PAT COLVILLE (b. 1931)

Pat Colville was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931 and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas and previously lived in New York City for thirty-five years. She received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2010, a Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 2008, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in Drawing, and a Creative Arts Public Service Program Fellowship in Painting, New York State. Pat taught at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York for twenty years and has also taught at the Glassell School of Art, the University of Houston, St. Thomas University, Bennington College, and the Sarah Lawrence College. Pat's work holds a commitment to abstraction and is influenced by the history of Chinese and Japanese landscapes from the 13th and 14th century.

Born: New Orleans, LA

Currently lives and works in Houston, TX

Education: University of Houston, BS University of Oklahoma, MFA

Solo Exhibitions

2014 A Celebration: Five Decades of Work, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Curator: Clint Willour

New Drawings and Sculpture, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX 2011-2012 New Works, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

2009 Ways and Means, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX 2005 Scapes, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

2004 Moody Gallery, Houston, TX

1998 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1996 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1994 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

1992 Gray Gallery, Jenkins Fine Art Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

1991 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1989/90 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL

1989 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1988 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1987 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1986 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX

1980 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1979 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1978 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX

1976 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX

1974 New Orleans Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2015 Texas Abstract, Modern | Contemporary, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Curator: Ken General

2012 In Plain Sight, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, Curator: Aaron Parazette,

2011 Working in the Abstract, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Modernist Thread, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas, Curator: Sally Sprout

2010 35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

2008 The 183rd Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

2005 Mind, Mark and Wit, Williams Tower, Houston, TX

2003 The Cooper Union, New York, NY

2002 DFN Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Small Paintings, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1995 Painting Faculty, curated by Robert Rindler, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 1994 Directions in American Abstraction: A New Decade, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA

1994 Art Chicago (represented by Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY), Chicago, IL 1991 ELAAC Entrée Libre a l’Art Contemporain 1991, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

1990 Artists for Amnesty, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY

1989 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1989 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL

1987 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

1986 An Invitational, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY

1985 New York Sampler, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

1985 Lawndale Gallery, Houston, TX

1984 University of Houston, Houston, TX

1983 Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY

1983 Colby Sawyer Gallery, New London, CT

1983 Zim Lerner Gallery, New York, NY

1982 Bennington College, Bennington, VT

1982 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1980 Hera Foundation, Westfield, RI

1979 University of Houston, Houston, TX

1977 David Mervish Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1977 Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY

1975 Curwen Gallery, London, England

1975 Print Workshop, Tokyo, Japan

1974 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Other Selected Exhibitions, 1957-1978

University of St. Thomas Gallery, Houston, TX, solo exhibition David Gallery, Houston, TX, solo exhibition

A Clean Well-Lighted Place, Austin, TX

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH Cranfill Gallery, Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX

El Paso Museum, El Paso, TX

Hemisfair, Texas Pavilion, San Antonio, TX McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Mobile Art Museum, Mobile, AL

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX

Awards

Pollock-Krasner Grant, 2010

Benjamin Altman Award in Painting, New York, 2008

Creative Arts Public Service Program Fellowship in Painting, New York State, 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1976

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1975

American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1975

Public Collections

Anadarko, Houston, TX

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX Coca Cola Collection, Atlanta, GA

Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, TX

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJ

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Shearson, Lehman & Hutton, New York, NY

Siemens Corporation, New York, NY

Pat Colville

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