A selection of exhibitions
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2000-on going
This project in southern France began long before we got here—some five hundred years ago, at least. It could be called an installation piece, yet it is anything but contemporary. We are building on work done by generations before us and, hopefully, laying down foundations for those to come. It's an ensemble of buildings, land and people, a centuries old, on-going work in progress. It's an intimate spirit lurking about in nature, emerging in works of art. It's a special place.
2019 The American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery — solo show of drawings and paintings.
2016 Galerie Metanoia, Paris — Artistes Américains à Paris, group show of paintings.
2016 Combes Gallery, The American University of Paris — exhibition of drawings from the publication Breathing Underwater, Sylph Editions, UK.
2013 AUP's 50th anniversary — donation of a granite sculpture to commemorate the university's 50th anniversary.
2013 The American University of Paris — three-person show of paintings.
2013 École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et des Métiers d'Art (ENSAAMA), Paris — retrospective group exhibition of former ENSAAMA students, 1970–2013, paintings.
2012 Casino Gallery, Aix-les-Bains, France — three-person show of paintings.
2012 Espace La Preuve par Neuf, Paris — solo exhibition of drawings, paintings, and sculpture.
2011 Novosibirsk State Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia — solo show, 70 works, paintings and drawings.
2011 Haus Kasuya Museum, Kamakura, Japan — two-man show with Japanese artist Matsutani, paintings and drawings.
2011 Sakura City Museum, Japan — Le chat qui parle, group show of paintings.
2011 Mutsu Gallery, Tokyo — solo show of paintings and drawings. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9IQY2SCBL4 (video of the opening, with Ralph playing sax).
2011 The American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery — solo show of drawings for the book Démons Quotidiens (2011), texts by Nancy Huston, drawings by Ralph Petty.
2011 Espace d'Éditeur Iconoclaste, Paris — exhibition of drawings for the book Démons Quotidiens.
2011 Novosibirsk National Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia — solo exhibition of paintings and drawings, the third-largest museum in Russia.
2010 Tobinodai Park Museum, Funabashi City, Japan — Esprit de Jomon II, group show.
2010 Eumeria Gallery, Tokyo — exhibition of paintings, group show with four other international artists. The exhibition was discussed in a symposium on Fuji Television's program Prime Time News (14 May, Friday, 20:00–22:00 Tokyo time) on the theme "Internationalism, localism in the arts." Prime Time News is one of the major cultural programs on Japanese television.
2010 T & S Gallery, Tokyo — solo show of paintings and drawings.
2005 Combes Gallery, The American University of Paris — Permanent Collection exhibition, paintings. Stage set (design and execution) for Samuel Beckett's Play, for the London-based Godot Theatre Company.
1999 Cline Contemporary Art Gallery — New Artists, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
1997 Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris — American Artists in France 1958–1998.
1992 Église St. Pierre–St. Paul, Montreuil — installation, 250 sq. m. of paintings in the church for the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. The city of Montreuil — paintings, three-man show Des Amériques. Parsons School of Design, New York — drawings. Prague National Museum — paintings, selected for the exhibition Contemporary Art in France.
1982 Château de Nieul, France — paintings, sculptures, stained glass. Design, creation, and presentation of a 13-meter dragon on the esplanade of the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (concurrent with the Nieul exhibition).
1981 Galerie L'Oriflamme, Paris — sculptures.
VIDEO
1980 An American Artist in Paris: Ralph Petty Directed by Michel Gales and Lorna Monohan, with the cooperation and assistance of French Telecom.
TEACHING / WORK EXPERIENCE
Institutions
2015 Honored as Professor Emeritus of the American University of Paris.
2004–2015 Founder and Curator of the American University of Paris Fine Arts Gallery.
1990–2015 American University of Paris — Professor of Fine Arts.
2012–2016 Co-chair of the Art History / Fine Arts Department at AUP.
1997–2000 Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris — lecturer on contemporary art.
1987–1997 Parsons School of Design, Paris — painting and drawing instructor.
1994–1995 Coordinator for the N.Y. Parsons Summer Program in Paris.
1992–1994 Gallery Director, Parsons School of Design, Paris.
COMPANIES
2006–2010 Designer for Flesh and Flora bedding company, London.
1978–1982 Assistant product designer under Michel Diehl at Carré Noir.
CONFERENCES
2002–2007 President and founding member of Art Éphémère, Jaujac, France.
2000 Lomé, Togo — conference on contemporary American art and workshops with West African artists as part of the Ewolé festival (under the auspices of the American Cultural Services, U.S. Embassy, Paris).
1999 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris — presentation/discussion of works (in conjunction with the anniversary celebration for Frank, a literary journal).
