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Installations
“My Father’s Religion” Susan Hensel Gallery Minneapolis, MN June 2011
“My Father’s Religion” Open Concept Gallery for Artprize, Grand Rapids Michigan 2009
“The Hand to Hand Project” in “Situations”, Mn Center for Book Arts, a collaboration of over 40 artists, Minneapolis, 2008
Digital Shows
“Myartspace Miami” Aqua Art Fair , Miami Florida, 2009
Solo/ or Two Artist Exhibitions
“My Father’s Religion” Susan Hensel Gallery Minneapolis, MN June 2011
“”Women’s Art Institute” Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN 2008
“Fiber Sculpture,” Atwood Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 2004
“Hand Knit Sculpture: Body Vessel & Nature” Cornucopia Art Center, Lanesboro, MN, 2004
“ Fiber Show”, Images Under Glass, Edina, MN , 2002
“Stitches of Hope,” Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2001
“Figuratively Knit”, Phipps Center for the Arts, Gallery 2, Hudson, Wisconsin 2000
Group Exhibitions
“Shiny is My Favorite Color”, University of St Thomas, St Paul, Mn 2009
“Focus on Fiber”, Plains Museum of Art, Fargo North Dakota 2009-2010
“Carolyn Halliday”, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, MN 2008
“Focus on Fiber”, Metropolitan State University, Third Floor Gallery, curator Erika Spitzer Rasmussen, St. Paul, MN 2008 (became traveling show to Plains Museum of Art, Fargo, ND, 2009; American Craft Council Offices, Mpls, June 2011; Red Wing, MN January 2012)
“Figure Show”, Bloomington Center for the Arts, Bloomington, MN, 2003
Juried Shows
“MN State Fair 100th Anniversary Fine Arts Exhibition”, St Paul, MN 2011
“Watershed”, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011
“Re-Tread Threads”, juror Lynda Andrus, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2011
“Women and Water Rights: Rivers of Regeneration”, juror Lucy Lippard,Nash Gallery,U of MN, Mpls, MN 2010 , Cascade Meadow, Rochester, MN, Nov-Dec 2010
MN State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition St Paul, MN 2010
“Metaphoric Fibers: Untamed Knitting & Crochet”, jurors Adrianne Sloane & Karen Searle, Textile Center, Mpls, MN 2010
“Emotional Body”, juror Elzbieta Kazmierczak, Womanmade Gallery, Chicago, IL 2009
“The Perfect Fit”, juror Wendy Tarlow Kaplan, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA, 2009-10
“Web and Flow” jurors Bruce Hoffman and Jan Peters,Textile Center, Minneapolis 2009
“Nothing New”, juror, Steve Animone, Textile Center, Minneapolis, 2009
“Ana 35”, juror Willem Volkersz. Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana, 2007
“Nothing New”, juror Jo Stealey, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN 2007
“Women’s Work 2007”, juror Judy Chicago, The Old Court House Arts Center Gallery, Woodstock, IL, 2007
WARM Annual Juried Show: “Conversations: About Roots”, 2006, juror Susan Brandeis, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
“Juried Fiber Show”; Minnetonka Center for the Arts; jurors Tim Harding and Ruth Mordy,Wayzata, MN, 2003
“ Constructed Surfaces”, juror Warren Sellig,Textile Center, Mpls, MN, 2002
“ WARM Annual Juried Show: Women Imaging Peace and Freedom”, College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN, 2002
“Handweavers Guild of America’s Small Expressions”, juror Randall Darwall,St. Louis Artist’s Guild, St. Louis, Missouri, 2001
“Nothing New: Fiber Art from Recycled Materials”, juror Pat Hickman,MCAD Gallery, Mpls, MN, 2001
Awards
2009 Finalist myartspace Miami
2009 Featured Monthly Artist and Feature Media Window Artist, myartspace
2009 Best of Show “Nothing New”, Textile Center, Mpls
2007 MCAD scholarship to Women’s Art Institute, Mpls College of Art & Design
2007 Women’s Work 2007, Old Court House Art Gallery, Woodstock, Il, Second Prize
2006 Artwear in Motion, Textile Center, MN Historical Society Collector’s Purchase Award
2006 Mn State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2004 Artwear in Motion, Textile Center, Mpls, MN Knitters’ Guild Devotee Award
2003 Juried Fiber Show, Minnetonka Center for the Arts; Wayzata, MN, First Place
2003 Mn State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition, Honorable Mention
2001 Purchase Award, Mn Crafts Council for the Mn Historical Society Fiber/Metal
2002 Honorable Mention WARM : Women Imaging Peace and Freedom
1998 Honorable Mention Whitewater Fiber and Textile Exhibit, Whitewater, Wisconsin
Public Collections
Minnesota Historical Society Craft Collection (2001 and 2006)
Publications
Searle, Karen, “To Knit to Sculpt”, Surface Design Journal Summer, 2009, Vol. 33 #4
Searle, Karen, “Knitting Art 150 Innovative Works from 18 Contemporary Artists”, Voyageur Press, October 2008
Searle, Karen, “Knitting and Contemporary Art”, Interweave Knits,Summer 2002,pp.16-21
“Carolyn Halliday,"Jacquard, a cura della Fondazione arte della Seta Lisio, n.47/2001,p16
Television
tpt MN Artwear in Motion produced by tpt and Textile Center 2006
Performances
Women’s Art Institure, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 2010
“ Love’s Labour: six performances in proximity” in conjunction with “Quiet Time/Love’s Labour, Katherine Nash Gallery, U of MN, Mpls., MN 2007
Artist Residencies
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson Vermont ( partial grant) 2010
Employment
Mentor in the Textile Center Mentor/Protégée Program, Minneapolis, MN 2008-present
Teaching Assistant to Women’s Art Institute, Minneapolis College of Art and Design 2008
Private Practice as a Licensed Psychologist, Mpls, MN, 1985-present
Critical Response Facilitator and workshop presenter through WARM or individual artist groups, Mpls, MN, 2001-present
Textile Center, Mpls, MN; Instructor on Peer Critique, 2003-present
Personal Counselor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, 1992-2000
Education
Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Women’s Art Institute, 2007
University of Mn, art classes, 2005
Split Rock art classes, U of MN, 1999-2007
Numerous workshops and classes with textile and fine craft artists, 1982 -present:
Women’s Art Registry of MN Mentor Program, 1999-2000
Lewis&Clark College, M.A. Counseling Psychology, 1981
University of Minnesota, College of Education, B.S. with Distinction, English/Theater 1975
Carolyn G. Halliday