WOODY GWYN
BORN
1944 San Antonio, Texas
EDUCATION
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
EXHIBITIONS and COMMISSIONS
2010 Woody Gwyn One Man Exhibition LewAllen Contemporary
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010 Woody Gwyn The Luther W. Brady Gallery The George Washington University
Washington D.C.
2010 Recent Paintings One Man Exhibition David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
New York, New York
2009 Recent Paintings One Man Exhibition Modernism
San Francisco, California
2009 Woody Gwyn One Man Exhibition Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Town & Country Group Exhibition David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
New York, New York
2008 Recent Paintings One Man Exhibition David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
New York, New York
2007 Between Earth and Sky One Man Exhibition Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2006 Recent Work One Man Exhibition May, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
New York, New York
2006 Fog Light and Space One Man Exhibition July, Modernism
San Francisco, California
2006 Biennial: Contemporary American Realism Fort Wayne Museum of Art
Fort Wayne, IN
2005 One Man Exhibition May, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art
New York, New York
2005 Woody Gwyn Revisited Museum of the Southwest
Midland, Texas
2004 Woody Gwyn: In Human Terms August, Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 New Mexico Printmakers Santa Fe Art Institute
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2003 Re-presenting Representation VI The Arnot Museum
Elmira, New York
2003 Re-presenting Representation VI-The West Rockwell Museum of Art
Corning, New York
2003 One Man Exhibition October, Gerald Peters Gallery,
New York, New York
2002 Solitary Places One Man Exhibition, June 14-July 20, Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 Red as a Color for Exploration and Expression Group Exhibition Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Group Exhibition Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Group Exhibition J. Cacciola Galleries
New York, New York
2001 The American Scene II Invitation 2000-2001, The Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art
Museum Taos, New Mexico
2000 Commission Private Collection, Seattle, Washington
2000 Commission Private Collection,Vancouver, British Columbia
2000 Commission Private Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Commission Private Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2000 Commission Private Collection, Galisteo, New Mexico
2000 Commission Private Collection, San Antonio, Texas
2000 One Man Exhibition Invitation, Spazio by Lytle Pressley
Austin, Texas
2000 The American Scene II Invitation, The Van Vechten-Lineberry
Taos Art Museum
2000 One Man Exhibition MB Modern
New York, New York
1999 Saddleback Ranch Commission
Galisteo, New Mexico
1999 Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition Since 1950
Group Invitational, Philbrook Museum of Art
Tulsa, Oklahoma
1999 Central Park Group Exhibition MB Modern
New York, New York
1999 The American Scene Van Vechten-Lineberry Taos Art Museum
Taos, New Mexico
1999 Realism, Photo Realism and Super Realism The Harwood Museum
Taos, New Mexico
1999 6th Annual Realism Exhibition Group Invitational, van de Griff Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1999 First Annual Realism Invitational Group Invitational, Jenkins Johnson Gallery
San Francisco, California
1998 Collage & Landscape Group Invitational, LewAllen Contemporary
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 New York Urban Landscapes Group Invitational MBModern
New York, New York
1998 Artist of the Year Assembly of the Arts
Midland, Texas
1998 Realism Knows No Bounds Group Invitational, van de Griff Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 Town and Country MB Modern
New York, New York
1998 Realism in Contemporary Art in the American West
University of Wyoming Art Museum
Laramie, Wyoming
1997 Contemporary Forum- Building a Collection Phoenix Museum of Art
Phoenix, Arizona
1997 One Man Show Cline-LewAllen Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Places of Spirit: Canyon de Chelley Group Invitational, Suzanne Brown Galleries
Scottsdale, Arizona
1996 Contemporary New Mexico Artists Group Invitational SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Realism ’96 Group Invitational van de Griff Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1996 Group Show Horwitch-Newman Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
1996 Group Show Horwitch-Newman Gallery
Los Angeles, California
1996 One Man Show Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1995 One Man Show Horwitch-LewAllen Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 Recent Work One Man Show, Louis Newman Galleries
Beverly Hills, California
1994 Realism ’94 Group Invitational, Fletcher Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1994 One Man Show Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1993 Recent Work One Man Show, Louis Newman Galleries
Beverly Hills, California
1993 Daylight Fantasy: The Night’s Dark Side Group Show Riverside Art Museum
Riverside, California
1992 New Paintings and Monotypes, One Man Show, Katharina
Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, New York
1992 Recent Works One Man Show Louis Newman Gallery
Beverly Hills, California
1992 7 Artists, 7 Mediums on Paper Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1991 The Eternal Landscape South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1991 The Palm Tree Show Modernism Gallery
San Francisco, California
1991 New Paintings and Monotypes One Man Show Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1991 The West: In Image and Object Kavesh Gallery: Invitational
Ketchum, Idaho
1990-91 The Hubbard Museum Invitational Ruidoso, New Mexico;
Berlin, Germany; Moscow, USSR
1990 Woody Gwyn/ Tim Prythero Two Realists/Two Realities Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 New Art of the West Eiteljorg Museum Invitational
Indianapolis, Indiana
1989 The Edges of the Land One Man Show Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1988 Recent Works One Man Show Gerald Peters Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988 Forbes Trinchera Ranch Commission
Trinchera, Colorado,
1988 Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery
New York, New York
1988 The Face of the Land Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Loretto, Pennsylvania
1987 Boundless Realism, The Rockwell Museum
Corning, New York
1987 Landscapes from the Collection The Albuquerque Museum of Art
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1987 The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation of Art Traveling Exhibition
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
Centre National Des Artes Plastiques, Paris, France
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Exhibition poster.
1987 One Man Show Foxley-Leach Gallery
Washington, D.C.
1986 One Man Show Modernism Gallery
San Francisco, California
1986 New Works by Woody Gwyn
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
McAllen International Museum, McAllen, Texas
The Art Center of Waco, Waco, Texas
The Museum at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
The Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
1986 The New West Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, Colorado
1986 Landscapes of the Southwest Stables Art Center
Taos, New Mexico
1986 Art of the States Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Art
Santa Barbara, California
1985 Arts New Mexico Western States Art Association
Washington, D.C.
Mexico City, Mexico
1984 One Man Show Modernism Gallery
San Francisco, California
1984 Art of the State Santa Barbara Museum of Fine Arts
Santa Barbara,California
1984 Contemporary Western Landscapes Museum of the Art of the American West
Houston, Texas
1983 Faculty Exhibition University Art Museum University of California
Santa Barbara, California
1983 Santa Fe and Taos
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Lincoln, Nebraska
Spiva Art Center Joplin, Missouri
Wyoming State Museum Cheyene, Wyoming
Salina Art Center Salina, Kansas
Sioux City Art Center Sioux City, Iowa
Abilene Fine Arts Museum Abilene, Texas
1983 One Man Show Davis-McClain Galleries
Houston, Texas
1983 Santa Fe Comes to Scottsdale Leslie Levy Gallery
Scottsdale, Arizona
1982 Evolving Images Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1982 Selections from the Mel Pfaelzer Collection of Northern Illinois
Illinois Bell, Chicago, Illinois
1982 Paintings of the Land Davis-McClain Galleries
Houston, Texas
1982 One Man Show Allan Stone Gallery
New York, New York
1981 One Man Show Heydt/Bair Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1981 The Artists in the American Dessert
Sierra Nevada Museum of Art Reno, Nevada
Fresno Art Center Fresno, California
Kauser Center Oakland, California
Laguna Gloria Art Museum Austin, Texas
University of Arizona Museum of Art Tucson, Arizona
Beaumont Art Center Beaumont, Texas
Palm Springs Desert Museum Palm Springs, California
Arapaho College Littleton, Colorado
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Museum Wausau, Wisconsin
Salt Lake Art Center Salt Lake City, Utah
1981 Icons-Iconoclasts/ New York-New Mexico
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery University of Houston
Houston, Texas
1980 One Man Show Allan Stone Gallery
New York, New York
1979 New Talent Elaine Horwitch Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1978 One Man Show Elaine Horwitch Gallery
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977 Made in New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1977 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1976 Looking at an Ancient Land Museum of Fine Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1976 Twelve Contemporary Artists in New Mexico University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
1975 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1974 12/Texas Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Texas
1974 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1973 Abstract Realism Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute
San Antonio, Texas
1973 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1972 Southwest Fine Arts Biennial Museum of fine Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico
1972 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1971 Mid-Western Biennial Joslyn Art Museum
Omaha, Nebraska
1971 Contemporary American Drawing Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
1971 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1970 American Drawings Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences
Norfolk, Virginia
1970 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1969 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1968 One Man Show Meredith Long & Co.
Houston, Texas
1965 One Man Show Canyon Art Gallery
Canyon, Texas
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
American Art Collector, September, 2010, Unfathomable Ocean, John O’Hern. Color Reproduction.
Art & Antiques, Summer, 2010 Tradition and Transgression, Aline Brandauer. Color reproduction.
New Mexico Magazine, art to the heart, September, 2010, Wolf Schneider. Color reproduction.
New Mexico Magazine, The Galisteo Mystique, September, 2010, Wolf Schnelder. Color reproduction.
New York Journal, The March of Art, June 14/21, 2008, Marvin Olasky. Color reproductions.
Woody Gwyn Recent Works, 2006, Louis Newman, David Findlay Jr. Fine Art, 11 pages, color, exhibition catalog.
Woody Gwyn Revisited, 2005, William Peterson, Museum of the Southwest, 48 pages (color), exhibition catalog.
In Human Terms – The Figurative Work of Woody Gwyn, 2004,
Mark Stevens, Mary Lynn Kotz, William Peterson, Gerald Peters Gallery, 62 pages (color), exhibition catalog.
Halls of Fame, 2001, John D’Agata, Graywolf Press, color reproduction, cover.
The Tourist, 1999, Dean MacCannell, Lucy R. Lippard, University of California Press,color reproduction, cover.
High Tech High Touch:Technology and Our Search For Meaning, John Naisbitt, Nana Naisbitt, Douglas Phillips, Bantam Books, Inc., October, 1999
Midland Arts Association, 1998, “Tunnel II”, celebration poster.
Contemporary Art in New Mexico, 1996, Jan Adlman with Barbara
McIntyre, Craftsman House, G + B Arts International. Color reproduction.Black and white reproduction.
Contested Terrain, 1996, Sharon R. Udall, Essay.Woody Gwyn:Landscape Painting and the Social Meaning of the Earth. Color reproduction.Black and white reproductions. University of New Mexico Press.
Woody Gwyn, Peter Sacks, Sharyn Udall, Mark Stevens, 186 pages (color), Texas Tech University Press.
Paintings of the Southwest, 1994, Susan Campbell, introduction, Arnold Skolnick, editor, Clarkson N. Potter Inc., Crown Publishing Group. Color reproduction.
Art in America,April, 1993, review of exhibition, “Woody Gwyn at Katharina Rich Perlow”, Gerrit Henry, New York, New York.Color reproduction.
Artists of 20th-Century New Mexico, 1992, The Museum of Fine Arts Collection, University of New Mexico Press. Color reproduction.
Printmaking In New Mexico 1880-1990, 1992, Clinton Adams,
University of New Mexico Press. Black and white reproduction.
Mother Road: Route 66, 1990, Michael Wallace, St. Martins Press. Color Reproduction. 1990.
New Art of the West, 1990, catalog to the exhibition, published by the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis. Color reproduction. 1990.
Spirit, October, 1990. “Studio Audience”, by Samuel Greenguard.
Designer’s West, April, 1989, “Southwestern Vision”, by Paula Fitzgerald.
Art Gallery International, February, 1988, “Woody Gwyn”, by M.J. Van Deventer.
American Artist, March, 1988, “Woody Gwyn”, by Mark Steigmaier.
ARTNEWS, October, 1988, “Woody Gwyn”, by William Peterson. Review of August 1988 exhibition at Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Boundless Realism, 1987, catalog to the exhibition, published by the Rockwell Museum, Corning, New York.
Santa Fe, 1987, text and photos by Lisl Dennis and Lendt Dennis,
published by Herring Press.
Woody Gwyn, 1986, catalog to the exhibition, “New Works by
Woody Gwyn”, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas, essay by William Peterson.
The West--The Modern Vision, by Patricia Broder, New York Graphic Society.
Artspace, Winter, 1983, “Woody Gwyn”, by Lisa Sherman.
Arts Magazine, December, 1983, “Woody Gwyn”, by Michael Licht, review of exhibition at Allan Stone Gallery.
Taos-Santa Fe, catalog for the exhibition, 1982, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska; essay by Donald Bartlett Doe.
Painting of the Land, catalog for the exhibition, April 1982, Davis-McClain Gallery,
Houston, Texas; essay by Robert McClain.
Artspeak, Vol. IV, October 14, 1982, “Approaching Art from Realism”.
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, 1982, “Horizon and Cloud”, festival poster.
American Realism Since 1960, 1981, text by Frank Goodyear, published by the New York Graphic Society.
Artists in the American Desert, catalog for the exhibition, 1981, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada.
Artlines, November-December, 1981, “Woody Gwyn”, by David Bell.
Rosalind Constable Invites, catalog to the exhibition, 1981, essay by Rosalind Constable, published by the Santa Fe Festival of the Arts.
The Texas Hill Country, 1981, published by Texas A&M Press; foreword by John Palmer Leeper.
ARTnews, December, 1980, “Smoke Rings-Shinto Shrimes-Doktor Thrill and the Snake Lady”.
Artspeak, June 5, 1980, “Six Landscape Painters”.
Art in America, Summer, 1980, “”Report from New Mexico”.
Southwestern Art, September, 1980, “Squaring Off in Houston”.
Newspaper Enterprise Association;“Gwyn Achieves New York “miracle” ”, January, 1979, Norman Nadel.
12 Contemporary Artists in New Mexico, catalog to the exhibition,
1976, text by Van Deren Coke, published by the University of
9New Mexico Press.
Arts Magazine, February, 1976, review of exhibition, “Five Southwestern Painters”, Davis and Long Gallery, New York, New York.
Southwest Art, April, 1974, “Realism and the Time Factor”.
Time-Life’s Library of America, 1969, “The South Central States”.
SELECTED AWARDS
2010 New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
1983 University of California at Santa Barbara
Artist in Residence
1980 National Endowement for the Arts
Artist Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Citco, Denver, Colorado
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, New York, New York
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, Washington, D.C.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Forbes Magazine Collection, New York, New York
General Electric, New York, New York
Gulf Oil Company, Houston, Texas
Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana
Fisher Landau Center, New York, New York
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
Mel Pfaelzer Collection of Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, Alabama
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
Reading Public Museum & Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania
Saddleback Ranch, Galisteo, New Mexico
Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas
Tower Records Corporation, Sacramento, California
Transwest Hospitality Corporation, Galisteo, New Mexico
Tenneco Inc., Houston, Texas
United Cable, Austin, Texas
Davis Fund, Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico
Western Bank, Albuquerque, New Mexico
