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STEPHEN HANNOCK

Stephen Hannock Biography

The artist Stephen Hannock is based in New York City and Williamstown, MA. Hannock received a Honorary Doctor Title from Massachusettes College of Liberal Arts in 2010 and one of his more recent solo shows was at Marlborough Fine Art in London in 2014. His works can be found in numerous highly renown public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX.

1951 Born in Albany, NY

Lives and works in New York City and Williamstown, MA

 

EDUCATION

1976        B.A.The Albany Academy,Trinity Pawling,Deerfield Academy, Bowdoin College Smith College, Hampshire College

1972-75  Apprenticed to Leonard Baskin

2009      Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art, Bowdoin College

2010      Honorary Doctorate, Massachusettes College of Liberal Arts

Selected solo exhibitions

2014      Stephen Hannock: Moving Water, Fleeting Light,Marlborough Fine Art, London,UK

2012      Gathering Light: The Art of Stephen Hannock, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

Stephen Hannock: Recent Painting: Vistas with Text, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY

2010      Flooded Canyon, Yellowstone Dawn North Adams Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY

Mt Blanca with Ute Creek, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Two Paintings, One Show, Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA

2009     Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK

2007     Survey Exhibition, The Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

Northern City Renaissance, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

2005    Recent Vistas with Text, McKenzie Fine Art, New York, acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2002-04 The American River, Brattleboro Museum, VT;T.W. Gallery, Vermont College,Montpelier, VT; Montshire Museum,        Norwich, VT; Philadelphia Art Alliance,

Philadelphia, PA; Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT

2002   Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY

Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX

2001  John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

2000 James Graham & Sons, New York, NY Luminosity, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

1999  Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

1998  Stephen Hannock: Space and Time, Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA; Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH

James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

1997  Meredith Long and Company, Houston, TX The Ralls Collection, Washington, D.C.

John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1996 James Graham & Sons, New York, NY

1995  After Church, After Cole: Stephen Hannock’s Oxbow, Timkin Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

1994  Salander O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

1990  Selected Works; 1970-1990, Joseph V. Reed Center for the Arts, Deerfield, MA; Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica,   CA

1982  Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2002-04 The American River, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT; T.W. Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT;      Montshire Museum, Norwich, Vermont; Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA; Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT

2002 Changing Prospects: The View from Mount Holyoke, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

2000 Fluid Flow, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
Out of Doors, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY

Landscape 2000: Late 20th Century American Landscape Painting, University of

Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
Transcending Earth and Sky, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Landscape, Winston Wachter Fine Art, Seattle, WA

1999-00 Water: A Contemporary American View, Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, SC; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Green Woods and Crystal Waters: The American Landscape Tradition since 1950, Philbrook Museum, Tulsa, OK

Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IN Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

1999 Enduring Vision: Contemporary Painters in the Tradition of the Hudson River School, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY

1998 Master & Apprentice, Selected Works from Leonard Baskin & Stephen Hannock, Hampshire College Library Gallery, Amherst, MA

Remembering Beauty: American Landscapes, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Movements of Grace: Spirit in the American Landscape, Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York, NY

1994 Stephan Hannock: Nocturnes and Flooded Rivers, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York, NY

1989 Neo-Romantic Landscape and Still Life, Williams Center for the Arts, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

1988 Luminous Painting and Sculpture, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Readers Digest Collection, Pleasantville, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. Albany Institute of History of Art, Albany, NYGrand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

 

LITERATURE

 

2000 Christy, Duncan. Luminosity, The Paintings of Stephen Hannock, (San Francisco, Chronicle Books)

1996 Atkins, Robert. Stephen Hannock, James Graham & Sons Inc.

1995 After Church, After Cole: Stephen Hannock’s Oxbow, Timken Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue.

1991 Blast Art Benefit, X-Art Foundation, exhibition and sale catalogue.