Academic Résumé
The artist in her studio, 2003
Education
Post-Graduate Studies, Centre Cultural Americain, Paris, France (with Nam June Paik 1978) (with Gary Hill 2007)
Graduate Seminar, University of Montana with Peter Voulkas, Ken Little, Don Reitz (1976)
University of Oklahoma (MFA 1977)
Recent Projects
2008 “Retracing the Dust Bowl” Video/painting and drawing; documentation of itinerant Americana musicians throughout the South and West of the US.
“Cellphone Symphony” Video installation with five cellphones/music stands/sheet music. The five “musicians” with cellphones programmed with various bird song call each other at prescribed intervals by reading the score or directions on the music stands, while in a clearing in the woods. Video documentation projected on wall of gallery. Studio 4884, Santa Fe
“Magpie” installation of found bird nests with large-scale drawings of nests installed at city planning offices. Small video monitors in nests with recitation of T.S. Eliot’s Burnt Norton.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 “CARBON” New paintings, video and installation, AD Collective, Santa Fe
2007 “The Letters” Video installation, Poisant Gallery, Houston
“New Work” Paintings and installation, Harwood Museum, Taos
“AFTER … Blumenschein, after D. H. Lawrence” Paintings and installation, Blumenschein Museum, Taos
2005 “Hobo” Video installations/new drawings, Oklahoma Art Institute
“Red Bird” Installation, CAA Conference, Atlanta
2004 “Trail of Tears” Installation, New Mexico State Capitol Rotunda, Santa Fe
“Trampas Suite” Gallery 449, Santa Fe
“Arcadia” New Paintings and video installation, Mainsite Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma
2003 “Woman’s Work” Installation with new drawings, New Mexico Women’s Foundation
Private Portfolio Showing, Gerald Peters Gallery Annex, New York City
2002 “Sun, Moon and Forest In Between” New paintings, Mainsite Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma
2001 “The Greening of the Grey” New paintings, William Campbell Gallery, Fort Worth, Texas
“The Green Paintings” Brantwood Museum (home of John Ruskin), Cumbria, England
2000 “Tribute to Beuys” DeMarco European Art Foundation, Edinburgh, Scotland
1999 “The Bride’s Templar” Installation commissioned for the Edinburgh Festival/DeMarco Foundation, Torphican, Scotland
Installation with photographs, Mathew Gallery, University of Edinburgh
“Travels” Commissioned watercolors, Stonerwood Park, Hampshire, England
“BirdFlag” Installation, Jardin Tarbor, Rennes, France
“The Longing Wood” New paintings, Lubedac, France
“Song Trap” Installation, Old Biagio Steps, Museum of Malta, Valletta, Malta
1997 “beautiful vietnam” New paintings, Conlon Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe
“Milk Tales” New paintings, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
1995 New prints, Handgraphics Gallery, Santa Fe
1993 American Monotypes, Domodossola, Italy and Ljubljana, Slovenia
1991 “The Poem Paintings” New paintings with performance, Sena Gallery West, Santa Fe
1989 “Reason, Passion and Desire” Sena Gallery West, Santa Fe
1986 “D’Artagnon” Mural commissioned by Sempé Armagnac, Aignon, France
1985 “Simple Pleasures” New works, Modavi Gallery, Napa Valley, California
1983 “To Paint Like a Child” Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1981 “Madonna Paintings” Vertex Gallery, Taos
1978 “Shoe Shine” Interactive Performance, Streets of Paris
1977 “High Tea” Video installation with Dan Boord, University of Oklahoma
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007 “The War Show” Poissant Gallery, Houston
“Lifting the Veil” Institute of American Indian Art Museum, Santa Fe
2005 “Block Busta” Santa Fe Art
2004 “Selections” Santa Fe Art Institute
2003 “Group Show” William Campbell Contemporary Gallery, Fort Worth
“Gallery Artists” Paul Adler, Dallas
2002 “New Artists” Evo Gallery, Santa Fe
“The Landscape” Munson Gallery, Santa Fe
2001 The Road to Meikle Seggie” Venice Bienale, DeMarco European Art Foundation, Venice, Italy
“70 in 2000” Curated by Richard DeMarco, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, England
1999 “Seaside” Museum of Maritime, Valleta, Malta
1997 “State of the Question” Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
1994 Six New Mexico Artists, Rockefeller Center, New York City
“Provoked” With Bruce Nauman, College of Santa Fe
1993 “International Grafiek Biennale” Maastricht, Netherlands
Collaborative Public Art with Jenny Holzer, College of Santa Fe
1992 Intercultural Media Forum Public Art with Edgar Heap of Birds, Sena Gallery, Santa Fe
Rutgers National Works on Paper, Rutgers University, New Jersey
1987 “Across State Lines” Pirate Gallery, Denver
1986 “Group Show” Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1984 “Madonnas at St. Marks Square” Saint Marks Gallery, New York City
1983 “7 Artists Sudwest American” Salon d'Automne, Paris
1979 “International Women Artists” UNESCO, Paris
“Installations” Curated by Malin Wilson, Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
“Open Screenings” Centre Culterel Américain with Nam June Paik, Paris
Collections
Hotel ZaZa, Dallas
IBM Collection, Dallas
AT&T Collection, Kansas City
Sempé Armagnac Collection, Aignon, France
Marcia Weisman Collection, Los Angeles
Katie and Gerald Peters Collection, Santa Fe
Museum of Fine Art, Valletta, Malta
Santa Fe Art Foundation, Gerald Peters Gallery
Demarco European Art Archive, Edinburgh
Oklahoma Art Institute
New Mexico Capitol Art Collection
Radio Shack Corporate Office, Fort Worth
Mrs. Juan Hamilton, Kauii, HI, and Abiqui, NM
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo College
Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe
Mr. & Mrs. Beaumont Newhall Collection, Santa Fe
New Mexico Art Foundation Collection
Art Collection of Oklahoma (Purchase Award)
Museum of Art Collection, University of Oklahoma
Anthony & Deborah Roberts Collection, Paris
Ramona and Fritz Scholder Collection
Selected Grants and Awards
2007 Harwood Museum of Art, University of New Mexico, Artist’s Residency
2002 New Mexico Women’s Foundation, Grant (also 1994)
NEA, Challenge America Grant
2001 Brantwood, John Ruskin Museum, Cumbria, England, Artist's Residency
1999 Tagar Gap, Malta, Artist’s Residency
1998 McCune Foundation, Grant (also 1997 and 1996)
1995 New Mexico Arts Division, Grant (also 1994)
1994 NEA, Artists Forum Grant
Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, Grant
1993 Artslink International, Grant
Art in Public Places, Award
New Mexico Arts Division, Grant
1992 NEA, Art in Public Places Grant
1983 NEA, Special Projects Grant
Bibliography
2008 THE Magazine, Review, Diane Armitage, August, Santa Fe
2007 Lifting the Veil, Catalog, Institute of American Indian Arts Press
2006 New Mexico Landscape, Susan Campbell and Suzanne Deats, Fresco Press
The Medium is the Metaphor, A Retrospective Published by Christine Salom, Outside Press
2005 Block Busta, Invitational Exhibition Catalog
2004 THE Magazine, Review (1995, 1994, 1993), Santa Fe
2003 The Capitol Art Collection Catalog, State of New Mexico
2002 Dallas Morning News, Review
2000 The Road to Meikle Seggie, catalogue curated by Richard DeMarco, Kingston Univ, England
1997 THE Magazine, The Universe of Shelley Horton-Trippe, September
1995 The Santa Fean Magazine, Review
1993 Santa Fe Art, Simone Ellis, color reproduction/text, published by Crescent (Random House)
1992 Nimrod, literary magazine, front cover and interior reproductions
Catalog, The Poem Paintings, with essay by Jon Davis, published by Sena Galleries
1991 Catalog · Rutgers National
1990 The Santa Fean Magazine · Monotypes by Sally EauClair
1989 Southwest Profile, Self Portraits by Nancy Ellis
1987 Artspace – review, Autumn (also March 1984, Winter 1983)
1983 Artlines, May review by Malin Wilson and September review by Nicole Plett
Catalogue – Salon D’Autumn, Paris
Flashe, Paris, review
Interview, mention
1979 International Women in the Arts, UNESCO Publications, Paris