John Berggruen Gallery
David Bates
Biography
David Bates1952 Born in Dallas, TX
Education
1978 M.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
1977 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1975 B.F.A., Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Solo Exhibitions
2005 David Bates: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
2004 David Bates: Night Vision, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates: Paintings & Reliefs, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas
2003 David Bates: Poems, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002 David Bates: Nudes, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
2001 David Bates: Black and White, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
2000 David Bates: Paintings, Wood Reliefs, and Sculpture, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
1999 David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates: Still Life, Museum of Southwest, Midland, Texas
1998 David Bates, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
1997-99 David Bates: The Gulf Coast, Galveston Arts Center, TX; traveled to Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas*
1997 David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1996 David Bates: Selected Works 1980-1995, Contemporary Arts Center, Abilene, Texas; traveled to Tyler
Museum of Art, Texas*
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas*
1995 David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1994 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1993 David Bates, Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1992 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York*
1991 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1989 David Bates, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1988-89 David Bates, Forty Paintings, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; traveled to Delaware Art
Museum, Wilmington, Delaware; Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii*
1988 Grassy Lake: Works on Paper by David Bates, University Gallery, University of Delaware,
Newark, Delaware
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1987 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
1986 David Bates, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1985 David Bates, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
David Bates, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984 David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
David Bates, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1983 David Bates, DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
David Bates, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery
Texas: Grassy Lake, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
2004 5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art, Selections from the Collection Julia J. Norrell, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Contemporary Southern Drawings from the Permanent Collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Everyday Mysteries: Modern and Contemporary Still Life, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Art in Embassies Program: Switzerland and Liechtenstein, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland
Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX
2003 Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Pairings: Artists’ Selections from the Dallas Museum of Art Collection, The Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002 One Hunderd Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Sculpture, Drawings, and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, New York
Spring Forward: New Work from the Studio, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Wild Life: The Other Tradition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL*
Southeast Texas Re-collects, Southeast Texas Arts Council, Beaumont, Texas
2001 National Drawing Invitational, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Drawing Research and Education,
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas*
Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Summer in the City, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
John Scott, Robert Colescott, and David Bates, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisianna
2000 Private Collections: Artists, Curators and Collectors, The Gallery at the University of Texas at
Arlington, Arlington, Texas
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida*
Memory and Material: Constructions and Compilations, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
1999-00 Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Meridian International
Center, Washington, D.C.; traveled to The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China; The CIPTA Gallery, Jakarta Arts Center, Indonesia; The Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines; The Singapore Art Museum, Singapore*
1999 WATER: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina; traveled to Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, Alabama; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin*
The Eclectic Eye: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, California
Cutting Edges: Painters’ Woodcuts from Experimental Workshop, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch
College/City University of New York, New York
The Painted Canvas, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1998 Wild Things: Artists’ Views of the Animal World, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
David Bates and Betty Woodman: Paradox in Paint, Wood and Clay, New Jersey Center for Visual
Arts, Summit, New Jersey*
Food for Thought: A Visual Banquet, DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 American Images: The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas; traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Contemporary Landscapes: The Enigma of Reason, The Hyde Collection of Art, Glen Falls, New York*
5th Anniversary Celebration: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Collections, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Structures: Building in American Art, 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco ,California
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, Texas*
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996 Feast for the Eyes, Austin Museum of Art, Texas
American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.*
Establishment Exposed: Part I, Dallas Visual Art Center, Texas
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
New Talent - New Ideas, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Figuratively Speaking, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995 47th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Sarah Moody Gallery of Art,
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
XXV Years: An Exhibition Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of John Berggruen Gallery, John
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
Wildlife, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, California
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 The Label Show, Contemporary Art and the Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusettes*
Vividly Told: Contemporary Southern Narrative Painting, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia;
traveled to The Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina*
American Realism and Figurative Painting, Cline Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
Outside: In, Outsider and Contemporary Artists in Texas, Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, Texas
1993 In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, Massachusetts*
Still Life 1963-1993, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico*
1992 People, The Gallery Three Zero, New York, New York
Mind & Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art
Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin; traveled to the Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; Canton Art Institute, Ohio, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana*
1991-92 Island Inspired, Stephen F. Austin Gallery, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas;
traveled to Transco Gallery, Houston, Texas; Galveston Arts Center, Texas (organized by Galveston Arts Center, Texas)*
Ship Shapes, Galveston Arts Center, Texas
1991 Large Scale Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
American Realism & Figurative Art 1952-1991, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendi, Japan; traveled to The Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Sogu Museum of Art, Yokohama; The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga; Kochi Prefectural Museum of Folk Art, Kochi*
The State I’m In, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
The Landscape in 20th Century Art: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Oklahoma*
Drawings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Small Format Works on Paper, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California*
1990 Group Exhibition, Eugene Binder Galerie, Cologne, West Germany
Concentrations 23: Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Northwest by Southwest, Painted Fictions, Palm Springs Desert Museum, California; traveled to Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington; Sara Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Texas*
The Humanist Icon, Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia; traveled to New York Academy of Art, New York, New York; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas*
Tradition and Innovation, A Museum Celebration of Texas Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Printmaking in Texas in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas*
Texas Figurative Drawings, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
1989 Contemporary Environments, General Electric Corporation, Fairfield, Connecticut
The Cowles Art Show, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
The Unquiet Landscape, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NewYork; traveled to The Arts Club of
Chicago, Illinois
1989 Invitational, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
The Blues Aesthetic: Black Culture and Modernism, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.*
10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Ministry of Culture of the USSR, InterCultura, Fort Worth, Texas, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; traveled to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Artist’s Union Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery, Krymskaia Embankment, Moscow; State Picture Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgian S.S.R. Central Exhibition Hall, Lenigrad (organized by Ministry of Culture of the U.S.S.R.; InterCultura, Fort Worth, Texas; and Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas)*
1988 The Flower Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Texas Art, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas*
The Fish Show, Brent Gallery, Houston, Texas
The 1980s: A New Generation, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York*
Landscape Anthology, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York
Recent Painterly Paintings, Schreiber/Cutler Gallery, New York, New York
1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York*
1986 The Texas Berlin Art Exchange, Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany*
Sculpture and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Paravent, Artspace, San Francisco, California
Dog Days of August, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, New York
Group Show, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois*
1986 Texas Landscape 1900-1986, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas*
Contemporary Still Life, Rathbone Gallery, Junior College of Albany, New York
NYC: New Work, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
The Figure in Landscape, Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1985 50th Anniversary Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
The Innovative Still Life, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York
Drawings: Coast to Coast, Gallery One, Forth Worth, Texas
American Painting Today: Still Life, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida*
1984 New Landscape Painting, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (organized by the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York, New York)*
New Narrative Painting: Selections from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Art, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida; traveled to Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
American Painting: A Tribute to James and Mari Michener, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery,
University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Aspects of New Narrative Art, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; traveled to Boston University Art Gallery, Massachusetts; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island*
Hassam and Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and
Letters, New York, New York
American Still Life: 1945-1983, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; traveled to Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; Portland Art Museum, Oregon*
The 38th Corcoran Biennial of American Paintings, Second Western States Exhibition, Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois; The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York; The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, Arizona; The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico; Long Beach Museum of Art, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California*
1983 New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Southern Fictions, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; traveled to Quay Gallery, San
Francisco, California*
Touch with your Eyes, Feel with your Mind: Surfaces in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, Texas*
* denotes exhibition catalogue
Museum Collections
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
Florida International University Art Museum, Miami, Florida
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art
Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
The Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New york
Microsoft Art Collection
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut
New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisianna
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
San Francisco Art Institute, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
University of Houston, Blaffler Foundation, Houston, Texas
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Selected Books and Exhibition Catalogues
2004 Little, Carl. David Bates: Paintings and Drawings. DC Moore Gallery, New York, New York
Karnes, Andrea. David Bates: Night Vision. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2003 Van Keuren, Philip. David Bates: Poems. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2001 Mitchell, Charles Dee. David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Art in America. March 2001: 189-190.
Wolfe, Townsend. National Drawing Invitational, Donald W. Reynolds Center for Drawing Research and Education, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR.
Wei, Lilly. David Bates. DC Moore Gallery, New York
Van Keuren, Philip. David Bates: Black and White. Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2000 Oliver-Smith, Kerry. The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida.
1999 Spring, Justin. David Bates. New York, NY: DC Moore Gallery.
Tobler, Jay, ed. The American Art Book. London: Phaidon Press (reproduction).
1998 Driscoll, John and Arnold Skolnick.. The Artist and the American Landscape. Cobb, California: First Glance Books (reproduction).
1998 Harvey, Eleanor Jones. David Bates, “David Bates: Full Circle and Beyond.” Dallas, Texas: Gerald Peters Gallery.
Wickliffe, Mary. David Bates/Betty Woodman: Paradox in Paint, Wood and Clay. Summit, New Jersey: New Jersey Center for Visual Arts.
1997 Mitchell, Charles Dee. David Bates. New York, New York: Charles Cowles Gallery.
Mitchell, Charles Dee. David Bates: The Gulf Coast. Galveston, Texas: Galveston Arts Center.
1996 Graze, Sue. David Bates. Dallas ,Texas: Gerald Peters Gallery.
David Bates. San Francisco, California: John Berggruen Gallery.
1995 Nash, Steven. David Bates, “Bates and Sculpture.” New York, New York: Charles Cowles Gallery.
David Bates: Roughshod - Sculpture and Works on Paper. San Francisco, California: John Berggruen Gallery.
1993 Gallati, Barbara Dayer. David Bates, “Reconciling Place and Process: New Chapters in the Art of David Bates.” Miami, Florida: The Art Museum at Florida International University.
David Bates. New York, New York: Charles Cowles Gallery.
In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape. Boston, Massachusetts: Museum of Fine Arts.
1992 Arthur, John. David Bates. New York, New York: Charles Cowles Gallery.
Pillsbury, Edmond P. David Bates, “David Bates: A Painter’s Painter.” San Francisco, California: John Berggruen Gallery.
1991 Arthur, John. American Realism and Figurative Art, 1952-1991. Sendi, Japan: Miyagi Museum of Art.
1990 Cohen, Ronny. David Bates. New York, New York: Charles Cowles Gallery.
1989 Nash, Steven. David Bates, “David Bates Then and Now.” San Francisco, California: John Berggruen Gallery.
1988 Price, Marla. David Bates: Forty Paintings, “Finding a Place: The Recent Paintings of David Bates.” Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
Sachson, Gail. “Artist Shares His Passion for Place, Time,” Park Cities People, November.
Articles
2004 Anthony, Elis. “Top Dallas -Fort Worth Artists,” Dallas Home Design, June: 34-42.
Volkmar, Carl F. “Transforming Identities,” The New Orleans Art Review (NOAR), November/December/January:16-19.
Sheets, Hilarie M. “David Bates,” ARTnews, Summer: 170-171.
Little, Carl. “New York Diary: No Place Like Home,” Face Magazine, August.
Daniel, Mike. “David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary,” The Dallas Morning News, November: 57 Guide
2003 Daniel, Mike. “David Bates Exhibition at the Contemporary,” The Dallas Morning News, August: 5.
Harris, Joyce Saenz. “Modern Art with a Texas Twang,” The Dallas Morning News, August: 3E.
2003 “David Bates: Painting and Reliefs,” The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Newsletter, Fall: 3.
Kutner, Janet. “Legend Winners Named,” The Dallas Morning News, June.
2002 White, Kit. “David Bates,” ARTnews, March: 119-120.
Kutner, Janet. “Life Out Loud,” The Dallas Morning News, November: 6C.
2001 Mitchell, Charles Dee. “David Bates at Dunn and Brown Contemporary,” Art in America, March: 139-140.
Kutner, Janet. “Essential Elements,” The Dallas Morning News, November: 8C.
2000 Kutner, Janet. “Life Out Loud: David Bates Exhibit Combines Freedom, Control,” The Dallas Morning News, November: 5C.
Artist Works
David Bates
Grassy Lake Rookery Summer
2005
oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
David Bates
Lower End Sunrise
2005
oil on canvas
11 x 14 inches
White Roses
2007
woodcut
46 3/4 x 35 inches
Edition of 60
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | David Bates
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