Colleen Blackard
Lives and works in Austin, TX
EDUCATION
2022- MFA Studio Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX (Anticipated Graduation Date: 2024)
2020 Painting Marathon with Fran O’Neill, New York Studio School, NYC
2009 BA Studio Arts, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
HONORS AND AWARDS/ GRANTS
2021 Top 5 Shows in Texas, Glasstire | Texas Visual Art News and Reviews, April 2021
2017 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, August 2017
2011 Top 150 NYC entries, Curate NYC, exhibition at Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NY, December 2011
2011 1st place, Greenpoint Gallery Annual Drawing Salon Show, December 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
The Abandoned Series: Returning, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
2016
ACA Galleries Benefit Event, Chelsea, NY
2012
Shifting Perceptions, Orchard Windows Gallery, Lower East Side, NY
Fading Memories; Emerging Spirit, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009
For the Universe, Hampshire College Main Gallery, MA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Calico, Brooklyn, NY
Foltz Fine Art, Houston, TX
SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY
Women & Their Work, Red Dot Art Spree, Austin, TX
Mönchskirche Gallery, Salzwedel, Germany
2022
Calico, Brooklyn, NY
Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Davis Gallery, Austin, TX
2021
Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC
Kean University, Union, NJ
Glade Gallery, The Woodlands, TX
2020
Calicornucopia 9, Calico, Brooklyn, NY
AHA Gallery, Queens, NY
2019
Calicornucopia 8, Calico, Brooklyn, NY
Myeongdong International Art Festival, Seoul, KR
Mrs. Gallery, Hampshire College Benefit, NYC
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, Bortolami, NYC
2018
Calicornucopia 7, Calico Brooklyn, Greenpoint, NY
Your Presence is Requested, Arcilesi Homberg Fine Art at SFA Projects, Lower East Side, NY
2017
Vitamin C, Abrons Art Center, Lower East Side, NY
Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, Chelsea, NY
ACA Galleries Event, Chelsea, NY
2016
Sla307 Non-Profit Art Space, New York, NY
Columbia University, New York, NY
BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY
Owen James Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Protégé, New York, NY
ISSO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY
2014
Van Der Plas Gallery, New York, NY
BFP Creative, Brooklyn, NY
Conception Gallery, New York, NY
Fridge Art Fair, NYC
ISSO Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Six Summit Gallery, CT
Curate NYC at Gallery Brooklyn, NY
HOUSE Gallery, London, UK
Fountain Art Fair, Lexington Ave. Armory, NYC
RH Gallery, NY
2012
Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, Moscow, Russia
GLAAD Art Auction, Chelsea, NY
Slow Art Day Room at 4Heads Governor’s Island Art Fair, NY
Art Takes Times Square, Times Square, NY
It’s a Small, Small World, Family Business, Chelsea, NY
Dino Eli Gallery, Lower East Side, NYC
2011
Rush Arts Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
GLAAD OUTAuction, Metropolitan Pavilion, NY
Greenpoint Gallery Winners Circle Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
The Grady Alexis Gallery, New York, NY
Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
2010
Orchard Windows Gallery, Lower East Side, NY
320 Studios, New York, NY
2009
Valley Hands, Northampton, MA
Northampton Center for the Arts, MA
Hampshire College Main Gallery, MA
2008
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
Real Gallery, Austin, TX
2007
Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst, MA
Hampshire College Main Gallery, MA
PUBLICATIONS
2021
Artspace Editors, Colleen Blackard – ‘From an early age I found it easier to communicate with gestures and pictures than with words’, Artspace.
Glasstire,Top Five: April 1, 2021, Glasstire.
Alan V. Keane, The Source, Ireland, Alan Keane Art. Print.
Ashleigh S. Wilkerson, Art on Call with Colleen Blackard, MOST Influential Art Magazine: 30. Print.
2018
Claire Selvin, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Names 2017–18 Grantees, ARTnews.
2017
Austin R. Williams, New & Notable: Colleen Blackard, Drawing Magazine: 80. Print.
Austin R. Williams, Why Colleen Blackard is an Artist to Watch, Artists Network.
Julia Moak, Thursday Spotlight: Colleen Blackard Travels At Lightspeed Into Infinity with Ballpoint Pen, Greenpointers.com.
2016
Stephanie Theodore, See My Friends: Owen James Gallery, Two Coats of Paint.
2015
Audrey Irving, Colleen Blackard Q&A, Pierogi Gallery.
Art Exhibit That Celebrates Female Artists for Women’s History Month Opens in LIC, NY1 News, New York, NY.
Jamie Martinez, Paper Trails at Van Der Plas Gallery, ArteFuse.
2014
Brooklyn, Hotel no Madokora, BS NTV. BS4, Tokyo. Television.
2013
Six Summit Small Salon event during Ivoryton Illuminations, Shoreline Times, New Haven, CT.
2012
Oscar Laluyan, Colleen Blackard Changes How We Perceive Art, ArteFuse.com.
Alison Pierz, Fairly Slow Art on Governors Island, New York, SlowArtDay.com.
RESIDENCIES
2023 Atelierhaus Hilmsen, Wallstawe, Germany
2021 PLAYA Artist Residency, Summer Lake, OR
2021 Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2019 Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2013 Women Printmakers of Austin Keyholder Residency, Austin, TX
2010 BetterArt Artist Residency, Better Farm, Redwood, NY
LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS
2023 Fresh from the Studio, Hosted by Women & Their Work, Austin, TX
2021 Jentel Presents, Hosted by Sage Gallery, Sheridan, WY
2020 The Artist’s Well, Hosted by Alan Keane, Dublin, Ireland
2017 Jersey City Art and Studio Tour, 660 Studios, Jersey City, NJ
COLLECTIONS
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, Moscow, Russia
Amherst College, MA
REPRESENTATION
2020 Flat Files, SFA Projects, New York, NY
2015 Gallery representation, Aberson Exhibits, Tulsa, OK
2013 Flat Files, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY