A.I.R.
CLAIRE OWEN Resume
6129 Greene St. Philadelphia Pa. 19144 Phone: 215-849-7863 Email: [email protected] Website: www.cotip.net
EDUCATION
Rochester Institute of Technology BFA, Illustration, MFA Printmaking
EXHIBITS: PARTIAL LISTING
2014-15 Bartram Boxes Remix, Center for Art in Wood and Bartram Gardens
2012-14 Horizon Guild of Bookworkers, Members juried exhibition, traveling 2 yrs.
2012 Rare Seeds, Creative Harvest, Lenhardt Library, Chicago Botanic Garden, painting/book exhibit
2011-12 The Decorated Book; Continuing a Tradition, Philadelphia Athenaeum, juried national
2011 Delaware Valley Members of GBW exhibit at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, 10/5 – 10/28 Work exhibited, Pentimento
2011 The Book: A Contemporary View Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
2010 Building by the Book, the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, national juried exhibit
2008-9 From under a darkened sky A.I.R Gallery, solo exhibition Brooklyn, NY, solo painting
2008 Fantastical Imaginings, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, juried invitational
2008 Structured Incidents, National Members Exhibition, A.I.R. Gallery, NY, NY
2007 Made out of the Ordinary, National Members Exhibition, NY, NY
2006 Awards Painting Exhibition, Cheltenham Art Center, Tobeleah Wechsler Memorial Award
2006 Art of the Book, Canadian Book Arts Guild, Toronto Canada
2004 Art of the Book, invitational exhibition of fine press books, Canadian Book Arts Guild
2003 Insomnia National Museum of Woman in the Arts, Wash., DC national invitational
2002 Challenge Exhibition 3, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA
2001 Altered Egos, Borowsky Gallery Philadelphia, Pa, invitational exhibition
1999 between shadowed walls, the forest tilts, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Phil. PA solo painting
1997 through a window in the forest wall, Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, solo painting
COLLECTIONS: PARTIAL LISTING: BOOK WORK
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Gutenberg Museum, Mainz, Germany
The Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Yale University, Sterling Library, Art of the Book Collection, New Haven CT
National Gallery, Washington, DC
Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ
Harvard University, The Fine Arts Library and The Houghton Library
The New York Public Library, Spencer Collection and Special Collections, NY, NY
Library of Congress, Washington DC
The Getty Research Center for the Arts and Humanities, Santa Monica, CA
Smith College Library Rare Book Room, Northampton, MA
Columbia University, Loew Library, NY, NY
Trinity College, Watkinson Library, Hartford, CT
Swarthmore College, McCabe Library, Swarthmore, PA
Wellesley College, Special Collections, Wellesley, MA
Temple University, Paley Library, Phil. PA
Free Library of Philadelphia, Special Collections Dept. Philadelphia PA
TEACHING/LECTURING
2009 – present Tyler School of Art, Foundation Department: 2D Foundation course for freshmen, fall and spring semester
1987-present Drexel University, in Media Art Department teaching elective course for Junior and senior design students, “Bookmaking”. Course explores the handmade book as an art and design format including binding structures and word/image/page relationships
CURATORIAL/ADMINISTRATIVE
1975 – present Proprietor, Turtle Island Press private press specializing in limited edition artist books
1997-2001 President of Board of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art
1991 – 96 Chairman of Delaware Valley Chapter of Guild of Bookworkers National organization for professionals in book arts
AWARDS
2013 Artist in Residence at Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice, IT, May 2013
2002 Independence Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship
2002 Curator’s Award, Cheltenham Art Center Painting Exhibition
2001 Fleisher Art Memorial Challenge Exhibition
1991 Artist in Residence, British American Arts Council, travel grant to UK
1987 Philadelphia-Tainjin Artist Travel Grant, City of Phil., Office Art and Culture