2007 - “The Mississippi Story,” Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS

2006 - ”45 From Litchfield County,”Bachelier/Cardonsky Gallery, CT
2005 - “Homegrown: Southeast,” SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
         - “Southern Trace,” Brenau University, Gainesville, GA
         - “City Art” Center for Architecture, NY, NY
         - “Along the Way: MTA Arts for Transit,” USB Art Gallery, NY, NY
2004 - “25 Years,” Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
         - “Urban Visionaries,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
         - “Masters Mystery Art Show,” FIU, Miami, FL
         - “Some Things Happening,” Indiana State Museum, Indianapolis
2003 - Thinking With Blood, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA

Travels to four other institutions
2000 - Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
1999 - Cats and Dogs, Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 - Fashion, Gallery K, Washington, D.C.
         - Twenty Years, Barbara Gillman Gallery, FL
1996 - Grimm and Grimmer, Center For Book Arts, NYC
         - The Box, Renee Fatouhi Gallery, NYC
1995 - Art and the Law, Tyler Art Gallery, Oswego, NY
1994 - Thirty Something, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL         
1993 - Books, Barbara Gillman Gallery, Miami, FL
1991 - Rosa Esman gallery, NYC
1990 - The Tradition of Caritas in Painting, Sherry French Gallery, NY          
1987 - Anna Friebe Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1985 - Precious, Grey Gallery, New York University, NYC         
1984 - Dark Humor in the South, New Orleans, LA Contemporary Art Center
          1983 - Space Framed, Work by Contemporary
           Sculptors, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1982 - Mayor Byrne's Mile of Sculpture, Chicago, IL
1980 - National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
          1978 - Art on the Beach, Creative Time, NYC
1977 - Projects and Proposals for the 70's, P.S.1, NYC
1975 - Gulf Coast, East Coast, West Coast, Contemporary Art Center, Houston, TX
1974 - Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis, IN
           Museum of Art
1969 - A Plastic Presence, The Jewish Museum, NYC
1968 - Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and
           Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art,NYCM          
1966 - Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
           Whitney Museum of American Art,NYC
1964 - Nine Contemporary Painters, USA,
           Pan American Union, Washington, D.C.

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Cleavland Ohio
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Guggenheim Museum, NYC
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Museum of Art, NYC
Smithsonian American Art Museum,Washington, D.C.
Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS
National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
The State University of Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Rockefeller Collection, S.U.N.Y. at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY
The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Chase Manhattan Bank, NYC
Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
Frostburg State College, Frostburg, MD
Prudential Life Insurance, NJ
Kunst Museet Collection,Lund,  Sweden
McKinsey and Company, NYC
Centrun Sztuzi, Warsaw, Poland
Foundation Oxygen, Gyor, Hungary
Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Ogden Museum, New Orleans, LA
Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.
Lowe Museum, Miami, FL
Du Mus'ee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
University of South Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
The Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond  

2003 - Distinguished University of Southern Miss. Art Alumnus
2001 - Governor's Award for the Arts, Alabama
1991 - S.U.N.Y.  Travel Grant,  “Outsider Art,” essayist, co-curator and          
           lender, Malmo, Sweden
1990 - The Hattiesburg Arts Council Honors Ed McGowin
1980 - Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for the Visual Arts
         - National Endowment for the Arts Individual Award
1977 - Oscar,  Ninth International Painting Exhibition, Cagnes-sur-Mer, FR
1976 - National Endowment for the Arts,  Sculpture in Public Places
1974 - American Center for Students  and Artists,  Paris,  France
1973 - Commission, “Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law,” Print, Wash., DC
1972 - Cassandra Foundation
1967 - National Endowment for the Arts Individual Award
1961 - First Prize,  Alabama Art Association

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2016 - Lewitt Foundation, Spoleto, Italy
         - E.H. Foundation, Venice, Italy
2004 - Outsider Art, Name Change, Tallinn, Estonia
2003 - University Of Southern Mississippi
1983 - University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
1982 - University of Colorado, Boulder,  CO
1980 - Memphis State University, Memphis, TN
1979 - Fine Arts Workshop.  Provincetown, MA
1978 - Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
1977 - Potomac State University, Keyser, WV
         - Penn State University, PA
1972 - Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
         - Frostburg State College, Frostburg, MD
1971 - The University of the New World, Valais, Switzerland, Director of Program
         - University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee

GUEST LECTURE/JUROR

2015 - Guest lecturer, Suny Fredonia, NY
2014 - Five points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2007 - Guest lecturer, University of Alabama
         - Lecturer Outsider Art, Name Change, Tallinn, Estonia
2003 - University of Southern Mississippi, Lecture/guest artist
2002 - 1996-1993  Field Studies, Studio lectures, NY
1992 - Pluralism: American Art in the 90's, Sherry French Gallery, NY
         - Appalachian State University,  Boone,  NC
         - New School for Social Research, NY
         - Fieldstudies,  Studio lectures, NY
1991 - Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL
         - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
         - Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
1988 - University of Texas at El Paso, TX
          - “Outside Insight,” Clocktower Gallery, NYC
1987  - Arkansas State University, juried exhibition and lectured
          - New School for Social Research, NY, lecture
1986  - “Narrative Consciousness and Architectural Form,” School of Architecture
         New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ
1984 - Artist 84,  Seventh Annual Review on American Architecture
         - Massachusetts Artist Fellowship Program, Boston, MA, Juror
1983 - Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, LI
         - Southern Rim II, Birmingham, AL
         - Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfiels Hills, MI
1982 - Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, AZ
1981 - Provincetown Fine Arts Center, Provincetown, MA
         - National Endowment for the Arts Sculpture juror

EDUCATION
BA University of Southern Mississippi, 1961
MA University of Alabama, 1964



POSITIONS HELD
1978 - Present Professor, State University of N.Y at
           Old Westbury, alternating Chair
1964 - 78 Chair, Sculpture Department,
           Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.