CHARLES GINNEVER

Biography

Awards/Commissions | Solo Exhibition | Public Collections | Sculpture Installations

EDUCATION

1949-51	San Mateo Junior College, San Mateo, California, A.A.
1953	Alliance Francaise, Paris, France
1954	Universita per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy
1953-55	Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France under Ossip Zadkine
1955	Atelier 17, Paris, France, under Stanley W. Hayter
1955-57	California School of Fine Arts (San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, California, B.A.
1957-59	Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, M.F.A.

TEACHING

1957-59	Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1963	Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
1964	The New York School for Social Research, New York, New York
1964-65	Brooklyn Museum School, Brooklyn, New York
1965	Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art, Newark, New Jersey
1966	Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, Artist-in-Residence
1966	Aspen School of Contemporary Art, Aspen, Colorado, Head of Sculpture Department, Summer Session
1966	Orange County Community College, Middletown, New York, Fall Semester
1967-75	Windham College, Putney, Vermont, Head of Art Department, 1970-71
1974	Hobart School of Welding Technology Summer Sculpture Program, Troy,
1987	Vermont Studio School, Johnson, Vermont, Summer
1989	University of California, Berkeley. Visiting Artist, Winter
1996	Johnson Studio Center, Johnson, VT. Visiting Professor, Summer. -Grant

AWARDS / COMMISSIONS

1957	California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, Sculpture Award
1972	Vermont State Council on the Arts, 4 the 5^th (of Beethoven) on exhibit at Southern Vermont Art Center
1974	John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1975	National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant
1976	General Services Administration Commission for St. Paul Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesota, Protagoras.
1976	National Endowment for the Arts Commission for Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Nautilus
1977	Knox Foundation Sculpture Competition for the City of Houston, Texas, Pueblo Bonito
1977	National Endowment for the Arts Commission for the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Daedalus
1978	SUNY, Purchase, New York, Koronos
1978	University of Houston, Texas, Troika
1979	Virlane Foundation, K & B Plaza, New Orleans, Louisiana, The Bird (for Charlie Parker)
1980	Dayton Art Institute and the City Beautiful Council, Dayton, Ohio, Movin’ Out (for Jesse Owens)
1980	Kanawa Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, Charleston, West Virginia, Charleston Arch
1981	State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, Atlantis
1983	Hurd Development Corporation, Dallas, Texas, Pisa
1985	Hewlett-Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, California, Untitled (In Homage to My Father)
1987	Koll-Bernal Associates, Pleasanton, California, Squared II
1996	APEC Sculpture Garden, Manila, Philippines: President’s Choice, U.S. gift, Nike
1998	Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant
1999-2001	Lee Krasner Foundation "Lifetime Achievement Award" - extended to 2001
2004	Pollock/Krasner Emergency Grant (fire)
2004	Gottieb Foundation Emergency Grant (fire)
2007	VT Art Council's Walter Cerf Award for Lifetime Achievement.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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1961	Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
1965	Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1968	New York Loft, New York, NY 10 Downtown
1998	Washington Square Park, New York, NY
1970	Battery Park, New York, NY (on extended exhibit)
1970-71	Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1972	Dag Hammerskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
1972	Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1975	Sculpture Now, Inc., New York, NY Charles Ginnever, 20 Years - 20 Works, Catalogue
1978	Max Hutchinson Gallery, Houston, TX
1978	Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
1978	Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1978	Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1978	Gallerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA, Charles Ginnever - Metal Sculpture
1979	ConStruct, Chicago, IL
1980	Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY. Catalogue
1980	Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY
1981	ConStruct, Chicago, IL, Charles Ginnever: New Sculpture, April 3 - May 23
1983	Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, Charles Ginnever: Large Scale Sculpture, May 7 - July 2. Catalogue
1984	Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 15 - March 10
1984	Lee Park, Dallas, TX, Charles Ginnever: Large Scale Sculpture, March - September
1984	Hurd Development, Dallas, TX, May - August
1986	Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Charles Ginnever: New Bronze Sculpture, June 11 ? July 3
1986	Sculpture Fields, Kenoza Lake, NY, Charles Ginnever: Large Scale Sculpture, Catalogue
1987	Esprit Sculpture Garden, San Francisco, CA, Charles Ginnever: Large Scale Sculpture, May 4 - October
1987	Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Charles Ginnever: Bronze and Steel Sculpture, October 14 - November 7
1989	Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Charles Ginnever: Bronze and Steel Sculpture, October 13 ? November 3
1990	Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Charles Ginnever: Bronze Sculpture, August 4 ? September 1
1991	Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Charles Ginnever, October 10 - November 3
1995	Smith-Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, Charles Ginnever: Sculptures & Etchings, January 12 ? February 15
1997	Academy of Art College, San Francisco, CA, Sculpture, February 16 - March 22
1999	Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, Rashomon
2001	Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco, CA Charles Ginnever: Recent Sculpture - May3 - June2
2002	Brattlebo Museum, VT - Charles Ginnever Sculpture
2003/4	MOVA @ Luther Burbank Center, Santa Rosa, CA - Charles Ginnever Sculpture
2004	Wooster Art Space, NY - Charles Ginnever

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS - Large works

ANA Hotel, San Francisco, CA - Les Funambules
APEC Sculpture Garden, PICC, Manila, Philippines - Nike
Art Museum, Florida National University - Hangover
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia - Green Mountain II
BankAmerica Corporation,Concord, California - Heavy Metal
Bradley Family Foundation Sculpture Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Olympus
Cantor Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford, CA Chicago Triangles, Luna I, Three Graces
City of Charleston, West Virginia, United States Post Office - Charleston Arch
City of Reno, Nevada - Gallop a Pace
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio - Movin Out : for Jessie Owens
Di Rosa Preserve - Crab, & Rashomon - bronze, 3 units
Edgewater Park, Cleveland Lakefront State Park, Cleveland, Ohio - Dansa
General Mills, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota - Rubinstein
General Services Administration, U.S. Courthouse, St. Paul, Minnesota - Protagoras
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey - Scorpio
Hartwood Acres Park, Allegheny Court, Pennsylvania - Stretch
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York -
Hewlett Packard Corporation, Palo Alto, California - Untitled 1986 Homage to my Father
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. - Untitled 1968 (two works)
Hobart School of Welding Technology, Troy, Ohio - Split II
Hughes Aircraft, Los Angeles, CA - Stack
Hurd Development Corporation, Dallas, Texas - Pisa
Knox Foundation, City of Houston, Houston, Texas - Pueblo Bonito
Koll-Bernal Association, Pleasanton, California - Squared II
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, Missouri - Crete
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York - 3 + 1
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governor's State University, University Park, Illinois - Icarus
Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas City. Missouri - Knossos
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California - Stretch II
Park 470 Foundation, Chicago, Illinois - Blue & Black
Runnymede Sculpture Farm, Woodside, CA - Didimous, Icarus, Kitsuni, Python, Zeus II
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California - Troika
Sheldon Memorial Art Museum and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, Nebraska - Shift
State University of New York, Buffalo, New York - Atlantis
State University of New York, Purchase, NY - Koronos II
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York - Fayette, Prospect Mountain, & 1971
University of Houston, Houston, Texas – Troika
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan - Daedalus
Verlane Foundation, K & B Plaza, New Orleans, Louisiana - The Bird for Charlie Parker
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut - White Flat
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota - Nautilus
City of Westport, Connecticut - Charities
City of Winston-Salem, North Carolina - Dovecoates
Voigt Family Sculpture Foundation, Geyserville, CA - Geiserville Zip, Les Funambules (bronze)

SCULPTURE INSTALLATIONS

Artist"s Farm, Westminster, Vermont - 15 to 20 outdoor installations at any time.
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts - Texas Triangles
Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, Vermont - 4 the 5th of Beethoven
Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California - Cobra
Stremmel Residence, Reno, Nevada - High Rise
Pool Residence, Reno, Nevada - Medusa
U.C. Medical Center, San Francisco, CA - Tandem
The Olive Grove, Auberge du Soleil, St. Helena, CA - Slantt Rhyme $ 17
Hawkwood Farm, Petaluma, CA - Pas de Deux
Voigt Residence, Geyserville, California - Dementia, ,Lunas I, II ,III, Gyro I, Slant Rhyme 5A, Geyserville Zip, Pas de Deux
Paradise Ridge Winery, Santa Rosa, CA - Slant Rhyme # 20
City of Healdsburg, CA - Bop & Crazed
Julliard Park, Santa Rosa, CA - Hangover II
Art Omi, Ghent, New York - Apollo, , Troika, . (8' on loan to the McNay Museum in San Antonio, TX,) Steel Squared is on consignment to Crosby Coghlin outside NYC.
Stanford GNOME Center, Palo Alto, CA - San Mateo Bridge

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