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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 

 

 

 

2012

 

Plus Gallery, Denver

 

 

Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas

2011

 

Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque

2010

 

Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery

 

 

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

 

Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York

 

 

Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas

2009

 

Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque

2008

 

Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston

 

 

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

 

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

2007

 

Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York

 

 

Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston

 

 

Jennifer Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, BC

 

 

Plus Gallery, Denver

 

 

Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque

2006

 

Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID

 

 

Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago

2005

 

Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona

 

 

Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

 

 

Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas

 

 

Thomas Werner Gallery, New York

2004

 

Poissant Gallery, Houston

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

 

 

2012

 

Rasterfahndung (Tracing the Grid), Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

2011

 

Substainability, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

2010

 

This is not a photo show, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio

 

 

appropriate manipulate duplicate, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA

2009

 

Landscape Affected, University of Dallas, Haggerty Gallery, Irving, TX

2008

 

Invisible Omniscience: Seeing and the Seen, Baltimore Art Place

 

 

Re-Mix I & II, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, New York

 

 

New American Talent 23, Arthouse, Austin, Texas, Nato Thomson, Curator

 

 

Group Show, Trinity University, San Antonio, Steven Lam, Curator

 

 

Houston Area Show, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Claudia Schmukli, Curator

 

 

Under Surveillance, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

 

 

Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2008. Dr. Kevin Salatino, LACMA Juror

 

 

The Sky is Falling, Spur Projects, Portolo Valley, CA

2007

 

Chill: Summer Group Show, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York

 

 

B & W, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

 

 

5X7, Arthouse at Jones Center, Austin, Texas

 

 

Texas Biennial, Austin, TX

 

 

Vertigo, Plus Gallery, Denver

 

 

Fab Ab, Salt Lake City Art Center

2006

 

Watch it! Television’s Influence in Art. State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY

 

 

Baroque Visions and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star, San Antonio, curated by Terrie Sultan and Chris French

 

 

SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, curated by Theresa Downing

 

 

Texas Paint, Part Two: Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art, curated by Anne Allen

 

 

Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art juror

 

 

OPENDraw, OPENSOURCE Art, Champaign, IL

 

 

2006 Works on Paper National Competition, Long Beach, New Jersey, Juror: Carter Foster, Drawing Curator Whitney Museum of American Art

 

 

5 Angles on Abstraction, Addison Arts, Santa Fe

 

 

Ripped from the Pages, Gallery 125, CACHH, Houston, Texas

 

 

Blurring the Line, University of Texas San Antonio, Julie Shipp Curator

 

 

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror

2005

 

New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston

 

 

Clothesline Exhibition, the Hospital, Covent Garden, London

 

 

Three Landscape Painters, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut

 

 

Incremental Disruption, NAO Gallery, Boston

 

 

20th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas

 

 

Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas

 

 

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas, Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curator

 

 

DPI:2004 Competition, Kellogg University Art Gallery Cal Poly, Pomona, California

2004

 

The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston

 

 

 

 

 

 

AWARDS & HONORS

 

 

 

2011

 

New American Paintings Annual Prize

2010

 

Individual Artist Grant, Houston Arts Alliance

2010

 

Finalist, 2010 Hunting Art Prize

2008

 

Finalist, 2008 Hunting Prize

 

 

First Place, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Dr. Kevin Salatino, Los Angeles  County Museum of Art, Juror and Curator

2007

 

Finalist, Hunting Art Prize

2006

 

Best in Show, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM, Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art juror

 

 

Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror

 

 

Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County

2005

 

Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Juror and Curator

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

 

 

1991

 

Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art - Cum Laude

 

 

 

 

 

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

 

Manon Slome, The Aethetics of Terror, Charta, 2009

 

 

Houston Area Show (catalog), Claudia Schmukli, University of Houston, 2008

 

 

New American Paintings - Western Region Edition, Terrie Sultan juror (forthcoming)

 

 

Nancy Wozny, Blaffer Gallery 2008 Area Exhibition, ArtsHouston, June 2008

 

 

Review, Proximity Magazine, Chicago Issue, May / June 2008

 

 

Sharon Brock, Looming threats spark art, Palo Alto Daily News, February 28, 2008

 

 

Alan Artner, In the Galleries, Chicago Tribune, January 18, 2008

 

 

New American Paintings - Western Region Edition No. 72, Nick Capasso, juror

 

 

Kelly Klaasmeyer, Retinal Redux, Houston Press, April 19, 2007

 

 

Elaine Wolff, Reading Between the Pixels, San Antonio Current, March 13, 2007

 

 

Nikki Moore, Bi-ology, Austin Chronicle, March 1, 2007

 

 

Brian Staker, Abs, Tracked, Salt Lake City Weekly, April 18, 2007

 

 

Texas Biennial 2007, Austin, Texas, Show Catalog

 

 

Theresa Downing, SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire (Show Catalog)

 

 

Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump, ARTINFO.com, December 9, 2006

 

 

Dan R. Goddard, Houston, in the eyes of the artists, San Antonio Express-News, December 3, 2006

 

 

Nancy Salem, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006

 

 

Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Show Catalog

 

 

Bill Davenport: Ripped from the Pages at CACHH, Glasstire.com, May 15, 2006

 

 

Bill Davenport: William Betts Makes Art and a Profit, Houston Chronicle, Sunday Zest Magazine cover story, May 7, 2006

 

 

Alan Artner, Review: William Betts at Peter Miller, Chicago Tribune, March 10, 2006

 

 

Lauren Weinberg, William Betts at Peter Miller, Time Out Chicago, March 3, 2006

 

 

Fred Camper, Slices of Light, Chicago Reader, March 3, 2006

 

 

Kelly Klaasmeyer, Grab Bag: Diverseworks surveys Texas Painting, Houston Press, December 2005

 

 

Charissa N. Terranova, William Betts at Holly Johnson, ARTLIES 48, Fall 2005

 

 

New American Painting, Volume 60, Open Studios Press, 2005, Fereshteh Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Juror

 

 

Michael Paglia, Formal Ware, Westword Weekly, May 13, 2005

 

 

D’Lynne Plummer, Destination Nao, South End News, April 2005

 

 

Cate McQuaid, Incremental Disruption, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2005

 

 

Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Brushed With Greatness, Austin American-Statesman, March 8, 2005

 

 

Elaine Wolff, Digital-induced Angst and Sensory Overload, San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005

 

 

J R Compton, The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension, Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005

 

 

Tyler Green, ArtLA Faves, Artsjournal.com, February 2, 2005

 

 

Kelly Klaasmeyer, Capsule Reviews, Houston Press, October 21, 2004

 

 

Tim Moloney, The Line on William Betts, 002 Magazine, November 2004