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| MELISSA POKORNY EDUCATION 1988 M.F.A. in studio practice, University of California, Davis 1986 B.F.A. Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Graduated with high honors. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2012 Useful Things (For Getting Lost), Front Room Gallery, New York, NY 2011 Was the Return Easier Than the Getting Here?, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA Kabinett #5: Melissa Pokorny and Andreas Fischer, Devening Projects + Editions, Chicago, IL 2009 Melissa Pokorny: Ultra, Richard Peeler Art Cneter, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 2008 Fall Together / Fall Apart, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA 2007 There/There, Front Room, New York, NY 2005 Object Lessons, Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 Panoplied, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 2002 Bodybuilder and Sportsman, Chicago, IL 2000 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA 1997 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA 1995 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA 1993 Between You and Me and the Bedpost, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA 1991 Introductions '91, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Elles / Platform, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY I Surrender: 5th Anniversary Show, Devening Projects and Editions, Chicago, IL 2011 Fast Forward, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, curated by Paula Katz On the Nothing New: Intertextuality in Contemporary Art, Richard Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, curated by Kaytie Johnson Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Fuse Work Goes To College, Central Connecticut State University Art Gallery, New Britan, CT, curated by Ethan Crenshaw and Amanda Alic 2010 How Soon is Now: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Recent Acquisitions 2007–2009, Richard L. Nelson Gallery + Fine Art Collection, University of California, Davis, CA 2009 The There, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA Ten Year Anniversay Show, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY From the Menageriet, two-person exhibition, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY 2008 Scanvenger Constructs, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL Shape Shifter, curated by Jason Foumberg, Alfedena Gallery, Chicago, IL Multiples and Editions Vol. II, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Recent Acquisitionsr, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA 2007 DePauw Biennial, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN Summer Sampler, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY 2006 It's So Real, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY Critics Select, Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ Fountain, curated by Daniel Aycock, Front Room Gallery, New York, NY MixArt, curated by Lorelei Stewart, Director of Gallery 400,Stephanie Smith, Smart Art Museum: Dominic Molon, Chicago MCA, and Lisa Dorin, Art Institute of Chicago, James Hotel, Chicago, IL Unnatural Presence, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA 2005 Spin/Spun, two-person exhibiti curated by Barbara Weisen, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Chicago, IL 2003 SCULPT Central Illinois Sculptors McClean County Arts Center, Bloomingtonn, IL 2002 Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois Stray Show, Chicago, IL Artpoint at Art Basel/Miami (group show of work by artists outside of major metropolitan areas, organized by Janet Phelps, guest curator Dominick Molon, MCA Chicago) Loaded, Midway Contemporary Art, St.Paul, MN The Future Is Now Right, I Space, Chicago IL 2001 Faculty Exhibition, Krannert Museum, University of Illinois 40 Oakland Artist's, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA Off the Wall, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago Lifelike, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA Kickback, faculty show, Worth-Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA 2000 Boom-Boom, faculty show, Worth-Ryder Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA 1998 SAP, Hotel show at Hotel Lanai, San Francisco. Co-Sponsored by Four Walls and Scene/Escena, San Francisco, CA 1997 Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, Bay Area Now, San Francisco CA 1995 Center for the Arts, Yerba Buena Gardens, Fabricators: New Bay Area Sculpture, San Francisco, CA Food House, Pretty, Santa Monica, CA Victoria Room, Big Jesus Trash Can, San Francisco, CA 1994 Victoria Room, Happy Hands, San Francisco, CA Southern Exposure, 20TH Anniversary Alumni Show, San Francisco, CA The LAB, Addressing Herself, San Francisco, CA 1992 Oakland Museum, From the Studio; Recent Painting and Sculpture by 20 California Artists, Oakland, CA San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Real Tears, San Francisco, CA Judith Weintraub Gallery, Sacramento, CA Ohlone College, Faculty Show, Fremont, CA 1991 John Natsoulas Gallery, 30 Years of TB-9: A Tribute to Robert Arneson, Davis, CA Matrix Gallery, Matrix International, Sacramento, CA Crocker Art Museum, Crocker-Kingsley Annual, Sacramento, CA 1990 Judith Weintraub Gallery, Influences, Sacramento, CA 1988 Richard L. Nelson Gallery, M.F.A. Exhibition, Davis, CA Pence Gallery, Davis, CA HONORS AND AWARDS 2010 Efroymson Contemporary Art Fellowship 2010 Research Board Grant, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 2010 Creative Research Award, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 2005 Illinios Arts Council Grant 2004 Research Board Grant, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 2002 Research Board Grant, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana 1996 Finalist, 1995-1996 SECA award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1995 San Francisco Bay Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery (GOLDIE) Award in Visual Arts 1994 Creative Artist Fellowship, City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Commission 1991 Honorable Mention, Crocker Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA Cash Award, First Place, Sculpture, Matrix International, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA 1987 Distinguished Scholar Research Award, University of California, Davis Represented the Davis Art Department at the 4-Arts Festival Workshop with Rachel Rosenthal. Three day workshop, University of California, Irvine, CA 1986 University of California Graduate Fellowship, two year academic achievement award Jurors choice award, student exhibition, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 1985 Friends of Art Honor Award for academic excellence, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville Friends of Art Honor Award in studio art, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 1984 James Cardwell Award in Ceramics, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL COLLECTIONS San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oakland Museum of California UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, gift of Peter and Eileen Norton Orange County Museum of Art, gift of Peter and Eileen Norton Richard Peeler Art Center, DePauw University Nelson Museum, University of California, Davis PLATFORM GALLERY
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