BIOGRAPHY
[ Download the PDF ]
1946
• Born in New York City, New York
1964
• High School of Art and Design, New York, NY
1968
• School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
• Lives and works in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
• Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2008
• Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007
• Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
• Galleria Francesa Kaufman, Milan, Italy
2006
• Friends, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• New Works, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
2005
• Galleria Francesa Kaufman, Milan, Italy
2004
• Aspen Portrait, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2003
• Regen Projects, Los Angles, CA
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• Photographs 1969-2002, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2001
• Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
2000
• Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA
1999
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
• Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
• Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1998
• Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH
1997
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
• Hollywood Chronicles, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
1996
• The Back Room, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
1994
• Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
• Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen, CO Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
• Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993
• Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1992
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1990
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1989
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1986
• Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1985
• Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1984
• Stamford Museum and Nature Center Art Gallery, Stamford, CT
• Petersburg Gallery, New York, NY
1983
• Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981
• The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD
• Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
1980
• Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
1979
• Kornblee Gallery, New York, NY
1978
• Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY
1976
• Duffy and Sons, New York, NY
1974
• Contact Graphics, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008
• The Annual Hamptons Show, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, Curated by Klaus Kertess
2007
• Max Headroom, ScheiblerMitte, Cologne, Germany
• NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, Organized by Keith Mayerson
• Tease, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY
• Sex & Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
2006
• The Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
• Likeness, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
• Open House, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal
• The name of this show is not GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, Curated by Jack Pierson
• Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Curated by Chrissie Iles and Phillipe Vergne
2005
• Paintings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
• Art and the Garden, Spainerman Gallery, East Hampton, New York
• Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2004
• Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
• North Fork/ South Fork, East End Art Now, Parrish Art Museum, East Hampton, NY
• Il Nudo, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
• Gio Ponti, Furnished Stetting and Figuration, Acme, Los Angeles
• On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2003
• *Ideale e Realta: Una storia del nudo dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2001
• Sex-vom Wissen und Wunschen, Stiftung Deutsches Hyginene Museum, Dresden, Germany
• Happiness, Presenca Galleria, Portugal
• Rocks and Trees, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, MA
2000
• Still Life, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1999
• Souvenirs: Collecting, Memory and Material Culture, Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY
• Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
• Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY
• View from the Edge of the World: Landscape Photography, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1998
• Augenlust, Kunsthaus Hannover, Germany
• Drawings, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
• Summer, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
• Still Lives, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1997
• Sex/Industry, curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
• Private Worlds: 200 Years Of American Still Life Painting, curated by Julie Auger & Ann Daley, Denver Art Museum,
1996
• Summer 1996, Allez les Filles/Ibel Simeonov, Columbus, OH
• Garden Themes, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY
1995
• Face Value: American Portraits, curated by Donna, De Salvo, The Parish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York,
• travels to: The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH and The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
• Robert Harms, Billy Sullivan, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
• Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
• Group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
1994
• Oeuvres Choisis, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
• Demystifying the Contemporary Portrait: A Primer for the Patron, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH
• The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Holly Solomon, New York, NY
• Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
• Révellion '94, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
• Landscapes Ideas, curated by Michael Toledo, Apex Art, New York, NY
• Vered Flower Show, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
• Inaugural Group Exhibition, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY
• Truth Be Told: It's All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY
• Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
• Pride In Our Diversity, 24 Hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY
• Summer Review, Stux Gallery, New York, NY
• Swan, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York. NY
• The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
1993
• Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables: the Contemporary Still Life, Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum, ID
1992
• Slow Art, curated by Alanna Heiss, Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
• Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
1991
• An Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York, NY
• The First Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Weathervanes, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
• Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY
1990
• Festivals and Festivities, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, NY
• Menagerie, Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY
• A Little Night Music—Manhattan in the Dark, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
1989
• The Scarf, exhibit and auction to benefit DIFFA, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
• Collector's Gallery XXII, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
• The Food Show, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY
• Don't Bungle the Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1988
• Situations, organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art for General Electric, Fairfield, CT
• The Art of Music, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
• Drawn From Life: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
1987
• Portraits, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, Japan
• Major Works in Small Format, Lever/Meyerson Galleries, Ltd., New York, NY
• Animal Life, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY
• Water Works, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY
1986
• Summer Issue, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
1985
• Animals, Animals, Animals!, The Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
• The New Portrait, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
1984
• Sex, Cable Gallery, New York, NY
• The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
• The American Still Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Houston, TX (Traveling exhibition 1983-4)
1983
• The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
• U.S.F. Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
• The Painterly Figure, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1982
• Pittura di Corta Memoria, Arts Studio, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy
• Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Color it Pastels, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, NH
• Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, travels to: The Fort Worth Art Museum, The University of South Florida Galleries, Tampa, FL, The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1981
• Menagerie, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice,
• Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY
• Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1980
• Still Life: A Selection of Contemporary Paintings, Kent State and Tangeman Fine Art Gallery, OH
• Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR.
• P.S.1, Long Island City, N.Y.
• Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1979
• Staten Island Museum, NY
• Imitation of Life, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT
• American Watercolor, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL travels to: Cedar Rapids Art Center, Cedar Rapids, IO
1978
• Artists' Postcards, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
• Body Language, New Gallery, Schacht Fine Arts Center, Russel Sage
• Collage, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
GRANTS
1987
• National Endowment for the Arts
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY
• Detroit Institute of Art, MI
• The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection. NY
• Guild Hall Of East Hampton, New York. NY
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• New Orleans Museum of At, LA
• Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
• Norton Museum, West Palm Beach, FL
• Hyde Museum, Glens Falls, NY
• Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
• Commerce Bankshares, Kansas City, MO
• Deloitte and Touche, Stamford, CT
• Dow Jones Company, New York, NY
• The General Electric Company, Fairfield, CT
• Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, New York, NY
• Neuberger and Berman, New York, NY
• NYNEX, New York, NY
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, New York, NY
• Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, New York
• Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009
• Saltz, Jerry, "Color and Light," New York Magazine, May 11
• Halm, Dan, "Billy Sullivan," Visual Arts Journal, Spring
• Sherwin, Skye, "Billy Sullivan," Art Review, April
2008
• Frost, Jess, "Jumping Genres and Generations in Art," The East Hampton Star, June 3
• "Seeing Warhol: 14 Artists Reflect his Vision, and Dozens of Friends Remember Him," Interview Magazine, June/Jull (ill.)
• i-D Magazine, "Icon: The Agyness Deyn Issue." Cover and feature photo essays: "Muse," text by Holly Shackleton, pp 132-137; "Lover," text by Jeremy Abbot, pp 138-141; "Mentor," text by Josh Hubbard, pp 149-151; May
2007
• Ernst, Eric, "Artists Offer 'Diary' Work," Southampton East, September 20
• Holden, JZ ,"Present in His Own Life—Billy Sullivan: An artist who has found his place," Southampton East, September 13
• "Art Thrives in the Hamptons," CBS Sunday Morning and CBS News Online (www.cbsnews.com), September 9
• Camhi, Leslie, "The Muses: Painter Billy Sullivan's Beguiling Haute Bohemia," The Village Voice, September 4
• Fasolino, Elizabeth, "Short Dialogues: Photos and Paintings by Billy Sullivan," The East Hampton Star, August 8
• Cotter, Holland, "Go Ahead, Expect Surprises," The New York Times, August 9
• Goodbody, Bridget L., "The Studio In Miniature [Art Review: Joe Fig]," The New York Times, July 7
• Frost, Jess, "The East Enders," The East Hampton Star, May 24
• Young, Dede, "Basking in the Light," Hamptons Cottages and Gardens, May
2006
• Delli Castelli, Alessio, "Billy Sullivan: Reoccurrences", The End, Issue No. 1
• Bollen, Christopher, "Arty Party",V Man, Fall/Winter
• Lobo, Paula, "Centro Cultural de Cascais exibe obras da collecao Ellipse," Diario de Noticias, September 23
• Fyfe, Joe, "Billy Sullivan at Nicole Klagsbrun", Art in America, June/July
• Schjeldahl, Peter, "Critic's Notebook: Society's Children", The New Yorker, May 8
• Mendelsohn, Adam E. , "Reviews: Billy Sullivan, Friends ", Time Out New York, May 4-10
• Mueller, Stephen, "Gallery: Billy Sullivan, Friends: Eyelashes and All," Gay City , April 27-June 3.
• Risemberg, Rafael, "Lavender Majesty Artist Billy Sullivan Shines in Two New Exhibits," New York Blade, April 17
• Zamudio, Raul, "The 2006 Whitney Biennial," ArtNexus, No. 62 Vol. 5
• "Work in Progress," Visionaire, Spring
2004
• Johnson, Ken, "Art Review: The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity", The New York Times, May 4-10
• Bomb, Fall (cover illus.)
2003
• Yablonsky, Linda "To Replace Paint and Page, Artists Try Pixel Power", The New York Times, August 17.
• Myers, Holly, "An Appreciation of the Day-to-Day", The Los Angeles Times, August 15.
2002
• Montreuil, Gregory, "Billy Sullivan", Flash Art, November
• Billy Sullivan: Photographs CD-ROM and DVD project essay by Peter Schjeldahl, interview Mark McGill published by ARTPIX.
• Studios By The Sea, by Jonathan Becker & Bob Colacello, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.New York
• Photography Transformed: The Metropolitan Bank and Trust Collection, Essay by Klaus Kertess, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
2001
• Johnson, Ken, "Art Guide", The New York Times, February 23.
• "Galleries—Uptown: Billy Sullivan", The New Yorker, March 5.
2000
• McQuaid, Cate, "Artists Evoke Yearning, Seduction, and Romance", The Boston Globe, June 8.
1999
• Braff, Phyllis, "For the Mind as Well as the Eyes", The New York Times, November 28
• Corn, Alfred, "Billy Sullivan at Fischbach", Art in America, November.
• Slivka, Rose C.S., "From The Studio" The East Hampton Star, November 4.
• Kalil, Susie, "Canyons and Cowboys", Houston Press, May 28.
• Slivka, Rose C.S., "From The Studio", The East Hampton Star, March 18.
• Bell, J. Bowyer, "Billy Sullivan", Review Magazine, March 15.
1998
• Intra, Giovanni, "Ouverture", Flash Art, p. 100, November- December.
• Adams, Brooks, "Billy Sullivan: Urban Realism with a light touch", Elle Decor, June/July.
• Hainley, Bruce, "Billy Sullivan: Regen Projects, Los Angeles", Frieze, November-December.
1997
• Stanger, Ila, "Worldly Goods," Departures, March/April.
• Southgate, Patsy, "Billy Sullivan: The Art of The Personal", The East Hampton Star, May 1.
• Christy, George, "The Great Life", The Hollywood Reporter, July 1.
• XXX Fruit, Summer.
1996
• Morera, Daniela, "Art is Love", Moschino, October.
• "Show Time! A portfolio of image from the spring '96 Collections", drawings by Billy Sullivan, The New York Times Magazine, January 1.
• "Desire," Visionaire 12
• Harrison, Helen, A., "Garden of Earthly Delights at the Heckscher Museum," The New York Times, June 23
1995
• Kalina, Richard, "Billy Sullivan at Fischbach," Art in America, February, p. 93.
• Hainley, Bruce, "Billy Sullivan - Fischbach Gallery," Artforum, January, p. 87
• McGee, Cella, "Portrait is back, but how it's changed", The New York Times, January 1,
• Braff, Phyllis, "New Way to Contemplate Portraiture", The New York Times, Sunday, July 30.
• Slivka, Rose C.S., "From The Studio", The East Hampton Star, July 27
• Ostrow, Saul, "Billy Sullivan," Bomb, Winter, pp. 94-95
1994
• Hells, Eva, "Exhibition review", Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, Dec. 18, 8G
• Hail, Jacqueline, "Exhibition review", Columbus Dispatch, Nov. 13, 7D
• Liebman, Lisa, "A Fashion Gallery", The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, Sept.18
• Pierson, Jack, "Billy Sullivan/Marcelo Krasilcic: People's Parties," Artforum, Summer.
• Hail, Jacqueline, "Inside the Arts", Columbus Dispatch, March 20,
• Cotter, Holland, "Gay Pride (and Anguish) Around the Galleries", The New York Times, June 24.
1993
• Perl, Jed, "Making Faces", Vogue, March
• Saltz, Jerry, "Let us now praise artist's artists", Art and Auction, April
1992
• Bomb, Fall, cover
• Heartney, Eleanor, Art in America, June
• Hirsch, David, "The View from 105", New York Native, March 30
1990
• Reader's Digest, July, cover
1989
• Mueller, Cookie, "Art and About", Details, September.
• Hirsch, David, New York Native, June 19.
1988
• Cannon, Elizabeth, "Artists Choose Designers", Bomb, Summer
• New School Bulletin, Cover, Fall.
1987
• Gerrit, Henry, Art in America, April.
1986
• American Realism: Twentieth-Century, Drawings and Watercolors, by Alvin Martin, published by The San Francisco
• Museum of Art, Harry R. Abrams, New York
1984
• Poetry Cover July.
• Klein, Ellen Lee, "The New Portrait", Arts, September.
• Winerip, Michael, "Computerized Billboard Brightens Up Times Square with Art-of-the-Month", The New York Times, August 26
• Harrison, Helen, The New York Times, July 10.
• Braff, Phyllis, "From the Studio", The East Hampton Star, July 7.
• Genovese, James Robbins, "The Season: Art & Artists," HamptonsNewspaper/Magazine, June 18.
• Album Cover, Jonathan Sings, Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
• Short Memory, by Viana, Conti, Artra Studios, Milan, Italy
1982
• Mueller, Cookie, "Art and About", Details, December.
1981
• Smith, Roberta, Village Voice, October 21-27.
• Torri, Grazia Maria, "Jill Kornblee Gallery", Flash Art, No.105, October-November.
• Zimmer, William, "All the Alternatives (above)", Soho News, October 27.
1980
• Bass, Ruth, ArtNews, September.
• Realist Drawings and Watercolors, by John Arthur, Little, Brown, New York
1979
• An American Bestiary, by Mary Sayre Haverstock, Harry R. Abrams, New York
1978
• René, "Billy Sullivan at Kornblee," Art in America, September-October
