PINKNEY HERBERT - BIO
ARTIST PAGE
ARTIST STATEMENT
b. 1954, Charlotte, NC
Education
1982 M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
1979 University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1977 B.A. Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
1976 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Floating World, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2007 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2006 Fire and Water, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2005 Fire and Water, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
2004 David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2002 Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2001 Lotus, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
The Medallion Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2000 Recent Paintings and Drawings, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
1999 Flying Solo, Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
1998 New Abstractions, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1997 Gallery W.D.O, Charlotte, NC
1996 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Murray State University, Murray, KY
1994 Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1993 Galerie Pelin, Helsinki, Finland
Austin Peay University, Clarkesville, TN
1992 Robinson/Willis Gallery, Nashville, TN
City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC
1991 University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR
1988 Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 Vacation Venues, Franklin 54 Gallery, New York, NY
Allen Projects, New York, NY
Exposition de l'art Actuel France-Japon (with MultiNational 2009),Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan;
Matsumoto City Museum of Art, Matsumoto, Japan
It Came from Memphis, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2008 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
America Meets Bavaria, Kunst-Und Gewerber Verein, Regensberg, Germany
US: Pinkney Herbert/Greely Myatt, NP40 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
What a Night, The Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
2006 Holiday Show, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Three Paths to Abstraction, Ewing Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Fine Arts Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN; Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
MAX 2005: The Inner Voice of Art, curated by Dr. David Moos, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis,TN
True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, curated by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC; O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS earlier venues: National Arts Club, New York, NY; Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA; National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Bratislava, Slovakia
Not the Last Show, NP40 Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2004 Suitcase Series Memphis: Pinkney Herbert, Greely Myatt, Terri Jones, The Lab Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Drawings/Works on Paper, Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 Art of Tennessee, Frist Museum of Contemporary Art, Nashville, TN (catalog)
Marshall Abstract: Four Memphis Painters in Nashville, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville
2002 Current Memphis:Memphis Current,
SHoRes and NP40, Amsterdam, Netherlands
A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee, Cheekwood Museum of Art,
Nashville, TN; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
Southern Contemporary: New Art from The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
45th Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2000 Price is Right 2, Once is Never Enough, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
43rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
1999 Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, curated by the 2000 Meridian International Center, Washington, DC; venues: Hanoi Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China; Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; Metropolitan Museum, Manila, Philippines; and Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore
1999 Nashville Airport, Nashville, TN
1999 MAX 99, Buzz Spector, curator, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN
Price is Right, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1998 The Blind Man and the Elephant, The Free Library of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA; Chicago, IL;
Tucson, AZ; Palo Alto, CA
Looking Back: Rhodes College Faculty and Alumni Exhibit, 1946-1998, Clough-Hanson Gallery,
Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
10h Anniversary Exhibition: Arts in the Park, Then and Now, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Regional Abstract Artists, Shelby County Mayor's Office, Urban Art Commission
Pinkney Herbert & Jeane Umbreit, Lewis Art Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Director's Council Exhibit, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
1997 Abstractions, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Larry & Co., University of Memphis Gallery, Memphis, TN
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
A Cut Across the Middle, PlanB Gallery, Memphis, TN; Alternate Gallery Space, Houston, TX
Memphis Push, Push, San Francisco, CA
Memphis College of Art Biennial, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Arts Day, Memphis Arts Council, Askew, Nixon, Ferguson, Memphis, TN
1996 ArtFair Seattle (Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN), Seattle, WA
1995 Opening, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Pinkney Herbert & Steve Kline, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum Of Art, New Orleans, LA
1994 Pinkney Herbert and Marcy Rosewater, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Twelve in Tennessee, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
1993 Pinkney Herbert and Remy Miller, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Organic Abstraction, Delta Axis Contemporary Arts Center and Middle Tennessee State University,
Murfreesboro, TN
Drawing Them In, Vaanguard Gallery, Nashville, TN and Delta Axis, Memphis, TN
1992 Hot/Cold Abstraction, Salem College Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC
15th Anniversary Visiting Artist Program Exhibition, Ewing Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Spotlight on Georgia Artists Annual Exhibit, Atlanta, GA
Art N.O.W., Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
1991 In Touch with Art, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
January Group Show, Robinson/Willis Gallery, Nashville, TN
Herbert, Jones, Myatt, Gettlefinger, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
Three Visiting Artists, Ewing Gallery of Art, University of TN, Knoxville, TN
Very Memphis, Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN
1990 Summer Group Exhibition, Memphis Center for Contemporary Art
33rd Annual Delta Art Exhibition, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
Tornado Show, Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Gallery Artists, Robinson Willis Gallery, Nashville, TN
Herbert, Wren, Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN
1989 Group Show, Ledis Flam Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Group Show, George Ciscle Gallery, Baltimore, MD
1988 $1000 Show, John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
New York to Memphis, Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN
Unrealism, Fayerweather Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Group Show, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY
Drama and Melodrama, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Curators Choice From the Files, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
EHCCA for AIDS Care, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
Group Show, Fervor Gallery, New York, NY
1986 New Figures, East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY
Summer Group Show, Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York, NY
Eleven on 11th, Parker/Smalley Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Drawings, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
8 Artists at Northside, Brooklyn, NY; funded by Artists Space, New York, NY
1984 Four Artists, Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY
Professional and Teaching
2008 Instructor, Arrowmount School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
2007 Instructor, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC (also 2003, 2000, 1998, 1996, 1995)
2006 Guest lecturer, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS
2000-04 Graduate Advisor, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Public Art Panelist, Urban Art Commission, Memphis, TN
2002 Guest lecturer, Cedar Crest College and Mullenburg College, Allentown,
PA Instructor, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
1999 Guest lecturer, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
1998 Guest teacher and lecturer, The Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, NM
1994-97 Graduate School Coordinator, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
1993 Visiting Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
Visiting Artist, Institute of Fine Arts, Lahti, Finland
Visiting Artist, Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
1992 Founder and Director, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN (ongoing)
1992 Visiting Artist, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
1989-91 Instructor, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
1982-83 Artist-in-Residence, North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, NC
Residencies
2007 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA (also six prior residencies)
2001 Brandywine Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1996 Pyramid Atlantic Press, Riverdale, MD
1995 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Selected Awards and Honors
2002 Delta Award, Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
2001 Commissioned work for Vestibule Floor, Central Library, Memphis, TN
2000 Delta Award, Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
1993 USIA-Arts America, Artist/Teaching Fellowship, Helsinki, Finland
USIA-Arts America, Artist/Lecturer Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
1988 Artists Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
Selected Public Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR
City of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IL
FedEx Corporation, Memphis, TN
First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN
Hyatt Corporation, Columbus, OH; Tampa, FL
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York University, New York, NY
Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Paragon Bank, Memphis, TN
Pfiezer Corporation, New York, NY
Prudential-Bache, New York, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Urban Art Commission, Memphis, TN
Selected Publications
Ardent Records, compact disc cover art, Neighborhood Texture Jam, Voodoo, 1993
Art Papers, Susan Knowles, "Pinkney Herbert at Ledbetter Lusk Gallery," Sept. 1996, p. 58
Art & Auction, Dan Cameron, Southern Exposures, January 1995, p. 65-66
At Home in Memphis, Chris McCoy, "The Arts: Pinkney Herbert," June 2004, p.34
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Jerry Cullum, "Bold Strokes Distinguish Herbert's Work," March 18, 1994
Catalog, It Came from Memphis, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 2009
Catalog, Ten Twenty-Nine, 10th Anniversary of the Visiting Artists Program, Ewing Gallery of Art, University of
Tennessee Art Dept., Knoxville, TN
Catalog, Three Paths to Abstraction: Pinkney Herbert, Whitney Leland, Carol Mode, 2005-6; Ewing Gallery,
University of Tennessee; Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery; Art Museum of the University of Memphis
Catalog, Buzz Spector, MAX:99, 1999, Art Museum of the University of Memphis and Delta Axis
Catalog, William A. Fagaly, 1995 New Orleans Triennial, 1995, New Orleans, LA
Catalog, Pinkney Herbert, University of Arkansas, 1991, Little Rock, AR
Catalog, Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, Meridian International Center,
1999, Washington, DC
Catalog, True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, Meridian International Center, 2002, Washington, DC
Commercial Appeal, Frederic Koeppel, "Committed to Abstraction," July 14, 2006
Glenna Park, "Irony of Life Assumes Guise of Art," June 26, 1999
Debra Elliot, "MAX:99 Opens Today With Lecture at U of M," June 12, 1999
Donald La Badie, "Abstraction Links Works by Herbert and Miller,' January 26,1994
Artists' Journeys, January 16, 1994
Daily News, Tom Patterson, "Contrasts: Exhibition Offers Intriguing Spins on
Abstraction," Nov. 1991, Winston Salem, NC
Dateline Memphis, Melody Barnett, "MAX:99, A Mix of Some Highs, Some Lows," June 24-30, 1999, p. 15
Helsinki Sanomat, Anne Rouhiainen, "Herbert in Maalauksia Galerie Pelin," Nov. 2, 1993
The Herald Sun, Blue Greenberg, "Abstraction Taking Life Form," March 15, 1992, Durham, NC
Hufrudstads-Bladt, Dan Sundell, "Malmingar av Pinkney Herbert i Galerie Pelin," Oct. 29, 1993, Helsinki, Finland
Kapuppalehti Optio, Finland, Oct. 28, 1993
Kunstler-Kolonie Geplant, Harold Raab, July 13, 1994, Regensburg, Germany
Memphis Business Journal, Linda Romine, "Memphis Arts Council Unveils 1996 Pin-Up Artists," Nov. 6-10, 1995
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, "Riders of the Storm," December 28, 2006-January 3, 2007, p. 25
Carol Knowles, "New Directions: Pinkney Herbert creates some of the best art of his career," July 20-26, p. 26
David Hall, "Mardi Gras to Vietnam," February 24-March 1, 2000, p. 37
Cory Dugan, "Baker's Dozen," June 24-30, 1999 p. 34-36
Rob McGowen, "Grab Bag At Delta," May 1993
New American Paintings, Volume 1, March 1997
Number:55, Benjamin McKamey, "Three Paths to Abstraction—Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture," p. 16
Oxford American, Issue 51, Fall 2005, p. 137 (photo reproduction)
Painting as a Language, Jean Robertson & Craig McDaniel, Harcourt Brace, Fort Worth, TX, 2000 (textbook)
The Sciences, Radio Head, May/June 1993 (reproduction)
Red Hydra Press, Unfolding the Tablecloth of God, Steve Miller, (cover art), University of Alabama, 1995
Southern Accents, Donna Dorian Wall, "Pastel Purity," January-February 2000, p. 64-68
Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Susan Knowles, Vol. LXI, Spring 2002, p. 63-64
The Tennessean, Alan Bostick, "Painting Tennessee," July 7, 2002, p. 14-18
The Washington Times, Joanna Shaw-Eagle, "America's "True Spirit" on Display," Feb. 23, 2002
