| Education | |
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| 1977-1979 | Master of Fine Arts, Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1971-1975 | Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summa Cum Laude, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO |
| Selected Exhibitions | |
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| 2010 | Rosalyn Schwartz: Works from 1989-2009,” Gallery 210, travelling exhibition starting at the University of Missouri, St. Louis (solo) |
| 2009 | “New Work: Opening Exhibition,” Ambient Art Projects, Las Vegas, Nevada (group) |
| “From Soup to Nuts,” Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group) | |
| "Rosemary's Babies 2," Miller Gallery, Cincinatti, Ohio (group) | |
| 2008 | “Contemporary Paintings at The McNay,” The McNay Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, (three-person) |
| “Ahhh…Decadence!,” School of the Art Institute, Chicago Illinois (group) | |
“New Paintings: Artists from Illinois and Missouri,” Edwardsville Art Center, Edwardsville, Illinois, (group) |
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“Bush Foundation Recipients Exhibition,” Bush Foundation Headquarters, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (group) |
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| 2007 | “New Work”, Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri (solo) |
| 2006 | “The New Old Masters”, National Museum of Modern Art, Gdansk, Poland (group, curated by Donald Kuspit) |
| 2004 | “Le Salon Intime”, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (solo) |
| 2002 | “Paintings”, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (solo) |
| 2001 | “Paintings”, I space, Chicago, Illinois (two-person) “Going Through”, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona (solo) |
| 2000 | “New Work”, David Lusk Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee (solo) |
| 1999 | “Beauty Beyond Language”, Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (solo) “Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants”, Tweed Museum, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota (group; two year traveling exhibition) |
| 1998 | “Remembering Beauty: The Nature of Landscape”, South Bend Regional Museum, South Bend, Indiana (group) |
| 1997 | “Buried Pleasures”, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Bloomington, Illinois (two person) |
| 1996 | “(un)earthly delights”, State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (group) |
| 1995 | “New Paintings”, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo) |
| 1993 | "Paintings”, Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo) |
| 1992 | "Paintings: 1982-1992”, Merwin Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois (solo) "Nature Fabrilis”, Stiebel Modern Gallery, New York City, New York (group) |
| 1990 | "Paintings”, Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo) |
| 1989 | "Our Corner of the World: Seventeen Illinois Artists”, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois (group) |
| 1987 | "Drawing: Contradiction and Paradox”, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota (group) |
| 1986 | "House, Garden - The Spirit of Place”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota (group) |
| Selected Publications and Reviews | |
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| 2004 | “Nature and Nurture,” Kansas City Star, review by Valerie Zell, June 18 |
| 2002 | “Escape Artists”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, feature article, January “Ambitious Moves”, ART NEWS magazine, feature article with half-page color reproduction, January |
| 2000 | "Rosalyn Schwartz”, review by Donald Kuspit, New Art Examiner, March |
| 1999 | “Champaign Summer”, Forum for Contemporary Art, review by Jeff Daniel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 18 |
| 1998 | “Buried Pleasures”, University Galleries, Illinois State University, review by Cynthia Morgan, New Art Examiner, May |
| 1996 | “(un)earthly delights”, catalogue essay by Donald Kuspit |
| 1995 | "A Riot of Color that Bears Dark Secrets”, review by Carol Ferring Shepley, St. Louis Post Dispatch, September |
| 1993 | “Rosalyn Schwartz”, review by Michael Bulka, Art in America, September |
| 1992 | "Reinventing Nature”, review by Holland Cotter, New York Times, July 3, p. C26 |
| 1991 | "Rosalyn Schwartz”, review by John Brunetti, New Art Examiner, February "Rosalyn Schwartz”, review by James Yood, Artforum, January |
| 1990 | "Rosalyn Schwartz-Paintings”, brochure essay by Eleanor Heartney, exhibition at Gwenda Jay Gallery, Chicago |
| 1986 | "Two at MIA”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, November |
| Selected Honors, Awards, Presentations | |
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| 2004-2005 | One-Year Sabbatical Leave and Grant, including work for four months in Paris, France |
| 2000 | Invited Artist, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado |
| 1999 | Recipient, Millay Colony of the Arts One-Month Residency (summer), Austerlitz, New York |
| 1995 | Co-chair, "Why Teach Drawing in 1995”, Mid-America College Art Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 1994 | Recipient, Arts Midwest/NEA Fellowship Grant in Painting |
| 1993 | Recipient, "Outstanding Faculty Award”, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 1990 | Guest Artist/Speaker, "Narrative in Painting and Literature”, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois |
| 1987 | Recipient, "Bush Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists”, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1986 | Recipient, “McKnight Foundation Fellowship in Visual Art”, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Collections |
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| Nordstroms Inc., Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Dallas, Los Angeles, Chevy Chase, Seattle, Portland, Coral Gables |
| Harpo Studios, Chicago, Illinois |
| Illinois State Museum, Springfield, Illinois |
| The Aronson Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| The Wood Collection, New York, New York |
| General Mills Corporation World Headquarters, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Squibb Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc., Trenton, New Jersey |
| Academic Employment | |
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| 1988 - 2008 | Professor in Painting, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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