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