Warren Criswell

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Warren Criswell was born in West Palm Beach, Florida in 1936 and has lived in Benton, Arkansas since 1978. Primarily a self-taught painter, Criswell is also a printmaker, sculptor and animator.

Since 1980 he has had 36 solo exhibitions in the United States and one in Taiwan. His work has been included in 65 group exhibitions in New York, Atlanta, Washington DC, Arkansas, Virginia, North Carolina, Germany and Taiwan, and is represented in the permanent collections of many institutions, including: The Arkansas Arts Center; the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; The Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, GA; Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock, AR; the University of Arkansas at Little Rock; the University of Central Arkansas; Hendrix College and the Central Arkansas Library System, as well as in private and corporate collections in the United States, Europe and Asia.

In 1996 he was awarded a fellowship grant for painting and works on paper by the Mid-America Arts Alliance and the National Endowment for the Arts, and in 2003 an Individual Artist Fellowship Grant for painting and drawing by the Arkansas Arts Council. Warren Criswell has been represented by Taylors Contemporanea Fine Arts since 1992. He now lives near Benton, Arkansas.

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Born in West Palm Beach, Florida, Criswell currently resides in Benton, Arkansas and has exhibited his work in the galleries of the following: the Arkansas Arts Center, the University of Central Arkansas, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, the Walton Gallery in Fayetteville, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Cantrell Gallery in Little Rock, Hendrix College and in venues beyond this state including North Carolina, Texas, Washington D.C., Taiwan and Germany.