Résumé
Irene F. Sullivan
Lives in Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado. Studios in Colorado and Marnay-sur-Seine, France.
Her paintings, artist books, prints, video & installations are guided by her contemporary role as an ecosystem Bean Chaointe (woman who mourns) artist for the environment.
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Education
2005-2015 • Atelier studies with Enrique Martinez Celaya
2006 • Studies at Art Institute of Boston
1989 • Dalhem Museum, Berlin, Germany
1989 • National Museum of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
1988 • Master of Arts — University of Colorado, Boulder
1984 • Master of Divinity — Catholic Theological Union, Chicago, Illinois
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Exhibits
2022 • “Artio’s Guardianship” * — Installation — Rio Grande River, Taos, New Mexico
2022 • “Daughters of the Cailleach” * – Exhibit/Installation — Coal Creek Canyon, Colorado
2021 • “Ngondro for The Bees” * — Stinson Beach, California
2020 • “Standing With The Grieving Planet” — Earth Day — Solo Exhibit — Boulder, Colorado
2019 • “Alchemy on the Seine” * — Notre Dame de l’Assomption, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2017 • “National Juried Annual Contemporary Art Survey” — Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado
2016 • “You will cease to be powerless.” * — CAMAC. France
2014 • “Uprooted” * — Boulder, Colorado
2011 • “9th Annual BANJAE @ Borderland” – Easton, Massachusetts
2010 • “18th Annual Juried Exhibit” — Bowery Gallery, New York City
2009 • “14th Annual Juried Exhibit — AOC” — Denver, Colorado
2008 • “Wit(h)nessing the Arctic” * — Stinson Beach , California
2005 • “Tides of Change, Tides of Quiet”* — Pt. Reyes Station, California
* Solo Exhibits
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Special Projects
2020 • Installations of Remembrance Day for Lost Species Stones November 30 — the first season of an annual event in the forest lands of Wind’s Edge Studio, the traditional summer hunting grounds of the Southern Arapaho.
2019 • Initiation of the Oral History Recording Project at the Claude Domec Archive
2018–present • Primary Researcher and Director of the Claude Domec Archive, Marnay-sur-Seine, France. www.claude-domec.org
2017–18 • Translation project: interview given by French painter & ecologist Claude Domec (1902-1981) in collaboration with Alliance Française of Denver, Colorado.
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Bibliography & Interviews & Press
Raymond, Emmananuele. L’universe d’eau et de poesie d’Irene. L’EST eclair. 13 September 2019.
Whittaker, Richard. Review of On Art & Mindfulness (based on the notes of Irene F. Sullivan acknowledgement), Works & Conversations, Issue 31, February 2016.
Whittaker, Richard. “A Conversation with Irene F. Sullivan: Understanding of the Heart”, Works & Conversations, Vol.16, 2008, p.3-63. Also at Daily Good.org.
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Awards & Grants
2017 • NEA Career Advancement Award - Colorado Creative Industries
2016 • Tenot Foundation Grant, France
2015 • Martha Kate Thomas Fund, Colorado
2013 • Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York
2011 • BANJAE Painting Award, Massachusetts
2009 • Colorado Artist’s Guild Painter’s Award
1989 • Fulbright Scholarship, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Residencies & Workshop Intensives
2019 • Artist-in-Residence, Chateau Selliers, Romilly-sur-Seine, France
2018 • Artist-in-Residence, Claude Domec Atelier, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2017 • Artist-in-Residence, Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2015 • Studio Intensive, Whale&Star Studio. Culver City, California
2014 • Vermont Studio Center Residency, Vermont
2012/2013 • Anderson Arts Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
2011 • Juried Workshop Intensive, Whale&Star Studio, Miami, Florida
2009 • Anderson Arts Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado