Lisa Grossman

Born 1967, Pennsylvania
Education
1999
BFA, University of Kansas, School of Art, Lawrence, KS
1988
AA, Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Windings, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
2008
Prairie, River, Mountain, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
2007
Cloud, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006
On the Horizon, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
2005
River Landscapes, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2004
Prairie River, Paintings and Prints, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2003
Plainscapes, Ruth Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
Prairie Reverie, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
Twilight and Reverie, The Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002
Kansas Plein Air, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lisa Grossman, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2001
Light From the West, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS
2000
In the Open, The Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1999
Landscapes, The Birger Sandzén Memorial Gallery, Lindsborg, KS
1998
Landscapes, The Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Juried Exhibitions, Awards, and Honors
2010
Art Through Architecture program, Kansas City, MO
2009
Kansas Arts Commission Mid-Career Artist Fellowship
Artist-in-Residence, Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde, CO and Petrified Forest National Park, Petrified Forest, AZ
Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR, also 2006 and 2008
22nd National Parkside Small Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin – Parkside, Kenosha, WI
2008
Night Visions III, Coconino Center for the Arts, Flagstaff, AZ
The Printed Image 2, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS
2007
Washington Printmakers Gallery National Small Works exhibition, Washington, D.C.
Kansas Inaugural 2007 Art exhibit, Topeka, KS
2006
Commission: "Kansas River," 10'x12' canvas for main lobby, H & R Block Center, Kansas City, MO
Delta National Small Print Exhibition, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR Purchase Award, Juror: Judith B. Hecker, Assistant curator of prints and illustrated books, MOMA
"Best in Show," Lawrence Own Your Own Juried Show, Lawrence, KS. Also exhibited in 2001, 2002, 2003.
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS. Also in 2004, 2002.
2004
Artist in Residence, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
2003
Commission: Creation of Phoenix Awards paintings, Lawrence Arts Commission, Lawrence, KS
2002
20th Annual National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie Co. Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
2000
Kansas Arts Commission Mini-Fellowship
1998
Arts for the Parks Top 100, National Park Academy of the Arts national touring exhibit, Jackson,WY
Group Exhibitions
2009
Kansas Masters Invitational, Strecker-Nelson Gallery, Manhattan, KS, also in 2007
Vacant Spaces, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, TX
Nocturnes, Lisa Grossman and Stephen Johnson, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2007
Kansas Inaugural 2007 Art Exhibit, Topeka, KS
2006
Art Into Art: Inspired Responses, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS Dance created and performed by Joan Stone to "86 Bends of the Kaw"print panels
2005
Homage to the Flint Hills, Exhibited in Kansas Governor's offices and statewide through 2006
2004-2005
A Kansas Sampler, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2001
Flatland Series - 100 Monoprints, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Lisa Grossman and David Shevlino, Two-person show, Ruth Morpeth Gallery, Hopewell, NJ
2000
Grand Opening Show, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Summerscapes, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
1994
Debut at Dolphin Gallery, numerous salon-style shows to the present, Kansas City, MO
Professional Experience
2007
Panelist, Claimed: Images of the Plains, Culture, the Land, and Its Uses, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2006
Presenter/panelist, Art and Popular Culture of Kansas: Artists at Home in Kansas and Now, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
2004
Panel discussion, Prairie River Exhibit, Committee on Imagination & Place, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2003
Gallery Talk, Marsden Hartley's Landscapes, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2002
Instructor, Porter Inspired Printmaking, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2001
Curator, Imagination & Place: Three Perspectives, exhibit and gallery talk, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Artist’s Panel speaker, Reading the Landscape of Home, The Land Institute’s Rural Community Studies Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Curator, Imagination & Place: Three Perspectives, exhibit and gallery talk, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
Selected Collections
American Century Mutual Funds, Kansas City, MO
Emprise Bank, Wichita, KS
Federal Reserve Bank, Kansas City, MO
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO
H&R Block Center, Kansas City, MO
Mesa Verde National Park, Mesa Verde, CO
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Overland Park Convention Center, Overland Park, KS
Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, CO
St. Luke’s Hospital, Kansas City, MO
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Sprint Nextel Corporation, Overland Park, KS
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
Topeka Public Library, Topeka, KS
Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
Publications/ Inclusions
Bembnister, Theresa, “Inspired By ‘Surroundings,’” Kansas City Star, Thursday, February 25, 2010
Martin Collins, “Dallas Thinks Big - About Art,” Fine Arts Connoisseur, March/April 2009
Sarah Mote, “Keep Eyes on the Skies,” Kansas City Star, September 27, 2007
Elizabeth Schultz, “The Art of Open Spaces: Contemporary Sea and Prairiescapes,” Great Plains Quarterly, Winter 2007, Vol. 27, No. 1
Not by Bread Alone, A Sampling of Kansas Food, Arts, and Culture, Kansas Inaugural 2007, Lawrence, KS 2007
Jessica Grant, “In Their Element,” Manhattan (Kansas) Mercury, Sunday, April 23, 2006
Sarah Mote, “Young at Art,” (Kansas City) Art Magazine, June – August 2005, Volume 5/Number 2
The Wakarusa Wetlands in Word & Image, Lawrence, KS: Committee on Imagination & Place, 2005
Mindie Padget, “Essential Kansas,” Lawrence Journal-World, Sunday, October 31, 2004
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press Competition. Featured in Volume 24, 1999; Volume 54, 2004
Mindie Padget, “A River Runs Through Them,” Lawrence Journal-World, May 30, 2004
Susi Lulaki, “What the Prairie Gave Me,” (Kansas City) Review, Summer 2003
Marie Suwannukul, “Stephen Cohen Gallery,” Brentwood Magazine, August 2002
Los Angeles Times, Calendar Weekend, “Galleries: Stephen Cohen Gallery, Lisa J. Grossman, Kansas Plein Air,” Thursday, August 8, 2002
Kate Hackman, “Room to Soar Among Spacious Skies,” Kansas City Star, November 3, 2000
A. Cort Sinnes, “Art Lives Here,” Kansas City Magazine, March 2000
Alice Thorson, “Counting Paintings on the Wall,” Kansas City Star, Preview, December, 1998
Joe Popper, “Vista Comes to Focus in Paint,” Kansas City Star, December 26, 1998
Television/Radio Features
2007
Art on the Block, Documentary film about art commissioned for the H&R Block Center in downtown Kansas City, MO. Aired on KCPT 19, August 9, 2007
2006
Art Minute, "86 Bends of the Kaw at the Spencer," KANU radio, Lawrence, KS, 2006
2003
Interview, "Up to Date," KCUR-FM, Kansas City, MO
Copyright 2004 Lisa J. Grossman