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Paul Harris


1925
Born in Orlando, Florida

2018
Dies in Bozeman, Montana

1950
B.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1951
M.A. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1956
Ed.D. Teachers College, Columbia University

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions


1958
[title unknown]. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. 

1960
Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. 

1965
Paul Harris. Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, California. 
Paul Harris. Lanyon Gallery, Palo Alto, California.

1966
[title unknown]. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York.

1967
Paul Harris. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. 
Paul Harris. Candy Store, Folsom, California.

1969
Paul Harris, Tamarind Fellowship Artist. Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Inc., Los Angeles, California.

1970
Paul Harris; Sculpture & Lithographs. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. 
Paul Harris. Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany. 

1971
Paul Harris. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

1972
Paul Harris. Traveling exhibition. San Francisco Museum of Art, California. 

1973
Paul Harris Sculpture. Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock. 
Paul Harris. The Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 
Paul Harris. University Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara.

1976
Paul Harris. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 

1981
Paul Harris Sculpture, Certain Pieces, 1958–1980. Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida. 

1982 – 1983
Paul Harris: Still Life. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1983
[title unknown]. Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1987
Paul Harris. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1989
Paul Harris: Works in Bronze. Traveling exhibition. Iannetti-Lazone Gallery, San Francisco, California

1990
Paul Harris. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany.

1993
Paul Harris: Works in Wood / Works on Paper. Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California.

1995
[title unknown]. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany. 

1999
Focus: Paul Harris, Certain Pieces: Drawing & Sculpture. Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California. 
Paul Harris: Bronzes and Drawings (or Paul Harris’ Sculpture). Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.

2000
Paul Harris: Sculpture & Drawings. College Art Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California. 

2001
Fabric Sculptural Works: Paul Harris. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. 

2003
Paul Harris: Shut-In Suite. Holter Museum, Helena, Montana.

2007 – 2008
Douglas Denniston and Paul Harris. Eric Firestone Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona.

2008
Paul Harris: Bronzes and Drawings. Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, California.

2015
Paul Harris: Some Works. Fine Arts Gallery, College of Marin, Kentfield, California. 

2016
Paul Harris: Selections. Ed. Varie, Minnesota Street Project space, San Francisco, California. 

2017
Focus: Hats Off, Americans. Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, California. 

2023
Paul Harris: Activating the Surface. Danforth Museum of Art, Livingston, Montana.
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana.

2024
Activating the Surface: Art by Paul Harris. Carbon County Arts Guild & Depot Gallery, Red Lodge, Montana.

2025
Activating the Surface: Paul Harris. MonDak Heritage Center, Sidney, Montana.

Group Exhibitions


1950
Six Young Artists. Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. 

1951 
[title unknown]. University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque.
Three Sculptors, Three Painters. Albuquerque Public Library, New Mexico.

1953
Artists in the Island. The Institute of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica. 

1959
New Forms – New Media II. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York. 

1959 – 1960
Recent Sculpture U.S.A. Traveling exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; The Denver Art Museum, Colorado; Los Angeles County Museum, California; City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts. 

1961
Escultura 4. Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile. 

1962
Arte de Chile. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chile, Santiago, Chile. 

1963
Collapsible Monuments. Poindexter Gallery, New York, New York. 

1963 – 1965 
Hans Hofmann and His Students. Traveling exhibition. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York.

1964
Dial Y for Sculpture. Art Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1965
Society for Contemporary Art, Annual Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois.
New Art 1965. New York World’s Fair, New York, New York, American Express Pavilion.

1966
The Work of Visiting Artists. Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore. 
New Art in Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 
[title unknown]. Graham Gallery, New York, New York.
Tenth Annual Selection for the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art. San Francisco Museum of Art, California.
How the West Was Done. Art Council of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 

1966 – 1967
People Figures. Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Craftsmen’s Council, New York, New York.

1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties. Traveling exhibition. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania. 
Environment USA: 1957-1967. IX Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil.

1968
Prospect ’68: International Preview of the Art in the Galleries of the Avant-garde. Galerie M.E. Thelen, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany. 
Sculpture Invitational. University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno. 
1968 Invitational West Coast ’68 Painters & Sculptors. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, California. 

1968 – 1969
New American Figurative Art, 1963–1968. Traveling exhibition. Smithsonian Institute of Art, Washington, D.C.

1969
Soft Art. New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, Trenton, New Jersey. 
Sculpture. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

1970
A Show of Hands. California College of Arts and Crafts Gallery, Oakland, California. 
Ruhrfestspiele. Recklinghausen, Germany. 
Art 70. Basle, Switzerland. 
Kunstmarkt 70. Kunsthalle, Köln, Germany. 

1971
San Francisco Art Institute Centennial Exhibition. M.H. de Young Museum, San Francisco, California. 
Made in California. Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California

1971 – 1973
Tamarind, A Renaissance of Lithography. Traveling Exhibition. International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C. 

1972
Looking West. ACA Galleries, New York, New York.

1973
Sewn, Stitched and Stuffed. Museum of Contemporary Crafts of the American Arts Council, New York, New York. 
Anatomy in Fabric. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. 
Sculpture in Cloth. The Contemporary Arts Center of Cincinnati, Ohio.  
The Kleiner Foundation: Gift of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

1974
Seven Bay Area Sculptors. The Gallery of the College of Marin, Kentfield, California. 

1975
The Envelope Show. JPL Gallery, London, England.

1976
Montana Sculpture. Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana. 

1977
The Object as Poet. The Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. 

1980 
Sculpture by Paul Harris, David Best, Richard Moquin, Rick Hall & Drawings by Craig Hansen. Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael, California.

1982
[title unknown]. Transamerica Building Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1984
The Art of Still Life II. Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. 
California Bookworks: The Last Five Years. Traveling exhibition. Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California. 

1985
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1986
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1987
Six from the San Francisco Area. Iannetti-Lanzone Gallery, San Francisco, California. 
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1988
[title unknown]. Memorial Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis.

[title unknown]. Civic Arts Gallery, Walnut Creek, California.

1989
Homage to Elaine de Kooning. 871 Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco, California. 

1990
Art Cologne 90. Cologne Trade Fair Centre, Cologne, Germany.

1991
Sui Generis. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany. 

1993
[title unknown]. I. Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, California.
[title unknown]. William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, California.

1994
Die Dritte Dimension. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany. 

1995
Art Cologne 95. Cologne, Germany. 

1996
Western Book Exhibition, The Rounce & Coffin Club, San Francisco and Los Angeles, California.
[title unknown]. Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Nebraska.

1997
Friends of Kienholz. Galerie Redmann, Berlin, Germany. 
[title unknown]. Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin.
Art Cologne 97. Cologne, Germany. 

1998
Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition. Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin. 

2003
Celebrating Sculpture: Posters and Original Prints by Sculptors. The Newark Public Library, Newark, New Jersey.

2019
Pairs: Seeing Doubles. The White Chapel, Bozeman, Montana.

2020
Various shows at the Paul Harris and Marguerite Kirk Gallery, Belgrade, Montana.

2022
[title unknown]. Medium Gallery, Bozeman, Montana.

2027
[title unknown]. Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana.

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