ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= TOM BLACKWELL Biography BORN 1938 Chicago, Illinois TEACHING 1985-89 School of Visual Arts, Masters Program, New York, NY 1981 University of Arizona, Tucson, Artist in Residence, March 1980 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, Artist in Residence, Fall 1978 Keene State College, Keene, NH, Guest Professor, Summer GRANTS AND AWARDS 1998 New York State Council of the Arts, Individual Artist’s Grant 1990 Awards Panel, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts 1986 American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, purchase award 1986 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Award SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2018 “Tom Blackwell: Motorcycles & Mannequins,” The Artist Book Foundation, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, Feb. 8 – June 2 2016 “Tom Blackwell: American Photorealist,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 9 – December 22 2012 “Tom Blackwell: Metamorphical Paintings,” Karl Drerup Art Gallery Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH, October 2 – 27 “Tom Blackwell: The 21st Century,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 – June 2 2009 “Tom Blackwell: Image as Metaphor,” New England College, Henniker, NH, October 3 – November 13 2006-07 “Aspects of a Realist,” Brauer Museum of Art, Vapraiso University, Valpraiso, IN, December 8, 2006 – March 25, 2007 ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, France, November 29, 2006 – January 6, 2007 2004 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 10 – May 1 2002 “Tom Blackwell,” Eckert Fine Art, Naples, FL, April 1 – April 30 1999 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 2 – 30 “It’s about Time: Tom Blackwell, Paintings for the Millennium,” Roxbury Arts Center, Roxbury, NY, Sponsored by the New York State Council of the Arts, August 15 – September 26 “Tom Blackwell,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, February 11 – March 6 1995 “Tom Blackwell,” Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, April 6 – 29 1988 “Tom Blackwell,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY 1987 “Tom Blackwell: Third Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, May 21 – July 31 1986 “Tom Blackwell: Second Inaugural Exhibition,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, June 19 – July 30 “Tom Blackwell,” Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY, April 10 – May 10 1985 “Tom Blackwell: New Paintings,” The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH, October 18 – December 1 1982 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 6 – 27 1981 “Tom Blackwell,” University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ 1980 “Tom Blackwell: Selected Works 1970-80,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, November 7 – December 28 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 8 – 29 1977 “Tom Blackwell,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 8 – 29 1976 “Tom Blackwell,” Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany 1975 “Tom Blackwell,” Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1975 Sharp-Focus Paintings by Tom Blackwell, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, February 5 – March 1 1964 Orange Coast College Museum, Santa Ana, CA 1962 Rex Evans Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1961 Roy Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2020 “High Fidelity: Anthony Brunelli & the Digital Age Photorealists,” Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, Feb. 14 – May 8 2019-20 “The Seasons,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY, Nov. 16, 2019 – March 1, 2020 2019 “Panoramic Views,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan. 3 – Feb. 24 “Reality Check: Photorealist Watercolors,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 27 – July 28 2018-19 “Every Picture Tells a Story,” Parrish Museum of Art, Watermill, NY, Nov. 11, 2018 – Oct. 3, 2019 2018 “PaVement to PaVement,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Jan 4 – Feb 24 “Photorealism,” Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, Mar. 2 – April 7 “Reflections, Ripples & Shadows,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov 15 – Dec 22 2017-18 “From Lens to Eye to Hand: Photorealism 1969 to Today,” traveling exhibition: Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY August 6, 2017 – Jan. 21, 2018; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI, April 21 – September 12, 2018 “American Dream,” Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany & Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands, Oct 19, 2017 – May 10, 2018 2017 “Photorealism in the Desert”, Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, CA, March 10- April 8 2016 “Photorealist Urban Landscapes,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 3 – December 17 2015 “Still Life: 1970s Photorealism,” The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, January 24 – May 3 “Photorealism,” Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, September 12 – Nov. 11 2014-15 “Photorealism: The Sydney and Walda Besthoff Collection,” The New Orleans Museum of Art, November 9, 2014 – January 5, 2015 2013-14 “Celebrating the Publication of Photorealism in the Digital Age,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 2, 2013 – January 30, 2014 ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= “Still Life: 1970’s Photorealism,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, August 30, 2013 – March 9, 2014 “Photorealism ReVisited,” traveling exhibition: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK, January 24 – April 21, 2013; Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH, June 1 – September 30, 2013; MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, January 12 – April 18, 2014 2012-17 “Photorealism: 50 Years of Hyperrealistic Painting,” traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, December 8, 2012 – March 10, 2013; Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain, arch 21 – June 9, 2013; Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, June 30 – October 13, 2013; Birmingham Museum and Art Galery, Birmingham, United Kingdom, November 30, 2013 – March 30, 2014; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, Octobr 7, 2014 – January 19, 2015; Kumu Art Museum of Estonia, Talinn, Estonia, March 17 – June 12, 2016; Musée d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium, June 29 – September 25, 2016; Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, October 15, 2016 – January 8, 2017; Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands Feb. 25 – Jun. 4, 2017; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, July 13 – Oct. 22, 2017 2012 “Au-delà du Réel = Beyond Realism.” Galerie De Bellefeuille, Montreal, Canada, September 8 – October 2 2011-12 “Our Own Directions: The Louis K. & Susan P. Meisel Collection,” Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Art Center, Jersey City, NJ September 18, 2011 – February 15, 2012 2011 “Signs,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 10 – March 10 “The New York Project: Paintings of the City by Artists from Around the World,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 15 – October 29 2010 “Expansion,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 30 – November 13 2010 “The Illustrious Mr. X: Museum Collection as Character Study,” Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, August 18 – December 12 “Summer Sweet,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 6 – September 10 “Real (ists),” Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, January 15 – February 16 2009 “New Photo-Realism Painting in the Digital Age,” Arthur M. Berger Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, November 11 – December 11 “40 Years: AnniVersary of the Louis K. Meisel Gallery,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery & Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, November 1 – December 20 ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= “American Dream,” The National Museum in Kraków, Kraków, Poland, July 2 – October 10 “The City: Day & Night,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 4 – July 17 “Photorealism: A Closer Look,” Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA, March 31 – May 30 “Picturing America: Photorealism in the 70s,” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, March 7 – May 10 “Small Paintings from Around the World – Part II,” Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 5 – 28 2008-09 “Shock of the Real – Photorealism Revisited,” Boca Raton Museum of the Art, Boca Raton, FL, December 16, 2008 – March 11, 2009 2008 “Recent Acquisitions,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 27 – October 25 “Recent Acquisitions,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, February 1 – March 31 2007 “Recent American Watercolors,” Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA, June 16 – August 26 Group Show, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 – December 20; June 5 – 30 2005-06 “Photorealism, Then and Now,” Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, December 8, 2005 – January 9, 2006 2005 Group Show, Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris, NY, September 7 – October 4 and viewing at le F.I.A.C. October 5 – 10 “Doubletake: Photorealism From The 1960’s and 1970’s,” The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 19 – July 31 “Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, NY, April 2 – June 19 “Vintage Masterpieces of Photorealism,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY March 5 – 26 2004-05 “An American Odyssey 1945 – 1980 (Debating Modernism),” traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30; Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2; Also to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY, October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005 “American Photorealism,” traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4; Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of ilrfp=hK=jbfpbi=d^iibov= Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7; Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State