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MANUEL NERI b. 1930, Sanger, CA. Education: California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco (now SFAI) (1956-58); California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (1951-56); University of California, Berkeley (1951-52); San Francisco City College (1949-50). Selected Solo Exhibitions: Manuel Neri: Early Work: 1953-1978, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; San Jose Museum of Art, CA (1997); Manuel Neri: A Sculptor's Drawings, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Palm Springs Desert Museum, CA (1996-1999); Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art, Las Vegas (1995); Manuel Neri: Painted and Unpainted, Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY; Manuel Neri: Bronzes, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (1990); Manuel Neri: Plaster, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1989); San Antonio Art Institute, TX (1987); Seattle Art Museum, WA (1981); Manuel Neri, Sculptor, Oakland Museum of California (1976); Arts of San Francisco: Manuel Neri, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1971). Selected Group Exhibitions: Treasures of the Achenbach Foundation for the Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (1995); Here and Now: Bay Area Masterworks from the di Rosa Collection, Oakland Museum of California (1994); Gifts and Acquisitions in Context, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1992); New Acquisitions, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1991); Bay Area Figurative Art: 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1989); Contemporary Hispanic Art in the United States, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1987); Drawings Since1974, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (1984); California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC (1977); On Looking Back: Bay Area: 1945-1962, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1968); The 6 Gallery, San Francisco (1955). Selected Collections: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; Denver Art Museum, CO; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Hawaii State Council on the Arts, Honolulu; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; The Oakland Museum of California; di Rosa Preserve, Napa; San Diego Museum of Art, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Whitney Museum of American Art, NY. Selected Awards and Honors: Honorary Doctorates: Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (1995), California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland (1992), San Francisco Art Institute (1990); American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, Academy-Institute Award in Art (1982); National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant (1980); Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1979); National Art Foundation Award (1965); Nealie Sullivan Award, California School of Fine Arts (SFAI) (1959).
Donated by Manuel Neri, Courtesy Anne Kohs & Associates
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