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Red Grooms

(American, born 1937)

Red Grooms

Rosie's Closet, 1979

1,200 USD

Red Grooms

Croissant Crusher, 1979–1999

1,200 USD

Red Grooms

Katherine, Marcel, and the Bride, 1981

12,500 USD

Red Grooms

Sex in the Midwest, 1979

1,200 USD

Red Grooms

Empire State Building, 1997

3,000 USD

Red Grooms

Happy Greeting, 1982

Sold

Red Grooms

Jackson Pollock, 1981

18,500 USD

Red Grooms

Mayor Byrne's Mile of Sculpture, 1982

2,000 USD

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
1990: Recipient, Founders Medal, Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, USA
1996: Some Like it Hot and Imaike Broadway commissioned by the City of Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan
: Recipient, Art Masters Award, Artist Award: Sculpture
1998: Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel, permanent outdoor installation, Nashville, USA
2000: Elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters
2003: Recipient, Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Design
2004: Piragüas de Frambuesa/Strawberry Ice Cones, monumental sculpture commissioned for Coamo, Puerto Rico
: Lives and works in New York, USA

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
2009 - 2011: Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2009-2011:
I WANT Candy: The Sweet Stuff in American Art, Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, DC, United States. Traveled to Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA; Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center, Casper, WY; Arts and Cultural Center, Lake Charles, LA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA; and Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI
2009: Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2009:
Red Grooms: Dancing, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
That ‘70s Show, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States
Art and Popular Culture from the Permanent Collection, The Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia, United States
Shark’s Ink: The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado, United States
New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York, United States
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
From Washington to Warhol: Americana Redefined, Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2008: Red Grooms Selected Exhibitions in 2008:
Red Grooms: In the Studio, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, United States (solo exhibition)
Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States
Alex Katz and Friends, The Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, United States
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Pop Art and After: Prints and Popular Culture, The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Print Lovers at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Giving, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Focus: The Figure, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, United States
Sharks Ink Revisited, Haas Fine Arts Center, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States Summer Show, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2007: Red Grooms: Recent Paintings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Wit & Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2006: Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
2005: Landscape, Cityscape, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Nassau Red! Red Grooms: Ruckus in Roslyn, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, USA (solo)
2004: Red Grooms: New Works in Wood, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2003: La Fête, Le Bellevue, Biarritz, France; traveled to Museo Valenciano de la Ilustración y la Modernidad, Valencia, Spain
The Human Comedy: Portraits by Red Grooms, Katonah Museum of Art; traveled to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; and Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina (solo)
2002: Red Grooms: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001: Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, USA
2000 - 2004: Red Grooms: Selections from the Complete Graphics Works, The National Academy of Design, New York, New York; traveled to the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois; Montgomery Museum of Arts, Montgomery, Alabama; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (solo)
2000: Déjà vu: Reworking the Past, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, USA
Red Grooms in Pursuit of Serious Fun, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, Virginia (solo)
Red Grooms: Sculpture, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey (solo)
1999: Red Grooms: New Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Sculptures and Constructions, Marlborough Florida, Boca Raton, Florida (solo)
Red Grooms: New Monoprints, Marlborough Graphics, New York, New York (solo)
1998: Red Grooms: Moby Dick Meets the New York Public Library, Norton Museum, Palm Beach, Florida (solo)
Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel, permanent outdoor installation, Nashville, USA
Red Grooms and the Heroism of Modern Life, Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA (solo)
Coming off the Wall, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, USA
1997: Traveling with Red Grooms, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Red Grooms, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee (solo)
1996: Red Grooms: A Personal Art History, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA (solo)
1995: Red Grooms: The New York Stories, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
Red Grooms: What’s All the Ruckus About?, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee; traveled to The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; The Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia; and The Mitchell Art Gallery at St. John’s College, Annapolis, Maryland (solo)
Red Grooms: Sculpture and Works on Paper 1980-1994, Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA
Filmmuseum, Potsdam, Germany
1994: Red Grooms's Dame of the Narrows and the Greater New York Harbor, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA (solo)
Target: Red Grooms!, Fredrick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
1993: Red Grooms, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan; traveled to Ashiya City Museum of Art and History, Ashiya, Japan; Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; and The Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan (solo)
Red Grooms, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, USA
Red Grooms at Grand Central, Grand Central Terminal, New York, USA
Red Grooms' Ruckus Rodeo, Rockwell Museum, Corning, USA
Have Brush Will Travel: Red Grooms' Watercolor World, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1992: Ruckus Rodeo, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: New Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Dame of the Narrows, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA (solo)
The Burning Building (revival) and Hot Water, Cabaret Voltaire, New York, USA
Red Grooms, Kathryn Ellman Gallery, Aspen, USA
1990: Red Grooms: Tourist Traps and Other Places, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Oeuvres Récentes, FIAC 1990 for Marlborough Gallery New York, USA (solo)
1989: Traveling with Red Grooms: Watercolors 1987-89, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1987: Red Grooms: Recent Prints, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Recent Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo)
Graphics, Simms Fine Art, New Orleans, USA
1986 - 1991: Red Grooms: The Graphic Work, Organized by the Fine Arts Center, Nashville, USA
1986: Red Grooms: The Graphic Work, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee; traveled to Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia; Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, Florida; Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania; William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut; South Dakota Memorial Art Center, Brookings, South Dakota; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; Louisiana Arts and Science Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Amarillo Arts Center, Amarillo, Texas; Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, Idaho; Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Center in the Square, Roanoke, Virginia; The Canton Art Institute, Canton, Ohio; The Oklahoma Arts Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, Alaska; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York; The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York; Federal Reserve Board Art Gallery, Washington, D.C; Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, Georgia; and the Sunrise Art Museum/Fine Art Museum, Charleston, West Virginia (solo)
Homage to Red Grooms, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, USA
Rembrandt Takes a Walk; Gouaches for the book by Mark Strand, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Marlborough Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Red Grooms: A Retrospective 1956-1984, organized by the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA
1985: Red Grooms: A Retrospective 1956-1984, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; traveled to Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; and Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, Tennessee (solo)
Red Grooms: Recent Work, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England
Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Red Grooms: The Alley, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Red Grooms!, Sette Publishing Co., Tempe, USA
1984: Red Grooms: Recent Work, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
1983: Graphics from the 80s, Unicorn Gallery, Aspen, USA
Maquettes, Monotypes and Graphics, Anderson Ranch, Aspen, USA
Public Works-Private Patrons: Images of Modern Times by Red Grooms, Tampa Museum, Tampa; Hunter Museum, Chattanooga, USA (solo)
Ruckus Rodeo, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA (solo)
1982: Red Grooms: Philadelphia Cornucopia, Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Welcome to Cleveland, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA (solo)
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Red Grooms: Prints of the Seventies, organized by Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, USA
Red Grooms: Ruckus Manhattan, Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Red Grooms 1977-1982, Carlson Gallery at University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, USA
Red Grooms: From the Permanent Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)
1981: Red Grooms: Prints of the Seventies, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee; traveled to University of Mississippi, University, Mississippi; West Georgia College, Carrollton, Georgia; University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina; Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida; Hickory Museum, Hickory, North Carolina; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana; Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky; Waterworks Gallery, Salisbury, North Carolina; and Davidson College Art Gallery, Davidson, North Carolina (solo)
Ruckus Rodeo, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, USA (solo)
Red Grooms: Originals from Local Collections, Montgomery Bell Academy, Nashville, USA
Red Grooms: Recent Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA
Ruckus Manhattan Revisited, Burlington House, New York, USA (solo)
1980: Red Grooms: Works from the 60s, Hatton Art Gallery at Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, USA
Camp Gallery/ Signet Fine Prints, St. Louis, USA
Discount Store, Lowe Art Museum at University of Miami, Miami, USA (solo)
1979: The Bookstore, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, USA (solo)
Benjamin Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Discount Store, Anderson Gallery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
1978: Martin Wiley Gallery, Nashville, USA
Discount Store, State University of New York, Purchase, USA
1977: Galerie Roger d'Amecourt, Paris, France
New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
1976: Ruckus Manhattan, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1975: Works on Paper, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA
1973: The Ruckus World of Red Grooms, Voorhees Hall, Rutgers Gallery of Art, New Brunswick, New Jersey; traveled to New York Cultural Center, New York, New York; and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela (solo)
1972: Hippodrome Hardware, Ruckus Studio, New York, USA
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, USA
Cheekwood Fine Arts Center, Nashville, USA
Fredrick Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1971: John Bernard Myers Gallery, New York, USA
Red Grooms, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA (solo)
1970: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
1968: Berkeley Eruption, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
1967: City of Chicago, Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; traveled to the 34 Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; and Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
1966: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
1965: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
1963: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, USA
1962: Nashville Artists Guild, Nashville, USA
1960: The Magic Train Ride, Reuben Gallery, New York, USA
1959: The Walking Man, Sun Gallery, Provincetown, USA
The Burning Building, Delancey Street Museum, New York, USA
City Gallery, New York, USA
1958: Sun Gallery, Provincetown, USA

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
: Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
: Southern Illinois University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
: The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
: The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, New York
: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
: Vera List Center for Art and Politics, The New School, New York, New York
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
: Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
: Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela
: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
: Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
: Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
: Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee
: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
: Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
: Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
: Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
: Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Fukushima, Japan
: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee
: Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina
: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Red Grooms

(American, born 1937)

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