1969 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; M.F.A. 1967-68 Post Graduate Scholarship, Birmingham, England 1958-60 Slade School of Fine Arts, London, England; Diploma in Fine Arts 1952-58 Birmingham College of Art, England; National Diploma in Design
SOLO EXHIBTIONS
1965 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England 1966 Birmingham University, Birmingham, England 1966 Lion Gallery, Stourbridge, England 1967 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England 1969 Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY 1970 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1970 Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, MI 1972 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany 1973 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1974 Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany 1975 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England 1981 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1986 "John Salt: Paintings 1969-86," Wolverhampton Museums and Art Galleries, Wolverhampton; Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Lancashire, England 1991 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1994 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1997 ”White Chevy Red Trailer: John Salt Paintings, Prints and Other Works From 1953-1997," Wolverhampton Museums of Art Galleries, Wolverhampton; Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow, England. 1999 "Retrospective: 1952-1998," The Gallery, Spout Farm House, Telford Town Park, Telford, England. 2000 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS
1966 Arts Council, Belfast/Dublin, Ireland 1966 John Moore Gallery, Liverpool, England 1966 Drian Gallery, London, England 1966 AIA Gallery, London, England 1968 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1968 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 1968 Academy of the Arts, Easton, MD 1969 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX 1969 Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 1969 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1969 Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 1969 Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE 1970 "Cool Realism," Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY 1970 "The Cool Realists," Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona del Mar, CA 1970 "Cool Realism," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1970 "American Painting 1970," Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA 1970 "Painting and Sculpture Today," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1970 Jerrold Morris Gallery, Toronto, Canada 1970 "The Highway," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; travelling exhibition 1971 "Spray," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA 1971 "New Realism," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University College, 1971 "Septieme Biennale de Paris," France 1971 "Die Metamorphose des Dinges," Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1971 "Neue Amerikanische Realisten," Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany 1971 "Radical Realism," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1971 "Arts Festival 1971," Dowling College, Oakdale, NY 1971 "Aspects of Current Painting," University of Rochester, NY 1971 "Shape of Realism," Desons-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1971 Purdue University, Lafayette, IN 1972 "32 Realists," Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH 1972-73 "Amerikanischer Fotorealismus," Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, West Germany; travelling exhibition 1972 "The Realist Revival," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY 1972 "L'Hyperrealistes Americains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France 1972 "Documenta 5," Kassel, West Germany 1972 "Neue Realisten," Westfalischer KV, Munster, West Germany 1972 "Sharp-Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY 1972 "Phases of New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 1972 "Relativizing Realism," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands 1973 "Amerikanske Realister," Randers Kunstmuseum, Sweden University, Greenvale, NY 1973 "Hyperrealisme," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium 1973 "Hyperrealistes Americains," Galerie Arditti, Paris, France 1973 "Super Realist Vision," DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1973 "Grand Maitres Hyperrealistes Americains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France 1973 "Realism Now," Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY 1974 "Works on Paper," Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA 1974 "Contemporary Paintings from the Lewis Collection," Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 1974 "Tokyo Biennale `74," Tokyo, Japan 1974 "New Photo Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 1974 Choice Dealers/Dealers'Choice, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY 1974 Hyperrealistes Americains Realistes Europeens, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris 1975-76 Photo-Realism, American Paintings and Prints, New Zealand travelling exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand 1975-76 Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the 60's and 70's from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 1975 Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Wreck - A Tragic Romantic Theme, C.W. Post Art Gallery, Long Island 1975 Richard Brown Baker Collects, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 1975 Realismus und Realitat, Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, West Germany 1975 Contemporary Images in Watercolor, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH 1975 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1975 O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, NY 1976-78 Aspects of Realism, travelling exhibition sponsored by Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada Ltd., Stratford, Ontario 1976 Works on Paper, Galerie de Gestlo, Hamburg, West Germany 1976 Super Realism, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1976 Art 7 `76, Basel, Switzerland 1976 American Master Drawings and Watercolors; Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1977 Recent American Realism, Montclair State College, Upper Montclair, NJ 1977 New Realism, Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL 1977 Works on Paper II, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Potsdam, NY 1978 North Texas State University, Denton, TX 1978 Art and the Automobile, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI 1978 Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Newhouse Community Gallery, Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 1979 "Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings from New York Galleries, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto, PA 1979 Selections from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ 1979 America in the 70's as Depicted by Artists in the Richard Brown Baker Collection, Meadowbrook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 1979 Auto-Icons, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, New York, NY 1981-83 "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; travelling exhibition 1981-82 "Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI; travelling exhibition 1981 "Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary Realism," San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX 1981 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 1983 "Watercolor in America," Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT 1983 "American Super Realism from the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL 1983 "Contemporary Images: Watercolor 1983," Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI 1983-85 "Assignment: Aviation-The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection," Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition: Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, 1/1-1/31/83; Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, 7/23-9/4; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/24-11/6; Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public Museum, Greenbay, WI, 1/28-3/11; The Dane G. Hanson MemorialMuseum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13; Longview Museum & Art Center, TX, 6/2-7/15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 8/4-9/16; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18; Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical & Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26; Amarillo ArtCenter, TX, 6/15-7/28; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1 1984-85 "Automobile and Culture," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI 1984 "Autoscape: The Automobile in the American Landscape," Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT 1985 "Realism: Contemporary Americans," Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX 1985-87 "American Realism: Twentieth-Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; travelling exhibition 1985 "Fortissimo! Thirty Years from the Richard Brown Baker Collection of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art," Rhode Island School of Design Providence, RI; travelling to: San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR 1985 "Focus on Realism: Selections from the Collection of Glenn C.Janss," Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, ID 1987 "The Hot Centre: Contemporary Art Selected By Ivan Karp," Norton Center for the Arts, Centre College, Danville, KY 1987 "The 51st Annual National Mid-Year Exhibition," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1988 "Tortue is O.K.," Tortue Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991 "Photorealism: The Early Years," Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY 1991 "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 1989 "New York: City By Day/City By Night," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, 1991 "Motion as Metaphor - The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center For The Arts, VA, April 13 - June 16, 1991. 1991 "Traffic Jam - The Automobile in Art," New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, September 15 - October 27. 1991-92 "Photo-Realism: Revisited," Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov. 22, 1991 - Jan. 19, 1996 “Paper Work”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 3 – 24 “Photorealists”, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, October 2 - November 25 1998 "25th Anniversary Exhibition: Major Works by the Photorealists", Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, April 4 - May 16 1999 “Photorealism/Periphery” Museum of Art Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, May 6 – Oct. 23 2000 "The Photorealists", Center For the Arts, Vero Beach, FL July 22 - September 10 2001 "This is America: American Photorealists", Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Arhus, Denmark, September 1 - November 25 2002 "Photorealism: The Liff Collection", Naples Museum of Art, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, Naples, FL, Jan. 25 - June 2 2002 “Photorealism at the Millennium: Vintage Photorealists,” Bernarducci.Meisel.Gallery, New York, NY, Oct. 5-26 2003 “Hyperréalismes USA 1965-75,” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France, June 27 – October 5 2004 “Get Real: Photorealist Prints from the James W. Hyams Collection,” Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, January 23 – March 5 2004 "Some Photorealism", Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY May 8 - 27 2004-05 “American Photorealism,” traveling exhibition, Japan: Iwate Museum of Art, April 4 – May 16; Iwaki City Art Museum, May 23 – July 4; Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, July 16 – September 5; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, September 12 – November 7; Also to Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, Dec. 12, 2004 – March 27, 2005 2004-05“An American Odyssey 1945-1980 (Debating Modernism),” traveling exhibition, Spain: Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, April 13 – May 30; Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca, June 10 – July 31; Kiosco Alfonso, A Coruña, September 2 – October 2; Also to Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, NY,October 24, 2004 – January 15, 2005 2005 "Vintage Masterpieces of Photorealism", Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY March 5- 26 2005 "Cars and Ketchup: Photorealist Images of the American Landscape", Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, New York, NY April 2 - June 19, 2005. 2005 “Doubletake: Photorealism From The 1960’s & 1970’s”, The Rose Art Museum Of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 19 – July 31
SELECTED BOOKS
American Art of the Twentieth Century, Sam Hunter, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1972. New Realism, Udo Kultermann, New York Graphic Society, New York, 1972. Hyperrealisme, Isy Brachot, ed., Imprimeries F. Van Buggenhoudt, 1973. Neue Formen des Realismus, Peter Sager, Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne, West Germany, 1973. L'lperrealismo italo Medusa, Romana Libri Alfabeto, Rome, 1974. Art USA, Mauro Calamandrei; Gianfranco Gorgoni; Fratelli Fabbri Editori, Milan, Italy, 1974. Super Realism, A Critical Anthology, Gregory Battcock, ed., E.P. Dutton, New York, 1975. Hyperrealisme, Linda Chase, Rizzoli, New York, 1975. Neue Formen des Bildes, Udo Kultermann, Verlag Ernst Wasmuth, Tubingen, West Germany, 1975. Late Modern-The Visual Arts Since 1945, 2nd Edition, Edward Lucie-Smith, Praeger, New York, 1975. Amerikanische Kunst von 1945 bis Heute, Dieter Honisch, Jens Christian Jensen, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, West Germany, 1976. American Master Drawings and Watercolors, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr., Harper & Row, New York, 1976. Malerei und Photographie im Dialog, Erika Billeter, Benteil, Verlag & Kunsthaus, Zurich, 1977. Art Now: From Abstract Expressionism to Superrealism, Edward Lucie-Smith, William Morrow, New York, 1977. Photorealism, Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1980. Automobile and Culture, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1984. Photorealism since 1980, Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1993. Photorealism at the Millennium, Louis K. Meisel, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2002.
