NATHANIEL DONNETT Houston, TX b. USA
EDUCATION
Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, United States
RESIDENCIES 2013
Redline Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011
2010
2009 2007 2006 2004
You Are The One, Redline Milwuakee, Milwaukee, WI ZZzzzzz, The Art League Houston, Houston, TX Holla If You Hear Me; The Vibrational Theory, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, Illinois My Mind’s Playing Tricks on Me, Jenkins Johnson’s Gallery, New York, New York You People Pay Too Much. What Do You Mean You People? Lone Star College of Kingwood Fine Arts Gallery, Kingwood, Texas Too Light Inside, Too Dark Outside, College of Mainland, College of Mainland Gallery, Texas City, Texas Black Plastic and tha Paper Bag Kids in tha Soulecistic Playground, Colton & Farb Gallery -Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas Paper or Plastic, J. Wayne Stark Galleries, Prairie View A & M University, curated by Lauren Kelly, College Station, Texas Paper or Plastic, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas I'm Fence To, Redbud Gallery, Exhibition and Performance/Art Talk, curated by Gus Kopriva, Houston, Texas The Lost Children Series; In The Angelic Playground, Gallery by Dzine, curated by Prachel Carter, Ontario, California Anastomois, The Studio Gallery, Curated by Marie Weichman, Houston, Texas (two man show)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2013 2013 2012 2012 2012 2012 2012 2011
Black in the Abstract, Part 2; Hard Edges/Soft Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX AQUA Art Miami, Morton Fine Art, Miami FL ArtHamptons, Morton Fine Art, Bridgehampton, NY Fair Focus, Morton Fine Art, Bethesda, MD AQUA Art Miami with Morton Fine Art, Miami, FL Houston Fine Art Fair with Morton Fine Art, Houston, TX Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe: The Contemporary Response, Morton Fine Art and Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD Works with Paper, Morton Fine Art, Washington, DC Voices of Home, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York Alpha’s Bet is Not Over Yet, Curated by Steffani Jemison and Jamal Cyrus, The New Museum, New York, New York What’s The New News, Curated by Nathaniel Donnett, The Community Artist’s Collective and Public Art Spaces, Houston, Texas Art and Communication of Space, Taylor Piggott Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming T_XT_RT, Curated by Courtney Johnson,Jenkins Johnson Gallery, Houston, Texas
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2010 2009 2008
2007
2006
2005 2004 2002
The Armory Show, Jenkins Johnson Gallery Pier 94, New York, New York Exit Art, Benefit, New York, New York The Talented Ten, Deborah Colton Gallery, curated by Lester Marks, Houston, Texas Human Nature Planted, Russman Pittman Park, curated by June Woest, Houston, Texas Cumanana, Saltworks Gallery, curated by William Cordova, Atlanta, Georgia A Time For Change, Deborah Colton Gallery, curated by Catherine D. Anspon, Houston, Texas Otherwise Constricted – Round 28, Project Row Houses, curated by Ashley Clemmer-Hoffman, Houston, Texas Brothas With Something To Say, Arthello Beck Gallery, curated by Vicki Meeks, Dallas, Texas Art Official Intelligence, The University Museum, curated by Dr. Wardlaw, Houston, Texas Embrace, Mason Murer, curated by Eugene Foney, Atlanta, Georgia Amistad, The Museum of Modern Art in Trujillo, curated by Gus Kopriva, Trujillo, Peru Amistad ,The National Museum of Peru, Curator Gus Kopriva Lima Peru Art and Design Exhibition, The Shrine of the Black Madonna Art Gallery, curated by Shandra Ward, Houston, Texas The Light Show, M2 Gallery, Curator Max Boyd, Houston, Texas The Arts Alliance Center At Clear Lake, Group Exhibition, curated by Martin Wnuk, Nassau Bay, Texas 11th MFAH 5A Citywide Exhibition, Curated by M'Kina Tapscott, Houston, Houston, Texas Bhangra Fever, Spectrum Dance Theater, Society For The Performing Arts, Wortham Center, Houston, Texas Future Present Series: Volume One, Community Arts Collective @, curated by Michelle Barnes & Michael Kahlil, Houston, Texas American Cities Series-Houston: Contemporary Works on Paper, Brandywine Workshop, Curated by Eugene Foney, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania "How's About A Quickie", G Gallery, curated by Wayne Gilbert, Houston, Texas Year Long Exhibition, Houston City Hall, curated by Gus Kopriva & Wayne Gilbert Houston, Texas The Back Door Show, G's Gallery, curated by Wayne Gilbert and Gus Kopriva, Houston, Texas Red Show, The Art House, Curated by Brant Richards, Houston, Texas October Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
ART FAIRS 2010
The Armory Show – Pier 94, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York. The Dallas Art Fair, Colton & Farb Gallery - Deborah Colton Gallery, Dallas, Texas
SELECTED PERFORMANCES 2007
Bhangra Fever, Spectrum Dance Theater, Society for the Performing Arts, Wortham Center Houston, Texas I’m Fence To, Performance and Art Talk, Redbud Gallery, Houston, Texas
LECTURES AND ART TALKS 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
My Mind’s Playing Tricks on Me, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, New York, New York The Artist’s Eye, The Menil Museum, Houston, Texas Thinking About Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Otherwise Constricted, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas Slide Jam- Slide Presentation and Art Talk, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Art Appreciation, Prarie View A&M University, Prarie View, Texas
AWARDS & GRANTS 2011
Houston Arts Alliance Grant, Houston, Texas, United States The Idea Fund - The Andy Warhol Foundation, Houston, Texas, United States
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2010 2009 2007
Artadia Grant Award, Houston, Texas, United States Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant nominee, New York, New York, United States Third Place, 5A Citywide Juried Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011
Altamese Osborne, What’s The New News? Challenges Media’s Third Ward’s Assumptions, Houston Press, Houston, Texas New City Art, Messin’ With Texas, June, Chicago, Illinois Chicago Reader, Messin’ With Texas, June, Chicago, Illinois Madame J, My Mind’s Playing Tricks On Me, March, New York, New York 2010 Dr. Charles Rowell, Callaloo Journal, Excerpts from Interview, Vol. 33, Number 3, Summer Anderson, Virginia Billeaud , Black Plastic and the Paper Bag Kids; Soulecisim Playground. Greather Houston Weekly, May Alvarez, Olivia Flores, Black Plastic and the Paper Bag Kids, Houston Press, June Kimmel, Erin, Black Plastic and the Paper Bag Kids; Fluent Collab, June 2009 Britt, Douglas, Paper or Plastic?, Houston Chronicle, September Klassmeyer, Kelly, Happy 30th, The Houston Press Cordova, William, Art Lies magazine, December/Winter, Issue 60 2008 Woods, Tria, The Greatest Store That Never Sold, ArtsHouston Magazine, May Schulze, Troy, A Time For Change, The Houston Press, October Rhodes, Dusti, A Time For Change, The Houston Press, October 2007 Arte de Texas en el Peru (Texas Art in Peru), Museo De Arte Moderno, Catalogue Fundacion Gerado Chavez (Amistad), Catalogue Brandywine Workshop, Houston Contemporary Works on Paper, Catalogue Molly Glentzer, This Byrd Could Fly Higher, Houston Chronicle, January 2006 Cruz, Gabby de la, Exhibit focuses on children, Interview, Campus Times, March 2004 Castilow, Kristie, Interview, Inspire TV, Houston, Texas 2003 Watkins, Andrea, Interview, Fox 26 News, Houston, Texas 2001 Grangel, Kristal "Emerging Artist", Houston Chronicle August, Houston, Texas Watkins, Andrea, Interview, Fox 26 News, Houston, Texas Lectures and Art Talks 2010 The Artist’s Eye, The Menil Museum, Houston, Texas 2009 Thinking About Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 2008 Otherwise Constricted, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas 2007 Slide Jam- Slide Presentation and Art Talk, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas 2006 Art Appreciation, Prairie View A & M University, Prairie View, Texas
COLLECTIONS
The Nicholson Foundation The Breakfast Klub Texas Southern University - Grants and Contracts
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