INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTIST

The American painter, sculptor and graphic artist Donald Sultan (* 1951 Ashville, North Carolina) is known for large format still lifes and his use of unusual materials. These are industrial materials such as putty, tar, enamel or even vinyl tiles. His works can be found in international museum collections.

The printmaker Donald Sultan has been working with lithography, etching, screen printing, woodcuts and simple linocuts for decades. Among his works are complex, large-scale aquatint etchings that mimic soft-edged charcoal drawings. The art world sometimes speaks of printed marvels that remotely hint at the graphic element.

The draftsman Donald Sultan remains connected to nature and shows in partially silhouette-like charcoal drawings and compositions in colored chalk – or flock on paper – monochrome forms reminiscent of fruits and flowers. Floating, his motifs move up to the edges of the sheet, which sometimes makes them appear surreal.

Donald Sultan said of his still lifes with flowers:

“I’ve been using floral imagery for 40 years…because in the 1970s I began to see the urban environment as a source of new growth. Back then, nobody of my generation painted flowers; today … (are) of course they all are.“

Solo exhibitions by Donald Sultan

• Houston Museum of Contemporary Art
• Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
• Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
• Brooklyn Museum
• New York Museum of Modern Art
• Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center
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Donald Sultan in international collections and museums

• Honolulu Museum of Art
• New York Museum of Modern Art
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
• New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
• das Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Portland Museum of Art , das Dallas Museum of Art
• das Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Reina Sofia in Madrid
• Tate Modern in London
• National Museum of Modern Art in Tokio
• Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
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Donald Sultan received numerous awards and honors for his works

• Creative Artists Public Service Grant, New York, NY  (1979)
• National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (1980)
• Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of North Carolina (1992)
• Ehrendoktorwürde, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (2000)
• Ehrendoktorwürde, New York Academy of Art, NY (2002)
• Ehrendoktorwürde, University of North Carolina, Asheville (2007)
• North Carolina Award für die Künste (2010)
• Lifetime Achievement Award, Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX (2011)
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