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BIOGRAPHY

Helen Altman

1958 Born, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Currently lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas

Education

1989 M.F.A., University of North Texas, Denton

1986 M.A., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

1981 B.F.A., University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

Grants and Awards

1999 Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant, Dallas Museum of Art

1993 National Endowment for the Arts, Mid-America Arts Alliance

1991 Engelhard Award, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2008

Nautral Concerns, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

2007

Floater, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

2006

Dozens, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

2005

Scorched, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2004

Group Show, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Dark Horse, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

Home Again, Dunn and Brown Contemporary

Patch of Blue, Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Helen Altman: Smoke Signal, DCKT New York, New York

2003

Helen Altman, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

2002

Lassie Go Home, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

Helen Altman: Fire and Ice, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

2001

Helen Altman: My Best Eggs, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Helen Altman: Trailhead, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas

Helen Altman: Mixed Herd, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

Helen Altman: Moose and Squirrel, J.M. Moudy Exhibition Hall, Texas Christian

1999

Ever Green, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Running Rabbit, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1998

Nature Depicted, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

1997

Just Ahead, Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont; traveled to Galveston Arts Center, Texas

1995

Ark, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Out of the Woods, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

1992

Helen Altman, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Burning Down the House, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Watching Pots, Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, Texas

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2006

Photo-based, Traywick Contemporary, Berkeley, California

Furniture as Metaphor: Contemporary Sculpture and the Poetics of Domesticity, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas

2005

Pairings, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, Texas

Welcome 2 the Jungle, DCKT Contemporary, New York, New York

Land, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Artists Among Us, The Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas

Double Vision: Exhibiting Contemporary Texas Artists for 25 Years, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas

2004

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Flock & Fable: Animals and Identity in Contemporary Art, New York, NY

Art in Embassies Program: Switzerland and Liechtenstein, United States Embassy, Bern, Switzerland

Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection, The Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX

2003

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

2002

Home Sweet Home, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas

Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

2001

Our Crowd Collects, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas

The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Burn: Artists Play with Fire, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbus, South Carolina

Creature (dis) Comforts, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas

2000

Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas

Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas

Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas

Burn It! Next Text, Arlington Musuem of Art, Arlington, Texas

Artistic Centers in Texas: Dallas/Fort Worth, The Texas Fine Arts Association, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas

Who Needs TV? Art League, Houston, Houston, Texas

small, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas

Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

Making a Mark: experimental drawing and printmaking, University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan

Crossing State Lines, Museum of Fine Arts

Out of the Ordinary New Art from Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Uniquely Texas Icons, New Braunfels Museum of Art, Texas

1999

The Aquarium Show, Galveston Arts Center, Houston, Texas

Helen Altman, Matthew Sontheimer, Liz Ward, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Threshold, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach

Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1998

ARTS BOTANICA, Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, Texas

Visions, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1997

Serial Imagery Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Surface Tensions, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas

Schemata: Drawings by Sculptors, The Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas

1996

Transformers: A Moving Experience, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Burning Issues, Galveston Art Center, Texas

First Texas Annual, Contemporary Art Center of Ft. Worth, Texas

1995

The Home Show, University of San Antonio Art Gallery, Texas

Das Pop, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas; traveled to Museum of Agenda and Transgression, Dallas, TX; Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

1994

Drawings, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Helen Altman, Kay Rosen, and Madhvi Subrahmanian, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

New Works Fellowships: Northern Telecom, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas

The Light Fantastic, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas

Uncommon Objects, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

1993

Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Texas: Between Two Worlds, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; traveled to Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas

Light, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Sculptors and Paper, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Texas Art Celebration 1993, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas

Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

1992

Ship Shapes, Galveston Arts Center, Texas

Housewares on Level 6, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Ilinois

New Texas Art, Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA and Boise Art Museum, Idaho

Art & Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Urban/Suburban: Texas Artists: Responses to Life in Suburbia, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas

Re-creation, Recreation, re:Creation, Laguna Gloria Art Museum

Beyond Glory: Re-Presenting Terrorism, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland

1991

The Perfect World, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas

5, An Anniversary Exhibition, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

Metamorphosis of a Butterfly, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

1990

Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Domestic Disorder, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas

The Reality Factor: Helen Altman & Jeff Roddy, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas

New American Talent: The Sixth Edition, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas

1989

Water, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas

Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas

1986

National, 86 Small Works Exhibition, Cobbleskill, New York

Monomania, Ferguson Center Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Two Views, Ferguson Center Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Public Collections

Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa, Alabama

American Airlines, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas

Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas

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