Ralph Petty exhibited his new work, paintings, and drawings at the T&S Gallery in Tokyo from March 3-20. He will also show five large paintings at the Eumeria Gallery located in the downtown Ginza district of Tokyo, from May 10-22, in a group show comprising four other international artists. There will be a symposium on Fuji television on the program “Prime Time News” on May 14 from 20:00-22:00 (Tokyo time) featuring the exhibition with the theme “Globalisation, localisation in the arts.” Prime Time News is one of the major cultural television programs on Japanese television. Ralph’s drawings and poem/songs were published in Encounters: A Riff on the Senses (La Nana Creek Press, 2009, Nacogdoches, Texas) in a limited edition of forty hand-printed and hand-bound hardcover fine artist books with original writings and drawings by Ralph Petty and Charles Jones.

Professor Petty was born in Colorado in 1952 and has lived in Paris since 1976. He received a BFA in painting from the University of California Davis and immediately left for France to study etching with Stanley Hayter in Paris.

He exhibits regularly in the U.S. (New York, Santa Fe and Seattle) where he also teaches summer workshops. Currently teaching drawing and painting at The American University of Paris, he was a member of the faculty at the Parsons School of Design in Paris for ten years and lectured on 20th century figurative art at the Institut d'Etudes de Sciences Politiques de Paris.

Ralph Petty's work includes oil and watercolor landscapes of southern France and Paris, along with nudes and "expressionistic" figurative paintings.

2005

Stage set (design and execution) for Samuel Beckett’s Play for the London based Godot Theatre Company

2003

Combes Gallery, The University of Paris, drawings and paintings, one-man show

L’atelier de la Charpente, Saint Mandé, drawings and paintings, one-man show

Stage set (design and execution) for Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot for the London-based Godot Theatre Company.

2000

Belenky Gallery, New artists, group show, paintings, New York.

France, 2000-2001, Chile”, Espace d’Art Interactif, Santiago, Chile, drawings

Center Street Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming

Firedworks Gallery, Alamosa, Colorado, Paintings

1999

Cline Contemporary Art Gallery, “New Artists,” Sante Fe, New Mexico,

“Arte por la Vida: Esperanza para Nuestros Ninos,” art auction, Washington, D.C. (Whitman Walker Clinic)

Center Street Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, paintings and drawings

Firedworks Gallery, Alamosa, Colorado

1998

Daniel Smith Gallery, Seattle, Washington

Center Street Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming

Figures Libres, Group exhibition, Paris VIII City Hall

Firedworks Gallery, Alamosa, Colorado

1997

American Artists in France 1958—1998, Mona Bismark Foundation, Paris

Center Street Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming

Cline Contemporary Art Gallery, Group show, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Nicole Buck Gallery, Strasbourg, France. “The Nude” Group exhibition, drawings.

Saint Mande City Hall, France. Landscapes, group exhibition

1996

Center Street Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming. Permanent exhibition.

Montreuil City Gallery, Montreuil. Group exhibition.

Corriane Gallery, Paris; Group exhibition.

1995

Gallery Mailletz—Femme Imaginaire, four-man exhibition

1994

Mairie de Vélizy. Three-man exhibition

Gallery Mailletz, Paris—Paintings and drawings, one-man show.

Gallery Fulgance, Paris. Three-man exhibition.

1993

“Itinéraire 93,” Levallois. Invited to participate in exhibition of American artists.

American Chamber of Commerce, Paris—Curator and participant in exhibition of works by professors of Parsons School of Design.

Instants Chavirés (Jazz Club), Montreuil—Paintings and drawings, one-man show.

Commission to decorate the Salle de Conference de la Bibliothèthque de la Ville de Montreuil.

Painting purchased by the Commission des Arts Plastiques de la Ville de Montreuil.

1992

Eglise St. Pierre-St. Paul, Montreuil—Installation. 250 sq. m. of paintings in the church for the 500th anniversary of discovery of America.

The city of Montreuil—Paintings, three-man show "Des Amériques".

Parsons School of Design, New York—Drawings.

1991

Instants Chavirés (Jazz Club), Montreuil—Paintings and drawings, one-man show.

Triptych for St. Pierre-St. Paul, a 13th-century Romanesque church in Montreuil, sponsored by the Monuments Historiques de France.

W.I.C.E., Paris—Paintings and drawings, group exhibition.

Paris—restoration of 17th-century ceiling for the Monuments Historiques in conjunction with Atelier Genevesio.

1990

Finalist in a competition for the design of a 20-meter-high fresco, Montreuil (Méliès Building).

La Ville de Montreuil—Paintings for the celebration of the French Bicentennial, group exhibition.

1989

Parsons School of Design, New York—Drawings.

1988

Prague National Gallery—Paintings, selected for the exhibition: “Contemporary Art in France.”

G.A.R.E. de Montreuil—Drawings.

1987

Parsons School of Design, Paris—Paintings.

“November à Vitry”—Paintings (jury selection).

1986

Exposition Internationale de Desertines 1986, France—Paintings (First Prize).

1982

Château de Nieul, France—Paintings, sculptures, stained glass, etchings.

Design, creation and presentation of a 13-meter dragon on the esplanade of the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris (concurrent with the Nieul Exhibition).

A.C.T., Paris—Sculptures, group exhibition.

1981

Galerie l'Oriflamme, Paris—Sculptures, group exhibition.

1980

Maison Internationale, Cité Universitaire, Paris Paintings and Sculptures, group exhibition.

1978

Fondation des Etats Unis, Paris—Paintings, one-man show.

1977

Maison Internationale, Cité Universitaire, Paris Paintings and Etchings, one-man show.

Fondation des Etats Unis, Paris—Works on paper, group exhibition.

1975

Alpha-Omega Gallery, Sacramento, California—Paintings, group exhibition.

University of California, Davis—Etchings, one-man show.

1973

Cabrillo College, Aptos, California—Drawings, one-man show.