Bio
Born in Texas in 1966, Myke Venable studied art at Lamar University where he received his BFA and MA. Now living in Houston, he has been teaching Drawing and making art at a prolific rate and equally participating in a variety of exhibitions and collected by numerous individuals and corporations world wide. Venable is currently represented by Gallery Sonja Roesch.
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EDUCATION
Lamar University - MA - 1999
Lamar University - BFA - 1992
SOLO
Twilight - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2024
Lift Off - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2022
Shifting Perspective - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2020
Timelines - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2017
Cluster Paintings - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2012
TWO PERSON EXHIBITION
Super Fresh - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2014
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Instructor Show - Art League Houston, 2024
INSTRUCTOR Show - Art League Houston, 2023
Instructor Show - WAS-H, 2023
INSTRUCTOR Show - Art League Houston, 2022
Instructor Show - WAS-H, Houston, TX 2022
Gold Rush - Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2021
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League Houston, TX 2021
Summer Round Up - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2020
Accrochage 2019 - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2019
Biennial: Origins in Geometry/Museum of Geometric & MADI Art - Dallas, TX 2019
ALUMNI SHOW: Dishman Art Museum - Beaumont, TX 2019
SIMPLY RED - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2019
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League of Houston, TX 2019
Retablos31 - MECA - Houston, TX 2018
ART on Paper - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2018
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League of Houston, TX 2018
The BIG Show - Lawndale Art Center -Houston, TX 2017
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League of Houston, TX 2017
LUMINOUS - Gallery Sonja Roesch - Houston, TX 2016
Summer Show - Galerie und Kunstkabinett Corona Unger - Berlin, Germany 2016
NEW BEGINNINGS: Shapes of Things To Come - Galveston Art Center, TX 2016
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League Houston, TX 2016
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, TX 2015
INSTRUCTOR SHOW: Art League Houston, TX 2015
MONOCHROME/COLORFIELD/OBJECT - Gallery S. R. - Houston, TX 2015
McNay Art Fair - McNay Museum - San Antonio, TX 2014
Dia De Los Muertos - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2014
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, TX 2014
UNIT - GSR - Houston, TX 2014
SELECT FAIR - New York, NY 2014
BLACK & WHITE: Reductive and Conceptual Art - GSR - Houston, TX 2014
INSTUCTOR SHOW: Art League Houston, TX. 2014
Biennial: Origins in Geometry/Museum of Geometric & MADI Art - Dallas, TX 2013
UNIT - GSR - Houston, TX 2013
Gensler Architecture - Houston, TX 2013
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, TX 2013
Santa Fe Art Fair - NM 2013
In Plain Sight - McClain Gallery - Houston, TX 2012
UNIT - GSR - 2012
12/21 Accrochage - GSR - Houston, TX 2012
Houston Fine Art Fair - 2012
Dia De Los Muertos - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2011
In and Out of the Box - Hera Gallery - Wakefield, RI 2011
FREQUENCY - Bank of America Center Downtown Houston, TX 2011
Santa Fe Art Fair - NM 2011
Texas Contemporary Art Fair - Houston, TX 2011
The New Black: Contemporary Concepts in Color and Abstraction/ Williams Tower - Houston, TX 2010
Dia De Los Muertos - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2010
The BIG Show - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2010
Le Grand Bal - Lamar University - Beaumont, TX 2010
Dia De Los Muertos - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2009
Schlumberger (MKG Art Advisors) - Houston, TX 2008
Winter Street - Houston, TX 2008
Summer Show - Dishman Art Museum - Beaumont, TX 2008
Dia De Los Muertos - Lawndale Art Center - Houston, TX 2004
Winter Show - Butler/BORDEN Gallery - Houston, TX 2003
Summer Show - Chenevert Green - Houston, TX 2002
PRESS
Glasstire - 5 Minute Video Tours
Paper City - Houston - July 2015, p. 8
Literal Magazine - PODCAST - June 2015
NEW AMERICAN PAINTING (West) 102 - 2012
McClain Gallery - IN PLAIN SIGHT - 2012
Boyd, Robert. Myke Venable's Big Squares, The Great God Pan Is Dead, 2011
Paulus, Nathan. MONOCHROMATIC MANIA: Myke Venable's Clustered Paintings. Houston Press 2011
Myke Venable: Clustered Paintings - Glasstire - 2011
Britt, Douglas. IS ABSTRACT The New BLACK ?, 29-95 - 2010
Klassmeyer, Kelly. Capsule Art Reviews: The New Black: Contemporary Concepts in Color and Abstraction - 2008
COLLECTIONS
Diana Dittmar, Haibach, Germany
Cecily Horton -Houston, Tx.
Bryn Larsen - Houston, Tx.
Stephanie Larsen - Houston, Tx.
Lester Marks - Houston, Tx.
Brad Radoff - Houston, Tx.
Bunny Radoff - Houston, Tx.
James Bell, Jr. - Houston, Tx.
Marion Bell - San Antonio, Tx.
Brian Donnelly -Houston, Tx.
Carey Collection - houston, Tx.
Karol Kreymer and Dr. Robert Card - Houston, Tx.
Marc Gordon - Houston, Tx.
David and Joan Graham - Houston, Tx.
Robert Boyd - Houston, Tx.
Sarah Ellenzweig and Scott McGill - Houston, Tx.
Paul Barr - Houston, Tx.
Susan Young - Chicago, Il.
W.B. Scriber - Houston, Tx.
Michael Naul and Stephen Schwarz - Houston, Tx.
David Aylsworth - Houston, Tx.
Fredrica Hunter - Houston, Tx.
Walter Konrad, Pearland, Texas
Marlene Marher - Houston, Tx.
Nevine and Aaron Webster - Houston, Tx.
Michael Peranteau - Santa Fe, New Mexico
Chris Wheatley - Houston, Tx.
PCR Law Firm - Dallas, Tx.
Chandos Collective - Houston, Tx.
Nima Farzaneh - Houston, Tx.
Carmenza Perdomo - Houston, Tx.
Georgia Stewart - Houston, Tx.
David Stevenson, Austin, Tx.
Natus-Ruggieri Collection, Milan, Italy
The Center, Kobe, Japan
Abbe and Adam Forman - Houston, Tx.
Hess Energy - Houston, Tx.
Accumyn Consulting - Houston, Tx.
Puffer/Sweiven - Houston, Tx.
Houston Food Bank - Houston, Tx.
Museum of Geometric and MADI Art - Dallas, Tx.
Dishman Art Museum - Beaumont, Tx.
Melissa Mathias - Brooklyn, New York
Kun Lueck
Amy Hicks