Bill Dane

 

Press

The San Francisco Chronicle


Bio

Born

William Thacher Dane in Pasadena, California 1938


EDUCATION

  • Hampshire College Film Study Center, workshops with Diane Arbus & Lee Friedlander, 1971
  • University of California, Berkeley, M.A., 1968
  • University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1964

FELLOWSHIPS

  • 1982

    Guggenheim Fellowship

  • 1977

    National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

  • 1976

    National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

  • 1973

    Guggenheim Fellowship

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 1993

    Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, "Inside and Outside America", Granada, Spain

  • 1992

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1989

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

  • 1987

    Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City

  • 1986

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1984

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1983

    Robert Freidus Gallery, New York
    Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
    De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University

  • 1981

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1977

    M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco

  • 1976

    Museum of Art, Washington State University, Pullman
    Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tuscon

  • 1974

    Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Oakland Museum

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • 2001

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 2000

    Museum of Modern Art, New York

  • 1997

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1996

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1993

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA

  • 1991

    Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1990

    Oakland Museum
    Velick Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1989

    Turin International Photography Biennial, Turin, Italy

  • 1986

    The Photographer's Gallery, London

  • 1985

    San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento
    Barbican Gallery, London

  • 1984

    Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

  • 1977

    The Photographer's Gallery, London

  • 1975

    City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • 1973

    Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

  • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
  • Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
  • Consolidated Freightways, Palo Alto
  • di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
  • Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
  • Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

BOOKS & CATALOGUES

  • Silverman, Ruth, The Dog, p. 79, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2000.
  • di Rosa, Rene, Local Color, pp. 82-83, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1999.
  • Phillips, Sandra, Crossing the Frontier, SFMoMA, Chronicle Books, San Franicsco 1996.
  • Fine Art Photography, p. 79, Graphis Publishing Co., Zurich, Switzerland, 1995.
  • Dane, Bill, Outside and Inside America, Diputacion de Granada and Fraenkel Gallery, 1993.
  • Swidler, Ann. Inside and Outside America. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain, 1993.
  • Fraenkel, Jeffrey. Bill Dane: History of the Universe. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1992.
  • Fraenkel, Jeffrey, and Eugenia Parry Janis. The Kiss of Apollo: Photography & Sculpture 1845 to the Present, 34. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, 1991.
  • Velick, Bruce. A Kiss is Just A Kiss, 39. New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990.
  • Silverman, Ruth. Dog Days. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1989.
  • Current Works, 24. Kansas City: Society for Contemporary Photography, 1987.
  • Silverman, Ruth. Athletes, 123. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1987.
  • The Animal in Photography, 9. London: The Photographer's Gallery, 1986.
  • Silverman, Ruth. San Francisco Observed, 116. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1986.
  • Turner, Peter. American Images, 217-18. London: Penguin Books, 1985.
  • Green, Jonathan. American Photography, 178, 180. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984.
  • Appel, Alfred, Jr. Signs of Life, 28. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1983.
  • Little Known. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, 1983.
  • Heyman, Therese. Slices of Time: California Landscapes 1860-1880, 1960-1980, 21. Oakland: Oakland Museum, 1981.
  • Szarkowski, John. American Landscapes, 72. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1981.
  • Szarkowski, John. Mirrors and Windows, 122-23. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1978.
  • Janis, Eugenia Parry, and Wendy MacNeil. Photography Within the Humanities, 85. New Hampshire: Addison House, 1977.
  • Green, Jonathan. The Snapshot, 96-105. New York: Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1974.
  • Munsterberg, Marjorie. On Time. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1974.
  • Edkins, Diana. Landscape & Discovery. New York: Hofstra University, 1973.

PERIODICALS

  • Berkson, Bill. Review of Bill Dane at Fraenkel Gallery. Artforum 25, no. 3 (November 1986): 143-44.
  • Collins, James. Review of Bill Dane at Museum of Modern Art, New York. Artforum 12, no. 7 (March 1974): 76-77.
  • Cook, Ronnie, and Holly Pollard. "I Left My Art in San Francisco." Details, April 1990:
    149-50.
  • Fitzgibbon, John. "Death Valley to Phoenix to Santa Fe and the Sangre De Christo.
    Hope You Like It." Aperture 94 (Spring 1984): 22-31.
  • "Recent American Photography at the Edinburgh Festival." Creative Camera 147. London:
    Coos Press, September 1976: 308-11. Rubinfien, Leo. Artforum 26, no. 10 (Summer 1978): 46-51.