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William Tucker
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American/British
, born 1935)
William Tucker
Study for Frenhofer,
1992
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William Tucker
Study for Great Mother,
1992
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Biography
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Timeline
1935
Born in Cairo, Egypt (to English parents)
1937
Family returns to England
1955 - 1958
Studies at Oxford University, England
1959 - 1960
Studies at Central School of Art and Design and at St. Martin's School of Art, London
1962 - 1966
Teaches at Goldsmith's College, London
1963 - 1974
Teaches at St. Martin's School of Art, London
1968 - 1970
Receives Gregory Fellowship in Sculpture, Leeds University
1976
Teaches at University of West Ontario, Canada
1977
Teaches at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1978 - 1982
Teaches at Columbia University, New York
1978
Teaches at New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
1980 - 1981
Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
Becomes American citizen
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1991
Receives Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture
1993
Appointed Co-Chairman of the Art Department of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1995
Receives Rodin-Moore Memorial Prize, Second Fujisankei Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
1996
Receives commission for large-scale sculpture for Bilbao, Spain
1999
Receives award from New York Studio School, New York
Currently lives and works in Massachusetts
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Exhibitions
2012
Monotypes and Sculpture, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2009
William Tucker, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007
British Visions: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture and Words on Paper, William H. Van Evey Gallery and Edward M. Smith Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina
Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York
2006
"Six Bronzes”, Ward Pound Ridge Reservation, Cross River, NY (installation)
William Tucker: Drawings and Projects, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
William Tucker: Drawings and Projects, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY (solo)
William Tucker: Horses, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
William Tucker: Maia, Studies for the Sculpture in Bilbao, MacClaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, Canada
2005
William Tucker: Recent Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
2004
The 179th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York
Around the World in Forty Years, ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
William Tucker: Recent Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
William Tucker: Maia, Studies for the Sculpture in Bilbao, MacClaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario, Canada (solo)
William Tucker: Sculpture & Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2003
Drawings by William Tucker, Arts on the Point, Healey Library Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Boston
William Tucker: Drawings, New York Studio School, New York
Installation, State Street, Santa Barbara, CA
William Tucker on State Street, Santa Barbara's State of the Art Gallery
William Tucker: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
Tra-la-la: British Sculpture in the Sixties, Duveen Galleries, Tate Britain, London
2002
Sculpture, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, NY
William Tucker: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
2001
The Sleep of Reason, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
William Tucker, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
William Tucker, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK (catalogue)
2000
The Sleep of Reason, Bethel College, St.Paul, MN
The Sleep of Reason, The Olson Gallery, Bethal College, St. Paul, MN
1999
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
McKee Gallery, New York
William Tucker: Drawings and Sculpture, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
1997
Retrospective, Yorkshire Sculpture Park England
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Painting and Sculpture NYC
1996
McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
1995
"Critical Mass", Yale University School of Art; The MAC New Haven, CT; Dallas, TX
"Body as Metaphor", Proctor Art Center, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Six Sculptures", Organized by South Bank Centre Traveling exhibition
McKee Gallery NYC
"Sculpture Space: Celebrating 20 Years", Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Utica, NY
1994
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters NYC
"Art Partners", Gallery at Park West Kingston, NY
"The Essential Gesture", Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport Beach, CA
McKee Gallery NYC
"Hyper Cathexis: Layers of Experience", Stux Gallery; Robert Morrison Gallery NYC
Adelphi University Center Gallery Garden City, Long Island, NY
1993
"Artist in Residence", Amherst College Amherst, MA
"The Philosophers, Sculpture and Drawings 1989-1992", Maak Gallery London, England
1992 - 1993
"28th Annual Exhibition of Art on Paper", Weatherspoon Art Gallery University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1992
"Ancient Sources: Contemporary Forms", Abington Art Center Jenkintown, PA
Williams Center for the Arts Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA
McKee Gallery NYC
1991
David McKee Gallery NYC
1989
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (solo)
McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
William Tucker, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
1988
William Tucker: The American Decade 1978-1988, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
Annely Juda Gallery, London (solo)
1987
Gods: Five Recent Sculptures, Tate Gallery, London
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery (solo)
1985
McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara (solo)
1984
David McKee Gallery, New York (solo)
L'Isola Gallery (solo)
1982
Robert Elkon Gallery (solo)
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1981
L'Isola Gallery, Rome, Italy (solo)
1980
David Reids Gallery, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Robert Elkon Gallery (solo)
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
1979
Robert Elkon Gallery (solo)
1977
Robert Elkon Gallery (solo)
1976
Galerie Wintersberger, Cologne, West Germany (solo)
1974
Hester Van Royen Gallery, London (solo)
Hamburg Kunstverein, Museum Bochum, West Germany
Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery, London
1973
Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
1972
XXXVI Venice Biennale, Italy
1970
Kasmin Gallery (solo)
1969
Kasmin Gallery (solo)
Leeds City Art Gallery (Gregory Fellow Exhibition)
1968
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York (solo)
1966
Kasmin Gallery, London (solo)
Rowan Gallery, London (solo)
1965
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York (solo)
1963
Rowan Gallery, London (solo)
1962
Grabowski Gallery, London (solo)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arkansas Art Center, AK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
City of Bilbao, Spain
Contemporary Art Society, London
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Leicester Education Authority, England
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne, Australia
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Tate Gallery, London
University of California at Los Angeles
University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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Public Collections
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Contemporary Art Society, London
City of Bilbao, Spain
British Museum, London
British Council, London
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arkansas Art Center, AK
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Leicester Education Authority, England
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
University of North Carolina , Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
University of California at Los Angeles
Tate Gallery, London
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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