Bob Wade

A distinguished and highly regarded artist for more than three decades, Bob Wade has shown work in one-person and group exhibitions across the state in galleries and museums in Fort Worth and Dallas, Austin, El Paso, Houston, Marfa, and San Antonio, to name a few. Nationally, his work has been included in exhibitions in New York, San Francisco, Santa Fe, Chicago, and Los Angeles, and internationally, in France, Germany, Japan, and Monaco, among other places. Wade has also exhibited work in the Whitney Biennial, as well as in biennials in Paris and New Orleans.

Exhibition catalogues include Bob Wade: 40 years of Blood, Sweat and Beers (2009); Daddy-O’s Texas Tales (2008); and Celebrated Skin—Tattoo Art and Artists from Austin, Texas (2006). Three books have been published about Wade and his work as well: Ridin’ and Wreckin’ (1996), Cowgirls (1995), and the biography Daddy-O: Iguana Heads & Texas Tales (1995). In addition to these, his work has been featured in various television and radio segments across Texas.

Wade’s works appear in numerous public and corporate collections, including those of AT&T, the Austin Museum of Art, Chase Manhattan Bank, Fidelity Investments, the Houston Museum of Art and Houston’s Menil Collection, the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, the State Capitol of New Mexico in Santa Fe, and the Pompidou Center in Paris, among others.

Bob Wade received his BFA in painting from the University of Texas in Austin, and an MA in painting from the University of California, Berkeley. An ongoing freelance lecturer, he has also taught art at the University of North Texas in Denton, at Richland College in Dallas, and served as artist-in-residence at the Kansas City Art Institute and Northwood Institute in Cedar Hill, Texas. He has received three separate grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Submitted by William Campbell Gallery