CELAN BOUILLET 770-617-2431 • [email protected] www.celanbouillet.com
Education 2013 Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD MFA, Mount Royal School of Art Graduate Program Assistant Certificate in the College Teaching of Art
2008 University of Georgia, Athens, GA BFA Painting and Drawing, BA English Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Program 2006 San Luis Ecolodge, San Luis, Costa Rica
Awards and Honors 2015 Houston HAA Individual Artist Grant 2014 Artist in Residence, HCC Southeast, Houston, TX Best in Show, EXPO, Gallery 500x Best in Show, The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center 2013 MICA Vermont Studio Center Fellowship 2011 Maryland Institute College of Art Merit Scholarship 2010 Forum 35 Award, ArtMelt, Louisiana State Museum 2007 Participant in CURO International Symposium Mary Rosenblatt Art Scholarship UGA Amazing Student 2006 CURO Summer Fellow
Residencies 2013 Vermont Studio Center, Full Fellowship, Johnson, VT 2008 Schloss Plüschow, Plüschow, Germany
Exhibitions and Displays
2018 44 Artists From Texas, LHUCA, Lubbock, TX World of Frida, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2017 New Texas Talent, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX 2016 The Bayou Botanist, The Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, curated by Tina Kukielski, Executive director of Art21 and Apsara DiQuinzio, Phyllis C. Wattis MATRIX Curator BAMPFA, Houston, TX 2015 The Charm of the Spectacle, Nicole Longnecker Gallery, curated by Scarlett Taylor, Houston, TX Pool Party, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX ALH celebrates Texas Art 2015, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Dean Sobel, Director of Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, CO 2014 The Big Show, Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, curated by Erin Elder, Director of the Center for the Contemporary Arts Santa Fe Introductions, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY EXPO, Gallery 500x, Dallas, TX, curated by Gabriel Ritter, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art ALH celebrates Texas Art 2014, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Rock Hushka, Curator at Tacoma Art Museum The 27th Annual McNeese National Works On Paper, Lake Charles, LA, curated by Louis Grachos, Director of The Contemporary Austin On the Map of My Empire, Installation for HCC Southeast, Houston, TX 2013 Makeshift Metropolis, MICA MFA Thesis, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD >20 Square Feet, Smith Street Gallery, Houston, TX 2012 First Year Show, D Center MICA, Baltimore, MD Mt Royal Fall Show, MICA, Baltimore, MD 2011 Mt Royal Fall Show, MICA, Baltimore, MD 2010 ArtMelt, Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, LA Evolution, Community Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
Bibliography ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 5, Autumn 2017 Create Magazine, Issue III, Spring 2017 Danielle Krysa, The Jealous Curator Blog. October 5, 2017. http://www.thejealouscurator.com/blog/2017/10/05/celan-bouillet/ Sara Barnes, “Meticulously-Arranged Artworks Reveal Adventurous Little Worlds,” Brown Paper Bag Blog. January 17, 2017. http://www.brwnpaperbag.com/2017/01/17/celan-bouillet-little- worlds/ John Parent, “The Bayou Botanist Casts the City’s Green Spaces to Canvas,” Houstonia, September 13, 2016. Molly Glentzer, “Artist Celan Bouillet finds the inspiration for her tapestries in public green spaces,” Houston Chronicle, September 9, 2016. Nick Esquer, “Into the Ethereal,” Houstonia, July 28, 2015 B-More Art Blog, “We Saw This, So Should You: 2013 MFA Selections,” April 22, 2013.