Biography of:
Norman Akers
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Norman Akers was born in Fairfax, Oklahoma. Akers served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the School of Art and Design, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois and Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Akers has had solo exhibitions at the Jan Cicero Gallery in Chicago, Carl Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, and the Gardner Art Gallery, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including, "Who Stole the Tee Pee?" National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Museum, New York, Rewritings, Artfit Exhibition Space, Phoenix, and Pathology of Symbols, I Space, Chicago.
His paintings are included in numerous collections including the Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Rockwell Museum, Corning, Heard Museum, Phoenix, Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Institute of American Indian Arts Museum, Santa Fe, and US Embassy, Yerevan, Armenia. In 1999, he was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant. The same year he received a merit award at the Oklahoma Painting and Drawing Biennial V.
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