Roy Tamboli

Collections

Kaywin Feldman, Director, National Museum of Art, Washington, DC

Aspen Institute, Wye Foundation, Easton, MD

Independent Financial Bank Headquarters, McKinney, TX

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Memphis

Northern Telecom Corporation, Toronto

Vining Sparks Investments, Memphis

Harrah’s Entertainment, Lake Tahoe, CA

B.B. King, Estate

Baron Hirsh Synagogue, Memphis

Belz Enterprises, Memphis

CB Richard Ellis, Memphis, TN

Christian Brothers University, Memphis

Embassy Suites Washington, D.C.

Entergy Corporation, New Orleans

First Tennessee Bank, Memphis

Baptist Hospital Corp., Memphis

Harrah’s Entertainment, Memphis

Iberia Bank Headquarters, Houston

Hyatt Centric, Memphis

Locally Global Investments, Memphis

Lowes Vanderbilt Plaza, Nashville

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis

Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis

Memphis Botanical Gardens, Sculpture Collection

Mississippi Museum of Art, Oxford, MS

The Hyde Foundation, Memphis

The Rose Foundation, Memphis

Temporary Installations and Experituals

2007 “La Tirana Supplication,” Atacama Chile and Quebrada Humahuaca Argentina

2006 “Garganta De Diablo Release,” Tilcara, Argentina

2005 “Thinking Cap,” Florianopolis and Cariva, Brazil

2004 “Yetzer Tov Launch,” Alto Cachi, Argentina,

2003 “La Tirana Series,” Valle de Luna & Laguna Chaxa, Atacama Desert, Chile

1992 “Pangaeans” Cooper Street Gallery, Memphis, TN, A multi-media installation composed of painted continents, book burial grounds, world folk and religious music and ultraviolet light.

1987 to Present, “Ancient Satellite Fragments,” Washington,DC, Rotarua, New Zealand, Mendi, New Guinea, Memphis, TN “Ancient Satellite Fragments” are charred remnants of technical objects created by an imaginary advanced civilization that has inhabited a nearby solar system for thousands of years. Some of these fragments fall to earth and have images relating to where they are found and some address regional or international social and political situations. Topics include cultural imperialism, healing, class structure, religion, land use, population and world harmony.And some appear to be complete folly, pure celebration of vision and thought. The images and materials these works are composed indicate a highly advanced and well developed civilization.

Commissions

1982 Belz Enterprises, “Crescendo”, Fabricated Bronze and Limestone, Shelby Oaks Office Plaza, Memphis, TN.1983

Northern Telecom Corporation, Aspen Institute Wye Foundation Easton, MD, 4 ft. High cast Bronze “Draped Freedom” combination figurative and abstract sculpture. This is the room where President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat met for one week and finally hammered out and agreement on September 23, 1999.

1984 Baptist Hospital Corporation, Memphis, TN, 14 ft. High “Archangel Gabriel,” Fabricated Bronze and Stone abstract sculpture.

1983 Northern Telecom Inc. U.S. Heagquarters, “Silena” 7 ft. high, Cast bronze abstract draped figure sculpture. Nashville, TN.

1984 Vanderbilt Plaza Hotel, Nashville, TN, “Infinite Embrace” 10 ft. High cast bronze and slate sculpture. Abstract depiction of a couple intimately embracing.

1986 First Tennessee Bank Heritage Collection, 8 ft. High cast bronze “Piomingo” figurative and abstract sculpture honoring the last Chickasaw Chief from Memphis area.

1985 Embassy Suites Washington,D.C., 3 ft. High Fabricated Bronze “Levitas”.

1987 First Tennessee Heritage Collection, 7 ft. Cast bronze “Wilma Rudolph” figurative sculpture honoring three time Olympic Gold winner from Tennessee.

1989 Commercial Bank and Trust, Memphis,TN, cast bronze “Take the Ring” figurative/abstract sculpture.

1990 Promus Corporation, “Family/Hejira” Abstract 11 ft. two ton cast bronze sculpture honoring the family group. This is the largest cast bronze sculpture in Memphis, TN

1990 Entergy Corporation Headquarters, New Orleans, LA, 3ft. High Cast Bronze “Levitas”

1990 The Rose Foundation, Memphis, TN, “Rainsong,” Cast bronze abstract sculpture.

1992 City of Memphis and Loeb Properties, 30ft. high, 3000 lb. “Pangaean Disc” is the largest public art, monumental steel sculpture in Memphis. Composed primarily of steel it also uses acrylic, vinyl, wax and enamel. This sculpture is composed from the fragmented super-continent Pangaea which makes up the land masses of earth today. The largest fifty cities are depicted with rings representing population. Each city has a prayer rod coming out of it, a petition for grace. There is a large canister at the bottom with three innocent infants who are powerless over the machinations of the Pangaeans.

1993 The Blues Foundation Handy Awards, Bronze awarded to Legendary musicians such as B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Bobby Blue Bland, Little Milton.

1993 Baron Hirsh Synagogue, Memphis, TN, Bronze “Rainsong”, 5ft. abstract cast bronze and granite.

1994 The Hyde Foundation, Memphis, TN, “Carezza” Cast bronze and granite abstract sculpture.

1996 Harrah’s Entertainment, Lake Tahoe, CA, 10 ft. high four ton, carved limestone disc “Cosmology Symbol.” This sculpture is derived from an ancient, traditional, Woodland Indian narrative design about a legend of the gift of water to the earth.

2000 Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc., Corporate Offices, Memphis, TN, “Woman and Night,” Bronze abstract sculpture.

2001 Private Collection, “Bardo of Rose”, Steel and Glass. This work is about the timeline of ones’ life. A circulare line that continues along smoothly until it intersects with a fluctuation, and adversity. These fluctuations come in many forms and different degrees of intensity. They can be intensely joyful or an unexpected struggle. In this sculpture the fluctuation is both. There’s an adverse fluctuation that wraps off the line and becomes broken steel, emotional pain. This break releases a clear pearl of growth, the nectar of joy that comes from the pain and could not be seen originally. This is a story of struggles that appear to be insurmountable until later when we recognize the gift.

2002 Tucker Jefferson Community Association, Four 12 ft. high Cor-Ten Steel Sculptures, Memphis, TN. These works are a collaboration with artist Carol Buchman using imagery from the midtown area of Memphis.

2003 Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, “Cosmic Source,” 40 ft. long wall sculpture. Stainless steel, glass, acetylene. This work is in the lobby of the new Science Center and it references the expansion of the universe from a central point outwards, as in big bang theory.

2004 St. Peter Cathedral, Memphis, TN, 9 ft. Cast Bronze “St. Martin de Porres” sculpture and stone fountain

2004 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Memphis, TN, “Blus Moon,” 10 ft. Long Steel and Mixed Media sculpture.

2005 Locally Global Investments, Memphis,TN, “This I Am Not,” Fabricated steel and limestone abstract sculpture.

2005 Urban Art Commission Headquarters, Memphis, TN, “Musical Stairs,” 15 ft. High Steel and mixed media musical sculpture.

2006 Private Collection, “Kaplan Angels,” Three 12 ft. high Cor-ten steel sculptures.

2007 The University of Mississippi Museum, “Bardo of Rose”, Steel and Glass.

2008 Bank of Fayette County, Grand Junction, TN. Memorial to “Dunn’s Fearless Bud” three time world champion field trial pointer.

2012 Memphis Theological Seminary, “Justice” 20 ft steel sculpture.

2014 Max Rose Memorial Sculpture, Elmwood Cemetery, Memphis. Fourteen ft. cast bronze sculpture.

2015 Memphis Botanic Gardens, “Neutrinos and Neutrinos Impression” stainless steel sculptures.

2019 The Citizen Building, Memphis, TN., bstract oil on canvas.

2021 Hyattcentric Hotel Memphis, Electric Tree, ten ft. wound, aluminum tree sculpture

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2023 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2020 Mantis Offerings, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis

2019 Edge of Now, Marcy Fischer Gallery, Jackson, MS

2018 New Paintings, Greg Thompson Fine Art, Little Rock, AR

2017 Essere Vivo, Being Alive, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2016 The Optimistic Storm, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2015 Neutrinos/Neutrinos Impression, Memphis Botanical Gardens

2014 Max Rose Memorial Sculpture, Elmwood, Memphis, TN

2014 Justice Monumental Sculpture, Memphis Theological Seminary

2008 Perry Nicole Gallery, Memphis, New Sculpture

2008 Askew, Nixon, Ferguson Gallery, Memphis, Broken Portraits

2007 Galleria Pierra, Dallas, TX, Madrugada New Sculpture

2004 Henningsen Fine Art, Taos, NM, Outdoor Sculpture

2003 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, La Tirana Sculpture and Photography

2002 Memphis Arts Festival, Urban Sprawl, Installation

2002 Creighton Davis Gallery, Washington, DC, New Sculpture

1999 Plough Gallery, Memphis, Multimedia Installatio

1996 Attempting Love, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, New Sculpture

1994 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis,TN, Tierra del Fuego - Holes in Time, Multimedia

1993 Galeria Enrico Bucci, Santiago, Chile, Tierra del Fuego - Holes in Time, Multimedia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023 DHV Gallery, Dallas,TX

2020 Impulse, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019 Color Scheme, Crosstown Arts, Memphis, TN

2019 Breakthrough Chicot, two artists show, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2019 B.I.G.- Bold. Impressive. Grand, Curated Exhibition, Mary Tomas Gallery

2019 Kaaboo Texas, AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX

2019 Focus, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2018 Light Received, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2018 Female Form, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2017 Twelve, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2017 Works on Paper, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2016 Gallery Artists, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2015 CORE II, A Group Exhibition, Ashley Tatum curator, Mary Tomas Gallery

2015 Giants, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2015 Where They Were & Where They Are Now, ANF Gallery, Memphis, TN

2014 Words Matter Invitational, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis, TN

2014 Family, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX 2014

2014 Circuitous Succession Gallery, Invitational, Memphis, TN

2013 Words Matter Invitational, Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis,TN

2013 Curiosities, Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX

2012 Present Tense, Invitational, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN

2011 Germantown Public Art Promenade, Invitational, Germantown, TN

2010 Lightning Strikes Twice, Circuit 12 Gallery & Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas

2011 Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2010 Mary Tomas Gallery, Dallas, TX
2010 J Fine Art, Taos, NM

2008 Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN, Madrugada Series

2008 Cashiers Monumental Sculpture Invitational, Cashiers,NC

2007 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, New Sculpture

2007 CherryLion Studios, Atlanta, GA, Madrugada Series

2005 Jay Etkin Gallery, Memphis,TN, Multimedia Works

2004 Henningsen Fine Art, Taos, NM, Outdoor Sculpture

2003 The Outdoor Museum, Chattanooga, TN, Outdoor Sculpture

2003 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, TN, New Sculpture

2002 Creighton Davis Gallery, Washington, DC

2001 Lumina Gallery Taos, New Mexico, New Sculpture

1999 Cumberland Gallery, Nashville,TN, New Sculpture

1999 Memphis College of Art II Biennial Invitational, Large Scale Sculpture

1999 “Heavy Metal” Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, Large Experimental Sculpture

1998 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Southern Photograhpy Invitational

1998 Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

1998 Memphis College of Art, Faculty Invitational, Large Scale Sculpture

1997 Artrageous X , Cumberland Gallery, Nashville

1997 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis Arts Council Invitational

1996 Memphis Arts Festival, Memphis, TN

1995 Ledbetter Lusk Gallery, Memphis,TN, Mixed Media Sculpture

1995 Survey, Shainberg Gallery, Memphis, TN

1994-1997 Elvis and Marilyn: 2x Immortal, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1994 Contemporary Memphis Photography, The Brooks Biennial, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1994 Sex, Food, Fear, Death, Art Workers’ Union, Memphis

1994 Memphis Arts Festival Invitational, Award by Jerry Saltz, Village Voice N.Y.

1993 Twenty-Second Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

1992 Article II - Section 4: Art of the Polls, Limner Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Art as Artifact, Delta Axis Contemporary Art Center, Memphis

1992 Adult Contemporary Fiction, Studio Warehouse, Memphis

1991 Very Memphis, Tennessee Art Commission, Nashville, TN

1990 Hungers, Not by Bread Alone, Carson Museum, Amarillo, TX

1990 Standing Room Only, Eads Gallery, Eads, TN

1988 Alice Bingham Gallery, Memphis, TN

1984 1ST TN Bank Collection, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN

Education 1971-75 University of Memphis, Memphis, TN

Teaching 1984-85 Sculpture Instructor, Memphis College of Art

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