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JAMES D. CONAWAY

Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art

250 3rd Ave. North, Suite 204

Minneapolis, Minnesota 55401

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EDUCATION:
1960 BA Painting and Drawing Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
1965 MA Painting and Drawing University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa MA
     Historical Thesis: The Development of Foreshortening in Greek Painting from 525-475 BC
1966 MFA Painting and Drawing University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
 

SELECTED ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS:
2006 Grace Chosy, Madison, WI
2005 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2002 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin.
2001 ArtSource LA, Santa Monica, California
1998 Edgewood Orchard Galleries, Fish Creek, WI
1998 Nelson/Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA.
1997 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1997 Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1995 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
1995 Edgewood Orchard Gallery, Fish Creek, WI
1990 Suzanne Kohn Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1989 Suzanne Kohn Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1988 Lisa Dubins Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Kyle Belding Gallery, Denver, CO
1988 Wilhelm Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1987 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
1985 Suzanne Kohn Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
1984 Reed Whipple Art Center, Las Vegas, NV
1982 Harris Gallery, Houston, TX
1978 Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA
1977 Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
1975 Suzanne Kohn Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
1974 Gustavus Adolphus College, Saint Peter, MN
1974 Clinton Art Center, Clinton, IA
1973 College of St. Catherine, Saint Paul, MN
1971 North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN
1968 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1965 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTIONS:
American Embassy Collection, Washington DC.
Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Davenport, IA
Waterloo Municipal Art Gallery, Waterloo, IA F
rederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis
Sloan Kettering Cancer Institute, New York, NY
New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, Ma
Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Target Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Hazelden Foundation, St. Paul, MN
General Mills, Minneapolis, MN St.
Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Amoco Oil Co. Houston, TX
Cargill Corporate Offices, Minneapolis, MN
Tai Tam Headquarters, Hong Kong Container Corporation Of America
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, Saint Paul, MN
Houston Mineral and Oil, Houston TX
Minnegasco , Minneapolis, MN University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Augustana College, Rock Island, IL
Central College, Pella, IA
North Hennepin Community College, Minneapolis, MN
Anoka Ramsey Community College, Minneapolis, MN
Many Private Collections

REPRESENTED BY:
Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
Art Source LA, Los Angles, CA,
E.C May & C0. Washington DC.
Lydon Fine Art, Chicago, IL.

GRANTS:
1988 Amiee Mott Butler Travel Grant to Spain
1990 Amiee Mott Butler Travel Grant to Egypt

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN- second place painting 1967
Waterloo Municipal Art Gallery, Waterloo, IA -purchase award 1966
Mulvane Art Center, Topeka, KS -first award in painting 1967
University of Wisconsin “Wisconsin Salon” 1967
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA -All Iowa Exhibition 1968
Art Institute Of Chicago, -Chicago and Vicinity Exhibition 1968
University of Wisconsin Museum, Madison, WI 1968
Smithsonian Institution, Washington D C Art for the Embassy 1972
Joslyn Art Museum, “Midwest Biennial” Omaha NE 1974
Palace of Fine Art, Santiago, Chile -Landscape from North America 1975
Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Winnipeg Art Center, Winnipeg, Canada -Hemisphere Exhibition
Elder Gallery of Art, Lincoln, NE special award in painting
Benedictine Art Center, Collegeville, MN award in painting
Red River Art Center, Moorhead, MN Red River Annual
American Embassy: Luxembourg, Nigeria, Athens, Belgium, and Bolivia 1972-1985
Marietta College, Marietta, OH Mainstreams ’76
International Painting Exhibition -award 1976
Columbus Art Institute, Columbus, OH 1980
Sangre de Christo Art Center, Pueblo, Colorado.
Grand Canyon River Trip 1984 Scottsdale Center For the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ.
Grand Canyon River Trip 1984 Coconino Art Center, Flagstaff, AZ.
Grand Canyon River Trip 1984 Yuma Art Center, Yuma, AZ.
Grand Canyon River Trip 1985
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 1986
Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN The International Library Exhibition 1996
Minneapolis College of Art and Design Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Institute of Arts Curator’s Award 1996
New American Painting (An Exhibition in Print) Beth Venn, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Open Studio Press, 1997
Bismarck State University Gallery 13X13 Bismarck, ND. 1998
Kansas State University, Willard Hall Museum, Manhattan, KS. 1998
Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington D. C. 10 X 10 1999
Plains Art Museum, Regional Exhibition Fargo, ND 1999

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Art in America, May-June 1978
Southwest Art, October, 1979
Art News, January, 1981
Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West: James Conaway, Fall 1980
Artists of the Rockies and the Golden West: Winter 1980
Arizona Arts, By The Time He Got To Phoenix, Spg. 1981
Southwest Art. May, 1981
Ultra, Vol. Two, No. 1, Canvasing the Landscape. September 1982
Southwest Profile, James Conaway: Minneapolis/Santa Fe Connection, April 1983
Art in America, December, 1985
Twin City Magazine, December, 1985
Artspace, Spring, 1987
New American Painting, Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA Summer, 1997
Minneapolis Star Tribune Worn wood helps to define landscapes. April 26, 1997