1974 Born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Currently lives and works in Houston, Texas
Education
2000 M.F.A. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997 B.F.A. Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas
1994 Associate of Science, Paris Junior College, Paris, Texas
Awards
2005 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Award
2004 Penny McCall Foundation Award
2003 Artadia Foundation Award
Joyce Foundation Award
1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation, Grant Recipient
1997 Skowhegan Camille Hanks Cosby Fellowship for African-American Artists
Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas Museum of Art
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
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cult of Color: Call to Color, Collaborative project with Ballet Austin, Austin, Texas
2007
The Wayward Thinker, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Wayward Thinker, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
2006
In The Blestian Room, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2005
More Mound Milking and Miracle Machines, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Project Gallery, ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
St. Sesom and the Cult of Color, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2004
Trenton Doyle Hancock, Paris Junior College, Paris, Texas
2003
Moments in Mound History, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
For a Floor of Flora, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
It Came From Studio Floor, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
2002
It Came From Studio Floor, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2001
The Life and Death of #1, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas traveling to Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; Texas Fine Arts Association at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas (catalogue)
The Legend Is In Trouble, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Wow Thats Me, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
1998
Off Colored, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997
AUTOBIODEGRADABLE, Honors Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas
Group Exhibitions
2008
More Than This, CADD Art Lab, Dallas, TX
Dargerism, American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
In the Beginning: Artists Respond to Genesis, Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
Something New, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2007
The Sirens’ Song, Arthouse At the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, traveling.
The Lizard Cult, Clementine Gallery, New York, New York
Taking Possession, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2006
The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Black Alphabet, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
A Brighter Day Group Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
Infinite Painting: Contemporary Paintings and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Passariano, Italy
2005
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, New York
Swarm, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA 19107
2004
5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Drawing Under the Influence: Lee Baxter Davis & His Proteges, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas (catalogue)
Between the Lines, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
Political Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Reordering Reality: Collecting Contemporary Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
2003
Poetic Justice, 8th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
It Happened Tomorrow, 7th Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, traveling to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,Massachusetts; Wexner Center Galleries at The Belmont Building, Columbus, Ohio
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York
2002
Art on Paper, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Western Artists: Selections from New American Paintings #42, Osp Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Core 2002 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Two by Two for AIDS and Art, amfAR and Dallas Museum of Art Fundraiser, Dallas, Texas
Sugar and Cream: Large Unstratched Wall-Hangings by Contemporary Artists, Triple Candie, Harlem, New York
2001
Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York traveling to Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
Portraiture, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University Galleries, Little Rock, Arkansas
New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Core 2001 Exhibition, Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Private Collections: Artists, Curators and Collectors, University of Texas at Arlington, The Gallery at UTA, Arlington, Texas
The Big Id, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2000
Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Balls, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Artistic Centers in Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas Fine Arts Association at the Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas
Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs and Other Folktales, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York
1998
Texas Dialogues: Parallels, Dallas/San Antonio, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, Texas
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997
New Views, Eight Emerging Texas Artists, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996
Works on Paper, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1995
Juried Student Show, curator: Tom Moody, East Texas State University, Commerce, Texas
Performances
2000
Wow Thats Me, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
In My Own Spit I Found A Hero Even Worse Than Myself, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999
Alluvial The Top Layer, Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998
Off Colored, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1997
AUTOBIODEGRADABLE, Honors Thesis Exhibition, University Gallery, Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas
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
MaRT, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
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