EDUCATION
1987 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Master of Fine Art
1987 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Bachelor of Fine Art
1967 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Bachelor of Arts
ONE AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2009 Nancy Wilson Scanlan Gallery, St. Stephen’s School,
Austin, Texas, Turbulence
2009 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sydney Philen Yeager: Small Disturbances
2008 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Moving Parts
2007 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Jump
2006 St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sydney Yeager
Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Pleats &Volutes
2005/6 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Billow & Fold
2005 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Blink
2004 The Grace Museum, Abilene, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Little Mysteries –
A Ten-Year Midcareer Survey (Traveling Exhibit Curated by the Galveston Arts
Center)
2003 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Particles of Order
McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sydney Yeager: New Paintings
Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Little Mysteries –
A Ten-Year Midcareer Survey (Traveling Exhibit Curated by the Galveston Arts
Center)
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Little Mysteries – A
Ten-Year Midcareer Survey (Traveling Exhibit Curated by the Galveston Arts Center)
The Gallery at the University of Texas at Arlington, Sydney Yeager: Little Mysteries
– A Ten-Year Midcareer Survey (Traveling Exhibit Curated by the Galveston
Arts Center)
Arthouse, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager: Little Mysteries – A Ten-Year
Midcareer Survey (Traveling Exhibit Curated by the Galveston Arts Center)
2002 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Robert Dale Anderson and Sydney Yeager
2001 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Sydney Yeager: New Paintings
Austin College, Sherman, Texas, Purely Paint
1999 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, New Paintings
1998 Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas, Vocabularies
1997 Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Art in Process: Body/Language
1996 Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas, New Paintings by Sydney Yeager
1995 Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas, Comfort Zone
1994 Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, Texas, Dual Intention: Frances Bagley and
Sydney Yeager
1993 Lyons Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas, Bodies of Evidence
1990 R.S. Levy Gallery, Austin, Texas, New Paintings by Sydney Yeager
1989 Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Sydney Yeager, New Work
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Chill
2007 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Red Revisited
2007-9 Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, Grounded
2007 Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas, Fall Faculty Salon Exhibition
2007 The Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas, d berman gallery: Group Show
2006 Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas, Texas Paint, Part II
Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall, Texas
d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Group Show in Conjunction with No One Place
2005 Annual group exhibit of Austin artists at Austin City Hall, Texas
Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Inaugural Group Show
2004 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas, Something Red
d berman gallery temporary installation for Open House 2004, Post 65: Yet More
Art for Marfa, Marfa, Texas
2002 Tyler Museum, Tyler, Texas, Collection of Michael Grainger
Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock, Texas, Texas Works 2002
2001 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Summer Group Show
Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, Texas, Austin Community College Faculty Show
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Red Hot, Red Dot
2000 d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Drawing Show
Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Open Lines: Robert Dale Anderson, Larry Graeber
and Sydney Yeager
d berman gallery, Austin, Texas, Pattern Language
Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Red Hot, Red Dot
1997 Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, Visceral Intelligence
Transco Towers, Houston, Texas, Mediation of Ornament
Austin Museum of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas, Art Patterns
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, Fresh Ink (Catalogue)
1995 Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas, New/Marks/Color/Work: Another
Texas Look
Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas, Evidence
1994 Rachel Harris Gallery, Fort Wroth, Texas, Premier Exhibition
Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas, In Body and Spirit
1993 Dallas, Texas, Texas Biennial
Texas Fine Arts Association, Drawing in the Nineties (Catalogue)
D Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas, Critic’s Choice (Catalogue)
Glassel School, Houston, Texas, Conventional Means/Insidious Vision
D Arts, Dallas, Texas, Collector’s Series,
1992 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, New Work by Austin Artists
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, Primarily Paint (Catalogue); Won Grumbacher
Painting Award
Houston, Texas, Texas Art: Celebration ‘92
1991 Cullen Center, Houston, Texas, Texas Art: Celebration ‘91
1990 Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas, Collage Invitational (Catalogue)
1989 Dallas Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Dallas, Texas, Common Ground:
Beyond Boundaries; Won Best of Show
1988 James/Schubert Gallery, Houston, Texas, Divergent Directions
1987 Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, Texas, Tenth Anniversary Invitational
Exhibition
Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, Thesis Exhibition
1986 Atrium Gallery, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, Texas Realism;
Won Juror’s Award
Temple Cultural Arts Center, Temple, Texas, On Their Way
Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Louisiana, September Competition (Catalogue)
Austin, Texas, Splash ’86
Austin, Texas, Texas ’86; Won Juror’s Award
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
American Airlines, Dallas, Texas
Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Austonian, Austin, Texas
Belo Corporation, Dallas, Texas
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Escamilla Poneck, LLP, Austin, Texas
J. Wayne Stark University Gallery, A&M, College Station, Texas
Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
SELECTED AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, GRANTS
2006 Nominated for Joan Mitchell Foundation
Award
2005 Nominated for Arthouse’s Texas Prize Award
2005 Visting Artist at The American Academy, Rome, Italy; funded through grants
from The Texas Commission on the Arts & The City of Austin
2002 Austin Fairchild Thanksgiving Project Recipient
2001 Selected for Inclusion in New American Paintings, V. 36, Open Studios Press
1996 M-AAA/NEA Fellowship Recipient; Painting, Works on Paper
1990 City of Austin Cultural Arts Grant Recipient
LECTURES/VISTING ARTIST
2008 Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Southern France
Art Class Instructor
2008 Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Florence, Italy Art Class Instructor
2007 Austin Museum of Art – Laguna Gloria, Paris Art Tour
1997 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
1994 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
1992 Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas