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1974
Born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Currently lives and works in Houston, TX
EDUCATION
2000
M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997
B.F.A. Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX
1994
Associate of Science, Paris Junior College, Paris, TX
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
2013
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus School of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
2012
...And Then It All Came Back To Me, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Fix, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
2010
We Done All We Could and None of It’s Good, The University of South Florida
Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL; travelling on to the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah and Atlanta, GA; and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC.
Work While It Is Day...For When Night Cometh No Man Can Work, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
A Day Ahead, A Head A Day, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
A Better Promise, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2009
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
FEAR, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Wayward Thinker, The Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006
In the Blestian Room, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
St. Sesom and the Cult of Color, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2003
Moments in Mound History, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
It Came from the Studio Floor, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX;
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
For a Floor of Flora, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2001
The Life and Death of #1, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, TX; Texas Fine Arts Association at The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013
Vitriolic, Hales Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2012
Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times: Rebirth and Apocalypse in Contemporary
Art, Kiev International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Armory, Kiev, Ukraine
No Object Is an Island: New Dialogues with the Cranbrook Collection, Cranbrook
Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Contemporary Surreal Drawings from Rotterdam, Institut Néerlandais, Paris,
France
The Calender's Tales: Fantasy, Figuration and Representation, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA
Fairy Tales, Monsters and the Genetic Imagination, Frist Center for the Visual
Arts, Nashville, TN
2011
The Value of Water, The Cathedral of St. John The Divine, New York, NY
Publisher Spotlight: LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Columbia University School of the Arts, Pace Prints Chelsea, New York, NY
TX 11: Texas Biennial, Arlington, TX
Facemaker, Royal/T, Los Angeles, CA
Group Show, ZieherSmith, New York, NY March 31 - May 7, 2011
2010
Big New Field, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Mutant Pop and the Living Image, Loyal Gallery, Malmos, Sweden
Get Out!, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, WA
Cut, Shuffle and Draw, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Nature, Once Removed, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY
Best Laid Plans, The Drawing Room, London, United Kingdom
2009
Young Americans, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Texas Draws, The Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Lover, OnStellarRays, New York, NY
Rich Text, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
2008
Prospect 1. New Orleans Biennial, New Orleans, LA
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum, New York,
2007
Size Matters, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Fast Forward, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2006
The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, The National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The Compulsive Line, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005
Swarm, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Color / Pattern / Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2004-05
Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2004
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Drawing Under the Influence: Lee Baxter Davis and his Protégés, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2003
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Splat Boom Pow!The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Turkey
It happened tomorrow, Lyon Biennial, France
2002
Art on Paper: The 37th Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Core 2002 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2001
Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
2000
Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
SELECTED AWARDS
2013
Greenfield Prize at the Hermitage Artist Retreat, Sarasota, FL
2007
Joyce Alexander Wein Award, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2006
S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Prize in the 181st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2004
Penny McCall Foundation Award
2003
Artadia Foundation Award
1999
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant Recipient
1997
Skowhegan Camille Hanks Cosby fellowship for African-American Artists, Skowhegan, MA
COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, California
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
New York Public Library, New York, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
University of Texas at Austin Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin,Texas
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Wichita State University, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas