BILLY SULLIVAN
*1946 in New York, USA
Lives and works in New York City

Education
1968 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA
1999 Professor of Fine Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
2003 Professor of Fine Art, New York University, New York, NY, USA
1999- Professor of Fine Art, School of Visual Art, New York, NY, USA

Teaching
2010 New York University, Interactive Telecommunication Program
1999 Harvard University, The Department of Visual and Environmental Studies
1997 The School of Visual Arts, New York: BFA Photo Thesis

Solo Shows (selection)
2014 Freymond-Guth Fine Arts
2012 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2011 Still, Looking, kaufmann repetto, Milan, IT
Now & Then, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
2010 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan, USA
East End Photographs 1973-2009, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, USA
2009 Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, DE
Conversations, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2007 Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, IT
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY, USA
2006 Friends, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
New Works, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
2005 Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, IT
2004 Aspen Portrait, Harley Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
2003 Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2002 Photographs 1969-2002, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2000 Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art, Boston, MA, USA
1999 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, DE
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
1998 Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
1997 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Hollywood Chronicles, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1996 The Back Room, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH, USA
1994 Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH, USA
Barney Wyckoff Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1993 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA, USA
1992 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1986 Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1985 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1984 Stamford Museum and Nature Center Art Gallery, Stamford, CT, USA
Petersburg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1983 Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1981 The Arts Gallery, Baltimore, MD, USA
Komblee, Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1980 Komblee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1979 Komblee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1978 Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1976 Duffy and Sons, New York, NY, USA
1974 Contact Graphics, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

Group Shows (selection)
Group Shows (selection)
2014 Glam! The Performance of Style, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, AT
2013 Glam! The Performance of Style, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, DE
Ladies & Gents, Solomon Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Glam! The Performance of Style, TATE Liverpool, UK
2012 Birds Drawings, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, NY, USA
Habeas Corpus, Halsey Mckay Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Come Closer: Art Around the Bowery, 1969-1989, New Museum of Contemporary
Art, NY, USA
Open Windows, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA, USA
2011 American Portraits: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, NY, USA
Inside the Painter‘s Studio, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston,
MA, USA
The Big Show, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, USA
2010 American Still Life: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum,
Southampton, NY, USA
Plank Road, Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Redressing (Family & Friends), Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In the Company of..., Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, USA
Face to Face, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA
Trompe L‘oeil, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, OH, USA
2009 Portraits: Linda Gall, Laura Sanders and Billy Sullivan, Rebecca Ibel Gallery,
Columbus, OH, USA
Still / Moving / Still, Knokke-Heist Cultural Center, BE
WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, FLAG Art Foundation,
New york City, NY, USA
Better History, New York, NY, USA
2008 Listen darling, the world is yours, Ellipse Foundation Contemporary Art, Collection
Centro Cultural de Cascais, Alcoitão, PT
SAND: Memory, Meaning and Metaphor, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
The Annual Hamptons Show, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY, USA
2007 Max Headroom, ScheiblerMitte, Cologne, DE
NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tease, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY, USA
Sex & Sensuality, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, USA
2006 Whitney Biennal: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, USA
Open House, Ellipse Foundqation Contemporary Art Collection, Centro Cultural de
Cascais, Alcoitão, PT
The name of This Show is not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
The food show: The Hungry Eye, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, USA
Likeness (Portraist From All Angles), Geoffery Young Gallery, Gt. Barrington, USA
2005 Art and the Garden, Spainerman Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Painting, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI, USA
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USa
2004 Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
North Fork / South Fork, Parrish Art, Museum, South Hampton, NY, USA
Il Nudo, Galleria d‘Arte Moderna, Bologna, IT
Gio Ponti: Furnished Stetting & Figuration, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003 Ideale e Realtà: Una storia des Neoclassicismo ad oggi, Galleria d‘Arte Moderne,
Bologna, IT
2001 Sex: Vom Wissen und Wünschen, Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, DE
Happiness, Galeria Presença, Porto, PT
Rocks & Trees, Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, MA, USA
Still Life, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
OO, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999 Sounvenirs: Collecting, Memory and Material Culture, Guild Hall of East Hampton,
NY, USA
Plain Air, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parallel Lines: Mix and Match, Karen McCready Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
View from the Edge of the World: Landscape Photography, Malborough Gallery,
New York, NY, USA
Armory Show International Fair of New Art, New York, Galerie Aurel Scheibler
1998 Augenlust, Kunsthaus Hannover, Hannover, DE
Drawings, Meyerson & Nowinski, Seattle, WA, USA
Summer, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Still Lives, Malborough Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997 Sex/Industry, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Private Worlds: 200 Years Of American Still Life Painting, Denver Art Museum, CO
1996 Summer 1996, Allez les Filles/Ibel Simeonov, Columbus, OH, USA
Garden Themes, Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, USA
1995 Face Value: American Portraits, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York,
travels to: The wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Tampa Museum of Art,
Tampa, FL
Robert Harms, Billy Sullivan, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH, USA
Inaugural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
The Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY, USA
1994 Oeuvres Choisies, Allez les Filles, Columbus, OH, USA
Demystifying the Contemporary Portrait: A Primer for the Patron, Allez les Filles,
Columbus, OH, USA
Dirty Pictures, Regan Projects, The Gramerc International Contemporary Art Fair,
Los Angeles, CA, USA
The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Holly Solomon, New York, NY, USA
Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Révellion ‘94‘, Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Landscapes Ideas, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA
Vered Flower Show, Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY, USA
Truth Be Told: It‘s All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Pride In Our Diversity, 24 hours for Life Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Summer Review, Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Swan, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art
Museum, Southhampton, NY, USA
1993 Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables: the Contemporary Still Life, Kavesh Gallery,
Ketchum, ID, USA
1992 Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, P.S.1 Museum,
Long Island City, NY, USA
Some People, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1991 An Artist in the Garden, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, USA
The First Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Weathervanes, The Parrish Art
Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
Urban Icons, Klarfeld Perry Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1990 Festivals and Festivities, Lehman College Art Gallery, The City University of
New York, NY, USA
Menagerie, Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY, USA
A Little Night Music – Manhattan in the Dark, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
New York, NY, USA
1989 The Scarf, exhibition and auction to benefit DIFFA, Bergdorf Goodman, NY, USA
Collector’s Gallery XXII, Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
The Food Show, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY, USA
Don’t Bungle the Jungle, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1988 Situations, organized by the Art Advisory Service of the Museum of Modern Art
for General Electric Co, Fairfield, CT, USA
The Art of Music, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, USA
Drawn From Life: Contemporary Interpretive Landscape, Sewall Art Gallery,
Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
1987 Portraits, Ginza Art Space, Tokyo, JP
Major Works in Small Format, Lever/Meyerson Galleries, Ltd., New York, NY, USA
Animal Life, One Penn Plaza, New York, NY, USA
Water Works, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY, USA
1986 Summer Issue, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1985 Animals, Animals, Animals!, The Stamford Museum and Nature Center, CT, USA
The New Portrait, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, USA
The Painterly Figure, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
1984 Sex, Cable Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The American Still Life, Contemporary Arts Center, Houston, TX, USA
1983 The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, USA
U.S.F. Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA
The Painterly Figure, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA
1982 Pittura di Corta Memoria, Arts Studio, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, IT
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Color it Pastels, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, NH, USA
Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA travels to: The Fort Worth Art Museum,
The University of South Florida Galleries, Tampa, FL, The Contemporary
Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
1981 Menagerie, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York, NY, USA
New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Galleria del Cavallino, Venice, IT
Still Life, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, NC, USA
1980 Still Life: A Selection of Contemporary Paintings, Kent State and Tangeman Fine Art
Gallery, OH, USA
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR, USA
P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design,
Providence, RI, USA
1979 Staten Island Museum, NY, USA
Imitation of Life, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT, USA
American Watercolor, Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL travels to: Cedar Rapids Art
Center, Cedar Rapids, IO, USA
1978 Artists’ Postcards, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Body Language, New Gallery, Schacht Fine Arts Center, Russel Sage College,
University Art Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

Artist books and catalogues:

2009 Christian Rattemeyer, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings
Collection. Catalogue Raisonné, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, p. 261
2004 North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now, exhibition catalogue, The Parrish Art
Museum, Southampton, NY, pp. 2-75
1986 Alvin Martin, American Realism: Twentieth-Century, Drawings and Watercolors,