Resume

1. SUSANAVIOLA JACOBSON
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RESUME
EDUCATION
1980 MFA Painting, Stanford University, Stanford, CA (Frank Lobdell, Keith Boyle, Nathan Olivera)
1972 - 73 MFA Program, Printmaking, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1972 BFA magna cum laude, Drawing, Painting & Printmaking, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT,,
1970 Undergraduate Student, Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (studied with
Gabriel Laderman & Jacob Lawrence)
HONORS and AWARDS
1994 G. Holmes Perkins Faculty Award, Graduate School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1992 Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant, Individual Artist’s Support
1991 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
Nominee, American Academy & Institute of Arts & Letters
1988 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1984 Humboldt Arts Council, "Best of Show", (juror: Harvey Jones)
1983 - 84 National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist's Grant,
1982 - 83 Roswell Museum & Art Center, one-year grant,
1982 Redwood Art Association, award, , (juror: Richard V. West)
1981 Humboldt Area Foundation & Arts Council Purchase Prize, , (juror: Terry St. John)
1979 - 80 Henry Newell Honors Scholarship Fund Award,
Stanford Graduate Fellowship Award,
1978-80 Stanford Graduate Materials Stipend,
1978-79 Stanford Committee for Art Full Tuition Scholarship,
1972 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society,
1970 University of Utah Art Department Merit Scholarship,
Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Tuition Award,
1969 Ann M. Canon Merit Scholarship,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2010 Senior Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Fine Arts, MFA Program
1993 - 2009 Adjunct Associate Professor of Painting, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
2005 - 2006 Acting Associate Chair, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1993 - 1995 Acting Chair, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1992-93 Senior Critic, Graduate Program, Department of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1989 - 1993 Associate Professor of Painting, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Su/1987 Resident Faculty, Yale University Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, CT
1986 - 1989 Assistant Professor of Painting, Yale School of Art
1985-86 Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, School of Art & Art History, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Su/1985 Visiting Assistant Professor of Painting, Stanford University, Stanford CA
1982 - 85 Assistant Professor of Painting & Drawing, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
1983 Instructor, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM
1981-82 Lecturer, (full-time sabbatical leave replacement), Humboldt State University
1981 Instructor, College of the Redwoods, Mendocino Coast Extension, Mendocino, CA
1980 Lecturer, Stanford University (winter quarter)
1978 - 80 Teaching Assistant, Stanford University (six quarters)
1979 - 80 Instructor, Palo Alto Art Club, Palo Alto, CA (part-time)
1973 Instructor, University of Utah (winter quarter)
1972 - 73 Teaching Fellow, University of Utah (two classes for three quarters)
SOLO & SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Double Bind, Women Telling It Slant, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2008 Countenaunce & Grymme Visage, solo, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2007 Magical Realism, curated by Amy Lipton, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
Likeness, solo, Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Uitica, NY
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SOLO & SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS, continued
2006 Pittura, Galleria G8, Piazza Garibaldi, Montecasello di Vibio, Italy
2005 Mostra di Pittura, Galleria, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy
2001 Curator’s Choices, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2000 The Art of the Portrait, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA,
1997 & 1998 PENNART, Kohn Pederson Fox Gallery, NYC. NY
1997 Six Painters, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT
1996, Allegories, Old and New, solo, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT,(solo)
1995, Allegorical Paintings, solo. University of North Carolina, Ashland, NC
1992, Bedighted/Bedimmed, solo ten year retrospective, Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
1992 Stamford Museum, four-person, Stamford, CT
Artspace, two person, New Haven, CT
1990 More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT, (see Reviews)
09/1990 Recent Paintings, College of Design, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
1985 College of Notre Dame Gallery, solo, Belmont, CA,
Chabot College Gallery, two person, Hayward, CA
1983 Indulgences, solo, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM (catalog)
1980 M.F.A. Exhibition, Stanford University Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1978 IPD Gallery, solo, San Jose, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Pretty, Strange, Luise Ross Gallery, NYC, NY, (with Walter Anderson, Bill Traylor, Thomas Burleson & others)
2008 - 2009 Animals, Them and Us, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND, Nov. (Traveling 2009-10)
2008 Dear Fleischer, 2006, Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial, Phil, PA
2007 - 2008 Beyond A Gift of Time, RAIR Anniversary Exhibit, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM,
2007 Hot Topic: Meditations on Global Warming, Germantown Academy, Ft. Washington, PA, (traveling)
Strong Vision: Three Decades of Exhibitions, Weigand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
2006 Dear Fleischer, 2006, Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial, Phil, PA
Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate: Computer Punch Card Art, Wash.Pavilion of Arts & Science, Sioux Falls, SD
2003 Penn Women in Design, Meyerson Gallery, Nov. 2003Faculty Exhibit, Addams Gallery, Univ. of Pennsylvania
2002 UPenn at KNUA, The Korea National University of the Arts, School of Visual Arts, Seoul, Korea
2001 - 2002 Reflections, September 11, Norwalk Community College, Norwalk, CT
2000 Faculty Exhibit, Ross Gallery, Furness Fine Arts Library, Univ. of Pennsylvania
1995 PENNART, Faculty and Visiting Artists Exhibition, Univ. of Pennsylvania
1994 Drawing ‘94: Explorations, Sharadin Gallery, Kutztown University, PA
1990 Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
1989 Munson Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
1987 Faculty Work 1987-88, An Exhibition in Memory of Gretna Campbell, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Stanford Artists Working in the New York Area, Charles Cowles Gallery, N.Y.C., NY
Small Work Invitational, Bowery Gallery, N.Y.C., NY
Drawing Invitational, Guilford College, Greensboro, NC, traveling to University of NH, Durham, NH
1986 Olson/Larsen Galleries, Des Moines, IA
Faculty Exhibition 1986, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, (catalog)
1984 Colony Square, Atlanta, and University of Georgia, Athens, GA
1983 - 84 Humboldt State University Traveling Exhibit, Humboldt Bay Area, CA
1983 Palazzo Casali, Cortona Italy, (with University of GA)
1982 Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR
1979 Impressions Gallery, Boston, MA, (through Gallerie Smith-Anderson, Palo Alto, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sales/Rental Gallery
1978 Images of Animals, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
In Celebration of Women's Week, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1977 Works of/on Paper, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
VISITING ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2005 & 2006 Senior Visiting Critic, Artist in Residence, The International School of Painting, Drawing & Sculpture,
Montecastello, Italy, May
2005 Artist-in residence/Speaker, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, The Artist’s House (1 mo.)
2001 Residency for Collaborative Printmaking, Vermont Studio Center Press (one week)
1999 Invitational Residency, Josef & Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, CT (two months)
1992 Artist-in-Residence, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY (three weeks)
1983 Artist-in-Residence, University of Georgia Summer Studies Abroad, Cortona, Italy
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LECTURES/VISITING ARTIST
1982 - 83 Artist-in-Residence, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM ( 12 mos.)
2009 Visiting Artist/Speaker, Knox College, Galesburg, IL
Visiting Artist/Speaker, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
2008 Speaker, Painting Upstream: The Job of Unknowing, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Speaker, Of Two Minds: Imagining and Seeing, Bradley University, Peoria, IL
2007 Speaker, Easton Pribble Lecture Series, Munson-Williams-Proctor Inst., Utica, NY
2004 Visiting Artist/Speaker, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
2002 Speaker, Penn Summer Art Series, Univ. of Pennsylvania,
2000 Visiting Artist / Speaker, Univ. of Delaware, Wilmington
Visiting Artist / Speaker, Pennsylvania School of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
1997 Visiting Artist /Speaker, Colby College, ME
1996 Visiting Artist, Summer Arts Program, Chautauqua, NY
1995 Visiting Artist / Speaker, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC
Visiting Artist / Speaker, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
1991 Speaker, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada,
Visiting Artist, Yale University Summer School of Music & Art, Norfolk, CT
Visiting Artist, The American University, Washington, DC
Speaker, New Haven Women in the Arts, New Haven, CT
1990 Seminar, The Yale Club of Chicago, Imaginary Objects Apparently Seen--The Fixity of Fictions in Painting, Terra
Museum of Art, Chicago, IL,
Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Visiting Artist, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Visiting Artist / Speaker, 10th Annual Festival of Arts, Parenthetical Whispers: Notes on the Irrational in Art ,
University of North Carolina, Ashville, NC
1989 Visiting Artist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (five days)
Speaker, Connecticut Women Artist's Inc. Annual Members Banquet, Essex, CT
1988 Visiting Artist Trinity College, Hartford, CT,
1987 Panel Moderator, Poetic & Conceptual Implications of Systems Used in Drawn & Painted Space, College Art Association,
Boston, MA
1986 Visiting Artist, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
Visiting Artist, Arizona State University, (eight days)
1984 Visiting Artist, University of Iowa, (one week)
1985 Speaker, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
1984 Speaker, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Speaker, Humboldt Docent Council, Eureka, CA
Speaker, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1983 Speaker, Mills College, Oakland, CA
VISITING CRITIC
2002 - 2007 Guest Critic, Penn Design ARCH, Maria-Paz Gutierrez & Larry Mitnick
1993 - 2004 Guest Critic, Graduate Drawing, Phil Grausman, Yale School of ARCH, New Haven, CT
2002 Guest Critic, Philadelphia Univ. School of Architecture & Design, Gül Kacmaz’ Design Studio, Phila., PA
1999 - 2000 Guest Critic, Graduate Collage Course with Prof. Robert Reed, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
1999 Guest Critic, Learning from the Wildwoods, GSFA, UPENN, Interdisciplinary Studio ARCH, LARP, & Urban Design,
Steve Izenour of Venturi-Scott-Brown, & Susana Snyder of Center for the Civic Arts, Phila., PA
1997 Guest Critic, Re-Thinking Kuaua, Studio Final Review, Nadia M. Alhasani, UPENN, ARCH, Phila., PA
1988 Guest Critic, Graduate Drawing, Phil Grausman, Yale School of ARCH, New Haven, CT
1983 Speaker, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
1983 Speaker, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM
1981 Speaker, Reese Bullen Gallery, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
1979 Speaker, Stanford Committee for Art, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
REVIEWS, CATALOGS, PUBLICATIONS
Magical Realism, Jan Feighner, Art Matters, The Philadelphia Region’s Magazine of the Arts, November 01, 2007
A Mix of Fantasy, Reality, Vision, Victoria Donahoe, The Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA, September 9, 2007
Finding Freemont: Penn architecture students post far-out plans for redeveloping Fremont Street, Chuck Twardy, Las Vegas Weekly, Las Vegas, NV,
November 12, 2002
Beyond A Gift of Time, group exhibition catalog, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, August 2007
Striking Views of the Female, L. P. Streitfeld, The Advocate & Greenwich Times, Greenwich, CT, August 5, 2001
An Anniversary Show Reunites Old Friends, Judy Birke, The New Haven Advocate, New Haven, CT, July 8, 2001
Siskia, painting reproduced as frontispiece to In the Jungle, pp.10, Zoo: Animals in Art, Lucie-Smith, Edward, Watson-Guptill
Publications, 1998
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REVIEWS, CATALOGS, PUBLICATIONS, continued
Allegorical Paintings, Old and New, Susana Viola Jacobson, solo exhibition catalog, Introduction by Edward Lucie-Smith, London, Essay by
Gloria Kury, NYC, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC, 1995 & Erector Square Gallery 1996,
In the Galleries", David Carbone, Art & Antiques, April 1991
"Four Play", Ann Langdon, The New Haven Advocate, April 30, 1990
ISU Gallery 181 Exhibits Jacobson Oil Paintings, The Daily Tribune, Ames, IA, August 25, 1990
“Faculty Exhibition 1986”, in conjunction with a celebration of The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the School of Art and Art History,
The Univ. of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986
Susana Viola Jacobson, solo exhibition catalog, Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM, 1983
Exhibit Planned, Roswell Daily Record, Roswell, NM, April 12, 1983
Ambiguity Thrives on Canvas, Times Standard, Eureka, CA, November 24, 1983
The Animal Kingdom, Mel McCombe, Artweek, May 12, 1979
High Hopes for New Notre Dame art gallery, Paul Emerson, Palo Alto Times, October 28, 1977
Weaponsleeves, Artweek, October 15, 1977
AUTHORED ESSAYS/ARTICLES
Marvel Is The Medium: The Work of Nic Coviello, Exhibition Essay, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 2004
Robert Tynes: Where Seeing Is Being, catalog Essay, Jeanne Rauch Gallery, Gaston College, Dallas, NC, Oct.-Dec. 2004
Andrew Forge 1923-2002: A Remembrance, Penn In Ink, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Sept. 2003
Chris Lyon, Restless, Resilient, catalog essay, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 2003
C.J. Yeh, Recent Paintings, catalog essay, Gallery 456, NYC, NY, 1999
The Work of Ji-Ah Park, catalog essay, Duk Won Museum of Art , Seoul, Korea, 1995
An Alternative to Modishness, review of Kristina Branch at Charles Campbell Gallery in the San Francisco, Artweek, March 17, 1984
Martha Zelt, catalog essay, Roswell Museum & Art Center, 1983
COLLECTIONS
Anderson Museum of Modern Art, Anderson Oil, Roswell, NM, (three triptychs from 1983,
84, 86) acq. 1995 & 2003
Salt Lake Art Center, SLC, Utah, (paintings from 1972, 1987, 1990), acq. 1993-95
Roswell Museum & Art Center, Roswell, NM, paintings, acq. 1983 & 1992
Principle Financial Group, National Headquarters, Des Moines, IA, (painting 1985), acq. 1987
Banker's Life Insurance Company, Des Moines, IA, (painting, 1982), acq. 1986
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA, (painting, 1979), acq. 1985
Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, (paintings) acq. 1983, 1990
Humboldt Area Foundation, Eureka, CA, (drawing, 1979), acq. 1981
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, painting, 1980
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