Tom Blackwell Biography
American contemporary artist, Tom Blackwell is a well-known PHOTO-REALIST painter and printmaker.
Tom Blackwell has also taught art at Keene State College, Keene, NH and School of Visual Arts, New York.
A selected list of his SOLO EXHIBITIONS is as follows:
1961: Roy Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1962: Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964: Orange Coast College Museum, Santa Ana, CA
1975: Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1975: Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS
1976: Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany
1977: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1980: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1980: "Selected Works, 1970-80," Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1981: University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
1982: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
1985: The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
1986: Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1988: Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
1995: Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1999: Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL
1999: Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY, Sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts
1999: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY
A selected list of GROUP EXHIBITIONS is as follows:
1966: "Psychedelic Art," Riverside Museum, New York, NY
1968: "The Visionaries," East Hampton Gallery, NY
1969: "Human Concern/Personal Torment," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970: Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1971: "All California Show," Laguna Beach Art Association Museum, CA
1971: O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1971: "New Realism/Old Realism," Bernard Dannenburg Gallery, New York, NY
1971: "Projected Artists/Artists at Work," Finch College Museum, NYC
1972: "Annual Exhibition, Contemporary American Painting," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1972: "Sharp Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1972: "Realism Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1972: "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972," Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
1972: "Phases of the New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
1972: "L'Hyperrealistes americains," Galerie Des Quatre Mouvements, Paris
1972-73: "Amerikanischer Fotorealismus," Traveling Exhibition, West Germany: Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; Kunst und Museumsverein Wuppertal
1973: "American Realism, Post-Pop," Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Detroit, MI
1973: "Realism Now," Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
1973: "Richard Brown Baker Collection," San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
1973: "The Super Realist Vision," DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA
1973-74: "Hyperrealisme," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium
1973-78: "Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection," Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign- Urbana, IL; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane
1973-78: "Photo-Realism 1973: University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1974: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA "Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek," Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, Holland; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA "Ars74 Atheneum," Fine Arts Academy of Finland, Helsinki "Ars 574," Basel, Switzerland "25 Years of Janis, Part II," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York "New Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT "11th Tokyo Biennale,`74," Tokyo Metropolitan Musuem; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Perfectual Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
1974: "Corporations Collect," DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA
1975: "The New Realism: Rip-Off or Reality?" Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS "Realismus & Realitat," Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany< "Photo-Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY "39th Annual Midyear Show," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, "Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1975-76: "Super Realism," Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
1975-76: "Photo-Realism, American Painting & Prints," New Zealand Traveling Exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland, Robert McDougal Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Covett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton
1976: "Fotorealismum," DP Gallery, Heidelberg, West Germany Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany< "3e foire internationale d'art contemporain (FIAC)," Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24 "Realism (Paintings and Drawings)," Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL "Herbert Distel's Museum of Drawers," Museum der Stadt Solothurn, Switzerland "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC