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Education
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| 1990 |
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Painting |
| 1989 |
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1985 |
University of Chicago, AB, Biology |
| Awards |
| 2002 |
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant to Sculptors and Painters |
| 2002 |
SECA Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
| 2002 |
Fleishhacker Eureka Fellowship |
| 2001 |
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award |
| 2001 |
ArtCouncil Grant to Individual Artists |
| 1993 |
Outstanding Ford Foundation Fellow |
| 1988-90 |
School of the Art Institute of Chigago, Trustee's Fellowship |
| Solo Exhibitions |
| 2005 |
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2004 |
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy |
| 2003 |
John Bankston: Wild West, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 |
Chance Romance, Michael Zink & Gegner Gallery, Munich, Germany |
| 2002 |
Temptation and Desire, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA |
| 2001 |
Starry Night, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
John Bankston: Lovers, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2001 |
The Capture and Escape of Mr.M, Chapter I, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
| 1999 |
John Bankston: Recent Work, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| Group Exhibitions |
| 2005 |
African Queen, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
| 2005 |
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 |
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2005 |
Celebrating Heritage: Art and the Chris Webber Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (four person show with Mike Henderson, David Huffman and Dominique Moody) |
| 2005 |
Spice Boxes an Inveitational: Scents of Purpose, Artists Interpret the Spice Box, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA |
| 2005 |
Eureka Fellowship 2002-2004, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA |
| 2004 |
Comics Stripped, Off the Preserve! Gallery, di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature, Napa, CA |
| 2004 |
East of the Sun and West of the Moon, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 2003 |
Comic Release, Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2003 |
2002 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 2003 |
Splat, Boom, Pow, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX |
| 2003 |
American Art Today: Faces & Figures, The Art Museum at Florida International University |
| 2002 |
Tribe, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2002 |
Fantasyland, D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Breathless, Lombard-Freid Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2001 |
Comic Relief, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 2001 |
Freestyle, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY |
| 2000 |
A Big Picture Show, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1999 |
Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
| 1999 |
Countdown, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1998 |
Insomnia, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1997 |
Fellows Invitational, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA |
| 1997 |
Group Show, Linetzky Molinero Fine Art, San Francisco, CA |
| 1996 |
Don Baum Says Chicago Has Famous Artists, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
| 1994 |
Just Good Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
| 1994 |
Illinois Center (curated by Struve Gallery), Chicago, IL |
| 1994 |
D.B.'s Grab Bag, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
| 1994 |
Emerging Talent: African-American Artists in California, Skyline College, San Bruno, CA |
| 1993 |
Emerging Chicago Abstraction, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL |
| 1992 |
Chicago International Art Exhibition, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1991 |
Abstraction, 1991, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Abstraction - New Talent, Struve Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Five Friend, Fifty Fingers, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Artist from Outline, MWMWM Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Skowhegan Group Show, Hokin-Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
Illinois Art Center, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
MFA Thesis Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
| 1990 |
John Bankston and Jake Webster, Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI |
| 1989 |
A Part of the Whole, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
| Public Collections |
| City of Chicago, Harold Washington Memorial Library Center, IL |
| Lake Michigan College, Benton Harbor, MI |
| The Studio Museum, Harlem, NY |
| Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA |
| University of Illinois, Chicago, IL |
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