SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
—Freak Parade, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2009
—Freak Parade, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
2008
—Solar System (The Turning Heads), P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—Freak Parade, Herron School of Art and Design, IUPUI, Indianapolis, Indiana
2007
—Freak Parade, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach California
2006
—Freak Parade, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois
2002
—Nocturnal Missions, Marguerite Ostreicher Fine Arts, LA
2001
—Designing Salome, Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
2000
—Apple Cannon, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
1999
—All Systems GO: Mission Poesy, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—All Systems Go: Mission Anemone, Debs & Co., New York, NY
1998
—My Wild Life, Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA
1997
—Nosegays and Knuckle Sandwiches, The Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA; Travelled to Huntington Beach Art Center Foundation, City of Huntington Beach, CA
—Apple Canon, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1995
—The Secret Charts, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, SC
1994
—Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
—The QUESTION MARK GIRL – ‘She Looks Towards the Future’ {The Ethnic Variations}, The SWEET and SOUR BABIES {Companion Paintings}, SATINAV {Vanitas Backwards},” P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1992
—In a Vivid Array, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
—After Flash, Parker/Mark Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
—Queens Museum, “Loon Ballade,” Queens, NY
—Chromatic Aberration, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
1989
—Rosabelle, Believe, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—The Spectre of the Rose, White Columns, New York, NY
—Hold Still, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
—Solo Exhibition, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
—SCIENCE FAIR: A cycle of sixty paintings, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
—TWELVE MONTHS: Nudes with objects and words, 56 Bleecker Gallery, Ltd., New York, NY
1985
—True to Life Dramas, Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
—High Drama: Eugene Berman and the Legacy of the Melancholic Sublime, Long Beach
—Museum, Long Beach, California
2005
—Idols of Perversity, Bellwether, New York, New York
—Then as Now, Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, PA
2004
—21, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—6th Annual Realism Invitational, Karen Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, CA
—Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, travel to:
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Norton Museum of Art, W. Palm Beach, FL
The Hudson Museum of Art, Yonkers, NY
McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2003
—The Burbs, DFN Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Rick Davidman, Peter Drake and John Nickle
—Look Up! Contemplating the Skies, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, N.Y. Curated by Thomas Woodruff
2001
—Self-Made Men, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY
2000
—Bodies of Resistance, Organized by Visual AIDS, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT and NSA Gallery, Durban, South Africa
—Apple Corps: Lithographs by Thomas Woodruff, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
—American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
—2000 Clowns, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Fantasies and Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
—Post Pop, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
1999
—Bodies of Resistance, organized by Visual Aids, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
—Eye on America, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA
—Vanitas: Reflections of Conceit & Desire, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
—Wildflowers, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
—Feast for the Eyes: Contemporary Still Lifes, Museum of Art and Science, Melbourne, FL
—Requiem, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1998
—Remembering Beauty: The Seductive and Nostalgic Nature of American
Landscape, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
—Wishful Thinking, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
—Divining Nature, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
—Animal Tales: Contemporary Bestiary and Animal Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, CT
1997
—In Memory of Pleasure, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
—Debs &Co., New York, NY
—Devotional Rescue: The Paintings of Laurie Hogin, Fred Stonehouse and Thomas Woodruff, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
—Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996
—Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—Screen Memories, K & E Gallery, New York, NY
—Anima Mundi, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
—Menu du Jour, curated by Erin Parish, Silverstein Project Space, New York, NY
—New Traditionalists, curated by Maria Porges, University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR
—Birds!,Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
—Wheel of Fortune, Artists Interpret the Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard/Freid, NY
1995
—Not not (Who’s There?) Part II, New York, NY
—Terrestrial Bodies, curated by Christopher Sweet, Zoller Gallery, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
—Wheel of Fortune: Artists Interpret the Tarot, curated by Amy Lipton, Lombard|Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
1994
—Fallen Idylls: American Figurative Painting, curated by P•P•O•W and Christopher Sweet, Art Miami ’94, Miami, FL
—American Art Today ’94, Florida International University, Miami, FL
—Babies and Bambies, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
—Arabesque, P·P·O·W, New York, NY
—Truth Be Told: It’s All About Love, Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York, NY.
—Don’t Leave Me This Way: Art in the Age of AIDS, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
—Intimate Observations, curated by Jennifer Gross, The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
1993
—Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, organized by the Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, D.C.
—Eye Tattooed America, curated by D.E. Hardy, Ann Nathan Gallery/Objects, Chicago, IL
—Stiebel Modern, New York, NY
—The Anxious Salon, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
—Urgent Nostalgia, curated by Prudence Roberts, COCA, Seattle, WA
1992-94
—From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, curated by Tom Sokolowski and Robert Atkins, travelled to
—Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
—Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
—Sharidin Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA
—Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
—Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
—Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, New York, NY
1992-93
—The Language of Flowers, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
1992
—Mind and Beast: Contemporary Artists and the Animal Kingdom, curated by Thomas Garver, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, WI
—Romance and Irony in Recent American Art, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
—Good Work, The Cooper Union Alumni Relations Department, Cooper Union, New York, NY
—Tattoo Collection, Urbi Et Orbi, Paris, France; traveled to:
Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Andrea Rosen, New York, NY
1991
—Personal Mythologies, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
—Still Lifes, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1990
—NATURE/nature, curated by Linda King and Karen Indeck, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL
—To My Valentine, Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis, MI
—Two Person Exhibition, “Paul Benney/Thomas Woodruff,” The Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
—White Columns, New York, NY
1989
—Landscape, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, IL
—Landscape Constructions, Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
—Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
—Evening Skies: Artists’ Interpretation of the Cosmos, The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
—Romance & Irony in Recent American Art, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
—Update ’89, White Columns, New York, NY
—Objects on the Edge-Contemporary Still Life, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1988
—The $1,000 Show, John Davis Gallery, New York, NY
—Art for Your Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1987
—Fire, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
—Unreal: Conceptual Realism, Alexander Wood Gallery, New York, NY
1986
—Oneric, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
—Drawn and Quartered, White Columns, New York, NY
1985
—Tension, Taghinia-Milani Gallery, New York, NY
—Works on Paper, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
1982
—New Drawing in America, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1981
—Selections 14, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
—100 Square Feet, Public Illuminations Gallery, New York, NY
1979
—One Twelve Workshop, New York, NY
—Houghton Gallery, New York, NY
TEACHING
2000-Present
—Chairman, Illustration and Cartooning Department, The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1988-Present
—Thesis Workshop Director, MFA Media Arts DepartmentThe School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1994
—Bard College, MFA Program, Milton Avery Art Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1983-87
—The School of Visual Arts, NY, Undergraduate Instructor-Painting and Drawing
DESIGN
2001
—My Big Thick Novel, Design for segments, Saturday night Live, NBC TV
—Salome sets and costume design, Hawaiian Opera Theatre, HI