MERNET LARSEN
RESUME SUMMARY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

-Regina Rex Gallery (2 person show) , Bushwick, NY  (2011)
-Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA  (2011)
-Mindy Solomon Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL, 2010
- Morean Arts Center,St. Petersburg, FL, ten year retrospective (2010)
-Tampa Museum of Art (lobby show) (2008)
-New York Studio School Gallery (2005)
-Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota FL (1994 and 1997)
-Eastern Illinois University Gallery, Charleston, IL (1997)
-DeLand Museum of Art, FL (retrospective, 1992)
(16 others, including university galleries at Montana State/Bozeman, University of Florida, Univ. of Central FL, Univ. of South FL)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

"The Fitting Room" (3 person show), Vogt Gallery, NYC, (2011)
"Memory of a Hope", Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2011)               "Decameron", New York Studio School Gallery (2010)
"Fringe", Tampa Museum of Art (2010)
Selections from Permanant Collection, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Arts, (2010)
ArtHamptons International Fine Arts Fair, Long Island, NY (Mindy Solomon Gallery) (2010)
"Dragon Veins", USF Contemporary Art Museum (also co-curated) (2006)
“Transitory Patterns”, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (2004)
“Tradition and Innovation in Later 20th Century Art” St. Petersburg (FL) Art Museum (2001)
“Florida Biennial” Ringling Museum of Art, FL (2000)
“41st Annual Purchase Exhibition“ American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC (1989)
“Made In Florida” with venues in Hasselt, Belgium; Barcelona, Spain; Marseille, France and several Florida museums. (1989-92)
-over 70 other group shows

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
-Ringling Museum of Art
-Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
-Tampa Museum of Art
-Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida
-Neiman Marcus

SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
-"Best of the Bay" in Painting, Creative Loafing Magazine, Tampa,  2010 and 2003
-Anonymous Was A Woman nominee, 2008
-Tiffany Award nominee, 2007
- SAF/NEA Artist Grant
-3 USF Research Grants ( research for paintings: travel in Japan, China, and India)
- Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
- MacDowell Fellowship
- the University of South Florida Distinguished Teacher Award

SELECTED LECTURES ON WORK
Morean Art Center, St. Petersburg, FL 2010
Tampa Museum of Art, 2010
Maryland Institute College of Art/Mt. Royal, Baltimore 2007
CAA National Conference, New York City, "Meanings and Functions of Narrative" 2007
CAA National Conference, Seattle WA, "5 East Asian Provocations” (panel on influence of traditional Asian art on contemporary painting) 2004
New York Studio School Lecture Series, NYC (2002)
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH (2002)
Eastern Illinois Univ. (1997)
Ringling School of Art (1993)
Nanjing Normal University, China (1991)
( earlier: Yale School of Art, Montana State, University of Wisconsin/EauClair, and others)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, CURATED SHOWS AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS

-Panel discussion, "The Fitting Room" , Vogt Gallery, (2011)
-Curated DARK POETS, Maryland Inst. College of Art, Baltimore (2008)
-Co-curated DRAGON VEINS, USF Contemporary Art Museum (2006)
-Panel Chair: "Retrofitting: Traditional East Asian Art in Contemporary Painting Practice" CAA, Annual Conference Seattle , WA 2004
-Catalog essay- Jose Marin Memorial Exhibition (2004)
-Panel Member - Art of the Last Millennium, Naples Museum, Naples, FL (2000)
-Panel: “The Return of the Real” with Hal Foster, USF Contemporary Art Museum (1998)
-“Visual Voices: The Female" National Juried Exhibition, Pensacola, Florida; Juried and wrote catalog essay
-Phi Kappa Phi, University of South Florida, Induction Address (1992))
-"Tampa/Nanjing Print Exchange Exhibition" . Wrote Catalog Essay (1991)
-University of South Florida, Tampa, Commencement Address (1985)

 RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

-Geha, Katie  "Top 10, 2011" (#3 Mernet Larsen and Jonathan Butt at Regina Rex)  GLASSTIRE,  Dec., 2011

-Cohen, David, “The Fitting Room”, catalog essay, Vogt Gallery, NY,NY 2011          

-Feaster, Filicia, review of  Mernet Larsen solo show at Marcia Wood -Art Papers- May/June  2011-

-Pick of the Week, Mernet Larsen at Regina Rex, ArtCritical.com  March NY,2011     

-Top Pick Jonathan Butt and Mernet Larsen at Regina Rex ArtCat.com NY, 2011

-Cullum, Jerry “Frances Barth, Mernet Larsen Play Spatial Tricks at Marcia Wood Gallery    ArtCriticATL, March 18, 2011

-Bennett, Lennie  “All the Corners of Her World: Inside the Singular Mind of         Painter Mernet Larsen: St Petersburg Times, May 2, 2010           

- Best Painter: Tampa Bay Creative Loafing, Tampa Bay  2010 and 2003 

- Wei, Lili Dragon Veins catalog essay 2006     

-Naves, Mario Mernet Larsen’s Tilting Panoramas: Methodical and Inspired Work:  The New York Observer, January 31, 2005

- Schwartz, Joyce Transitory Patterns  catalog essay, National Museum of Women in the Arts  2004

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
1967 to present-University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (currently Professor Emeritus)
1996- USF Paris Program - Summer
1975, 76 & 1983-Initiated and taught the University of South Florida's New York City Spring Term
1978-Yale/Norfolk Summer School, Norfolk, Connecticut
1977-Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, Visiting Artist, winter quarter
1976-Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, Visiting Assistant Professor - fall semester

EDUCATION
BFA University of Florida 1962
MFA Indiana University 1965
Summer sessions at San Francisco Art Institute and Art Students League, NYC

Gallery Representation:

www.vogtgallery.com