WILLIAM TUCKER
(abridged version)
1935
Born in Cairo, Egypt (to English parents)
1937
Family returns to England
1955-58 Studies at Oxford University, England
1959-60 Studies at Central School of Art and Design and at St. Martin's School of Art, London
1962-66 Teaches at Goldsmith's College, London
1963-74 Teaches at St. Martin's School of Art, London
1968-70 Receives Gregory Fellowship in Sculpture, Leeds University
1976
Teaches at University of West Ontario, Canada
1977
Teaches at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada
1978
Teaches at New York Studio School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
1978-82 Teaches at Columbia University, New York
1980-81 Receives Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
Becomes American Citizen
1986
Receives National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1991 Receives Sculpture Center Award for Distinction in Sculpture
1993 Appointed Co-Chairman of the Art Department of Bard College
1995 Receives Rodin-Moore Memorial Prize, Second Fujisankei Biennale, Hakone Open-Air Museum,
Japan
1996 Receives commission for large-scale sculpture for Bilbao, Spain.
1999 Receives award from New York Studio School, New York
Currently lives and works in Massachusetts
SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
* Catalogue
1969
1972
1973
1973
1985
1987
1988
1989
1992
Leeds City Art Gallery (Gregory Fellow Exhibition)
* XXXVI Venice Biennale, Italy
Hamburg Kunstverein, Museum Bochum, West Germany
* Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery, London
Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY
* Gods: Five Recent Sculptures, Tate Gallery, London
* William Tucker: The American Decade 1978-1988, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
William Tucker, The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
* Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA
1993
1995
1999
2000
2001
2001
2006
Adelphi University Center Gallery, Garden City, Long Island , NY
Six Sculptures, Arts Council of Great Britain Collection traveling exhibition organized by the South
Bank Centre.
William Tucker: Drawings and Sculpture, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
The Sleep of Reason, Bethel College, St.Paul, MN
William Tucker, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
* William Tucker, Bothy Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
William Tucker: Horses, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
* Catalogue
1962
1963
1965
1965
1966
1968
1969
1970
1973
1974
1976
1977
1979
1980
1980
1980
1981
1982
1982
1984
1984
1985
1985
1987
1987
1987
1989
1989
Grabowski Gallery, London
Rowan Gallery, London
Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
Rowan Gallery, London
Kasmin Gallery, London
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York
Kasmin Gallery
Kasmin Gallery
Waddington Galleries, London
Hester Van Royen Gallery, London
Galerie Wintersberger, Cologne, West Germany
Robert Elkon Gallery
Robert Elkon Gallery
David Reids Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Robert Elkon Gallery
Powell Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
L'Isola Gallery, Rome, Italy
* Robert Elkon Gallery
Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Los Angeles
David McKee Gallery, New York
L'Isola Gallery
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara
McKee Gallery, New York
Pamela Auchincloss Gallery
* Annely Juda Gallery, London
McKee Gallery, New York
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
McKee Gallery, New York
1991
1992
1992
1993
1993
1993
1994
1995
1996
1999
1999
2000
2001
2002
2002
2002
2004
2006
2009
McKee Gallery, New York
* Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College Art Gallery, Easton, PA
McKee Gallery, New York
“Artist in Residence,” Amherst College, Amherst, MA
* “The Philosophers, Sculpture and Drawings 1989-1992,” Maak Gallery, London
Adelphi University Center Gallery, Garden City, Long Island, NY
McKee Gallery, New York
McKee Gallerk, New York
McKee Gallery, New York
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
McKee Gallery, New York
The Sleep of Reason, The Olson Gallery, Bethal College, St. Paul, MN
The Sleep of Reason, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
William Tucker: Drawings, New York Studio School, New York
William Tucker on State Street, Santa Barbara's State of the Art Gallery
Installation, State Street, Santa Barbara, CA
William Tucker: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
William Tucker: Sculpture & Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
William Tucker: Recent Sculpture , McKee Gallery, New York
William Tucker: Maia, Studies for the Sculpture in Bilbao, MacClaren Art Center, Barrie, Ontario,
Canada
William Tucker: Drawings and Projects, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
William Tucker, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
Arkansas Art Center, AK
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
British Council, London
British Museum, London
City of Bilbao, Spain
Contemporary Art Society, London
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Leicester Education Authority, England
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Martin Z. Margulies Sculpture Park, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Victoria,Melbourne, Australia
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Tate Gallery, London
University of California at Los Angeles
University of North Carolina , Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN