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EXHIBITIONS
2022
Aeronode climate change signs in the cloud, with Transnational Temps.
UCEN Gallery- The University of Michigan – Flint
November 3 – 28, 2022
2021
RESTRUCTURING: University of Michigan-Flint Art & Design Faculty, May – June 2021 Greater Flint Arts Council, Flint, MI
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Curated by Jean Marie Casbarian
2020
BLACK AND WHITE SHOW 2020 Colors of Humanity Art Gallery
SCREENS: Artwork by New Faculty, UCEN Fine Arts Gallery, University of Michigan- Flint, MI.
2018
Defining the Art of Change in the Age of Trump, Center for Contemporary Political Art, Washington D.C.
FACULTY & STAFF Biennial Exhibition, El Paso Community College
2017
An Attitude of Openness: THE SNOREBARN COLLECTIVE, North Willow, Montclair, New Jersey.
Exhibition of collaborative drawing Democracy and Populism (Version 3), El Paso Community College Forum Theater as part of Speaking Freedom, A Dance Concert Celebrating Our Rights. April, 2017.
2016
Annual Faculty Exhibition, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX.
2014
Human, Not Human, Superhuman: The Body in Video, Performance, and Intervention, Curated by An Paenhuysen, Lindner Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2013
Open Frame, Supermarkt, Wedding, Berlin, Germany
2012
Open Frame, TanzFabrik, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2006
Annual Faculty Exhibition, El Paso Community College, El Paso, TX
2003
All Media Exhibition, The Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
2001
Spaced Oddities, Gallery 2, Chicago, IL, Curated by Simon Anderson, Marisa C. Sanchez, and Lisa Wainright
1999
Trespass: An Exhibition of Alumni Art, The Benton Harbor, MI Arts District, Jurors: Jim Elniski, Frank Barsotti, and Judith Geichman
1998
1st International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
1997
Michigan All Media Competition, Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI Juror: Richard Hunt
The Print: An Exhibition of Michigan Printmakers, Ann Arbor Art Center
1996
All Media Competition, Left Bank Gallery, Flint, MI
1994
10,000 Plus, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chicago Neighborhood Artists, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Salon Show 1994, North Lakeside Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1993
Chicago Neighborhood Artists, Near Northwest Arts Council, Chicago, IL
1992
Small Works, Limner Gallery, New York City, New York
1990
Bachelor of Fine Arts Exhibition, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
2019, 2020 & 2022
The UROP Grant to support collaboration between faculty and students for the November Project.
2012-14
Community Scholarship, Transart Institute, New York & Berlin
1990
Student Grant, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Joan Flasch Artist Book Archive at the School of Art Institute Chicago.
PUBLICATIONS
"An Artist from a Southern Country Who Happens to be from the North," Knot: The Art of Sebastian, El Paso Museum of Art, 2016, 9-26.
"Contemplating the NP 1989-1998, 2012 and 2013." ELSE JOURNAL 01 (2016): 52-71. Jan. 2016. Web. Jan. 2016.
“When Attitudes Become Art,” Gaspar Enriquez Metaphors of El Barrio, El Paso Museum of Art, 2014, 11-16.
“Desert Modern and Beyond El Paso Art 1960 – 2012,” Desert Modern and Beyond El Paso Art 1960 – 2012, El Paso Museum of Art, 2012, 13-23.
“The Work of Margarita Cabrera,” Arte al Día México, November 2011, www.artealdiamexico.com
“Flemish School,” Francesco Zuccarelli,” Gustave Jean Jacquet,” and “Vincenzo G. Stiepevich,” European Treasures: International Gothic Through Realism, El Paso Museum of Art Foundation, 2010, 180-183, 274-279, 296 – 303.
“Into the Desert Light: El Paso Art 1850-1960,” Into the Desert Light: Early El Paso Art 1850-1960, El Paso Museum of Art, 2010, 13-21.
“Magnifying Meaning, Vanishing Memories,” Niño perdido Lost Child Ilán Lieberman, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico and El Paso Museum of Art, 2009, 49-63.
“Life Being Art Itself: Manuel Acosta’s Mexican-American Realisms,” Manuel Gregorio Acosta: A Retrospective, El Paso Museum of Art, 2009, 8-31.
“Text, Reality, and Figuration: The Artwork of Gabriel Villa,” The Art of Gabriel Villa, Chicago: IL, Illinois Arts Council, 2007, 15-18.
“New Mexico Sublime: The Celestial Visions of Annabel Livermore,” Annabel Livermore: Journey of Death as Seen Through the Eyes of the Rancher’s Wife, El Paso Museum of Art, 2007, 14 – 15.
Clay and Ash: New Work by Sandria Hu, 9/10/06 – 1/7/07, El Paso Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog, 2006, 6 – 8.
“26 Artist Essays” Texas 100: Selections from the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso Museum of Art Foundation, Exhibition catalog, 2006.
“The Photographs of Carlotta Corpron, Ida Lansky, and Barbara Maples,” Texas Bauhaus: The Photographs of Carlotta Corpron, Ida Lansky and Barbara Maples, El Paso Museum of Art, Exhibition catalog, 2006, 7–15.
“Chargesheimer, Kenneth Josephson, Arnulf Rainer, Lorna Simpson, and Doug and Mike Starn” The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, New York: Routledge, 2005.
EDUCATION
2014 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Practice, Plymouth University with Transart Institute, New York & Berlin, Thesis title: The Reality of Intervention and the Intervention of Reality.
1999 Master of Arts in the History of Art, Michigan State University, Thesis Title: The Use of Text in Art: 1989-1999.
1990 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Concentration: Photography and Sculpture
1988 Bachelor of Arts in Humanities Interdisciplinary, Michigan State University, Areas of Concentration: Studio Art, European History, and German.
