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Education
B.A. (Art and Architecture), Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1979
M.A. (Painting), Royal College of Art, London, England, 1981
Awards & Grants
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant — 1988
Special Award, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, All California ’84, Juror: Henry Hopkin — 1984
Public Art Commissions
Yab-Yum, permanent sculpture installation for Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Herald Square Subway Complex, New York, NY — 1995
The Geometry of Light, sculpture installation for TASOC, Demarest, NJ — 2015
Public and Corporate Collections
Keyspan Collection, Brooklyn, NY
Ise Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Metropolitan Transportation Authority, New York, NY
Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, New York, NY
Santa Barbara City College, Santa Barbara, CA
University of California, San Diego, CA
Unilever Ltd., London, England
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
One & Two Person Exhibitions
Captured Spaces, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY — 2021
Proto-Possibilities, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY — 2018
Private Horizon sculpture installation, Rye Arts Center, Rye, NY — 2017
Splendorla sculpture installation, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2017
The Black Drawings, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2017
The Inability of the Radius to Know the Circumference installation, Matteawan Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2016
Divinings, Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY — 2013
Converging/Parallel, (with Ann Provan), Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY — 2012
Sculpture, Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY — 2011
Three Kinds of Change, Mobil Building Lobby, 150 E.42nd St. New York, NY — 1999
David Provan, Ryota Tanabe, Ise Art Foundation, New York, NY — 1994
Sculptures, Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, IL — 1994
David Provan: Recent Sculpture, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY — 1991
Wall Alters, Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA — 1984
David Provan, Claremont Graduate School Gallery, Claremont, CA — 1983
Other Perspectives, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA — 1983
Triangularium, Crumley Gallery, Mira Costa College, Oceanside, CA — 1983
Intuitive Maps and Mandalas, Wenger Gallery, San Diego, CA — 1982
Davenport College, Yale University, New Haven, CT — 1979
Group Exhibitions
Form, Height, Width, Depth,, Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY — 2020
Small Sculptures: Big Impact, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua Institution, NY — 2019
Wilderstein Sculpture Biennial, Wilderstein Historic Site, Rhinebeck, NY — 2019
International Sculpture Day, Contemporary Art, Kiersted House, Saugerties, NY — 2018
Gamut: A Group Show About Color, Cross Contemporary Art, Saugerties, NY — 2017
Highland Falls Artwalk, Eisenhower Leadership Center, West Point, NY — 2015
The Farm Project, Collaborative Concepts, Garrison, NY — 2015
B&Wx4, Hudson Beach Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2014
This Brief Moment x 2, sculpture installation, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2014
Under the Influence, Belskie Museum, Closter, NJ — 2014
Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY — 2013
Constructs, Marina Gallery, Cold Spring, NY — 2013
Contemporary Couples, Strohl Gallery, Chautauqua Institute, NY — 2013
Elegy, Theo Ganz Gallery, Beacon, NY — 2013
Melvin Johnson Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua Institution, NY — 2013
The Farm Project 2012, Collaborative Concepts, Garrison, NY — 2012
CURRENT 2011, Garrison Art Center, Boscobel House and Garden, Garrison, NY — 2011
Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Takes on Ephemerality, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY — 2011
Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY — 2010
PHOTOcentric, (Curated by Stephen Shore & Harvey Stein), Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY — 2010
Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison , NY — 2009
PHOTOcentric, (Curated by Malcolm Daniel & Alice Rose George), Garrison Art Center, Garrison, NY — 2009
Collaborative Concepts, Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY — 2008
Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit, UBS Gallery, New York, NY — 2005
Through the Looking Glass, theXpo, Brooklyn, NY — 2004
Marking Places that Matter, The Urban Center, New York, NY — 2003
Exhibition, Doral Bank, New York, NY — 2002
Cultured Pearl, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea — 1996
Conceptual Documents for Impossible Art, Gallery 473, New York, NY — 1995
Group Show, Mindy Oh Gallery, Chicago, IL — 1994
Influenced by Architecture, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA — 1994
Lyric Thought, Lyric Form, Parkland College Art Gallery, Champaign, IL — 1992
Freedom of Speech, University of California, Berkeley, CA — 1990
Invitational 1990, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY — 1990
Mixed Messages, Ruggiero Henis Gallery, New York, NY — 1989
Invitational, 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY — 1988
Sculpture, Wenger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA — 1988
Sculpture, Soho Center for Visual Artists, New York, NY — 1987
Fetish Art: Obsessive Expressions, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL — 1986
Heads, Mokotoff Gallery, New York, NY — 1986
New Artists/New Work, Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL — 1985
All California ’84, Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, CA — 1984
Target L.A.: The Art of Survival, Los Angeles Artists for Survival, CA — 1983
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