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Personal
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Mac Whitney was born in Manhattan, Kansas on August 3.1936. He attended the College of Emporia in his native state for one year. He completed his undergraduate studies at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia, earning the BA Degree in 1958. Over the next several years, Mac Whitney invented and built various equipment and machinery items, farmed, worked in a boiler factory, and did graduate work at Kansas University (1961) and at Kansas State Teachers College (1966). In 1967-1968, he earned his Master of Fine Arts Degree at the Kansas University.
During the 1968-1969 academic year, Whitney was an art instructor at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, He moved to Texas in 1969 and now maintains a studio near Ovilla, Texas. In 1979, Mac Whitney was awarded a commission by the City of Houston to build a large-scale sculpture funded by grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Whitney was awarded an individual artist grant by the NEA in 1979. |
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One-Person Exhibitions
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The Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 1995
Harris Gallery. Houston, Texas, 1994
Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1992
Leedy Voulkos Gallerie, Kansas City, Missouri, 1991
Harris Gallery, Houston, Texas, 1991
Lensky & Schob Gallery. Berlin, 1989
Lew Allen/Butler Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1989
Dome Gallery, New York, New York, 1988
LTV Center Pavilion, Dallas, Texas, 1986
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Selected Group Exhibitions
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Kristy Scubbbs Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 1995
Lensky & Schob Gallery. Berlin, 1994
Large Scale Sculpture, Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo. Texas, 1993
A Century of Sculpture in Texas, Huntington Gallery, Univ of Texas, Austin, Texas, 1989
Texas Berlin Art Exchange, Amerika Haus, Berlin, 1986
Outdoor Sculpture by Texas Artists, Luguna Gloria Art Museum, 1986
The Sculpture Center, New York, New York, 1983
Great Plains Outdoor Sculpture, Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1981
Large Scale Sculpture, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. D.C., 1980
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Collections
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
The Witte Memorial Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
The Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
University of North Texas Museum, Denton, Texas
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