James von Minor

RESUME

Biography:
b. 1953, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, USA
Currently working in Baltimore, Maryland USA

Education:
Master of Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania 1980
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 1977

Grants/Awards:
Individual Artist Award, Visual Arts Grant: Painting, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland 2004
Individual Artist Award, Visual Arts Grant: 2-Dimensional, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland 2002
Juror Award, National Juried Exhibition, Manayunk, Pennsylvania 1999
Individual Artist Award, Visual Arts Grant: Sculpture, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland 1997
CityArts Grant, Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Arts and Culture, Baltimore, Maryland 1990
Works-in-Progress Grant, Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, Maryland 1984
Patron Purchase Award, Kansas Second National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Kansas State College, Hayes, Kansas 1976

Individual Exhibitions:
The Mechanics of My Existence: Stevenson University, Stevenson, Maryland 2008
The Cup and Three Quarters: The Art of James von Minor, Academy Art Museum, Easton, Maryland 2005
The Three Quarter Series, Galerie Francoise E.S.F, Baltimore, Maryland 2004
A Decade of Drawings & Diagrams, Bismark/Wilson Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 2004
Push Pin Drawings, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, 2002
Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 1997, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991
G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 1989, 1988
Towson State University, Towson, Maryland 1984
Wilson College, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania 1981

Group Exhibitions
Everybody Draws, Fleckenstein Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 2009
The Seven Deadly Sins, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland 2008
Color & Form: Contemporary Sculpture and Painting by Michelle Hinebrook, John Richardson
and James von Minor, The Maryland Hall for Creative Arts, Annapolis, Maryland 2008
International in Situ Art Symposium, “Jardins du Precambrien” Quebec, Canada 2007
MAP@25!, Maryland Art Place. Baltimore, Maryland 2006
Barro de America, Galeria Marta Traba, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2005
V Bienal Barro de America, El Centro de Arte de Maracaibo Lia Bermudez, Maracaibo, Venezuela 2004
Positional Play an installation by Joe Mancuso and James von Minor, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 2002 * Catalogue
From Reverence To Exultation, The Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland 2001
Great Plains National, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, Hays, Kansas 2001 * Catalogue
Great Plains National, Moss-Thorns Gallery of Art, Hays, Kansas 2000 * Catalogue
Postal Exhibition, The Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 2000
Collaborative Exhibition, Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, Virginia 1999
ANA 28, The Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana 1999
12th Annual Artstravaganza Juried Exhibition, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee 1999
17th Annual September Competition, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana 1999 * Catalogue
1998 Annual Juried Winners, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia 1999
National Juried Exhibition, Art Forms Gallery, Manayunk, Pennsylvania 1999
III Bienal Barro de America Roberto Guevara, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela 1998 * Catalogue
III Bienal Barro de America Roberto Guevara, El Centro de Arte de Maracaibo, Maracaibo, Venezuela 1998
Annual Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, Virginia 1998
Art Maryland ’98, Howard County Center For The Arts, Ellicott City, 1998
Maryland Art Place Benefit Exhibition, Baltimore, Md 2005, 04, 03, 02, 01, 99, 98, 97, 88, 87, 86, 85
Artscape, Baltimore, Maryland 2001, 99, 98, 87
“Lotta Art”, Benefit Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Md 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92
Common Ground: A Collaboration, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Md. 1996
Biennial 96’, The Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, Delaware 1996
1995 Critics’ Pick, Critics’ Residency Program, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland 1996
Conjugate Sites/Sights, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland 1995
Gomez Gallery Honors Biennial Artists, Gomez Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 1995
II Bienal Barro de America, Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela 1995 * Catalogue
Biennial Studio Artists Exhibition, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland 1995, 1993
Resurgam Gallery’s Third Annual Juried Exhibition, Baltimore, Maryland 1995
“Works on Paper”, Juried Exhibition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 1993
“Three Regional Artists”, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland 1992
Kansas Sixteenth National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Kansas State College, Hays Kansas 1991
“The Artist Vision”, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa 1991
Deconstruct/Reconstruct, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland 1989
Group Exhibition, G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland 1987
Tarkio Invitational Exhibition, Tarkio College, Tarkio, Missouri 1986
Invitational Exhibition, Roswell Museum, Roswell, New Mexico 1982 * Catalogue
The Brindl Gallery, Camden, Maine 1980
National Print Exhibition, Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey 1979
Dekalb ’79 National Print Exhibition, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois 1979
Kansas Third National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas 1977
11 th National Drawing and Sculpture Competition, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas 1977
Kansas Second National Small Painting, Drawing and Print Exhibition, Kansas State College, Hays, Kansas 1976
Southwest Print and Drawing Competition, Las Cruces, New Mexico 1976

Selected Publications:
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Positional Play an installation by Joe Mancuso & James von Minor Exhibition Catalogue 2002
Alexandria Museum of Art, 17th September Competition Exhibition Catalogue. 1999
Gliick, Herbert, “New American Paintings” Open Studio Press. Spring 1999
Museum of Contemporary Art, III Bienal Barro de America Roberto Guevara, Exhibition Catalogue1998
Dorsey, John “A Show of Power and Grace at Gomez” The Baltimore Sun. April. 1997
Giuliano, Mike ‘Harmonious Convergence’s” The City Paper. April 1997
Michalski, Jennifer J., “Double Vision, Houston/Baltimore Highlights Sculptors Similarities” Baltimore Alternative.
January 1997
Giuliano, Mike “Dynamic Duo” The City Paper. January 1996
Dorsey, John, “Art Works In Harmony” The Baltimore Sun. December 1996
Gliick, Herbert, “New American Paintings”, Open Studio Press. Autumn 1996
Duffy, Jim, “Fall Arts Preview” Baltimore Magazine. September 1996
Palanzuela, Juan Carlos, “Clay Of The Americas” Art Nexus. April-June 1996
Rodriguez, Belgica, “Homage To Nine Artists” Art Nexus. April-June 1996
Hirsch, Faye, “Critic In Residence” Washington Review. February/March 1996
Museum of Contemporary Art, II Bienal Barro de America, Exhibition Catalogue 1995
Dorsey, John “Two Different Worlds Work In Harmony” The Baltimore Sun. December 1995
Dorsey, John, “Works At Gomez Have Little In Common” The Baltimore Sun. December 1995
Giuliano, Mike, “Temperatures Rising” The City Paper. August 1994
Dorsey, John, “It’s Worth A Look As von Minor Finds Himself” The Baltimore Sun. August 1994
Giuliano, Mike “Happily, School 33 Artist Emerge From The Studio” The Baltimore Sun. September 1993
Falk, Carole, “Current AACC Exhibit: It’s Art About Art” The Capital. April 1992