ELIZABETH COYNE
3231 Yankee Street
Niles, Michigan 49120
(269)-663-8338
http://www.elizabethcoyne.com
liz4art@earthlink.net
Born 1959 in Duluth, Minnesota
EDUCATION
M.F.A.,
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester,New York, 1986
B.A., Purdue University, West Lafayette,
Indiana, 1981
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1980
ACADEME
Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan
Instructor:
Printmaking, 2D-Design, and Drawing 1997 - 2003
Lake Michigan College,
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Instructor:
Drawing, 2D-Design, Art Appreciation 1993 - 1997
Williams College,
Williamstown Massachusetts:
Studio
Artist: Printmaking, Painting & Drawing 1987-1992
Instructor:
Winter Study,1992: hand papermaking seminar
City of Rochester, New York:
Summer Art Program Director,
1983
PROFESSIONAL
MEMBERSHIP AND SERVICE
Elizabeth Coyne Contemporary Art, Sawyer, Michigan, 2008 – present
Grand Contemporary, Lafayette, Louisiana, 2006-present
Blue Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan, 2006-2008
Ogilvie / Pertl Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, 2006-2007
ARC Gallery, 1040
W. Huron, Chicago, Illinois, 1993 - 2003
Treasurer,
1993-1994
CAA - College Art Association, 1984 - present
Rice Gallery,
Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, 1989-1991
The Albany Center Galleries, Albany, New York 1990-1992
Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Troy, New York, 1988-1992
Pyramid Arts Center,
Rochester, New York, 1984-1988
Frederick Merritt Gallery, Rochester, New York, 1984-1986
AWARDS
Allegretti Associates
Award, All Michigan/All Media
Exhibition,
Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, Michigan 1994
Memorial Art Gallery Award (best of show): Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition,
Memorial Art
Gallery, Rochester, New York 1984
Graduate Assistantship:
Rochester Institute of Technology, 1983, 1984
Delta Phi Delta Scholarship (creative arts): Purdue University, 1980,1981
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
2009 The New
Galleries, South Bend, Indiana
2009 Andrews
University, Berrien Springs, Michigan
2007 Blue
Gallery, Three Oaks, Michigan
2003 A.R.C. Gallery, Thin Skin, Chicago, Illinois
2001 A.R.C. Gallery, Map of Me, Chicago, Illinois
1999 A.R.C. Gallery, Dainty Monsters, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Krasl Art Center, Inventing Memory, St.
Joseph, Michigan
1998 Andrews
University Art Gallery, Six and a Half
Years, Berrien Springs, Michigan
1995 A.R.C. Gallery, No Other Voice Left,
Chicago, Illinois
1994 A.R.C. Gallery, Into the Spaces We
Breathe, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Southern
Vermont College Art Gallery, Bennington,
Vermont
1991 The Albany Center Galleries, Orange
Street Gallery, Albany, New York
1990 Valley Artisians
Market, Cambridge, New York
1990 Rensselaer County Council for the Arts,
Troy, New York
1989 Ars Nova Gallery,
Northern Berkshire Council of the Arts , North Adams,
Massachusetts
Southern
Vermont College Art Gallery, Bennington,
Vermont
1988 Goodrich Gallery, Williams College,
Williamstown, Massachusetts
Cultural Center, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute, Troy, New York
1986 Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, New York
1980 Gallery II, Sculpture Installation, Purdue University, West
Lafayette, Indiana
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2008 Grand
Contemporary, Gallery Artists,
Lafayette, Louisiana
2007 Ogilvie / Pertl Gallery, Gallery Artists, Chicago, Illinois
2007 Grand
Contemporary, Gallery Artists, Lafayette,
Louisiana
2003 ARC Gallery 30th Anniversery
Exhibition, ARC Gallery, Chicaago, Illinois
2002 Gallery 10, ARC Exchange, Washington D.C., April
2001 Kunstforum der GEDOK,
Who knows what its good for, Exhibition Exchange
Hamburg,
Germany, October
Gallery R, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, July – Sept.
Central Michigan
University Art Gallery, Mount Pleasant,
Michigan, May - July
Red Head Gallery, ARC Exchange
, Toronto, Canada, April
Amos Eno Gallery,
ARC Exchange, New York, New York, March
A.R.C. Gallery, Member Exhibition,
Chicago, Illinois
2000 A.R.C. Gallery, Member Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Midwest Museum
of American Art, 22nd Midwest Regional, Elkhart,
Indiana
Southwestern Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Dowagiac, Michigan
1999 A.R.C. Gallery, Member Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Southwestern Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Dowagiac, Michigan
1998 A.R.C. Gallery, ARC Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition 1973
– 1998, Chicago, IL
Southwestern Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Dowagiac, Michigan
Lake Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1997 Krasl Art Center Affiliate Gallery, Women Printmakers of Southwest
Michigan
Benton Harbor,
Michigan
A.R.C. Gallery, Members Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Lake Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1996 Lake Michigan College, Faculty Exhibition, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1995 Art Center of Battle Creek, 17th Annual Michigan Artists Competition
Battle
Creek, Michigan
The Mercer Gallery, Markings: A Drawing
Invitation, Rochester, New York
A.R.C. Gallery, Members Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Lake Michigan College, Faculty
Exhibition, Benton Harbor, Michigan
1994 Krasl Art Center, All Michigan/All Media, St. Joseph, Michigan
A.R.C. Gallery, Members Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois
Midwest Museum of American Art, 16th
Midwest Regional, Elkhart, Indiana
1993 Amos Eno Gallery, ARC Exchange, New York,
New York
Gallery 218, The Gang of 40: 40 Works by
40 Women, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Krasl Art Center, All Michigan/All Media, St. Joseph, Michigan
Kalamazoo Institute of the Arts, Faculty
Exhibition, Kalamazoo, Michigan
A.R.C. Gallery,
ARC Gallery 20th Anniversary Exhibition 1973 - 1993,
Chicago,
Illinois
Patricia
Scott Memorial Gallery, ARC in Ohio,
Stevenson Center Gallery
Ohio
University-Chillicothe, Chillicothe, Ohio
1991 University
Art Gallery, Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region Exhibition:
State
University of New York,
Albany, New York
1989 Chautauqua Art Association Galleries,
32nd Annual Chautauqua National Exhibition of American
Art,
Chautauqua,
New York
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mid-Hudson Arts Center, Hudson Valley
89, Fifth Annual National Exhibit
Poughkeepsie,
New York
The Albany Center Galleries,
Crossroads,
An exhibition sponsored by the New York Capital Area
Womens Caucus for Art, Albany, New York
Schenectady
Museum, Mohawk-Hudson Regional Art
Exhibition, Schenectady, NY
1988 Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Landscape Competition,
Troy,
New York
1987 Rice Gallery,
Albany Institute of History and Art,
Interplay,
Albany, New York
1986 Memorial Art Gallery, Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, New York
Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History
and Art, Painted Surfaces,
Albany, New York
Germanow Gallery, Current Visions II, Rochester, New York
1984 Memorial Art Gallery, Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester, New York
Frederick Merritt Gallery, Celebration
of our Gallery Artists, Rochester, New York
Little Theatre - Pyramid Arts Center,
Drawing Exhibition, Rochester, New York
Memorial Art Gallery,
Prints/Drawings/Photographs, Rochester, New York
COLLECTIONS
Barbara Turf, CEO
Crate & Barrel, Northbrook, IL
David Vitale, Treasurer and Trustee,
Art Institute of Chicago
Christine Miles, Director, Albany Institute of History & Art Albany,
New York
Jeffrey J. McCarthy, Skidmore, Owens
and Merrill, Chicago, IL
C. Jane Quinn, Vice President,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago, Illinois
Harry Ferris, Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre Executive Director
Ogletree and Deakins,
Indianapolis, Indiana
Marguerite Tompkins and Michael Mensik, Attorneys, Chicago, IL
Paula and Alan
Gross, Chicago, IL
Dorothea Palenberg,
Blue European Environmenta Managment
Ann Krsul, Krsul Viederman Architects PLLC,
New York, NY
Leslie Sullivan, Bridgeman,
MI
Scott and Julie Moller,
Marketing Werks, Chicago, IL
Dr. Donald H.J. Hermann, Professor of
Law and Philosophy, DePaul University
John Junnot, Chicago, IL
Rick and Linda Strusiner, Rick Strusiner Associates Architects, Northbrook, IL
Southern
Vermont College
Charles Baldwin, Indianapolis, IN
Jeffrey and Susan Picklin, Glencoe, IL
Brandon Nelson, Ipso Facto, Three
Oaks. MI
Jim Toler, Springdale, Three Oaks, Michigan
Amelia Hochberg, Rubbish Designs, Three Oaks, Michigan
Dr. Michael Stanisic,
Professor, University of Notre Dame
Michael and Nada Karas,
Lucrezia Cafe, Chesterton, IN
Greg Winterhalter,
Southern Vermont College, Bennington, VT
Victoria Burneikis, French
Twist, Three Oaks, MI
Seth Jacobs and Martha Johnson, Slack Hollow Farms, Argyle, NY
Karen Monaldi,
LPGA Golf Pro, Valparaiso, IN
Beth and Kevin Young, WSBT, South
Bend, IN
Katie Bowen, Saratoga Springs, New
York
Coleman
and Maraget Kent, St. Petersburg, Florida
Joseph
Nitzke and Judy Mills, Albany, New York
Mimi
Doi, Rochester, New York
Bobby Moore,
Rochester, New York
Patrick
Crowley, Rochester, New York
Stephanie
Canazaries, New York, New York
Matthew
Chinian, Cambridge, New York
Peter
Rockwell Kent, Cambridge, New York
Bill
and Sally Eubank, Munster, Indiana
and many other private
collectors
INVITED LECTURES
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Ox-Bow Visiting Artist, Saugatuck,
Michigan, 2002
Andrews University,
Berrien Springs, Michigan,
November, 1998
Southern Vermont College, Bennington, Vermont
Celebration
of Womens History Month, March,
1992
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lake
Magazine, December 2008-January 2009: "Hot List" by Lucinda Hahn,
Derek Smith, Megan Waitkoff
(check out #12 on the list)
Strange
Closets, December 23, 2008: "This Week at Elizabeth Coyne Gallery"
Alan Artner,
"Spare Interiors", Chicago Tribune, September 2, 2002
Margaret McCurry, "Lakeside
Attractions", Architectural Digest, June 2003 (text by Susan Sheehann/photography by Alec Marshall)
Sharon
Dettmer, “A gallery of her own”,
South Bend Tribune, Aug 7, 2008
Kim Ridgeway, Collective
consciousness,
South Bend Tribune, South Bend, Indiana,
10 November 1998
Roger Green, Smaller show
provides proof of area talent,
Kalamazoo Gazette, Kalamazoo, Michigan,
1995
Fred Camper, Waiting for the End
of Time,
The Reader, Chicago, Illinois, 29 April
1994
Mark Moffet,
The Weakness In Us,
Metroland,
Albany, New York, 25 July 1991
Mark Moffet,
Primitive and Proper,
Metroland,
Albany, New York, 18 January 1990
Peg Churchill Wright, Brush Marks,
The
Daily Gazette, Schenectady, New York, 18
January 1990
Coyne Exhibit Introduces a New
Dimension in Art,
Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont, February 1990
Anne Simko,
Coyne lets art have own life,
The Post Star, Glens Falls, New York,
February 1990
SVC Gallery shows local artist,
Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont,
13 July 1989
Coyne Featured Artist in
February Exhibit,
Bennington Banner, Bennington, Vermont,
22 February 1989
Rosemary Jette,
Coynes use of carved frames heightens impact,
The Transcript, North Adams,
Massachusetts, 17 March 1989Selma Sabin, The Artscene,
The Advocate, Williamstown,
Massachusetts, 1 March 1989
Ron Netsky,
The Barrens Bears Fruit For Local Artist,
Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, New
York, 30 April 1984
CATALOGS
Who knows what its good for, Exhibition
Exchange between artists from Kunstforum der
Hamburg, and ARC Gallery Chicago, 2001
Markings
- A Drawing Invitational, Mercer Gallery,
Rochester, New York, 1995
ARC
20th Anniversary Catalog, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago,
Illinois, 1993
1991 Artist of the Mohawk
Regional Exhibition, University Art
Gallery,
State University
of New York, Albany, New York
32nd Annual Chautauqua National
Exhibition of American Art,
Chautauqua Art
Association Galleries , Chautauqua, New York, 1989
Hudson Valley 1989 - 5th Annual
Exhibition,
Mid-Hudson Arts
Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Crossroads- An Exhibition of New
York Capital Area Womens Artists,
The Albany
Center Galleries, Albany, New York, 1989
Painted Surfaces, Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History
and Art,
Albany New York, 1986
Rochester Finger Lakes
Exhibition,
Memorial Art
Gallery, Rochester, New York, 1984
SEMINARS/CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
A Cognitive
Approach to Contemporary Painting, Squeak Carnwath and Timothy Berry,
Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado, 2003
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Ox-Bow Visiting Artist, Saugatuck,
Michigan 2002
Color Woodcut Printing, Karen Kunc, Anderson Ranch Arts Center,
Snowmass Village, Colorado, 2002
Book as Image, Center for Book and
Paper Arts, Columbia
College,
Chicago, Illinois, 2002
Flax Intensive
Workshop: Carriage House Paper,
Brooklyn, New York, 2000
Papermaking Seminar:
Twinrocker Papermill,
Brookston, Indiana, 1981
Excavation of Tel Beta: Israel: Hebrew University, July 1978
European Cultural History Program: Purdue and Eastern Michigan Universities, 1978
