GALLERY REPRESENTATION:
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art
2004 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64108-1914
816.221.2626
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2012 “Multiple Encounters Second Edition,” New Delhi, India
2011 “Kansas City - Abstraction,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2011 “Urban Suburban,” Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS
2011 “Project Reclamation,” Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 “Ploys and Decoys,” Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art, Epsten Gallery, Overland Park, KS
2010 “25th Anniversary Summer Invitational,” Sherry Leedy Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 “Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection,” Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2010 “Fresh and Local,” Room 39, Kansas City, MO
2009 “Oops,” 10th Annual Avenue of the Arts, (guest artist,) Central Avenue, Kansas City, MO
2009 “Glow,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2008 The Artist Project, Chicago, IL
2008 “Allusive Abstraction,” Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
2008 “locate|navigate-exercises in mapping,” Project Space/Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
2008 “Celebrating Ink,” Arts Incubator, Kansas City, MO
2008 Healing Arts Gallery, Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO
2008 “Kansas City Flat Files,” H&R Block Artspace at KCAI, Kansas City, MO
2008 “Ad astra per aspera,” Shift Space Gallery, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
2007 “Secrets Secrets,” DalArts, Kansas City, MO
2007 “Hide & Seek,” 8th Annual Avenue of the Arts, Central Avenue, Kansas City, MO
2007 “Here and Now: Kansas City Regional Prints,” Michael Gross Gallery, KC, MO
2006 “30 Plus,” Invitational Exhibit, KCAC Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006 “Duets,” UMKC Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2002 “Group Show,” Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2000 “Figurative Work.” Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL
1997 “Group Exhibition,” Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 “Group Exhibition,” Gallery A, Chicago, IL
1990 Mary Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Mary Bell Gallery, Scottsdale, AR
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
American Century Investors, Kansas City, MO
Sprint Corporation, Overland Park, KS
Chicago Title and Trust, Chicago, IL
Talman Savings and Loan, Chicago, IL
Bank of Japan, Chicago, IL
Julian J. Studley INC, Des Plaines, IL
Fischel and Kahn Limited, Chicago, IL
Bank of Florida, Miami, FL
Keystone Aniline Corp., Chicago, IL
Caterpillar INC, Peoria, IL
First America Bank, Springfield, IL
Maskatiya Suri Co., San Jose, CA
Alfred Benesch & Co., Chicago, IL
American Presidents Companies, Sacramento, CA
Ayres-Steinmetz LTD, Chicago, IL
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Chicago, IL
Degenkolb Co., San Francisco, CA
C.M.D. INC, Chicago, IL
Zurich Insurance, Schaumburg, IL
Lakeshore LTD, Skokie, IL
Midwest Indemnity, Chicago, IL
WMI Monitoring Labs, Geneva, IL
marchFirst, Chicago, IL
Lincoln Office Environments, Peoria, IL
Visual Effects Optical, Chicago, IL
Elek-Tek, Chicago, IL
Synectics INC, Chicago, IL
Cirrus Services INC, Westchester, IL
Advanced Systems Applications, Bloomingdale, IL
B.B.D.O. Advertising, Chicago, IL
R.G. Ray Corporation, Chicago, IL
Western Illinois University, Macomb, IL
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Highland Community College, Highland, KS
Lincoln College, Lincoln, IL
Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, IL
Numerous Private Collections
RECENT AWARDS
2010 Nominated for Charlotte Street Award
2009 Inspiration Grant, awarded by ArtsKC Fund, The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City
2009 Nominated for Charlotte Street Award
2008 M.A.P. Grant, awarded by Kansas City Artists Coalition
2008 Selected for Art through Architecture program, Kansas City, MO
2007 Avenue of the Arts Foundation Grant
2007 Creative Capital Development Workshop and Retreat Grant
SELECTED PRESS
2010 Brisendine, Steve “Hiding in Plain Sight: Larry Thomas,” ARTKC365, February 2010
2010 Weant, Nancy “Beyond the Camouflage,” Review Magazine, February 2010
2010 Malewski, Nick “Art goes under cover in ‘Ploys and Decoys’,” Kansas City Star, February 2010
2009 Tracy Albein, editor, “Avenue of the Arts: Celebrating Ten Years,” published by Review Magazine, 2009
2009 Thorson, Alice “Avenue of the Arts Expands,” Kansas City Star, May 2009
2008 Stephen Main “Live-Work,” Art in America, October 2008
2007 Thorson, Alice “Bird Watching?,” The Kansas City Star, June 2007
2007 Bembnister, Theresa “Slipping into Art,” The Kansas City Star (reproduction), June 2007
2007 Cain, Marcus “Avenue of the Arts Project Takes Shape,” (cover reproduction) Review, April 2007
2007 Graham, Peggy “Double Take,” (cover reproduction) This Month, April 2007
2007 Schubert, Alex “Hands On, Hands Off,” The Kansas City Star, (reproduction), January 15, 2007
2006 Simpson, Janet “Art to Rock Your World,” KC Magazine, (reproductions)January 15, 2006
EDUCATION
M.F.A., University of Iowa
M.A., University of Iowa
B.F.A., Missouri State University
