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Donald Sultant

Donald K. Sultan -136bad5cf58d_paintings and the use of industrial materials such as tar, enamel, spackle and vinyl tiles. He has been exhibiting internationally in prominent museums and galleries, and his works are included in important museum collections all over the globe. Sultan is the recipient of numerous honors and awards for his artistic achievements​

 

Awards

 

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)

Honorary doctorate degree, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC (2000)

Honorary doctorate degree, New York Academy of Art, NY (2002)

Honorary doctorate degree, University of North Carolina, Asheville (2007)

North Carolina Award for the Arts (2010)

Lifetime Achievement Award, Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX (2011)

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Museum Exhibitions

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Sultan has had solo museum exhibitions at

the Houston Museum of Contemporary Art,

the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art,

the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art,

the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth,

the Brooklyn Museum, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and in 2009, "Donald Sultan: the First Decade," at the Cincinnati_cc781905-5cde-3193-b5186-bb3badaryConcinnati Arts Center, to name a few.

 

Audience Collections

 

His works are in the permanent collections of over 50 major museums throughout the world, including:

the Honolulu Museum of Art

the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art 

the Virginia Museum of Fine Art

 the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

the Whitney Museum of American Art

 the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

 the Portland Museum of Art

the Dallas Museum of Art

the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)  Los Angeles, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

the Reina Sofia in Madrid

 the Tate Modern in London

the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo

the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris
 

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Capture d’écran 2019-10-06 à 18.28.36.pn

Artwork:  White Tulips &  Vase, 2014.  Painted aluminum

61 × 50.8 × 2.5 cm.  Edition of 20

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