Donald Sultan

Biographical Information
1951	Born; Asheville, North Carolina
Education
1973	B.F.A., University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1975	M.F.A., School of the Art Institute, Chicago; Chicago, Illinois
1978–79	Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York
1980–81	State National Endowment for the Arts
2000	Honorary Doctorate Degree, Corcoran School of Art; Washington D.C.
2002	Honorary Doctorate Degree, New York Academy of Art, New York
2007	Honorary Doctorate Degree, University of North Carolina; Asheville, North Carolina
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017	Galerie Andres Thalmann; Zurich, Switzerland
2016	Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: The Disaster Paintings;" traveling exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.; Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
2015	"Donald Sultan;" Galeria Freites; Caracas, Venezuela
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Forsblom; Helinski, Finland
	"New Works: Poppies, Mimosas and Buttons;" Meyerovich Gallery; San Francisco, California
2014	"Floral Constructions;" Vertu Fine Art; Boca Raton, Florida
	"Donald Sultan: Artiface," Ryan Lee Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan : A Decade of Paintings and Drawings;" Serge Sorokko Gallery; San Francisco, California
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Work;" Galerie Andres Thalmann; Zurich, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
2013	"Echos;" Galerie Piece Unique; Paris, France
2012	"Donald Sultan;" The Drawing Room; East Hampton, New York
2011	"Soot and Shine: New Works," Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: New Works;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: New Works;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
2009	"Donald Sultan: Prints;" Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: The First Decade;" Contemporary Arts Center; Cincinnati, Ohio
	"Donald Sultan;" Greenfield-Sacks Gallery; Santa Monica, California
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Ernst Hilger; Vienna, Austria
	"Donald Sultan;" Ben Brown Fine Arts; London, England
2008	"Donald Sultan: Works on Paper;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
	"Donald Sultan: Artificial Images;" Aidan Gallery; Moscow, Russia
	"Donald Sultan: Drawings;" Forsblom Gallery; Helsinki, Finland
2007	"Donald Sultan;" Guy Pieters Gallery; Knokke-Heist, Belgium
	"Donald Sultan: New Work;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
2006	"Donald Sultan: New Paintings;" Galerie Forsblom; Helsinki, Finland
	"Donald Sultan: Colors, Smoke and War," Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
2005	"New Paintings;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
	"Donald Sultan: 1991 – 2005;" Cliff Lede Vineyards; Yountville, California
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings and Works on Paper;" Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires; Mallorca, Spain
2004	"Donald Sultan;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: Prints & Drawings," Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
	"Donald Sultan: New Poppy Paintings," Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York
2003	"Donald Sultan: Poppy Paintings;" Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Poppies, Oranges & Mimosas: New Prints and Drawings;" Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Forsblom; Helsinki, Finland
2002	"Donald Sultan;" Imago Galleries; Palm Desert, California
	"Donald Sultan: Painting Life’s Paradoxes;" Louise Cameron Wells Art Museum; Wilmington, North Carolina
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings and Works on Paper;" Winston Wächter Fine Art; Seattle, Washington
2001	"Donald Sultan, 10 Paintings;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
	"Donald Sultan, Smoke Rings;" Dorothy Blau Gallery; Bay Harbor Islands, Florida
	"Donald Sultan Recent Works;" Stephen F. Austin State University; Nacogdoches, Texas
	"Visuelle Paradoxe;" Raab Galerie; Berlin, Germany
	"Smoke Rings;" University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan
	"Donald Sultan Recent Works;" Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Michigan
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Works;" Galerie Lutz and Thalmann; Zurich, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings and Drawings;" Lowe Gallery; Atlanta, Georgia
2000	"Donald Sultan – Selected Drawings 1976 – 1998;" Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Michigan
	"Temporary Contemporary – Selected Works by Donald Sultan;" Cheekwood Museum of Art; Nashville, Tennessee
	"Donald Sultan: In the Still-Life Tradition;" traveling exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona.
	"New Works;" Winston Wachter Fine Art; Seattle, Washington
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings & Drawings;" Galerie Simonne Stern; New Orleans, Louisiana
	"Donald Sultan;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Prints and Drawings;" Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
1999	"Bar Mitzvah," The Jewish Museum, New York, book collaboration with playwright David Mamet
	"Donald Sultan Recent Works;" Meredith Long & Co.; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: recent painting," Knoedler, New York
	"Donald Sultan Selected Drawings 1976-1998;" Hill Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1998	"Donald Sultan," Galerie Lutz Thalmann; Zurich, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
	"Donald Sultan, New Paintings and Drawings;" Turner & Runyon Gallery; Dallas, Texas
	"Donald Sultan, Recent Work;" Galleria Lawrence Rubin; Milan, Italy
1997	"Donald Sultan: Paintings and Drawings," Knoedler & Co., New York
	"Donald Sultan: Flowers;" Greenberg Van Doren Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri
	"Donald Sultan: Painting, Drawing, Photography;" Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Missouri
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Daniel Templon; Paris, France
	"Donald Sultan: Smoke Rings;" Janet Borden, Inc.; New York
1996	"Donald Sultan: Paintings & Works on Paper;" Baldwin Gallery; Aspen, Colorado
	"Donald Sultan;" Meredith Long & Company; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Works on Paper;" Fotouhi Cramer Gallery; East Hampton, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Neue Arbeiten;" Galerie Lawrence Rubin; Zurich, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Prints," Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
	Guild Hall; East Hampton, New York; Exhibition in conjunction with the Hampton’s International Film Festival
1995	"Donald Sultan: New Paintings," Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan;" Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Michigan
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings and Drawings;" Asheville Art Museum; Asheville, North Carolina
1994	"Donald Sultan;" Galeria 56; Budapest, Hungary
	"Donald Sultan: Wall Flowers," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, in association with Knoedler & Company
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Painting;" Jaffe Baker Blau; Boca Raton, Florida
1993	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Kaj Forsblom; Zurich, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan: Morning Glories;" Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Michigan
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Paintings," Knoedler & Company, New York
1992	"Donald Sultan: Drawing;" The Hill Gallery; Birmingham, Michigan
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings," Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Pictures;" Galeria Trauma; Barcelona, Spain
	"Donald Sultan;" Hans Strelow Gallery; Dusseldorf, Germany
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Paintings and Works on Paper;" Meredith Long & Company; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: Paintings 1978-92;" Guild Hall Museum; East Hampton, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Drawings + Watercolors 1987-1992," Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan: A Print Retrospective;" Traveling exhibition: The American Federation of the Arts, New York, (organizing and circulating institution); Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
1991	"Donald Sultan: Paintings, Drawings and Prints;" John Berggruen Gallery; San Francisco, California
	"Donald Sultan: Sculpture," Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan, Recent Print Projects: Dominoes, Fruits and Flowers, Playing Cards," Mary Ryan Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Drawing—Painting;" Meredith Long Gallery; Houston, Texas
	"Donald Sultan: Dominoes, Playing Cards, Fruits and Flowers;" Greg Kucera Gallery; Seattle, Washington
	"Donald Sultan;" Richard Green Gallery; Santa Monica, California
1990	"Donald Sultan: Painting," Knoedler & Company, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Screenprints and Etchings;" Greg Kucera Gallery; Seattle, Washington
	"Donald Sultan;" Equinox Gallery; Vancouver, Canada
	"Donald Sultan;" Waddington Galleries; London, England
1989	"Donald Sultan: Sculpture;" Blum Helman Gallery; Santa Monica, California
	"Donald Sultan: Playing Cards Drawings;" Paul Kasmin Gallery, Inc.; New York
	"Donald Sultan: Works on Paper;" Runkle-Hue-Williams, Ltd.; London, England
	"Donald Sultan: New Sculpture;" The Greenberg Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri
	"Donald Sultan: Drawings," Knoedler & Co., New York
	"Donald Sultan: A Selection of Prints," Richard Green Gallery, New York
1988	"Donald Sultan’s Black Lemons," Museum of Modern Art, New York
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Montenay; Paris, France
	"Donald Sultan;" La Galerie Alice Pauli; Lausanne, Switzerland
	"Donald Sultan’s Black Lemons," Marina Hamilton Gallery, New York
1987	"Donald Sultan: Linoleum Paintings 12 x 12;" Akira Ikeda Gallery; Nagoya, Japan
	"Donald Sultan: Cigarette Paintings 1980-81, Photographs 1985-86;" Traveling exhibition: Blum Helman Gallery, New York; Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
	"Donald Sultan: Recent Painting," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Small Paintings, Small Drawings 1978-87;" Barbara Krakow Gallery; Boston, Massachusetts
	"Donald Sultan;" Traveling exhibition: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.
	"Donald Sultan;" Gian Enzo Sperone Gallery; Rome, Italy
	"Donald Sultan: Black Lemons–Recent Prints;" Greg Kucera Gallery; Seattle, Washington
	University Art Museum, Cal State; Long Beach, California; Print exhibition, part of the “Centric Series.”
1986	"Donald Sultan: Drawings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: A Survey;" A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America, World Headquarters; San Francisco, California
	"Donald Sultan;" Galerie Montenay-Delsol; Paris, France
	"Donald Sultan: Drawings;" Blum Helman Gallery; Los Angeles, California
	"Donald Sultan: gravures monumentales;" Galerie de L’estampe Contemporaine Bibliotheque Nationale, Rostonde Colbert; Paris, France
	"Donald Sultan: Drawings and Paintings;" The Greenberg Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri
1985	"Donald Sultan: New Paintings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: New Paintings;" Traveling exhibition: Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia; Baxter Gallery, Portland School of Art, Portland, Maine; Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut; Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina; California State University, Long Beach, California.
	"Donald Sultan, Small Paintings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan;" Gian Enzo Sperone; Rome, Italy
1984	"Donald Sultan: New Paintings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1983	"Donald Sultan;" Akira Ikeda Gallery; Tokyo, Japan
1982	"Donald Sultan," Blum Helman Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan: Bilder und Zeichnungen;" Hans Strelow Gallery; Dusseldorf, Germany
1981	"Donald Sultan: Recent Paintings;" Daniel Weinberg Gallery; San Francisco, California
1980	"Donald Sultan," Willard Gallery, New York
1979	"Donald Sultan," Willard Gallery, New York
	"Donald Sultan;" Young Hoffman Gallery; Chicago, Illinois
1977	"Donald Sultan," Artists Space, New York
	"Turning the Room Sideways;" The Institute of the Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1 Special Projects Room; Long Island City, New York
Selected Public Commissions
1999	"Absolut Sultan" for Absolut Vodka
2000	"Art’otel Budapest by Donald Sultan" in conjunction with Park Plaza Worldwide
Selected Public Collections
	The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina
	Addison Gallery of American Art; Andover, Massachusetts
	Albright Knox Art Gallery; Buffalo, New York
	The Arkansas Art Center; Little Rock, Arkansas
	The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
	Art Museum of Southeast Texas; Beaumont, Texas
	Australian National Gallery; Canberra, Australia
	Bank America Corporation
	Brooks Museum of Art; Memphis, Tennessee
	Butler Institute of American Art; Youngstown, Ohio
	Cincinnati Art Museum; Cincinnati, Ohio
	Cleveland Art Museum; Cleveland, Ohio
	Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Dallas, Texas
	Denver Art Museum; Denver Colorado
	Des Moines Art Center; Des Moines, Iowa
	The Detroit Institute of Arts; Detroit, Michigan
	Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; Cambridge, Massachusetts
	The Hallmark Art Collection; Kansas City, Missouri
	The High Museum of Art; Atlanta, Georgia
	Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Washington, D.C.
	La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; La Jolla, California
	Louise Wells Cameron Art Museum; Wilmington, North Carolina
	Ludwig Museum; Budapest, Hungary
	Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of the Kansas City Art Institute; Kansas City, Missouri
	Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Tobataku Kitakyushu, Japan
	The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	The Mint Museums; Charlotte, North Carolina
	Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth; Fort Worth, Texas
	Museum of Modern Art, New York
	Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; La Jolla, California
	The Museum of Contemporary Art; Tokyo, Japan
	The Museum of Fine Arts; Boston, Massachusetts
	The Museum of Fine Arts; Houston, Texas
	Nelson-Atkins Museum; Kansas City, Missouri
	Neuberger Museum, State University of New York; Purchase, New York
	North Carolina Museum of Art; Raleigh, North Carolina
	Palm Springs Art Museum; Palm Springs, California
	Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco, California
	Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore
	Smith College, Museum of Art; Northampton, Massachusetts
	The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
	The St. Louis Art Museum; St. Louis, Missouri
	Tate Gallery; London, England
	The Toledo Museum of Art; Toledo, Ohio
	The Virginia Museum of Fine Art; Richmond, Virginia
	Walker Art Center; Minneapolis, Minnesota
	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Awards
2010	North Carolina Award, the highest award a state can bestow upon a civilian
2011	Lifetime Achievement Award, The Houston Fine Art Fair