ERIC CONRAD


ericleifconrad@gmail.com


 


EDUCATION


2000     Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. Painting/Printmaking, Providence, Rhode Island


1997     The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Bacc Cert., Painting, Chicago, Illinois


1995     Kalamazoo College, B.A. Studio Art & Mathematics, Cum Laude, Kalamazoo, Michigan


1992     Eotvos University, Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Budapest, Hungary


 


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2014    Atrium Gallery, "Mix-ups," Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana


2013     mia Galleries - Miami International Airport, Solo Installation, Miami, Florida


2008     Eagle Gallery at MSU, “Heaps, Mix-ups and Entanglements,” Murray, Kentucky


2005     Project Gallery, “Anthropomorphology,” Wichita, Kansas


              Graceland University, “Eric Conrad,” Lamoni, Iowa


2004     Art & Design Gallery, “Eric Conrad,” University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas


2003     Oregon State University, “Eric Conrad,” Corvallis, Oregon


2002     Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Eric Conrad,” Provincetown, Massachusetts


2001     Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Eric Conrad,” Provincetown, Massachusetts


1999     Benson Gallery, “Eric Conrad,” Providence, Rhode Island


 


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2014     Plug Projects, "#Awkward," Kansas City, Missouri


             mia Galleries, "La Sirena," Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida


2013     Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, "Unhinged," Brooklyn, New York


             Torpedo Art Center: Target Gallery, "Small Worlds," Alexandria, Virginia


2012     ARC Gallery, "Masquerade," San Francisco, California


             360 Architecture, "Kansas City Collection," Kansas City, Missouri


             Mcneese State University, "Drawing Invitational," Lake Charles, Louisiana


             Lore Degenstein Gallery, "Drawing and Painting Exhibition," Selingsgrove, Pennsylvania


2011     Lawrence Art Center, “YESNOMAYBE, The Collaborative Work of Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad and


              Yoonmi Nam,” Lawrence, Kansas


              Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Modernists at the Cherry Stone Gallery,” Wellfeet, Massachusetts


              John A. Day Gallery at the University of South Dakota, “Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam,”


              Vermillion, South Dakota


2010     Torpedo Factory Art Center – Target Gallery, “Systems Failure,” Alexandria, Virginia


              Viridian Gallery, “21st Annual International Juried Show,” Juror: Elisabeth Sussmann, New York, New


              York


              Naked City Gallery, “Eric Conrad, Bob Burdette and Jodi Lightner,” Wichita, Kansas


              The Fiber Studio, “Peg Bicker and Eric Conrad: Domestic Science and the Medical Arts,” Wichita,


              Kansas


              Yeiser Art Center, “Creatures Great and Small,” Paducah, Kentucky


2009     Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park and Art Center, “Wild Things,” Dowell, Maryland


              Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, “Creatures Great and Small,” Murray, Kentucky


              University of West England-Bower Ashton, “Engraving Exchange 2009,” Bristol, England


              Lawrence Arts Center, “Working Recovery: Reflected Visions of Healing,” Lawrence, Kansas


2008     South Arkansas Art Center, “National Juried Exhibition,” El Dorado, Arkansas


              Southern Graphics Council, “Portfolio Exchange,” Richmond, Virginia


              6 Gallery, “Oh Love, Sweet Animal,” Lawrence, Kansas


2007     Pensacola Museum of Art, “2007 Members’ Juried Exhibition,” Pensacola, Florida


              Mills Pond House Gallery, “The Faces of Art,” St James, New York


              San Luis Obispo Art Center, “Funky Junk,” San Luis Obispo, California


              Shift Space WSU, “Ad astra per aspera; To the Stars Through Difficulties,” Wichita, Kansas


              The Runnels Gallery, “Footlong National Juried Exhibition,” Eastern New Mexico State University,


              Portales, New Mexico


              Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, “4th Annual National Juried Exhibition,” Novato, California


2006     Viridian Artists Inc., “17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Curator: Robert Rosenblum,” New York, New


              York


              Imeo Gallery, “Juxtaposition, Volume I: Men are so…,” Denver, Colorado


              621 Gallery, “A.N.J.E.,” Tallahassee, Florida


              Cooperstown Art Association, “Annual Juried Exhibition,” Cooperstown, New York


2005     Bad Dog Gallery, “Foreign Exchange,” DeKalb, Illinois


2004     Hudson D. Walker Gallery, “Spe(k)tacular-Invitational,” Provincetown, Massachusetts


              Project Gallery, “Tiny Works 2004,” Wichita, Kansas


              Cherry Stone Gallery, “Featured Cherry Stone Artist,” Wellfleet, Massachusetts


2003     Unitled (Space Gallery), “Soft,” New Haven, Connecticut


2002     Boston Center for the Arts, the Mills Gallery, “PFAWC!,” Boston, Massachusetts


              DNA Gallery, “Couples: Inter-sex-ion,” Provincetown, Massachusetts


              Bangs Street Gallery, “New Art,” Provincetown, Massachusetts


              Cherry Stone Gallery, “Eric Conrad, Nancy Rubens, Donald Beal,” Wellfleet, Massachusetts


 


ARTIST RESIDENCIES


2011     Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium


2003     Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado


2001     Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellowship, Provincetown, Massachusetts


2000     Bemis Center for Contemporary, Omaha, Nebraska


             Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, Massachusetts


 


SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS


2009     Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas


              Faculty Development Travel Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas


2004     Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, New York


 


REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA ATTENTION


2010     New American Painting, 90th Edition, October 2010


2009     Murray Ledger & Times, “Creatures Great and Small: MSU Show Considered One-of-a-Kind


              Experience for People of All Ages,” October 16, 2009, Murray, Kentucky


              Catalogue, “Creatures Great and Small,” Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky


              Washington Post (online), “Annmarie Garden: Here, Nature and Creativity Converge,” May 22, 2009


              West Kentucky Star (online), “Creatures Great and Small,” Oct. 19, 2009


2007     Catalogue, “Footlong,” Eastern New Mexico State University, Portales, New Mexico


2006     NY Arts Magazine, “Tips and Picks, Eric Conrad,” November/December, 2006, New York, New York


2005     F5 Magazine, “Anthropomorphology and Poetry Project,” April 14, 2005, Wichita, Kansas


              Review Magazine, April, 2005, Kansas City, Missouri


2004     F5 Magazine, “Tiny Works, Loud Opinions,” December 9, 2004, Wichita, Kansas


2003     Catalogue, “Untitled (Space Gallery), Soft,” January, 2003, New Haven, Connecticut


              Yale Daily News, January 15, 2003, New Haven, Connecticut


              New Haven Advocate, “Art With a Soft Touch,” January 30, 2003, New Haven, Connecticut


              Artsymag.com, “SOFT at Untitled (Space Gallery),” November, 2003, New York, New York


2002     The Boston Globe, August 16, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts


              The Boston Herald, August 16, 2002, Boston, Massachusetts


              Provincetown Arts, 2002 issue, Provincetown, Massachusetts


              The Cape Cod Voice, February 2002, Hyannis, Massachusetts


 


RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES


2011     Visiting Artist (Critiques, Demonstrations, Workshop and Artist Lecture), University of South


              Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota


2009     Panel Presentation, “Verbal Description Necessitates Observation: Critique Experiment,” presented


              at the Foundations Art: Theory and Education Conference, Portland, Oregon, April 1-4, 2009


2008     Artist Lecture, Murray State University, Murray, Kentucky


2007     Crit-o-Rama – Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas


2006     Guest Lecture for Graduate Seminar: Talk on Artist Residencies, Department of Art and Design,


              University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas


2003     Artist Lecture, Studio Critiques, Gallery Talk, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon


2002     Panelist, Topic: Artist Residencies, College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia,


              Pennsylvania


 


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


            Southern Graphics Council


            The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts


            Virginia Commonwealth University


 


ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS


2010     Associate Professor of Art and Foundation Studies Coordinator


              Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas