1974
Born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Currently lives and works in Houston, TX
Education
2000
M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997
B.F.A. Texas A&M University, Commerce, TX
1994
Associate of Science, Paris Junior College, Paris, TX
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum,Seattle, WA
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2008
FEAR, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Trenton Doyle Hancock: Reveal, Galleria Marabini, Bologna, Italy
Wow That’s Mean and Other Vegan Cuisine, Institute for Contemporary Art at the
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Trenton Doyle Hancock: The Wayward Thinker, organized by Fiona Bradley,
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; traveled to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2006
In the Blestian Room, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2005
St. Sesom and the Cult of Color, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
More Mound Milking and Miracle Machines, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Project Gallery, ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
2004
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paris Junior College, Paris, TX
2003
Moments in Mound History, Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
It Came from the Studio Floor, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX;
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
For a Floor of Flora, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Core Artist in Residence, The Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2001
The Life and Death of #1, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX; Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, TX; Texas Fine Arts Association at The Jones Center for
Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
The Legend is in Trouble, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Wow That’s Me?, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
1998
Off Colored, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
AUTOBIODEGRADABLE, Honors Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, TX A&M University, Commerce, TX
Group Exhibitions
2009
Texas Draws, The Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
Lover, OnStellarRays, New York, NY
Rich Text, Fleisher Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
From Then to Now: Masterworks of Contemporary African American Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
2008
Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to the Genesis, Contemporary Jewish Museum,
San Francisco, CA
Darger-ism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger, American Folk Art Museum,
New York, NY
2007
Size Matters: XS, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY,
travelling to Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
The Lizard Cult, Clementine Gallery, New York, NY
The Sirens’ Song, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Fast Forward, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
A Consuming Vision, Jepson Center for the Arts, Savannah, GA
2006
Once Upon a Time: The Contemporary Fable, Arcos Sannio Contemporary Art
Museum, Benevento, Italy
black alphabet - conTEXTS of contemporary african-american art,
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
reverence, The Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
The 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art,
The National Academy Museum, New York, NY
The Compulsive Line, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2005
Swarm, Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
Color / Pattern / Grid, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2004
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts
Museum, Houston, TX
Between The Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing Under the Influence: Lee Baxter Davis and his Protégés, The Dallas
Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art,
Columbus, OH
2003
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
on the wall: contemporary wallpaper, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence, RI; travelled to The Fabric Workshop and Museum,
Philadelphia, PA (exhibition catalogue).
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
2002
Sugar and Cream: Large Unstretched Wall-Hangings by Contemporary Artists,
Triple Candie, Harlem, NY
Art on Paper: The 37th Exhibition of Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Western Artists: Selections from New American Paintings #42, osp Gallery, Boston,
Massachusetts
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Two by Two for AIDS and Art, Dallas, TX
Core 2002 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, TX
2001
Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Santa Monica Museum of
Art, Santa Monica, CA
Portraiture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AK
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Core 2001 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Private Collections: Artists, Curators and Collectors, The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, TX
The Big Id, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Artistic Centers in Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth, The Texas Fine Arts Association,
The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, TX
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs and Other Folktales, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, NY
1998
Texas Dialogues: Parallels, Dallas/San Antonio, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
New Views, Eight Emerging Texas Artists, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996
Works on Paper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
1995
Juried Student Show, curator: Tom Moody, East Texas State University, Commerce, TX Biennials
2008
Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003
Istanbul Biennial: Poetic Justice, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Turkey Biennials (cont.)
It happened tomorrow, Lyon Biennial, France
2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Performances
2008
Cult of Color: Call to Color, Ballet Austin, Austin, TX, collaboration with
composer Graham Reynolds and choreographer Stephen Mills
2000
Wow That’s Me, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
1999
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1998
Off Colored, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
AUTOBIODEGRADABLE, Honors Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, TX A&M University, Commerce, TX
Bibliography
2009
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2008
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2007
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Mottram, Jack, “The writings on the wall. Just don’t ask what it’s saying,” The
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2006
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Art, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Preface by Larry R. Faulkner and Introduction by Jessie Otto Hite.
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National Academy Museum, 2006.
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ARTnews, June 2006
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2005
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The Visual Experience (textbook). Worcester, MA: Davis Publications, Inc., 2005.
2004
Robinson, Gaile, “Acquired Tastes,” Star Telegram.com, November 19, 2004
2003
Art Papers, July/August 2003, pp. 16-21
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2002
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2001
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1999
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1998
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1997
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Awards
2007
Joyce Alexander Wein Award, Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
2006
S.J. Wallace Truman Fund Prize in the 181st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
2004
Penny McCall Foundation Award
2003
Artadia Foundation Award
1999
Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant Recipient
1997
Skowhegan Camille Hanks Cosby fellowship for African-American Artists, Skowhegan, MA
Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas Museum of Art, TX
1996
Texas Intercollegiate Press Association
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association
Southwestern Journalism Congress
1995
American Scholastic Press Association
Rocky Mountain Collegiate Media Association
Southwestern Journalism Congress
Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Eileen Harris Norton, Santa Monica, California Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea, Trento, Italy Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
New York Public Library, New York, New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York
University of Texas at Austin Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin,Texas Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Wichita State University, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas
