selected solo exhibitions
2005 “Clive Pates: Recent Paintings”, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, (Cancelled due to Hurricane Katrina).
2004 “Clive Pates: Recent Paintings”, Reneau University, Columbus, Mississippi.
2004 “Clive Pates: Twenty Minutes of Light”, Gallery 119, Jackson, Mississippi.
2003 “Clive Pates: From the Sea of Cortez to the Tombigbee River”, Delta State University, Cleveland, MS.
2003 “Clive Pates: The Light in August”, Sylvia Schmidt Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana.
2003 “Clive Pates: Portraits”, Rood Contemporary Fine Art, Bristol, England.
2002 “Clive Pates: Recent Work”, Department of Art Gallery, Mississippi State University.
2002 “Clive Pates: Landscape Retrospective”, Rood Contemporary Fine Art, Bristol, England.
1997 “Clive Pates: New York Cityscapes”, Parkview Gallery, Bristol, England.

selected group exhibitions
2009 “The Greatest Earth on Show”, Invitational, Phippen Museum of Western Art, Prescott, Arizona.
2008 “Travelling Dialogue”, Two-person exhibition with Virginia Pates, Meridian Community College, Meridian, Mississippi.
2008 “Travelling Dialogue”, Two-person exhibition with Virginia Pates,Yavapai College, Verde Valley Campus, Clarkdale, Arizona.
2007 “40 for 40”, 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona.
2007 “The Will to Endure”, George Ohr Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi.
2006 “MAC and Andy Show”, Warhol Grantees, The Cedars, Jackson, Mississippi.
2006 Fall Juried Exhibition, American Academy of Equine Art, Lexington, Kentucky.
2005 “Mississippi Invitational”, Mississippi Museum of Art.
2005 Tucson Plein Air Painters' Society "Plein Air 2005", Sonora Desert Museum, Tucson, Arizona.
2003 Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters’ “Painting in the Park”, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado.
2003 “Plein Air Landscapes”, Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park, Estes Park, Colorado.
1996 “Drawings”, Mark Humphries Gallery, New York.
1996 “Second Open Sculpture Exhibition”, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England.
1995 “First Open Sculpture Exhibition”, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England.
1990 BP Portrait Award, selected for exhibition, National Portrait Gallery, London.

awards
2008 Elected to the Arizona Teaching Artists Roster, Arizona Commission on the Arts.
2008 Mississippi Arts Commission Mini-Grant for Travelling Dialogue catalogue.
2006 Warhol Foundation Grant.
2006 Mississippi Arts Commission Business Grant.
2005 Mississippi Arts Commission / NEA Visual Arts Fellowship Grant.
2004 Elected to the Mississippi Artists Roster.
2002 Third Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
1999 Second Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
1996 First Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant.
1995 Fulbright Scholarship, MFA studies in Figurative Art at the New York Academy of Art.
1995 Warhol Foundation Scholarship.
1995 Posey Foundation Scholarship.
1995 Special Commendation in Sculpture, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England.

residencies
2005 Guest Artist, Rancho Linda Vista, Oracle, Arizona.
2001 Robert Fleming Residency, Hospitalfield House, Arbroath, Scotland.
2000 Roundstone Open Arts Residency, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.
1999 Juliet Gomperts Tuscany Residency, Casolé d’Elsa, Tuscany, Italy

education
1996 Post-graduate work in figurative studies at the Art Students League, New York City.
1995 MFA study in figurative art at the New York Academy of Art.
1993 Post-graduate Degree, (Drawing and Foundry), University of the West of England, Bristol, England.
1991 BFA awarded with First Class Honours, University of the West of England, Bristol, England.
1983 Foundation Degree in Art and Design, Cheltenham College of Art, Cheltenham, England.

publications
2008 “Traveling Dialogue”, catalogue for the exhibition.
2007 “The Will to Endure”, catalogue for the exhibition.
2005 “Mississippi Invitational”, catalogue for the exhibition.
2005 www.southernartistry.org
2004 Feature Article in Plein Air Magazine (October).
2003 Article on painting in Mississippi, Southern Accents Magazine (May/June).

employment
2010 Plein Air Workshop, Verrocchio Arts Centre, Casole d'Elsa, Tuscany, Italy.
2008-2010 Adjunct Plein Air Instructor, Yavapai College's Sedona Center for the Arts, Sedona, Arizona.
2006 Adjunct Curator, Ohr Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi.
2004 Instructor in Landscape Painting, Columbus Arts Council, Columbus, Mississippi.
1999-2003 Lecturer in Life Drawing and Painting, Queens Road School of Art, Bristol, England.
1997 Sculptor – Madame Tussaud’s, London, England.