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 Shows

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
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

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
Family Circus, Clementine Gallery, NY, NY
Slab, University Galleries, Illinois State Univ., Normal, IL (catalog)

2002

RISD Sculpture Dept. 1st Triennial Sculpture Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
Pretty Paintings, Model Gallery, Allston, MA
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
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
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)
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

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

1992
1992 Core Fellows Exhibition, Glassell School of Art

1991
1991 Core Fellows Exhibition, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Fellowships and Grants
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

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
Colpitt, Frances, "Southern Sensibilities", Art In America, November 2001, p 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
Smith, Mary Katherine, "Bill Davenport", Artlies, October/ November, 1995, Issue #9, p. 28

Published Writings
Contributing editor, www.glasstire.com
Freelance art writer for the Houston Chronicle