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DEAN BYINGTON


ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2022

Cassandra: Truth and Madness, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2018

The Kennecott Diaries, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2017

Theory of Machines, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles

2016

Dean Byington: “Tout le Necessaire,” Aires Libres 2016, Montreal, Canada

2015

The New City, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

2010

Black Maps: New Paintings, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2009

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

Dean Byington: Terra Incognita, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee

2007

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2005

Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2003

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1999

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1997

Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Prêt à Placer, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2021

Affinities, Anglim/Trimble Gallery, San Francisco

2020

Labor & Materials, 21 C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

2019

Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, Coral Gables Museum, Coral Gables, Florida

Extraction, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

2018

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art, The Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.

Unconscious Rationale, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco

DNA of PAINTING, Anglim Gilbert Gallery/Gallery 200 at Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco

Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tenn.

2017

The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2016

Order & Nature, Anglim Gilbert Gallery at Minnesota Street Project
Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2015

Retrospective, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2014

Fusion: Art of the 21st Century, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Summer in Black & White … and Color, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

2013

New Contemporary Acquisitions, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia

Hybridity: The New Frontier, 21c Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas

2012

Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago

2011

Stream of the Unknown, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, N.Y.

Land of Magic, Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, California

2010

Skeptical Landscapes, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts

2009

New Acquisitions, The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, N.Y.

Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

Tales of Wonder and Woe: Fable and Fairy Taled in Contemporary Art, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, N.Y.

utopia/dystopia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2006

The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Here's the Thing, Gallery 16, San Francisco

2005

Recent Acquisitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art

2004

Random Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, California

2003

Pocket Atlas, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, Calif.

Bytes and Pieces: Contemporary Collage, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art

1998

Art + Tech, Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

1997

Untitled, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

1994

Negative Energy, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Conn.

The 6 x 9 Show, Victoria Room, San Francisco

Shudder, Victoria Room, San Francisco

1993

New Work, Turn of the Century, Berkeley, Calif.

1991

66th Annual Crocker Kingsley Exhibition, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

1990

A Boar’s Head, Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, California

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
Berkeley Art Museum
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Reno
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Nevada Museum of Art
The Progressive Collection, Mayfield Village, Ohio
Rene diRosa Collection, Napa, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City, N.Y.
The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
 
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Bland, Bartholomew F., “Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art,” Lehman College Art Gallery, 2018

Couzens, Julia. “Unconscious Rationale @ Anglim Gilbert,” SquareCylinder, 2018

Ritchie, Matthew. Scala, Mark. “Chaos And Awe: Painting For the 21st Century,” Frist Museum, 2018

Davis, Genie. “Dean Byington’s The Theory of Machines At Kohn Gallery,” Art and Cake, June 2017

Haefele, Marc. “Dean Byington At Kohn Gallery,” Off-Ramp, May 2017

“Dean Byington’s Theory of Machines,” Juxtapoz Magazine, June 2017

Zellen, Jody. “Dean Byington,” Artillery, June 2017

Dambrot, Shananys. “Dean Byington: Theory of Machines at Kohn Gallery,” White Hot Magazine, June 2017

Unferth, Deb Olin. “Radical Will,” Harpers Magazine, January 2011

David S. Rubin, Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s (San Anonio Museum of Art and MIT Press, 2010)

Scott Indrisek, “Uncharted Territory,” Modern Painters, November 2010

Wendy Koenig, “Dean Byington,” Art Papers, September/October 2009

Falkenberg, Merrill, “Dean Byington,” Frieze, April 2008

Sidra Stich, art-Sites San Francisco (art-SITES Press, 2007)

“Dean Byington,” The New Yorker, November 26, 2007

Mark Pascale, “Curator’s Choice: AIC’s New Acquisition,” FNews Magazine, May 2006

Hilarie Sheets, “Critic’s Pick: Dean Byington,” Artnews, January 2006

“Dean Byington,” The New Yorker, May 30, 2005

Roberta Smith, “Making an Entrance at any Age,” The New York Times, May 6, 2005

Jack Fischer, “Conjuring Worlds from Bits and Pieces,” San Jose Mercury, May 2003

Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, July 31, 2003

Kenneth Baker, “Dean Byington at Galelry Paula Anglim,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 2003

John Yau, “Invitation to the Labyrinth,” Dean Byington, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2003

Jerome Tarshis, “Dean Byington,” Art in America, December 2002

New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2002

Berin Golunu, Artweek, Vol. 30, No. 10, October 1999

Jori Finkel, Express, January 17, 1997

Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, November 20, 1994

"Paintography," Visions Art Quarterly, Winter 1994

Steve Starger, Journal Inquirer, November 4, 1994

Hartford Advocate, November 18, 1994

Zyzzyva, Vol. X, No. 3, Fall 1994

Randal Davis, Artweek, August 4, 1994

David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 1994

Ariel Parkinson, The Berkeley Voice, April 27, 1993

Victoria Dalkey, “Hanging Judge,” The Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1993

Ken Magri, "Second Guessing the Grand Juror," Sacramento News and Reviews, May 1991

Art + Tech, Museum of Art, Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 1988

 

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