Born 1952, Dallas, TX

EDUCATION

1978 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1976 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

1975 B.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999 DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

David Bates: Still Life, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX

1998 New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1997-99 David Bates: The Gulf Coast, Galveston Arts Center, TX

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Texas Fine Arts Association Center Space, Austin, TX

1997 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Arthur Roger Galllery, New Orleans, LA

1996 Contemporary Arts Center, Abilene, TX

Tyler Museum of Art, TX

1995 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1993 The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1989 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

1988 David Bates, Forty Paintings, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

The Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI (catalogue)

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Grassy Lake: Works on Paper by David Bates, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

1987 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1986 Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX

Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1984 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

1983 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

1982 DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

1981 DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

1978 Eastfield College, Dallas, TX

University Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

1976 Eastfield College, Dallas, TX

Allen Street Gallery, Dallas, TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1999-2000 Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C.; cultural exchange project traveling to Vietnam, China, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines

1999 WATER: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

Cutting Edges: Painters’ Woodcuts from Experimental Workshop, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY

The Painted Canvas, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1998 Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

David Bates and Betty Woodman: Paradox in Paint, Wood and Clay, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ

Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1997 Contemporary Landscapes: The Enigma of Reason, The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY

5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA

Structures: Building in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, TX

1996 Feast for the Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, TX

American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Establishment Exposed: Part I, Dallas Visual Art Center, TX

1995 47th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL

XXV Years: AN Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery, John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Wildlife, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

1994 The Label Show, Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Vividly Told, Contemporary Southern Narrative Painting, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

The Gibbes Museum for Art, Charleston, SC

American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Outside: In, Outsider and Contemporary Artists in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX

1993 In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Still Life, 1963-1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1992 People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY

Mind & Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI

Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX

Knoxville Museum of Art, TN

Tucson Museum of Art, AZ

Canton Art Institute, OH

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN

1991 Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

American Realism & Figurative Art 1952-1991, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendi, Japan

The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Sogu Museum of Art, Yokohama

The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga

Kochi Prefectural Museum, Kochi

The State I’m In, Dallas Museum of Art, TX

The Landscape in 20th Century Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK

Drawings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1990 Group Exhibition, Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, West Germany

Concentrations 23: Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Northwest By Southwest, Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA (catalogue)

Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Sara Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX

The Humanist Icon, Bailey Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, KS

Tradition and Innovation, A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Printmaking in Texas in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum, Fort Wroth, TX

Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX

Tradition and Innovation, A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Printmaking in Texas in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

1989 Contemporary Environments, General Electric Corp., Fairfield, CT

The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

Summer Exhibition 1989, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

The Unquiet Landscape, Frumkin/ Adams Gallery, New York, NY

The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1989 Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC

10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Ministry of Culture of the USSR, InterCultura, Fort Worth, TX, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Artist’s Union Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow

State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian S.S.R. Central Exhibition

1988 The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL

Texas Art, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

The Fish Show, Brent Gallery, Houston, TX

The 1980's: A New Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Landscape Anthology, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY

Recent Painterly Paintings, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen, CO

Phoenix Biennial, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1987 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

1986-87 The Texas Berlin Art Exchange, Amerika Haus, Berlin, West Germany

Sculpture and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Paravent, Artspace, San Francisco, CA

Dog Days of August, Little John-Smith Gallery, New York, NY

Group Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL

Texas Landscape 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Contemporary Still Life, Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, Albany, NJ

NYC: New Work, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

The Figure in Landscape, Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL

Animation/Imagination, Frito-Lay Inc., Plano, TX

1985 50th Anniversary Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

David Bates: Drawing, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

The Innovative Still Life, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings: Coast to Coast, Gallery One, Fort Worth, TX

American Painting Today: Still Life, Florida International University, Miami, FL

1984 New Landscape Painting, Palazzio Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY)

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY

New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX

The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico

American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, TX

Aspects of New Narrative Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1984 Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

1984-83 American Still Life: 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (traveling exhibition)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY

Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

The 38th Corcoran Biennial of American Painting, 2nd Western States Exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NJ

The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ

The Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico Long Beach Museum, Long Beach, CA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

1983 Touch with your Eyes, Feel with your Mind: Surfaces in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, TX

1983 Southern Fictions, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX

Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA

1982 Book/Art, DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

Fun and Games, The Art Center, Waco, TX

Black on White, DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

1981 Eastfield College Gallery, Dallas, TX

1980 Landscapes, DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

1978 Annual Southwest Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA

University Art Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

1977 DW Gallery, Dallas, TX

AWARDS

1984 Annual Southwest Exhibition, Award for Sculpture, Fort Worth Museum of Art, Fort Worth, TX

1982 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Artist Grant, Dallas, TX

1974 Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase, Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Amerade Hess Corporation, New York

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, TX

Atlantic Richfield Corporation, Los Angeles, CA

Chemical Bank, New York, NY

Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, HI

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

The Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY

Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX

Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

Readers Digest, Pleasantville, NY

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Southwestern Bell Telephone, Dallas, TX

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