CATALOG: Bunnies, Birds, and Butterflies
PRESS: House Beautiful, September 2017
BIOGRAPHY
HUNT SLONEM
Hunt Slonem was born on July 18, 1951 in Kittery, ME. He is an American painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He is best known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings of tropical birds, often based on a personal aviary in which he has been keeping from over 100 live birds of various species. His works are included in many important museum collections all over the world; he is exhibiting regularly at both public and private venues and he has recieved numerous honors and awards.
EDUCATION
1973 Bachelor of Arts, Tulane University, New Orleans
1972 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2008 |
Manors of Elegance and Birds of Paradise, Jean Albano Gallery |
| 2007-8 |
Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2006 | Monarchs & Other Royal Subjects, Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Body & Soul, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
| 2005 |
Chiaroscuro, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2004 |
Birds, Butterflies, Beings, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2003 |
Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, KS |
| 2002 | Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Handsel Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Paula Brown Gallery, Toledo, OH Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Vanier Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 | Robert McClain Gallery, Houston TX Harman-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY Mariella Gonzalez Lerena Galeria de Arte, Punta del Este, Uraguay Marlborough, Anguilla Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 2000 | Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina Vanier Fine Arts, Scottsdale, AZ Harman Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
| 1999 | Hudson River Museum, New York, NY Harman-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ |
| 1998 | Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Robert McClain Gallery, Houston TX Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA Magidson Gallery, Aspen, CO Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA Robert Thomas Gallery, Orlando, FL |
| 1997 | Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Harman-Meek Gallery, Naples, FL Magidson Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 1996 | Art in General, New York, NY (installation) Robert McClain & Co., Houston, TX Images Gallery, Toledo, OH Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Still- Zinsel Gallery, New Orleans, LA Alezander Brest Museum, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL Vered Gallery, East Hampton ,NY Stubbs Book & Co., New York, NY KNA Studio, Nantes, France |
| 1995 | Lannon Gallery, New York, NY Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain Galeria Ynguanzo, Madrid, Spain La Galerie, Marassa, Port-au-Prince, Haiti Hall-Barnett Gallery, New Orleans, LA Michalski Gallery, Manila, Cebu, Philipines Musee d’Arte Haitien, Port-au-prince, Haiti |
| 1994 | Robert McClain & Co., Houston, TX Zoologish Museum, Amsterdam, Holland Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO Galeria Ynguanzo, Madrid, Spain Fine Arts Gallery, Broward Community College, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
| 1993 | Galeri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden Kuntschalter, Cologne, Germany Lili Belle Foundation, Mentecito, CA Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA William King Art Center, Abington, VA Helander Gallery, New York, NY Mira Mar Gallery, Sarasota, FL La Galerie Gustavia, St. Bart, West Idies |
| 1992 | Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, Roanoke, VA University of Maine at Machias Galleries, Machias, ME Helander Gallery, New York, NW Morgan Gallery, Kansas City,MO La Galerie Gustavia, St. Bart, West Indies Antoine Laurentin Gallery, Paris, France KEIO, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan The Time is Always Now, Hong Kong Marta Hewitt Gallery, Cincinatti, OH Greater Visions Gallery, Nashville, TN Images Gallery, Toledo, OH Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA |
| 1991 | Galerie Witteveen, Amsterdam, Holland Pulitzer Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Galerie de Nieuwe Buiten Societert, Zwolle, Amsterdam, Holland Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD Charlotte Milburn Fine Art, Oslo, Norway Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY |
| 1990 | Harcourts Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ Helander Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Eewal, Leewarden, Holland Ben Shahn Galleries, William Patterson College, Wayne, NJ Rosendale Tradgard, Stockholm, Sweden |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
| 2009 | Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004-5 |
“Painting the Town Red,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 |
"Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary,” A Traveling Exhibition |
| 2003 | “Inaugural Exhibition,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA “Art in the Chambers,” Orange County Arts & Cultural Affairs, Orlando, FL “The Bold 1980s: A Collector's Vision,” Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA and Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho “January White Sale”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL “Where Fashion Meets Art”, Givenchy, New York, NY “Louis Cane, Isreal Hershberg, Hunt Slonem” Marlborough Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco “Contemporary Art from the Tennessee State Collection,” Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN “Selections from the Collection,” Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, FL |
| 2002 | “A Public Trust: Recent Acquisitions at the Museum of Art,” The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Smith Anderson Editions Gallery, Stewart & Stewart, Palo Alto, CA “Contemporary Visions of Nature”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 2001 | “XXXV Prix International D'Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo”, Salle des Arts, Monte-Carlo “Best of Tennessee”, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Myers School of Art, University of Akron, Akron, OH “Reflections”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Marlborough Gallery, Monaco Robert McClain Gallery, New York, NY Kurt Lidke Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 1999 | “Calm and Commotion: Abstract Art from the Permanent Collection”, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS “Radiant Children: Art of the East Village- 1980's”, Lamia Ink, New York, NY “A Legacy Preserved: The First Decade of Collecting Art at the Michner Art Museum,” James A. Michner Art Museum, Doylestown, PA “Arco,” Marlborough Gallery, Spain |
| 1998 | National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (recent acquistions, contemporary prints) Marlborough Gallery, Summer Show, New York, NY MB Modern, New York, NY "New Works," Heriad Cimino, New Orleans, LA "Earthly Delights ," Anita Shapolski, New York, NY "Geoffrey Young Gallery (‘For the Birds), Great Barrington, MA |
| 1997 | "Americans in Italy, Italians in America," Teatro de gli Artisti, Rome, Italy "Modern Myth 1997," 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY "Recent Acquistions," Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA |
| 1996 | "Small Works," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM W.E.A., "Ties," Milano, Italy Asian Arts Festival, Feather Installation, Z Gallery, New York, NY Gotlands Konst Museum, Gotlands, Sweden "Anima Mundi," Graham Gallery, Santa Fe, NM "Energism II," Jane Thurn Gallery, New York, NY "Rediscovering Landscape of the Americas," Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC Western Gallery, Western Washington University Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ |
| 1995 | "On Heavenly Wings: Birds: Aspirations," University of Hawaii, Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI "The Golden and the Baroque in Contemporary Art", Robert McClain and Co., Houston, TX "Recent Acquisitions", Colby Museum, Waterville, ME "Summer Group", Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO "Group Show", Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN |
| 1994 | Palm Beach Museum, Palm Beach, FL "No Dogs Allowed", Gallery 28, Boston, MA "Tennessee 12", Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN "Hunt Slonem, Giane Versace, Thiery Mugler", Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY "The Seer", O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY ‘A Special Salute to Merce Cunningham", Cartier, New York, NY |
| 1993 | "S.A.F.E. Portfolio", The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Hokikodden, Norway "Art, Money, Myth", Palm Beach Commuity Museum, Palm Beach, FL "Imagine: Art and Environment", National Art Club, New York, NY "Animal Magnetism:, Gallery Three Zero, New York, NY "Exquisite Corpse", Drawing Center, New York, NY "Lust", Marguerite Oestricher Gallery, New Orleans, LA "Animals", "POWARS", Helander Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1992 | "Freedom of Expression ‘92", Metro Pictures, New York, NY "Bruce Helander, Martin Mull, Hunt Slonem", Sailor Gallery, Margate, NJ "Works on Paper", Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX "S.A.F.E. Portfolio", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY "S.A.F.E. Portfolio", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1991 | "Marcel Duchamp’s Mother Potato Masher and otehr works of art", Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA "Ornithological Structures, Implict/Explicit, Chex L’Oiseau", ASPACE, New York, NY "Heaven", Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY "Recent Acquisitions of Permanent Installation", Roanoke Museum of Fine Art, Roanoke, VA "Expressive Drawings, Eurpoean & American Art Through the 20th Century", The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY |
| 1990 | ‘Feathers, Fur and Fin", Laguna Gloria Museum, Austin, TX "Two Person Show", Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Paramus, NJ "Field & Forest- American Landscape", Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, TX |