WILLIAM T. WILEY
Born in Bedford, Indiana, 1937
Studied at the San Francisco Art Institute
EDUCATION
B.F.A., 1961.
M.F.A., 1962.
Associate Professor, University of California at Davis, 1962-73
Instructor, San Francisco Art Institute, 1963, 1966-67
Art Instructor, University of Nevada at Reno, 1967
Art Instructor, Washington State College, Pullman, 1967
Art Instructor, University of California at Berkeley, 1967
Instructor, School of Visual Art, New York, 1968
Art Instructor, University of Colorado at Boulder,1968
Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
October 2, 2009—January 24, 2010, What’s It All Mean: William T. Wiley in Retrospect, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
2008
William T. Wiley, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID
William T. Wiley, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007
William T. Wiley, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2006
William T. Wiley: Barely Finished in Time, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005
William T. Wiley: Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC. (Also 2003, 2001, 1997, 1995, 1991, 1989, 1988, 1986.)
Current Evince: Selected Prints by William T. Wiley from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Visiting Artist, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
2004
William T. Wiley, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, ID. (Also 2002)
More Than Meats the I, William T. Wiley, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY.
2002
William T. Wiley: Before & After, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA. (Also 1999, 1994, 1993)
2001
William T. Wiley: No Bull, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO. (Also 1978)
2000
William T. Wiley: Recent and Relevant, Riva Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ., Santa Fe, NM. (Also 1997, 1990)
William T. Wiley: The String Theory . . . is it . . . sound? Yours as Ever,
Marked Twine, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA. (Also 1992, 1988, 1984)
1999
William T. Wiley, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.* (Also 1996, 1994, 1992)
1996
Concentrations 3: William T. Wiley, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Nothing Lost From the Original, M.H. deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA.*
1995
William T. Wiley, Walker Hill Museum, Seoul, Korea.*
1994
William T. Wiley, Recent Work, Max Protetch, New York, NY. (Also 1991, 1988)
1993
William T. Wiley: Indiana State University, Bloomington, IN.*
1991
William T. Wiley: Struck! Sure? Sound/Unsound, The Corcoran Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC, traveling to Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA.*
Robert Hudson: Sculpture/William T. Wiley: Painting, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.*
1989
William T. Wiley at Crown Point Press, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA, and New York, NY.*
New Paintings, Constructions and Watercolors, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL.*
Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1987
What Is Not Music? Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany and Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria.*
1986
Recent Paintings and Watercolors, Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY, and Moore College Philadelphia, PA.; Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA.*
Steal Witness for the Time Being, touring to: Newport Harbor Art,Museum,
Newport Beach, CA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm,,Springs, CA; Boise Art Gallery, Boise, ID; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA;
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA.*
1984
Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA (also 1983*, 1980, 1978, 1975, 1974, 1972*, 1971, 1969*, 1968).
1981
William T. Wiley, The Charles H. Scott Gallery, Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver, B.C., Canada and Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York, NY.*
Wiley Territory, curated by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, touring to: Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX; The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ.*
1979
Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, IL (also 1974, 1972*, 1969).
1978
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1977
Galerie Paul Facchetti, Paris, France.*
1976
Museum of Modern Art, Project Room, New York, NY.
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (also 1975, 1972).
1973
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.*
1972
Gallerie Odyssia, Rome Italy.*
Galerie Richard Froncke, Ghent, Belgium.
1971
Studio Marconi, Milan, Italy.
University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, CA, touring to Chicago Art
Institute, Chicago, IL and Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.*
1967
Mills College, Oakland, CA.
1965
Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, CA.
1960
Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY (also 1962, 1964).
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005
The Corcoran 2005 Print Portfolio: Drawn to Representation, Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C.
2004
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA*
The True Artist Is An Amazing Luminous Fountain, from The di Rosa
Preserve, Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C.
2002-2004
Tamarind: 40 Years, a retrospective exhibition of 60 lithographs, traveling exhibit.
2003
AFTERSHOCK: THE LEGACY OF THE READYMADE IN POST-WAR AND
CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN ART, Dickinson Roundell, Inc., New York, NY, and London, England.
2000
Crossroads of American Sculpture, David Smith, George Rickey, John Chamberlain, Robert Indiana, William T. Wiley, Bruce Nauman, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA.*
1999
2 5th Anniversary of the Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Hirshorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.*
California Classics: Highlights from the Collection of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui, Japan; MOMA,
Wakayama, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan.*
1998-99
Collaboration: William Allan, Robert Hudson, and William T. Wiley, Palm Springs Desert Mus., Palm Springs, CA, travelling to The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL; Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ.*
1997
Form & Function of Drawing Today - 90’s, Messe Frankfurt, Frankurtam Main, Germany.
1995
Altered and Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
From Matisse to Diebenkorn: Works From the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture, S.F.M.O.M.A., San Francisco, CA
1994
Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collections, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.*
1991
Exhibition of Work by newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honor and Awards, American Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY*
California Classics: Art from the 1960s and 1970s, Bayly Art Museum of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA*
Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.*
1990
Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image, 1967-1988
The Trans Parent Thread: Asian Philosophy in Recent American Art, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, NY, traveling exhibit.
1989
A Different War: Vietnam in Art, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, WA, traveling exhibit.
Art In Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.*
1988
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
1987
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art, touring to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR; Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT.*
International Art Show for the End to World Hunger, touring through the United States and Europe.
1986
Philadelphia Collects: Art Since 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.*
American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (also 1962, 1961).
1985
Vom Zeichnen: Aspekte der Zeichnung, 1960-1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany.
Cinquante ans de dessins americains: 1930-1980, Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France.*
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-84, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Smithsonian Institution), Washington, D.C.*
1984
An Intenational Survey of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.*
1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.*
Minimalism to Expressionism, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
20 American Artists, Sculpture 1982, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
1982
100 Years of California Sculpture, The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA.*
1981
The Slant Step, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA.*
1980
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.*
1979
The 1970's: New American Painting, New Museum, New York, NY, and touring through Eastern Europe.
The First Western States Biennial Exhibition, Western States Arts Foundation, Denver, CO, touring to: Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.*
1977
Recent Art from San Francisco, Den Haag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1976
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.*
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
1973
Extraordinary Realities, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1972
Documenta V, Kassel, West Germany.
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
1971
Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1970
Kompas IV Exhibition, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
American Painting, Foundation Maeght, Paris, France.
1969
When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland.*
Repair Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1968
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1967
Pittsburgh International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1961
Winter Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA.
1960
Young America Show, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
AWARDS
2005 Lifetime Achievement Award in Printmaking from the Southern Graphics Art Council
2004 Guggenheim Fellowship Award
2004 Life Work Award, Marin Arts Council
Recipient of Honor and Awards, American Academy of Letters and Arts, New York , New York
1980, Honorary Doctorate at S.F.A.I., San Francisco, California. Honorary Doctorate, S.F.A.I.
1980 Traveling Grant to Australia, Australian Arts Council
1976 Bartels Prize, 72nd American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
1968 Nealie Sullivan Award, San Francisco Art Institute
1968 Purchase Prize, Whitney Museum, New York
1968 Creative Arts Award, University of California at Davis
1962 Sculpture Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1962 Painting Prize, 65th Annual Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago
1961 New Talent Award, Art In America
1960 First Prize in Painting, Oakland Annual
1960 California School of Fine Arts
1960 Fletcher Award, California School of Fine Arts
1960 First Prize, San Francisco Art Institute Festival
1959 Painting Prize, San Francisco Art Institute
The Tower. From 1985 to 1991, William T. Wiley was engaged with Lippincott, Inc. in fabricating an extraordinary 75-foot bronze sculpture. Its interior spiral staircase leads past figures informed by the myths and mysticism of the middle ages to a star-shaped viewing area overlooking the Connecticut woods.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum at Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX.
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD.
Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA.
Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis, IN.
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO.
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC