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COLLEEN GLEASON
Born. 1982, Michigan
Lives and Works in Traverse City, MI
web. colleenstudio.com
Education
2011 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
M.F.A. Studio Art
2005 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
B.F.A. Double Major, Painting and Art History
2007, 2003 Chautauqua Art Institute School of Art, Chautauqua, NY
Painting, Drawing, and Ceramic Studies
2001 South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, Greenville, SC
Inaugural Class of Residential Arts High School
Scholarships/Fellowships/Grants
2011 Katherine Rigsby Fund Travel Grant, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Grant based research to attend exhibitions/studios in New York City
2010 Rigsby Fund Travel Grant, SMU, Dallas, TX
Artist Participant n the Les-Subsistances artist residency in Lyon, France
2009 Meadows School of the Arts, Graduate Fellowship, SMU, Dallas, TX
Merit-based, full-tuition fellowship
2005-2001 Kansas City Art Institute, Merit Scholarship, Kansas City, MO
2004 New York Studio Program, New York, NY
Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, Kansas City Art Institute
Residencies
2010 Les-Subsistances International Theater and Performance Arts Festival, Lyon, France
Artist-in-Residence, Multi-Media Movement Performance Art
2004 Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design New York Studio, NY
Kansas City Art Institute Artist and Representative
Gallery Representation
Main Street Gallery, Leland, MI
Somebody’s Gallery, Petosky, MI
Cherry Capital Airport, Traverse City, MI
Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI
Visionary art Collective, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Exhibition Record *asterisk notes solo exhibitions
2023 The Lens Through Which We See, Visionary Art Collective, Tribeca, NYC
*In Bloom, Cooks House, Traverse City, MI
*New Beginnings, Art Rat Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
Fluid, Common Grounds, Traverse City, MI
2022 *Flora + Field Old Art Building, Leland, MI
2021 Passionate Reality, Crooked Tree Art Center, Traverse City, MI
Paint Grand Traverse, Crooked Tree Art Center, MI
Color, Glen Arbor Arts Center, Glen Arbor, MI
2020 Paint Grand Traverse, Crooked Tree Art Center, MI
2019 Paint Grand Traverse, Crooked Tree Art Center, MI
2018 Interlochen Faculty Exhibition, Interlochen Arts Academy, MI
Paint Grand Traverse, Crooked Tree Art Center, MI
*Art Walk @ Oviatt House B & B, Traverse City, MI
*Art Walk @ Bay Cabinetry Design studios Traverse City, MI
2017 International Plein Air Event, Blue Ridge, GA
Plein Air in the Mountains, Gilmer Arts Center, Ellijay, GA
2016 Spectrum Gestalt, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2016 Paper Dolls, Hamon Art Library, SMU, Dallas, TX
2012 Experiencing Perspectives, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Ft Worth, TX
2011 Seriality, University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, TX
*Space Cadets, Dyer Space, Dallas, TX
MFA Summer Exhibition, Gallery at UTA, Arlington, TX
Get Off My Back, MFA Qualifying Exhibition, Pollock Gallery, Dallas, TX
SAA Juried Exhibition SMU, Juror: Thomas Feulmer, Dyer Space, Dallas, TX
2010 Tasteful, The Reading Room, Dallas, TX
High 5, Texas A&M International University Gallery, Laredo, TX
Ripe, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center Gallery, Kansas City, MO
SAA Juried Exhibition, Juror, Jeffrey Grove Senior Curator Dallas Museum of Art
2009 Landscape, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX