Biography from Charles Cowles Gallery, Inc.:
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HOWARD BEN TRÉ
BORN:
1949 Brooklyn, NY
RESIDES: Providence, RI
EDUCATION:
1980 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1978 BSA, Portland State University, Portland, OR
1968/9 Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY
1967/8 Missouri Valley College, Marshall, MO
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS:
1998 Providence Preservation Society Award for Urban Design
1997 UrbanGlass, Innovative Use of Glass in Sculpture Award
First Annual Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts
1993 Boston Society of Architects, Art & Architecture Collaboration Award
1990 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1987 Rakow Commission, The Corning Museum of Glass
1984 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
1982 Change, Inc. Grant
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1979 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship
SITED PUBLIC PROJECTS:
Artery Plaza, Bethesda, MD
BankBoston Plaza, Providence, RI
Buffalo and Erie County Public Library, NY
Crescent Court, Dallas, TX
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence, RI
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
IBM Corporation, Gaithersburg, MD
Norman B. Leventhal Park, Post Office Square, Boston, MA
Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA
Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI
Seattle Art Museum, WA
The Toledo Museum of Art, OH
Warrington Town Center, England
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
1999/2002
Interior / Exterior, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA;
Traveling to Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; San
Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport
Beach, CA;
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York,
Purchase, NY*
1998 Caryatids and New Works on Paper, Hunter Museum of American Art,
Chattanooga, TN
1996 Indoor / Outdoor: New Sculpture, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1995/96 Recent Sculpture, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Traveled
to Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA; Newport
Art Museum, Newport, RI*
1994 Sculptures de Verre, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France*
Basins and Fountains, Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island,
Kingston, RI*
Recent Sculpture, Davis/McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
1993 New Work, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; Traveled
to Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL*
Wrapped and Paired Forms, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1992 New Work, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Crossing the Boundaries, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
1991 Vessels of Light, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY*
Sculpture, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
1989/91 Contemporary Sculpture, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Traveled to
Carnegie-Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA; Laumeier Sculpture Park &
Museum, St. Louis, MO; DeCordova Museum & Sculpture Park,
Lincoln, MA*
1989 New Work, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Figures, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY*
1987 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1986 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1985 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY*
Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI
Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1984 Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Habatat Galleries, Miami, FL
1983 Recent Work, Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA
Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Sculpture, Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI*
Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1982 Columns, Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY*
1981 Sculpture, Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, WA
Habatat Galleries, Lathrup Village, MI
Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, Houston, TX
1980 Recent Sculpture, Hadler/Rodriguez Galleries, New York, NY*
1979 Solo, University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center Galleries, Kingston, RI
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Craft Museum, New York, NY
Arco Corporate Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA
AT&T Corporate Collection, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Brown University, David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centro Cultural / Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
Chase Manhattan Bank Art Collection, New York, NY
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Coca-Cola Company, Corporate Art Collection, Atlanta, GA
Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC
Goldman Sachs, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Koganezaki Park Museum, Shizuoka, Japan
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., New York, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museé d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Museé des Arts Decoratifs, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Pacific Enterprises, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Pepsico of California
Philadelphia City Hall, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Phillip Morris Management Corporation, New York, NY
Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Prudential Insurance Company of America, New York, NY
Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville, NY
Renwick Gallery of the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Rockefeller Management Corporation, New York, NY
Rutgers University, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
San Francisco Art Commission, CA
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Southwestern Bell Corporation, Houston, TX
Toledo Art Museum, Toledo, OH
University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
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