The Scottish National
Portrait Gallery building is a large edifice at the east end of Queen Street, built in red sandstone from Corsehill in Dumfriesshire.
Not exact matches
Breathing new life into one of Scotland's best - loved
buildings, the transformation will be revealed in November when the
Portrait Gallery opens its doors to exciting new exhibitions and welcomes corporate events into what will be a unique setting in the heart of the capital city.
The 17th - century
building was once a coach house and retains a cozy old - world charm in the public areas, with exposed beams, a roaring fireplace, and an eclectic
gallery of
portraits.
It opened to the public in 1889 making the Edinburgh
gallery the first in the world to be specially
built as a
portrait gallery.
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1985 Special Exhibition Series 1... from 1960s, Tokyo
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan The 10th Anniversary of Museum Opening, Contemporary Sculpture in Japan, Wood Kanagawa Prefectural
Gallery, Japan Locus of Contemporary Prints; Post-war Prints by 43 Artists, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Conceptual Art, Kamakura
Gallery, Kanagawa, Japan Self -
Portrait Today, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan 10th Anniversary of New
Building 40 Years of Japanese Contemporary Art, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan Imaginary Monuments Vision, Dream, Image, Kaneko Art
Gallery, Tokyo, JapanWith Contemporary Art - Anniversary of
Gallery's Opening Soh
Gallery, Tokyo, japan Group Show of Mitsuo Kano, Jiro Takamatsu, and Koichi Tanigawa, Galerie Humanite, Tokyo, Japan Yamamura Collection Research Meeting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
The Museum Shop For a very special project with the National
Portrait Gallery, five emerging London based photographers have been invited to respond to the National
Portrait Gallery collection and the
building.
I was instantly drawn to the way she uses textures like Nigerian
portrait fabric and symbols like food labels or magazine clippings to weave together memories from her childhood in Africa and her adulthood in the United States, creating her own cultural touchstones in the process.Since receiving an MFA from Yale University five years ago, 33 - year - old Akunyili Crosby has worked almost nonstop,
building an impressive CV of prestigious art prizes and
gallery shows across the US and in Europe.
Recent exhibitions include «Group
Portrait with Explosives», Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, 2014 (solo); «Invisible Violence», Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Serbia, & Basque Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria, Spain 2014; «
Built With Love», Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, 2013; «We'll Be This Way Until the End of the World», Mother's Tankstation, Dublin, 2011 (solo); «We Are Grammar», Pratt Manhattan
Gallery, New York; Dublin Contemporary 2011; «Der Menchen Klee», KIT, Düsseldorf, 2011; «Loneliness in West Germany», Goethe - Institut, Dublin, 2009 (solo); «Nothing Human is Alien to Me», Pierogi, Leipzig, 2008 (solo).
Goldschmied & Chiari selected for The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., biennial exhibition series «Women to Watch,» June 5 - Sept 13, 2015, http://nmwa.org/press-room/press-releases/national-museum-women-arts-announces-artists-featured-biennial-exhibition Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «Negative Space,» curated by Gabrielle Garland and Stacie Johnson, The Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY, Feb 28 - April 12, http://knockdown.center/event/negative-space/ Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «I Serve Art,» curated by Sara Reisman, Richard & Dolly Maass
Gallery, Visual Arts
Building, SUNY Purchase, Feb 17 - Mar 27, https://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/Arts/artdesign/richardanddollymaassgallery.aspx Josh Slater film «A Short Coma,» and interview featured in The Creators Connect, http://www.thecreatorsconnect.com/meet-josh-slater/ Rachel Higgins in group exhibition «Flat by Fiat,» Brooklyn, Jan 31 - Feb 21, 2015, open by appointment Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits listed in «Feature Shoot Recommends: Top 10 Photo Events and Happenings in New York (Jan. 19 - 25),» by Ellyn Kail, Jan 19, 2015 http://www.featureshoot.com/2015/01/feature-shoot-recommends-top-10-photo-events-happenings-new-york-jan-19-25/ Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits reviewed in the New Yorker Jan 12, 2015 http://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/art/goldschmied-chiari Loring Knoblauch's review «Goldschmied & Chiari: Untitled
Portraits @kristenlorello» in Collector Daily Jan 12, 2015 http://collectordaily.com/artists/sara-goldschmied-and-eleonora-chiari/ Giacinto Occhionero in group exhibition, «You Don't Bring Me Flowers (+ The Mistress Project), Jan 24 - Mar 7, 2015, http://www.68projects.com/category/exhibitions-future/ Goldschmied & Chiari in group exhibition «Florilegia,» at Grimaldi Gavin, London, Jan 16 - Feb 28, 2014, http://www.grimaldigavin.com/index.php?method=section&action=zoom&id=160&lng=1&forceID=1e3f75e0c66514dbd92d42cc43bbfd19
Her work has been part of various international group exhibitions including L'Autre visage:
Portrait & expérimentations photographiques, Centre photographique - Pôle Image Haute - Normandie, Rouen, France (2016); Out of Obscurity, Flowers
Gallery, London (2016); A Verdant Summer, Taymour Grahne
Gallery, New York (2016); Art Bandini, Los Angeles (2016); Metamorphosis, Flowers
Gallery, London (2015); Any Human Measure, M+B
Gallery, Los Angeles (2015); Altarations:
Built, Blended, Processed, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton (2015); Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris (2014); Foam Talent 2014, East Wing
Gallery, Dubai (2014); Aggregate Exposure, George Lawson
Gallery, San Francisco (2014); Foam Talent 2014, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam (2014); Foam Talent 2014, l'Atelier Néerlandais, Paris (2014); One Step Beyond, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2014); Fixed Unknowns, Taymour Grahne
Gallery, New York (2014); Soft Target, M+B
Gallery, Los Angeles (2014); Big Pictures, Public - art exhibition organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum (2014); Surface (s) / Prise (s), Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris (2014).
Interviewed at their studios,
galleries and workspaces, Castellon photographed their spaces, their inspirations, their surrounding and their clutter to
build a visual narrative of each subject outside of the traditional self
portrait.
Yankus» fourth solo show at the
gallery, the exhibition of more than 20 works explores the fine line between urban reality and architectural fiction though surreal
portraits of
buildings.
2015 Interventions in Printmaking: Three Generations of African American Women, Allentown Art Museum of The Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, USA SELF:
Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum of Art, New York, USA Piece by Piece:
Building a Collection, Selections from the Christy & Bill Gautreaux Collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA Status Quo, The School, Jack Shainman
Gallery, New York, USA Breath / Breadth: Contemporary American Black Male Identity, Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, USA To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, Goodman
Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Most exhibitions take place in the museum's main
building, the old Patent Office Building (shared with the National Portrait Gallery), while craft - focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick
building, the old Patent Office
Building (shared with the National Portrait Gallery), while craft - focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick
Building (shared with the National
Portrait Gallery), while craft - focused exhibitions are shown in the Renwick
Gallery.
Aliza Nisenbaum's newly commissioned
portrait» Susan, Aarti, Keerthana and Princess, Sunday in Brooklyn» for the Norwich Museum & Art
Gallery has come to fruition thanks to a deep conversation and serious consideration of the museum's collection and the interests of its community, with the ambition of helping the museum to take a step further into
building on its future.
1999
Portrait of the past and present historians Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, Sir Keith Thomas, Sir John Elliot, Lawrence Stone and Jean Thirsk (commissioned by the National
Portrait Gallery, London) 1998 Topographical painting of Dorset (commissioned by the Dorchester Hospital Trust) 1997 Printed digital scan of oil painting for the façade of the Embassy during Spring 1997 (commissioned by the British Embassy, Paris) Carpet design (commissioned by the Grosvenor Estate) 1996 «The Knowledge: Bloomsbury» (painting commissioned by BUPA, London) 1993 Painting of the
buildings of the Oxford University Press (commissioned by Oxford University Press, Oxford)
Christopher Baker, Director of the Scottish National
Portrait Gallery, commented: «This remarkable exhibition features images of great drama and poignancy which depict a single, monumental
building and its inhabitants in order to ingeniously document recent events in South Africa.
Humanism and Technology, The Human Figure in Industrial Society, 600 Seoul International Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, December 16, 1994 — January 14, 1995 (Catalogue) Prints and Process, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, October 1994 Democratic Vistas: 150 Years of American Art from Regional Collections, University Art Museum, University at Albany, New York, September 24 — November 13, 1994 (Catalogue) Master Prints from the Collection of The Butler Institute of American Art, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, September 9 — October 19, 1994 Visible Means of Support, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, June — November 1994 Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal Museum and the Hakone Open Air Museum, Japan, June 9 — July 30, 1994 A Floor in a
Building in Brooklyn, Richard Anderson
Gallery, New York, June 9 — July 30, 1994 (Curated by Chuck Close) The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties, Selections from the Eli Broad Family Foundation, UCLA, University of California, Los Angeles, June 6 — October 9, 1994 From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 29 — November 27, 1994 (Catalogue) Facing the Past: Nineteenth — Century
Portrait from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Confronting the Present, The Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, May 27 — June 24, 1994 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Off Shore
Gallery, East Hampton, New York, May 14 — June 13, 1994 30 YEARS ---- Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964 — 1994, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 15 — September 17, 1994 (Catalogue) Face - Off: The
Portrait in Recent Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 9 — October 30, 1994.
Nares had
built on the success of his extraordinary slo - mo film Street, with only slightly faster but equally captivating video
portraits of friends like Jim Jarmusch, Amy Taubin, Hilton Als, Douglas Crimp, and Walter Robinson, among other rogues seldom displayed on
gallery walls.
The new exhibitions in the permanent collection
galleries are «Look and Look Again: Contemporary Observation,» «Changing Views: Expanding the Horizon», «
Portraits», «Esteban Vicente: In the Company of Friends», «Poets and Painters», «Dennis Oppenheim: Splash
Buildings», and «House and Studio: The Spaces Between».
Jaclyn Jacunski, an established local artist known for using materials scavenged from
building sites, often in gentrifying neighborhoods poses for a
portrait with her latest maze installation Friday, Aug. 19, 2016 at the Chicago Artists Coalition
gallery in Chicago.
The latest expansion, a stunning glass rectangular
building designed by architect Frederick Fisher, added an airy 10,000 sq ft. to an already large space in which you'll find Singer Sergeant, Winslow Homer, Copley, Renoir, Remington, Rockwell, Calder, and a 1790 John Rogers
portrait of George Washington, and much more in its many
galleries.
Special focus centered on activities in and around the historic Patent Office
Building — now home to the Smithsonian's National
Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The Patent Office
Building in Washington, D.C. later became the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National
Portrait Gallery, Albumen silver print of Patent Office
Building by Bierstadt Brothers.
Caroline Wiess Law
Building: Treasury of the World: The Jeweled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals and Imperial
Portraits From the Mughal Courts From the Arthur M. Sackler
Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, through Oct. 27 (special tickets required).
2008
Portraits, Greg Kucera
Gallery, Seattle, WA Fort, Installation, Portland
Building, Portland, OR Blanket Stories, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole Art Association, Jackson, WY
Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 SOFA Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011 SOFA Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011 ART Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 SOFA Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2010 Olympia Center Lobby Installation, Chicago, IL 2009 SOFA Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 SOFA Chicago, Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2008 Perimeter
Gallery, Chicago, IL Ceramic Sculpture, April 2008 - present 2007 «All The Difference» Group Ceramic Exhibition, University of Akron, Akron, OH 2007 Packer Schopf
Gallery, Chicago, IL Large Sculpture, Summer 2007 2006 Aron Packer
Gallery, Chicago, IL (January - May 2006) 2005 «Living Artists» Invitational Exhibition, Fine Arts
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 «The More the Merrier» Group Invitational Exhibition, Viridian Artists @ Chelsea, New York, NY 2003 «Objects of Desire» Group Ceramic Exhibition, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL 2002 SOFA Chicago, Aron Packer
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2002 «Natural History» Group Exhibition, Aron Packer
Gallery, Chicago, IL 2001 «Member and Guest Exhibition» Fine Arts
Building Gallery, Chicago, IL 1998 «New Work» Barat College, Lake Forest, IL 1992 «CAA / MFA: Juried Exhibition» College Art Association,
Gallery 2, Chicago, IL 1989 «Artspace» Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 1988 «Faces at SPACES» (Mixed Media Self -
Portrait) SPACES Alternative
Gallery, Cleveland, OH 1988 «Off the Wall» (Paintings) Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 1988 «Three Emerging Artists» (Ceramics and Paintings) Akron Woman's City Club, Akron, OH 1987 «Northeast Ohio Ceramic Invitational» Cuyahoga Valley Art Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH 1987 «Women at Work» Juried Exhibition, Third Place Award, Perkins
Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH 1987 «Artists of Studio 828» Studio 828, Akron, OH 1986 «Explore and Discover» Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH 1986 «Drawing in Foundation Studies in Art: Goals and Strategies» National Exhibition, Allen R. Hite Art Institute, The University of Louisville, Louisville, KY