Tom Doyle
(b. 1928, Jerry City, OH d. 2016, Connecticut).
Tom Doyle (born 1928, Jerry City, OH - died 2016, Roxbury, CT) earned his BFA in 1952 and MFA in 1953 from Ohio State University, Columbus. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design. In 1982, he was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Sculpture and the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Sculpture in 1991. Doyle has had multiple solo exhibitions in New York since his debut at Allen Stone Gallery in 1961/62 and Dwan Gallery in 1966/67.
Doyle's work is included in the following public collections:
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Doyle's work was included in the following seminal museum group shows, among others:
1964, Marcel Duchamp, Wasssily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Josef Albers, Tom Doyle, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
1966, Primary Structures,Jewish Museum, NY
1967, American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA in 1968.
1967, The Whitney Annual,Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1972, Museum of Drawers, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
1984, Vanishing Points, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2006, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
2015, Venice Biennale, Frontiers Re-Imagined at Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
His work has also been exhibited at The Brooklyn Museum, The Bronx Museum, SculptureCenter (NY), The Cooper-Hewitt Museum (NY), The Smithsonian Institute (Washington, D.C), The Parrish Art Museum (NY), The Neuberger Museum of Art (NY), The Walker Art Museum (Minneapolis), The New Britain Museum of American Art (CT), Miami Art Museum (FL), Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden), Kunsthalle Berlin, Stadtlische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, and Kunsthalle Essen, Baden-Baden Germany Kunstverein, The Israel Museum (Jerusalem, Israel).
Doyle was a tenured professor at Queens College and taught at the School of Visual Arts, The New School for Social Research and the Brooklyn Museum Art School.
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
Selected Press
2011 - Present
Welish, Marjorie “Gravity and Levity: Tom Doyle in the mid 1960s” Artcritical, Feb. 7, 2022
Wilkin, Karen “At the Galleries” The Hudson Review, Feb. 2022
Evans, Garth; Junceau, Brandt; Ireland, Jock “Tom Doyle at Zürcher Gallery, New York” Sculpture Forum, Oct. 14, 2021
Glama, Barthélemy “Le Tour Des Galeries de New York” Le Journal des Arts, Oct. 22, 2021
Corwin, William “Tom Doyle in Germany 1964-65” The Brooklyn Rail, Nov. 2021
Michelli, Thomas “The Gnarly, Sassy Minimalism of Tom Doyle” Hyperallergic, October 19, 2019
Holmes, Jessica ”The Return of Tom Doyle”, The Brooklyn Rail, Oct. 2019
Editors, “Tom Doyle: Space Embraced” Wall Street Journal, April 16, 2011
2000 - 2010
Bui, Phong “In Conversation: Tom Doyle with Phong Bui” The Brooklyn Rail May 2008
Stokic, Jovana “Tom Doyle” Bowery Artists Tribute, New Museum Aug. 2008
Morgan, Robert C. “Allegories of Time, Space, and Nature” Sculpture Sept. 2007
Yalkut, Jud. “Tom Doyle: Shirley/Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs O. Sculpture Dec. 2006
Swenson, Kirsten. “Machines and Marriage: Eva Hesse and Tom Doyle in Germany 1964–65” Art In America June/July 2006
di Suvero, Mark. “The Peace Tower” Artforum March 2006
Zimmer, William. “For a 50th Celebration, An Intimate Guest List” New York Times, Aug. 11. 2002
Lombardi, Dominick D. “Purchase NY 2001 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art” Sculpture May 2002
Schira, Ron. “Discerning the MONUMENTAL in the small” Reading Eagle, Dec. 9, 2001
Zimmer, William. “A Smaller, More Accessible Biennial” New York Times, June 24, 2001
Gunderson, Gary. “Tom Doyle, Sculpteur D’espaces” Jardins Passion Jan-Feb. 2001
Zimmer, William. “Now Playing, in Studios Near You” New York Times, Nov. 19, 2000
1990 - 1999
Goodman, Jonathan. “New York Reviews; Tom Doyle and Lawrence Fane at Kouros Gallery” Sculpture Magazine, Sept. 1999
Taplin, Robert. “Tom Doyle and Lawrence Fane at Kouros” Art In America, Oct. 1999
Reichert, Herbert. “Tom Doyle; The Spacial Gesture” Review Magazine, April 1, 1999
Shales, Ezra. “Tom Doyle/Lawrence Fane” Review Magazine, April 1, 1999
Bell, J. Bowyer. “Doyle Dazzles” Review Magazine, March 15, 1999
Raynor, Vivien. “A Sculpture Show With Butterflies” The New York Times, July 28, 1996.
Zimmer, William. “Sculpture of Large Gestures And a Sense of Place” The New York Times, June 16, 1996.
Schwendenwien, Jude. “Site; Grounds for Sculptue Hamilton N.J.” Sculpture Magazine, Nov./Dec. 1994.
Raynor, Vivien. “In Ridgefield, Works Familiar and New” The New York Times, Sept.4, 1994
Raynor, Vivien. “Sculptural Works That Defy the Limitations of Definition” The New York Times, May 29, 1994.
Melrod, George. “Reviews: New York, Tom Doyle” ArtNews, Sept. 1993.
Melrod, George. “Studio; Tom Doyle” Sculpture Magazine, Sept./Oct. 1993
Raynor, Vivien. “Walking in Fields Where Sculpture Holds Sway” The New York Times, Aug. 22, 1993.
Raynor, Vivien. “Three Sculptors Create a Vista In Tones of Wood and Metal” The New York Times, July 18, 1993.
Raynor, Vivien. “Concrete and Metal In Striking Repose” The New York Times, Sept. 13, 1992
Melrod, George. “Tom Doyle at Bill Bace” Art In America, Feb. 1992.
Smith, Roberta. “Tom Doyle” The New York Times, Nov. 8, 1991.
1980 - 1989
Higuchi, Shoichiro. “Boomerang Thrown by Tom Doyle” IDEA Magazine, Series 12, ‘Art In New York Today’ May 1989.
Brenson, Michael. “Tom Doyle” The New York Times, Oct. 28, 1988.
Goldfarb, Myra. “20th Century Aesthetics and Technology Merge In Allentown Parkway” The Morning Call, Sept. 25, 1987.
Brenson, Michael. “Art: New Sculpture” The New York Times, April 17,1985.
Reading Eagle Times, “Outdoor Art Exhibit On Very Solid Ground” Sept. 1985.
Brenson, Michael. “Sculptors Find New Ways With Wood” The New York Times, Dec. 2, 1984.|
Weshall, Stephen. Review. Arts, April 1982.
Raynor, Vivien. “Art: Zabriskie Offers A Sculpture Twin Bill” The New York Times, Jan. 29, 1982.
Glueck, Grace. “A January Saturday” The New York Times, Jan. 15, 1982.
Larson, Kay. “Brooklyn” The Village Voice, April 28, 1980.
1970 - 1979
McCaslin, Walt. “A Reverence for Crar” Journal Herald, Dayton Ohio, Oct. 1979.
Witten, Robert Pincus. “Tom Doyle: Things PatrioSc and Union Blue” Arts, Sept. 1979.
Kingsley, April. “The Shapes Arise” The Village Voice, July 30, 1979.
Ashbery, John. “ The Sculptures of Summer” New York Magazine, July 23, 1979.
Lubell, Ellen. “Hudson River (Summer School)” The SoHo Weekly News, July 5, 1979
Glueck, Grace. “Artists of the Custom House” The New York Times, May 4, 1979.
Arts, Review. Feb. 1979
The Village Voice, Dec. 25, 1978.
Zimmer, William. “A Reverence For Wood” SoHo Weekly News, Dec. 21, 1978.
Senie, Harriet. “Monuments Above Debris” The New York Post, Dec.9, 1978.
Ratcliff, Carter. “Taking Off: Four New York Sculptors and The Big New York Gesture” Art In America, March/April 1978
Olejarz, Harold. “Contemporary Sculpture” Arts, Sept. 1978.
Perlberg, Deborah. Artforum, Jan. 1978.
Lippard, Lucy R. “Wood: At The Nassau County Museum” Art In America,Nov/Dec. 1977
Lubell, Ellen. Arts, Feb. 1977.
Kingsley, April. “Art For All” The Village Voice, Dec. 12, 1977.
Senfit, Mitchell. Art Workers News, May/June 1977.
Preston, Malcolm. Newsday, July 25, 1977.
Perrault, John. The SoHo Weekly News, July, 21,1977.
Grecco, Marguerita. The Queens Tribune, June 29, 1977
Shirey, David. “The Special Beauties of Wood” The New York Times, May 22, 1977.
Betz, Marjory. Art News, May 1976
“Artists Review Art” March 10, 1976
Kingsley, April. The SoHo Weekly News, March 4, 1976
Kramer, Hilton. The New York Times, March 6, 1976.
Wadler, Joyce. “Artists in New York” The New York Post, July 12, 1975.
Frank, Peter. The SoHo Weekly News, Feb. 14, 1974.
Moore, Alan. Artforum, April 1974.
Lubell, Ellen. Arts, April 1974.
Robins, Corinne. Art In America, July/Aug. 1974
Mayer, Rosemary. Arts, Feb. 1973
Kingsley, April. Art News, Jan 1973.
Schwartz, Barbara. Art News, Jan. 1973.
WiZen, Robert Pincus. “New York” Artforum, Feb. 1972
1960 - 1969
Kramer, Hilton. The New York Times, April 12, 1969.
Foshee, Rufus. “Local Art” The Villager, Aug. 29, 1968.
Cyr, Don. “A Conversation With Tom Doyle” Arts and Actvities, June 1968.
Kay, Jane. Columbus Dispatch, April 2, 1967.
Wasserman, Emily. “Triumph of Realism” Artforum, Dec. 1967
Adrian, Dennis. “New York: Tom Doyle” Artforum, May 1966.
Lippard, Lucy R. “Space Embraced: Tom Doyle’s Recent Sculpture” Arts 1966|
Berrigan, Ted. “Reviews and Previews: Tom Doyle” Art News, April 1966.
Kramer, Hilton. “There’s Nothing Like Thinking Big, Sometimes” The New York Times, March 12, 1966.
Bayer, Shawn. “An Interview With Tom Doyle” The Price, Feb. 1966.
Koln, Fundshau, Aug. 1965. |
Kettwiger Zeitung, May 18, 1965
Kozloff, Max. “The Further Adventures of American Sculpture” Arts.
Lippard, Lucy R. “New York” Artforum, May 1964.
Whiteside, Forbes. “Three Young Americans” Oberlin College Bulletin, 1963.
Judd, Donald. “The New York Exhibition; Contemporary Sculpture” Arts 1963.
Horowitz, Leonard. “Art” The Village Voice, May 2, 1963.
Ukken, Arnold. Oberlin Review, April 28, 1961.