Donald Sultan

1951 Born Ashville, North Carolina

1973 Receives Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

1975 Receives Master of Fine Arts, School of the Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois

1976 First solo exhibition, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago

1977 Solo exhibition, Artist’s Space, New York; included in travelling exhibition, Four artist’s drawings, originating at New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1978 Receives Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York

1979 Included in Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1981 Included in exhibitions: New Acquisitions, Art Institute of Chicago; Black and white, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983 Included in exhibition, Prints from blocks – Gauguin to now, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984 Included in travelling exhibition, Images and impressions: painters who print, originating at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1985 Included in travelling exhibition, Donald Sultan: prints 1979-1985, originating at Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

1986 Included in exhibition, Public and private: American prints today, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1987 Travelling exhibition, Donald Sultan, originating at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1988 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: black lemons, Museum of Modern Art, New York; included in exhibition, Paintings and sculpture from the Guggenheim Museum Collection and major loans, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1989 Included in travelling exhibition, 10 x 10: contemporary Soviet and American painters, originating at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas; included in exhibitions, First Impressions: early prints by forty-six contemporary artists, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Projects & portfolios: the 25th annual print exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, New York

1991 Included in exhibition, Expressive drawings: European and American art through the 20th century, New York Academy of Art, New York

1992 Travelling exhibition, Donald Sultan: a print retrospective, organised by the American Federation of the Arts, New York, and originating at Lowe Art Museum, Florida; included in exhibitions, Marking the decades: prints 1960-1990, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; From America’s studio: twelve contemporary masters, at the Art Institute of Chicago; De Bonnard à Baselitz: dix ans d’enrichissements du cabinet des estampes, 1978 – 88, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France

1993 Included in exhibition, Ways of the modern: from the Beyeler Collection, National Galerie, Berlin, Germany

1995 Included in exhibitions, Recent acquisitions on paper, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Semblances, in the Tatyana Grosman Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York

1996 Completes first print project, The Album Series, at Tyler Graphics Ltd, Mount Kisco, New York. Included in exhibitions: Thinking print – books to billboards, Museum of Modern Art, New York; New in the 90’s, Katonah Museum of Art, New York

1998 Included in exhibitions: Selections from Tyler Graphics Ltd, Atlanta College of Art, Georgia; Donald Sultan and the still life tradition, Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC

1999 Completes series of four woodblock prints at Tyler Graphics Ltd

2004 Included in exhibition, New editions this Summer, Mixografia ®, Los Angeles

2005 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: 1991 – 2005, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego

2006 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: recent works, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2007 Solo exhibitions: Colours, smoke and war, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York; Donald Sultan: new work, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas; Donald Sultan, Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium

2008 Monograph of Sultan's career published, Donald Sultan: the theater of the object; solo exhibitions: Donald Sultan: works on paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; Donald Sultan: artificial images, Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Donald Sultan: drawings, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland

2009 Solo exhibitions: Donald Sultan: the first decade, Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio; Donald Sultan: prints, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York; included in exhibition, Lincoln Centre: selections from 50 years of printmaking, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, Connecticut

2010 Receives the North Carolina Award

2011 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: new works, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado

2012 Solo exhibition, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York; included in exhibitions: [Re] current editions: 50 years of prints, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Washington; American masters: art of the 19th-21st centuries, Somerville Manning Gallery, Wilmington, Delaware

2013 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: echoes, Galerie Piece Unique, Paris, France; included in exhibitions: New work, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, New York; Flora: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Squeak Carnwath, Andrew Millner, Donald Sultan, Tayloe Piggott Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming

2014 Solo exhibition, Donald Sultan: recent work, Galerie Andres Thalmann, Zurich, Switzerland. Donald Sultan currently lives and works in New York

© Tyler Graphics Ltd; revised Emilie Owens, 2007; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2014

This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.