SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Rafius Fane Gallery, Boston, MA
2014 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2012 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2007 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
2002 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1999 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1994 Indigo Galleries, Boca Raton, FL
1992 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY
1986 New Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 Key Gallery, New York, NY
SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Berliner Liste 2017, Berlin, Germany
1995 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY “Bank Vault”
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, “Food for Thought”
2019 Russell Janis, Brooklyn, NY, “Potters and Printmakers”
2018 Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghampton, NY, “Winter Group Exhibition”
2017 Russell Janis Projects, Brooklyn, NY, "Potters and Printmakers"
2017 Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, New York, NY , “Size Doesn’t Matter”
2014 The Curator Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts, Binghampton, NY, “Time and Place”
2012 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, “Arcadia”2008 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY. “Here’s The Thing: The Single Object Still Life”
2007 New England College Gallery, Henniker NH, “New York to New Hampshire: Artists of the OK Harris Gallery”
2005 M.A. Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK, “Contemporary American Realism VIII”
2003-04 Brevard Museum of Art and Science, Cocoa, FL, “Everything OK at OK Harris”
2003 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY, “Subject: Object”
1996 Memphis TN, “Elvis Presley’s Graceland”
1995 Indigo Galleries, Boca Raton, FL, “Masterworks”
1994 Artists Space, New York, NY, “A Night of 1000 Drawings”
1994 Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada, “Live From New York: The O.K. Harris Gallery”
1986 Jeremy Stone Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY, “Invitational”
1986 Hatley Martin Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA, “Contemporary Art: 30,000 B.C. to the Present”
1985 Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “One Hundred Vows of the Sun”
1985 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Great Gifts in Small Packages”
1985 The Concourse, San Francisco, CA, “A Peace Palette”
1985 Gallery Sanchez, San Francisco, CA, “5th Annual Autumn Exhibition”
1985 Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA, “X-Rated: Erotic Art By Northern California Artists”
1985 Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA and Transamerica Occidental, Los Angeles, CA, “Celebrate the Athlete”
1985 Bruce Velick Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Religion 1984”
1983 San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “How Shall We Travel in the Future?”
1982 Iris Too Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1981 Dorothy Eagleton Memorial Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA, “Inherently Funny Objects”
1980 Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
1979 Phone Booth Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA, “Invitational”
1976 J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, “Eight State Art Exhibition”
1975 Phelps-Dodge Communication Company, Elizabethtown, KY, “Kentuckian Painters-Invitational Exhibition”
1975 Bellarmine College, Louisville, KY, “New Faculty Exhibition”
1973 Center fro Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, Faculty Exhibition
1973 Barnhart Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, “Mexican Consciousness Show”
1973 Student Union Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, “Heat Wave”
1973 Barnhart Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
1972 Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY
1972 Center For Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington,, KY Faculty Exhibition
1972 Virginia Commonwealth University Art Gallery, Richmond, VA
1971 Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, “New Faculty Exhibition”
1971 Bellarmine-Ursuline College, Louisville, KY “Homage to Merton”
1971 Georgetown College Art Gallery, Georgetown, KY
1970 Junior Art Gallery, Louisville, KY, “Rocks, Minerals, and Metals”
1969 Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Evansville, IN, “Midstates Art Competition”
1969 J.B.Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, “Kentucky Sculptors Invitational”
PUBLICATIONS
“45 Years At OK Harris”
Author/Editor: Ron Weis
ISBN-13: 978-0-692-42474-2
Produced and Published by Randem Press, New York, 2015
In the libraries of:
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Morgan Library, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Art In America Library, New York, NY
Art Forum Library, New York, NY
Art News Library, New York, NY
West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Smith College, Northampton, MA
Christie's, New York, NY
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
University of California, Berkeley, CA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
These are some of the details that make up my life as an artist.
When I was six years old, it occurred to me I was born lucky, but I figured I should reserve judgment on the matter until I got older and had more experience. Turns out, I was right.
I am forever grateful to my parents who educated me. They encouraged me to not only explore my intuition but, more importantly, to trust it.
Earlier this year my wife and I happily celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary.
Our 21-year-old daughter will be a senior in college in the fall. When we were visiting schools, I remember one admissions director told his audience of prospective applicants, “Each of you will have four careers in your life, two of which have not yet been invented.”
I am an identical twin. What’s it like? Here’s a headline out of Bethlehem, Pa dated 10/7/09. “Police say man accused of accidentally killing identical twin has killed himself.”
I am currently reading “The Last Good Kiss” by James Crumley which keeps on giving until the last sentence, “Men Without Women” by Haruki Murakami, “Trajectory” by Richard Russo, “The Journalist and the Murderer” by Janet Malcolm (David Rieff used the phrase “breathtaking rhetorical velocity” to describe it), “No Middle Name” by Lee Child, and “One More Thing” by B. J. Novak. (Just get it and enjoy.)
If someone held a gun to my dog’s head and threatened to pull the trigger unless I immediately stated my favorite artist of all time, I would already be sounding the word, “Picasso”.
By the way, no humans or animals have been harmed in the manufacture, exhibition, and distribution, of my art except for the salmon that was smoked and served at my last opening.
If I could have any painting in the world, my Pavlovian response would be Hieronymous Bosch’s “Garden of Earthly Delights.” One needs to see it in real life. Sorry, but no reproduction can capture its unique brilliance. Book your next flight for Madrid and take me with you.
My work is an accumulation of details that combine and blend into a seamless iconic image. For this series of paintings based on vacation spots, I entertained a few titles: “Postcards at an Exhibition” and “There is no place like this place.” I settled on “Wish You Were Here” because it expresses my sentiments exactly.
Wish you were here.
2017