born in 1954 in Charlotte, NC
education
1982
M.F.A. University of Memphis, Memphis
1979
University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1977
B.A. Rhodes College, Memphis
1976
Memphis College of Art, Memphis
selected solo exhibitions
2009
Floating World, David Lusk Gallery
2008
NP40 Gallery, Amsterdam
2007
Leslie Heller Gallery, New York
Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville
2006
Recent Paintings and Drawings, David Lusk Gallery
2005
fire and water, The Art Gallery, Freed-Hardeman University, Henderson, TN
2004
New Paintings and Drawings, David Lusk Gallery
2002
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2001
The Medallion Gallery, New Orleans
Lotus, David Lusk Gallery
2000
Recent Paintings and Drawings, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
1999
Flying Solo, Nashville International Airport, Nashville
1998
New Abstractions, Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
1997
Gallery W.D.O, Charlotte, NC
1996
Ledbetter Lusk Gallery
Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
Murray State University, Murray, KY
selected group exhibitions
2009
Oh What a Night, Ogden Museum Auction, New Orleans
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia
Lisa Corinne Davis, Edward Evans & Pinkney Herbert, Allen Projects, Franklin 54 Gallery, New York
It Came From Memphis, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2008
Lesley Heller Gallery, New York
Exposition de l'art Actuel France Japon (with Multinational 2009) Spiral Hall, Tokyo, Japan; Matsumoto
City Museum of Art Matsumoto, Japan
America Meets Bavaria, Kunst-Und Gewerber Verein, Regensberg, Germany
Price is Right, David Lusk Gallery
What a Night, The Ogden Museum of Art, New Orleans
2007
The Power of Red, Penland Gallery, Penland NC
2006
Group Show, Leslie Heller Gallery, New York
Class of '06, Lantana/Medicine Factory, Memphis
Color, Space 301, Mobile, AL
Three Paths to Abstraction, Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis
2005
Tide to the Vernacular, The Arts Center of St Petersburg, St Petersburg, FL
Max 2005, The Inner Voice of Art, The Art Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
Sadler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta
Three Paths to Abstraction, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2nd Floor Contemporary, Memphis
2004
Suitcase Series Memphis: Pinkney Herbert, Greely Myatt, Terri Jones, The Lab, Roger Smith
Hotel, New York
2003
Art of Tennessee Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (catalog)
Marshall Abstract: Four Memphis Painters in Nashville, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville
2002
CurrentMempphis:Memphis Current, SHoRes and NP40, Amsterdam, Netherlands
True Colors: Meditations on the American Spirit, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC
National Arts Club, New York, NY, Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; SunTrust Plaza, Atlanta, GA;
National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania; Belfast, Northern Ireland; Bratislava, Slovakia
2000
43rd Annual Delta Exhibition, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
1999
Outward Bound: American Art on the Brink of the 21st Century, organized by the Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, traveling through 2000 to Hanoi Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam;
awards & honors
1998
Commissioned works for Vestibule Floor for Public Library Building, Memphis
1996
Special Commission for Wolfchase Galleria, Memphis
1995
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1993
USIA-Arts America, Artist/Teaching Fellowship, Helsinki, Finland
USIA-Arts America, Artist/Lecturer Fellowship, Budapest, Hungary
1991
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
Tennessee Arts Commission, Individual Artist Fellowship
1990
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship, Sweet Briar, VA
1988
Artists Grant, Artists Space, New York
1987
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship
selected bibliography
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, Riders of the Storm: Local art in 2006, signs of the times, Dec 2006, p. 25
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, New Directions, Pinkney Herbert and Chuck Johnson create some of the best
Art of their careers, July 19-25, p. 25
Art Papers. Jean Hess, Pinkney Herbert, Whitney Leland, Carol Mode, Mitchell Wright, May June, 2006, p60-61
Commercial Appeal, Memphis Playbook,Mary Bennett and Pinkney Herbert at David Lusk Gallery,
(visual), July 7, 2006, p. 25
Commercial Appeal, Memphis Playbook, get out! 07.07.06, Herbert's Turn, July 7, 2006, p. 2
Memphis Flyer, steppin' out, we recommend: culture, news + reviews, Opening reception for
Recent Paintings and Drawings by Pinkney Herbert, July 6-12, 2006
Commercial Appeal, Community Briefs, Herbert-Bennett Opening, July 7, 2006, p. B3
Commercial Appeal, Playbook, June 30, 2006, (visual) p.29
Art Papers,Jean Hess, Review; Three Paths to Abstraction, May/June 2006, p.60
Memphis Flyer, Carol Knowles, Art Year in Review, December 29, 2005, p 23
Fredric Koeppel, Energy of the Art, House and Garden section, November 19, 2005, pp5-7
Memphis Flyer, David Hall, Mardi Gras to Vietnam, February 24-March1, 2000, pg. 37
Southern Accents, Donna Dorian Wall, Pastel Purity, January-February, 2000, pgs. 64-68
Art of Tennessee, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, (catalog), p. 339, 362
selected collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Arthur Anderson Associates, Chicago
Baker Donelson, Memphis
Commercial Bank, Memphis
Cummins Midsouth, Memphis
Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IL
First Tennessee Bank, Memphis
Hyatt Corporation, Columbus, OH; Tampa, FL
Landers & Associates, Memphis
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans
New York University, New York
Nynex Corporation, White Plains, NY
Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf, Germany
Pfizer, Memphis
Prudential-Bache, New York
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville