Pat Colville (born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1931) is a contemporary American artist who works in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Her work holds a commitment to abstraction and is influenced by early Asian landscape paintings.

Early life and education

Colville was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1931, and moved to Houston at the age of 17. Colville received her BS from the University of Houston in 1952 and her MFA from the University of Oklahoma in 1977.

Work

Colville has presented solo exhibitions at the

New Orleans Museum of Art The New Orleans Museum of Art (or NOMA) is the oldest fine arts museum in the city of New Orleans. It is situated within City Park, a short distance from the intersection of Carrollton Avenue and Esplanade Avenue, and near the terminus of the ...

and

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a not-for-profit institution in the Museum District, Houston, Texas, founded in 1948, dedicated to presenting contemporary art to the public. As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual ...

and has also exhibited her work at the

Art Museum of South Texas The Art Museum of South Texas, located in Corpus Christi, Texas, is an art museum which was established in 1936. History In 1936, the Centennial Museum was opened by the city of Corpus Christi. The museum was then given to two art organizations ...

and the

San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is an art museum in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The museum spans 5,000 years of global culture. The museum is housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewery (1886) on the Museum Reach of the San Antonio ...

. Colville has taught extensively, including 20 years at the

Cooper Union The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Cooper Union) is a private college at Cooper Square in New York City. Peter Cooper founded the institution in 1859 after learning about the government-supported École Polytechnique in ...

in New York as well as

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...

in New York, Houston Museum School, St. Thomas University, The University of Houston, and Bennington College. She is the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Grants, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Benjamin Altman Award, a New York State Creative Arts Program Fellowship, and an American Association of University Women Fellowship. Colville is represented b
Moody Gallery
(Houston).

Selected solo exhibitions

* 2023 ''Drawings from the Jasper Mountain / Li Po series'' at Anne Cooper Occasional Gallery, Los Ranchos, New Mexico * 2016 ''Hardscapes'' at Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas * 2014 ''A Celebration: Five Decades of Work'' at Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas * 1992 at Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia * 1989/90 at Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida * 1980 at Condeso/Lawler Gallery, New York, New York * 1979 ''Pat Colville: Recent Works'' at

, Houston, Texas * 1974 at

, New Orleans, Louisiana

Selected group exhibitions

* 2022 ''Texas Artists: Women of Abstraction'' at

, Corpus Christi, Texas * 2020 ''Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art'' at

, San Antonio, Texas * 2008 ''The 183rd Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art'' at National Academy Museum, New York, New York * 1989 Chicago International Art Exposition, Chicago, Illinois

Selected collections

Art Museum of Southeast Texas The Art Museum of Southeast Texas (AMSET) is an art museum in Beaumont, Texas, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in Nor ...

, Beaumont, Texas *

Dallas Museum of Art The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is an art museum located in the Arts District of downtown Dallas, Texas, along Woodall Rodgers Freeway between St. Paul and Harwood. In the 1970s, the museum moved from its previous location in Fair Park to the Art ...

, Dallas, Texas * The McNay, San Antonio, Texas *

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

, Houston, Texas *

, Bronxville, New York

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Colville, Pat Living people 1931 births 21st-century American women artists American contemporary artists Artists from New Orleans