Education

• 1987 Yale School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT, M.F.A.
• 1985 University of Texas at El Paso, B.F.A.
• 1981 UCLA School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

Solo Exhibitions

• 2008 Seedbed, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• 2007 ‘Tilth’, New Paintings , Dunn and Brown, Contemporary, Dallas, TX
• 2006 ‘English Cantos and Portable Demons’, New Paintings and Drawings , Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
• 2005 New Paintings, CRG Gallery, NY
• 2003 Sam Reveles Dissolution: New Works on Paper, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
• 2002 Recent Work by Sam Reveles: Dissolution Direction Drawing, El Paso
• Museum of Art, El Paso, TX. September 22 – January 12, 2003
• 2001 Sam Reveles: Subtle Body, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
• 1999 Sam Reveles, Recent Works, September 28 – October 30, 1999, Anthony
• Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
• Sam Reveles: Recent Paintings and Drawings, April 22 – June 20, 1999, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
• Sam Reveles, Recent Paintings & Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
• 1998 Sam Reveles, New Work, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• Sam Reveles – Drawings Exhibition, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, Curated by Cornelia Homburg (catalogue)
• 1997 New Paintings and Drawings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
• 1996 Saints, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• 1995 New Saints Paintings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• 1994 New Paintings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• 1993 The Codex Paintings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
• 1992 Skull Rack Paintings, Lisson Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions

• 2007 Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part 1, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• 2006 Action Precision, Lennon Weinberg, New York, NY
• 2005 LAND, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
• 2004 Emma Hill Fine Art, Eagle Gallery, London, UK
• 2003 Invitational Exhibition & Auction for the Colony Room Club, The Elms Lesters Painting Rooms, London, UK
• “What’s it worth!”, Colony Room Club, London, UK
• Drawn 2B Alive, Hales Gallery, London, UK
• Works on Paper: Gallery artists and by invitation, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
• Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporayr, Dallas, TX
• Burning Desires: Acquisitions 1997-2001, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
• 2001 Roundup: Selected Works from Friends of the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
• 1999 Changing Nature: New Visions and Imagined Lands, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
• Stuff, TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, Illinois, curated by Jeanne Dunning
• 1998 Commitment to Image: Figurative Painting in the 90’s, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, TX
• Wall Paper, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, NY
• Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
• Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
• 1997 Painting Exhibition, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO
• 1995 The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• 1996 Homecoming, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX
• New Acquisitions, Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
• 1995 The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• New York Artists, Jim Schmidt Fine Arts, St. Louis, MO
• 1994 Clem Crosby, Robert Hunter, Peter Joseph, Alex Landrum, Jason Martin,
• Sam Reveles, New Paintings, Lisson Gallery, London
• Rhythm Bouquet, Gavin Brown, Curated by Corrine Robbins, New York, NY
• A Floor In A Building In Brooklyn, Richard Anderson Gallery, Curated by Chuck Close, New York, NY
• 1993 Medium is the Medium, Barbara Toll, New York, NY
• 1992 Robert Wilson, Julian Lethbridge, Sam Reveles, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
• Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins, Stein Gladstone, New York, NY
• Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• 1988 New Talent/New Haven, Portia Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA

Benefit Exhibitions

• 1999 Two By two for Aids and Art, Benefit for amfAR & The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
• 1995 New Museum Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
• Red Windows Project, Barney’s, New York, NY
• Minority Scholarship Benefit for Little Red Schoolhouse, New York
• 1993 AMFAR Benefit, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• BOMB Magazine Benefit, Fawbush Gallery, New York, NY
• Performance Space Drawing Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
• 1990 S.W. AIDS Coalition Benefit, University of Texas at El Paso

Collections

• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• The Saint Louis Art Museum, St Louis
• The Dallas Musuem of Art, Dallas
• El Paso Museum of Art
• Microsoft Corporation, Seattle
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
• Centro De Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
• Paine Webber Group, New York
• American Express Corporation, Minneapolis

Awards

• 2010 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Artist’s Fellowship Program, Ballycastle, co. Mayo, Ireland
• 1998 Richard & Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award for Painting from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1994 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art Grants (Chairman, Jasper Johns)
• 1986 Yale School of Art, Norfolk Art Program, Teaching Assistant Award
• 1985 Ford Foundation Minority Grants

Bibliography

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• 1999 Kutner, Janet. Review, ARTnews, April, p.125-126, ill.
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Sam Reveles was born (1958) and raised in El Paso, Texas. He lives & works in New York.