Gregory Blackstock | Resume

Born in Seattle, WA, in 1946; lives and works in Seattle

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2020
Solo booth in Outsider Art Fair, New York

2018
Survey of Drawings, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle (2015, 2013, 2012)

2016
Washington Athletic Club, Seattle, WA

2012
Recent Works on Paper, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle

2011 - 2012
Blackstock, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland

2008 - 2009
Gregory Blackstock, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

2008
Vernacular Photography of Gregory Blackstock, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

2007
Gregory Blackstock, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

2006
Gregory Blackstock's Collections, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

2005
Gregory Blackstock, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

2004
Gregory Blackstock: Outsider Artist, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Day Jobs
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, Curated by Veronica Roberts with Lynne Maphies

2013
Véhicules, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Outsiderism, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery

2012
The Dream of Flying, Galerie Gugging, Maria Gugging, Austria
Paul Amar, Gregory Blackstock and Gérard Rigot, Galerie Susi Brunner, Zurich, Switzerland

2011
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

2010
Umbrella for the Arts: 40 Years of Bumbershoot Artwork, Seattle City Hall

2009
Collected Fragments, Tyne & Wear Archives, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland, Great Britain
Heroes for Autism, Avalon Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
Outside The Lines, Kirkland Art Center, Kirkland, WA

2008
First Annual World Autism Awareness Day Exhibit, United Nations, Secretariat Building, New York, NY
Don't 'dis' the Ability, Manhattan Children's Center, New York, NY

2007
Windows of Genius: Artwork of the Prodigious Savant, Windhover Center for the Arts, Children's Museum, Fond-du-lac, WI

2005
Four x Northwest, Garde Rail Gallery, Seattle, WA

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Microsoft Corporate Art Collection, Redmond, WA
Capital Group Corporate Art Collection

PUBLICATIONS
Einstein's Watch, Profile Books, 2009
LA Times Magazine, 2009
Holland Diep Magazine, 2009
Folk Art Magazine, 2007
BOMB Magazine, 2007
Blackstock's Collections, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007
Cover art for Autism and Talent, Oxford University Press, 2010
Le Potential Inexploité des Autistes, Hémisphères magazine

FILM
Gregory Blackstock: L'Encyclopediste, documentary by Philippe Lespinasse, 2011
Savants, documentary for German television, 2008
Evening Magazine, KING-5 TV, Seattle, 2008
Rare Visions/Roadside Revelations, Kansas City Public Television, 2006

OTHER HONORS AND AWARDS
2017
Wynn Newhouse Foundation Award

2011
Artist Residency, John Michael Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI

2010
Award for Bumbershoot Arts Festival Poster, Seattle Arts Commission

2008
Spring/Summer ready to wear menswear collection, Comme des Garcons, Paris

BOOK SIGNINGS
2010
Shakespeare & Co. Paris France

2008
Seattle Art Museum Shop, Seattle, WA
American Museum of Folk Art, NY
Outsider Art Fair, NY
Princeton Architectural Press, NY