Donald Sultan

Born 1951 Born, Asheville, .

Education 1973 BFA, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 1975 MFA, School of the Art Institute, Chicago. 1978-79 Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York. 1980-81 State National Endowment for the Arts. 2000 Awarded an Honorary Degree from the Corcoran School of Art, Washington D.C. 2002 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate Degree from the , New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2002 Donald Sultan, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA Donald Sultan: Life’s Paradoxes, Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington, NC New and Works on Paper, Winston Wächter Fine Art, Seattle, WA 2001 Donald Sultan; 10 Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO Visuelle Paradoxe, Raab Galllery, Berlin Germany Donald Sultan, The Smoke Rings, The Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Michigan Donald Sultan: Recent Works, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Donald Sultan: Recent Works, Galerie Lutz and Thalmann, Zurich Switzerland Donald Sultan; Paintings and , Lowe Gallery, Atlanta GA 2000 Donald Sultan - Selected Drawings 1976 – 1998, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI Temporary Contemporary - Selected Works by Donald Sultan, Cheekwood M Museum of Art, Nashville, TN Donald Sultan- Paintings & Drawings, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA Donald Sultan, Meredith Long, Houston, TX Donald Sultan: In the Tradition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FLA, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ 1999 Bar Mitzvah, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Donald Sultan Recent Works, Meredith Long & Co., Houston, TX. Donald Sultan: recent painting, Knoedler, New York, NY Donald Sultan: Recent Works, Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA Donald Sultan: New Work, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, St. Louis, MI 1998 Donald Sultan, Galerie Lutz & Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland Donald Sultan, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen , CO Donald Sultan : New Paintings and Drawings, Turner and Runyon Gallery, Dallas, TX. Donald Sultan : Recent Work, Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milano, Italy 1997 Donald Sultan: Paintings and Drawings, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY Donald Sultan: Flowers, Greenberg VanDoren Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Donald Sultan, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Donald Sultan: Smoke Rings, Janet Borden, Inc. New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2001 Cote d’Azur: Art, Modernity and the Myth of the French Riviera, AXA Gallery, New York, NY Digital Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn NY Models of Observation, Knoedler & Company, New York, NY 2000 Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA September Selections, Knoedler & Co., New York, NY Bluer, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL 1999 “In Company: ’s Collaborations”, Castellani Art Museum of Niagra University, New York, NY New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Edna Barnes Salomon Room, New York, NY Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, FL Green Library, CA Self Images, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA 1998 Art Dealers Association of America, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year- The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY 80’s Artists Then and Now, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY Mirror Images, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1997 Edge of Chaos, Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, New York, NY New York on Paper, Bumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC Exhibition of works from the permanent collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; La Jolla, CA Summer, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY Painting Machines, Industrial Image and Process in Contemporary Art, Art Gallery, Boston, Mass. Floor to Ceiling: A Twentieth Century Print Salon, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, DC

Selected Commissions

2000 Art’otel Budapest by Donald Sultan, in conjunction with Park Plaza Worldwide 1999 Absolut Vodka ad, “Absolut Sultan”

Selected Recent Bibliography:

Sheehan, Patrick. “Sultan’s Palace”, Quest, October 2000, pg. 50. Varadi, Julia. “Art escapes the Orphanage”, Octogon; Architecture & Design, 2/2000, pg. 91-93. Elliott, Debra. “The Sultan of Still-life”, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Thursday, April 6, 2000 Johnson, Richard. “Aesthetic Inn”, New York Post, Saturday, April 15, 2000 Hughes, Robert J. “Coming Up Roses and Daffodils”, The Wall Street Journal, Friday, April 28, 2000 Van Gelder, Lawrence. “Large Art”, , Wednesday, May 10, 2000 Richard, Paul. “Tar Nation! Industrial-Strength Still Lifes”, The Washington Post, Sunday, May 14, 2000 Michael O’Sullivan. “Real Life in Sultan’s Still Lifes”, The Washington Post, Friday, May 19, 2000 Ferdinand Protzman. “Prints at David Adamson”, The Washington Post, Thursday, July 20, 2000. “Goings on about Town” The New Yorker, March 16, 1999 Tomkins, Calvin. “Object Lessons” The New Yorker, April 5, 1999 Pelton, Ted. “It’s The Company That Counts“ ArtVoice, April 8 - 14, 1999 Huntington, Richard. “Images of the Poet”, The Buffalo News, April 2, 1999 Fabrikant, Geraldine. “A Portrait of the Artist as an Investor” The New York Times, August 29, 1999 Mamet, David. Bar Mitzvah. Boston, New York, London. A Bulfinch Press Book, Little, Brown and Co.1999 Mamet, David. Bar Mitzvah. El Segundo, CA. Marco Fine Arts. 1999 Madoff, Henry and . Donald Sultan, In the Still-Life Tradition. Seattle, WA. University of Washington Press. 1999 Briedenbach, Tom. “Donald Sultan - Knoedler & Company” Artforum, October 1999 Absolut Vodka. “Absolut Sultan.” Fall 1999 “Visual Poetics: The Art of Donald Sultan” , Sun Storm Magazine, Spring 1999 Mackenzie, Michael. Poems by Robert Creely. Visual Poetics: The Art of Donald Sultan. El Segundo, CA. Marco Fine Arts. 1998 Anon. “The Artful Traveler” ArtNews April 1997, p. 106 Belcove, Julie L. “Sultan’s Rule” , W, April 1997, p. 172, 174

Selected Public Collections

The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock The , Illinois Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont Australian National Gallery, Canberra Bank America Corporation Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Texas Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Fogg Art Museum, , Cambridge, Massachusetts The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia Hirshorn Museum and Garden, Washington, D. C. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of the Kansas City Art Institute, Missouri Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Tobataku Kitakyushu, Japan Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas The Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The , New York Nelson - Atkins Museum, Kansas City, Missouri Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore Smith College, Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York The St. Louis Art Museum, Missouri The Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York