 Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 48 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Poland | 1 |
| Spain | 1 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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Rena Bransten Gallery, USA |
11 |
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Jack Shainman Gallery, USA |
6 |
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Walter Maciel Gallery, USA |
5 |
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The Studio Museum in Harlem, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
1963 Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan (US)
Awards 1988 - 1990 School of the Art Institute of Chigago, Trustee's Fellowship
1993 Outstanding Ford Foundation Fellow
2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
2001 ArtCouncil Grant to Individual Artists
2002 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant to Sculptors and Painters
2002 SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2002 Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship
Public Collections
City of Chicago, Harold Washington Memorial Library Center, IL
Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI
The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY
Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 53
from 30.6.
Solo shows 18
2011
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| John Bankston - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| John Bankston - The Changing Machine - Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2010
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| Abstracticator - Beta Pictoris Gallery / Maus Contemporary, Birmingham, AL |
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| John Bankston - James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| JOHN BANKSTON - NEW WORK - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| John Bankston - Imaginary Friends - Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Fabulist´s Colored Life - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| John Bankston - New paintings - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| John Bankston - Through the Woods with Mr. M - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| John Bankston - New York - Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| John Bankston - - Vacío 9 Galería de Arte, Madrid (closed) |
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| John Bankston - Locating Desire - The de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA |
2005
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| John Bankston - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| John Bankston - Recent Works - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| John Bankston - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| John Bankston - A Chance Romance - - Galerie Zink - München, Munich (closed, 2010) |
2002
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| The Capture and Escape of Mr. M, Chapter 2 - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| John Bankston - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 34
2012
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| Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
2011
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| Fifty Years Of Bay Area Art - The Seca Awards - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| 30 Americans - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2010
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| Fuckheads - Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment - Kinkead Contemporary, Culver City, CA |
2009
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| A Delicate Touch - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Connections - Jenkins Johnson Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| Political Draw - Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2008
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| 30 Americans - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| Creature Feature - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2007
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| Black Panther Rank and File - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
2006
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| black alphabet - conTEXTS of contemporary african-american art - Zacheta - National Gallery of Art, Warsaw |
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| -poiesis - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| As Good As Your Next Gig - Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Black Panther Rank and File - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| New Acquisitions—Contemporary Art - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
2005
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| Eureka - The Eureka Fellowship Awards 2002-2004 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Scents of Purpose - Artists Interpret the Spice Box - The Contemporary Jewish Museum San Francisco, San Francisco, CA |
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| The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe - Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| African Queen - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| The Other Mainstream - Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weith - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| The Anniversary Show - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| Strips & Characters/Kunst unter dem Einfluss von Comics - Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
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| Comic Release - - Arthouse at the Jones Center - Contemporary Art for Texas, Austin, TX (closed, 2011) |
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| east of the sun and west of the moon - White Columns, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Scenery - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Rendered - Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation - The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA |
2002
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| "Drawing Days" - - Galerie Zink - München, Munich (closed, 2010) |
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| Tribe - Group Show - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Fantasyland - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Freestyle - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Comic Relief - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1999
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| Bay Area Now 2 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| Dealer Directory 4 |
USA
| | Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Electric Works, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 2
USA
| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
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