DAVID JAMES GILHOOLY
Sculptor, Teacher 1943

"I was simply a lousy student academically.
Looking back, I know that what I wanted was to be independent."

The work by Gilhooly, his fellow students and mentors resulted in the emergence of what Roy De Forest called "Nut Art." But popularly, this art was referred to as "funk" after Peter Selz mounted a show of the same title at the university of California Art Museum in 1966.
- Kenneth Baker, David Gilhooly, Natsoulas Press

Education
University of California Davis, BA 1965, MA, 1966. Taught at University of Saskachewan, San Jose State College, University of California Davis, and California State University, Sacramento.

Selected Solo Exhibitions 1965-2005
An Affair of the Heart: Works on Paper by David Gilhooly, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, 2005; Best in Show: Dog Works by David Gilhooly, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA, 2005; Food, Frogs and Fido: Works on Paper by David Gilhooly, Cantor Art Center, Stanford University, 2005; Eastern Washington State College, Cheney, WA, 2002; Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada2001; Hallie Ford Museum, Willamette University, Salem, OR, 2000; DeSaisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA1999; University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA, 1994; San Jose Museum of Art, 1992; Renshaw Gallery, Linfield College, McMinnville, OR, 1990; Redding Museum of Art, Redding, CA, 1985; St. Louis Art Museum, 1980; A Gilhooly Galaxy, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada, 1978; Confederation Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada, 1978; York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1978; Art Space, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 1978; St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1978; University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, 1978; ARCO Center for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA, 1977; Matrix Gallery-Wadsworth Anteneum, Hartford, CT, 1976; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1976; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1976; Gifts from the Frog World, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1973; Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada,1973; Anna Leonowens Art Gallery, Hallifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1971; Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatchewan, Regina, Canada,1970; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1968; San Francisco Museum of Art, 1967; Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA, 1965.

Selected Group Exhibitions 1967-2005
FUNK, U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 1967; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1967; Joseph Monsen Collection, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1971; Whitney Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969; Clay, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1973; Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, 1976; American Crafts, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1977; A Century of Ceramics in the United States: 1878-1978, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, 1978; West Coast Ceramics, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1978; Ceramic Sculpture: Six Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1981; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1981; West Coast Ceramics, Crafts Council Gallery, London, England, 1982; Return of the Narrative, Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, 1984; Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980, Oakland Museum of Art, 1985; Art Ceramics: Then and Now, Phoenix Art Museum, 1986; Keeper of the Kiln: 7 Contemporary Ceramic Artists, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, 1991; Elvis and Marilyn: 2X Immortal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, 1991, 1994; Trashformations, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, 1997; Do It, Boise State University Visual Arts Center, 1998; The Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Nevada Museum of Art, 1998; A Fire for Ceramics: Contemporary Art from the Daniel Jacobs and Derek Mason Collection, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA, 1998; Regina Clay Contemporaries, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1999; The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration, San Jose Museum of Art, 2000; Fired at Davis: Figurative Ceramic Sculpture, Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2005; London Museum, London, Ontario, Canada, 2005; Burlington Art Centre, Burlington, Ontario, Canada, 2005; MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 2005.

Selected Public Collections
Australia National Council, Canberra, Australia; Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey; Little Rock Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA; Palm Springs Desert Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; University of Arizona Art Collections, Tempe, AZ;
University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.