| (MFA,
Cranbrook Academy of Art; BA and BS, Berea College)
Chapman has had over 40 solo exhibitions with institutions
such as The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, University of
Cincinnati, University of Georgia, and University of Miami.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions with regional,
national and international venues.
Chapman was selected to exhibit his work in the 2003 Biennale
Internazionale dell’Arte Contemporanea, in Florence,
Italy. His work has received recognition and many awards
from such notable figures as Ned Rifkin, Dennis Barrie,
John Ravenal, Annette Carlozzi and Jack Cowart. He has received
numerous grants and fellowships for his work including a
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Painting
from the Southern Arts Federation and a 2001 and 1994, Individual
Artist Fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the
Arts. In 1999 he was awarded a residency at the Ucross Foundation
Ranch of Wyoming. His work has been reviewed extensively
and is published in over 20 catalogs and books including
the Number 3, 16 and 52 Editions of New American Paintings.
Paintings by Chapman have been purchased for the collections
of the Birmingham, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Wiregrass,
Meridian, Jule Collins Smith, FSU and Ogden museums of art
as well as by many corporate and private collections throughout
the country. |
