DAVID EVERETT (American, b. 1950)

Born in the southeast Texas town of Beaumont in 1950, David Everett displayed an interest in the visual arts and the natural world from his earliest years. Along with his brother he was drawn to the forests, swamps, bayous, bays and marsh covered plains that lead this part of the state down to its coastline on the Gulf of Mexico. It was from this vantage point that he began a life-long process of restating his observations into a visual art that explores an allegorical interplay of both human and animal forms celebrating the natural history of a personal world. Everett completed his MFA in sculpture at the University of Texas in Austin in 1975 and began his career as a sculptor. He continues to live and work in Austin, Texas.

Education

1975 M.F.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
1972 B.F.A., University of Texas, Austin, Texas

Honors and Awards

2016 Special Guest, 2016 Collectors Circle, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2009 Finalist, Artist of the Year, 3 Dimensional Art, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas
1989 Cover of Neiman-Marcus Christmas Catalogue
1978 Faculty Travel Grant, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas, to pursue a series of drawings in Italy
1972 University of Texas, Austin, scholarship for merit

Selected Exhibitions

2021 Achievement in Art: The Albritton Collection, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
2020 On Being Human, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Lone Star Wild: Margie Crisp, David Everett, Billy Hassell and William B. Montgomery, group exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2019 Bird Show, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 The Texas Aesthetic: Thirty Contemporary Artists Redefining Texas Art, Foltz Fine Art, Houston, Texas
2019 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2018 Western Visions, group exhibition, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming
2018 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2018 The Fine Art of Collecting: Selections from the Judge B. Michael and Elise Chitty Collection, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2017 TREES: A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. (Greek Proverb), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2016 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2015 Menagerie, Art and the Animal Kingdom, group exhibition, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2015 David Everett: Almanac, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015 The Aviary: Birds of Flatbed, group exhibition, Flatbed Press and Gallery, Austin, Texas
2015 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 Collective Chemistry: Sixteenth Annual Holiday Group Show, group exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2014 MAC@20 Part II, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2014 60th Anniversary Exhibition: A Celebration of Valley House Artists, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Masterful Marks: An Exploration of the Medium of Drawing, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Summer Cut, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 Texas Critters, Large Gallery, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2014 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2014 Second Nature: New Works by David Everett and Billy Hassell, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2013 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2013 David Everett, The Ties That Bind, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2012 Wild Things: Sculpture by David Everett and Paintings by Billy Hassell, The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
2012 Houston Fine Art Fair, Reliant Center, Houston, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2012 Works on Paper, group exhibition, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2012 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Houston Fine Art Fair, George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 The Good Earth (a group exhibition), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2011 Fresh & Salty (a Valley House Gallery group exhibition), Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2010 New Work by David Everett, David Hefner, and Caprice Pierucci, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2010 Shorelines, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2010 ART CHICAGO, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, Illinois (Valley House Gallery)
2010 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2009 Dallas Art Fair, Fashion Industry Gallery, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2009 Thank You Fort Worth: An Appreciation from Valley House Gallery & Sculpture Garden, group exhibition, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, Texas
2008-2009 Art, Science, and the World Around Us, group exhibition, Art Center Waco, Waco, Texas
2008 Texas Tour: 100 Years of the Texas Landscape (1908-2008), Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2008 Invitational Sculpture, curated by Bob Coffee, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, Texas
2008 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Art Fair, Three Three Three First Avenue, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2008 Three person show, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2008 David Everett: Practical Dreaming, New Works Space, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2007 David Everett: Balancing Act (1991-2007), Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum, Austin, Texas
2007 CADD Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas Inaugural Art Fair, Three Three Three First Avenue, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Kingdom Animalia: Creatures Big and Small by Artists Old and New, group exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Art International, The Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, California (Valley House Gallery)
2006 Summer Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2006 Hermanados en Arte, Garcia Carillo Theatre, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico
2005 Wildlife Art for a New Century II, group exhibition, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2005 Spring Sculpture Invitational, Valley HouseGallery, Dallas, Texas
2004 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2003 Working with Wood, 4 person show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2002 McNay Art Fair, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2002 Art Atlanta, Art Fair, Atlanta, Georgia (Valley House Gallery)
2001 Texas International Fine Art Fair, NorthPark East, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
2001 Folk Fest, Art Fair, Atlanta, Georgia (Valley House Gallery)
2001 Inside/Outside Sculpture Exhibit, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2001 Group Show, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
2000 Three Person Show, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2000 Dallas International Art & Antique Fair, The Dallas International Pavilion at Victory, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2000 USArtists2000, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
2000 Summer Exhibition, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2000 Animals of the Heart, Sangre de Cristo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado
2000 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1999 One Person Show, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1998 USArtists 98, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1998 Oil Patch Dreams: Images of the Petroleum Industry, Francine Carraro, Curator, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas; The Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; The El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; The Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center; Wichita Falls, Texas.
1998 The Figure: An Invitational Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 Texas Natural Wonders, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1996 Is it Something in the Water?, Invitational, Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
1996 USArtists 96, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1996 An American Collection, The Art Center, Waco, Texas
1996 Glimpses of Eden, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
1996 La Frontera, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
1996 Art Miami, art fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida (Valley House Gallery)
1995 SOFA Show, Chicago, Illinois (Lyons-Matrix Gallery)
1995 Group Exhibition, Lyons-Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas
1995 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1995 One Person Show, University of Dallas, Haggar Gallery, Irving, Texas
1994 Carrington/Gallagher Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1994 Odyssey Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1994 USArtists 94, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1994 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1994 ARTexas ‘94, art fair, 500 Inc. Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1994 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1993 Three Takes: Melissa Miller, David Everett, and Sally Chandler, Lyons-Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas
1993 Introductions, Jerald Melberg Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina
1993 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1993 One Person Show, Lyons-Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas
1993 ARTexas ‘93, art fair, 500 Inc., Dallas Convention Center, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1992 USArtists 92, art fair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Second Nature, invitational exhibition, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
1992 Group Exhibition, Lyons-Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas
1992 Texas Gallery Art Show, Infomart, Dallas, Texas (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Flatbed Press: The First Two Years,Tarrytown Gallery, Austin, Texas
1992 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1992 Recent Works By:, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1990 Feather, Fur and Fin, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1990 One Person Show, R. S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas
1990 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 Pescamania VIII, Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas
1989 Introductions: David Everett, MSC Forsyth Center Galleries, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas
1989 A Century of Sculpture in Texas, 1889-1989, The Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas, illustration p. 125 in exhibition catalogue.
1989 It's About Time, Texas Fine Arts Association, Invitational Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
1989 One Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1989 The Art Show, 7th Regiment Armory, New York, New York (Valley House Gallery)
1989 David Everett: Sculpture and Drawings, R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas
1988 Zoomorphism: Animals in Art, LTV Center, Dallas, Texas
1988 5th Anniversary Group Exhibition, R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas (catalogue)
1988 Two Person Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1988 Sensual Surfaces, group show, Marilyn Butler Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988 Flights of Fancy, Invitational Exhibition, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas
1987 Handmade in Texas, LTV Center, Dallas, Texas, Invitational exhibition curated by Paul Rogers Harris
1987 1987-88 Vista Series, one person show, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, San Angelo, Texas
1987 Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas, Invitational group exhibition honoring the 10th anniversary of the organization
1986 Two Person Show, R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas
1986 Introductions '86: David Everett, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1985 Group Show, R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas
1985 Group Show, Valley House Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1985 Group Show, Willingheart Gallery, Austin, Texas
1984 Osborne, Smith, Wilson and Everett, SOHO Gallery, Austin, Texas
1984 Texas Only, Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin Texas
1983 Zoo Show, Clifford Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1982 Texas Sculptors Show, Gilfillan Place, Austin, Texas
1982 One Person Show, Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas
1982 Hoey, Barrow, Osborne, Smith, Everett, Five Person Show, Austin, Texas
1980 Group Show, Austin Contemporary Visual Arts Show, Austin, Texas
1980 Group Show, Maggie Kress Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1979 One Person Show, Gallery West, Taos, New Mexico
1979 Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin Texas, Sculpture Award
1978 12th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, Texas
1978 Two Person Show, Avan Taos Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1977 11th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Corpus Christi, Texas
1976 Two Person Show, Pecan Square Gallery, Austin, Texas
1976 Two Person Show, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

Selected Public Collections

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Arthur Andersen & Associates, Austin, Texas
Bickerstaff, Heath, Delgado & Acosta, Austin, Texas
Chase Bank, Austin, Texas
Cullen Center Inc., Houston, Texas
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
Gardere & Wynne, Dallas, Texas
The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Oak Hill Branch Library, Austin, Texas
Radisson Hotel, Austin, Texas
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church, Arlington, Texas
Seay Biomedical Building, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
Thomas Grant Chandeliers, Dallas, Texas
Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

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