Born: Elmo, Missouri
Currently resides in Houston, Texas

EDUCATION

1996 University of Houston, Houston, Texas, MFA
1980 Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, Missouri, BFA
1975-6 University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1993-4 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Houston, Texas
1990 Visiting Artist, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1996 Cultural Arts Council of Houston/Harris County Artist Award
1990 Awards in the Visual Arts 9, SECCA, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Artists Grant
1986 Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Award, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
1985 Art Matters, Inc., Performance Grant

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 “A.M. in America”, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2005 “A.M. in America”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 “Randy Twaddle: Reversal Drawings”, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
“Reversal Drawings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 “Puritan Paintings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1992 “Recent Drawings”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
"UPC Drawings", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1991 "Recent Drawings: CHPL HL", Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
"Recent Drawings", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
"CHPL HL", University Gallery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1990 "Recent Drawings", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
1989 "New Drawings", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Carnival - A Farewell to Flesh", Southwest Craft Center, San Antonio, Texas
"Carnival", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
1988 "Carnival", DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1987 "Changing Nature: Recent Drawings and Prints", Moody Gallery, Houston,
Texas
1986 "Early Warning Systems", Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas (curator: Ron
Gleason)
1985 "Introductions '85", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 “drawn, not quartered”, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
2005 “Black & White”, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
2004 “Post 65: Yet More Art for Marfa”, d berman gallery temporary installation for Open House 2004, Marfa, Texas
2000 “Works on Paper”, d berman gallery, Austin, Texas
1998 “Contemporary Prints and Drawings: A Decade of Acquisitions”, Jack S.
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
1996 “Texas Modern and Post-Modern”, (selections from the permanent collection),
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1995 “Images from Space”, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx
1994 “Stories”, Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
“Texas Art Celebration”, Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
“Texas Selections from the Art Museum of Southeast Texas”, curated by Clint Willour, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
1993 “Seeing the Forest Through the Trees”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Tx
“What’s Next!”, SOMA Gallery, San Diego, California
“New Faces”, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
“Landscapes: Left to Right”, Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
“Making Their Mark”, The Houston International Festival, NationsBank, Houston, Tx
“Darkness + Light”, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
(catalogue)
“Everpresent Moment”, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design,
Sarasota, Florida
1992 “Point of View - Landscapes from the Addison Collection”, Addison Gallery of
American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (catalogue)
“Thirty Prints”, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Centennial Prints in Honor of the 100th Anniversary of the Modern Art Museum,
Fort Worth", Fort Worth, Texas
"Big: Large-scale Prints & Drawings from the Bank America Collection", Bank of America, San Francisco, California
"Texas Art Celebration '92", Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
"Presence", CRCA, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
1991 "Ship Shapes", Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas
"Recent Acquisitions of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Part Two:
1950-1991", California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
"The State I'm In: Texas Artists at the DMA", Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
"On Line: Drawings by Texas Artists", Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, Texas
"Messages: Form Follows Content", University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
"Group Show", Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
"A Sense of Place: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Texas Art", San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
"Two Texans: Vernon Fisher & Randy Twaddle", Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
"Vacation Bible School : An Exhibition", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas,Texas
1990 "42nd Annual Purchase Exhibition", American Academy and Institute of Arts
and Letters, New York, New York
"Direct References: Drawings by Texas Artists", Glassell School of Art, Houston,
Tx.
"Drawn to Scale-Cynthia Carlson, Michael Glier and Randy Twaddle", Addison
Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
(catalogue)
"Ordinary as Extraordinary: Object as Subject", Galveston Arts Center,
Galveston, Tx
"15 Year Anniversary Exhibition", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Mid-America Images: Lone Star Art", Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
"Awards in the Visual Arts 9", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans,
Louisiana; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina; Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
Massachusetts; The BMW Gallery, New York, New York (catalogue)
"This Land: The State of Texas", Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston,
Tx.
"Tradition and Innovation: A Museum Celebration of Texas Art", Museum of
Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
"Politics in Print: Acconci, Allen, Arneson, Bulatov, Saul, Twaddle, Wiley",
Landfall Press, Chicago, Illinois
1989 "Moody Gallery Exhibition", Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, Texas
"Works on Paper", Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Summer Group Show", Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
"Gallery Artists: Prints and Drawings", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New
York
1988 "Memory", UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art, Arlington, Texas
(curator: Jeff Kelley)
"Texas Artists", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
"The First Texas Triennial 1988", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
(catalogue)
"The New Generation", Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
"Conscience and Content", Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas
1987 "A Drawing Exhibition: The Continuity of Man", Haggerty Art Center, University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas
"Paradigms on Paper", Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas
"Invitational", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, New York
"Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas", Aspen Art Museum, Aspen,
Colorado (catalogue)
"Recent Drawings: Drake, Hogan, Johansen, Pardo, Pikrasso, Twaddle",
Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas
1986 "Works on Paper: An Exhibition by Artists Working Inside Texas", Barry Whistler
Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"Artists' Response to Architecture", Nave Museum, Victoria, Texas (curator:
Jim Edwards/catalogue)
"SPECTRUM: Drawn Out", Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (curator:
Ned Rifkin/catalogue)
"Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary Americans", Brooklyn
Museum, Brooklyn, New York (curator: Charlotta Kotik/catalogue)
"Texas Time Machine", Cullen Center, Houston, Texas (curator: Joan Robinson/
catalogue)
"New Orleans Triennial", New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (curator: Douglas Schultz/catalogue)
1985 "One Up", Lawndale Annex, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
"Propaganda", Midtown Art Center, Houston, Texas
"Latent Lingo", DW Gallery, Dallas, Texas
"10 Year Anniversary Exhibition", Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas
"John Hernandez, Hills Snyder, Randy Twaddle", The Patrick Gallery, Austin, Tx.
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), Los Angeles, California
1984 "Sign on a Truck", various locations, New York, New York
"Inaugural Show", Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas
"Four Texas Painters", Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Il.
"Patterns in Contemporary Art", Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
(curator: Annette Carlozzi)
"New Talent in Texas", Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas (curator:
Susan Freudenheim/catalogue)
"Singular Points of View", Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
(curator: Jim Edwards/catalogue)
1983 "Borrowed Time", Dallas, Texas (3 person exhibition with John Hernandez and
Douglas MacWithey)

PERFORMANCES

1989 "Carnival-A Farewell to Flesh", Club Dada, Dallas, Texas; The Chicago House,
Austin,Texas; Southwest Craft Center,San Antonio, Texas, with Anthony
Pearson
1988 "Carnival-A Farewell to Flesh", Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas, Texas with Anthony
Pearson
1986 "Acceptance, Denial and the End of Bravery As We Know It", Caravan of
Dreams, Fort Worth, Texas
1985 "User Friendly Fictions", Sons of Hermann Hall, Dallas, Texas with Ron Perryman
and Jimmie Dale Gilmore

LECTURES

1990 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1985 "The Artists' Eye", Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

PUBLIC ART

2007 Shine and Rise, Honors College Commons, University of Houston
2000 Allen’s Landing, Text Installation, Houston, Texas, (tweak and Core Design
Studio)

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Accenture, Dallas, Texas
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bank of America, San Francisco, California
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Enron Corporation, Houston, Texas
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frito-Lay, Inc., Dallas, Texas
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
NYNEX Corporation, White Plains, New York
Shell Oil Company, Houston, Texas
Southwestern Bell Telephone, St. Louis, Missouri
Steelcase, Houston, Texas
Taco Bell Corporation, Irvine, California
Texaco, Houston, Texas
Texas Instruments, Houston, Texas
The Barrett Collection, Dallas, Texas
The Progressive Collection, Dallas, Texas
The SBC Collection of Twentieth Century American Art, San Antonio, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

CATALOGUES

Art Museum of South Texas, Singular Points of View, Corpus Christi, Texas,
1984 (essay by Jim Edwards)
Texas Christian University, New Talent in Texas, Fort Worth, Texas, 1984
(essay by Susan Freudenheim)
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans, Louisiana,
1986 (essay by Douglas Schultz)
Cullen Center, Texas Time Machine, Houston, Texas, 1986 (essay by
Joan S. Robinson)
The Brooklyn Museum, Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary
Americans, Brooklyn, New York, 1986 (essay by Charlotta Kotik)
The Corcoran Gallery, Spectrum: Drawn Out, Washington, D.C., 1986 (essay by
Ned Rifkin)
Nave Museum, Artists' Response to Architecture, Victoria, Texas, 1986,
(essay by Jim Edwards)
Aspen Art Museum, The Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas, Aspen,
Colorado, 1987 (essay by Annette Carlozzi)
Contemporary Arts Museum, The First Texas Triennial, 1988, Houston, Texas
1988 (curators statements: Marilyn Zeitlin, David Ross, Marge Goldwater)
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Awards in the Visual Arts 9,
Winston-Salem, N.C. 1990 (essay by Lucy Lippard)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Drawn to Scale: Cynthia Carlson, Michael
Glier and Randy Twaddle, Andover, Massachusetts, 1990 (essay by Jock
Reynolds)
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Point of View- Landscapes
from the Addison Collection, Andover, Massachusetts, 1992
Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Darkness + Light: Twentieth Century Works
from Texas Collections, Houston, Texas, 1993 (essay by Elizabeth Ward)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas: 150 Selections from the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, New York, 2000 (Alison de Lima
Greene)

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