Résumé

                                       TOM BERG                         Summer 2011 



Born: 1943, Aberdeen, South Dakota

Education:


    Dual BA degrees in English Literature and Fine Art, 1966. The University of Wyoming.

    MA in Printmaking, 1969. University of Wyoming

    Independent study with artist Vernon Witham, Eugene, Oregon 1969-70

    Graduate work in Applied Design with Carl Niederer, University of Oregon. 1969-1970

    MFA in Painting, 1972.  University of Wyoming

 

Solo Exhibitions:     1995-2011    (30 prior to 1995)

Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, February 2011.

Victoria Price Art and Design,  Santa Fe,  New Mexico,  August 2009 (catalog: Common Objects), also 2005, 2007.

Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, June 2008, (Catalogue:  TOM BERG: 30 Year Survey of Paintings)

Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina,  2002, 2006       

Mill Street Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, 1995                        

Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2003, 2001, 1999, 1997, 1995, 1993

    Retrospective Exhibition:  Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997,  (Catalogue:  Tom Berg: Twenty Years of Chairs)


 

Invitational Shows:      1995-2011         (71 prior to 1995)

  Recent Art Acquisitions, The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Albuquerque,          New Mexico,  August-October 2011

  Large Scale: The Painting Show, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, Texas, September 2011.

   Summer Salon, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, July/August 2010.

  10th Anniversary Exhibition, Hidell Brooks Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina, July/August 2008.

  Site Unseen I, II, III,V,VI, James Kelly Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1999, 2001, 2004, 2008, 2010.

  Group Show, Victoria Price Art and Design,  November 2007

   3 Person Show, Grand Opening Exhibition, Wade Wilson Art, Houston, 2006              

   The Art of Journaling,  Price Dewey Gallery, Santa Fe, 2005                                

   Looking Back, 85 Anniversary Exhibition, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, 2003  

   Earth and Sky, Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2003.                  

   Passages: Touring NM with a Detour Along Route 66, Museum of New Mexico,   Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2001  

    Term Limits, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2000                  

    Taos/Albuquerque/Santa Fe, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 1998

    CAS Collects New Mexico, Contemporary Art Society of New Mexico, Anderson Contemporary Art Gallery   Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1997

    Realism Knows No Bounds, Van de Griff Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1997

    Winter Group Show,  Emmie Smock Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1997

    Contemporary American Realist Painters,  The Gallery--Halls Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri,   1996

    Realism '96, Jay Fletcher Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1996

   3 Person  Show with Susan Bennerstrom and R. B. Sprague, J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, New York, 1996

    Contemporary new Mexico Artists: Sketches and Schemas,  Curated by Jan Adlmann, Site Santa Fe ,  Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1996, circulation to Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Lincoln, Nebraska, 1997

    Panza Llena, Corazon Contento, curated by Viola Montoya,  Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995

    State of the Arts/Arts of the State,  Fitzgerald Gallery and the Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1995

    Artists' Objects, curated by Jan Adelmann,  Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1995

 

Selected Public and Corporate Collections:

   Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas at Austin 

    Art Investment Associates, Las Vegas, Nevada

    The Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Amoco Production Collection, Denver, Colorado; Houston, Texas

    The Bank of America, San Francisco, California

    Chemical Bank, New York, New York

    El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas

    First Union Bank, Nashville, Tennessee

    Frito-Lay Corporation, Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas

    Getty Oil, Denver, Colorado

    The Harwood Foundation, Taos, New Mexico

    Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

    Mountain Bell, Denver, Colorado

    Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

    Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    National Research Laboratory, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    Steven Chase Collection, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs

    Phillip Morris Collection, New York, New York

    Standard Oil of Indiana, Chicago, Illinois

    Stanford University Museum, Palo Alto, California

    Tenneco Corporation, Houston, Texas

   TIAA/CREF Collection, New York, New York

    3M Corporation, St. Paul, Minnesota

    Union Pacific Corporation, Ft. Worth, Texas

    University Art Museum, Tamarind Collection

    University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Laramie, Wyoming

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

 

Selected Bibliography:

    

    "Report from New Mexico." Joan Simon.  Art in America 68.6 (Summer), 1980.

    "New Mexico: Smoke Rings and Shinto Shrines." William Peterson. ArtNews 79.10 (December), 1980.

    Review.  William Peterson,  Artspace 5.1 (Fall) 1980.

    Interview: "Anticipation."  Lisa Sherman.  Artlines 2.9,   1981.

    "Tom Berg." Wade Wilson.  Artspace 7.4 (Fall),1983.

    "Furniture al fresco."  Bruno Gilberti. Art and Architecture 2.2, 1983.

    Archives of American Art.  Smithsonian Institution, Washington D. C., 1984.

    "Chairs." Wade Wilson.  Art Gallery International, 6.6 (August/Sept.), 1985.

    "Report from Santa Fe."  David Bell.  Art in America 73.9 (Sept.),1985.

    "Santa Fe: New Spaces, New Faces."  William Peterson. Art News 87.3 (March), 1988.

     Tom Berg Monotypes (Catalogue). Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman. February 1989.     Essays by: Tom    Toperzer, Susan Baley, Wade Wilson.     

    New Mexico Impressions: Printmaking from 1880-1990.  Clinton Adams.  University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque.

    "Skiing Sacred Places." Tom Wolfe. Cross Country Skier 11.3,  December 1991.

    Artists and Printers (Catalogue).  Tamarind Foundation, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,  1991.

     Maps IV (Catalogue).  Palms Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, California, 1991.

    A Sense of Place (Catalogue).  The Wilderness Society and Peyton- Wright Gallery.  Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1991.

    Cover art for THE magazine 1.3 (September) 1992.

    The Fine Art Index. North American Edition, Chicago, Illinois,1993.

    Contemporary Art in New Mexico.  Jan Adlmann and Barbara McIntyre, G & B Arts International, 1995.

    Tom Berg: Twenty Years of Chairs. (Catalog).    The Munson Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, December, 1997.  Essays by Tom Collins and Dennis Jarrett, notes by Tom Berg.

  “The Art of New Mexico: How the West is One”,  Joseph Traugott, Museum of New Mexico Press,  Santa Fe, NM, 2007,  pp 237-238.  Essay with illustration.

   Tom Berg, Thirty Year Survey of Paintings (Catalog), Wade Wilson Art, Houston TX, June 2008.  Essay by Wade Wilson.

   “A Simple Plan”  Virginia Campbell, Southwest Art,  Volume 38, Number 5, October 2008.

Common Objects (exhibition catalog), Nambé, New Mexico, Summer 2009.



Gallery Representation:


Hidell Brooks Gallery

1910 South Boulevard, Suite 130

Charlotte  NC  28203

704-334-7302

www.hidellbrooks.com


Victoria Price Art & Design

1512 Pacheco Street, Suite B              

Santa Fe  NM  87505                          

505-983-2625                                     

www.victoriaprice.com


Wade Wilson Art

4411 Montrose Blvd. Suite 200

Houston, TX 77006

713-521-2977

www.wadewilsonart.com

                                                                     


                                                                           Three point Five, Oil on Panel, 7.5” x 8.5”, ©2004-11