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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 |
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Selected Exhibitions
|
| 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) |
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“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) |
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“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) |
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"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) |
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Selected Publications and Reviews
|
| 2004 |
“Nature and Nurture,” Kansas City Star, review by Valerie
Zell, June 18 |
| 2002 |
“Escape Artists”, Minneapolis Star Tribune, feature article,
January |
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“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 |
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"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 |
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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 |
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Collections
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| Nordstroms Inc., Las Vegas, Houston, Miami, Dallas, Los
Angeles, Chevy Chase |
| 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 |
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Academic Employment
|
1988-
present |
Professor in Painting, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign |
| For full CV contact rdschwar@uiuc.edu |
