WILLIAM H. WAINWRIGHT
100 Franklin St. • Allston, Ma • 617-623-2038 email: whwainwr@aol.com

Born:  Indianapolis, Indiana, 1924

Education

Purdue University:  1946 – 1948

Cornell University:  1948 – 1950

Institute of Design, Chicago, B.S. 1952

MIT Graduate School of Architecture:  1952 – 1953

Studied with:  Konrad Wachsmann, Buckminster Fuller, Harold Tovish

Registered Engineer, Massachusetts

Registered Architect, Massachusetts

Professional Projects

Geometrics, Inc., Architects & Engineers, Founding Partner 1956

Designers of U.S. Pavilion, Montreal EXPO 1969

Lazy 8:  Development, Invention & Innovations

Harvard University, Graduate School of Design

Visiting Lecturer in Graphics, 1962 – 64

Assistant Professor of Architecture, 1964 – 68

Associate Professor of Architecture, 1968 – 71

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research Assistant, Architecture Department, 1953 – 54

School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Instructor of basic design, 1953

Visiting Committee 1980 – 88

Visiting Lecturer 1991

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Trustee, 1971 – 85

Honorary Trustee, 1985 – present

Massachusetts College of Art,  Boston

Visiting Artists Program, 1985

Publications

Plastics in Housing, MIT Press, 1948

Patents

Helicopter Jungle Landing Pad

Random Subdivision of a Sphere

Solo Art Exhibitions

2004    “The Wright Brothers”, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston

2000    “Things I’ve Made”, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston

1999    “Butterflies & Leaves”, Harvard Community Health, Somerville

1998    “Spatial Drawings”, Boston Sculptors  @ Chapel Gallery, Newton

1996    “Dispersions Contained”, Boston Sculptors @ Chapel Gallery, Newton

1994    “Fantastic Ships”, Boston Sculptors @ Chapel Gallery, Newton

1992    “Trees, Insects, & Other Plants”, Boston Sculptors @ Chapel Gallery, Newton

1991    “Imaginary Entrepreneur’s Study”, with Clara Wainwright, Horn Gallery, Babson College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

1990    “Garden Sculpture”, Barbara Singer Gallery, Cambridge

1984    “Light, Motion, Color, & Frogs”, VanBuren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery, Cambridge

1970    “Magical Moat Machines”, Prudential Plaza, Boston

1968    “World of Wainwright”, Design Research, Cambridge

1961    “Geometric Constructions”, Tufts University, Somerville

Group Exhibitions

2005    “Summer Show”, Boston Sculptor’s Gallery, Boston, MA

2004    “Paper. Scissors. Sculpture”, Boston Sculptor’s Gallery, Boston, MA

2003    “Collection Connection”, Boston Sculptors @ the Duxbury Art Museum, Duxbury, MA

2002    “Whether the Feathers Point”, Brookline Center for the Arts @ Allendale, MA

“From Ancient to Avant Guard”, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA

“Royal Flush”, Endicott College, Beverly, MA

2001    “3-D Dream Catchers”, Brookline Center for the Arts @ Allendale, MA

2000    “Rainbows Afloat”, Brookline Center for the Arts @ Allendale, MA

1999    “Spheres by Artists”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Boston Sculptors @ the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA

1998    Windows Art Project, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA

Visiting Sculptors, Paris, France

1997    Windows Art Project, Somerville Arts Council, Somerville, MA

1991    Sculpture Walk 1991, Brookline, MA

Sculpture at Larz Anderson Park, Brookline, MA

1990    Contemporary Art at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

“Toys by Artists”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Sculpture Walk 1990, Brookline, MA

1987    “Racing Sculpture”, Milwaukee & Norwalk, CT

Brockton Art Museum Triennial, Brockton, MA

Contemporary Art at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA

City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA

Transportation Building, Stamford, CT

1986    DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

1985    “Floating Opals”, Brockton Arts Festival, Brockton Arts Center, MA

1984    “Racing Sculpture”, Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MA

1983    “Racing Sculpture”, Fitchburg Museum of Art, Fitchburg, MA

“ArchiTOYtonics”, Boston Architectural Center, Boston, MA

“Altered Egos”, Mobilia, Cambridge, MA

“Antique Store of the 21s”t Century, Boston, MA

1982    “Collection of Graham Gund”, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

“Antique Store of the 21st Century”, Boston, MA

1980    “Art on the Line”, Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA

Artist’s Store, ICA, Boston, MA

1979    “Obsolete Species”, Arts Colloquium, Salem, MA

1978    Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, NY

1977    “Nautilus”, Sculpture Now Gallery, New York, NY

1974    “Lattice”, Boston Visual Artists Union, Boston, MA

1973    “Tensegrity Tower”, Chicago Museum of Science, IL

1972    “Crystal of Wind”, Brockton Mass Art Center, Brockton, MA

1971    “Photoelastic Stepping Stones”, Hayden Gallery, MIT w/ CAVS

1970    “Photoelastic Path” (with Gregory Kepes), Smithsonian Institute & MIT

1968    American Institute of Arts & Letters, New York City, NY

Commissions

2005    “Triple Helix”, Mitre Corporation, Bedford, MA

2001    “Ascension of Cubes”, Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Lexington, MA

2000    “Torsional Wave Machine”, Science Museum, Mansfield, OH

1998    “Hypercube Wind Sculpture”, Grossman Co, Quincy, MA

North Carolina Museum of Life and Science Living Butterfly Pavilion, 60’ Mobile of Butterflies and Leaves

1997    “Nevergreen Canopy”, Au Bon Pain Building, Woburn, MA

1996    “Diffractive Wind Cubes”, Quincy, MA

1993    “Dandelion Seed”, Dr. Love Garden, Faulkner Hospital, Boston, MA

1991    “Kinetic Multi-media Oracle”, FirstNight, Boston, MA

“30‘ Nevergreen Tree”, COSI Science Museum, Columbus, OH

“Atrium Sculpture”, Tunxis Community College, Connecticut Commission on the Arts

1990    “School of Fish”, Davis Development Co., Cambridge, MA

“Nevergreen Bush”, Mr. & Mrs. Andrus, Wyzata, MN

“Nevergreen Tree”, Mr. & Mrs. Cohen, Newton, MA

Children’s Playground, Toronto, Canada

1989    “Aurora”, Pyramid Companies, Pilgrim Mall, Kingston, MA

“Cascade”, Grossman Companies, Braintree, MA

1988    “Quintuple Helix III”, (35’) Phoenix, AZ

“Oracle”, FirstNight, Boston, MA

“Double Helix II”, Stanford Railroad Station, Stanford, CT

1987    “Nevergreen Tree”, (35’) Lechmere Canal Park, Cambridge, MA

“Quintuple Helix I”, (40’) Traveler’s Properties, Houston, TX

“Quintuple Helix II”, Galleria at Erie Place, Cleveland, OH

“Nevergreen Ivy”, Faxon Company, Westwood, MA

“Crystal”, Children’s Playground, United Nations, New York, City, NY

“Double Helix”, Atrium, New Haven Courthouse, New Haven, CT

1986    “Rainbow Forest”, Bethesda Metro Center, Rozansky & Kay, Bethesda, MD

“Tree of Opals”, Foster Small Animal Hospital, Tufts University, Boston, MA

“Atrium Sculpture”, (70’) Stetson Place, Weymouth, MA

“Double Helix I”, Executive Park, Braintree, MA

1985    “School of Alewife”, (120’) Bethesda Navel Hospital, Bethesda, MD

“Wind Opal”, Boston Arts Festival, Boston, MA

“Rainbow of Trout”, Prudential Life Ins. Co., New Orleans, LA

1984    Lights at the End of the Tunnel”, Mass Bay Transit Authority, Cambridge, MA

Alewife Return to the Mystic River”, Mary O’Malley Park, Metropolitan District Commission, Chelsea, MA

1982    “Windwheels”, Mass. Port Authority, Logan Airport, Boston, MA

1977    “Tree of Life”, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for the Aged, Boston, MA

1976    “Symbolic Waterwheels”, Commemorative Park, Lawrence, MA

1975    “Tower of Light”, Norfolk Virginia Redevelopment Authority

1972    “Cascade of Cubes”, Beacon Office Park, Wellesley, MA

1970    “Magical Moat Machines”, Prudential Insurance Co., Boston, MA