Thornton Willis

(American, born 1936)

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Thornton Willis

Slide Kick, 2008

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Thornton Willis

Stepover, 2015

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Biography

Timeline

1936
Born in Pensacola, Florida
1962
University of Southern Mississippi, BS
1966
University of Alabama, MFA
1979
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Painting Fellowship
1980
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1984
National Endowment for the Arts, Printmaking Fellowship
1991
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Fellowship
2001
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Painting Fellowship
2004
Southern Mississippi College of Arts and Letters, Wall of Fame
Lives New York City

Exhibitions

2006
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Oracle”, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paros, Greece and Brooklyn, NY
“Neoplastic Redux”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Ober Gallery, Kent, CT
“New Criterion Benefit Auction”, Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2005
“Raising the Bar: James Little & Thornton Willis”, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
The Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY
Holland Tunnel Gallery, NY
2003
The Spike Gallery, Green Chimney’s Auction & Benefit, New York, NY