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EDUCATION

2000
MFA Painting/Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1997
Post-Bacc Painting, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995
BA Studio Art & Mathematics, Cum Laude, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
1992
Study Abroad: Budapest Semesters in Mathematics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Mooring, SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Biennial Chile, Antofagasta, Chile
2019
Rough and Tumble, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, AZ
2017
Eric Conrad, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
Get-Together, Bolivar Art Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2014
Mix-ups, Atrium Gallery, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
2013
Horseplay, MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
2008
Heaps, Mix-ups and Entanglements, Eagle Gallery at MSU, Murray, KY
2005
Anthropomorphology, Project Gallery, Wichita, KS
Eric Conrad, The Shaw Center Art Gallery, Graceland University, Lamoni, IA
2004
Eric Conrad, Art & Design Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2003
Eric Conrad, Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2002
Eric Conrad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2001
Eric Conrad, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
1999
Eric Conrad: Night Scenes, Benson Gallery, Providence, RI
1996
Eric Conrad, Sharvea Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI
1994
Eric Conrad, Light Fine Arts Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023
Lyet Gallery, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA (scheduled)
2022
New Prints Off the Block, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
2022 Abstract Only, Wailoa Center, Hilo, HI
Multifarious, d-art center, Norfolk, VA
2021
2021 Kansas City Flatfile & Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Run, Run Quiet, Plug Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2020
Crisis Mode (online exhibition), Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
Significant Color, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
scapes, PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Twelve: Hindsight 20/20, Viewpoint Photographic Art Center, Sacramento, CA
Breathe, Shenandoah Valley Art Center, Waynesboro, Virginia
2019
Dreams, Rene Soto Gallery, Norwalk, CT
Small Works 2019, Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs, NY
InterPHOTO France 2019, Saint Joseph Gallery, Lesneven, France
KACA Master’s Exhibition, Ottawa Community Arts Council, Ottawa, KS
2018
2018 Kansas City Flatfile & Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
Riverviews Artspace Craddock-Terry Gallery, 10th Annual Juried Exhibition (Juror: Terence Washington), Lynchburg, VA
2017
3 Decades of Change, Artspace Gallery, New Haven, CT
Paraguay Partners Art Exhibition, Mingenback Art Center, Lindsborg, KS
Grand Opening Group Exhibition, Grand Opening Gallery, Denver, CO
2016
2016 Kansas City Flatfile & Digital File, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
To Be the Void: Sublimity and Contemporaneity, International Cultural Center of Krakow, Krakow, Poland
Art in America, Harper Gallery, Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
2015
Art in America, Tiger Strikes Asteroid/The Satellite Show, Miami, FL
7th Year Anniversary Retrospective, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Better Living, Domek Miedziorytnika Gallery & Museum, Warsaw, Poland
Better Living, The Davis Gallery, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
Winter Group Exhibition, Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Eric Conrad, Judith McCrea, Amber Hansen and Marguerite Perret, Percolator Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2014
La Sirena, MIA Galleries - Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
#awkward, Plug Projects, Kansas City, MO
Cider Holiday Show, Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2013
Small Worlds, Target Gallery (Torpedo Factory), Alexandria, VA
Unhinged, BWCA Red Hook Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Fletcher Exhibition, Slocumb Galleries, Johnson City, TN
2012
Masquerade, ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Drawing Invitational, Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
Fourth Annual National Figurative Exhibition, Lore Degenstein Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA
2011
Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam, John A. Day Gallery at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
YESNOMAYBE, Naked City Gallery, Wichita, KS
Me+You+Me, Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
ChainLetter 2011 Exhibition, Golden Parachute Gallery, Berlin, Germany
YESNOMAYBE, The Collaborative Work of Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad and Yoonmi Nam, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
Modernists at the Cherry Stone Gallery, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2010
Systems Failure, Torpedo Factory Art Center – Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
21st Annual International Juried Show, Viridian Gallery, Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, New York, NY
Eric Conrad, Bob Burdette and Jodi Lightner, Naked City Gallery, Wichita, KS
Peg Bicker and Eric Conrad: Domestic Science and the Medical Arts, The Fiber Studio, Wichita, KS
Creatures Great and Small, Yeiser Art Center, Paducah, KY
Creatures Great and Small, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Engraving Exchange 2009, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2009
Wild Things, Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park and Art Center, Dowell, MD
Creatures Great and Small, Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, Murray, KY
Engraving Exchange 2009, University of West England-Bower Ashton, Bristol, England
Working Recovery: Reflected Visions of Healing, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2008
National Juried Exhibition, South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AR
Portfolio Exchange, Southern Graphics Council, Richmond, VA
Oh Love, Sweet Animal, 6 Gallery, Lawrence, KS
2007
2007 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
The Faces of Art, Mills Pond House Gallery, St James, NY
Funky Junk, San Luis Obispo Art Center, San Luis Obispo, CA
Ad astra per aspera; To the Stars Through Difficulties, Shift Space WSU, Wichita, KS
Footlong National Juried Exhibition, The Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico State University, Portales, NM
4th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA
2006
17th Annual Juried Exhibition, Curator: Robert Rosenblum, Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY
Juxtaposition, Volume I: Men are so…, Imeo Gallery, Denver, Colorado
A.N.J.E., 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL
Annual Juried Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
2005
Foreign Exchange, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
2004
Spe(k)tacular-Invitational, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Tiny Works 2004, Project Gallery, Wichita, KS
Featured Cherry Stone Artist, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2003
Soft, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2002
PFAWC!, Boston Center for the Arts, The Mills Gallery, Boston, MA
Couples: Inter-sex-ion, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
New Art, Bangs Street Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Eric Conrad, Nancy Rubens, Donald Beal, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
Featured DNA Artists, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2021
SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Bienal Chile Artist Residency at ISLA, Antofagasta, Chile
2019
Arrowmont Pentaculum Artist Residency, Gatlinburg, TN
2013
Fine Arts Work Center Returning Residency Program, Provincetown, MA
2011
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, Belgium
2003
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, CO
2001
Fine Arts Work Center, Second Year Fellowship, Provincetown, MA
2000
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
Fine Arts Work Center, First Year Fellowship, Provincetown, MA


GRANTS AND AWARDS

2022
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Kasitz Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2nd Place Award, Multifarious, d-art center, Norfolk, VA
2021
Faculty Research Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2020
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Annual Award for Research, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2019
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
Office of Research and Grants Grant Award, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
1st Place Award, KACA Mastery Exhibition, Ottawa, KS
3rd Place Award, InterPHOTO France 2019, Saint Joseph Gallery, Lesneven, France
2014
Partners of the Americas Travel Grant, (For travel to Paraguay) Washington D.C.
2013
Honorable Mention Award, BWAC Gallery, Juror: N. Marshall Price, Curator of Contemporary and Modern Art at the National Academy Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2012
The Kansas City Collection II, A competitive juried art collection organized by The Collectors Fund, Kansas City, MO
2011
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2010
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2009
Roma Dove Art Department Faculty Travel Fund Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS
2007
Second Place Award, The Runnels Gallery, Portales, NM
Merit Award, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA Honorable Mention, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL  Second Place Award, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Faculty Development Travel Grant, Emporia State University, Emporia,KS
2006
Juror’s Award, Imeo Gallery, Denver, CO
2004
Pollock-Krasner Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Inc., New York, NY


REVIEWS, PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA ATTENTION

2023
Biennale Publication, SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Bienal Chile, Antofagasta, Chile
2021
“En Autofagasta un calzoncillo en la fachada de la biblioteca,” Arte por Excelencias, November 1, 2021 (Review of my public installation Mooring, part of SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Bienal Chile. This international publication serves South and Central America and the Caribbean Islands)
2014
ABC Color Newspaper Interview, Asunción, Paraguay
Catalogue, “La Sirena,” Miami International Airport, Miami, FL
Melanie Ann Mitchell, “AWKWARD Addressing Discomfort thru a Social Media Lens,” Informality Art + Culture Blog, October 16, 2014, Kansas City, MO
2012
Catalogue, “Masquerade,” Arc Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Catalogue, “Kansas City Collection II,” Essay written by Raechell Smith (Director of H&R Block Artspace)
2011
Matthew Clagg, “Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad, and Yoonmi Nam”, Naked City Magazine, Volume IV, Issue III. Wichita, KS
2010
New American Painting, 90th Edition, October 2010 (distributed at major booksellers nationwide)
“Torpedo Factory’s Target Gallery Presents Systems Failure Exhibition,” Alexandria News, Alexandria, VA
“Review: Eric Conrad, Bob Burette and Jodi Lightner,” Naked City Magazine, Wichita, KS
2009
“Creatures Great and Small: MSU Show Considered One-of-a-Kind Experience for People of All Ages,” Murray Ledger & Times, October 16, 2009, Murray, KY
Catalogue, “Creatures Great and Small,” Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, Murray, KY
“Annmarie Garden: Here, Nature and Creativity Converge,” The Washington Post, May 22, 2009
“Creatures Great and Small,” West Kentucky Star, Oct. 19, 2009
2007
Catalogue, “Footlong,” Eastern New Mexico State University, Portales, NM
2006
“Tips and Picks, Eric Conrad,” NY Arts Magazine, November/December, 2006, New York, NY
2005
“Anthropomorphology and Poetry Project,” F5 Magazine, April 14, 2005, Wichita, KS
2004
“Tiny Works, Loud Opinions,” F5 Magazine, December 9, 2004, Wichita, KS
2003
Catalogue, “Soft,” Artspace, New Haven, CT
“Art With a Soft Touch,” New Haven Advocate, January 30, 2003, New Haven, CT
“SOFT at Untitled (Space Gallery),” Artsymag.com, November 2003, New York, NY
2002
The Boston Globe, August 16, 2002, Boston, MA
The Boston Herald, August 16, 2002, Boston, MA
Provincetown Arts, 2002 issue, Provincetown, MA
The Cape Cod Voice, February 2002, Hyannis, MA

RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

2021
Artist Lecture, ISLA, SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Bienal Chile, Antofagasta, Chile
Workshop with University students, Biblioteca Regional Antofagasta, SACO 1.0 Contemporary Art Bienal Chile, Antofagasta, Chile
2018
Artist Lecture, Critiques with Graduate Students, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2017
Artist Lecture, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2015
Artist Lectures and Critiques with Students, Cameron University, Lawton, OK
Artist Lecture, Percolator Gallery, Lawrence, KS
Kansas-Paraguay Partners Presentation, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
2014
Artist Lecture, Gente de Arte, Asunción, Paraguay
Artist Lecture, Instituto de Bellas Artes, Asunción, Paraguay
Artist Lecture, Instituto Superior de Arte, Asunción, Paraguay
Judge, National Sculpture Competition, Asunción, Paraguay
Artist Lecture, Critiques with students, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
2011
Artist Lecture, Critiques with undergraduate and graduate sculpture students, 3-Day workshop culminating in a collaborate installation with students, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Artist Lecture, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2009
Panel Presentation, “Verbal Description Necessitates Observation: Critique Experiment,” presented at the Foundations Art: Theory and Education Conference, Portland, OR, April 1-4, 2009
2008
Artist Lecture, Murray State University, Murray, KY
2007
Crit-o-Rama – Visiting Artist/Guest Critic, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
2006
Guest Lecture for Graduate Seminar: Talk on Artist Residencies, Department of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2003
Artist Lecture, Studio Critiques, Gallery Talk, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
2002
Panelist, Topic: Artist Residencies, College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Zuckerman Museum of Art
Kansas City Collection
SGC International
The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Virginia Commonwealth University