HERB PARKER
School
of the Arts www.cofc.edu/~parkerh/
1953 Born:
1971 - 1978 Bachelor of Fine Arts,
1974 - 1976 United States Marine Corps
1978 - 1980 Peace Corps Volunteer
1980 - 1983 Master of Fine Arts,
1981
1991 - Present Professor of Art,
2001 Project Artist in Residence,
1999 Visiting Artist,
University of Houston/Buffalo Bayou Artpark,
1998 Visiting Artist,
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1996 Project
Artist in Residence, Casa Strobele, Borgo Valsugana, Italy
1988 National Visiting
Artist, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland
1987 - 1991 Visiting Instructor
in Sculpture, Department of Art, Tulane University,
New Orleans,
Louisiana
1987 Visiting Artist,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg,
Virginia
1985 - 1986 Instructor in Sculpture and 3-D
Design, College of Saint Rose,
Albany, New
York
1983 - 1984 Instructor in Sculpture and
Drawing, The
2007 Artist Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission
1993 Awards in the Visual Arts XI, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
1993
Artist Fellowship,
1992 Faculty Research and
Development Grant, College of Charleston
1991 Artist Fellowship,
Louisiana Division of the Arts
1989 Artist Fellowship,
Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
1991 - 1994
“Art in Public Spaces - Exciting
Access,” Lafayette Regional Airport,
SITE –
WORKS
2008 “Whispering Caves,” Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
“Drenthe Cathedral,” Stichting Natuurkunst Drenthe, Schoonoord, Netherland
2006 “Akerby Dialogue,” Akerby Sculpture Park, Bergslagen, Sweden
2004 “Piccolo
Labyrinth,”
“Crucibulum evolutum,”
South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, South Carolina
2003 “Caracol,” Villa Montalvo,
Saratoga, California
“Greer
Head,” Chandler Creek Elementary School, Greer, South Carolina
2002 “Uwharrie Vista,” North Carolina Zoological Park, Asheboro,
North Carolina
2001
"Takihata Dialogue," Takihata Falls, Kawachinagano,
Osaka, Japan
2000
"Grosse Point Passage," Evanston Art Center, Evanston,
Illinois
1999
“Cupola,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Ark,” Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas
“Savannah River Sight,” Functional Follies, Savannah, Georgia
1998
“Containing The Beast,”
1997 “Enclosure ;
Spoleto Festival
1996 “Sella Santuario,” Arte Sella, Sella Valley near Borgo Valsugana, Trentino, Italy
1995
“Crucible,” The South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, South Carolina
1994 “Temple : Transit,” St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington,
North Carolina
“Emerge : Passage,” Sculpture South 94,
1992 “Corridor : Aggression/Egression,” Arts Festival of Atlanta,
Atlanta, Georgia
1991
“Urban/Suburban,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990
“Closure/Interior,” Southern Arts Federation Sculpture Exhibition,
Woodruff Arts Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1989
“Passage,” Toledo Botanical Garden, Toledo, Ohio
"Closure/Passage,” Southeastern Center
for Contemporary Art,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
“Untitled,”Connemara Conservancy, Dallas,
Texas
1988 “Passage : Marin,”
"Trilogy,”
“Passage/Barrier,” Arts Festival of
1987
“Temple,” ArtPark, Lewiston, New York
“ Excavation,” Alliance in the Park, Fairmount Park,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
“Structures,” East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton,
New York
“Passage : Blacksburg,” Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia
1986
“Transient Earth Structures,” Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
1986
Sculpture Outdoors, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tricentennial Salute to Sculpture, Lafayette
Park, Albany, New York
1985 “Transient Earth Sculpture,” Barrett Art
Gallery, Utica College, Utica, New York
“ Parcel #3,” Pittsfield Arts Festival, Pittsfield,
Massachusetts
CCA Sculpture Exhibition, Kinston, North Carolina
1984
Waterworks Gallery Sculpture Garden, Salisbury, North Carolina
1983
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Artsplosure, Raleigh, North Carolina
EXHIBITIONS
2008 "Fused & Divided: Life and Art,” (2-person exhibition) Fayetteville Museum of Art,
Fayetteville, North Carolina
2006 "State Art Collection 1987-2006,” Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, South Carolina (catalogue)
“Humans,” International Fine Art Services, Vista Studios, Columbia, South
Carolina
(catalogue)
"Bringing It All Back Home,” Gray Gallery, East Carolina
University, Greenville, North Carolina.
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual
Life,” Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina.
“The ‘80s:
Selections from the State Art Collection, Bank of America Plaza, Columbia,
2005 “Thresholds: Expressions of Art &
Spiritual Life,”
North Carolina
“MAQUETTE,” McMaster Gallery, University of
South Carolina, Columbia, South
Carolina.
“TRIENNIAL,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual Life,” Transylvania
University, Lexington,
Kentucky (traveling).
2004 “TRIENNIAL,” South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, South Carolina
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art &
Spiritual Life,” South Carolina State Museum,
Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts,
2003 “The Head Show,” Halsey Gallery,
Charleston, South Carolina.
“Thresholds: Expressions of Art & Spiritual
Life,” City Gallery at Waterfront Park,
Charleston, South Carolina.
2002 “Connecting
the Past to the Future,” Door Project, Columbia, South Carolina
2001 "Selections
from the State Art Collection," Bryan Art Gallery, Coastal Carolina
University, Conway, South Carolina.
2000 "Herb Parker," Joie Lassiter
Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
"Sculpture 2000," Montpelier Cultural Arts Center,
Laurel, Maryland.
"Palmetto Tree Project," Columbia, South Carolina.
“Turning Point: South 2000,” Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte,
North Carolina.
“The ‘80s:
Selections from the State Art Collection, Bank of America Plaza, Columbia,
South
Carolina.
“Affinities With Architecture,” Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson
University, Clemson,
South
Carolina ( Traveling Exhibition )
1999 “100 Years/100 Artists: Views of the 20th Century in South Carolina Art,” South
Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina
“Visual Arts Fellowship Invitational 1981-1998,” Baton Rouge Gallery,
Baton Rouge,
Louisiana (Traveling Exhibition)
Southeastern University, Hammond, Louisiana.
The
Louisiana.
“Affinities With Architecture,” Belk Gallery,
Department of Art,
University,
Gallery,
1998 “Affinities
With Architecture,” Ewing Gallery of Art and
Architecture, The University of
Gallery,
"TRIENNIAL
98,”
"Newcomb
Foundry Show,”
Selections From The
Franklin Burroughs/Simeon Chapin Art Museum,
"Documenta, Val di Sella,” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea ,
1997 "The
6th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,”
1996 "Conception,”
“Assembled/Disassembled,”
“Signs of Contemporary Art,” South
1995 “Sculpture in the Park,” Baton Rouge
Gallery,
1993 “The
Last Supper,” (One-person show) Second Street Gallery,
1992
“Objects, Interiors,” (One-person show) Halsey Gallery College of
Charleston,
“ Invitational Alumni Exhibition,” Gray Gallery, East
Carolina University,
Greenville, North Carolina
1991 “The
Shrine Series,” (One-person show) Newcomb Art Gallery,
Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
“War,” Artist on War, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 “The
Cross Show,” X-Art Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
“Louisiana in Black Light,” Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New
Orleans
and Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
“Champagne Celebration, A Faculty Exhibit,”
Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana
1989 “City
on a Hill,” Traveling exhibition sponsored by the Georgia
Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia - Palazzo Casali,
Cortona, Italy
“10th Annual Montpelier Invitational Sculpture Exhibition,”
Montpelier Cultural Art Center, Laurel, Maryland
1988
“National Visiting Artist : 9th
Annual Montpelier Invitational Sculpture Exhibition”
(One-person show),
1986 “
“A Birthday Party : 50 Years of the Mohawk
Hudson Regional,”
University Gallery, State University of New York, Albany, New York
“The Recycled Image,” (three -person show), Rensselaer County
County for the Arts,
"Art
86,” Center Galleries,
“Mohawk
"Flag
Art : A Tricentennial
Invitational,” Albany Institute of
History and Art, Albany, New York
1985 “Shrines,”
(two-person show),
"
“Northern Telecom’s Fourth Exhibition of North Carolina Sculpture,”
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/PANELS
2008 Panel-“Bending Nature,” Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
“Recent Work.” Franklin Park Conservatory, Columbus, Ohio
“Recent Work,” Stichting Natuurkunst Drenthe, Schoonoord, Netherland
“Recent Work,” Kenan Writer’s Encounters--- EARTH: Writers and Artists Engage the
Environment, North Carolina School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
“Philosophy and Approaches to Environmental Art,” Kenan Writer’s Encounters, North Carolina.
School of the Arts, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2007 "Recent Work,” Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens, Santa Barbara, California
“Recent Work,” University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
2006 “Recent Work,” Orebro Konst Skola, Orebro, Sweden
2005 “Recent Work,” Art Department, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina
“Recent Work,” Department of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
Juror- Department of Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas
Juror-“Art in the Park,” Sculpture I’On, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina
2004 “Recent Work,” Art and Architecture Department, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
“Recent Work,” Art & Community Landscapes, NEA/NPS/NEFA, Hertford, North Carolina
Juro r- 32nd Annual Competition for North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art,
Fayetteville, North Carolina
2003 Panel - “Art and Spirituality,” National Association for State Arts Agencies, Circular
Congregational Church, Charleston, South Carolina
“Recent Work,” Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California
“Nature Based Work,” San Jose State University, San Jose, California
2002 "Odyssey in Osaka,” Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
2001 "Recent Work,” Kawachinagano, Osaka, Japan
2000 "Recent Work,”Evanston Arts Center, Evanston, Illinois
“Recent Work,” Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Laurel, Maryland
“Recent Work,” South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, South Carolina
Juror - Louisiana Division of the Arts, Artist Fellowship Grants, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1999 "Recent Work ,” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia “Recent Work,” Buffalo Bayou, Houston, Texas
1998 "Recent Work,” University of Houston, Houston, Texas Panel - “Sculpture into the 21st Century,” Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina
“Recent Work,” Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1996 Panel - “Conversations on Contemporary Art,” South Carolina State Museum,
Columbia, South Carolina.
1995 "Virtual Reality Sculpture Garden,” Baton Rouge Gallery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. “Recent Work,” South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson, South Carolina.
“Recent Work,” University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
1994 "Recent Work,” St. John’s Museum of Art, Wilmington, North Carolina.
“Recent Work,” Clemson University College of Architecture Center at the College of
Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Panel - “Site-Specific and Installation Art,” South Carolina State Museum, Columbia, South Carolina.
"Recent Work,” Art and Architecture Department, Clemson University, Clemson,
South Carolina
1993 "Object Works,” Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia. Juror - Oregon Arts Commission , Artist Fellowship Grants
1992 "Recent Works,” Atlanta Arts Festival, Atlanta, Georgia. "Recent Works,” Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan.
1991 Juror - Louisiana Division of the Arts, Project Grants and Artists Fellowship Grants
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
"Recent Works,” Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans Louisiana.
Panel- “Site-Specific and Temporary Installations,” Southeastern College
Art Conference, Memphis, Tennessee