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education| MFA 2004 The University of Texas at Austin |
| BFA 1997 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2010 | SIM, Residency, Association for Icelandic Visual Artists, Reykjavik, Iceland |
| 2008 |
Jentel Foundation Resident, Banner, Wyoming Ragdale Foundation, Artist in Residence, Lake Forest, Illinois |
| 2007 |
Resident, Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts, Miramonte, California |
| 2005 |
Residency Fellow, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont Artist Residency, Chateau de La Napoule, La Napoule, France |
| 1999 |
Minnesota Center for the Book Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1996 | Study Abroad, Paris, France |
| 2006 - present | Assistant Professor, School of Art, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illionois |
| 2008 |
Juror, North Park University Scholarship Show at the Carlson Gallery, North Park University |
| 2007 - 2010 |
Visiting Artist, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2010, 2005 |
Visiting Artist, School of Art and Design at Alfred University, Alfred, New York |
| 2004 - 2006 |
Adjunct Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2004 |
Studio Assistant to Michael Ray Charles, Austin, Texas Arthouse at the Jones Center, Teen Workshop Instructor |
| 2002 | Assistant in Honey Flare, mural with Aaron Parazette |
| 2001 - 2004 |
Teaching Assistant, The University of Texas at Austin |
| 2003 |
Teaching Assistant, Italart Center, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy |
| 2000 |
Archival Intern, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1998 - 2000 |
Art Instructor, Loring-Nicolette Alternative School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Drawing I, Life Drawing, (Instructor of Record) |
| 1996 - 1997 |
Painting Department Shop Assistant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 2011 |
Malin Kong, Megumi Ogita Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Island, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan SOLO Exhibition, Skew Gallery, Calgary, AB, Canada 6th Alexander Rutsch Award Exhibition (SOLO), Pelham Art Center, Pelham, New York The Ambiguous Object, Cantanker Magazine Exhibition, Pump Project Space, Austin, Texas, Curated by Cook & Ruud InVisible: Hiding in Plain Sight, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois, Curated by NIU Drawing Faculty Karen Brown |
| 2010 |
20 x 20 x 20, LSU Union Art Gallery, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Suwheelism, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois Perceiving Place, Fosdick Nelson Gallery, Alfred University, Alfred, New York Ah-Wilderness, ebersmoore, Chicago, Illinois Majestic!, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago Illinois (SOLO) Art Chicago, with Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Texas National, Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas, Juror: Judy Pfaff |
| 2009 |
StArt, Tinlark Gallery, Los Angeles, California AbstWACKtion!, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, Illionis. Curated by Frank Trankina Gimme Baby Robots, traveling exhibition curated by Michael T. Rea, Seattle, Los Angeles and Chicago |
| 2008 |
Art Chicago, with Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Somewhere, Elsewhere, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Prospect, Creative Research Lab, Austin, Texas, Juror: Jade Walker, Director, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas Bitchin., Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois, curator ArtChicago, with Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Of, On, And About Paper, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California, Jurors: Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett, Editors. Art on Paper magazine Built and Grown, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2007 |
Faculty Biennial, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, Illinois Cool Sticky, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois, in conjunction with Sabina Ott, Light Blue and the Same Red Makes a Change, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, Illinois Zg Summer Show, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, Curators: Meg Sheehy and Myra Casis, Co-owners, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 50th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua, New York, Jurors: Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olijnyk, Directors, Mattress Factory Art Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania House and Garden, a collaboration with Michelle Wasson, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, Illinois Paimiatki, Akademia Sztuk Piknych w Katowicach, Katowice, Poland Biennial 24, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana, (Merit Award) Jurors: Meg Sheehy and Myra Casis, Co-owners, Zg Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2006 |
School of Art Faculty Biennial, Jack Olson Gallery, Northern Illinois University Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Jupiter Hotel, Portland Curator: Arturo Palacios, Director, Art Palace Austin, Texas Red Hot, Red Dot, Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas Wild and Bushy, Volitant Gallery, Austin, Texas Curator: Hana Hillerova Luck of the Draw, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas Curator: Diane Barber, Visual Arts Director, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas Seismic Shift, Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago, Illinois On the Horizon: Nina Rizzo & Stephanie Wagner, Art Palace Gallery, Austin, Texas |
| 2005 |
Casket Factory .05, at The Dallas Coffin Co., Dallas, Texas, with Art Palace Gallery, Austin, Texas New Texas Painting, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas Curator: Diane Barber, Visual Arts Director, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas Affair at the Jupiter Hotel, Jupiter Hotel, Portland,Oregon, Curator: Arturo Palacios, Director, Art Palace, Austin, Texas Texas Biennial, Dougherty Arts Center (venue), Juried Show, Juror.s Choice Award, (catalogue) Sisters Show, Fresh Up Club, Austin, Texas, Curators: David Bryant and Peat Duggins, Directors Fresh Up Club, Austin, Texas |
| 2004 |
Cha Cha Cha, Wormhole Gallery, Miami, Florida, Curator: Pepe Mar, Wormhole Gallery, Miami, Florida Stray Show, Chicago, Illinois, Fresh Up Club, Austin, Texas, Curator: David Bryant, Co-Director, Fresh Up Club, Austin, Texas 22nd Annual National Small Works Competition, Schoharie County Arts Council Gallery, Cobleskill, New York, Juror: Katharina Rich Perlow, Director, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2003 |
Austin Powers, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston Texas, Curator: Sally Sprout, Houston, Texas Seven From Austin; Recent Post Pluralist Painting, Landmark Arts Center, Lubbock, Texas, Curator: Elizabeth Joblin, Director, Gallery 107, Austin, Texas Superstring, Creative Research Laboratory, Austin, Texas Italart Center Show, Italart Center at Santa Chiara, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy |
| 2002 |
New American Talent 17, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas, Juror: Kathryn Kanjo, Executive Director, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (catalogue) Jacket, Creative Research Lab, Austin, Texas, Curators: Merchant Adams, Atteqa Ali, Lynn Boland, M.A. Candidates, Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin The Unrestrained Creativity, Art and Charity, Finesilver Building, San Antonio, Texas, Curator: David Freeman, Editor In Chief, Voices of Art |
| 2011 |
Verfhond Colophon, "A Thousand Living Painter - Disclosing Contemporary Painterly Painting", http://a1000livingpainters.wordpress.com/2010/10/18/nina-rizzo/, Amsterdam, Holland Cook & Ruud, "The Ambiguous Object", Cantanker Magazine, 3rd Edition, January 2011 |
| 2010 |
Chris Smith, Majestic! at Linda Warren Gallery, Chicago Art Magazine, April, 8, 2010 Chicago ArtNews - Featured, http://www.chicagoartmagazine.com/2010/04/nina-rizzo-at-linda-warren-gallery/ Petrified Log, oil on panel, 12" x 12" 2010, (image published), "Chicago Gallery News", Volume 25/Number 2, April - August 2010 http://www.centerstagechicago.com/art/articles/must-see-art.html, May, 2010 |
| 2007 |
Rachel Fumari, "Luscious Stains in Paint", New City, October 11, 2007 |
| 2006 |
Salvador Castillo "Nina Rizzo and Stephanie Wagner, On the Horizon, Art Palace", Bout what I Sees, http://salvadorcastillo.wordpress.com/2006/02/ ., March 20, 2006 Dorothy Meiburg, "On the Horizon at Art Palace", .might be good (website), mightbegood.org, March 10, 2006 |
| 2005 |
Caitlin Haskell, Interview, "Three Hours of Road Trip Tunes", .might be good (website), mightbegood.org/mbg, October 29, 2005 Elaine Wolff, .Digitally Induced Angst and Sensory Overload", San Antonio Current, March 10, 2005 "Brushed with Greatness", Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, Austin-American Statesman, March 8th, 2005 "Des Artistes Inspires Ont Ouvert les Portes du Chateau", Stephan Dudzinski, Nice Matin, 22 fevrier, 2005 "Un Grand Cru d.Artistes, en Residence au Chateau", Stephan Dudzinski, Nice Matin, 17 fevrier, 2005 |
| 2004 |
New American Paintings South West Edition 2004, Number 54, Volume 9, Number 5, Juror: Lynn M. Herbert, Senior Curator, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas |
| 2003 |
New American Paintings M.F.A. Annual 2003, Volume 8, The M.F.A. Annual, December 2003, Juror: Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York J. Marcus Weekley, "Seven From Austin: Recent Post Pluralist Painting", Artl!es, Number 39, Summer 2003, 86 Charlotte Cousins, "A Collaborative Process", Art Notes, Spring 2003, 13 K-EYE News Austin, Arts Story, Austin, Texas, September, 7, 2003 J. Marcus Weekley, "Seven from Austin", Hub Stuff, Lubbock, Texas, August 2003 |
| 2011 | Alexander Rutsch Award in Painting |
| 2010 | Summer Research and Artistry Grant, Northern Illinois University |
| 2007 |
Merit Award, Biennial 24, South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana |
| 2006 |
Honorarium, Department of Radio, Television and Film, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas |
| 2005 |
New Texas Painting Honorarium, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas Texas Biennial Juror.s Choice Award |
| 2004 |
Vermont Studio Center Full Fellowship |
| 2003 |
Dean's Research Award, The University of Texas at Austin Presidential Award, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching Assistant in Italy Fellowship |
| 2002 |
Michael Frary Endowed Scholarship in Painting |
| 2001 |
Kelly Fearing Endowed Fellowship in Painting Elizabeth McGoldrick Endowed Fellowship in Painting |
| 1992 |
Castiglione Fine Arts Award |
- ebersmoore, Chicago, Illinois
- Harris Bank
- Stonehouse Residency for the Contemporary Arts
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP, International
- Buzz Spector, Ithaca, New York
- Neil Goldberg's Cirque
- K & W, Chicago, Illinois
- Tim Doud, Chicago, Illinois
- The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Deborah Grant, New York, New York
- Melissa W. Miller, Austin, Texas
- Michael Ray Charles, Austin, Texas
- White Columns, New York, New York
- Texas Artist Registry, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas
- Creative Research Laboratory,Austin, Texas
- The Drawing Center, New York, New York