Born:
1936 Port Huron, Michigan
Education:
1962 MFA (painting), University of Washington, Seattle , Washington
1958 BA (art and economics), Albion College, Albion, Michigan
Faculty Positions:
1968-1973 Cornish Institute of Allied Arts, Seattle, Washington
1967 Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
1968 Artist in Residence, University of Colorado, Denver Campus
1963-1964 Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, Washington
Solo Exhibitions:
2000 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1998 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1995 Paul Heald "Micro-Macro", Banner Building, Seattle, Washington
1992 Paul Heald Painting, Valley Museum of Northwest Art, Laconner, Washington
1991 Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1990 Brendan Walter Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1989 Woodside/Braseth Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1987 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1986 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Paul Heald "Interstice", Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
1984 Traver/ Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1983 Glover/Hayes Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1982 Paul Heald "Selected Works 1960-1981", Bellevue Art Musem, Bellevue, Washington
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1981 Art Center Gallery, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1980 Fountain Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Traver/Sutton Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1979 Viking Union Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington
1978 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1977 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1974 Paul Heald,"Films and Animation Cells", and/or Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1973 Manolides Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1972 Cornish Gallery, Cornish Institute of Art, Seattle, Washington
Manolides Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1969 Manolides Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1968 Anderson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1967 Attica Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1964 Albion College Art Gallery, Albion, Michigan
1963 Gordon Woodside Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1962 Lower Columbia College, Longview, Washington
Group Exhibitions:
2002 American Abstract Artists: 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
2000 Toward The New Hillwood Art Musem, Long Island University, Brookville, NY
1995 Washington 100 years - 100 Paintings Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
1994 The Persistence of Abstraction The Noyes Museum, Oceanville,
New Jersey
Howe Gallery at Kean College, Union, N.J.
1993 The Persistence of Abstraction Ulrich Museum of
Art,Wichita, Kansas
The New Jersey State Museum, New Jersey
1992 Here Today (20 galleries-20 artists), Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1991 Master Work, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
1990 Watercolor, Watercolor, Watercolor, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington
1988 American Abstract Artists, The Neuberger Museum, New
York,N.Y.
Muhlenberg College Gallery, Pennsylvania
Nelson Atkins Art Museum, Missouri
1987:
Focus Seattle, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
American Abstract Artists, City Gallery, New York, New York, and Condeso-Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
Drawing Invitational, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Wa.
Before and After, Davidson Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1986:
American Abstract Artists: 50th Anniversary Celebration,
Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York
Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1984 City as Collector, Seattle, Washington
1983 American Abstract Artists, Weatherspoon Art Gallery,
University of North Carolina,
Greensboro, North Carolina
Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama`
1983 Bumberbiennale, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
West Coast Drawing Invitational, Hodges Banks Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1981:
Portopia ‘81, Kobe, Japan
Governor’s Invitational, Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, Washington
Drawing Invitational, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Wa.
1980:
Salon des Refuses, Soams-Dunn Building, Seattle, Washington
Contemporary Washington State Artists, Cranberry Gallery, Ocean Spray, Inc., Plymouth, Massachusetts
Ten Washington Artists, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
1979:
Drawing Invitional, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle,
Wa.
Paul Heald and Larry Beck, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Some Seattle Drawings, and/or gallery, Seattle, Wa.
Selections From the City’s Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Painting and Sculpture , Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wa.
Governor’s Invitional, Washington State Capital Museum, Olympia, Washington
Suspended Animation, and/or, gallery, Seattle, Washington
1978:
Northwest Collectables, Pacific Northwest Art Council, at
Weyerhaeuser, Seattle, Washington
Seven Artists, William Traver Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1977 International Flag Banner and Kite Exhibition, Seattle Center, Seattle, Washington
1972 Prospect Northwest, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1970 The Columns Show, Manolides Gallery, Seattle, Wa.
1969 Perishable Art, The Richard White Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1968 West Coast Graphic, The Richard White Gallery, Seattle, Wa.
1966 The Slant Step Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.
1963 Younger Washington Artists, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1962 Invitational Northwest, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
1961-63 Northwest Watercolor Exhibition, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
1960-68 Northwest Annual, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Selected Collections:
Albion College, Albion, Michigan
Art in Embassies Collection, U.S. State Department, Washington, DC
Art Gallery of City University of New York, New York, New York
Arthur Anderson and Company, Seattle, Washington
Betts, Patterson and Mines, Seattle, Washington
British Museum, London, UK
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio
City of Seattle, Portable Works Collections, Seattle, Washington
Claremont Hotel, Oakland, California
Columbia Art Museum, South Carolina
CUNY Graduate Center Art Gallery, New York, New York
Davis Wright and Jones, Seattle, Washington Foster, Pepper and Riviera, Seattle, Washington
Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Massachussetts
Frank Martin Gallery of Muhlenberg College, Union, N.J.
Galleria Nazionale de arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia
Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Howe Art Gallery of Kean College, Union, New Jersey
Interlochen Art Academy, Interlochen, Michigan
Kennedy and Associates, Seattle, Washington
La Jolla Museum, La Jolla, California
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Mulvane Museum of Art, Topeka, Kansas
Muscarelle Art Museum of the College of William and Mary, Va.
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Moderna Museet, Skeppsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (study collection)
Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian, Washington DC
Nelson- Atkins Art Museum, Missouri
Neuberger Museum, SUNY/Purchase, New York, New York
Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey
New York Public Library at Fifth Ave., New York, New York
New Jersey State Council on the Arts, New Jersey
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey
Pacific Northwest Bell, Seattle, Washington
Pacific Northern Oil, Seattle, Washington
Pease and Doces, Seattle, Washington
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Preston, Thorgrimson, Ellis and Holman, Seattle, Washington
Princeton University Library, Graphics Collection, Princeton, N.J. Puget Sound Bank, Seattle, Washington
Ranier Bank, Seattle, Washington
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
SAFECO Corporation, Seattle, Washington
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
Seattle First National Bank, Seattle, Washington
Sheraton Hotel, Seattle, Washington
Simpson Paper Company, San Francisco, California
Snite Art Museum of University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stiftung fur Konstructive un Kondrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Swedish Hospital, Seattle, Washington
Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Tate Gallery, London, England
Ulrich Art Museum of Wichita State University, Kansas
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
University of Washington Hospital, Seattle, Washington
Valley Museum of Northwest Art, LaConner, Washington
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wilhen-Hack Museum, Stadt Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Ludwigshafen, West Germany
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Film Venues:
and/or gallery, Seattle, Washington
Harvard Exit Theater, Seattle, Washington
Northwest Film Society, Seattle, Washington
Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, Washington
Manolides Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle,Washington
KCTS- TV, Seattle, Washington
Northwest Film Festival, Seattle, Washington (first prize-animation)
Honors:
1982 Election to American Abstract Artists
Selected Bibliography:
Books:
American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversity Print Portfolio. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 1997
The Art of Rock. Gruskin, Paul D., New York: Abbeville Press, 1987
American Abstract Artists 50th Anniversity Print Portfolio. Paris: Atelier Franck Bordas,1987
50 Northwest Artists, Guenther, Bruce, San Francisco: Chronical Books, 1983
Journals:
Kangas, Matthew, Paul Heald at Traver Sutton, Art in America April, 1983
Kangas, Matthew, Two Geometric Sensualists: Francis Celentano, and Paul Heald, Vanguard, Dec./Jan., 1982
Kangas, Matthew, Paul Heald: From Mystic to Modern, WestArt, Vol.20, No. 3, October 23, 1981
Kangas, Matthew, Paul Heald: Sculptural Solidity and Maritime Light, Art Week, July 19, 1980
Glowen, Ron, Paul Heald: Structure in Stripes, Art Week, Nov.24,1980
Robbins, Tom, The Pacific Northwest Today, Art in America, Nov./Dec, 1968
Catalogues:
American Abstract Artists 60th Anniversary Exhibition, essays by Alec Nicolscu, Lewis Kachur,Vito Giacalone. New York; Kean College, Union, New Jersey
American Abstract Artists-New Work: New Members - and Celebration of the 50th Anniversity Portfolio of Prints, essay by William Zimmer. New York: Department of Cultural Affairs, City of New York, 1982
Focus Seattle, essay by Matthew Kangas. San Jose, California: San Jose Museum of Art, 1987
Northwest Impressions: Works on Paper, essay by Chris Bruce. Seattle, Washington: Henry Art Gallery, 1986
American Abstract Artists 1936-1986, essays by Philip Verre and Judy Collischan Van Wagner. Bronx, New York: Bronx Museum of the Arts and Brookville, New York: Long Island University, 1985
Interstice:Works by Paul Heald, essay by Douglas A. Fairfield. Muskegon, Michigan: Muskegon Museum of Art, 1985
American Abstract Artists: The Course of "True Art", essay by Virginia Pitts Rembert. New York: American Abstract Artists, 1983
Paul Heald: Selected Works 1960-1981, essay by Matthew Kangas. Bellevue, Washington: Bellevue Art Museum, 1982
Suspended Animation, essay by Maxine Martell. Seattle, Washington: and/or gallery, 1979
Younger Washingtonn Artists, essay by Gervais Reed. Seattle,
Washington: Henry Art Gallery, 1963
Paul Heald
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