1969
M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1966
B.S., Sam Houston State College, Huntsville, TX
AWARDS:
1993
Living Legend Award, Dallas Visual Art Center, TX
1991
Texas Artist of the Year, Houston Area Art League
1979
National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2002
Pillsbury and Peters Fine Art, Dallas, TX
1999
James Surls: Sculpture and Drawing, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
James Surls: Swimming in Forever, The University of Texas at Tyler
1996
James Surls: In the Garden, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
James Surls: Carved icons, The Savannah College of Art and Design, GA
Sculpture, Drawing, Prints - New Works, Milagros Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
1994
Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1991
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1990
Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO University of Tulsa, OK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
1999
Faultlines: Drawing on/off paper, ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX
1998
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1997
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Fresh Ink: Austin Print Workshops, Austin Museum of Art, TX
37th Annual Art Faculty Exhibition, Gaddis Gesslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Schemata: Drawings by Sculptors, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1996
C3, Cerrillos Cultural Center, NM
In the Warehouse: Large Works, Meredith Long Gallery, Houston TX
Art Faculty Exhibition, Lowman Student Center, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX
Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, ID
Bucking the Texas Myth, Austin Museum of Art, TX
Schemata: Drawings by Sculptors, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Establishment Exposed: Part I, Dallas Visual Art Center, TX
Surls, Moroles, Manjarris: Three paths in our garden, Irving Arts Center, TX Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
32 Texas Artists, Fifth Floor Gallery, Health Science Center, The University of Texas, Houston
1995
Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Magic and Mystery, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX<
1994
Oustide:In, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
Illusion-Allusion, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee
Second Annual Sculpture on the Green, Omni Houston, Houston, TX
Ideas and Objects: Selected Drawings and Sculptures from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Eight Contemporary Sculptures: Beyond Nature, Wood Into Art, The Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
1993
It's a Beautiful Thing, Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
Wood, University of Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York, Stoney Brook
Virgil Grotfeldt, James Surls, Joe, Havel, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Eye to Eye, Art Center of Corpus Christi, TX
Seeing the Forest Through the Trees, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Summer Invitational, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Summer Stock, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
Figure, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Installation, Nations Bank Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Here's Looking at Me, Contemporary Self Portrait, Elac, Lyon, France
1992
Roy Slade, James Surls, Deloss McGraw, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MS
20th Anniversary Exhibition - 1972-1992, The Art Center Gallery, Houston, TX
Some of Houston's Known and Underknown, Allen Center Gallery, Houston, TX
Summer Invitational, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Thirty Prints, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Art and Nature, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Cork Marcheschi, James Surls, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991
Creative Partners, Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Texas, The State I'm In, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
A Celebration of Friends, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Sticks and Stones, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
Retrieving the Elemental Form, Schmidt Bingham Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL; Fresno Art Museum, CA
Art as a Healing Force, Bolinas Museum, Bolinas, CA
The Eyes of Texas, Prints and Unique Works, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Image & Likeness, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
1990
Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists, The Glassell School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Deep in the Art of Texas, Art Gallery, Visual Arts Center, California State University, Fullerton, CA
The Artist's Eye, Diverse Works, Houston, TX
Forty Texas Printmakers, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Word as Image American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; traveled to Contemporary arts Museum, Houston, TX
The 4th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition, Manoa Art Gallery, University of Hawaii, Honolulu
SELECTED COMMISSIONS:
1992
Family, Mariposa Park, Corpus Christi, TX (collaboration with Charmaine Locke)
1991
To the Point, GTE Telephone Operations World Headquarters; Hidden Ridge; Irving, TX
Points of View, Market Square Park Project; Houston, TX
1988
There Used To Be A Lake (collaboration with poet Robert Creeley), Poets Walk; Citicorp Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
1986
The Brazos Flower, The Brazos Center and Arena/Pavilion Complex; Bryan, TX
1979
Pine Flower, Buford TV Inc., Tyler, TX
1978
Sea Flower, (steel and pine), New Federal Building; New Bedford, MA
