RON DAVIS BIOGRAPHY
Biography 1937 Born in Santa Monica, CA. Raised in Cheyenne, WY 1990 Moves to Taos, NM
Education: 1955-1956 University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 1960-1964 San Francisco Art Institute, CA
Honors and Awards: 1962 Yale-Norfolk Summer School of Music and Art grantee 1968 National Endowment for the Arts grantee
Selected Solo Exhibitions 2010 Ronald Davis: Monochromatics: 1965–66, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Ronald Davis: 3D CG, 2005–07, Eight Modern, Santa Fe, NM 2007 Flatland Series, 1980-81, New Gallery, Houston, TX Ronald Davis: Five Decades: Past and Present Work, 1968 - 2007, Electric Works, San Francisco, CA 2005 Music Series: 1983-1985, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM Selected Paintings, 1974-2004, Galerie Dionisi, West Hollywood, CA 2002 Hinge Series, Philip Bareiss Gallery, Taos, NM Nushapes, Hinges, Diamonds; Digital Painting Series, 2001, Victoria Myhren Gallery, Denver University, Denver, CO Forty Years of Abstraction: 1962-2002, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1998 Wax Series, 1996-1997, Jaquelin Loyd Gallery, Ranchos de Taos, NM 1991 Large Sculpture, Hondo Hogan and aspen wood sculptures, Blum Helman, Los Angeles, CA 1987 Recent work, Freeway Series, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ 1986 Selected Paintings and Prints, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY 1985 Silkscreens, Acetates, & Drawings, Graystone, San Francisco, CA 1984 The Flatlanders, Thomas Babeor Gallery, La Jolla, CA New Music Paintings, Non-Objective, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY 1983 Bungalow Show/Small Paintings, Asher/Faure, Los Angeles, CA 1982 Selected Works 1968 – 1982, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1981 Etchings, Drypoints, & Aquatints, Gemini G. E. L., Los Angeles, CA 1980 Recent Watercolors, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1979 Selected Paintings, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA Floaters, Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1978 Snap Lines, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. Traveled to: John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1977 Selected Paintings, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 1976 Retrospective: Paintings: 1962-1976, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA 1975 Selected Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1974 Snap Line Series, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Traveled to: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY; Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO, Aspen Gallery of Art, Aspen, CO, Seder/Creigh Gallery, Coronado, CA 1973 Prints and Selected Paintings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Still Life Series, Perspective Line Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Hard Edge Interior Silkscreens, Gemini G. E. L., Los Angeles, CA 1972 Rectangle Interiors, Eye Level Blocks, Joseph Helman Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1971 Cutout Series: Slabs, Sawtooth's, and Boxes, Flexible resin and fiberglass, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Rectangle Series, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA Dodecagons, Pyramids, David Mirvish Gallery, Toronto, Canada. Traveled to: Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Canada 1970 Cutout Series: Blocks, Cubes, Slabs, Kasmin Gallery, London, UK. Traveled to: Joseph Helman Gallery, St. Louis, MO 1969 Dodecagons, Small Dodecagons, & Cubes, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Truncated Pyramids, Interiors, Large L’s, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY 1966 Slab Series, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, New York, NY 1965 Monochromatic Serie, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Ron Davis has been featured in numerous group exhibitions.
Selected Public Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH Corcoran Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Harwood Museum, Taos, NM HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art, Milwaukee, WI Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO Nickle Art Museum, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA The Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA San José Museum of Art, San José, CA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, MO The Tate Gallery, London, UK Walraff-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY