Bill Walton
Exhibitions, CV, Press
Born 1931, Camden, NJ
Died 2010, Camden, NJ
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Bill Walton, Frith Street Gallery, London
2015
Bill Walton, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA
Bill Walton, JTT, New York, NY
2014
Bill Walton; Artist to Artist, Leonard Pearlstein Gallery, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
2013
Bill Walton, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Bill Walton, JTT, New York, NY and James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Bill Walton Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Bill Walton, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004
Bill Walton, 206 Space, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Bill Walton: New Work, 206 Space, Philadelphia, PA
2002
Bill Walton West of Roulette, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000
1/4 Turn, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1996
Wisteria Series, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1995
An Indication, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1993
Works from the “West Main” Series, Jessica Berwind Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Letters, Memos, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1990
Six or Seven Places in One Place, Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Six or Eight More Places, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1988
New Works, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1987
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1981
Bill Walton, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
1975
William Walton, Philadelphia Print Club, Philadelphia, PA
1973
William Walton, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1971
William Walton, Diane Vanderlip Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
A More Perfect Union, Woodmere Art Museum, Chestnut Hill, PA
2015
I Taught Myself, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
A Walk…, Tripoli Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Rudolf de Crignis, Imi Knoebel, Julia Rommel, Bill Walton, Shane Campbell Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL
2013
Rohrer—Walton—Andrade: On Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2012
60/60, Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia, PA
My Safe Reduction to Form, Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Everyday Abstract, Abstract Everyday, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2011
The Medicine Bag, Maccarone Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Michael Toenges, Peter Tollens, Bill Walton, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
A Cleaner Heart A Do It, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2007
Stop, Pause, Forward, Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004
Open, Spruance Art Gallery, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
Trace University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003
Stacked/Folded - Bill Walton, Winfisky Gallery, Salem State College, Salem, MA
2002
Breathing Room, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
2001
Focus Exhibition, Bill Walton, John Zurier, Robin Miller, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2000
Landscape Revisited, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA
1999
First Show, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
10/27
Show, White Box Gallery, New York Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1998
Frank Badur/Bill Walton, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
Open House, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Drawing Currents Art in City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1996
David Goldstein, Bill Walton: Between Painting and Sculpture, Condesco Lawler Gallery, New York, NY
Materials Matters, AOI Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1995
Objects and Souvenirs: Artist’s Multiples, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1994
Conversation Pieces with Bill Walton, Hamish Fulton, Tom Chimes, Alan Charlton, Richard Wentworth, and Richard Torchia, ICA, Philadelphia, PA
1993
Cold Sculpture, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
1992
Selections from the Permanent Collection/Purchases from the Julius Bloch Fund, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1991
The Next Show, Gallery at the State Theater for the Arts, Easton, PA
Philadelphia Art Now: Artists Choose, Artists Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1989
Back to the Wall, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Landscapes of Thought, Momenta/Art Alternatives, Philadelphia, PA
Night Circle Canvas/Copper, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1988
Bill Walton, David Wetzl, William H. Cook Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Markers, Views, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
1987
Made in Philadelphia VII, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Perspectives from Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Glass Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Cornelius Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Visions and Voices, Rosemont, PA
1984
Small Scale Sculpture, Matthews Hamilton Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1983
William Walton, Marian Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1982
New Printmaking, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Abstract Icons, Kling Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1979
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1978
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1972
Philadelphia Artists Today, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia, PA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
EDUCATION
1956 Institute of Design, Chicago, IL
PUBLICAITONS
2006
Walton, Bill, and Patrick T. Murphy. Bill Walton. Glenside, PA: Arcadia University Art Gallery.
2000
Youngs, Christopher. Landscape Revisited: New Interpretations of the Contemporary Landscape— Redefining a Tradition. Peter Kinney, William Smith, Bill Walton. Catalog, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA.
1994
Murphy, Patrick T., and Ivy L. Barsky. Conversation Pieces: Alan Charlton, Thomas Chimes, Hamish Fulton, Bill Walton, Richard Torchia, Richard Wentworth. Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.