FELIX RUVOLO
Painter, Teacher 1912-1992

"One's work, if it is to have character must be an extremely personal statement
in keeping with one's own response to the period."

Felix is the painters' painter.
- Mark Rothko

Education and Teaching
Attended Art Institute of Chicago. University of California at Berkeley, MFA. Teacher, Art Institute of Chicago, 1945-1948; Mills College, Oakland, 1948; Professor of Art, University of California at Berkeley, 1950-1978.

Selected Exhibitions
Solo exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago; Solo exhibition, Grand Central Moderns, New York, 1949; Solo exhibition, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1948, 1957; Corcoran Gallery Biennials, 1939-1947; Viviano Gallery, New York, 1950-1954; Poindexter Gallery, New York, 1958-1960; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; San Francisco Museum of Art; Richmond Art Center, California; University of Illinois; Denver Art Museum; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum; Metropolitan Museum; Albright Gallery; Paintings of the Fifties with Emerson Woelffer, Gruenebaum Gallery, New York, 1982.

Awards
Art Institute of Chicago, 1942, 1946, 1947; Bremer Award, 1942, Gerstler Award, 1945, San Francisco Museum of Art; Kearney Prize, Milwaukee Art Institute, 1946; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; Richmond Art Center. He recieved 28 awards between 1942 and 1957.