Atrium Gallery - Artist Karen Kunc

Artist Karen Kunc

EDUCATION
	1977	MFA, Ohio State University
	1975	BFA, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
	2003-present	Willa Cather Professor and Professor of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	2009	Visiting Artist, Oregon State University
	1998-2003	Professor of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	2001	Artist-in-Residence, Nagasawa Art Park, Tsuna, Japan, fall
	1989-98	Associate Professor in Printmaking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	1995	Guest Professor, Icelandic College of Art and Crafts, Rekyavik, Iceland, spring
	1994	UNL Study Abroad Program, Santa Reperata Graphic Art Centre, Florence, Italy, Summer
	1993	Research Fellow, Kyoto, Japan, Spring
	1988-91	Gallery Director, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	1989	Dayton Hudson Distinguished Visiting Artist/Teacher, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
	1985-89	Assistant Professor in Printmaking, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
	1987	Visiting Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley, Spring
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
	2009	"Printedness," Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
	2008	Hudson Gallery, Sylvania, OH Minia University, El Minia, Egypt
	2007	“Journeys,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Lyrical Legacy: The Prints of Karen Kunc,” Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO “Karen Kunc: Sensory Source,” Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
	2006	Piano Nobile Gallery, Rynek Glowny, Krakow, Poland Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland Galerie d The Downtown Gallery, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND Northern Kentucky University, Fine Arts Center, Highland Heights, KY Fine Arts Center Gallery, Augusta State University, GA

	2005	"Visionary Evidence," Contemporary Print and Drawing Center, Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA Abercrombie Art Gallery, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA “Featured Artist Project,” The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY “Recent Prints,” Kathy Carraccio Print Studio, New York, NY “Prints,” Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy
	2004	Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana SNAP Gallery, Society of Northern Alberta Printmakers, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
	2003	Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan Hartmann Center Art Gallery, Bradley University
	2002	Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE
	2001	“Woodcut Prints,” Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL “Evoking Time,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO Deluce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO
	2000	Galerie Dumont 18, Geneva, Switzerland Walker Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Kearney, NE
	1999	“Working Riddles,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1998	Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
	1997	“Intangibles,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1996	Felix Jenewein Gallery, Municipal Museum of Kutna Hora, Czech Republic Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfijordur, Iceland Galleri Unbra, Rekjavik, Iceland Galleria Harmonia, Jyvvaskyla, Finland Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH Primary Object gallery, San Antonio, TX
	1995	20/21: Karen Kunc, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Gallery APA, Nagoya, Japan Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE Davidson Galleries, Seattle, WA
	1994	Karen Kunc, New woodcuts, Monoprints, and Drawings, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE Museum of Art, University of Iowa, Iowa City Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE Porter Butts Gallery, Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin, Madison
	1993	“New Work,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO Karen Kunc, Artist/Printmaker, Babock Fine Arts Center Gallery, Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC Norman R. Eppink Art Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS California Books, San Francisco, CA
	1992	Albion College, Dickinson Print Gallery, Albion, MI
	1991	Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1990	Woodcuts & Drawings, Cabrillo College Gallery, Aptos, CA Norra Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University Merwin Gallery, School of Art, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL Harnet Hall Gallery, Minot State University, Minot, ND
	1989	Jane Haslem Salon, Washington, DC New Work: Woodcuts, Monotypes & Drawings, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL “Woodcuts,” Allen Priebe Gallery, Oshkosh, WI “The Prints of Karen Kunc,” Carleton Art Gallery, Carleton College, Northfield, MN Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
	1988	“Woodcuts,” Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN “Woodcuts,” Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI
	1987	Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington, DC Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, Center for Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO Invitational Gallery, WARM Gallery, Minneapolis, MN Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1986	Sioux City Art Center, Graphics Gallery, Sioux City, IA U.S. Embassy, Warsaw, Poland U.S. Consulate, Crakow, Poland
	1985	Milliken University, Lower Gallery, Decatur, IL Quincy College Art Gallery, Quincy College, Quincy, IL University of Houston, Clear Lake, TX Tarkio College, Tarkio, MO
	1984	New Work, Miriam Perlman, Inc., Chicago, IL Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Blackburn College, Renner Art Gallery, Carlinville, IL Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL
	1983	The Ohio Series, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
	2009	"The Boston Printmakers 2009 North American Print Biennial," Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA; Juror, Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, New York Public Library
	2008	"Choose One," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "Small Works," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	2007	“New Prints 2007/Winter,” International Print Center, New York, NY The 182nd Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, member, National Academy Museum, New York, NY “New Traditions: 5 Years of Collaboration at Flying Horse Press,” Orange Co. Government Office, Orlando, FL “Red Herring Portfolio,” Center for Book Arts, NY; Lewis Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS; SGC Conference, Kansas City; Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
	2006	“Bound Visions: Artists’ Books,” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO “10 for 20” 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "Paper, Paper," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "Selections," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "4 Printmakers/ 2 Curators," The Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington D.C. Second International Biennial for the Artist's Book, Bibliotheca Alexandria, Egypt "Book Blast: Artist's Books," Lönnström Art Museum, Rauma, Finland 5th Egyptian International Print Triennale, Cario, Egypt "Book as Art: Twenty Years of Artists' Books," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C. "Crossing Gene (Hybrids), American and Korean Collaborations, Sun Contemporary Gallery, Seoul, Korea "Selected Prints of Tandem Press," Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison "American Prints in Troubled Times," Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE International Print Triennial Krakow, Poland “Recent Acquisitions: Contemporary Art by Academicians,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY 5th Minnesota National Print Biennial Exhibition, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Tweed
	2005	"Holiday Group Show," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "With Spirit," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO "Open Expression: Contemporary American Prints," American University in Cairo, Egypt Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan Biennale Internationale d'Estampes Contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada Busan International Print Art Festival, Busan, Korea "New Prints 2005/Summer," International Print Center, New York, NY "Resonance and Response: Artists' Books from Special Collections", Wellesley College Library
	2004	"Mentors: Inspiration, Influence, Expertise," St. Louis Artists' Guild, St. Louis, MO Chesterfield Arts Gallery Exhibit, Chesterfield, MO VII International Art Triennale Majdanek 2004, State Museum, Lublin, Poland "Time Remembered/Time Past", juried Boston Printmakers Members Exhibition, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA National Print Portfolio Exchange from Catfish Press, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel Mississippi "Sublime Present: International Aspects of Contemporary Print," Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan "Art in Isolation," Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center, Capser, Wyoming
	2003	"Crosscurrents: American Prints", II Quatro di Omega Gallery, Rome, Italy 6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France International Print Triennial, Krakow, Poland Intergraphia, World Award Winners Exhibition, Museum of Neipolomice, Royal Castle, Poland International Print and Drawing Exhibition on the Occasion of 60th Anniversary Celebration of Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand The Boston Printmakers 2003 North American Print Exhibition, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA Contemporary Art Festival Invitational Exhibition, Modern Art Museum, Japan 178th Annual Exhibition, for Academicians, the National Academy of Design Museum, New York 2003 Artist Members Juried Exhibition, The Center for Book Arts, New York "Out from Japan: Watercolor Woodblocks in the Japanese Style", 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY Portfolio Exhibition, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne, Australia “Atrium at the Plaza,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO Atrium Gallery at HOK, St. Louis, MO 4th Egyptian International Print Triennial, Sector of the Fine Arts, Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt "Grabado sin Fronteras/Printmaking Without Borders", Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA, and Centro Metropolitan, Estamperi a Quitena, Quito, Ecuador "Women in Print," Alexandre Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, OK "Cuts: The Contemporary Woodcut," Kala Gallery, Berkeley, CA "Radical Printmaking 2003," Thacher Gallery, University of San Francisco, CA "Another View: A Selection of Contemporary American Prints," Greenleaf Gallery, Whittier College, LA "The Print," Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	2002	True North SNAP International Print Biennial, Society of Northern Alberta Print-artists, Edmonton, Canada Biennial 2002, Center for Book and Paper Arts, Columbia College Chicago "The Liquid Language of Artist's Books," University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie Prints from Nagasawa Art Park Artists-in-Residence, Skydoor Art Space in Aoyoma, Tokyo, Japan 5th American Print Biennial, Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond Museums, Virginia "Global Matrix", International Print Exhibition, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, Indiana and Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, Ohio 2003 “Scale It,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO Karen Kunc, Thomas H. Majeski, & Susan Puelz, Anderson O’Brien Fine Art Gallery, Omaha, NE “Karen Kunc and Kenny Walton,” Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE "Built by Hand: The Book as Art, Pyramid Atlantic International Book Exhibition," 1111 Sculpture Space, Washington D.C.
	2001	The 3rd Minnesota National Print Biennial, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN 28th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Triennial 100 Cities 2001-2003, City Culture Center, Dzierzoniowo, Poland and tour III Printmaking Festival 2001, Teoartis, Evora, Portugal Saint’s & Sinners Print Portfolio, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington D.C. 2001 North American Print Exhibition, Boston Printmakers, 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA Artist’s Books by the Boston Printmakers, The Art Gallery, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH “On/Off/Over the Edge,” America Print Alliance juried exhibition, traveling exhibition, University of Nebraska Kearney, University of Florida, Miami University, Oxford, OH “Relative Unfoldings,” Juried Print Exhibition, Cultural Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 2001 Artists Members Juried Show, Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
	2000	“Relatives,” 4th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, England, and tour 5th Sapporo International Print Biennial, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan International Artist’s Books, Galerie Dumont 18, Geneva, Switzerland International Print Triennial - Krakow 2000, Poland and other international venues “Art and the Printing Press,” 2nd International Small Engraving Exhibition, Cremona, Italy Midlands Invitational 2000: Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska “Who Knows Where or When: Artists Interpret Geography and Time,” Wustum Museum, Racine, WI “Squish,” What is a Print Exhibition, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK “Visions of the Prairie: The Great Plains at the Dawn of the Millennium, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE “Unbound: Reshaping Artist’s Books,” Henry Street Settlement Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY “Recycled Paper III,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1999	“Wind and Water on the Land,” Great Plains Art Collection, University Of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Recycled Paper II,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO “Personal Iconography, Mythologies & Fairy Tales,” University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls Iowa “Kunc & Youngblood: Printmakers,” University Art Gallery, Baylor University, Waco, TX “Between Nature and Culture: American Prints,” Felix Jenewein Gallery, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic “Printmakers Artist’s Books,” Hayden Library, Arizona State University, Tempe The 174th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York “The Sense of Touch: Women Printmakers,” Art Gallery, Western Wyoming College, Rock Springs Forty-Eight Contemporary American Printmakers, Art Museum of the Central Fine Arts Institute, China
	1998	“Between Nature and Culture: American Prints,” Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland “Art of the Book 98,” The Gallery, Canada Trust Gallery, Toronto Reference Library, Canada The 4th Sapporo International Print Bienniale, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan World Print Festival 1998, Lujbljana, Slovenia American Graphic Art, 5th Biennial of Slovene Graphic Art, Novo Mesto, Slovenia 2nd International Triennial of Graphic Art, Old City Hall, Inter-Kontakt-Grafik, Prague, Czech Republic Group Print Show, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago “Recycled Paper,” Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO
	1997	“Kunc and Sorman,” Art Gallery, Columbus College, Columbus, GA “Raw Vision, Raw Word: Book Art as Process and Power,” Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville “Beyond Boundaries,” National Juried Print Exhibition, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA International Print Exhibition, Portland Art Museum, Oregon “New Dialogues: Women Printmakers Invitational,” Jewett Arts Center, Wellesley College, MA Women’s Caucus for Art 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemsia Gallery, Chicago, IL
	1996	“Carved Block Prints in the Americas,” Graphicstudio Gallery, Tampa, FL “Ibizagraphic ‘96,” International Biennial, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Ibiza, Spain 4th Biennial of Graphic Art Beograd ‘96, Cvijeta Susoric Art Pavilion, Beograd, Yugoslavia Print Exhibition, Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL “Abstraction: Monoprint/Monotype,” University Museum, Indiana University of Pennsylvania International Artists Books Exhibition, Vigado Gallery, Budapest, Hungary Mid America Print Council Members Juried Exhibition, Barr Gallery, Indiana University Southeast, New Albany “Prints: Last Half of the 20th Century,” Jane Haslem Gallery, Washington DC “Edges of Interfaces,” American Print Alliance, SCG National Conference, Morgantown, WV “The Modern Print,” Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, NE “Visual Poetry: Words & Images by the Nebraska Women’s Caucus for Art,” Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
	1995	“Recent Acquisitions of Paper,” National Museum of American Art, Washington DC “The First Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial ‘95,” Tama Art University Museum, Japan “Printmaking Workshop Exhibition,” Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka , Bangladesh “Print Invitational,” La Jeune Gravure Contemporaine, Paris, France “3rd International Triennial of Woodcut & Wood-engraving,” State Gallery, Banska Bystrica, Slovakia “15th Mini Print International Cadaques,” Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain “ARC National Artist-made Books Exhibition,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL “Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition,” Oklahoma State University, Stillwater “The Boston Printmakers 45th North American Print Exhibition,” Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Mass. “Dressing the Text: the Fine Press Artists’ Book,” the Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, CA “Multiples Only: A Book Art Invitational,” Special Collections Gallery, McDermott Library University of Texas, Dallas “Off the Press/National Print Exhibition,” DePaul University, Greencastle, Indiana “USA Within Limits,” Documenta, Galeria de Arte, Sao Paulo, Brazil “Prints,” Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE
SELECTED AWARDS Purchase Award, “The Boston Printmakers 2009 North American Print Biennial,” Juror, Roberta Waddell, Curator Emerita, New York Public Library, 2009 "Printmaker Emeritus Award 2007," Southern Graphics Council, Kansas City, MO, 2007 Milwaukee Art Museum, Print Forum commission of print Luminous Wonders, 2006 Sally R. Bishop Master Faculty Fellowship, The Center for Book Arts, 2005 Prize of the Director of the State Museum, VII International Art Triennale Majdanek, Lublin Poland, 2004 Willa Cather Professorship, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003 2nd Place Award, 6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France 2003 Lance Prize, 178th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Museum, New York 2003 UNL Research Council Humanities Enhancement Fund Grant, "Mirror of the Wood, A Century of the Woodcut Print in Finland," exhibition preparation, 2002-3 Juror's Award, Boston Printmakers 2003 North American Print Exhibition Juror's Special Mention, Pressed and Pulled X, Georgia College and State University, 2002 UNL Humanities Center Annual Research and Creative Achievement Award, 2002 Fabriano Award of Distinction, Third Minnesota Print Biennial, 2001 Purchase and Juror's Merit Award, 28th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, 2001 Sponsor’s Prize, 5th Sapporo International Print Biennial, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan Purchase Award, Sixty Square Inches, National Print Exhibition, Perdue University, IN Best of Show, “Impressions,” Blandon Memorial Art Museum, Perdue University, IN University of Nebraska Alumni Achievement Award Nebraska Art Teachers Association Higher Education Award Artist of the Year, 2000 Governor's Arts Awards, Nebraska Arts Council Artist’s Book Production Grant, Women’s Studio Workshop, Rosendale, NY, 1998-99 UNL Research Council Grant-in-aid for “Truly Bone,” artist book project, 1998 University of Nebraska Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award, 1998 Fulbright Scholar Award, for research travel to Finland, spring 1996 Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, 1996 Benzinger Winery Imagery Series, label image for limited release special wine, Glen Ellen, CA, 1996 Library Fellows commission for an artists book, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, 1995-96 The Jane Voorhees Simmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios commission of a suite of prints, with publisher Kathy Caraccio, New York, 1995 Purchase Award, the Cimmaron National Works on Paper, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 1995 Purchase Award, 69th International Competition of Prints, the Print Club, Philadelphia, 1994 Juror’s Award, Off the Shelf: Books By Artists, Tempe Arts Center, Tempe, Arizona Best of Show, Prarie Light Arts Showcase, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska, 1994 Prize of the Manchita Chamber of Commerce and Industry, International Print Exhibition, Manchita-Tokyo, 1993 Rembrandt Graphic Arts Award, 44th North American Print Exhibition, Boston Printmakers, 1993 Lincoln Arts Council Mayor’s Arts Award Recipient, 1993 Nebraska Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship Master Award, 1992 Fellowship Award, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, 1992 Juror’s Award, 13th Annual Jurored Art Show, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, 1992 Middle Slovak National Committee Award, 11th International Biennale Exhibition of Woodcut in Banska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia, 1991
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Achenbach Foundation for Graphics, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Fine Arts Museum, CA Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle Alvar Alto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO Anheuser- Busch Companies, Inc., St. Louis, MO Art Museum of Reykjavik, Iceland Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, OH Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington DC Columbus Chamber of Commerce, OH County/City Building, Lincoln, NE Denver Public Library, CO Doane College, Crete, NE Elvehjem Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Felix Jenewein Galerie, Kutna Hora, Czech Republic Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Georgia College and State University Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Hafnarfjordur, Iceland Hatcher Library, Special Collections, University of Michigan Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, HI Hyndai Art Center Gallery, Ulsan, Korea Idaho State University Library Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN Institute of Fine Art, Dhaka University, Bangladesh Inter-Kontakt Grafik Foundation, Prague J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Library, Los Angeles, CA Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL Library of Congress, Washington, DC Manchita City Museum, Manchita, Japan Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, TX Milwaukee Art Museum Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, KS Museum of Modern Art National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC Nebraska State Art Council New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA New York Public Library Oberlin College Oklahoma Arts Institute Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Panstwowe Muzeum Na Majkanku, Majdanek, Poland Perdue University, IN Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Saint Mark's School, Southborough, MA Salo Art Museum, Salo, Finland Seattle Arts Commission Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Silpakom University, Bangkok, Thailand Sioux City Art Center Smith College, Northampton, MA State of Ohio, State Office Building, Cleveland Stredoslovenska Glaeria Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Swarthmore College The Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University University of Alberta, Canada University of Arkansas University of California, Berkeley, Environmental Design Library University of Delaware University of Georgia, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library University of Michigan, Special Collections Library University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Business Administration University of Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Engineering & Technology University of Richmond Museums, Virginia University of the Arts, Philadelphia University of Vermont University of Wisconsin - Oskosh U.S. Ambassador to Finland, Rockwell Schnabel U.S. Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia Virginia Commonwealth University Washington University, St. Louis, MO Walker Art Center Library Collection, Minneapolis, MN Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, TX Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS IMRT (a division of XRT), Fairview Heights, IL Sprint Corporation, Kansas City, KS Mercantile Trust, St. Louis, MO USAA, Long Beach, CA A.G. Edwards, St. Louis, MO Parkcrest Surgical Association, St. Louis, MO Armstrong, Teasdale, Schlafly, & Davis. St. Louis, MO Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO Pratt Graphics Center, New York, NY The Print Club, Philadelphia, PA Capital Hilton, Washington DC Ashland Oil Company A T Financial, Chicago, IL Union Pacific, Omaha, NE Midwest Otologic Group, St. Louis, MO Consultants in Women’s Healthcare, St. Louis, MO United States State Department Land Communications Corporation, New York, NY Krey Distributing Company, St. Peters, MO Champion International, Inc., St. Louis, MO IBM Corporation, NY 3M Corporation Kelly Lavoie Inc., Toronto Marshall Erdman and Associates, Madison, WI Putnam, Hayes and Barlet, San Francisco J P Morgan Guaranty Bank, NY Bank of New York -Delaware Allsteel Inc. Aurora, IL Hallmark Cards, Inc. Kansas City, MO Peed Corporation, Lincoln, NE Sequel Development Corporation, St. Louis, MO Lang Communications Corporation, NY Heileman Brewing Company, Chicago, IL Johnson and Johnson Corporation Putnam, Hayes, & Bartlet, San Francisco, CA Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York The College Board, New York
RECENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
	2006	Visiting Artist Lecture and workshop, Fine Art Academy, Helsinki, Finland Visiting Artist Lecture and workshop, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
	2005	Workshop, Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, MD Visiting Artist-in-Residence, Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village, CO, March Artist in Residence and Lecture, Flying Horse Press, University of Central Florida, Orlando Printmaking Seminar, American University in Cairo, Egypt
	2004	Conference Director, Mid-America Print Council Conference, "Printmaking Relevance/Resonance," Oct. Curator, "Mirror of the Wood: A Century of the Woodcut Print in Finland," Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Eisentrager-Howard Gallery, UNL 2004: Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, 2005; national tour 2005 Visiting Artist, Cleveland Institute for the Arts, Cleveland, Ohio Presentation "Collecting Prints", University Place Art Center Guild members, Lincoln Juror, Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Parkside, 2004
	2003	Artist in Residence for print publication "Flowering Apparatus", Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass Village,CO Cradle Oak Press Visiting Artist for print publication and lecture, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Studio Presentation, Sheldon Collector's Forum, Avoca, NE First Friday Gallery Talk about Sensory Experience, Sheldon Art Gallery, UNL Docent Training, Sheldon Art Gallery, UNL Lecture, Visual Voices, "Printmaking Relevance/Resonance", Bradley University Peoria, IL Visiting Artist, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Visiting Artist, GAPP, University of Texas, Austin Gallery Talk, Chase County Arts Council, Imperial, Nebraska Delegate for selection of American participants to the 6th Triennale Mondiale D'Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France
	2002	Visiting Artist, Memphis College of Art, TN Juror, Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, IL Visiting Artist, Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI Von Hess Visiting Artist, Browsky Center for Publication Arts, The University of Arts, Philadelphia, PA
	2001	Presentation, round-table panel, “Global Kinship: International Opportunities in Printmaking,” Southern Graphics Council Conference, University of Texas, Austin, TX Workshop, Women’s Caucus for Art, Ohio Chapter, Cincinnati, OH Workshop, Paper/Book Intensive, Salt Lake City, UT
	2000	Artist Delegate to International Print Triennial - Krakow 2000, Poland Workshop, Acedemy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland Presentation, “Transformations - My Traveler’s Eye,” Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, University of Miami, FL Presentation and panel coordinator,” A Printmaking Workshop Continuum,” Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, UNL Presentation, “A Climate for Creative Activity,” Inaugural Symposium for the Centennial Celebration of Graduate Education, Research and Creative Activity, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Artist in Residence, Littleton Studios, Spruce Pine, NC Gallery Talk, Midlands Invitational: Works on Paper, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Workshop, Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, CT
	1999	Visiting Artist, University of Alaska, Anchorage Juror, “No Big Heads: Self-Portrait Exhibition,” Student Center Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage Visiting Artist, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA Delegate, IMPACT International Printmaking Conference, University of West England, Bristol Visiting Artist, Inky Paper Print Series, University of Wyoming, Laramie Juror, 19th Annual Michigan Print Competition, Alma College, Alma, MI Workshop, Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland Presentation, Friends of the Book, University of Washington, Seattle Presentation on Artist’s Books for Printmakers, Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe Visiting Artist, College of Art & Design, Center for the Creative Studies, Detroit Visiting Artist, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts and Western Michigan, Kalamazoo Juror, 49th Annual Quad-State All-Media Exhibition, Quincy Art Center, IL Presentation, University of Nebraska Women’s Conference, Lincoln, NE Presentation, Friends of the Library, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
	1998	Presentation, Mid-America Print Council Conference, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH Curator for “Between Nature and Culture: American Prints,” for the Jyvaskyla Art Museum, Finland, and presentation at the opening, and for Kutna Hora, Czech Republic Printmakers Forum: Current Trends, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
	1997	Lecture: The Teaching of Printmaking, an American View, Sightlines International Symposium of Printmaking and Image Culture, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Workshop, Center for Book Arts, New York Visiting Artist, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Visiting Artist, California State University, Sacramento, CA
	1996	Workshop, Academy of Art, Helsinki, Finland Workshop, Josensuu Graphic Workshop, Josensuu, Finland Artist In Residence, Jyvaskyla Graphic Workshop, Jyvaskyla, Finland Awards Juror, Graphica Creativa International Triennial of Prints, Alvar Alto Museum, Jyvasklya, Finland Art New England Summer Workshops, Bennington College, Vermont Visiting Artist, University of Texas - San Antonio Visiting Artist, Ohio University, Athens, OH Juror, Contemporary Women Artist X, St. Louis Women’s Caucus for Art Featured Artist, 1996 Mid America Print Council Conference, Indian University Southeast, New Albany Juror, “The Hand-Pulled Print IV,” Stonemetal Press, San Antonio, TX
MEMBERSHIP Conference Director, Mid-American Print Council Conference 2004 National Academy of Design The Print Club College Art Association Nebraska Art Association California Society of Printmakers Center for Books Arts, NY Boston Printmakers Mid-America Print Council Southern Graphics Council Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
	2003	Kunc, Karen, Twenty-Ninth Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, catalogue, "Juror's Statement", Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
	2002	Kunc, Karen, The Liquid Language of Artist's Books, Blue Heron Press, Avoca, Nebraska, "Braided Streams" Kunc, Karen, The California Printmaker, Journal of California Society of Printmakers, "Artists Books and the Burning Question"
	2000	Glasgow, Catherine Clader, “Karen Kunc: Prints,” exhibition catalogue, Galerie Dumont 18, Geneva, Switzerland Kunc, Karen, “Away Again,” Contemporary Impressions, Journal of the American Print Alliance Wolfamott, Kent. “UNL’s Kunc Artist of the Year,” Lincoln Journal Star. January 26.
	1999	Glasgow, Catherine Clader. “Personality of Today: Karen Kunc,” Grapheion. International Journal of Printmaking, Czech Republic, January, 1999 Kunc, Karen, “Artist’s Books and the Burning Question,” Grapheion, European review of modern prints, book and paper art
	1998	Kunc, Karen. Teaching Printmaking: American Drive and Directions. The California Printmaker, Journal of the California Society of Printmakers, May 1998
	1997	Daniel, Jeff, “A Glimpse of Kandinsky, Miro, and Something Entirely Original,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 1
	1996	Gibbs, Barbara. Poets Like Oysters, Cummington Press, wood engravings by Karen Kunc.
	1995	Farber, Janet. 20/21 Karen Kunc, exhibition catalog, Joslyn Art Museum. MacMillan, Kyle, “UNL Professor’s Work Receives Exposure it Deserves at Joslyn,”Omaha World Herald, September 22 Lange-Kubick, Cindy, “Lincoln artist seeks ‘thinking involvement’,” Lincoln Journal Star, September 17
	1994	MacMillan, Kyle, “She Leaves Her Imprint on Art World,” Sunday World-Herald, Omaha, NE, April 17
	1993	Shepley, Carol Ferring, “Kunc Built Career on Out-of-Favor Woodcut,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, November 11 Bellos, Alexandra, “Karen Kunc: Monotypes, Woodblocks, and Drawings,”The Riverfront Times, December 8-14
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