William Betts
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Born: New York CIty
Lives: Houston, Texas
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1991 Arizona State University, Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art - Cum Laude
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2007 Margaret Thatcher Projects
2007 Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
2007 Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver BC
2007 Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery
2006 Peter Miller Gallery, Chicago
2005 Bentley Projects, Phoenix, Arizona
2005 Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
2005 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 Thomas Werner Gallery, New York
2004 Poissant Gallery, Houston, Texas
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2007 Chill, Thatcher Projects, New York
2007 Fab Ab, Salt Lake City Art Center
2007 Plus Gallery Denver (two person show)
2007 Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas
2006 Watch It! When Art and TV Meet, SUNY Stonybrook, NY
2006 Baroque Visons and Urban Verities: Seven Houston Painters, Blue Star Art
Space, San Antonio
2006 SuperVISION, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire
2006 Texas Paint, Part Two: Abstraction, Arlington Museum of Art
2006 Biennial Southwest, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque NM
Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Curator
2006 New Abstract Painting, Anne Reed Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho
2006 5 Angles on Abstraction, Addison Arts, Santa Fe
2006 Works of Art on Paper, LBI Foundation, Long Beach New Jersey,Carter E.
Foster, Curator of Drawings, Whitney Museum - Curator
2006 5X7, Arthouse at Jones Center, Austin, Texas
2006 Word!, Rudolph Projects | Artscan Gallery, Houston Texas
2006 Ripped from the Pages, Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County
2006 Blurring the Line, University of Texas San Antonio, Julie Shipp CuratoR
2006 ALH Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Jeffrey D. Grove, Curator
2005 Plus Gallery, Denver, Colorado (2 person show)
2005 Gallery Artists, Addison Arts, Santa Fe
2005 Selections from New American Painting, Plus Gallery, Denver
2005 New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas
2005 5x7, Arthouse Texas, Austin Texas
2005 Three Landscape Painters, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, Connecticut
2005 Inaugural Group Exhibition, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 Incremental Disruption, NAO Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2005 20th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas, Tyler, Texas
2005 Texas Biennial, Austin, Texas
2005 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Houston, Texas
Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Curator
2005 DPI:2004 Competition, Kellogg University Art Gallery
Cal Poly, Pomona, California, Carol Ann Klonirides - Curator
2004 Gensler Architects Rotating Artist Program, Houston, Texas
2004 Sizzle, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas
2004 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
2004 William Betts and Kay Nguyen, Poissant O’Neal Gallery, Houston, Texas
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2007 Elaine Wolff, Reading Between the Pixels, San Antonio Current, March 13
2007 Nikki Moore, Bi-ology, Austin Chronicle, March 1, 2007
2006 Theresa Downing, SUPERvision, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin,
Eau-Claire (Show Catalog)
2006 Margery Gordon, Art Basel Miami: Pulse Beats Sophomore Slump,
ARTINFO.com, December 9, 2006
2006 Dan R. Goddard, Houston, in the eyes of the artists, San Antonio Express-News,
December 3, 2006
2006 Nancy Salem, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Tribune, October 5, 2006
2006 Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, exhibition catalog
2006 Bill Davenport, Ripped from the Pages at CACHH, Glasstire.com, May 28th
2006 Bill Davenport: William Betts Makes Art and a Profit, Houston Chronicle, Sunday Zest Magazine cover story, May 7, 2006
2006 Alan Artner, Review: William Betts at Peter Miller, Chicago Tribune, March 10
2006 Lauren Weinberg, William Betts at Peter Miller, Time Out Chicago, March 3
2006 Fred Camper, Slices of Light, Chicago Reader, March 3, 2006
2005 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Diverseworks surveys Texas Painting, Houston Press,
December 16,2005
2005 Charissa N. Terranova, William Betts at Holly Johnson, ARTLIES 48, Fall 2005
2005 New American Painting, Volume 60, Open Studios Press, 2005,
Fereshteh Daftari, Assistant Curator, Museum of Modern Art, Juror
2005 Michael Paglia, Formal Ware, Westword Weekly, May 13, 2005
2005 D’Lynne Plummer, Destination Nao, South End News, April 2005
2005 Cate McQuaid, Incremental Disruption, Jamey Morrill, William Betts,
and Vaughn Bell, The Boston Globe, April 15, 2005
2005 Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Brushed With Greatness,
Austin American-Statesman, March 8, 2005
2005 Elaine Wolff, Digital-induced Angst and Sensory Overload,
San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005
2005 J R Compton, The 2005 Texas Biennial: The Illusive 3rd Dimension,
Dallas Arts Revue, March, 2005
2005 Tyler Green, ArtLA Faves, Artsjournal.com, February 2, 2005
2004 Kelly Klaasmeyer, Capsule Reviews, Houston Press, October 21, 2004
2004 Tim Moloney, The Line on William Betts, 002 Magazine, November 2004
2004 Catherine D. Anspon, Autumn’s Art Trek, PaperCITY Magazine, October 2004
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2006 First Place: Best in Show, Biennial Southwest, Albuquerque Museum, Juror:
Neal Benezra, Director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2006 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art, Jeffrey
Grove, Curator of Contemporary Art, High Museum of Art Atlanta Juror
2005 Individual Artist Grant, Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County
2005 Third Place Prize, Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Juror and Curator
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