Sam Gilliam
born Tupelo, Mississippi, 1933
In addition to a traveling retrospective organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. in 2005, Sam Gilliam has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1971); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1982); Whitney Museum of American Art, Philip Morris Branch, New York (1993); J.B. Speed Memorial Museum, Louisville, Kentucky (1996); Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2011); and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (2018), among many other institutions. A semi-permanent installation of Gilliam’s paintings will open at Dia:Beacon in August 2019. His work is included in over fifty public collections, including those of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Art Institute of Chicago. He lives and works in Washington, D.C.
[bio courtesy Pace Gallery, accessed January 2020]
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- Tupelo
born Lynden, Washington, 1904; died Los Angeles, California, 1968
born Erie, Pennsylvania, 1930
born Cleveland, Ohio, 1930; died Seattle, Washington, 1989
born Loveland, Colorado, 1914; died Seattle, Washington, 1996
born Washington, D.C., 1915; died Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2012
