Born: Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1944
Currently resides in Houston, Texas and Wendell, Massachusetts
Education
1970-72 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MFA, Painting
New York Studies Program, School of Visual Arts,
New York City
1967-70 Art Students League, New York, New York
1962-67 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, BS, Civil Engineering
Teaching
1992-09 University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1991 University of California at San Diego, California
1988-92 San Diego State University, San Diego, California
1987 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
1987-88 East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
1982-87 Clark University, Worchester, Massachusetts
1981 University of Houston, Houston, Texas
1980-81 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
1979-80 University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
1974-77 Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
1973-79 Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Major Grants, Awards and Residencies
2007
U.S. Art Critics Association (AICA), Best Show in a Commercial Gallery
Nationally, 1st Place, "David Ireland, Jess & Al Souza", Moody Gallery,
Houston, Texas
2006
Texas Artist of the Year, Houston, Texas
2001
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy
2000
Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Woodside, California
1999-00
Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation Space Program Grant
1999
Ucross Foundation Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming
Cultural Arts Council of Houston Artist Fellowship
1997-98
Roswell A.I.R. Program, Roswell, New Mexico
Pollock - Krasner Foundation Grant
1996
International A.I.R. Programme, Guernsey, Channel Islands
1995
Schloss Buchsenhausen, Innsbruck, Austria
1990
California Arts Council Artist Fellowship
1987-88
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship
1985
Massachusetts Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship
1981
Massachusetts Council on the Arts Artist Fellowship
1978-79
National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship
1973
Edinburgh Arts Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008
Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2007
The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
2006
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Art League Houston, Houston, Texas
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois
2005
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts
2004
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, North Carolina
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
2002
Pillsbury Peters Fine Art, Houston, Texas
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2001
Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Virginia
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000
Pillsbury Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, New Mexico
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
1996
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worchester, Massachusetts
Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas
Guernsey College, Guernsey, Channel Islands, England
1995
Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
1994
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York
1992
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
1991
Quint-Krichman Projects Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1990
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1989
Galerie Ferdinand Maier, Kitzbuhel, Austria
Mark Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, California
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
1988
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Galerie Zeitkunst, Innsbruck, Austria
Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Galerie Hanns Christian Hoschek, Graz, Austria
1985
Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
Susan Montezinos Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984
Galerie Seben Stern,Steyr, Austria
Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, Vermont
Lopoukhine Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1982
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
OK Harris West, Scottsdale, Arizona
The New Museum, New York, New York
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Galerie Seben Stern, Steyr, Austria
1981
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany
Work Gallery/Phillipe Vogt, Zurich, Switzerland
Tiroler Kunstpavillion, Innsbruck, Austria
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1980
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1979
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1978
Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Novia Scotia
Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1977
Student Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
Museum of Angouleme, Angouleme, France
Canon Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1976
Museum of Brest, Brest, France
Galerie Ecart, Geneva, Switzerland
Cronin Gallery, Houston, Texas
American Cultural Center, Paris, France
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
1975
Galerie nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
OK Harris Gallery, New York, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
"Multiples", David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, Texas
"Synthesis: Contemporary Collage", Carroll Square Gallery, Washington, D.C.
"Weighing and Wanting: Selections from the Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
2008
"Collage-More and Less", Williams Tower, Houston, Texas
"Political Animals", Von Leibig Art Center, Naples, Florida
"Re: Vision", Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Lone Star Legacy II", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
"Cut Up/Reassembled", Houston Baptist University, Houston, Texas
2007
"Pushing the Envelope", Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
"What Is Line?, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
"In Context", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York "Ulterior Motifs", Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, traveled to Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
"A Way With Words", Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
"Amistad", National Museum, Lima, Peru and Museum of Modern Art, Trujillo, Peru
2006
"Contemporary Art Houston", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
"A Century of Collage", Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon
"Texas 100", El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
2005
"David Ireland, Jess, Al Souza", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
"COLLAGE signs & surfaces", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New (catalogue)
"The Daily News", Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah;
Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, Wyoming; Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
"30 Ways To Make A Painting", Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Collage: Signs & Surfaces", Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York
"Summer Sustenance", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
"Structure", Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York, New York
"Re-Fresh", Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
2004
"The 2004 DeCordova Annual Exhibition", DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park,