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Sam Gilliam

(American, 1933–2022)

Sam Gilliam

Rich Double (1 and 2), 1993

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Sam Gilliam

In the Making, 1988

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Sam Gilliam

Untitled, 1991

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Sam Gilliam

Mirrors, 1986

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Sam Gilliam

Untitled, 1990

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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

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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