Michael Flanagan — Biography



1943 Born in Buffalo, NY
Education: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1962 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1963-66 Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT 1966-67

 

EDUCATION
1962    Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
1963-66    Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
1966-67    Yale University Graduate School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1997    The Frye Museum, Seattle, WA.
1992-93    The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1991    P.P.O.W, New York, NY.
1983    Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY.
1981    Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2005       Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA
2003       “Brooklyn on 57th Street”, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY
             The Armory Show, New York, NY
1997       “In the Beginning was the Word: Text as the Subject in Art,” Charles Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI.
1996       “Art from the Driver’s Seat: Americans and Their Cars,” curated by Cara Sutherland.  Traveling to Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern                Illinois State University, Charleston, IL; Kalamazoo Insititute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art                       Museum, Wausau, WI; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN; Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; The Columbus                       Museum, Columbus, GA.
1994–95  “Insights: A Distant View,” curated by Donna Harkavy, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
1994       “Fallen Idylls:American Figurative Painting,” organized by P•P•O•W in cooperation with Christopher Sweet, Art Miami ‘94, Miami, FL.
             “The Seer,” curated by Christopher Sweet, O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
             “Transport,” Curated by Helen Miranda Wilson, The Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, VA
1993       "Twilight Intervals," curated by Chistopher Sweet, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
             Objects and Drawings from the Sanford M. and Diane Besser Collection,” The Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK; The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa,                   OK.
             “Up Close: Contemporary Art from the Malin Collection,” Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
1991       "Three Romantic Realists," Fendrick Gallery, Washington, DC.
1990       "Salon 1990," The New York Academy of Art, March 8 - April 22, New York, NY.
             "The Book as Art / The Book in Art," Barbara Fendrick Gallery, New York, NY.
1989       "Love and Charity:  The Tradition of Caritas in Contemporary Painting," Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY; Dowd Fine Arts Gallery SUNY at Cortland, NY;                  The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ; Roland Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, NY.
              "Trains and Planes:  The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting," Sherry French Gallery, New York; National Academy of Science, Washington D.C.;                 Evansville Museum of Art, Evansville, IN; Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1988-89   "Charged! Places and Things," Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS; The National Academy of Science, Washington DC.
1988        Eric Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY.
              "Collector's Show," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK.
              "Landscape Anthology," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY.
1982        Cordier and Ekstrom Gallery, New York, NY.
1981        “New Visions," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.
1978        Invitational, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY.
              Invitational, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL.


GRANTS
  

1992    National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
1988    Yaddo Fellowship
1987    National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artists Fellowship
1986    New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting Yaddo Fellowship


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
The Hood Museum, Hanover, NH
The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK
Norfolk Southern Company, Norfolk, VA
The Prudential Insurance Company of America
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH