SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2011 2011 Exhibition, Sumitomo Corporation, Houston, TX
2011 Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, TX, (Juror, Clint Willour, Curator, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX)
New Collage, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2011, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, (Juror, Heather Pesanti, Curator, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY)
Landscape, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
5x7, Arthouse Museum, Austin, TX
Art That Tells a Story, Austin Art Connections, Austin, TX
2010 2010 Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus, TX, (Juror, Jim Edwards, Curator, Houston Baptist University Art Gallery)
27th Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, (Juror, Keith Carter, Walles Chair of Art, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX)
Artists for Haiti, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
5x7, Arthouse Museum, Austin, TX
Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art 2010, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, (Juror, John Zarobell, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art)
Compassion, Art 4 Life, New World Museum, Houston, TX
2009 Summer Group Show, Back on Island, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
5x7, Arthouse Museum, Austin, TX
XX, Buchanan Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Established Artist Fellowship, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX
The Shoe Project: Artist’s Soles, Texas Art Education Association, San Antonio Conference, San Antonio, TX
Light in the Deep, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Soirée, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
2007 Introductions, Studio E Gallery, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
39th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX, (Juror, Karen Kunc, Visual Arts Alliance of Texas, Denton, TX)
22nd Annual International Exhibition,” University of Texas, Tyler, TX
2006 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2006, Houston, TX, (Juror, Jeffrey D. Grove, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA)
23rd Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX,(Juror, Sally Sprout, Williams Tower, Houston, TX)
38th Annual Visual Arts Exhibition, Visual Arts Society of Texas, Denton, TX, (Juror,Karl Umluff, Denton, TX)
Silenzio, Et Voila Theatre, Houston, TX, (Curator, Rosella Fida, Talento Bilngue De Houston, Houston, TX)
2005 Light Into Shadow, Shadow Into Light, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Dreams and Beyond, Presented by Et Voila Theatre, Houston, TX, (Curator, Rosella Fida, Talento Bilingue De Houston, Houston TX)
Twenty-Second National Juried Open Exhibition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX, (Curator, Ann Shaw Lancaster, Executive Director, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft)
2004 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2004, Houston, TX, (Juror, Jennifer Cross, Curator of Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Houston, TX)
2003 Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2003, Houston, TX, (Juror, Connie Butler, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA)
Nature Studied, Arts Center of Clear Lake, TX, (Curator, Debra Kendrick South Shore Harbour Exhibit: Hart and Turner, South Shore Harbour, League City, TX
2003 Exhibition, Grey Wolf, Inc, Houston, TX, (Curator, Judy Kwan, MKG ART Marketing, Houston, TX)
21st Juried Show, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX, (Juror, Polly Hammett)
Juror’s Choice 2003, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX, (Juror, Kate Bonansinga, Director, University Art Galleries, U of Texas at El Paso)
2002 Shadow Play, Gallery 3, Houston, TX
2001 2001 Members Exhibition, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX, (Juror, Paola Morsianio, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX)
Word Play, Houston Women's Caucus for Art, Houston Public Library, Central Branch, Houston, TX
1999 New Paintings, Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, TX
1997 Boundary Shift, Crostini's Restaurant, Houston, TX
The Origin of Chill, Winter Street Art Gallery, Houston, TX, (Curator, Kelly Allison, artist)
Inner Voices, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL, (Juror, Sylvia White)
52nd Annual Competition, Museums of Abilene, Abilene, TX, (Juror, James Surls, artist)
1996 c. ellen hart: Boundary Shifts, Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, MD
Figurative Small Works, Armory Art Center, Palm Beach, FL, (Juror, Bruce Helander, Helander Galleries, NYC, NY)
What I Ate and When, Art Center of Douglas County, Denver, CO, (Juror, Lon Seymour, Director, Metropolitan State College of Denver, CO)
13th Annual Open Competition, Visual Arts Alliance, Houston, TX, (Juror, Dr. William Otten, Director, Art Museum of South Texas)
1995 Eighth Annual Exhibition, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC, (Juror, Sammy Hoi, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
1994 Frankly Female, Collector Restaurant Gallery, Dupont Circle, Washington, DC, (Curator, Marilyn Banner, artist)
PUBLICATIONS
American Art Collector, October 2011, Volume 7
American Art Collector, September 2010, Volume 6
American Art Collector, September 2009, Volume 5
Houston Lifestyle Magazine, May 2009
Houston Business Journal, April 2009
Houston Modern Luxury, September 2008
American Art Collector, September 2008, Volume 4, Book 2
American Art Collector, July 2007, Volume 3, Book 4
American Art Collector, June 2006, Volume 2, Book 4
i.e. Magazine, Houston, TX, Winter Issue, 1992
EDUCATION
B.F.A. in Painting, University of Houston, 1985
Sarah Campbell Blaffer Award for Painting, University of Houston, 1984
RESIDENCIES
Fellowship at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, 1996
Resident Artist, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA, 1993
GRANTS
2008 Established Artist Fellowship, Houston Arts Alliance, Houston TX
