)

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Sam Gilliam

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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