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."

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.