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Joyce Lyon

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Selected Exhibitions

**** ********** ** *** ****. Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Dialogue in Place, Volume II: Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma. Form+Content Gallery,

Minneapolis, February-March.

Connections: 18 Images with a Common Thread. Curated by Jody Williams and Jim Dryden,

Form+Content Gallery, January-February.

2011 Contemporary American Imaging. La Celeste Gallery, Beijing, China.

Space, Place and Spectral Trace. BV Studios Gallery, Bristol, UK.

Presence, with Carl Oltvedt. Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

Kabbalah: Envisioning the Infinite. Group exhibit, Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Sabes Jewish

Community Center, Minneapolis.

2010 Sketch Work. Group exhibit curated by Chris Atkins, Form+Content Gallery.

Sacred Spaces 10 Artists in 30 Days. Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Sabes Jewish Community

Center, Minneapolis.

Vis-a-Vis: Faculty Exhibit. Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Women and Water Rights. National exhibit juried by Lucy Lippard, Nash Gallery, University of

Minnesota, February March; and Water Matters. Cascade Meadow Wetlands and Science Center,

Rochester, MN, November December.

Tikkun Repair. Adath Jeshurun Congregation, Minnetonka; Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis;

and House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul (a project of the Jewish Women Artists Circle).

Gardens for Winter, with Elizabeth Erickson and Sandra Menefee Taylor. Form+Content Gallery,

Minneapolis (brochure).

2009 Otricoli Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings by Joyce Lyon. Traffic Zone Gallery, Minneapolis.

Draw, Print, Fired, Inspired. Group exhibit, Artmill Gallery, Plymouth, UK.

Neshama: Visions of the Soul. Group exhibit, Temple Adath Jeshurun, Minnetonka.

F+Cx2. Group exhibit, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis.

2008 Found in Translation: Considering What Can Be Learned Through Linguistic and Cultural

Translation. Solo exhibit, Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis.

Recent Drawings. Solo exhibit, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

Recent Drawing: Joyce Lyon and Alexis Kuhr. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, concurrent

with The Practice of Drawing: Selections from the Weisman Museum of Art, exhibit curated by

Lyon and Kuhr.

2007 Trace Elements. Inaugural exhibition of Form+Content Gallery, curated by Doryun Chong (curator,

Walker Art Center) Form+Content Gallery, Minneapolis.

Out of the Comfort Zone: Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, Nash Gallery, University of

Minnesota.

Intimate Immensity: Limited Edition Suite of New Prints by Gallery Artists and Invited Guests,

Form+Content Gallery, December-January.

2006 Twelve from WARM: Women s Art Registry of Minnesota. Retrospective curated by Joanna Inglot

(College of St. Catherine), Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (catalogue published by University

of Minnesota Press).

Otricoli Gardens: Searching for Language. Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

2005 From the Heartland. Group exhibit curated by BJ Shigaki, Rochester Art Center, Rochester.

2004 Cupped. Solo exhibition, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

Uncanny Visions: Contemporary Romantic Landscapes. Curated by Patricia Briggs, Plains Art

Museum, Fargo ND. Also Phipps Art Center, Hudson, WI, 2002

Residue of Silence. With Francisca de Beurges Rosenthal and Howard Oransky, ARC Gallery,

Chicago. Also Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA (2003) and University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls

(2002). (Catalogue).

In Book Form: Women Artists from Israel and the Twin Cities, Wilson Library, University of MN.

All the Wiser: MCAD Women s Art Institute Faculty Exhibition. Minneapolis College of Art and

Design, Minneapolis.

2003 Art Moves: Department of Art Faculty Exhibit. Nash Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of

Minnesota, Minneapolis (catalogue).

Joyce Lyon: Selected Work. St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, MN.

2000 Water. Solo exhibition, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

Dialogue in Place: Joyce Lyon and Andrea Thoma. Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, UK

and Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota (catalogue).

Transitions and Insight, with Louis Safer, First Unitarian Society Gallery, Minneapolis.

ShowOff: U of M Faculty Artists Off Campus. Wyman Building, Minneapolis and Rochester Art

Center, Rochester, MN.

1999 Absence/Presence: The Artistic Memory of the Holocaust and Genocide. National invitational

curated by Stephen Feinstein, University of Minnesota (catalogue).

1998 Available Light. Solo exhibition, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis.

Women in the Weisman Collection: The Spirit of Seneca Falls. Curated by Patricia McDonnell,

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis.

1997 Joyce Lyon: Selected Work. Hamline University, St. Paul.

1996 Four Perspectives on the Landscape. Invitational curated by Brian Szott, Minneapolis College of

Art and Design.

Drawings Midwest. Juried by Ann Philben, Director of the Drawing Center, NY, Minnesota

Museum of American Art, St. Paul.

Two-person exhibition with Don Schmidlap. St. Mary's University, Winona, MN.

Artist's Fellowship Winners. Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul.

95-02 Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art About the Holocaust. National invitational curated by

Stephen Feinstein, Paul Spencer and Lynette Henderson (catalogue), Minnesota Museum of

American Art and sixteen sites including: Columbus Museum of Fine Arts (OH); Knoxville Museum

of Art (TN); New Jersey State Museum, Trenton; Oklahoma City Art Museum (OK); Telfair

Museum of Fine Arts, Savannah, GA; DeCordova Art Museum, Lincoln, MA; Tucson Art Museum

(AZ); and Frye Museum, Seattle, WA.

1995 New Work: Department of Art Faculty. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (catalogue).

A Landscape of Trees. Solo exhibit curated by Kobe Conoway, Hamline University, St. Paul.

1994 Jerome Book Art Fellowship Winners. Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis (catalogue).

1992-3 Conversations with Rzeszow: An Installation of Image and Text. Solo exhibition at: Phipps Art

Center, Hudson, WI; Mankato State University, Mankato, MN; Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State

University, St. Cloud, MN; St. Paul Academy, St. Paul; Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI (1997).

West Bank at the Wyman: Recent Work by Art Department Faculty, Wyman Building

The Faculty Invites: 35 Contemporary Artists. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

1990 First Steps on the Road to Rzeszow. Solo exhibition curated by Stephen Klindt. Tweed Museum of

Art, Duluth, MN.

1989 Coda: A Collective Members' Exhibition, 1976-89. WARM Gallery / Women's Art Registry of

Minnesota, Minneapolis.

1988 Solo exhibition. Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Place/Placement, with Robert Edwards. Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN.

1987 Twentieth Century Realism. Santa Cruz Art Museum, Santa Cruz, CA

Landscape. Three-person exhibition, VanStratten Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Private Worlds: New Realist Landscapes. Contemporary Realist Gallery, San Francisco.

Visions Shared and Compared: Work by Studio Arts Faculty and their Students. University Art

Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

1986 House, Garden: The Spirit of Place. MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Solo exhibition. Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL.

Three Approaches to Realism. Invitational. Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul.

1984 Two-person exhibit with Judith Roode. Catherine Murphy Galleries, College of St. Catherine, St.

Paul.

1983 Two-person exhibition with Sally Brown. SoHo 20, New York.

'82 '80 WARM Gallery / Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Solo exhibitions.

Also '78, '76. Numerous group thematic and curated exhibits, 1975-1989.

1981 Drawing. Group invitational juried by MAEP Program, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

1979 Drawing USA. National juried traveling exhibition (twelve sites), organized by the Minnesota

Museum of Art.

Grants and Awards

2009 Imagine Fund Grant, University of Minnesota

2008 Scholarly Events Fund grant, in support of Talking Suitcases exhibition, University of Minnesota

2007 Scholarly Events Fund grant, in support of The Practice of Drawing: Selections from the Weisman

Museum of Art and Joyce Lyon and Alexis Kuhr: Recent Drawings

1996 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

1994 McKnight Arts and Humanities Summer Fellowship and Graduate School Faculty Summer Research

Fellowship for: Exploring Image and Text through Electronic Imaging

1993 Finalist, Bush Artists Fellowship

1992 Minnesota Center for Book Arts / Jerome Foundation Book Arts Fellowship

1990 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

1990 Grant-in-Aid of Research, Graduate School, University of Minnesota

1991 Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota

1989 Fulbright-Hayes Group Projects Abroad: Seminar on Contemporary Poland; Marie Curie-

Sklodowska University, Lublin and travel through Poland

Nominee, National Awards in the Visual Arts, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art and the

National Endowment for the Arts

1988 Finalist, McKnight Foundation Fellowship.

Grant-in-Aid of Research, Graduate School, University of Minnesota

1987 Finalist, McKnight Foundation Fellowship

1986 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship

Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota

1985 WARM / LandMark Editions Print Project Grant (Jerome Foundation)

1982 Residency Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

Selected Public and Corporate Collections

Florida Holocaust Museum, Tampa

Boynton Health Service, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

Minnesota History Center, St. Paul

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Cargill Corporation, Minnetonka

Federal Reserve Bank, Ninth District, Minneapolis

Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis

Minnesota Percent for the Arts, Brainerd Community College, Brainerd, MN

Target Center, Minneapolis

Temple Israel, Minneapolis

Minnesota Percent for the Arts, Willmar Community College, Willmar, MN

Sigma Corporation, Schaumberg, IL

Georgetown University Law School, Washington, DC

Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul

First Bank Systems, Minneapolis

Pillsbury Company, Minneapolis

Gelco Corporation, Minneapolis

Leonard Street and Deinard, Minneapolis

Piper Jaffray Hopwood, Minneapolis

Bolger Publications, Minneapolis

Amhoist Corporation, St. Paul;

Kuopio Art Center, Kuopio, Finland

Private collections nationally

Commissions

2007 Meeting (Minnesota Valley National Wildlife Refuge series), for 1666 Coffman Residence, Falcon

Heights, MN

1995 What They Always Were, Poems by Norita Dittberner-Jax. Minnesota Voices Project, New Rivers

Press, Minneapolis. Cover illustration.

1989 Monotype series at Vermilion Editions. Sponsored by Deloite and Touche.

1983 Night Passage. Park-Nicollet Clinic, Burnsville, MN.

Selected Professional Activities

2013 The House We Built: Feminist Art, Then and Now, co-curator with Howard Oransky, Katherine

Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, January-February.

2012 Presenter, Water:Images symposium, Plymouth University, England, July.

Mapping Spectral Traces Minnesota, symposium and exhibition at Nash Gallery (co-curator with

Christine Baeumler), October.

2011- Approaching Memory, Artist s lecture, co-sponsored by MCAD Continuing Studies and the

Women s Art Institute, MCAD.

Member, Mapping Spectral Traces Network and Land2.

Symposium participant, PLaCe Research Centre in the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of the

West of England, Bristol, UK.

2010 Advising Committee / moderator, panel discussion for Navigating the Aftermath, exhibit of Iraqi

and American artists, (Tricia Khutoretsky, curator), Iraqi & American Reconciliation Committee,

Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota

Juror, Art of Conflict, sponsored by IARP, Tarnish and Gold Gallery, Minneapolis.

Curatorial consultant for Delor Erickson Retrospective, St. Paul Academy, St. Paul.

2009 Co-curator with Susan Armington, Talking Suitcases: Gathering Life Stories in a Diverse World.

Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota.

Juror, MCBA/Jerome Book Arts Fellowships, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis.

Juror, Annual Student Art Show, Normandale Community College, Bloomington, MN.

Curatorial consultant, Delor Erickson Memorial Exhibit, First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis.

2007-8 Co-curator with Alexis Kuhr, The Practice of Drawing: Selections from the Weisman Art Museum,

Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota.

Curatorial consultant, Judith Roode: Body Songs: A 25 Year Retrospective, 1967-1991, Catherine

Murphy Galleries, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul.

99- 06 Artist s lecture: Landscape and Identity for Women s Art Institute, MCAD.

04-5 Participant, Voices to Vision Project: Holocaust Survivors Sharing their Stories through Art.

2001 Three Portraits of the Artist as a Woman. Artists panel in conjunction with Alice Neel

Retrospective exhibit, with, Patricia Olson and Phyllis Wiener, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.

2000 Advisory committee, Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective of Paintings, Minnesota Museum of

American Art, St. Paul.

1999 Reflections on Ecology: Conversations with Artists (with Stuart Klipper and Roy Strassberg), Jewish

Community Center of Greater Minneapolis.

1998 Women Making History/Making Art: A Midsummer Salon on the History of WARM, Weisman Art

Museum, Minneapolis.

1997 Juror, Creating and Connecting: Art by Jewish Women, sponsored by The Jewish Historical

Society of the Upper Midwest, Catherine Murphy Galleries, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul

1995 Conversations with Rzeszow: An Artist s Journey. Lectures at the Polish Genealogical Society of

Minnesota; the Polonia Club, Minneapolis; and Twin Cities Interfaith Arts Consortium, Temple

Israel, Minneapolis.

Personal/Political, WARM Mentor Program panel, YWCA, Minneapolis.

1994 Northern Lights and Insights: A Look at the Literary and Arts Culture in Minnesota. Video

interview by Steve Benson, Hennepin County Library for cable channel 6 and video archive.

Defining Jewish Artistic Identity. Panel member, Women s Caucus for Art, New York.

Selection Panel, Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Fellowships.

1993 Artist in Residence, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN

Visiting Artist, Gustavus Adolphus University, St. Peter, MN.

Selection Panel, Minnesota State Arts Board Artists Fellowships.

1991 The Art of Critique. Videotape produced by Robert Jewett and Ann Sundberg, for Minneapolis

Public Schools with a grant from the Culpepper Foundation.

83-90 Board of Directors, Artpaper, Minneapolis.

1989 The Subjective Response in Contemporary Landscape Painting. Panel member, National Conference

of the Women s Caucus for Art, San Francisco.

1987 Arnold Flaten Visiting Artist Lecturer, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN.

Drawing: Contradiction and Paradox. Panel moderator, University of Minnesota; sponsored by

Minneapolis College of Art and Design and University of Minnesota.

'85-86 Artists Advisory Panel, Artpaper, Minneapolis.

1984 Visiting Artist, Plug-In Gallery and University of Manitoba School of Art, Winnipeg.

Visiting Artist, Viterbo College, LaCrosse, WI.

'81-84 Project Director, Feminist Perspectives: Dialogs on Art, monthly series investigating aspects of

culture from women s perspectives, for the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, including lectures/

residencies by Alice Neel, Grace Hartigan, Robin Morgan, Betye Saar, Linda Nochlin, Germaine

Greer, and Joan Semmel and panels, performances and lectures by regional women in the arts.

Supported by grants from the Minnesota Humanities Commission.

77-78 Producer/editor, The WARM Slide/Tape Project, seven slide/tape programs on women artists

produced for the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, with grants from the Minnesota State Arts

Board.

Artists' Advocate, City Arts Productions (CETA), Minneapolis, MN.

'76-89 Founding Member, Women s Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM).

Current Gallery affiliations:

Groveland Gallery, 25 Groveland Terrace, Minneapolis, MN

Form+Content, 210 N. 2nd Street (Suite #104), Minneapolis, MN

Websites:

Form+Content Gallery: www.formandcontent.org

Groveland Gallery: www.grovelandgallery.com

Mapping Spectral Traces: http://www.mappingspectraltraces.org.html

Land2: http://www.land2.uwe.ac.uk.

Dept. of Art, University of Minnesota: artdept.umn.edu/faculty

Selected Bibliography:

Patricia Hampl, The Pencil, catalog essay for The Practice of Drawing and Joyce Lyon and Alexis

Kuhr: Recent Drawings, Katherine Nash Gallery/Dept. of Art, January 2008.

Mary Abbe, Drawing Connections: Twin Cities artists Judith Roode, Joyce Lyon and Alexis Kuhr draw the

human figure, landscapes and abstractions in three fine shows, Star Tribune 2/1/2008, p. F10.

Joanna Inglot, WARM: 12 Artists of the Women s Art Registry of Minnesota: Joyce Lyon in WARM:

A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota, Weisman Art Museum/University of Minnesota Press, 2007,

110-113 et alia.

Mary Abbe, A Fine Sense of Place, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Friday July 14, 2006, pp F2, F6.

Mary Abbe, Personal & Political: A retrospective at the Weisman Art Museum of feminist art by members

of the Women s Art Registry of Minnesota spans broad themes as well as intensely personal ones,

Minneapolis Star Tribune, Friday, July 21, 2006, p. F18,

Patricia Briggs, On Otricoli Gardens, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, June 2006.

Regina Flannagan, Inspiration and Influence: How art improves landscape architects. How landscape

improves art, _Scape (Minnesota Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects), fall

06 #6, pp. 15-19.

Absence/Presence: The Artistic Memory of the Holocaust and Genocide, exhibition catalog edited by

Stephen Feinstein, exhibit curator, U of M, 1999.

Art After Auschwitz: The Other Side of Memory, Response: A Contemporary Jewish Review, Number 68,

Fall 97-Winter 98, pp. 161-175.

Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust, exhibition catalog edited by Stephen

Feinstein, with essays by Feinstein, Yehudit Shendar and Matthew Baigell, Lerner Publications,

Minneapolis, MN, 1995

New Work: Department of Art Faculty Exhibition, catalogue, Weisman Art Museum, 1995.

The 1993 Jerome Book Arts Exhibition: Julie Baugnet, Ricardo Bloch, Joyce Lyon, Robert Silberman and

Judith A. Martin, exhibition catalog with essay by Nancy Princenthal, Minnesota Center for the Book

Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

Jewett, Robert and Sundberg, Ann, The Art of Critique, videotape (with Drawing 3110 class) exploring

different concepts and methods of studio critique, made under a grant from Minneapolis Public Schools,

1990

Kriel-Galt, Margot, "Review: Place/Placement: Joyce Lyon and Robert Edwards," Artpaper, Vol.7, No. 9,

May 1988.

Garner, Gretchen, House, Garden: The Spirit of Place, exhibition catalogue, Minneapolis Institute of Arts,

1986.

Women's Sensibilities: A National Juried Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, WARM, 1986.

Tapley, George, "Three Approaches to Realism," Artpaper, Vol. 5, No. 11, Summer, 1986.

Klein, Maria, "Three Approaches to Realism," WARM Journal, Vol. 7, Nos. 2 & 3, 1986.

Kriel-Galt, Margot. "Delving Into the Self and Finding the Bones of us All," Artpaper, Vol. 5, No. 5

January 1986.

Maitland, Margaret Todd, "Earth With All Its Images, Heaven With All Its Stars: A New Look at

Romanticism," WARM Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer, 1985.

Lauter, Estelle, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by 20th Century Women, Indiana Press, 1985.

Lyon, Joyce, Catalogue essay, Joanne Johnson: Metaphors, Metamorphs and Just Pictures, Gallery III,

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1984.

Lyon, Joyce, "Afterword," Harmony Hammond, Ten Years 1970-80, catalogue, WARM and Glen Hanson

Galleries, Minneapolis, MN, 1981.

Education:

1970 MFA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Studio Art.

'64-65 Studies towards BFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

1964 BA, Barnard College, NY, English.

Teaching:

1983- Art Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

1990- Associate Professor, tenured.

04, '94-8, Adjunct Graduate Faculty, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

'94-96 Grand Marais Summer Art Colony, Grand Marais, MN.

'83-87 Quadna/Split Rock Summer Arts Program, University of Minnesota.

1983 Visiting Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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