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2024 Eric Avery: Life Before Art-Arizona Illustrated
Arizona Public Media (PBS)
Ozlem Oagur Producer, Arts & Culture
September 2024
2023

Eric Avery and Alice Leora Briggs
Ranch Linda Vista Gallery
Oracle, Arizona
Exhibition Video
September 9- 29, 2023

Ways of Seeing
Prints by Eric Avery and Sue Coe: One Exhibit, Two Spaces
Eric Avery, M.D. Art as Medicine
Laredo Center for the Arts
March 3 - May 12, 2023
Video Tour of Exhibition (77 minutes)
Sue Coe Look Through My Eyes Animal and Human Rights

Texas A&M International Univeristy
Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Gallery
March 24 - April 28, 2023
Curators: Kssandra Romero and Jesse Shaw
Read TAMIU Press Release

2021

Eric Avery/Anne Wallace
Kirk Hopper Fine Art

Dallas, Texas
November 6 - December 18, 2021
Read Curator Susie Kalil Essay

Pop Critico/Political Pop
Expressive Figuration in the Americas 1960s-1980s
Blanton Museum of Art
The University of Texas at Austin
October 31-January 16, 2022
Curators: Vanessa Davidson and Carter Foster

PRINT+
Hunterdon Art Museum
Clinton, NJ
May 8 - September 5, 2021
Curator: Sheila Goloborotko

2019

States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing
Read Hyperallergic Exhibition Review
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton, NJ
November 2, 2029-February 2, 2020
Curators: Veronica White, Laura Giles

Epidemic: The Art of Dr. Eric Avery and Adam Delmarcelle
Reece Museum
East Tennessee State University
Johnson City, TN
April 15 - May 31, 2019

Epidemic Dance

From Dürer to Digital and 3-D
Hyperallergic Review of the Exhibition
The Metamorphosis of the Printed Image
The Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie
Trenton, NJ
March 8 - April 28, 2019
Curator: Judith K. Brodsky

Art in Action: Herblock and Fellow Artists Respond to Their Times
Graphic Arts Galleries Thomas Jefferson Building
Library of Congress
Washington DC
January 31-August 17, 2019
Curators: Kim Curry, Katherine Blood, Martha H. Kennedy

2018

Epidemic: An Exhibition by Dr. Eric Avery & Adam DelMarcelle
York College of Pennsylvania
York, Pennsylvania
October 25-December 19, 2018

Eric Avery MD: Prints
Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, Florida
January-Feburary 2018

The Boston Printmakers 2017 North American Print Biennial
Lesley Uinversity College of Art And Design, Lunder Arts Center Galleries
Cambridge, Massachusetts
January 27-March 4, 2018
Juror: Judith Brodie, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
See: Print Life: Neurogenesis installation in exhibition

2017
A New Century of War
Frontline Arts/The Printmaking Center of NJ
Branchburg, NJ
Curated by Walt Nygard and Dennis Murray
October 18-November 17, 2017 Eric Avery MD: Prints
The University of the Arts Philadelphia, PA
October 13-November 10, 2017
Exhibition Photos
Artist Talk Semographics III: A Creative Visual Collaboration
The Vam Gallery @ Austin Oaks Church Austin, Texa
September 3-October 8, 2017 American Dream: From Pop to the Present
British Museum
London
Curators: Stephen Coppel, Catherine Daunt and Susan Tallman
March 9-June 18, 2017
Hear the Conversation, June 3, 2017. 42 Minutes
Exhibition Photos
Art = Life: Conversation and Book Making Action with John Howard
2016
Eric Avery: AIDS WORK 1986-2013
Smith Art Museum

Curator: Aprile Gallant
August 12-December 11, 2016
2015

9th Naked in Hew Hope
Side Tracks Gallery
New Hope, Pennsylvania September 12-October 31, 2015

Art AIDS America
Tacoma Art Museum October 3-January 10, 2016
Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Georgia February 9-May 21, 2016
Bronx Museum of the Arts,Bronx, NewYork July13-September 11, 2016
Alphawood Exhibitions LLC, Chicago, Illinois December 1, 2016-April 2, 2017
Curators: Jonathon Katz, Rock Huska

Read Bronx Museum exhibition review: Art of the AIDS by Holland Cotter
Read Alphawood Foundation exhibition review: AIDS Legacy of Loss by Hannah Moulthrop

Selfies: 50 at 50
The Southwest School of Art San Antonio, Texas
Curator: Kathy Armstrong
May 7-July 5, 2015

Artist Healers: Three Artists Who Heal

Eric Avery MD, Lynn Randolph, Ian Cion
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
February 23-March 27, 2015

Peregrine Press: A Texas Legacy
Flatbed Press
Austin, Texas
Curator:MikeHart
January10-March16, 2015

Emblem: Figuring the Abstract in Social Commentary
Hood Museum of Art
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Curator: Bay Lauris ByrneSim
February 14-March 5, 2015

   
2014 The Art of Eric Avery MD
HIV/AIDS
WITNESS HEALER SURVIVOR

Glassell Gallery Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
October 30-December 7, 2014
   
2013

The Eleventh Hour
Diverse Works
Houston, Texas
September 7-October 12, 2013

Eric Avery& Drew Cameron
Prints, Handmade Paper and Book Arts by Contemporary Agents of Change
Printmaking Center of New Jersey
Branchburg, New Jersey
January 12-March 2, 2013

   
2012

Just Not Yet: dodging the vacuum of meaning
Landmark Arts-Gallery of the Texas Tech University School of Art
Lubbock, Texas
Curated by Peter Briggs
November 8-December 16, 2012

In the Hot Seat
Proximity Gallery
Cleveland, Ohio
Curated by John Risseeuw (for Friends of Dard Hunter/IAPMA meeting)
October 17-21, 2012

Mapping Galveston - group exhibitions
Galveston Artist Residency
Curated by Eric Schnell and Sallie Barber
Galveston, Texas
August 25-November 3, 2012

35mm:Photographs from the Collection
HandsHealing
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Curator: Amanda Bock
Feburary 11-May 27, 2012

   
2010

PHILAGRAFIKA: THE GRAPHIC UNCONCIOUS
www.philagrafika2010.org
The Print Center
Phildelphia, Pennsylvania
Curator: John Caperton
January 29-April 11, 2011
  Print Back
  Proof of Concept
  Paradise Lost
  Rxcipes for Disaster
  Print Back card

BECAUSE WE ARE
Station Museum of Contemporary Art
Houston, Texas
Curator : Timothy Gonzalez and James Harithas
June 19-September 19, 2010

   
2009

ART AS WAR/WAR AS ART
Morgan Conservatory of Cleveland
Cleveland, Ohio
Curator: Bill Drendel
July 4-September 12, 2009

   
2007

MY GOD TOLD ME TO KILL YOUR GOD: GROUP EXHIBITIONS ON WAR
Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts
Rice University
Houston, Texas
Curators: Karin Broker, Brian Huberman
October 23-November 21, 2007
  Glory Hole
  Dear George

SEEING IS KNOWING: THE BODY
Group exhibition curated by Laurel Bradley
Carleton College Art Gallery
Northfield, Minnesota
September 14-October 14, 2007

   
2006

LASTING IMPRESSIONS: SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINT COLLECTION 2003-2005
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona
January-April 2006

RECENT ACQUISITIONS: PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM DURER TO DOIG
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
March 11-May 21, 2006

POLITICS ON PAPER: GLOBAL TRAGEDIES/PERSONAL PERILS
Eric Avery, John Risseeuw and Robbin Ami Silverberg
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
Chicago, Illinois
January 13-March 11, 2006

   
2005

THE WOODCUT PRINTS OF ERIC AVERY, M.D.
The Drawing Studio Gallery
Tucson, Arizona
October 11-November 22, 2005

LIVER DIE
Print Action for Health - Hepatitis C
Exhibited in Pressing Issues, Pressing Images
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
March 31-April 3, 2005
Read Exhibition Prospectus

 
2004

WILD COLLABORATIONS: NEW PRINTS FROM THE ARTISTS PRESS
Art on Paper Gallery
Melville, Johannesburg, South Africa
October 30-November 18, 2004

PRINTS: SYSTEM, STYLE AND SUBJECT
Fogg Art Museum
Cambridge, Massachusetts
October 9, 2004 - January 30, 2005

HEALTH MATTERS: PRINTS BY ERIC AVERY
Slugfest Gallery
Austin, Texas
September 10-October 15, 2004

DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA: POLITICAL SATIRE THEN AND NOW
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tempe, Arizona
August 31-November 20, 2004

DOCTOR'S CUTS: PRINTS BY ERIC AVERY
The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
St. Lawrence University
Canton, New York
April 13-June 7, 2004

 
2003

TEXAS RANGERS
Museum of Contemporary Art D.C.
Washington, D.C.
November 16, 2002 - January 15, 2003

 
2002

REPO (session)
Gallery 312
Chicago, Illinois
September 13-October 19, 2002

10 Day - 30 Year Print Retrospective
4 Spaces Galveston College
Galveston, Texas
August 9-19, 2002

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAPER ARTISTS: AN INVITATIONAL EXHIBITION
Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
Chicago, Illinois
July 12-August 23, 2002

 
2001

SECRET WARS
Art Car Museum
Houston, Texas
September 21, 2001-February 24, 2002

LOOKS GOOD ON PAPER
Leslie Gallery
Galveston, Texas
April 28-June 14, 2001

RETRO-VIRUS 79/89/99
Zygote Press
Cleveland, Ohio
June 12- August 12, 2001

TEXAS 2001: CONTEMPORARY PRINTS BY TEXAS ARTISTS
Flatbed Press World Headquarters
Austin, Texas
March 8-April 15, 2001

 
2000

THE VULNERABLE BODY
Art Scan Gallery
Houston, Texas
January 28-Feburary 26, 2000

A DECADE OF COLLECTING: RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS (1940-Present)
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachussetts

QUINTESSENCE
St. Cloud State University
St. Cloud, Minnesota

 
1999

TEXAS PAPER: WORKS ON PAPER BY TEXAS ARTISTS
The Gallery at The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, Texas
October 9-November 17, 1999

ART AS PROPHYLAXIS
Moody Medical Library
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
May 13-May 31, 1999

THE FIGURE AND ITS FIELD
Art Scan Gallery
Houston, Texas
April 23-May 29, 1999

 
1998
A GALVESTON SAMPLER
Galveston Art Center
Galveston, Texas

THE PRINTMAKING EXCHANGE PORTFOLIOUniversity Art Museum, California State University
Long Beach, California
 
1997

THE SKIN OF MY MOTHER
Wall Installation of nipple prints
Photo engravings on Kozo paper
8 ½” diameter
Edition: open


THE HUMAN CONDI
TION - Prints from the Elgin W. Ware, Jr. -- Texas Medical Association Collection
Texas Medical Association Building,
Austin, Texas

ART, EDUCATION, AND COWS
Iron/Or Gallery
Galveston, Texas

ART AS MEDICINE/MEDICINE AS ART
Straus Gallery, Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

THE LOST ART OF HEALING
University Art History Gallery,
University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
April 25-26, 1997

 
1996

BLOCK PRINTS IN THE AMERICAS
Graphics Studio, The College for Fine Arts,
University of South Florida
Tampa, Florida

TAMARIND: THE NINETIES
Weatherspoon Art Gallery
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, North Carolina

HIV CONDOM FILLED PINATAS
Moody Medical Library
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

 
1995
WALLPAPER WORKS
Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, Texas (Catalog
)

Galveston Blue Magnolias and Kaposi Noses
How to Use a Male and Female Condom

 
1994
COHORTS: WORKS ABOUT AIDS BY SUE COE AND ERIC AVERY
Jonson Gallery of the University Art Museum
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

TWO ARTISTS ON AIDS
HEALING BEFORE ART: PUBLIC HIV BLOOD TESTING
SONGS WITH A DYING FALL, NEW PAINTINGS BY DAVID SCHORR

Mary Ryan Gallery
New York, New York
-Video-Interview with the artist
-Video-Museum HIV Blood Testing
-Blood Wall Paper-The Stuff of Life
-HIV Condom Filled Pinatas


BODY AND SOUL: CONTEMPORARY ART AND HEALING
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, Massachusetts (Catalog)

UTMB HIV Clinic Opening Exhibition
Sue Coe: AIDS Portfolio
Roger Haile: Portraits fo Health Care Providers
Infectious Diseases/Virology Clinic, University of Texas Medical Brance at Galveston
Galveston, Texas
March 4, 1994

 
1993
TEXAS: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
-Installation
-Blood Wall Paper-The Stuff of Life
-HIV Condom Filled Pinatas
-Video-Interview with the artist
-Video-Museum HIV Blood Testing
Contemporary Art Museum
Houston, Texas (Catalog)

LA FRONTERA/THE BORDER
Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego, California

THE NEW PROVINCETOWN PRINT PROJECT, ERIC AVERY
Fine Arts Work Center
Provincetown, Massachusetts
 
1992
OUTSPOKEN AND HANDCRAFTED: ART BY ERIC AVERY, ANNE KRAUS, McDERMOTT & McGOUGH, AND FAITH RINGGOL
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, Massachusetts

NEW WORLD DISORDER, Eric Avery and Mathias O'Donnell

Brody Gallery
Washington, District of Columbia

THE ROAD TO THE WHITE HOUSE/SUE COE, ERIC AVERY, JIM ANN HOWARD
Brody Gallery
Washington, District of Columbia (Catalog)

CENTENNIAL 1892-1992, Print Exhibition
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas (Catalog)

ERIC AVERY: NEW PRINTS
  Party Invitation
  Snowball and Misty
  The Kiss
  1984 AIDS
Graham Gallery
Houston, Texas
 
1991
ERIC AVERY: HEALTH ISSUES
Galveston Arts Center
Galveston, Texas

A BORDER SURVEY: ART ALONG THE LOWER RIO GRANDE VALLEY
Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, Texas

PRINT STUDY EXHIBITION
Archer M. Huntington Gallery
University of Texas
Austin, Texas

REIMAGING AMERICA
Momenta Art Alternatives
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Catalog)
 
1990

LIFE BEFORE ART: IMAGES FROM THE AGE OF AIDS
Carla Lamagna Gallery
New York, New York

GALLERY ARTIST, NEW WORK
Graham Gallery
Houston, Texas

ERIC AVERY: CAST PAPER WOODCUTS, 1988-90
Blue Star Art Space
San Antonio, Texas

11th BRITISH INTERNATIONAL PRINT BIENNALE
Bradford, England

PRINTMAKING IN TEXAS - THE 1980's
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Fort Worth, Texas (Catalog)

65th ANNUAL INTERNATINAL COPMETITION: PRINTMAKING
The Print Center
Phildelphia, Pennsylvania

 
1989
ERIC AVERY: PRINTS
Fox Fine Arts Center
The University of Texas
El Paso, Texas

25th BROOKLYN NATIONAL PRINT EXHIBITION
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York (Catalog)

WILL IT ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS

Offset Poster
edition: open

ERIC AVERY: RELIEF PRINTS FROM LIFE IN SOUTH TEXAS
The Print Center
Phildelphia, Pennyslavania
 
1988
COMMITTED TO PRINT
Museum of Modern Art
New York, New York (Catalog)


ERIC AVERY: WORKS ON PAPER

Grey Art Gallery and Study Center
New York University
New York City, New York

ERIC AVERY: NEW PRINTS/HANDMADE PAPER
Graham Gallery
Houston, Texas

HANDS HEALING
Moody Medical Library
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

64thANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: PRINTMAKING
The Print Center
Phildelphia, Pennsylavnia

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT FOR PRINTS
The Print Center
Phildelphia, Pennsylavania
 
1987

ERIC AVERY PRINTS 1983-87
Peregrine Press/Gallery
Dallas, Texas

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT FOR PRINT
P.P.O.W. Gallery
New York, New York (Catalog)

CONTEMPORARY PRINTS
Mary Ryan Gallery
New York City, New York

 
1986

SCAN EXHIBITION, NEW YORK CITY
212 East 14th Street
November 15-22, 1986

HEALING BEFORE ART
Weil Gallery
Corpus Christi State University
Corpus Christi, Texa
s

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE, AMERICAN PRINTS TODAY 24th Brooklyn National
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York (Catalog)

ERIC AVERY, NEW PRINTS
Mary Ryan Gallery
New York City, New York

BLOCKBUSTER: THE BIG IMPRESSION
John Nichols Printmakers
New York City, New York (Catalog)

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
Diverse Works
Houston, Tx
Curators: Caroline Huber and Michael Perateau
November 8-23, 1986

HEALING BEFORE ART
Cover: photoengraving letterpress
Catalog: offset
Essay: David Bjelajac
Printer: Eric Avery at Center for Book Arts, NYC
Edition: 1000

 
1985
NEW DIRECTIONS IN PRINTMAKING
Mary Ryan Gallery
New York City, New York

NEW ACQUISITIONS, PRINTS
The New York Public Library
New York City, New York
 
1984
ARTISTS CALL AGAINST U.S. INTERVENTION IN CENTRAL AMERICA
Graham Gallery
Houston, Texas

PRINTS/GRABADOS
Graham Gallery
Houston, Texas

60th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION: PRINTMAKING
The Print Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

MCALLEN INTERNATIONAL MUSEUM
McAllen, Texas
1983 CONTEMPORARY IMAGES: THIRTEEN SOUTH TEXAS ARTISTS
Cayman Gallery
New York City

CREATURES IN PRINT
Corpus Christi State University Weil Gallery
Corpus Christi, Texas
Xochil Art Institute
Mission, Texas
Las Manitas Cafe
Austin, Texas
Interview with Artist
Images in Exhibition

AMST II
Art Museum of South Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
1982

IMAGES OF LIFE AND DEATH
Moody Medical Library
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Rosenberg Public Library
Galveston, Texas

IMAGES OF LIFE AND DEATH
The University of Texas Health Science Center
San Antonio, Texas

1980

THE BARN GALLERY AT RANCHO LINDA VISTA
Oracle, Arizona

1977

GALVESTON INVITATIONAL PRINTMAKING EXHIBITION
Galveston Arts Center
Galveston, Texas

1975

5th ANNUAL PRINT EXHIBITION
Pratt Graphics Center
New York City

 
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