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Born- Chicago, IL 1940
Residence- Santa Fe, NM 1969-Present
1966-69 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
MFA Cum Laude in Painting and Sculpture
1961-65 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
BFA in Painting
1960 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Studies in Painting and Sculpture
1958-60 Kenyon College, Gambier, OH
Studies in Philosophy, Medicine, Religion
Teachers: Clyfford Still, Philip Guston, David Hare, Grace Hartigan, Salvatore Scarpitta, Gerome Kamrowski, Joseph Goto, Nathan Olivera and Zubel Kachodoorian
Museums & Public Art Spaces: One Person Shows
2009
“Focus: Sam Scott -- New Acquisitions”
The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM2002
“Sam Scott: Watercolors”
La Maison Française (Museum of Contemporary Art), The Embassy of France, Washington, DC
2001
“Sam Scott: Watercolors of the Reserve Geologique”
Musée-Promenade de Saint- Benoit, Digne-Les-Bains, France
1997-98
“Sam Scott: An American Voice” (Thirty-year Retrospective)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1987-88
"Sam Scott: Recent Work"
Tuscon Museum of Art, Tuscon, AZ
1980
“Sam Scott: The Standing Figure”
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1987 December 11 - 1988 January 30
“Sam Scott: Recent Work”
Tucson Museum of Art (upper gallery), Tucson, AZ
1974
“Recent Paintings: Sam Scott”
Museum of Fine Arts (Upstairs Gallery), Santa Fe, NM
Museums & Public Art Spaces: Group Shows
2007
“Bernard Plossu: So Long, Vivre L’Ouest Amercain - 1970-1985”
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-Les-Rouen, France
2006 May 30 - 2006 September 24
“Painting-Alive and Well! Eight Master Artists” (curator: Dr. Jonathan Adams)
University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM
2004
“Mysteries, Paintings from the Museum Collection”
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2002-03
“Realism to Abstraction: Art in New Mexico, 1917-2002” (Curator: Robert Ewing)
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
1999-2000
“Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the 21st Century”
Hanoi Fine Arts Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
Other venues: Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, and Manila
1998
“Collector’s Choice ‘98”
Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO
1987
“Sam Scott and Don Bachardy: Two Approaches to the Figure”
Saddleback College Art Gallery, Mission Viejo, CA
“Statements ‘87: Artists of New Mexico”
Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM
1975
“Biennial of Contemporary American Art”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1967
“Corcoran Museum Annual”
Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC
Books
Encounters with Beauty
Text: Sam Scott. Edited by William Peterson. Introduction by William Peterson
Fresco Fine Art Publications. Albuquerque, NM. 2007
ISBN 0-9679034-4-0
Santa Fe Bohemia: The Art Colony 1964-1980
Page: 133, 138, 141, 146, 154-158, 166, 167, 178, 201, 292, 293
Text: Eli Levin.
Sunston Press. Santa Fe, NM. 2006
ISBN 10-0865345139
New Mexico Artists at Work
Text: Dana Newmann. Photography: Jack Parsons.
Museum of New Mexico Press. Santa Fe, NM. 2005
ISBN 0-89013-439-1
Ces Merveilleux Carnets de Voyages - "Sam Scott: Carnets"
Text: Farid Abdelouahab. Produced by Archipel Studio, Paris, France.
French edition published by Readers Digest. 2004
Translations in English, Dutch, Flemish, German, and Spanish
Sam Scott: Drawings, Watercolors, Oil Paintings - the New Mexico Artists Series
Critical Essay by William Peterson. Biography by Jim Edwards.
Fresco Fine Art Publications. Albuquerque, NM. 2004
ISBN 0-9741023-3-4
2000
One of five artists chosen to represent the Capital Art Collection in various media as a "State Treasure", Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM
1999
Artist representing the United States at its first post-war cultural exchange with Vietnam. One of three selected by the State Department, Meridian International Center and the Kimsey Foundation. Also featured an exhibition of work by 100 artists, including Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, George McNeal, Robert Rauschenberg, and Wayne Thiebold
1974
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico, first one man show offered to a living artist by this institution
The Harwood Museum, Taos, NM
Albuquerque International Airport, Albuquerque, NM
Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Capital Art Foundation, Permanent Art Collection, Santa Fe, NM
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Museum, Colorado Springs, CO
Governor’s Collection, State Capitol Building, Santa Fe, NM
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Montgomery Fine Arts Museum, Montgomery, AL
Musee de Promenades, Digne-Les-Bains, France
New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Roswell Museum of Fine Art, Roswell, NM
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
University of Iowa Fine Arts Museum, Iowa City, IA
University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM