AWARDS
Artist of the Month (March 2003) – Liquitex Painting Materials (www.liquitex.com)
GRANTS
Ruth Chenven Foundation – Travel, research and paint Baobab and Fromanger trees in Senegal, 2004
LECTURES
Public art and Environmental Issues, University of N. Florida, Art & Design Dept. Jacksonville, FL, 2008
Art and Global Survival, Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2008
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden
University of N. Florida, Jacksonville, FL
University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Pinellas County, Clearwater, FL
(Bold indicates a review, catalog or video was published)
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Steinhardt Conservatory Gallery, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, NY
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| 2009 |
”Treeology” Konsthallen Hishult, Sweden
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Tillie’s of Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
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| 2008 |
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery D3, Nnew York City
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| 2007 |
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery D3, New York City
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Soapbox Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
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| 2006 |
AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery D3, New York City
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| 2005 |
Rosewood Gallery, Kettering, Ohio (paintings and luminous performance w. dancers from Sinclair College)
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Gallery U, Cleveland, Ohio (paintings and luminous performance with dancers from U of Ohio, singer and musicians)
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Cool New York Dance Festival (luminous performances; dancers and drummers)Video available
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| 2004 |
St. Thomas Aquinas College, Sparkhill, NY (paintings & luminous performance; students, singer, musician)
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D.U.M.B.O. Dance Festival (luminous performance; dancers, singer, drummers) Video available
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| 2003 |
Red Clay, New York, NY (luminous performance; dancers, recorded music)
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BAM/SONYA Spring Show (paintings & luminous performance; dancers, musician )
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Gallery 718, Brooklyn, NY
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| 2002 | Nordiska Ministerrådet Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark (paintings & luminous performanc) |
| Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, New York (including performance with Gender Illusionist, Dréd Geresant) | |
| 100 Lex Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, New York (four performances May 19 with JoLea Mafei Dance Company) | |
| Merce Cunningham Studio, New York, New York (performances March 21 – 24, with JoLea Maffei Dance Co.) Video/DVD available | |
| 2001 | Gallery Ami, Seoul, Korea |
| Function @ Junction, Whistler, B.C., Canada | |
| 2000 | Karlshamn Konsthall, Karlshamn, Sweden |
| 1999 | Ystad Art Museum, Ystad, Sweden (performance Jan. 15, 2000 with Mats Gustafsson and Lotta Melin, dancer) |
| Galleri Gerthel, Malmö, Sweden | |
| Konsthallen Hishult, Hishult, Sweden | |
| 1998 | Gallery Ami, Seoul, Korea |
| 1997 | MANIF International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea |
| 1996 | Samuel J. Zacks Gallery, York University, Toronto, Canada |
| Solveig Bergström Gallery, Jönköping, Sweden | |
| 1995 | "A Retrospective", Gray Art Gallery, Curator: Bo Nilsson, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC |
| Roger Smith Gallery, New York, New York | |
| Gallery Ami, Seoul, Korea | |
| 1993 | Anders Knutsson. Gallery Ami, Seoul, Korea |
| 1991 | Stephen Solovy Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1990 | "Lightscapes", Curator: Charles Shepard III. University of Maine Museum of Art, Orono, ME |
| Galleri Hylteberga, Skurup, Sweden | |
| Bennett Siegel Gallery, New York, New York | |
| 1988 | "Gates of Light", Curator: Thomas Krens, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
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1987
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Keith Green Gallery, New York, New York
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2010 | International Art of the 1970’s from the collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 105 Lexington/Gallery D3 six artist show new works | |
| 2009 | “Hello Living”, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2008 | “Brooklyn as a State of Mind”, CHAF, Brooklyn, NY |
| “The Quest to Define Ourselves & Our Culture”, Paintings. St. Joseph’s College, Brooklyn, NY | |
| “Points of View-Contemporary Landscape” Paintings, drawings, prints. Tabla Rasa Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2007 | “Blast - Ten Year Anniversary”, print, Holland Tunnel Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| “Forte Condo”, Paintings, Model apartments Installation, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Kentler International Drawing Center, drawings, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2006 | “The Diligent Hand”, drawings, Gallery 64, Brooklyn, New York |
| Kentler International Drawing Center, drawing, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2005 | AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Gallery D3, New York City |
| “Project Diversity, a multi-venue exhibits. By Brooklyn Artists; G Carver Gallery/Magnolia Tree Earth Ctr, Brooklyn | |
| “Faces of the Fallen”, ten portraits of US soldiers fallen in Iraq, for a Memorial at Arlington Nat’l Cemetery, DC. Curator: Annette Polan | |
| “The New Landscape”, California State University Channel Islands, Curator: Jack Reilly | |
| 2004 | “Winter Sonata”, Gallery at Marmara-Manhattan, New York, NY (with Ragna Berlin and Madeleine Hatz) |
| “They Came From Da Hood”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (Curator: Danny Simmons) | |
| Clinton Hill Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY; co-director, curator; two luminous performances | |
| Affordable Art Fair, Gallery D3, New York, NY | |
| “Art Downtown: Connecting Collections”, Presenter: Deutsche Bank, Curators: Danny Simmons, Russell Simmons, Diane von Furstenberg, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Robert Wilson | |
| “Looking In/Looking Out”, Paul Mellon Arts Center Gallery, Wallingford, CT; Curator: Ellen Pliskin | |
| 2003 | Brooklyn Academy of Music/SONYA Group show, Brooklyn, NY |
| Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY | |
| 2002 | “Ground Zero”, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI |
| 2001 | Works on Paper Flat file, LFL Gallery, 531 W. 26th St., New York, NY |
| “Young at Art”, The Hope Center, Jersey City, NJ. Curator: Robert Costa | |
| “Water is Life”,Wetterling Gallery,Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 1999 | Wilson Bismarck Gallery, Baltimore, MD, Curator: Ellen Price |
| 1998 | Kristal Gallery, Warren, Vermont |
| "Ontario Landscape", BYK International, Oakville, Ont. Canada. Curator: Anders Knutsson | |
| 1996 | MANIF International Artfair, Seoul, Korea |
| "A Northern Vision", Noranda Inc., Toronto, Canada. Curator: Anders Knutsson | |
| 1995 | "Tribute to Ingmar Bergman", Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, New York, New York. Curator: Elfie Alwin |
| 1993 | Mission Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1992 | "Beyond Boundaries", Forum Gallery, Jamestown Community Gallery, Jamestown, New York |
| Löwenadler Gallery, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| "Contemporary Landscape", J. P. Claire Gallery, New York, New York. Curator: Ellen Price | |
| 1991 | Lillian Heidenberg Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1989 | Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York, New York |
| Björn Olsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Yuma Art Centre, Yuma, Arizona | |
| 1984 | "Radical Painting", Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. Curator: Thomas Krens |
| Brampton Gallery, London, England | |
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Gallerie Ressle, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
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PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
| 2007 | University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, three large paintings, two drawings and two prints of Champion |
| Florida trees for new LEED certified Art & Social Science Building; commissioned by Florida’s Art in State Buildings | |
| Stevens Institute of Technology, Babbio Center, Hoboken, NJ. Commissioned Installation of paintings. | |
| 2004 | Clearwater Courthouse, Clearwater, FL. Four 7’ x 7’ paintings of indigenous trees for the courthouse lobby. Commissioned by the Pinellas County Arts Council. |
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BYK International, Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Coordinate a Corporate/Art Community project to lease art from local artists for a 12-month period. My role was to select the artists (total 15) as well as the individual art work ensuring that the total cost fit within budget, ensure on time delivery, arrange the contracts with the corporation and the artist, arrange the administrative paperwork, curate and install the art. |
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1997 |
Beauty Plaza Building, Seoul, Korea. Proposal accepted to paint and ship six large paintings of Banyan Trees in Buenos Aires, Argentina. My responsibility was to paint and deliver the paintings within the agreed price and time frame. |
| Noranda Inc., Toronto, Ontario. Coordinated a Corporate/Art Community project to lease art from local artists for a 12-month period. My role was to select the artists (total 14) as well as the individual art work ensuring that the total cost fit within budget, ensure on time delivery, arrange the contracts with the corporation and the artist, arrange the administrative paperwork, curate and oversee the installation. | |
| 1996 | Noranda Inc., Toronto, Ontario. (See above) |
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Korean Olympic Committee, Seoul, Korea. Two paintings commissioned for opening ceremony celebration.
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CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2009 |
Five Brooklyn Artists, Gallery D3 / Bayside Builders, 105 Lexington Ave, Brooklyn, NY
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| “Hello Brooklyn”, Installation of art by 32 artists in 21 loft apartments, Triumph Realty, NYC | |
| 2008 | Clinton Hill Art Festival, Art by 52 artists at 95 Lexington, Producer/curator, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | “Nikita Hunter – To Japan with Love”, Grand Dakar Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| Forte Condo Project – co-curator with Danny Simmons. Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2006 | Magnolia Tree Earth Center – George Washington Carver Gallery, Brooklyn, NY – Chief Curator |
| Gallery D3, AAF Art Fair, Chelsea, New York City | |
| 2005 | Magnolia Tree Earth Center - George Washington Carver Gallery, Brooklyn, NY - Curator |
| AAF Contemporary Art Fair, Pier 92, New York City | |
| “Brooklyn Kicks Ass II”, September 11, Stairways/ Gallery D3 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Yolélé Art Gallery (resident curator, monthly exhibitions), Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2004 | “Brooklyn Kicks Ass”, Clinton Hill Art Festival, Brooklyn, NY |
| Yolélé Art Gallery (resident curator, monthly exhibitions), Brooklyn, NY |
