Born in Athens, Greece.
1989 - Present
Full Professor of Art, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
EDUCATION
1957
M.F.A., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
1955
B.A., Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000
Bill Komodore. Poetry in Paint, Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX.
1999
Recent Paintings of Bill Komodore, South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX.
1997
Content Drives Form: Recent Work of Bill Komodore, Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
Bill Komodore: A Retrospective Exhibition, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX
1996
Marks and Worlds, Twenty-five Small Works by Bill Komodore, Brookhaven College, Studio Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1992
Bill Komodore, Jansen-Perez Gallery, San Antonio, TX.
1987
Bill Komodore, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1975
Bill Komodore: Retrospective, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA
1967
Bill Komodore, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY
1965
Bill Komodore, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2000
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000, Houston, TX.
1997
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 1997, Cullen Center, Houston, TX.
1996
The Establishment Exposed, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX.
Summer Group Exbibition, State-Thomas Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1992
New Texas Art, curated by Jim Edwards, San Antonio Art Museum. Traveled to Chewney Cowles Museum, Spokane, WA and Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID.
Faculty Show, Southern Methodist University, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX.
1991
Bill Komodore and Jay Sullivan, Irving Arts Center Gallery, Irving, TX.
House, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX.
1990
First Texas Triennial, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Traveled throughout Texas, 1989-1990.
David McManaway, Bill Komodore, and Sam Gummelt, Baylor University Gallery, Waco, TX.
The Vessel, D-Art, Dallas, TX.
Faculty Show, Southern Methodist Uruversity, Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX.
1988
Texas II, San Francisco Museum of Modem Art, San Francisco, CA.
1987
Gallery Group Show, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1986
Texas Time Machine, curated by Joan Seeman Tobinson, Cullen Center, Houston, TX. Traveled to Sheraton Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1985
Tenth Anniversary Show, DW Gallery, Dallas, TX.
1984 Gate-way Gallery Art Show, curated by Paul Harris, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX.
1983
Art From Dallas Galleries, Caltex House, Irving, TX.
1982
Hearts and Flowers, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX.
Fun and Games, Waco Art Center, Waco, TX.
The Lawndale Competition, Universitv of Houston, Houston, TX.
1980
Bill Komodore and Rick Maxwell, Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX.
1979
Made in Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.
12, Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX.
Roanoke Collects, Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke, VA.
1976
Miniature, DW Co-Op, Dallas, TX.
1972
Bertrand Russell Centenary Exibition, London, England.
1971
One i At A Time, curated by Douglas McAgv Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
1970
Tbe Art of the Invisible, curated by Marcia Tucker, Visual Arts Center, New York, NY.
1968
Plus By Minus, Today's Half Century, Albright- Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Artists Under-Forty, Wfutney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1967
Tbe Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
1966
Art with Optical Reaction, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA.
Op-Art and Its Antecedents, The American Federation of Arts, Charleston, SC; Fort Wayne, IN; Chapel Hill, NC; Cedar Rapids, IA.; Decatur, IL; Montclair, NJ; New Orleans, LA; Lexigton, KY; and Evansville, IN.
Multiplicity, Boston Museum, Boston, MA.
1965
Young America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Art in Motion, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH.
White-on-White, Boston Museum, Boston, MA.
Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, University of Illinois at Urbana and Krannert A.rt Musewn, Champaign, IL.
Optical and Kinetic Sbow, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
1964
The Retrospective Eye, Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY.
SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS:
1999-2000
Dean's Prize 1999-2000, Southern Methodist University, Meadows School of the Arts.
1997
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 1997, First Prize Awarded by David Ross, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art.
1997
Legends Award, Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX. Artists in Schools.
Artists in Schools, 1979-1983, Texas Commission on the Arts Grant.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Des Moines Art Center, IA v Hamilton Gallery of Art, OntaLiio, Canada
Bank of America, Dallas, TX
MCorp, Houston, TX
Milwaukee Museum of Art, WI
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
