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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
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
2006 Cohen, David, The Afterlife of an Ideal, NY Sun, June 29, 2006
2005 Muller, Stephen. Gay City News, January, p.21
  The New Yorker, February 7
2003 Hubbard, Sue. The Independent, Arts Section, Nov. 4, p. 55
1999 Kutner, Janet. Review, ARTnews, April, p.125-126, ill.
  D’Souza, Aruna. Review, Art in America, April, p. 141, ill.
  Kutner, Janet. Review, Dallas Morning News, February 9.
  Kalil, Susie. Abstraction Made Personal, Houston Press, May 20.
1998 Daniel, Jeff. Review, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 14.
1997 Wakefield, Neville. "Three to Watch," Elle Décor, Dec., p. 62
1996 Pagel, David. Frieze, Issue 28, May, p. 71-72
  Castle, Frederick Ted. Review, Review, Volume 1, Number 2, May, p. 3
1995 Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, "Powerful Thrills" Thursday December 21, p. F14, calendar section
1994 Drolet, Owen. Flash Art, November/December, p. 96, ill.
  Yablonsky, Linda. Art Forum, November, p. 88, ill.
  Saltz, Jerry. "A Year in the Life: The Tropic of Painting," Art in America, October.
  Smith, Roberta. "Art in Review: A Floor in a Building in Brooklyn,"
  The New York Times, July 22, p. C24
1993 Pagel, David. Los Angeles Times, "Solo Quintet" Thursday May 27, p. F5
  Saltz, Jerry. "10 Artists of the 90’s," Art & Auction, May.
1992 Flessig, Peter. City Limits, April 29.
  Nargi, Lela. New York Perspectives, June 12.
  Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, "Group Show-Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles,
  Nancy Rubins" July 10, p.C28
  Saltz, Jerry. "Spotlight: Sam Reveles," Flash Art, November/December, p. 96
  Saltz, Jerry. "Matthew Barney, Sam Reveles, Nancy Rubins," Flash Art News, November/December, p. 96
Sam Reveles was born (1958) and raised in El Paso, Texas. He lives & works in New York.