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Selected Exhibitions:

The Elusive Landscape, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, New York. Group show with Dan Gualdoni, Alex Hirsch, Babs Kletter, Janiki Lennie, and John Sabraw. (2005)

Holiday Show 2004, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Group show of gallery artists. (2004)

Ohio Art League Fall Juried Show, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Juror: Elizabeth Thomas, Assistant Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (2004)

Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, Ohio. Juror: Ingrid Schaffner, Senior Curator, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (2004)

Springtime 2004, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Group show with Timothy Buckwalter, Christopher Herren, Rory Krupp, and Liam O'Brien. (2004)

Fresh Faces, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Group show with Daina Higgins, Rory Krupp, and Daniel Mirer. (2003)

It Might as Well Be Spring, Jefferson Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Two-artist show with Rory Krupp. (2003)

I Keep Wishing I Were Somewhere Else, Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio. Solo show, curated by Margaret Newell. (2003)

Ellen Bazzoli, Laura Bidwa, and Jennifer Dailey, Art Access, Columbus, Ohio. (2002)

Rose I: Dresdner Sezession 89 und Gäste, Galerie Drei, Dresden, Germany. Invitational exhibition with painting, sculpture, and performance. (2001)

The Object Considered: Contemporary Still Life in Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana, originated by the Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio; subsequently traveling to The Southern Ohio Museum in Portsmouth, Ohio, and the South Bend Regional Museum of Art in South Bend, Indiana. (2000–2001)

Ohio Art League Fall Juried Show, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Juror: David Reed, painter, Los Angeles and New York. (2000)

Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show, Roy G. Biv Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Juror: Joel Leib, owner, Ten in One Gallery, New York. (2000)

If You, Ohio Art League, Columbus, Ohio. Solo show, curated by Angie Yan Yeuk To. (1999)

Dresden - Columbus Artistic Partnerships 1994 - 1999, Upper Arlington Municipal Building Concourse Gallery, Upper Arlington, Ohio. (1999)

Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Juror: Klaus Kertess, freelance curator and critic, New York. (1998)

Time, Place, Moment, Spirit, Denison University, Granville, Ohio. Three-artist show with M. Gary Marcinowski and Eve Thomson. (1998)

Splitting Pictures, collaborative book project among 30 different American and European artists. The book’s pages are gummed and perforated like postage stamps. Each artist made a prototype of one page, then Mary Jo Bole and Lambertus van Boekel did color separations, stencil printed and perforated the pages, and bound the books at Knust Press in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Edition of 300, sold in Europe and the United States. (1997)

Minimalism, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio. Work included with sculptures by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Jackie Winsor, Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, and Mona Hatoum. (1997)

October Exhibition, re:Art Gallery, Columbus, Ohio. Two-artist show with William Teschner-Breitbart. (1995)

Current Artists, Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh, North Carolina. (1994)

Box of Views, City Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (solo show). (1993)

Laura Bidwa, Gibraltar Gallery, Charleston, South Carolina (solo show). (1991)

Upstairs, Runcible Spoon Cafe, Bloomington, Indiana (solo show). (1989)

 

Education

M.F.A. Painting and Drawing, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, 1996

B.F.A. Painting, Minor: Art History, B.A. Journalism, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1990

Summer semester in Florence, Italy (Drawing, Italian language, Italian Renaissance history), 1987

 

Residencies and Awards

Weir Farm National Historic Site, Wilton, Connecticut (June 2003)

Tryon Farm, Michigan City, Indiana (September 2002)

Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont (June 2001)

Professional Development Assistance Award, Ohio Arts Council (2001)

Ohio Art League Associates Award for “These are subwords, these are air” in the Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show (2000)

Mary Lou Chess Memorial Award for “Utility” in the Ohio Art League Spring Juried Show (1998)

Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship; selected from among 95 applicants by a panel of artists and curators from outside the Columbus area to receive a $5,000 fellowship (1998)

Greater Columbus Arts Council Artists Exchange Residency in Dresden, Germany; studio, apartment, and stipend provided in Dresden for three months (1998)

Bevlyn and Theodore Simson Purchase Award for “Pneuma;” work chosen from the Columbus Art League’s Spring Juried Show by the Columbus Museum of Art’s Curator of Twentieth Century and Contemporary Art to become a part of the museum’s permanent collection (1996)

Edith Fergus Gilmore Materials Grant; money granted through a competitive process to fund significant artistic projects at Ohio State University (1995)

B.F.A. Senior Achievement Scholarship for final semester of study at Indiana University (1990)

Honors Division Independent Study Grant to pursue summer studies in Florence, Italy, from Indiana University. (1987)

 

Biography

1968 Born in Long Beach, California

1985–90 Student at Indiana University; received BFA in Painting, BA in Journalism, and minor in Art History

1990–94 Lived and worked in Charleston, South Carolina and Raleigh, North Carolina

1994–96 Student at Ohio State University; received MFA in Painting and Drawing

1998 Greater Columbus Arts Council Residency in Dresden, Germany

since 1994 Living and working in Columbus, Ohio