Red Grooms

(American, born 1937)

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Sunday Funnies

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At the Beach, 1970

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Mr. Chuck Berry, 1978

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Nervous City Street Scene, 1973

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Los Aficianados, 1990

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Study for Way Down East

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Discount Store, 1971

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Sarajevo, 1968

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You Can Have a Body Like Mine!, 1978

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London Bus, 1983

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Stockholm Print, from the New York Collection for Stockholm, 1973

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Fall of Jericho, 1971

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Pierpont Morgan Library, 1982

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Blewy, 1972

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Mr. Chuck Berry, 1978

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Biography

Timeline

1937
Born in Nashville, USA
1955
Attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1956
Attended George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, USA
Attended New School for Social Research, New York, USA
1957
Attended Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, USA
1970
California PS Grant for Film, New York, USA
1982
Cornucopia, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1983
Recipient, Artists of the Year Award, 3rd Annual Arts Education Convention
Recipient, National Arts Club Award, Gold Medal Honor
1986
Recipient, Governor’s Award in the Arts, State of Tennessee

Exhibitions

2017
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Red Grooms: New York On My Mind, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Art in the Open, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
New York, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA - Pennsylvania, United States
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952–1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
2016
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Lincoln on the Hudson by Red Grooms, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
Red Grooms: Traveling Correspondent, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, United States (solo exhibition)
A Feast for the Eyes, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York, United States
Scrimmage: Football in American Art from the Civil War to the Present, Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States
Life, Liberty, Happiness? American Art and Politics, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Photography and Iterations, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
2015 - 2016
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Red Grooms: The Blue and The Gray, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Traveled to Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, United States, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas, United States
2015
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, United States
2014
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Red Grooms: Beware a Wolf in the Alley, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Red Grooms: Torn from the Pages II, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY(solo exhibition)
2013
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Red Grooms: What's the Ruckus, Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, United States (solo exhibition)
Red Grooms: Larger Than Life, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States (solo exhibition)
Red Grooms' New York City, Children's Museum of Manhattan, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
2012
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Red Grooms: Torn from the Pages, Marlborough Gallery , New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Pop! Goes the Humor, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, United States
Happenings: New York, 1958-1963, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
Body Language...selections from the Permanent Collection, Canton Museum of Art, Canton, Ohio, United States
2011 - 2012
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2011-2012:
American Pop, South Shore Arts Gallery, Munster, Indiana, United States
2011
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Red Grooms, New York: 1976-2011, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
A Way with Words: Text in Art, The Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, United States
American Pop, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States
Pop Icons: Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Monterey Museum of Art , Monterey, California, United States
The Big Reveal, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
East of Eden / Photorealism: Versions of Reality Photorealism as a Cold-War phenomenon, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary
Collectors' Choice: Selections from the Jane and Jay Braus Collection, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
Summer Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony 1899-2011, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, United States
Forces of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States
2010
Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Old Masters and Modern Muses: Red Grooms’s Portraits of Artists, 1957-2009, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States (solo exhibition)
One Life: Echoes of Elvis, Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., United States
10 ans deja, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco

Public Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, New York
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
New York Historical Society, New York, New York
Northern Kentucky University, Newport, Kentucky
Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania