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CHARLES KANWISCHER
Born Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Lives and works in Waterville, Ohio
EDUCTATION
1989 M.F.A. Yale University School of Art, Painting/Printmaking
1985 B.F.A. University of Iowa, Printmaking
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011 Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT
Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2010 SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH
2009 Dublin Arts Council, Dublin, OH
2007 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
2005 raw and co. Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2001 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Bluffton College, Bluffton OH
1999 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1998 Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
1997 Miller/Block Gallery, Boston, MA
1995 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1994 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1993 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA
1992 Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1991 College of Lake County, Grayslake, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Small Worlds, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Summer Show, Foxy Production, New York, NY
Burb, An Exhibition Exploring Zones of Living, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
The Contemporary Landscape, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT
Charles Kanwischer and Elaine Wilson, Macomb College Art Gallery, Macomb College, Monroe Center, MI
Drawing Discourse, A Contemporary Drawing Exhibition, University of North Carolina-Asheville, Asheville, NC
2009 Selections from the 4th Annual International Drawing Annual, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
National Juried Exhibition, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and
Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
National Small Works Exhibition, Harper College Art Gallery, Palatine, IL
2008 Gray Matter, Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA
Unfolding Landscape - Elaine Wilson and Charles Kanwischer, Gelbke Fine Arts Center Gallery, Hiram College. Hiram, OH
2007 Cities and Suburbs, Life in a Metropolitan World, Ross Art Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, OH
2006 Kanwischer x 2, Edmond Kanwischer and Charles Kanwischer, raw and co. Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Small Treasures, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
2005 New Master Drawings, Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
House and Home, Center of the Earth Gallery, Charlotte, NC
On/ Of Paper, Center for the Arts, Mobile, AL
2004 Small Monuments, Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Toledo/Toyohashi. Toyohashi Museum of Art, Toyohashi, Japan
2003 Visions and Revisions, A Survey of Art on Paper Since 1960, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
Mediated Nature, Oberlin College Gallery and Performance Space at HERE HERE. Cleveland, OH
22st Biennial Art Exhibition, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Rethinking the Contemporary Landscape, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
2002 2nd Annual American Landscapes National Exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
25th Annual Art on Paper - A National Juried Exhibition. Maryland Federation of Art Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
American Rivers. A National Juried Competition, Sponsored by the Great River Arts Institute, Walpole, NH. Brattleboro
Museum of Art, Brattleboro, VT. T.W. Wood Museum of Art, Montpelier, VT Sept 2002, Florence Griswold Museum, Lyme, CT
April 2003
2001 Philadelphia Watercolor Society's101st Exhibition of Works on Paper, Gregg Gallery at the American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Works on Paper, A National Biennial Exhibition, Kirkland Fine Arts Center at Millikin University, Decatur IL
Texas National 2001, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
6th Annual International Juried Exhibition, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
2000 Edmond Kanwischer and Charles Kanwischer, Two Generations in Art, College of Lake County Gallery of Art, Grayslake, IL
Paper Routes 2000, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH February 2000. College of Wooster Art Museum,
Wooster, OH August 2000. Kenyon College Museum of Art, Gambier, OH December 2000. Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH
July 2000
1999 12th Annual Drawing Exhibition, College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
IX Annual Valdosta National Works on Paper Exhibition, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
St. John's University Fifth Annual National Exhibition, New York, NY
1997 Object Lessons, Loomis Chafee Art Gallery at the Loomis Chafee School, Wallingford, CT
1996 American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Bromfield Gallery Meets the Providence Art Cell, Attleboro Museum of Art, Attleboro, MA
1994 Five Artists at Amherst College, Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, Amherst College Amherst, MA
1993 Searching for the Oxbow, Northampton Center for the Arts, Northampton, MA
HONORS AND DISTINCTIONS
2008 Bowling Green State University Institute for the Study of Culture and Society Fellowship, 2008
2007 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2006 Finalist, Celebration of Creativity -Twenty-Five Years of Ohio Arts Council Award Winners
2004 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
2001 Nomination for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Grant
Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
1999 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award
1987 Phelps Berdan Award for Excellence in Painting/Printmaking, Yale
University School of Art
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts. Boston, MA
Smith College Museum of Art. Northampton, MA
Yale University Art Gallery. New Haven, CT
Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, IN
Dublin Arts Center, Dublin, OH
Fidelity Investments. Boston, MA
Ann and Albert Albano, Cleveland, OH
Laurence and Susan Channing, Cleveland, OH
ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
Drawings Cast Housing in New Light, Columbus Dispatch, Kaizaad Kotwal, January 11, 2009
Trompe l'oeil Realism to Absurdist Imagery, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Steven Litt, January 20, 2008.
Recognize It? Think Again, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, April 5, 2007
Things Counter, Spare, and Strange, Cleveland Free-Times, Douglas Max Utter, June 21, 2006
Kanwischer x 2, Cleveland Scene, Zachary Lewis, June 12, 2006
New Master Drawings, exhibition catalog, Text by Katherine Watt, Published by the Akron Museum of Art, Akron, OH
New View, MOCA Delivers a Tasty Menu of 'Small Monuments,' Cleveland Plain Dealer, Amy Bracken Sparks, April 2, 2004
Mediated Nature, exhibition catalog, Oberlin College Art Gallery and Performance Space. Cleveland, OH
The American River, A National Exhibition, exhibition catalog, essay by Robert Hass, Published by the Great River Arts Institute, Walpole, NH, 2002
Paper Offers Broad Variety, Columbus Dispatch, Jacqueline Hall, August 26, 2001
Two Generations of Kanwischer, Deanna Isaacs, Chicago Reader, September 22, 2000
Paper Routes 2000, Dialogue Magazine, Cate O'Hara , May/June 2000
Paper Routes 2000, exhibition catalog, Kay Koeninger, published jointly by the Southern Ohio Museum and the Ohio Arts Council, 2000
Review, Boston Globe, Cate McQaid, April 4, 1999
Exhibition Essay, Christopher Benfey, March 1999
Aspects of Realism, Dialogue Magazine, Molly Youngkin, May/June 1998
Review, Boston Globe, Cate McQaid, critic, June 18, 1997
Best and Brightest of 1991, Pioneer Press Newspapers, Michael Bonesteel, January 8, 1992
A Strong Show of Drawings, Boston Phoenix, Rebecca Nemser, September 20, 1991
Review, Boston Globe, Christine Temin, September 6, 1991.
Lines to Live By, South End News, Cate McQuaid, September 19, 1991
Now You See It..., Chicago Tribune, Neal Justin, January 20, 1991
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