THOMAS ROSE
Date of Birth: October 15, 1942, Washington, D.C.
EDUCATION
B.F.A. University of Illinois, Champaigne
M.A. University of California, Berkeley
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Kent Muller Gallery, Milwaukee, MN, New Work (upcoming)
Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Meyer Scherer and Rockcastle Architects, Minneapolis, MN, Recent Photographs
2004 Gensler Architects, Washington D.C, The Architectural Uncanny
2003 Soo Center For Visual Art, Minneapolis, MN; School Stories
Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL The 26 Strangers
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN; The 26 Strangers
2002 Cyrus Running Gallery, Concordia College; A Daydreamer’s Memory
2001 The Artist as Architect, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2000 New Photographs, Flanders, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Designed the interior of the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
1999 Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, Fragments: Provisional Locations
Gensler, Washington, D.C., Fragments: Provisional Locations
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, Fragments: Provisional Locations
1997 Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, Notes In A Garden
1996 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, Garden Gate
1995 Tweed Museum, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth, MN, Secrets and Tangles, installation with Diane Katsiaficas
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Ordinary Time
1994 St. John's College, Collegeville, MN, The Anatomy Lesson
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Secrets and Tangles
1992 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Gallery 72, Omaha, NB, Mercies and Reason
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Other Confessions
1991 Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, New Work
1990 Richard Quin Gallery, Dallas, TX
1989 Deson/Saunders Gallery, Chicago IL, New Work
1988 Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Natura Naturata
1987 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, The Prudent Navigator
1985 Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1984 Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
School of Art, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, Sometimes a Quiet Place
1982 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Reliquary
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, Objectivity and Subjectivity: A Sentimental Education Precludes Remembrance of Things Past
1981 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, New Work
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NB, Configurations
1980 Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY, New Work
Robert Friedus Gallery, New York, NY, Text and Context
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL, In Situ
1979 Truman Gallery, New York, NY, New Work
Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL, The Remarkable Clarity of Events Held in Storage
Braunstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA, New Work
1977 Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Clocktower, New York, NY
Truman Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Wonkwang University, Iksan, South Korea
2004 Bird House Show, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Fl
“Fabrication,” GalleryLipanjepuntin, Trieste, Italy
“Photographic Exchange,” National Museum, Terhan, Iran
2002 space, structure, and vision, Trizec Hahn Office Properties, Charlotte, N.C.
1999 “There but for the grace of...Temporary Shelters.” Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH
“Updating Ceremonial Objects: A Cup for Miriam,” Nathan D. Rosen Museum Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1998 “Summer Group Exhibition,” Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Selections from Soho - Steinbaum Krauss Gallery Artists,” Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO
"Searching for the Spiritual," DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI
"Thomas Rose & Hyun Kyoung Shin," Seonam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
"Verdant Eyes,” Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
1996 "American Art Today: The Garden," The Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, Florida (catalogue)
"Korea's Clay and Fire," The Ceremonial International Exhibition and Symposium of Sculptors and Ceramists for Winter Universade '97 Korea’s Clay and Fire Committee, Kunsan, Korea
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
"Watershed," Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
"Winter Book Marks," Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Eight McKnight Artists," Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1995 "Winter Book," Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 1995
Clanton Art Institute, Clanton, OH, Sept. 11-Oct. 30
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, CO, Nov. 28-Jan. 6
Tyler Art Gallery, State University of New York, Oswego, NY
National Museum of Art, Tirana, Albania
1992 "Style and Method," Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
"Spring," Saint Paul Company, St. Paul, MN
"Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection," New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
"New Painting in Minnesota," Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1991 "Midwest Sculpture Invitational," Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City IA
1990 "Landscape Photography," Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1989 "Artists' Furniture," Hokin/Kaufman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 "Works from the General Mills Collection," Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
"Drawings," Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Rose/Katsiaficas
"Constructed Realities," Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
"Chairs," University Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NB
"Seven Artists: Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Collection," University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1987 "On Nature," Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
1986 "House and Garden," Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY
1985 "Site Specific," Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1983 "Other Information: The Gate," Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, The Graduate School of Architecture and Design, Space Frame II
"Window/Room/Furniture," Axis Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, an exhibition sponsored by an association of Arata Isozaki, Takamitsu Azuma and Tadao Ando
"Dimensional Aspects of Painting," Kline Gallery, Chicago IL
"Constructions," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
1982 "Six Artists: Six Interiors," Baltimore Art Institute, Baltimore, MD, American Center in Paris, Works from Vermillion Editions
1981 "Directions 81," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
"Window/Room/Furniture," Cooper Union, New York, NY
"Tableaux," Wave Hill Center for the Arts, Bronx, NY
1979 "Word/Object/Image," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1978 P.S. #1, Queens, NY, an installation in the main stair
"Imaginary Worlds," Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1977 "New Talent," Truman Gallery, New York, NY
"Small Objects," Whitney Museum of Art Downtown, NY, NY
"Scale and Environment: Ten Sculptures," The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1976 "Invitation 76," The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1974 "Invitation 74," The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS (PUBLIC)
2002 Design for three Hiawatha light rail transit stations: collaboration with Julie Snow Arch: Minneapolis
2002 “Toward a New Industrial Art” commission for the campus of Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis: a collaborative work
with landscape architect Bob Gunderson; Memorial for Robert Bennett
1997 "Voluntary Percent for Art" commission for the William Pitt Health and Recreation Center, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
1995 Minnesota Zoological Gardens, working with HGA on the Marine Education Center at the Minnesota Zoological Gardens, project, currently working with Tom Oslund and Loren Ahles on the design team and as a consultant on the integration of specific features into the landscape
1991 Target Center, Minneapolis, MN, project commissioned by the American Lung Association
1988 City of Minneapolis Arts Commission, Bench Project, Minneapolis Public Library, Hennepin Avenue
1986 Popham, Haik, Schnobrick, Kaufman and Dotty, Ltd., Minneapolis, MN, Public area for law firm
1983 Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, sited work commissioned for The Affiliated Arts Agencies
1981 Park Street Lofts #1, Springfield, MA, commissioned by Century Development Co. with the Cannon Design Group
Saint Luke's Episcopal Church, Minneapolis, a small prayer space and chapel for meditation
1979 Coffman Memorial Union, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, memorial for Edwin Siggelkow
COMMISSIONED PROJECTS (PRIVATE)
1999 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL, design and construction of gallery
Dr. and Mrs. Harold Steinbaum, San Marco Island, Miami, FL, design and construction of private residence
1998 Henderson Project: Dining table, “Albert’s Table”, stainless steel, etched glass, aluminum, text
1997 Henderson Project: Garden/theater, design and construction of fountain for residence; stainless steel frame blasted with glass bead finish, moveable screen, etched glass, black slate water feature bench with copper, text
1995 Weisman Ent., Minneapolis, MN, design and construction of podium for corporate headquarters, educational facility-project under construction
Don McNeil, Minneapolis, MN, design and build fireplace for residence; granite suspended mantel, granite hearth, glass door closure-project completed November
1989 Malissa and Amy Cowles, garden designed in collaboration with Sally Nettleton, Minneapolis, MN
THEATER SETS AND PERFORMANCE COLLABORATIONS
1997 “Wall Paper Psalm”, sets and visuals for Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
1996 "Painted Windows", Beth Corning Dancers, Beth Corning Choreographer, Southern Theater, Minneapolis
“The Secret”, sets and visuals for Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis, MN
1995 "Parts of the Body", script for work at Red Eye Theater, Minneapolis cosponsored by Walker Art Center. Works in
Progress Series, Choreography by Linda Shapiro, Directed by Steve Busa
1994 Red Eye Collaboration; Performance-"Silence and Desire", concept and script with set and video production, Minneapolis,
MN, Oct. 12-30
Patrick's Cabaret, Minneapolis, MN, "Our Father", performed with Steve Grandell, Nov. 18-19
Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN, "Our Father", Dec. 15
"Abowed", Alex Lubet, composer, Ha Kun Woo, Cellist Patrick's Cabaret, "Our Father", November 18, 19.
1993 "Silence and Desire", Maria Cheng, Linda Shapiro, Tom Rose
"He Said", Tim Miller, Tom Rose
"Bosina Blues", Alex Lubet, composer
1991 “That's Life: A Cycle”, Linda Shapiro, Southern Theater, Minneapolis, MN
1986 “Circus”, Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
“Fool for Love”, Cricket Theater, Hennepin Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1980 “In The Process of Settling”, Maria Cheng, 42 Prince St.
1979 Ozone Dance Company, Hennepin Center for the Arts and Northrup Auditorium, Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
LECTURES AND DISCUSSIONS
2001 Lecture, Judd in Marfa, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1998 Panel Moderator, Encounters with the Senses, Lawerance College, Appelton, WI
1997 University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Space as Place
1994 Panel Discussion, The PC Dilemma: Sabotaged by Language, Red Eye Collaboration, Minneapolis, MN
Panel Discussion Moderator, Communities in Context, Henry Louis Gates, David Mura, Aleix Pate, Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, MN
1992 Workshop, School of Architecture, The Tall Tower, guest artist/critic
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gallery Talks, Mercies and Reason
Presenter and participant in Excluded Voices: Challenging Homophobia and Sexism, an year long series of symposia and discussions attempting to alter stereotypes, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1991 School of Architecture, Carlo Scarpa and the Brion Tomb
1987 Conference on Art and Engineering, New Directions in Public Art, panel discussion, Walker Art Center and the University of Minnesota
1984 Walker Art Center, Dialogues, works in the collection, Minneapolis MN
School of Art, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
1983 Walker Art Center, Art Works in the Public Environment, with Garth Rockcastle
1982 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1981 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, briefs by artists in the exhibition
SELECTED GRANTS
2002 McKnight Foundation Fellowship in photography
2001 Production grant for “School Stories” project: from McKnight research
2001 Awarded Fisler-Lampert Chair in the Humanities by the College of Liberal Arts and the Humanities Institute- University
of Minneapolis, Minnesota
1996 Jerome Foundation Travel Fellowship, Italy
McKnight Research Fellowship
1995 McKnight Foundation, Individual Artist Fellowship
Dayton/Hudson Travel Fellowship
1993 McKnight Research Fellowship
Minnesota State Arts Board, Opportunity Grant
McKnight Summer Research Fellowship
The Rockefeller Foundation Residency, Bellagio, Italy
Jerome Foundation, Project Grant
1992 Mellon Foundation Fund, Travel/Study project, Narratives in Contemporary Italian Cemeteries
Office of International Education, Travel/Study, Italy
1990 Jerome Foundation Travel Fellowship, Italy (Carlo Scarpa)
1984 Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship
1982 The National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
The McKnight Foundation, Individual Artist Fellowship
1979 The Bush Foundation, Individual Artist Fellowship
1976 Minnesota State Arts Board, Project Grant
1975 The National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1999 Boros, Phyllis A.S. Fantasy Garden, Connecticut Post, Sunday, July 18, 1999, p. G1, 4
Cohen, Mark Daniel. Review of Fragments: Provisional Locations, Review, March 1, 1999
1997 'Notes In a Garden' to Launch Gallery of Contemporary Art's 9th Season, Brooks Community Newspaper; Fairfield Citizen, "Weekend" section, Sept 11-Sept 17, 1997
SHU hosts new exhibit, Westport Minuteport, Sept. 18, 1997
Art Talk Slated Tonight at Sacred Heart Univ. Gallery, Fairfield Citizen-News, Sept. 24 1997
Multi-Media Solo Show Will Open SHU Gallery's 9th Season, Newtown Bee, Sept. 12, 1997
Notes In a Garden" exhibit at Sacred Heart, Naugatuck Daily News, Sept. 13, 1997
Wilson, John Montgomery, Director. Searching for the Spiritual, DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College (catalogue) pp 96-97
Turner, Elisa. FIU show strolls through gardens of art history, The Miami Herald, Sunday, January 12
Harbaugh, Pam. Art to Experience: Installation work is first for Brevard, Florida Today, Sunday, January 26
Tasker, Georgia. Creativity flowers when artists turn eyes, soul on their gardens, The Miami Herald, Sunday, Jan 19
1996 Culturata: Everything Flows, City Pages, May 22, 1996 pg. 25
1995 Amie, Jennifer, "Sculpture and Elegy", Minnesota Daily, review of Ordinary Time
Ellis, Pamela, All Together Not, Gaze Magazine, p.46, Oct. 28, review of Silence and Desire
Winter Book, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
1994 Abby, Mary, Secrets and Tangles: A Moving Drama, Minneapolis Star Tribune, June 7 Simmons, Tadd, Silence and Desire, City Pages, Minneapolis Star Tribune, review, June 7
Steel, Mike, Multiethnic minds meet, clash, create, Minneapolis Star Tribune, article on the creation of Silence of Desire, Oct. 15
Steel, Mike, Red Eye: Unique Piece, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct. 15, p. 1E
Steel, Mike, Silence and Desire is Multiethnic Study, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Oct. 17, p. 10E
1992 Abby, Mary, Versatile Rose Transforms a Gallery, Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 1, pp. 1F-2F
Elliot, Holly Bridges, Mercies and Reason, Arts Magazine, (Minneapolis Institutes of Art) March pp. 7,8
Riddle, Mason, Art Paper, April, pg. 17
Silberman, Robert, Art in America, February, pp.124-125
1991 Abby, Mary, Artist, Photographer Opens Windows to the World, Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 17, pp. 1E-9E
1990 Jarmusch, Ann, Critics Choice, Dallas Times Herald, July 29
1989 Artner, Alam G., Water but little else Links Two Exhibitions, Chicago Tribune, March 31, 1989
1986 Martin, Mary Abby, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sun, Mar 9,1986
1985 Artner, Alan G., Chicago Tribune, Section 15, Feb. 15
Hixion, Kathryn, Tom Rose at Marianne Deson, New Art Examiner, May, Vol. 12, No. 8, pg. 76
Riddle, Mason, Fool for Love Sets by Tom Rose, New Art Examiner, April, V.13, No.8, p71
Silberman, Robert, A Rose hits the Foot Lights,
Steel, Mike, Crickets Fool for Love Succeeds in a Different Way, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Feb. 9
Vaughn, Peter, Scenic Design is what Makes the Play the Thing, Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 2
1983 New Work at Rosa Esman, Art News, February
Harris, Susan A., Thomas Rose New Work at Rosa Esman, Arts Magazine, February
Heartney, Eleanor, Tom Rose: Access to Hidden Worlds, New Art Examiner, April, pp 12-13
1982 Cohen, Ronny, Artforum, February, p89
Raynor, Vivien, New York Times, NY, Dec.3
1981 Lewis, JoAnn, Art News, May
Ricky, Carrie, Curatorial Conceptions, Artforum, April
Russell, John, New York Times, NY, Oct. 23
Smithsonian Magazine, photograph, April
Wilson, Judith, Outside Chances, Village Voice, NY, Jul. 8-14
Zimmer, William, Tableaux, SoHo News, NY, June
1980 Artner, Alan G., Chicago Tribune, April
Art News, November
Arts Magazine, November
Twin Cities Magazine, Minneapolis, January
1979 Artner, Alan G., Chicago Tribune, January
Arts Magazine, June
Arts Magazine, September
Day, Holiday T., Art In America, Jan.-Feb. issue
McFadden, Sara, Midwest Art: Minneapolis, MN, Art In America, Jul-Aug
1978 Artner, Alan G., Chicago Tribune, May 12
Arts Magazine, February
1977 Artforum, Summer edition
Art News, Scale and Environment: 10 Sculptors, January
Midwest Art, November
New Art Examiner, November
Steel, Mike, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Nov.13
CATALOGUE ESSAYS AND NOTES
1997 Catalogue, “Searching For The Spiritual,” DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI
1996 Catalogue, "American Art Today: The Garden," The Art Museum at Florida International University
1995 Catalogue, “94 West: Art and the Law”, pp.60-61
1992 Denton, Monroe, “Mercies and Reason”, Minneapolis Institute of Art
1982 Heartney, Eleanor, “Eight McKnight Artists”, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1981 Day, Holiday T., “I-80 Series Configurations”, Omaha, NB
McClintic, Miranda, “Directions 81”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, pp. 50-52
1977 Friedman, Martin, “Scale and Environment: 10 Sculptors”, Walker Art Center, pp.46-49
NOTES BY THE ARTIST
1992 “Mercies and Reason”, Catalogue notes, letter insert, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
1981 "Tableaux", Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, pp. 20-21
"I-80 Series", Configurations, Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NB
"Directions 81", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, p.48
OTHER DOCUMENTATION
1999 “Fragments: Provisional Locations”, video for Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1998 “Periodic Table of Elements”, video for Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Henderson Project”, video for Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1996 “Garden Gate”, video for Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1980 "Thomas Rose Visual Artist", Film by John Ligon, commissioned by KTCA Television, Minneapolis, MN
"In The Process of Settling", a video by Mark Stanley for U.C. Video, Minneapolis, MN
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arthur Anderson, Inc., Chicago, IL
Bank of America, San Francisco, CA
Best and Company, Richmond, VA
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Marcel Burgauer, Zurich, Switzerland
Sandra Butler, Minneapolis, MN
Chicago Tribune, Chicago IL
Jay and Page Cowles, MN
Sage and John Cowles, MN
Malissa Cowles, MN
Kenneth and Judy Dayton, MN
Jud Ebersman, NY
Faegre and Benson, MN
Henry Feiwel, NY
First Bank Systems, MN
Martin and Mildred Friedman, NY
Gelco Corporation, MN
General Mills Co., MN
Roslyn and William Henderson, MN
Illinois Bell Telephone, IL
Joslyn Museum, Omaha, NB
Erwin and Miriam Kelen, MN
Kemper Group, Chicago, IL
Susan and Peter Lawrence, NY
Leonard, Street and Dienard, MN
Donald McNeil, MN
Metromedia Collection, Los Angeles, CA
Robert Meyer, Chicago, IL
Minneapolis Museum of Art, MN
Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
Babette Neuberger, NY
Piper, Jaffray and Hopwood, MN
Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
Popham, Haik, Schnobrich, Kaufmann & Dotty, MN
Prudential Insurance Co., NY
Shelly Ross, Minneapolis, MN
Sacred Heart University, CT
San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
Boke and Marian Sell, OH
Jerry Silberman, Chicago, IL
Ed and Harriet Spencer, MN
Bernice and Harold Steinbaum, NY
W.B. Dixon Stroud, PA
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Susanne Vanderwoud, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Joan Ward, MN
Wells, Rich, Green, NY
Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles, CA
Frederick R. Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN
Weisman Enterprises, Minneapolis, MN
Billy and Jody Weisman, Minneapolis, MN
John and Ronny Winsor, MN
Charles Zelle, MN
Louis Zelle, MN
David Nasby, Minneapolis, MN
Dennis Sutliff, Minneapolis, MN
Dunwoody Institute, Minneapolis, MN
Mr. & Mrs. Wancier, Boca Raton, FL
Mr. & Mrs. Taplin, Miami, Fl
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Rockefeller Foundation Study Center Library, Bellagio, Italy
Rare Book and Manuscript Collection Library, Western Michigan University
Mr. and Mrs Detwiler Rare Book Collection, University of Minnesota Library
Getty Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Stanford University Library, Palo Alto, CA