PAT COLVILLE (b. 1931)Pat Colville was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1931 and currently lives and works in Houston, Texas and previously lived in New York City for thirty-five years. She received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. She was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2010, a Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 2008, two National Endowment for the Arts Grants in Drawing, and a Creative Arts Public Service Program Fellowship in Painting, New York State. Pat taught at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York for twenty years and has also taught at the Glassell School of Art, the University of Houston, St. Thomas University, Bennington College, and the Sarah Lawrence College. Pat's work holds a commitment to abstraction and is influenced by the history of Chinese and Japanese landscapes from the 13th and 14th century. Born: New Orleans, LACurrently lives and works in Houston, TXEducation: University of Houston, BS University of Oklahoma, MFASolo Exhibitions2014 A Celebration: Five Decades of Work, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Curator: Clint WillourNew Drawings and Sculpture, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX 2011-2012 New Works, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX2009 Ways and Means, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX 2005 Scapes, Moody Gallery, Houston, TX2004 Moody Gallery, Houston, TX1998 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1996 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1994 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1992 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA1992 Gray Gallery, Jenkins Fine Art Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC1991 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1989/90 Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, FL1989 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1988 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1987 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1986 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1983 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX1980 Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1979 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX1978 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX1976 Watson/DeNagy Gallery, Houston, TX1974 New Orleans Museum of Fine Arts, New Orleans, LASelected Group Exhibitions2015 Texas Abstract, Modern | Contemporary, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, Curator: Ken General2012 In Plain Sight, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas, Curator: Aaron Parazette,2011 Working in the Abstract, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas The Modernist Thread, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas, Curator: Sally Sprout2010 35 Years: Anniversary Exhibition, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas2008 The 183rd Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy Museum, New York, NY2005 Mind, Mark and Wit, Williams Tower, Houston, TX2003 The Cooper Union, New York, NY2002 DFN Gallery, New York, NY1998 Small Paintings, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1995 Painting Faculty, curated by Robert Rindler, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY 1994 Directions in American Abstraction: A New Decade, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA1994 Art Chicago (represented by Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY), Chicago, IL 1991 ELAAC Entrée Libre a l’Art Contemporain 1991, Montreal, Quebec, Canada1990 Artists for Amnesty, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY1989 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA1989 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL1988 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, IL1987 Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY1986 An Invitational, Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, NY1985 New York Sampler, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ1985 Lawndale Gallery, Houston, TX1984 University of Houston, Houston, TX1983 Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY1983 Colby Sawyer Gallery, New London, CT1983 Zim Lerner Gallery, New York, NY1982 Bennington College, Bennington, VT1982 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX1980 Hera Foundation, Westfield, RI1979 University of Houston, Houston, TX1977 David Mervish Gallery, Toronto, Canada1977 Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY1975 Curwen Gallery, London, England1975 Print Workshop, Tokyo, Japan1974 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXOther Selected Exhibitions, 1957-1978University of St. Thomas Gallery, Houston, TX, solo exhibition David Gallery, Houston, TX, solo exhibitionA Clean Well-Lighted Place, Austin, TXArt Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TXButler Art Institute, Youngstown, OH Cranfill Gallery, Dallas, TXDallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TXEl Paso Museum, El Paso, TXHemisfair, Texas Pavilion, San Antonio, TX McNay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX Mobile Art Museum, Mobile, ALMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXMuseum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TXAwardsPollock-Krasner Grant, 2010Benjamin Altman Award in Painting, New York, 2008Creative Arts Public Service Program Fellowship in Painting, New York State, 1978 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1976National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1975American Association of University Women Fellowship, 1975Public CollectionsAnadarko, Houston, TXArt Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX Coca Cola Collection, Atlanta, GADallas Art Museum, Dallas, TXMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXPrudential Insurance Company, Newark, NJSarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NYShearson, Lehman & Hutton, New York, NYSiemens Corporation, New York, NY