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1946 Born, New York
1968 School of Visual Arts, NYC
1964 High School of Art and Design, NYC
1999-pres Professor of Fine Art, School of Visual Arts, NYC
Lives and works in New York


Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

2009 Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
2009 Conversations, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008 Billy Sullivan: New Work, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2007 Guild Hall, East Hampton
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
2006 New Work, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus
Friends, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2005 Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan
2004 Aspen Portrait, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
2003 Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2002 Photographs 1969-2002, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2001 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus
Fischbach Gallery, New York
2000 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston
1999 Fischbach Gallery,New York
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Texas Gallery, Houston
1998 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus
1997 Fischbach Gallery, New York
Hollywood Chronicles, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
1996 The Back Room, Allez les Filles, Columbus
1994 Allez les Filles, Columbus
Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen
Fischbach Gallery, New York
Stux Gallery, New York
1993 Marguerite Oestreicher, Fine Arts, New Orleans
1992 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1990 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1989 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1986 Fischbach Gallery, New York
1985 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1984 Stamford Museum and Nature Center Art Gallery, Stamford
Petersburg Gallery, New York
1983 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicadgo
1981 The Arts Gallery, Baltimore
Kornblee Gallery, New York
1980 Kornblee Gallery, New York
1979 Kornblee Gallery, New York
1978 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York
1976 Duffy and Sons, New York
1974 Contact Graphics, Texas Gallery, Houston


Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2009 International Photo Festival Knokke-Heist 2009, Knokke-Heist Cultural Centre, Belgium
2008 Listen Darling…The World is Yours, curated by Lisa Phillips, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
The Annual Hamptons Show, curated by Klaus Kertess, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2007 Neointegrity, curated by Keith Mayerson Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Sex and Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton
Tease, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York
2006 The Food Show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Likeness (Portraits From All Angles), Geoffery Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington
Open House, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, Centro Cultural de Cascais, Portugal
The Name of This Show is not Gay Art Now, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2005 Art and the Garden, Spainerman Gallery, East Hampton
Painting, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2004 Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
North Fork / South Fork: East End Art Now, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
Il Nudo, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bolgna
Gio Ponti: Furnished Stetting & Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles
On Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2003 Ideale e Realta: Una storia dal Neoclassicismo ad oggi, Galleriea d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
2001 Sex - Vom Wissen und Wunschen, Stiftung Deutsches Hyginene-Museum, Dresden
2001 Happiness, Galleria Presença, Porto
Rocks & Trees, Photographic Resource Center, Boston Univerity
Still Life, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge
"O, O," Barbara Gladstone Gallery , New York
1999 Souvenirs: Collecting, Memory & Material Culture, Guild Hall Of East Hampton
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York City
Parallel Lines: Mix & Match, Karen McCready Fine Art , New York City
View from the Edge of the World, Landscape Photography, Marlborugh Chelsea
Armory Show International Fair of New Art, New York, Galerie Aurel Scheibler
1998 Augenlust, Kunsthaus Hannover
Drawings, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle
Summer, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
Still Lives, Marlborough Gallery, New York
1997 Sex/Industry, curated by John Yau, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
Private Worlds: 200 Years Of American Still Life Painting, Curated by Julia Augr and Ann Daley, Denver Art Museum
1996 Summer 1996, Allez les Filles/Ibel Simeonov, Columbus
Garden Themes, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, New York
1995 Face Value: American Portraits, curated by Donna, De Salvo, The Parish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York, travels to: The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus and The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa
Robert Harms, Billy Sullivan, Allez les Filles, Columbus
Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York
Group show curated by Clarissa Dalrymple, The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, NYC
1994 Oeuvres Choisis, Allez les Filles, Columbus
Demystifying the Contemporary Portrait: A Primer for the Patron, Allez les Filles, Columbus
Dirty Pictures, curated by Jack Pierson for Regan Projects, The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Holly Solomon, New York
Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
Révellion ‘94, Stux Gallery, New York
Landscapes, Ideas, curated by Michael Toledo, Apex Art, New York
Vered Flower Show,” Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York
Absence, Activism & the Body Politic, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Fischbach Gallery, New York
Pride In Our Diversity, 24 hours for Life Gallery, New York
Summer Review, Stux Gallery, New York
Swan, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
1993 Fruits, Flowers and Vegatables the Contemporary Still Life, Kavesh Gallery, Ketchum
1992 Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, curated by Alanna Heiss, Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York
1991 An Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York
The First Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Weathervanes, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York
1990 Festivals & Festivities, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of New York
Menagerie, Pfizer, Inc., New York
A Little Night Music - Manhattan in the Dark, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York
1989 The Scarf, exhibit and auction to benefit DIFFA, Bergdorf Goodman, New York
Collector’s Gallery XXII, Marion Koogier McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
The Food Show, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York
Don’t Bungle the Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1988 Situations, organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art for General Electric Co., Fairfield
The Art of Music, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Drawn From Life: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape, Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston
1987 Portraits, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo
Major Works in Small Format, Lever/Meyerson Galleries, Ltd, New York
Animal Life, curated by Gerrit Henry, One Penn Plaza, New York
Water Works, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York
1986 Summer Issue, Fischbach Gallery, New York
1985 Animals, Animals, Animals!, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford
The New Portrait, P.S.1, Long Island City, New York
The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton
1984 Sex, Cable Gallery, New York
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The American Still Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Houston (traveling exhibition 1983-4)
1983 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown
U.S.F. Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa
1982 Pittura di Corta Memoria, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago
Color it Pastels, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire
Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, traveled to: The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, The University of South Florida Galleries, Tampa, and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1981 Menagerie, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, Galleria del Cavallino, Venice
Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro
1980 Still Life: A Selection of Contemporary Paintings, Kent State and Tangeman Fine Art Gallery, OH; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland
P.S.1, Long Island City, N.Y.
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
1979 Staten Island Museum, NY
Imitation of Life, Joseloff Art Gallery, Hartford
American Watercolor, Mitchell Museum Mt. Vernon, IL and Cedar Rapids ArtCenter, Cedar Rapids
1978 Artists’ Postcards, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, NY
Body Language, New Gallery, Schacht Fine Arts Center, Russell Sage College, Troy
Collage, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston