David Hannah

 

EDUCATION


1956-57 Rice Institute, Houston, Texas

1957-61 The University of Oklahoma, School of Architecture

1966-67 The San Francisco Art Institute, M.F.A.


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


1972

Drawings and Paintings, Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, CA.


1974

New Paintings, Suzanne Saxe Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1975

New Paintings and Drawings, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1976

Paintings, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA


1977

Recent Work, Grapestake Gallery, San Francisco, CA


1979

Recent Paintings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


1980

Recent Paintings, The University of California, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA


1985

Recent Paintings, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, UK


1986

Paintings & Drawings, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA


1987

Paintings, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY


1988

Drawings 1987-88, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY


1989

Drawings, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


1990

Recent Work, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


1991

Recent Work, Museum Art Gallery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA


1993

New Works, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


1995

New Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


1996

Work, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


1998

Projects: 1/ heidegger; 2/ heisenberg, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2000

face, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2003

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


2006

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


1962

Texas Painting and Sculpture, (juried)- Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Whitte Museum, San Antonio, TX.


1968

Visiting Faculty. University of California at Davis


1970

Four Painters: David Hannah, Jack Jefferson, Bruce McGaw, Joe Oddo. Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA


1971

Works on Paper. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.


1977

Art For Giving and Collecting. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA


1978

A Peek Into the Private Life of Rose Selavy: Fifty Non-Art Objects from the Lives of Fifty Artists. Helen Euphrat Gallery,DeAnza College, Cupertino, CA


1979

California Artists. Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA


1980

A Drawing Show. Santa Rosa Junior College Art Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA


1981

San Francisco Art Institute Faculty. Richmond Art Center, CA


1981

California Artists, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

Recent Acquisitions. Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA

Alumni of the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Abstractions - Eight California Painters. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA (Curator: Richard Armstrong)


1984

Summer Exhibition: Pirfirio DeDona, David Hannah, Marjorie Welish. Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

Luxe, Calme et Volupte - Nine Abstract Painters and Their Use of Color. One Penn Plaza, New York, NY (Curator: John Yau)


1986

More Than Meets The Eye. Galleria Carini, Florence, Italy

Square and…. Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City

Ten Artists. Ruth Siegel Gallery at The International Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA


1987

Review/Preview. Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, NY


1988

Abstraction: The Central Image. Stephen Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY


1989

Third International Art Expo/LA 88. Los Angeles, CA (Ruth Siegel Gallery)

Belief in Paint: Eleven Contemporary Artists. Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT


1990

Fresh Contexts. Augustana College, Rock Island, IL


1994

Comic Influences. Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA

Soliloquies. Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA. July 20-August 6


1995

Group. Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia. July 25-September 07


1996

Group. Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia. March.


1999

Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium. California College of Arts & Crafts, CCAC Institute, San Francisco. Sept 25-Dec 11 (catalog) (heidegger.?)


2002

In ‘toon with Time. Palo Alto Art Center, CA , January 27 - April 28 (#35, #39, Head) Portrait Obscured. San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA

Group, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA


COMMISSIONS


1985 Costume design (Third Rotation and ZigZag ) for Douglas Dunn and Dancers, New York, NY


BIBLIOGRAPHY


1970

Thomas Albright. Four Artists in Oakland, San Francisco Chronicle, CA

Cecile McCann. Four San Francisco Art Institute Faculty, Art Week, San Francisco, CA


1971

Thomas Albright. San Francisco Art Institute Works on Paper, San Francisco Chronicle, CA


1972

Alfred Frankelstein. Artists and Great Themes, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA


1973

Thomas Albright. The Path of Exploration, San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 8 January.

Albright. $5,000., Art Gallery Magazine, San Francisco, March.


1974

Albright. Hannah's Paintings, San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 16 February.

Cecile McCann. David Hannah: December 1973, (illustration), Art Week, San Francisco, CA, 23 February (5:8,5).


1975

Thomas Albright. Blockbuster at the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 January.

Charles Shere. San Francisco Art Institute Show, Oakland Tribune, Oakland, CA, 26 January.

Judith L. Dunham. San Francisco Art Institute Faculty Show, Art Week, San Francisco, CA, 8 February (6:6, 16).

Alfred Frankenstein . What the New Artists Are Up To, San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 4 July.

Alexander Freid . Grapestake Show, San Francisco Examiner, CA, 12 July.


1977

Alfred Frankenstein. At The Galleries, San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 9 April.


1979

Thomas Albright. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, CA, 18 September.

Stacey Moss. The Genuine and the Genuinely Not Up To Par, The Peninsula Times Tribune, 21 September.


1980

Richard Ames. University of California, Santa Barbara Art Museum, Santa Barbara News-Press, Santa Barbara, CA, 12 January.

Cathy Curtis. The Eclecticism of Contemporary Abstractions, Art Week, San Francisco, CA, 12 January.


1981

Albert Morch. Enjoying Abstract Art wih a Wandering Mind, San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco, CA, March.


1985

Michael Brenson. Luxe, Calme et Volupte, The New York Times, 4 January.

John Yau. Thwarted Desires, Bold Assertions, essay for the exhibition catalogue: David Hannah/Paintings & Drawings - 1983/85, at the Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England

Tony Godrey. David Hannah at Fabian Carlsson, The Burlington Magazine, London, England, December.

ony Godfrey. David Hannah at Fabian Carlsson, Artscribe International, London, England, December-January/1985-86.


1986

Thomas Albright. Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980. University of California Press.

Judith Stein. Essay for the exhibition brouchure: David Hannah at the Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA.

Edward Soznanski. Against the tide..., The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, 15 May.

Sally Friedman. Here, whimsey and mystery coexist, Levittown Courier Times, Levittown, PA, 15 June.

Freidman. Eluding the PigeonHoles, Doylestown Daily Intelligencer, Doylestown, PA, 23 June.


1987

John Yau. David Hannah, Artforum, New York City, Summer (pp.118-119).


1988

Jacolyn A. Mott, ed. Searching Out the Best: Ten Years of the Morris Gallery. catalogue published by The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA. .

Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Text for exhibition brochure: David Hannah Drawings 1987-88, Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City.


1989

Wm. P.Scott. Review: Art, The Philadelphia Inquirer, May


1990

Edward Soznanski. On Galleries, The Philadelphia Inquirer, 22 November.


1991

Dorothy Burkhart. Of bold, pop-inspired gestures..., San Jose Mercury News: EYE, December 13-19.


1992

Kenneth Baker. ...Paired with Cage, San Francisco Chronicle, 02 January.


1995

John Rapko. David Hannah at Gallery Paule Anglim, Artweek, May

Kenneth Baker. San Francisco In Brief, ArtNews, September

1997 Interviewed by Meredith Trumble. Great Books, Artweek, July (ill.)

1998 Kenneth Baker. Hannah Paints Faces of Moral Anxiety, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 June

Greg Schneider, David Hannah at Gallery Paule Anglim, Artweek, September


1999

catalog: Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium. California College of Arts & Crafts, CCAC Institute, San Francisco. Sept 25-Dec 11 (illustration)


2000

Self-Portraits, San Francisco Magazine, February (illustration, artist's statement)

Kenneth Baker, Face: David Hannah at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 February


2003

Kenneth Baker, A Painter Glimpses ruin in the woods, San Francisco Chronicle, April 26


AWARDS/GRANTS


1975 The National Endowment for the Arts: Individual grant.

1986 The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston: Englehard Award.

1988 The E.D. Foundation: Individual grant.


TEACHING/ACADEMIC AFFILIATION


1967-68

The University of California, Davis - Visiting Lecturer


1968-81

The San Francisco Art Institute - Instructor

Chair, Painting Department, 1973-78

Chair, Graduate Painting & Sculpture, 1976-78


1980

The University of California, Santa Barbara - Visiting Artist/Faculty


1981-91

The Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia

Professor & Chair: Department of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture


1991-Present

Stanford University, Department of Art + Art History

Professor of Art / Director of Graduate Studies: MFA Program

Director of Stanford Studio Series (Visiting Artist Lecture Series)

David Hannah was the Paul L. And Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University, where he was the Director of Graduate Studies: MFA Program from1991 top 2007. Before coming to Stanford he taught at the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, 1981-1991 and at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1968-1981.

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