or contact the nicest art gallery in Houston:

Inman Gallery
3901 Main St., Houston, TX 77002
713 526 7800
info@inmangallery.com

Education
M.F.A., University of Massachusetts, 1990
B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design, 1986

Solo Gallery Exhibitions

2006
Forever Rafter, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2004
Poetry of the Thirties, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2003
Slow Birds, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

2001
The Modern Blacksmith, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Spectaculess, Homeroom gallery, Munich, Germany

1999
Games for the Superintelligent, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Nothing Special, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX

1998
1998-1999 Crash, Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX

1997
Fried Chicken and Soda, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
One Man and a Van, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
Art with Cats, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, TX

1995
Modest Means, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

1994
Recent Needlepoints, Inman Gallery

1993
Equivalents to the Real World, Wiersbowski Gallery, Houston, TX

1990
Shopping Sculpture, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007
Arthouse Texas Prize Exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX
Tabletop Sculpture, Art Palace, Austin, TX
Red Velvet, Vine St. Studios, Houston, TX
A Way With Words, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX

2006
The Searchers, White Box, NY, NY curated by Patricia Moloney
Complicit, Bayley Art Museum, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Sculpture Now in the Houston Area, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
The Way We Were, University of Texas Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX

2005
Drive Friendly, Ibid Projects, London
New Texas Painting, Diverseworks Artspace, Houston, TX
Conversational Lag, Volume Gallery, NY, NY

2004
Brothers, The Fresh Up Club, Austin, TX
Excessive, University of Texas at Dallas
Books and Shelves, Gahlberg Gallery, College of Du Page, Glen Ellyn, IL
Twang, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
Going West, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX
I Heart Texas, Allston Skirt gallery, Boston, MA

2003
Another Sculpture Show, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Patterns and Serial Randomness, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Collage/Joining, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Family Circus, Clementine Gallery, NY, NY
Slab, University Galleries, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL (catalog)

2002
Beached, Not Stranded, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Pretty Paintings, Model Gallery, Allston, MA curated by C. Sean Horton
RISD Sculpture Dept. 1st Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Pretty Paintings, Model Gallery, Allston, MA
Beached, Not Stranded, Beaker Gallery, Tampa, FL
Blip, Contemporary Art Museum of the University of South Florida, Tampa
Artists to Artists, Ace Gallery, NY, NY
Million Dollar Hotel, The Highway 59 Holiday Inn , Houston, TX curated by Paul Horn

2001
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art
Friendly Mart, Quick Spot convenience store, corner of Welch & Waugh, Houston TX
PAN, Czech center, London

2000
Thrifting, Lombard-Freid Gallery, NY
Natural Deceits, Ft. Worth Modern Art Museum
Ten, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
Positexan, Project, Wichita, Kansas
Neo-Roccoco, University of Texas, San Antonio
Hi-Jinks, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

1999
Artistic Centers: Houston, Galveston Arts Center/ Austin Museum of Art
Hot Spots, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Univ. of N. Carolina
Bi-Design, Contemporary Arts Collective, Las Vegas, Nevada

1998
Blunt Object, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL
Unraveled, City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Nirvana, British Council Windows Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
Bound: Books by Artists, Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX
Material World, Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX
The Texas Show, ABC No Rio, New York, NY

1997
Thread, Cristinerose Gallery, NY, NY (catalog)
Simply Beautiful, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
New American Talent 13, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX (catalog)
Women's Work, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
Dsiptoey:Stategies for Contemporary Abstraction, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Equal Pay: A Labor Exchange, Revolution Summer Art Space, Houston, TX

1996
Buttered Side Up, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Los Angeles National, Spanish Kitchen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Incredible Shrinking Art Show, ARA Gallery, University of Houston, TX

1995
New Work III, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Home Show, Univ. of Texas, San Antonio (catalogue)
Continental Discourse: Art of Mexico and the US Today, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX
Analogs of Modernism, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

1994
Essentials, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Faith in Doubt, Center Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY

1993
Edward Albee's Other Eye, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
Drawing Conclusions, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue)

1992
1992 Core Fellows Exhibition, Glassell School of Art
Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX (catalogue)

1991
The Toy Show, West End Gallery, Houston, TX
1991 Core Fellows Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Fellowships and Grants
2007 Houston Press' Best of Houston pick: Best Artist
2007 Finalist, Arthouse Texas Prize ($30,000)
2003 Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County Individual artist grant
1997 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1996 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Creative Artist Program grant
1990-92 Core Fellowship at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1991 Studio space grant, Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, NY, NY

Extra-gallery Projects
Theory of Macrame Owls, Visual Arts League, Lewisville, TX, 2007
The Stream of Concious-ness, an ongoing blog project:
my secret journal from 1974-1977 posted in real time, 2006-2009
Timberland Art Corral at the Guerilla Art Show, Westfest, Houston TX April 29, 2006
Honest Abe's Art Corral at the Heights Festival, Houston, Texas, October 3, 2004
Dubuffet Rocks, Houston Art League Sculpture Court, Houston, TX, 1993
Miss Liberty on the Bayou, Buffalo Bayou Artpark, Houston, TX, 1992

Selected Bibliography
Allen, Wren, Bill Davenport, Francesca Fuchs and Brad Tucker, Artlies, Winter 2006, p 120 (reproduction)
Bourbon, Matthew, "Bill Davenport: Slow Birds", Artlies #38, Spring 2003, p.71
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, Houston Press, October, 2001
Colpitt, Frances, "Southern Sensibilities", Art In America, November 2001, p 58 (reproduction: Dog Hole Sculpture)
Klaasmeyer, Kelly , "Art: The Third Dimension", Houston Press, June 1-7, 2000, pp 57-58
Dewan, Shaila, "The Antihero", Houston Press, Oct 28-Nov 3, 1999, p.71
Odom, Michael, "Bill Davenport at Angstrom Gallery", ARTFORUM, October 1999
Hess, Jean, "Dsiptoey: Stategies for Abstraction", Art Papers, Sept-Oct, 1997, p.66
Tom Moody, "Bill Davenport at Cristinerose" ARTFORUM, April, 1997, p.97
Frances Colpitt, "Bill Davenport at Inman Gallery", Art in America, March, 1996
? "Buttered Side Up at the Arlington Museum of Art", Southwest Gallery Guide, April, 1996 p. SW 29, (reproduction)
Kutner, Janet, "Three Texas Abstractionists Strut Their Stuff", The Dallas Morning News, April 12, 1996, p. 63
Lavatelli, Mark, "Retinal Pleasures", Artvoice, Oct. 16-22, 1996
Mitchell, Charles Dee, "Three of a kind, yet different suits", The Dallas Morning News, Saturday, December 16, 1995 (reproduction)
Goddard, Dan " `Continental Discourse': Museum of Art exhibit challenges stereotypical notions about art from Mexico", San Antonio Express-News, November 26, 1995 (reproduction)
Smith, Mary Katherine, "Bill Davenport", Artlies, October/ November, 1995, Issue #9, p. 28 (reproduction)
Allen, Mark, "Buttered Side Up", Artlies, Vol. 4 December-January, 1994, p.18-19
Kutner, Janet, "Three Who Push the Reverence Envelope", The Dallas Morning News, April 15, 1994

Published Writings by Bill Davenport
Contributing editor, www.glasstire.com
Freelance art writer for the Houston Chronicle
2005 Texas Biennial catalog essay
2002-2003 Tire Iron, a weekly column on Houston art for glasstire.com
Co-editor (with Francesca Fuchs) Artlies, Fall 1997 issue
Editor and Publisher, Houston Artletter, Houston's timely magazine of art 1995-1997

Curating
2000, Ludwig Schwarz, Brad Tucker, Katrina Moorhead, Francesca Fuchs , Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
1999, Mario Perez, Subspace Gallery at diverseworks Artspace
1999, Petra Sahm, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX in association with the Museum of Potential Art
1998, Art From Inside: Out, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX
1997, Fish & Chips : New British Art (with Francesca Fuchs), Diverseworks Artspace, Houston, TX
1997, Glamour Sculpture, Gallery 1 at Houston Community College (central), Houston, TX
1996, Jim Rizkalla: Morass, Subspace at Diverseworks Artspace, Houston, TX
1996, Eric Swenson: Push to Prime, Subspace at Diverseworks, Houston, TX
1996, Elizabeth McGrath, Subspace at Diverseworks Artspace, Houston, TX
1996, Show'n'Tell: Caroline Bowles, Elisabeth Jackson, Delfina Vannucci, Subspace at Diverseworks