bio
Born in 1954 in Charlotte, NCeducation
1982 M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis, TN1977 B.A. Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
1976 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
selected solo exhibitions
2006 Recent Paintings and Drawings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
2005 fire and water, The Art Gallery, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
2004 New Paintings and Drawings, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
2002 Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2001 The Medallion Gallery, New Orleans, LA
David Lusk Gallery,
Memphis, TN
2000 Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
1999 Nashville International Airport, Nashville, TN
1998 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
1997 Gallery W.D.O, Charlotte, NC
1996 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis, TN
Sandler Hudson
Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Murray State University,
Murray, KY
group exhibitions
2006 Color, Space 301, Mobile, AL
Three Paths to Abstraction, Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis
2005 Tide to the Vernacular, The Arts Center of St Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL
Max 2005, The Inner Voice of Art, The Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Sadler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
Three Paths to Abstraction, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2nd Floor Contemporary, Memphis
2004 Suitcase Series Memphis: Pinkney Herbert, Greely Myatt, Terri Jones, The Lab, Roger Smith
Hotel, New York
2003 Art of Tennessee Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (catalog)
Marshall Abstract: Four Memphis Painters in Nashville, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville
2002 CurrentMempphis:Memphis Current, SHoRes and NP40, Amsterdam, Netherlands
True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, Meridian International Center,
Washington, DC
National Arts Club, New York, NY, Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA
National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Bratislava, Slovakia
2000 43rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
The Price is Right 2, Once is Never Enough, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis
1999 Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, organized by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, traveling through 2000 to Hanoi Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, VietNam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China; Hall of Ancestors, Beijing, China; Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; and Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore
University of Arkansas, Jonesboro, AR
Nashville Airport, Nashville
MAX 99, curated by Buzz Spector, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis
selected residencies
2002 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA1996 Pyramid Atlantic Press, Riverdale, MD
1995 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1994 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
selected awards and honors
1998 Commissioned works for Vestibule Floor for Public Library Building, Memphis, TN1996 Special Commission for Wolfchase Galleria, Memphis, TN
1995 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1993 USIA-Arts America, Artist/Teaching Fellowship, Helsinki, Finland
USIA-Arts America, Artist/Lecturer Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary
1991 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
1990 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1988 Artists Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
bibliography
Commercial Appeal, Memphis Playbook, Mary Bennett and Pinkney Herbert at David Lusk Gallery,(visual), July 7, 2006, p. 25
Commercial Appeal, Memphis Playbook, get out! 07.07.06, Herbert's Turn, July 7, 2006, p. 2
Memphis Flyer, steppin' out, we recommend: culture, news + reviews, Opening reception for
Recent Paintings and Drawings by Pinkney Herbert, July 6-12, 2006
Commercial Appeal, Community Briefs, Herbert-Bennett Opening, July 7, 2006, p. B3
Commercial Appeal, Playbook, June 30, 2006, (visual) p.29
Commercial Appeal, Playbook, June 30, 2006, (visual) p.29
Art Papers,Jean Hess, Review; Three Paths to Abstraction, May/June 2006, p.60
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, Art Year in Review, December 29, 2005, p 23
Fredric Koeppel, Energy of the Art, House and Garden section, November 19, 2005, pp5-7
Memphis Flyer, David Hall, Mardi Gras to Vietnam, February 24-March1, 2000, pg. 37
Southern Accents, Donna Dorian Wall, Pastel Purity, January-February, 2000, pgs. 64-68
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, (catalog), p. 339, 362
Painting as a Language: Material, Technique, Form, Content, Robertson, Jean & Craig McDaniel, Harcourt Brace, Fort Worth, TX, 2000
selected public collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, ARArthur Anderson Associates, Chicago, IL
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IL
First Tennessee Bank, Memphis, TN
Hyatt Corporation, Columbus, OH; Tampa, FL
Landers & Associates, Memphis, TN
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
New York University, New York, NY
Nynex Corporation, White Plains, NY
Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Pfizer, Memphis, TN
Prudential-Bache, New York, NY
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN
Urban Retail Properties Company, Chicago, IL
Wolfchase Galleria, Memphis, TN
