Born
1958 Santa Monica, CA
Education
1988 M.F.A., University of California, Berkeley
1987 B.A., University of California, Berkeley
1981 Cert. of Art, University of California, Santa Cruz
1980 B.A., University of California, Santa Cruz
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2017 Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Dean Byington, “Tout le Necessaire”, Aires Libres 2016, Montreal, Canada
2015 “The New City”, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
“Dean Byington, Buildings Without Shadows”, American University Museum at the
Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
2010 “Black Maps,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
2009 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, TN
2007 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2005 Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2003 “New Paintings,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (Exhibition catalog)
1999 “New Work,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1997 “New Work,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 “New Paintings,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 EXPO Chicago, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century”, Frist Art Museum, Chrysler Museum
“Unconscious Rationale: Artists Amend Reality”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2016 “Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts”, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
“Order & Nature”, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
2015 “Retrospective”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
2014 “Summer in Black & White…And Color”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Fusion: Art of the 21st Century”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmomd. VA
2013 “Hybridity: The New Frontier”, 21c Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas
“Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2012 “Convergence: Highlights from The Collection 2012, Museum 21c, Louisville, KY
“Rarely Seen Contemporary Works on Paper, Art Institue of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2011 “Stream of the Unknown,” Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island, NY
“Land of Magic,” Bedford Gallery at The Lesher, Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA
2010 “Skeptical Landscapes,” Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst
2008 “Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960’s”, San Antonio Museum of Art,
San Antonio, Texas
“Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2006 “The Materialization of Sensibility: Art & Alchemy,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2005 Recent Acquisitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art
2004 Random Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, Calif.
2003 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Cut, Copy, Paste: The Art of Contemporary Collage,” de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
“Bytes and Pieces: Contemporary Collage,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
San Jose, CA
1998 “Art + Tech,” Museum of Art, Duke University, GA (Exhibition catalog)
1997 “Untitlted,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1994 “Negative Energy,” Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
“The 6x 9 Show,” Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
“Shudder,” Victoria Room, San Francisco, CA
1993 “New Work,” Turn of the Century, Berkeley, CA
1991 “66th Annual Crocker, Kingsley Exhibition,” Crocker Art Museum
1990 “A Boar’s Head,” Nexus Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1989 M.F.A. Exhibition, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1988 Eisner Award Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
M.A. Thesis Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Univ. of California, Berkeley
Selected Bibliography
Mark Pascale, “Curator’s Choice: AIC’s New Acquisition,” FNews Magazine, May 2006
Hilarie Sheets, “Critic’s Pick: Dean Byington,” Artnews, January 2006
“Dean Byington,” The New Yorker, May 30, 2005
Roberta Smith, “Making an Entrance at any Age,” The New York Times, May 6, 2005
John Yau, “Invitation to the Labyrinth,” Dean Byington, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, 2003
Jerome Tarshis, “Dean Byington,” Art in America, December 2002
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Boston, MA, 2002
Berin Golunu, Artweek, Vol. 30, No. 10, October 1999
Art + Tech, Museum of Art, Duke University Press, Durham, N.Car., 1988
Jori Finkel, Express, January 17, 1997
Vivien Raynor, The New York Times, November 20, 1994
"Paintography," Visions Art Quarterly, Winter 1994
Steve Starger, Journal Inquirer, November 4, 1994
Hartford Advocate, November 18, 1994
Zyzzyva, Vol. X, No. 3, Fall 1994
David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, July 15, 1994
Ariel Parkinson, The Berkeley Voice, April 27, 1993
Victoria Dalkey, Hanging Judge, The Sacramento Bee, April 28, 1993
Ken Magri, "Second Guessing the Grand Juror," Sacramento News and Reviews, May 1991
Awards
1988 Eisner Prize Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
Selected Collections
Art Institute of Chicago
The Capital Group, Los Angeles
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Neuberger Berman, New York
The Progressive Collection, Cleveland
Rene diRosa Collection, Napa, Calif.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York