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Education

Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Master of Fine Arts
Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan Bachelor of Fine Arts
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Independent Study


Solo Exhibitions


2006 Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY
1999 The Hyde Collection Art Museum, A Loaded Brush, Glens Falls, NY. Catalog
1998 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Ml. Catalog
1997 The Painting Center, Project Room, New York, NY
1996 Courthouse Gallery, Homemade, Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1993 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY
1991 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY
1988 L'Ecole Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post, Long Island University, New York
1982 Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Ericson Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Gallery Seven, Detroit, MI


Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 Planaria Gallery, New York, NY, Two Person Exhibition. Sweet Tragedy
Robert Miller Gallery, NewYork, NY. 8th Annual Visual AIDS Benefit
Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Contemporary Women Artists: New York
2004 Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, Postcards From the Edge
The Work Space, New York, NY, Painter's Forms
Exit Art / The First World, New York, NY, Public.exe: Public Execution
2003 Galerie Lelong, New York, NY, Benefit for Visual AIDS, Postcards From the Edge,
IT Space, NY, Art During Wartime, «Operation How, Now,Wow», A Festival of Dissent
A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY, Wish You Were Here, Too
2002 Exit Art / The First World, New York, NY, Reactions
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY, Visual AIDS, Postcards from the Edge
Courthouse Gallery, Lake George Arts Project, New York, Artists Choose Artists
A.I.R., New York, NY, Postcards
2000 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY, Celebrating Yaddo Artists
Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State Univ., Willimantic, CT, Drawing in the PresentTense
Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison, WI
Artpack and A.I.R., Pontiac, MI, Collision of Cool
1999 Exit Art / The First World, NY, Inaugural Lounge Exhibition
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design NY. Catalog, Drawing in the Present Tense
Exit Art / The First World, NY, Warehouse Exhibition: 'Tis the Season
1998 The Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, NY, catalog, The Capital Region Collects
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design Gallery, New York, NY, Small Works
1997 Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, traveling to GASWORKS Gallery, London, England, Cornerhouse Gallery, Manchester, England, and Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Gallery/Hastings-on-Hudson Municipal Bldg,Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, The Figure Reconsidered
The Work Space, NY, also curated by Nancy Brett, “HAIR - DO”
Rainbow: Prints from Bob Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop, catalog.Traveling in Africa 1994-97.
1996 University of West England, Bristol, England, Small Prints
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA Pet Paintings
The Work Space, New York, Swag and Puddle
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Gallery, Parsons School of Design, NY
1995 Gallery/Hastings-on-Hudson Municipal Bldg,Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, The Nature of Landscape
The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY and Art in General, NY, catalog, new york STATEments
The Work Space, NY, curated by Mary Jones and Janice Krasnow , Pleasant Pebble
1994 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL. Landscsape Not Landscape
Inaugural Exhibition, K & E Gallery, NY Image in Paint
Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY. Catalog, Artists of Mohawk/Hudson Region
Police Building, Janie Paul, curator for O.I.A., NY, Catalog, Landscape: Seen and Remembered
1993 Victoria Munroe Fine Art, New York, NY, Summer Salon
1992 Epstein Museum. Birmingham, Ml, catalog, Three Person Exhibition, Distant Visions: Contemporary Landscape Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Salon
Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Ml, New and Notable Acquisitions
Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York, NY, Landscapes
1991 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, The Painters
Champion International Corporation Collection Exhibition, Stamford, CT, Celebrating Nature
1990 Victoria Munroe Gallery, New York, NY, Notions of Place: Paintings and Drawings
1989 Blum Helman Warehouse, New York NY, Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women
Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post, Long Island University, curated by Judy Collischan, catalog,
Lines of Vision: Drawings by Contemporary Women
Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY, Summer Exhibition
Ruth Siegel Gallery, NY, Landscape: A Travelogue Painted from Memory, Imagination, Reality
1988 Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY, Landscape Anthology
1986 Institute for Art and Urban Resources at The Clocktower, New York, NY, Letters
1985 55 Mercer Street Gallery, New York, NY Chain Reaction
1984 Wayne State University Gallery, Detroit, Ml. catalog, WSU / NYC
1983 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, lthaca, NY, catalog, Women Artists
Hillwood Art Museum, C.W. Post, Long Island University, New York, catalog, Painting from the Mind's Eye
Harm Bouckaert Gallery, NY, Work 4 the Revolution
1982 Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, catalog, Cranbrook USA
1981 Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, catalog, Painting Up Front
1980 Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York, NY, Group Exhibition
Ericson Gallery, New York, NY, catalog, Painting as Percept and , U.S. Art 1980
1979 Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York, NY, invitational
Touchstone Gallery, New York, NY, Group Exhibition
1978 Museum of Modern Art, Exhibition in the Collectors Gallery, New York, NY, Invitational
1974 Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, catalog, Michigan Focus
Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan Artists
1972 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, Group Invitational
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Ml, catalog, Michigan Artists


Selected Awards, Grants and Residencies

Artist Fellowship / Residency at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987,1988
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship, 1991 - 1992
Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Painting Grant,1996
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Painting, 1998 -1999
American Academy in Rome, Visiting Artist, 2001
New York Foundation for the Arts Recovery Grant, 2002
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2003 - 2004


Teaching

Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, Drawing Instructor 1972-73
Oakland Community College,Troy, Michigan, Drawing Instructor 1972-73
Jersey City State College Jersey City, New Jersey, Ass't Prof, Intro. Weaving, intro. Drawing 1976-77
Colorado Mountain College, Vail, Colorado, Painting Symposium 1980,1981
Cooper Union, New York, NY, Guest Instructor, 1997
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Visiting Artist, Lecture 1981
University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, Visiting Artist., Lecture 1984 and 1993
Southampton College, Long Island University, Southampton, New York, Visiting Artist, Lecture1985
C. W. Post, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, Visiting Artist Lecture.1985
Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, Slide Lecture.1986
University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, Slide Lecture 1986
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, New York, Visiting Artist., SlideTalk 1989 and 1993
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, Visiting Artist., Lecture 1993 and1997
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, Guest Instructor and Lecture 1993
Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, Visiting Artist., Slide Talk1993
School for Visual Arts, New York City, Guest Instructor.1994, 1997
State University of New York, Purchase, New York, Painting Assistant Professor, Winter Semester1995
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, Visiting Artist Slide Lecture,1999
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, Visiting Artist, Assistant Professor of Drawing 2000 - 2001
Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois, Visiting Artist Slide Lecture. 2001
Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor, B.F.A. Program,1995 - 2002
Parsons School of Design, New School University, New York, NY, Adjunct Professor, M. F. A. Program,1998 - 2002
 

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