RED GROOMS
award ceremony and discussion with bud shark and andy saftel
featured exhibition: Lift: Printmaking in the third dimension
Red Grooms was born in Nashville, Tennessee and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL); The George Peabody College for Teachers (Nashville, TN); The New School for Social Research (New York, NY); and the Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts (Provincetown, MA). Grooms is represented by Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY. His work has been presented in more than 55 one-person exhibitions, including a retrospective exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1987); The Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN (1997); Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY (2004); Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA (2010); and the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (2013). The exhibition “Red Grooms: Selections from the Complete Graphics Works,” was organized in 2000 by The Tennessee State Museum and travelled to five venues including the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN. His numerous honors include The Lifetime Achievement Award, National Academy of Design (2003); Elected Member, American Academy of Arts & Letters (2000); Award of Honor, The Mayor’s Awards for Arts and Culture, New York, NY (1988); and the Governor’s Award in the Arts, State of Tennessee (1986). His works are in the collections of more than 35 public museums, including the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL); the Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY); the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); the Cheekwood Fine Arts Center (Nashville, TN); and the Knoxville Museum of Art (Knoxville, TN).
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