Denzil Hurley › CV
B. 1949, Saint Michael, Barbados
D. 2021, Seattle, WA
Education
M.F.A. Yale University School of Art
B.F.A. Portland Museum Art School, Portland, OR
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
In Praise of Use, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Denzil Hurley: To be pained is to have lived through feeling, Canada, New York, NY, curated by Gervais Marsh, Ph.D
Within, Without and About, Canada, New York, NY
Denzil Hurley: Disclosures, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Take a stick to it, put it on a line, Canada, New York, NY
Denzil Hurley & Robert Storr, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
2 Coasts-2 Visions, Glenn Goldberg & Denzil Hurley, Marist College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie, NY
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC, catalog
Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA, catalog
Denzil Hurley New Abstract Paintings, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas City, MO, catalog
James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA
Time & Abstraction: Paintings by Denzil Hurley & Julie Shapiro, Pollock Gallery
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, catalog
Denzil Hurley & Franz West, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Andrew Forge & Denzil Hurley, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT
Louis B. Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, PA
Marylhurst College, Portland, OR
The Purple Dagger Gallery, Portland, OR
Group Exhibitions
Is and Isn't: A Context for Denzil Hurley, Canada, New York, NY, curated by Melissa E. Feldman
In Search of the Miraculous, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Indie Folk, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Washington State University, Pullman, WA, curated by Melissa E. Feldman (traveled to The Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA)
Indie Folk, Adams & Ollman, Portland, OR, curated by Melissa E. Feldman
Storied Objects, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Material Properties, Albertz Benda, New York, NY, curated by Maggie Clinton
Departures and Arrivals: Artists in Abstraction, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
Uses of History, studio e, Seattle, WA, curated by Melissa Feldman, catalog
Doing What Comes Naturally, The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, NY, catalog
Luminaries 2016, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
zero, ground, Griffin Art Projects, Vancouver, BC, curated by Lee Plested
Painting in due time, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
Looking Back / The 11th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, NY, curated by Anne Doran
“HEY YOU! WHO ME?”, 32 Edgewood Gallery, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
“ac-qui-si-tions”, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, NY
Highlights from 2012 & Preview of 2013, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
“All Things Equal”, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, curated by Catharina Manchanda Seattle, WA
The Armory Show/Danese Gallery Booth, New York, NY
Works on Paper, Danese Gallery, New York, NY
Prints & Monoprints, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, curated by Rock
Hushka of Tacoma Art Museum & Alison de Lima Green of Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, catalog
“Alchemy or Change”, The University of Texas at Dallas, curated by Lorraine Tady
Seattle Art Dealers Association, Invitational Exhibition, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA
Neddy Artist Fellowship Exhibition, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Traces & Accumulations”, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA curated by Rock Hushka
“This Is Not A Group Show”, University of Washington, Art Faculty Exhibition
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Seattle, WA, catalog/essay by Suzanne Beal
The Chautauqua Institution Exhibition, Chatauqua, NY
Northwest Biennial, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,WA, curated by Rock Hushka of Tacoma
Art Museum & David Kiehl of the Whitney Museum in New York, NY, catalog
Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
“23+ on 9th”, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
“Big & small”, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
International Abstraction, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Peterdi in Context”, Silvermine Guild Galleries, New Canaan, TX
“No Greater Love, Abstraction”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, New York, NY
“Alumni Choice”, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
“Short Stories”, Rotating Exhibition, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Abstraction/Construction”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Trio: Denzil Hurley, Paul Moran, Julie Shapiro”, Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle, WA
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL, catalog
Faculty Exhibition, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (also, 1997, 1995, 1994)
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture, New York, NY
“Square Painting/Plane Painting”, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
“Minimalism: Aftermath & Affinities”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Abstract Painting”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Faculty Exhibition, Yale Norfolk Summer Program, Norfolk, CT
“New Geometry”, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Faculty Exhibition, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Drawing Invitational, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire
Drawing Invitational, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC
Western States Print Invitational, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“Yale Drawing”, Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT
General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
22ND National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, catalog
“Twenty Artists”, Los Angeles Printmaking Society, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Painting Invitational, gallery, Studio School, New York, NY
21st National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, catalog
Oregon Annual, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Public Collections
City of Portland, Portland, OR
Boston Printmakers
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Edward Broida Trust
General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (print)
PepsiCo
The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Portland Development Commission, Portland, OR
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Bibliography
Valentina Di Liscia, “15 Art Shows to See in New York This July”, Hyperallergic, 12 July
Blake Gopnik, “What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July”, The New York Times, July 5
David Rhodes, “Denzil Hurley: To Be Pained Is to Have Lived through Feeling”, The Brooklyn Rail, July 1
Robert Storr, “Denzil Hurley (1949–2021)”, Artforum, August 4
Emilia Dubricki, “Spring 2019 Highlights”, The Woven Table Press, June 18
Tom McGlynn, “Doing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime,” The Brooklyn Rail, July 1
Sue Taylor, "Denzil Hurley", Art in America, October 24
Blake Gopnik, "Denzil Hurley’s Monochromes-on-a-Stick: Corn-dog Reinhardts?”, Artnet, September 23
Eric Lin, “Hey you! See this show!”, Yale Daily News, April 15
Marc Trujillo, “The Influence of Andrew Forge”, The Huffington Post, December 5
Robert Ayers, “A Rare Chance: Robert Storr Paintings at Seattle’s Francine Seders Gallery”, Seattle Times, April 13
Paul Kuniholm Pauper, “All Kinds of Blackness”, April 23
Danilla Rumold, “Economy of Means: Robert Storr & Denzil Hurley”, Contemplative Process, April 26
Erin Langner, “‘Black & White & Red All Over’: Denzil Hurley & Robert Storr”, New American Paintings, April 27
Regina Hackett, “Painter Denzil Hurley's layers of labor are a pleasure for the viewer”, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 9
Matthew Kangas, “Creating, and enjoying, art for the sake of art”, The Seattle Times, February 17
Patricia Failing, ARTnews, May
“Selections from the Burnett Miller Collection”, Artdaily, February 22
“merlin zelmore”, www.sabartes.com
Brian McTavish, The Kansas City Star, January 14
Liz Stephens, The University News, University of Missouri, January 17
Alice Thorson, The Kansas City Star, January 18
Regina Hackett, "SAM survey brings Minimalism into the present”, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 5
"The Art of Reduction: Denzil Hurley Interview", McClain Johnson, October 26
D. K. Row, The Oregonian, June 30
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 21
Noah Simblist, Red Headed Step Child, April
Matthew Kangas, The Seattle Times, January 23
Regina Hackett, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 24
Tom McTaggart, The Stranger, February 13
Marilu Knode, “The Seattle Scene.” Artnet, 1997
Victoria Josslin, “Aorta”, Contemporary Art & Culture, April/May
Colin Gardner, “Wilshire Center”, Los Angeles Times, July 18
Select Books and Catalogs
“Uses of History,” studio e Gallery, curated & essay by Melissa Feldman, Seattle, WA
“Doing What Comes Naturally: Seven Painters in Their Prime,” Milton Resnick & Pat Passlof
Foundation, curated & essay by Robert Storr, New York, NY
“All Things Equal”, Hedreen Gallery, Seattle University, essay by Catharina Manchanda, curator, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Works on Paper”, Danese Gallery, New York, NY,
9th Northwest Biennial, essay by Rock Hushka, curator, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Alchemy or Change”, essay by Lorraine Tady, The University of Texas at Dallas
“Traces & Accumulations”, essay by Rock Hushka, Wright Exhibition Space Catalog, 8th
Northwest Biennial, essay by Rock Hushka, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Denzil Hurley, Weatherspoon Art Museum, essay by Dana Self, Greensboro, NC
“This is Not a Group Show”, University of Washington, School of Art, Faculty Exhibition
“Denzil Hurley, New Abstract Paintings”, essay by Philip Van Keuren, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, MO
“Variant/Glyphic/Negation/Redact”, paintings, 2002-2005, essays by Sheryl Conkelton and Rhonda
Abstraction/Construction”, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Edward Broida Collection”, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
“Time & Abstraction: Paintings by Denzil Hurley & Julie Shapiro”, essay by Philip Van Keuren
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
“Square Painting/Plane Painting”, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
“22nd National Print Exhibition”, Brooklyn Museum, NY
Perspecta, M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA