EDUCATION
2003—2005
1995—1999
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN (RISD), Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors — Providence, RI
1997—1999
PALAZETTO CENCI, RISD European Honors Program — Rome, Italy
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO + TWO-PERSON + MUSEUM
2024
CICA Museum Czong Institute for Contemporary | 시카미술관
Solo Exhibition — Gimpo, Korea – May-Jun (CICA)
2023
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 東京都美術館
THE 22st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, The USA Exhibition — Tokyo, Japan – June (Julienne Johnson, Katsu Shimmin)
THE 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition 第 22 回⽇本国際美術交流展 is an international exhibition from around the world including the USA Exhibition, and is an annual event taking place in Japan for the last two decades.
This is Japan’s very first public art museum, founded in 1926 and set in the middle of the picturesque Ueno Park.
USA Curator — Julienne Johnson Hosted By The International Art Exchange Exhibition And Preparatory Committee Shimmin Garou Co-Hosted By The Preparatory Committee Of International Art Exchanges Special Appointed Art Advisors: Tang Yongli, China, Zhang Zhi Min Honorary President: Wang Cheng, China Chairman: Katsu Shimmin
USA Curator — Julienne Johnson Hosted By The International Art Exchange Exhibition And Preparatory Committee Shimmin Garou Co-Hosted By The Preparatory Committee Of International Art Exchanges Special Appointed Art Advisors: Tang Yongli, China, Zhang Zhi Min Honorary President: Wang Cheng, China Chairman: Katsu Shimmin
CICA Museum Czong Institute for Contemporary | 시카미술관
PERSPECTIVES 2023, THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION — Gimpo, Korea – Jan-Feb (CICA)
2022
The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum 東京都美術館
THE 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, The USA Exhibition — Tokyo, Japan – April (Julienne Johnson, Katsu Shimmin)
THE 21st Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition 第 21 回⽇本国際美術交流展 is an international exhibition from around the world including the USA Exhibition, and is an annual event taking place in Japan for the last two decades.
This is Japan’s very first public art museum, founded in 1926 and set in the middle of the picturesque Ueno Park – Tokyo’s
cherry blossom hot spot boasting over 1200 trees; half of which are Yoshino cherry trees. The exhibition takes place at the
end of cherry blossom season when the park will transform into a sea of pink blossoms. The building was designed by
renowned Japanese architect Kunio Maekawa. The museum features special exhibitions and thematic showcases of some of
history’s most revered masterpieces stretching from the Edo period (1603-1867), the Ukiyo-e-woodblock prints – to the
modern works of Isamu Noguchi. The Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum is the museum in Tokyo where you are most likely to
come across rare works exhibited by the Masters, including Van Gogh, Klimt and Monet.
USA Curator — Julienne Johnson Hosted By The International Art Exchange Exhibition And Preparatory Committee Shimmin Garou Co-Hosted By The Preparatory Committee Of International Art Exchanges Special Appointed Art Advisors: Tang Yongli, China, Zhang Zhi Min Honorary President: Wang Cheng, China Chairman: Katsu Shimmin
USA Curator — Julienne Johnson Hosted By The International Art Exchange Exhibition And Preparatory Committee Shimmin Garou Co-Hosted By The Preparatory Committee Of International Art Exchanges Special Appointed Art Advisors: Tang Yongli, China, Zhang Zhi Min Honorary President: Wang Cheng, China Chairman: Katsu Shimmin
2021
Yellowstone Art Museum
North x Northwest — Billings, MT – Jul – Oct (Mika Yoshitake)
Selected by: MIKA YOSHITAKE, PhD is an independent curator with expertise in postwar Japanese art. She earned her MA and PhD in Art History from UCLA, which culminated in the AICA-USA award-winning exhibition and catalogue Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha (2012), introducing the late 1960s Japanese art movement, Mono-ha (School of Things) into an international context. Previously Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2011–18), she organized the six-venue North American tour of Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors (2017–19) among other exhibitions, and recently curated Topologies (2018) at The Warehouse in Dallas, TX and Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s (2019) at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles. She is currently guest curator of Yoshitomo Nara (2021) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature (2021) at the New York Botanical Garden. Forthcoming exhibitions include a retrospective at M+ Hong Kong (2022–23) and Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice at the Hammer Museum (2024) as part of the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA x Art x Science. Yoshitake has published in Artforum, Art in America, Bijutsu Techō, Exposure, Kaleidoscope, among others and edited/contributed to catalogues on Carl Andre, Takashi Arai, Adam Helms, Donald Judd, Yayoi Kusama, Kwon Youngwoo, Lee Ufan, Shana Lutker, Takashi Murakami, Kazumi Nakamura, Yoshitomo Nara, Shōzō Shimamoto, Kishio Suga, and Miwa Yanagi.
2019
The Katonah Museum
"The Edge Effect" — Katonah, NY – Jun – Sep (Akili Tommasino, juror)
The Painting Center, Art File
New York, NY
2018
Beach Museum of Art, Marion Pelton Gallery
"Here,and Now" Faculty Exhibition— Manhattan, KS – Mar – May (about)
2013
"Kevin Bernstein: New Works," Solo Exhibition, The Kansas City Artists Coalition (KCAC), Charno Gallery
Kansas City, MO — Mar
2012
"Art Faculty Biennial," Beach Museum, Kansas State University, Group Exhibition
Manhattan, KS — Nov to Mar 2012
"Paintings," Solo Exhibition, Dickinson State University
Dickinson, ND — Mar
2010
"Formation," Solo Exhibition, Kansas Wesleyan University
Salina, KS — Feb
2009
"Renewal:Art Faculty Biennial," Beach Museum, Kansas State University
Group Exhibition — Manhattan, KS — Sep to Jan (Saralyn Reece Hardy, guest critic)
"Accumulation," Kahmeyer Lecture Series Exhibition, Mingenback Gallery, Bethany College, Invitational Solo Exhibition
Lindsborg, KS — Sep to Oct
2008
Lt. Governor's Art Council Exhibition," Solo Exhibition
Olympia, WA — Sept to Nov
2007
"Recent Works," Bellevue College, Solo Exhibition
Bellevue, WA — Apr to May
"Nature in Forms," West-Eleven Art Gallery, Two-Person Exhibition
London, United Kingdom — Jul
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Time's Journey
The Forsberg Art Gallery, Lower Columbia College — Longview, WA – Nov 2023 to Dec 2024
2020
Los Angeles Open 2020
"OPEN SHOW" — Los Angeles, CA – Dec 2020 - Jan 2021 (Selected by Shana Nys Dambrot, Arts Editor, LA Weekly)
Selected by Shana Nys Dambrot, Arts Editor, LA Weekly
Los Angeles Art Association's OPEN SHOW has grown into a renown international survey exhibition of emerging art mounted by the organization whose mission is to serve emerging artists. LAAA's OPEN SHOW is perhaps best known for its prestigious curators and jurors and has been featured on NPR. Past Open Show jurors have included MoCA Director Jeremy Strick, PAMM Director Franklin Sirmans, Hammer Museum Director Annie Philbin, LACMA curator Rita Gonzalez and MASSMoCA Curator Susan Cross. LAAA is thrilled to add art critic and editor Shana Nys Dambrot to this distinguished list of curatorial talent.
The Painting Center
"Ensemble: Together Again" — New York, NY – Aug – Sep (about)
Invitational to current members, past members and Art File members of The Painting Center and will be presented on the platforms Kunstmatrix and Artsy.
Gallery 825 LAAA
"Gleaming Apollo" — Los Angeles, CA – Jun (about)
Los Angeles Art Association proudly presents Gleaming Apollo an all - media celebration.
Orange County Center For Contemporary Art
"OCCCA @ 40" 40th Anniversary Invitational" — Santa Ana, CA – Jun – Jul (about)
OCCCA @ 40 —
OCCCA has held the public’s attention for four decades with an eclectic mix of sophisticated exhibitions, free of charge to the public. Created by an intrepid band of local artists inspired by their professor --- legendary master of assemblage George Herms --- this artist-run alternative space has continuously presented amazing art exhibitions, music and dance performances, and life-changing art classes. During its astonishing forty-year history, OCCCA has exhibited work that defines what it means to be “contemporary,” fearlessly engaging with controversial issues, while providing a venue for artists formerly excluded by the mainstream, including pioneering exhibitions of art by women, LGBTQ artists, newly-emerging artists, Latino artists, prisoners, protestors, innovators in computer-based New Media, and many fully established, art world renegades. Proud of the organization’s past accomplishments, the current artist-members are eager to carry OCCCA’s legacy full-tilt into the 21st century. Artists from all over the country fly in to attend OCCCA’s high-energy openings, where they can rub elbows with art curators, collectors and fellow artists, engage in spirited discussions of the issues, network with social media influencers, and even plan their next trip to Art Basel Miami. OCCCA has a global perspective, its artists exhibiting here and abroad. OCCCA’s history is more than a star-studded roster of famous artists and curators: it is testimony to the genius of its founders and their remarkable vision of the future.
OCCCA has held the public’s attention for four decades with an eclectic mix of sophisticated exhibitions, free of charge to the public. Created by an intrepid band of local artists inspired by their professor --- legendary master of assemblage George Herms --- this artist-run alternative space has continuously presented amazing art exhibitions, music and dance performances, and life-changing art classes. During its astonishing forty-year history, OCCCA has exhibited work that defines what it means to be “contemporary,” fearlessly engaging with controversial issues, while providing a venue for artists formerly excluded by the mainstream, including pioneering exhibitions of art by women, LGBTQ artists, newly-emerging artists, Latino artists, prisoners, protestors, innovators in computer-based New Media, and many fully established, art world renegades. Proud of the organization’s past accomplishments, the current artist-members are eager to carry OCCCA’s legacy full-tilt into the 21st century. Artists from all over the country fly in to attend OCCCA’s high-energy openings, where they can rub elbows with art curators, collectors and fellow artists, engage in spirited discussions of the issues, network with social media influencers, and even plan their next trip to Art Basel Miami. OCCCA has a global perspective, its artists exhibiting here and abroad. OCCCA’s history is more than a star-studded roster of famous artists and curators: it is testimony to the genius of its founders and their remarkable vision of the future.
2019
First Street Gallery
"2019 National Juried Exhibition" — New York, NY – Jun – Jul (Nancy Margolis, juror)
NANCY MARGOLIS —
Nancy Margolis Gallery, established in New York City in the 1990’s, was one of the first galleries to locate in Chelsea. Followed by a period in SoHo, the gallery returned to the Chelsea art district in 2003 to its current street level location on 25th Street. International in scope, Nancy Margolis Gallery features contemporary painting, works on paper, and sculpture by emerging to established artists. The gallery’s stable of artists, selected for their unique aesthetic language and fascinating vision, are represented in major public and private collections including Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; The Mint Museum, NC; The Museum of Arts and Design, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, NY; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Nancy Margolis Gallery, established in New York City in the 1990’s, was one of the first galleries to locate in Chelsea. Followed by a period in SoHo, the gallery returned to the Chelsea art district in 2003 to its current street level location on 25th Street. International in scope, Nancy Margolis Gallery features contemporary painting, works on paper, and sculpture by emerging to established artists. The gallery’s stable of artists, selected for their unique aesthetic language and fascinating vision, are represented in major public and private collections including Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Danish Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC; The Mint Museum, NC; The Museum of Arts and Design, NY; The Guggenheim Museum, NY; and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
2017
60th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Strohl Art Center Chautauqua Institution — Chautauqua, NY – Jun – Jul
2016
Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound,
"Faculty Past and Present" — Tacoma, WA – Oct – Nov
"The Retrieval of the Beautiful, The Painting Center
Chelsea – New York, NY – Jun – Jul (about)
The Painting Center is pleased to present The Retrieval of the Beautiful an exhibition inspired by Galen Johnson’s book The Retrieval of the Beautiful (Northwestern University Press). The book is a dynamic discussion of existence and consciousness of human activity, including art. Johnson writes, “Here it is enough to see that beauty and the sublime blend into one another when the beautiful grows powerful, transcendent and majestic.” Something beautiful seduces you and draws you in. The exhibition features 84 artists working in variety of media who are exploring beauty and phenomenology in art.
Galen A. Johnson is a Jane C. Ebbs Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island an honors , director of the Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, and General Secretary of the International Merleau Ponty Circle. We are grateful to Galen Johnson and Northwestern University Press for the use of the title The Retrieval of the Beautiful, the title of their recent publication. Maurice Merleau Ponty trained as a psychologist, one of the youngest to lecture at the Sorbonne and was an editor at Les Temps Modernes with Jean Paul Sartre. Merleau’s philosophical writing emerges from a deeply engaged humanist personality and a passionately motivated form of observation. Merleau’s contribution to Phenomenology is, for us, partly located in his description and analysis of what we might categorize as, “formal” painterly issues — complementary color relations, parallax vision, afterimages, geometry of optics. His seminal essay, “Cezanne’s Doubt”, links these formalist elements to Cezanne’s psychology and the artist’s fierce insistence on perception as a lived, physical phenomenon.The essay was part of his articulation of the idea of the body-subject as an alternative to the Cartesian ‘Cogito’. The notion of “embodiment” is a central tenet of his ontology.
The development of art since the 1970’s has been, in many ways, Phenomenological. It has taken many of the connections between body and expression, temperament and politics and finally body-art-history and made it its own. Through the framework of Merleau’s aesthetics Galen Johnson pursues the connections found in desire and repetition, difference and rhythm as they evoke the sublime. Johnson’s finely textured discussion weaves classical philosophy as well as the moderns, including Deleuze and Lyotard, as they shuttle threads in The Retrieval of the Beautiful.
Artists Include: David Abecassis, Jeffrey Ackerman, Gloria Adams, Arista Alanis, Geoffrey Aldridge, Marilyn Allen, Paolo Arao, Frances B. Ashforth, Liz Atlas, Beverly Barber, Davey Barnwell, Amy Bay, Nancy Farr Benigni, Kevin Bernstein, Matthew Best, Christie Blizard, Mona Brody, Connie Brown, Nina Buxenbaum, Cynthia Carlson, Laura Chasman, Xuan Chen, Galen Cheney, Amy Cheng, Tom Climent, John Cline, Mary F. Coats, Sally Cochrane, Jaynie Crimmins, AM DeBrincat, Mary DeVincentis, Cara Enteles, Donna Festa, Alison Ford, Peter Foster, Edina Fulop, Lorraine Glessner, April Hammock, Cathrine Hancher, Fukuko Harris, Jesse Hickman, Valerie Huhn, Patricia Hutchinson, Linda Ippolito, Robert Kolomyski, Deanna Lee, Bill Leech, Xanda McCagg, Maureen Meyer, Kathleen Migliore-Newton, Jessica Mongeon, Douglas Newton, Stephen Niccolls, Paula Overbay, Linda Packard, Meg Brown Payson, Donna Payton, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Alex Pimienta, Jon Shannon Rogers, Alicia Rothman, Kimberly Rowe, Ajean Lee Ryan, Whitney Sage, Lynne Sausele, Dietlind Vander Schaaf, Eleanor Schimmel, Naz Shahrokh, George Shaw, Phillip Shiels, Larry Snider, Marcy Sperry, John Sproul, Audrey Stone, Laurie Sverdlove, Susan Taverna, James Teschner, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Jeanne Tremel, Marianne Van Lent, Louisa Waber, Alice Whealin, Lucy Wilner and Mary Therese Wright.
Galen A. Johnson is a Jane C. Ebbs Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island an honors , director of the Rhode Island Center for the Humanities, and General Secretary of the International Merleau Ponty Circle. We are grateful to Galen Johnson and Northwestern University Press for the use of the title The Retrieval of the Beautiful, the title of their recent publication. Maurice Merleau Ponty trained as a psychologist, one of the youngest to lecture at the Sorbonne and was an editor at Les Temps Modernes with Jean Paul Sartre. Merleau’s philosophical writing emerges from a deeply engaged humanist personality and a passionately motivated form of observation. Merleau’s contribution to Phenomenology is, for us, partly located in his description and analysis of what we might categorize as, “formal” painterly issues — complementary color relations, parallax vision, afterimages, geometry of optics. His seminal essay, “Cezanne’s Doubt”, links these formalist elements to Cezanne’s psychology and the artist’s fierce insistence on perception as a lived, physical phenomenon.The essay was part of his articulation of the idea of the body-subject as an alternative to the Cartesian ‘Cogito’. The notion of “embodiment” is a central tenet of his ontology.
The development of art since the 1970’s has been, in many ways, Phenomenological. It has taken many of the connections between body and expression, temperament and politics and finally body-art-history and made it its own. Through the framework of Merleau’s aesthetics Galen Johnson pursues the connections found in desire and repetition, difference and rhythm as they evoke the sublime. Johnson’s finely textured discussion weaves classical philosophy as well as the moderns, including Deleuze and Lyotard, as they shuttle threads in The Retrieval of the Beautiful.
Artists Include: David Abecassis, Jeffrey Ackerman, Gloria Adams, Arista Alanis, Geoffrey Aldridge, Marilyn Allen, Paolo Arao, Frances B. Ashforth, Liz Atlas, Beverly Barber, Davey Barnwell, Amy Bay, Nancy Farr Benigni, Kevin Bernstein, Matthew Best, Christie Blizard, Mona Brody, Connie Brown, Nina Buxenbaum, Cynthia Carlson, Laura Chasman, Xuan Chen, Galen Cheney, Amy Cheng, Tom Climent, John Cline, Mary F. Coats, Sally Cochrane, Jaynie Crimmins, AM DeBrincat, Mary DeVincentis, Cara Enteles, Donna Festa, Alison Ford, Peter Foster, Edina Fulop, Lorraine Glessner, April Hammock, Cathrine Hancher, Fukuko Harris, Jesse Hickman, Valerie Huhn, Patricia Hutchinson, Linda Ippolito, Robert Kolomyski, Deanna Lee, Bill Leech, Xanda McCagg, Maureen Meyer, Kathleen Migliore-Newton, Jessica Mongeon, Douglas Newton, Stephen Niccolls, Paula Overbay, Linda Packard, Meg Brown Payson, Donna Payton, Gillian Pederson-Krag, Alex Pimienta, Jon Shannon Rogers, Alicia Rothman, Kimberly Rowe, Ajean Lee Ryan, Whitney Sage, Lynne Sausele, Dietlind Vander Schaaf, Eleanor Schimmel, Naz Shahrokh, George Shaw, Phillip Shiels, Larry Snider, Marcy Sperry, John Sproul, Audrey Stone, Laurie Sverdlove, Susan Taverna, James Teschner, Barbara Campbell Thomas, Jeanne Tremel, Marianne Van Lent, Louisa Waber, Alice Whealin, Lucy Wilner and Mary Therese Wright.
2015
"Small Works 4," Jeffrey Leder Gallery
New York City, NY – Oct to Nov
"RISD Alumni/Faculty Show, Studio 53 Gallery, Invitational
Boothbay Harbor, ME – Sep to Oct (about)
Among others we will be showing RISD faculty including Robert Hamilton, Richard Merkin, Dean Richardson, and Gerry Immonen.
The alumni in the show range from the class of 1939 up to the class of 2009
2014
"RISD IN ROME: EHP, Rhode Island School of Design, Woods-Gerry Gallery Invitational
Providence, RI – Sep to Oct
2013
"2013 Juried Exhibition," The Center for Contemporary Art
Bedminster, NJ — Nov – Dec (John Yau, juror)
JOHN YAU's most recent books are Exhibits (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), A Thing Among Things: The Art of Jasper Johns (D.A.P., 2009),[5] and The Passionate Spectator: Essays on Art and Poetry (University of Michigan Press, 2006).
His collections of poetry include Paradiso Diaspora (Penguin, 2006), Ing Grish, with Paintings by Thomas Nozkowski (Saturnalia, 2005),Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin, 2002), Forbidden Entries (Black Sparrow, 1996),
Berlin Diptychon with Photographs by Bill Barrette (Timken, 1995), Edificio Sayonara (Black Sparrow, 1992),Corpse and Mirror (Holt & Rinehardt, 1983), a National Poetry Series book selected by John Ashbery, and Broken Off
by The Music (Burning Deck, 1981). Artists' books include projects with Squeak Carnwath, Richard Tuttle, Norbert Prangenberg, Hanns Schimannsky, Archie Rand, Norman Bluhm, Pat Steir, Suzanne McClelland, Robert Therrien, Leiko Ikemura, and Jürgen Partenheimer (a.o.), his books of art criticism include The United States of Jasper Johns (1996)
and In the Realm of Appearances: The Art of Andy Warhol (1993). He has also edited Fetish (1998), a fiction anthology..
"Visual Inquiry: 2013 Kansas State University Art Faculty Exhibition"
Manhattan, KS — Nov – Feb 2014
56th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art," Strohl Art Center, Main Gallery Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY — Jun to Jul (Janne Siren, juror)
Janne Siren, Director of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
A Finnish native, Siren was educated in the U.S. and has held leadership positions at several European galleries and museums. He has been director of the Helsinki Art Museum, which focuses on modern and contemporary art, since 2007, and has also served as the director of the Tampere Art Museum, which is located in southern Finland.
A Finnish native, Siren was educated in the U.S. and has held leadership positions at several European galleries and museums. He has been director of the Helsinki Art Museum, which focuses on modern and contemporary art, since 2007, and has also served as the director of the Tampere Art Museum, which is located in southern Finland.
2012
"TARFEST 10 Year Anniversary Art Exhibition," 2003-2012 , LAUNCH LA Gallery
Los Angeles, CA – Sep – Oct (Curated by Holly Harrison of the LACMA)
CURATED BY HOLLY HARRISON, Curatorial Administrator, Contemporary Art, LACMA
An exhibition of 35 artists selected from the 225 participants of the past nine years of TARFEST Juried Art Exhibitions.
Previous Jurors include Nancy Myers, Edward Robinson, Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox and Michele Urton of LACMA and local curators, writers and gallerists including Molly Barnes, Peter Frank, Holly Myers, Laurie Frank, Kathy Gallegos, Peter Mays, Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Wesley Jessup, Leora Lutz, Shane Guffogg, Maryna Hrushetska. and James Panozzo.
An exhibition of 35 artists selected from the 225 participants of the past nine years of TARFEST Juried Art Exhibitions.
Previous Jurors include Nancy Myers, Edward Robinson, Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox and Michele Urton of LACMA and local curators, writers and gallerists including Molly Barnes, Peter Frank, Holly Myers, Laurie Frank, Kathy Gallegos, Peter Mays, Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Wesley Jessup, Leora Lutz, Shane Guffogg, Maryna Hrushetska. and James Panozzo.
"Tenth National Juried Exhibition, "Ceres Gallery
New York City, NY – May — Jun (Samantha Rippner, juror)
"Twentieth Juried Art Exhibition, Modern and Contemporary Art," KCCLA Gallery
Los Angeles, CA — May (Douglas Fogle, Alma Ruiz, and Max Presneill, three-person panel)
"International Painting NYC," Jeffrey Leder Gallery – New York City
New York City, NY – Jan – Feb
2011
"Miami University Young Painters Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award Exhibition," Hiestand Galleries Miami University
Oxford, OH – Dec – Feb 2012 (Irene Hofmann, juror)
IRENE HOFMANN, Phillips Director & Chief Curator, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Formerly the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Hofmann curated Bearing Witness, a multi-venue survey of the artist duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. She also curated Cell Phone, the first museum survey of artworks created using cell phone technologies. She has also held positions as curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Formerly the Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum, in Baltimore, Hofmann curated Bearing Witness, a multi-venue survey of the artist duo Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. She also curated Cell Phone, the first museum survey of artworks created using cell phone technologies. She has also held positions as curator at the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach and at the Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Two British and Two American Universities — Book Arts Exhibition, (traveling exhibition), Oregon College of Art and Craft Kansas State University, The University of the West of England (Bristol), UWE Library Gallery West Wales School of the Arts, Oriel Thomas Gallery
Manhattan, KS, Portland, Oregon, Carmarthen, Wales, Bristol, England — Sep to Nov
"TARFEST 2011," KCCLA Gallery
Los Angeles, CA — Sep (Nancy Meyer, juror)
"Brand 40: Fortieth Annual National Juried Exhibition of Works on Paper," Brand Library Galleries
Glendale, CA — Sep to Oct (Peter Frank, juror)
PETER FRANK is art critic for the Huffington Post and Adjunct Senior Curator
at the Riverside Art Museum. He is past critic for Angeleno magazine and the L. A.
Weekly and was Editor for THEmagazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly.
Frank was born in New York, where he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has organized numerous theme and survey shows, most notably "19 Artists – Emergent Americans," the 1981 Exxon National Exhibition mounted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. McPherson & Co. Documentext published his Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987.
Frank was born in New York, where he served as art critic for The Village Voice and The SoHo Weekly News, and moved to Los Angeles in 1988. Frank contributes articles to numerous publications and has organized numerous theme and survey shows, most notably "19 Artists – Emergent Americans," the 1981 Exxon National Exhibition mounted at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. McPherson & Co. Documentext published his Something Else Press: An Annotated Bibliography in 1983. A cycle of poems, The Travelogues, was issued by Sun & Moon Press in 1982. Abbeville Press released New, Used & Improved, an overview of the New York art scene co-written with Michael McKenzie, in 1987.
"Enegry," International Exhibition, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA)
Santa Ana, CA — Aug to Sep, 2011 (Howard N. Fox, juror)
HOWARD N. FOX is Curator Emeritus of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art. At LACMA, beginning in 1985, he organized numerous major exhibitions and authored their catalogues, including Avant-Garde in the Eighties (1987), A Primal Spirit: Ten Contemporary Japanese Sculptors (1990), Lari Pittman (1996), and Eleanor Antin (1999). He was a collaborating curator and contributing author for Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity 1900-2000 and for Tim Hawkinson, co-organized by LACMA and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
He wrote a principal essay for the catalogue accompanying the 2006 exhibition Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and was co-curator of the recent LACMA exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008). In 2010 he organized a 20-year survey exhibition of Los Angeles-based media artist Steve Roden for the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
Often focusing on issues of content and meaning in contemporary art, Fox has published and lectured widely. He was previously a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where he organized some of that museum's first large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the History / Theory / Humanities Faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
He wrote a principal essay for the catalogue accompanying the 2006 exhibition Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, organized by the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and was co-curator of the recent LACMA exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement (2008). In 2010 he organized a 20-year survey exhibition of Los Angeles-based media artist Steve Roden for the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena.
Often focusing on issues of content and meaning in contemporary art, Fox has published and lectured widely. He was previously a curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where he organized some of that museum's first large-scale exhibitions of contemporary art. From 2000 to 2004 he was a member of the History / Theory / Humanities Faculty of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
"54th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art," Strohl Art Center Chautauqua Institution
Chautauqua, NY — Jun to Jul (Jim Kempner, juror)
"Sioux City Art Center's 62nd Juried Exhibition," Sioux City Art Center
Sioux City, IA — Jul to Sep (Gilbert Vicario, juror)
"Academy of Fine Arts, 2011 Juried Art Exhibition," Academy of Fine Arts
Lynchburg, VA — April (George Billis, juror)
"PaperWorks 2011," The Art Gallery (TAG), University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL — Jan to Feb (Mia Kaplan, juror)
2010
"Flux," Three Person Invitational Exhibition, Naked City Art Gallery
Wichita, KS — Nov to Dec
"TARFEST 2010," KCCLA Gallery
Los Angeles, CA — Sep to Oct (Edward Robinson, Associate Curator of LACMA, juror)
"(SICA) Seventh Annual International," The Shore Institute of the Contemporary Arts (SICA)
Long Branch, NJ — Sep to Nov (Mary Birmingham, juror)
"Macro/Micro," The Gallery at Marygrove, Marygrove College
Detroit, MI — Feb to Mar
"Der Zeitgenosse: A National Exhibition of Contemporary Art," Eastern Washington State University
Cheney, WA — Feb to Apr
"Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts, 2010 Kreft Juried Group Exhibition," Concordia University
Ann Arbor, MI — Feb to Mar (Rebecca Hart, juror)
2009
"The Halpert Biennial 2009," Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Juried Group Exhibition
Boone, NC — May to Aug 2009 (Jeffrey Grove, juror)
"HAC: 40th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition," Juried Group Exhibition
Hays, KS — Apr — Jun (Jan Schall, juror)
Forces and Formations," Soil Gallery, Group Exhibition
Seattle, WA — April to May
2008
"Ad Astra Per Aspera," Kansas State & Kansas City Art & Design Faculty Exhibit, Art & Design Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition
Lawrence, KS — Nov
Chapman Gallery, Kansas State University, Group Exhibition
Manhattan, KS — Nov
2007
2007"Expressions West," Coos Museum of Art, juried painting exhibition
Coos Bay, OR Apr to Jun 2007 (Amy Pence-Brown, juror)
2006
"Non-Non Referential Painting," Crawl Space Gallery, Group Exhibition
Seattle, WA — Feb
2005
"MFA Thesis Exhibition, "Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington
Seattle, WA — May
2004
Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Group Exhibition
Seattle, WA — Sep
2002-2001
Nancy Lincoln Gallery, Group Exhibition — Chestnut Hill
MA — Sep & Sep
2000
Fuller Museum, Faculty Exhibition
Brockton, MA — Jul
1999
"Savlanut," Hillel, Brown University, Group Exhibition
Providence, RI — Jun
Woods Gerry Gallery, Illustration Juried Departmental Exhibition
Providence, RI — May
RISD, Senior Group Exhibition
Providence, RI — May
Boston Printmakers, Arches First Annual Juried Student Print Exhibition
Boston, MA — Mar
1998-1997
Palazetto Cenci, Fall and Spring Exhibitions
Rome, Italy — December & May
AWARDS + GRANTS + COLLECTIONS
2023
CICA Museum (Czong Institute for Contemporary) | 시카미술관
Permanet Art Collection
Gimpo-si, Korea
2022
“金賞-The Gold Award”, presented by the 22nd Japan International Art Exchange Exhibition, held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Yūgen-Gaisha Shimmin Garou, Art Collection
Chiba, Japan
2012
USRG, Research Grant, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
2010
School of Leadership, Kansas State University, Permanent Art Collection
Manhattan, KS
The Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Permanent Art Collection
Manhattan, KS
2009
Chapman, Research Grant
Manhattan, KS
USRG, Research Grant, Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
2005
HUB Permanent Art Collection, University of Washington, Director's Purchase Award
Seattle, WA
Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant Awards Nominee
Seattle, WA
2004
University of Washington Graduate Recruitment Assistantship
Seattle, WA — 2004
RESIDENCIES
2016
Governor's Island Art Kibbutz / Residency
New York, NY — June to July
2014
Brush Creek Foundation For the Arts / Residency
Saratoga, WY — April to May
2009
Artists Trust / Centrum Residency, Recipient Russell Jaqua Award for Artistic Excellence
Port Townsend, WA — May to Jun
2007
Artist-in-Residence North Cascades National Park
Newhalem, WA — Apr to May
VISTING ARTIST + LECTURES
2023
LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE, Visiting Artist
Longview, WA — Nov
2010
KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY, Artist Lecture
Salina, KS — Feb
2009
BETHANY COLLEGE, Kahmeyer Lecture Series, Artist Lecture
Lindsborg, KS — Nov
BEACH MUSEUM OF ART, Lecture Panelist
Manhattan, KS — Nov
WEST WALES SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, Artist Lecture
Carmarthen, Wales — Mar
2007
NORTH CASCADES NATIONAL PARK, Artist Lecture
Sedro-Woolley, WA — Jul
BELLEVUE COLLEGE, Artist Lecture
Bellevue, WA — Apr
PUBLICATIONS
2022
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Fifty, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA. (juror, Dominic Molon, Richard Brown Baker Curator of Contemporary Art, RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI.)
2021
The Los Angeles Art Association Volume IV Emerging Artist Survey Catalog
Los Angeles, CA. 2021 (hardcover book/catalog)
2020
The Los Angeles Art Association Volume III Emerging Artist Survey Catalog
Los Angeles, CA. Summer 2020 (hardcover book/catalog)
LAAA will publish an emerging art survey catalog/book to coincide with LAAA's 95th Anniversary, representing participating LAAA artists to coincide with LAAA's 95th Anniversary.
The book will be available at Gallery 825, third party galleries, other retail outlets and will be a "Who's Who" of the Los Angeles art scene.
2019
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ56, Publication in Print, 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY. (About the Magazine)
Studio Visit Magazine, Forty-five & Forty-six, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA. (juror, Michael Lash, Former Director of Public Arts for the City of Chicago.)
American Art Collector 2019, annual publication, Alcove Media,
Berkeley, CA
2018
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ52, Online Gallery, 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY. (About the Magazine)
2017
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume Thirty-Six, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Winter 2016-17.(Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art Museum)
American Art Collector 2017, annual publication, Alcove Media,
Berkeley, CA - 2017
2016
American Art Collector 2016, annual publication, Alcove Media,
Berkeley, CA - 2016
2014
Studio Visit Magazine, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Summer 2014.(Carl Belz)
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ40, Online Gallery3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY. (About the Magazine)
Creative Quarterly 100 Best Annual 2013 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY: Summer 2014.(About the Magazine)
Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Barbara O'Brien, juror, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Winter 2014. (Barbara O'Brien, juror)
2013
Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, Dina Deitsch, juror, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Winter 2013. (Dina Deitsch, juror)
2012
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ29, 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY: Winter 2013. (About the Magazine)
2011
Painter's Table, Rebecca Harp: "Walking in the Rain", Painter's Table
Jan 1, 2011
Studio Visit Magazine, Fall Edition, Ian Berry, juror, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Fall 2011. (Ian Berry, juror)
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ24 Online Gallery, 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY: Fall 2011.
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 14, Beth Venn, juror, Open Press Studios,
Boston, MA: Spring 2011. (Beth Venn, juror)
Creative Quarterly Magazine, CQ22 Online Gallery, 3x3 Publishing,
New York, NY: March 2011.
2010
"Kevin Bernstein: Pattern and Process," feature article by Matthew Clagg, Naked City Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 11, Green Tangerine Publishing,
KS: 2010.
2007
Kryger, August, "Visions from the Wild,"Courier-Times,
Sedro-Woolley, WA: Vol. 115, Number 38 July 18, 2007, p. 1 & 4. (images)
Jaksich, Natasha, "Faculty Art on Display at UPS," Tacoma Weekly,
Tacoma, WA: Mar 1, 2007, C4.
2005
Engelson, Andrew, Seattle Weekly — "Henry Art Gallery Thesis Exhibition," exhibit announcement — selected as standout by editor,
Seattle, WA: Jun 8-14, 2005.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2008—Present
KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY — Manhattan, KS
August 2008 — Present
Spring Semester 2016 to Present
2008-2006
UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND — Tacoma, WA
