Deborah Muirhead
Solo Exhibitions 2001 G.R.N'Namdi Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1999 ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1999 Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut 1998 Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1997 College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York 1997 Ralston Fine Art, Johnson City, Tennessee 1997 Lukcas Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut 1992 Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut 1991 Center for Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois 1989 Promenade Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut 1988 Liz Harris Gallery, Boston, Massachuetts 1984 Mona Berman Gallery, New Haven, CT Selected Group Exhibitions 2000 "Revisiting Abstraction", LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Enchainment, Muirhead and Winslow, UMASS, Amherst, Amherst, MA 1999 Journey to Abstraction, Samuel T. Chen Art Center,Central CT State University, New Britian, CT 1998 Intersections, ArtWorks At Dover Street., New Bedford, MA 1997 1:One, Herter Art Gallery, University of MA, Amherst, MA Color: Contrasts and Cultures, The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT 1996 The Eighth Triennial, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA Deborah Muirhead,Harold Reddicliffe,Lenore Gray Gallery,Providence, RI Translucency, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, University of CA., Santa Cruz 1995 New American Talent, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas Scurry County Museum, Synder, Texas Longview Museum, Longview, Texas Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties,Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL Spiritual Gestures, 100 Pearl Street Gallery, Hartford, CT Ain't I A Woman? Women of the African Diaspora, Artspace Gallery New Haven, CT 1994 Southern Roots-Women's Voices, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, Georgia 1993 Affinities-Recent Work, Muirhead and Winslow, The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT 1992 Present Tense, University of Wisconsin, UWM Art Museum Milwaukee, WI 1991 9 Artists/ 9 Visions: 1991 DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA 1991 Second Connecticut Biennial, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT New Works, Connecticut Gallery, Marbourgh, CT 1989 Embracing Mystery, Souyun Yi Gallery, New York, NY 1987 Connecticut Now, New Britian Museum of Art Museum of the National Center for African American Artists. Boston, MA 1988 Vis-A-Vis, Superior-Huron Gallery, Chicago, IL 1985 New Talent, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY Awards and Honors 2001 William Randolph Hearst Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society 2001 Nexus Press Artist-Initiated Project Residency 2001 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship 2001 Visual Studies Press Artist in Residency Award 1997 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship 1996 New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA, Individual Artist Grant 1996 Joan Mitchell Foundation Nominee Juror's Merit Award, New American Talent: Laguna Gloria Museum 1995 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Nominee 1991 Connecticut Commission on the Arts Individual Artist Grant 1988 Readers Digest Award, Art of the Northeast, Silvermine 1987 Yale University Visiting Faculty Fellow Richardson Vicks Award, Art of the Northeast, Silvermine 1986 Bowater Award, Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Winner Berkshire Annual, Berkshire Museum 1985 YADDO Fellow Visiting Artist 2001 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI 2000 Quinnipiac College, Hamden, CT Lyman Allyn Museum of Art, New London, CT 1999 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 1997 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT College of Saint Rose, Albany, NY 1995 Boston University, Boston, MA 1994 Yale University, New Haven, CT University of California, Santa Cruz 1992 Trinity College, Hartford, CT University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Feminist Art and Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, Affinities: Two Voices in Abstraction, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA Zora Neale Hurston Arts and Humanities Festival, Eatonville, FL 1991 Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT Professional 1981-1987 Assistant Professor of Art 1988-1995 Associate Professor of Art 1996 Professor of Art Gallery Affiliation G.R. N'Namdi Gallery. Chicago, Illinois Education Illinois State University, M.F.A., Painting 1979 Illinois Wesleyan University, B.F.A., 1973 Permanent Collection Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC Vanderbilt University Museum, Nashville,TN Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA General Electric, Fairfield, CT Chemical Bank, Manhattan, NY Pepsico, Ryebrook, NY Meditech Corporation, Cambridge, MA Phoenix Life Insurance Company, Hartford, CT Southern New England Telephone, New Haven, CT Aetna Life Insurance Company, Middletown, CT Salmon River Corporation, Glastonbury, CT Culbro Land Resources, Windsor, CT Connecticut State Collection, Hartford, CT The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT University of Connecticut Law School, Hartford, CT Bloomington Federal Savings and Loan, Bloomington, IL Publications "Mr. Polk's Gift", Through These Eyes: The Photographs of P.H.Polk, The University of Delaware. Newark, Delaware 1997 Selected Reviews Holleley, Douglas. Digital Book, Design and Publishing. Cary Graphic Arts Press, Rochester Institute of Technology. 2000 Art New England, June/July 2000, Pat Rosoff, Abstraction, Central Connecticut State University. Art New England, October/November 1997, Lois Tarlow, Deborah Muirhead's Ghostly Vision. Hartford Advocate, October 9, 1997, Patricia Rosoff, Variety is the Spice of Life Art New England, Joyce Chen, February/March 1997, Fuller Museum of Art. ArtsMedia, Jeff Perrott, January/February 1997, The Eighth Triennial Exhibition. Art New England, Francois Hugot, June/July 1996, Lenore Gray Gallery, Muirhead, Reddicliffe: Paintings. Time Capsule: A Concise Encyclopedia By Women Artists, S.O.S International, edited by Robin Kahn, New York Art New England, Michael Rush, April/May 1996, Connecticut Invitational . New York Times, William Zimmer, April 28, 1996 Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists, 1995, Midmarch Publication Art New England, Michael Rush, August/September 1995, 3 Connecticut Artists Transform the Ordinary. New York Times, William Zimmer, April 16, 1995, Three in Search of the Spiritual. The Art of Seeing ,3rd edition, 1993 Mary Pat Fisher, Paul Zelanski, Calmann & King Limited, London The Hartford Courant, Owen McNally, Painter Muirhead Peers Through A History, Darkly. Color , 1994, Mary Pat Fisher, Paul Zelanski, Calmann & King Limited, London Hartford Advocate, September 24,1992, Susan Wadsworth, Deborah Muirhead at Trinity. The Boston Globe, Friday, June 28, 1991, Christine Temin, DeCordova has 9 Artists. New York Times, Sunday, April 14, 1991, William Zimmer, Connecticut Biennial. Art New England, February 1991, Susan Wadsworth, Spirit Calls. New York Times, Sunday May 2,1989, Vivian Raynor, Stamford Museum New York Times, Sunday February 26, 1989, Vivian Raynor, Spirit in the Wood/Paint Art News, Summer 1988, David Bonetti, Boston: A Baker's Dozen. Boston Globe, Thursday March 31,1988,Christina Temin, Muirhead Exhibit: Liz Harris Gallery.
