Carol Prusa
Born: Chicago, IL, US.
Resides in Chicago, IL and Boca Raton, FL.
Education:
1985 Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, Master of Fine Arts
1980 University of Illinois Medical Center, Urbana, Illinois, Bachelor of Science
Selected Exhibitions:
Solo
2011 Domus: Home, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2010 Emergence, Coleman Burke Gallery, Chelsea, New York
EOArt Lab, Connecticut
Beyond Delicate, WhiteBox, West Palm Beach, Florida
Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art,
Bangor, Maine
Silver Linings: Delicate Drawings by Carol Prusa, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Entanglement, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Starry Messenger: Galileo's Vision in 21st Century Art, Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The Luster of Silver: Contemporary Metalpoint Drawings, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, Indiana
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra non-profit space, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Illinois
2007-8 Threshold, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville Florida
2006 To Be All, Stetson University, Florida
Eyebiters, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
New Work, Municipal Gallery, Lakatamia, Nicosia, Cyprus
2005 Silverpoint Work; Carol Prusa, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
To Be Many; Carol Prusa, Project Room, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami
2004 Recent Work; Carol Prusa, Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, Florida
Recent Work; Carol Prusa, Dominican University, Chicago, Illinois
Recent Work; Carol Prusa, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida
2003 New Paintings, Carol Prusa, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, Florida
New Work, Carol Prusa, Miami-Dade Community College, Kendall, Florida
2002 Recent Work; Carol Prusa, Palm Beach Community College, Florida
Recent Work; Carol Prusa, Coral Springs Art Museum, Coral Spring, Florida
1999 Carol Prusa, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Selections, Wartburg College, Dubuque, Iowa
Group Shows
2010 Art Miami (fair), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Luminous Line: Contemporary Drawing in Metalpoint, Scripts College, California
Florida Contemporary: Painting and Photographs, The Naples Museum of Art, Florida
Astronomy: The Celestial, Central Booking Art Space, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Silverpoint Artists, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science,
Evansville, Indiana
Five Artists, Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York
Painters not Painting, Rutgers Art Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Grey, Miller-Block Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Shades of Grey, Frist Center for the Arts, Nashville, Tennessee (five-person)
Consortium Fellowship Exhibition, Ft. Lauderdale Art Museum, Florida
2007 Master Artists exhibition, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Homegrown Southeast 2007, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
2006 Showtel, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, Florida
Think Warm: Miami Draws for You, Tomio Koyama Gallery
Shinkawa 1-31-6-1F, Chuo – ku, Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 21 - Feb. 10
2005 Co-dependent (curated exhibition for Basel-Miami, Design05)Living Room Building, Miami, Florida
Complement (curated exhibition for Basel-Miami) South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida
A Little Sweet Basil/Gallery Artists Exhibition
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Edge/Visual Aids project
Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Locust Projects Benefit and Exhibition
Design District, Miami
Gallery Artists Summer Exhibition
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
FAU Faculty Exhibition
Dorothy Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
2004 For the Birds (traveling exhibition)
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
South Florida Fiber Artists Invited Juried exhibition
JCC Gallery, Miami, Florida
Ragdale Associates Exhibition
Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
Drawing Now
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
2003 FAU Faculty Exhibition
Dorothy Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida
Von Liebig Invited Award Winners
Von Liebig Art Center, Naples Florida
2002 Invitational
Cheryl Hazan Arts Gallery, New York. New York
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
1999 South Florida Consortium Fellowship Exhibition
Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
International Juried
2003 Greater Midwest International, XVIII, Central Missouri State Univ., Missouri
2002 Greater Midwest International, XVIII, Central Missouri State Univ., Missouri
2001 Greater Midwest International, XVIII, Central Missouri State Univ., Missouri
Selected National Juried
2006 Art 2006 Biennial Juried, Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Florida
Petal Fusion, Cheryl Hazan Gallery, New York, NY.
2005 Hollywood All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
2003 Hollywood All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida
2002 Combined Talents, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
Art 2002 – Biennia, Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
2001 63rd Annual National Exhibition of Contemporary Am. Painters, Palm Beach, Florida
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, (Bernice Steinbaum, Juror), Tampa, Florida
Twenty-fourth Competition and Exhibition, New York University, NYC, New York
Question of Faith, (Eleanor Heartney, Juror), University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
Figurative Works, Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, Florida
Halpert Biennial, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina
Places to Rest, Fine Arts Gallery, Broward Community College, Davie, Florida
2000 59th Annual Juried Exhibition, Southern Utah University
Northern National, Nicolet College, Rhinelander, Wisconsin (Juror: Betsy Damon)
1999 ANA 28, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana
Fiber Focus 99, Art St. Louis, St. Louis, Illinois
Triennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Mississippi
Art 2000 – A Multi-Media Biennial Juried Event, Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Florida
Selected Regional Juried
2006 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
2005 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
Southeast College Art Juried Exhibition, Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock, Arkansas
2004 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
SECAC, All Southeastern States exhibition, Museum Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2003 Showtel, All Florida Artists installation exhibition, Hotel Biba, West Palm Beach, Florida
2002 Miami Art Exchange, The Living Room, Basel-Miami, Design District, Miami, Florida
43rd Hortt Memorial Competition, Carone Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition
Boca Raton Art Museum, Boca Raton, Florida
Art Encounter
All Florida Artists Exhibition, Von Liebig Art Center, Naples, Florida
Small Works
Wave Gallery, Key West, Florida
2001 Miami Art Exchange
The Living Room, Design District, Miami, Florida
Florida Artists’ Book Prize Competition
Bienes Center, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
2000 Beyond the Fringe
Traveling exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Florida
Juried Exhibition
Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, West Palm Beach, Florida
Selected Recent Honors:
2008 Florida State Artist Grant
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Featured in: New American Painters, Open Studio Press; South Region
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship through Brown University
Featured in: Miami Contemporary Artists,
ed., Paul Clemence and Julie Davidow Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2007
Art In State Buildings Commission, Nanotechology Building, University of Florida
2005 Florida Art-in-State Buildings contract, College of Nursing, Florida Atlantic University
Ragdale Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, Artist Residency
2004 Southeast College Art Conference Artist Fellowship award
University Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, Florida Atlantic University
International exhibition, curated by the American Craft Museum, New York
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artist Residency
2002 Researcher of the Year, Assistant Professor, Florida Atlantic University
South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Florida State Artist Grant,
Selected Recent Awards:
2006 Multi-Media Biennial, Nathan D. Rosen Museum, Florida (Merit Award)
2004 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum (Merit Award)
South Florida Soho Juried, Broadway Gallery, Ft. Lauderdale (Best-in-Show)
2003 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum (Best-in-Show)
Greater Midwest Internatl., Central Missouri State University (Top award)
Hollywood All Media Juried Biennial, Art and Culture Center, Florida (Best-in-Show)
Halpert Biennial National, Appalachian State Univ., North Carolina (Director's Award-Best)
2002 All Florida Artists Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum (Award of Distinction)
Encounters (B. Clearwater, Juror), Von Liebig Art Center, Naples (honorable mention)
2001 Question of Faith (Eleanor Heartney, Juror), University of Northern Iowa (second place)
8th Annual National Juried Exhibition (Bernice Steinbaum, Juror), Tampa (Third Place)
Places to Rest, Broward Community College, Florida (Juror’s Award)
2000 59th Annual, Braithwaite, Southern Utah University (Award of Distinction)
Beyond the Fringe, Lowe Art Museum, Miami (Award of Distinction)
Northern National, Nicolet College, Wisconsin (Benefactor Award)
Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, West Palm Beach (Second Place)
Selected Invited Lectures:
2005 Modern Painting; materials and practice, Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida
2003 Contemporary Painting, Art Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon
Traces, Fort Lauderdale Art Institute, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
2002 New Work, Southeastern College Art Association, Annual Conference, Mobile, Alabama
Eyebiting: strategies for painters in the realm of cyberspace, Session: The Relevance of Corporealiy in the Domain of Electronic Art and New Media, College Art Association, National Annual Conference, Philadelphia
Current Work, Art Department, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Installation: Concept and Materials, Sculpture Division, University of New Mexico
2000 Electronic Media Theory and the New Flesh, Barnard College, New York City, New York
Selected Public Collections
Miami Art Museum
U.S. Embassy, Nicaragua
University of Florida, Gainesville
Telfair Art Museum, Savannah, Georgia, Silent Pregnancy, 48” x 84”
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri. What Connects Us Now?. 48” x 84”
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock Arkansas, Weep Holes, 48” x 84”
Florida Atlantic University, College of Nursing
State of Florida Art in State Buildings Contract – installation of 56 paintings
Art Museum , Fort Lauderdale, Fertile Uncanny, 48 x 72”
Wartburg College, Dubuque, Iowa, Expectant, Mother Tongue, Suckle
College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, Dean Beverly Crabtree, dry pigments, acrylic emulsion,
36” x 24”
Catherine Smith Gallery, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, Mother, Daughter and ..., egg tempera and gold leaf on panel, 14 " x 29"
President's Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri
Margaret Sloss Women's Center, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Janine, charcoal on paper, 30" x 40"
Memorial Union, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Janine as Penelope, acrylic on masonite, 30" x 40"
Harmon Fine Arts Center, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa
Initial Conditions, acrylic on canvas, 48"x86"
Funded Research:
2005 Division of Research Creative Research Grant
Florida Atlantic University
2004 Division of Research Creative Research Grant
Florida Atlantic University
2003 Creative Research Grant
Florida Atlantic University
2002 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
Regional Juried Application
State of Florida Individual Artist Grant
Regional Juried Application
Academic Employment:
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, Dept. of Art
Assistant Professor, Tenure track, Fall 1999-Spring 2003
Associate Professor with tenure, Fall 2003-current