Carol Pylant

Resume 2007




Carol S. Pylant


l979 M.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
l977 B.F.A. Painting, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan

Academic Appointments

1996 - present Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1991-1996 Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1987-1991 Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin - Madison
1985 Instructor, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 Instructor, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 Instructor, DeCordova Museum and School, Lincoln, Mass.
1984 Instructor, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, Mass.
1982-84 Assistant Professor, California State University Long Beach,
Long Beach, California
1978-82 Instructor, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan





Honors and Awards

2007 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2006 Faculty Research Fellowship, "Heaven, Hell & Purgatory", The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2005 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Romanesque Art in France”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2004 Signature Artist for International Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Madison, WI
2004 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Paintings Inspired by Romanesque Art”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
2002-03 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship, University of Wisconsin
2002 Artist Residency, Fundacio J. Llorens Artigas, Barcelona, Spain
2002 Faculty Travel Research Fellowship, “Pagan or Christian”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
2000 Alumni Arts Achievement Award, Wayne State University Dept. of Art & Art History, Detroit, Michigan
2000 Faculty Research Fellowship “Transformation, Mixed Media Paintings” The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
1999 Sabbatical, University of Wisconsin
1999 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Past /Present: Paintings based on Celtic Imagery” The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
1998 Wisconsin Arts Board Visual Arts Fellowship
1998 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Paintings of Neolithic Monuments in Brittany”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
1996-97 Vilas Associate Award, “Paintings of Prehistoric Stone Circles, Ireland and the British Isles”, University of Wisconsin
1995 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Paintings of Celtic Ceremonial Sites in
Ireland and the British Isles”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin
1994 Faculty Research Fellowship for studio equipment, The Graduate School
University of Wisconsin, Madison
1993 Faculty Development Grant, “Figurative Sculpture” University of Wisconsin System
1993 Visual Arts Development Grant, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, Wisconsin
1993 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Egg Tempera Paintings in Florence, Italy” The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1992 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Paintings of Ireland”, The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1991 Second Prize, Painting, “Ardara Annual Show” Co. Donegal, Ireland
1991 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Paintings of Ireland” The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1991 Visual Arts Development Grant, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, Wisconsin
1990 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Figure and Environment Painting/ Ireland”
The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1990 Residency, The Tyrone Guthrie Center, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
Residency Award, Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany
1989 Merit Award, “National American Realism Exhibition” The Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
1989 Third Prize,” The Greater Midwest International Exhibition IV” Central
Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri
1989 Visual Arts Fellowship for Painting, The Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, Wisconsin
1989 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Figure and Environment Painting/Germany” The Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1988 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts Fellowship, Arts Midwest
1988 Best of Show, “Artful Women l988” National Women’s Political Caucus of Dane County, Madison, Wisconsin
1988 Purchase Award, Kansas State University Permanent Collection, Manhattan, Kansas
1988 Faculty Research Fellowship, “Figure and Landscape Painting/ Italy” The
Graduate School, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1987 Rockefeller Foundation Residency Fellowship, Bellagio, Italy
1987 Residency, The Karolyi Foundation, Vence, France
1986,5,4 Residency, The MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
1986 Residency, Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, New York
1985 Residency, \The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, New York
1985 Residency, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, Virginia
1985 Milton and Sally Avery Award for Painting, The MacDowell Colony
1981 Second Prize, “The Contemporary Figure” The Chicago Artist’s Guild,Illinois
1977-79 Graduate Professional Scholarship, Wayne State University
1971 Honorable Mention, “Discovery ‘71” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit Michigan





One and Two Person Exhibitions

2005 “In Flight” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2001 “Celtic Musings” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000 “Seeing Things” Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1999 “At Home and Abroad” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (with John Sayers)
1998 “Standing Stones” Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1997 “The Journey Back” Barbara Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
1993 “Faces and Places” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993 “Paintings by Carol Pylant and Jo Powers” Carey Gallery, Rochester, Michigan
1993 “Landscape Paintings of Ireland” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y.
1992 “Faces and Places of Ireland” Ulster Bank, Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland (with Michael Kienitz)
1990 Pennsylvania School of Art and Design Art Gallery, Lancaster, Pennsylvania (with Dan Gilhooley)
1990 Hobe Sound Gallery, Brunswick, Maine
1990 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1989 Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
1989 Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus, Schwandorf/Fromberg, West Germany (with Jane Goldman)
1987 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy
1985 Trustman Gallery, Simmons College, Boston, Massachusetts
1982 Willis Gallery, Detroit, Michigan





Selected Group Exhibitions

2006 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2005-6 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2005-6 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 “S.O.F.A.” Chicago Navy Pier, Ann Nathan Gallery, Illinois
2004 “Exquisite Snake” Gallery 37, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois
2004 “Small Treasures”, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 “Group Show”, Ann Nathan Gallery”, Chicago, Illinois
2004-5 “Remarkable Women”Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 “Showing the Colors” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2004 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, WI
2003 “Exquisite Snake”, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Chicago Art Fair, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2003 Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2003 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2003 The Design House, Lake Geneva, Illinois
2003 “Group Show”, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago Illinois
2002 “Group Show” Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
2002 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2002 “Absolut Vision”, Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2002 “Who Let the Dog Out?” Hinsdale Art Center, Hinsdale, Illinois
2002 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2002 Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 “Figuratively Literal”, Elaine Jacobs Gallery, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, MI
2001 Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2001 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2001 “My Work and I” Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
2000 “Art Works for Life” MAPP, St. Clair Shores, Michigan
2000 “Faculty Exhibition & Arts Achievement Award Recipient” Dept. of Art, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
2000 School of the Art Institutes Spring Benefit / Ox-Bow, School of the Art Institute Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
2000 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2000 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1999 Uihlein Peters Gallery, St. Johnís Home of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999 Sonia Zaks Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1999 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1999 Grace Chosy Gallery, Madison, Wisconsin
1998 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1998 “Portraits” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1998 Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1998 Grace Chosy Gallery
1997 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1997 “Holiday Exhibition, Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1997 Grace Chosy Gallery
1997 “Twenty -First Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition” Norman Eppink Gallery, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas
1997 “Summer Exhibition” Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996 Barbara Bunting Gallery, Royal Oak, Michigan
1996 “Inaugural Exhibition”, Metro Art, Dodgeville, Michigan
1996 “UW- Draws” University of Wisconsin, Platteville, Wisconsin
1996 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 “New York Print Fair” Tandem Press Prints, NYC
1996 “Cleveland Print Fair” Tandem Press Prints, Cleveland, Ohio
1996 “Spring Exhibition” Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1996 “Art Milwaukee” Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1996 “Art Miami” Tandem Press Prints, Miami, Florida
1995 “Christmas Exhibition” Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland
1995 “Summer Show” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995 “Remarkable Women”, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995 “Gallery Artists” Cary Gallery, Rochester Michigan
1995 “Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration & Experimentation” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1995 “Milwaukee Art” Pfister Hotel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995 “IFPPA” Tandem Press Prints, The Armory, New York, New York
1995 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1995 “Print Fest” Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 “Exquisite Corpse” Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1994 “Tandem Press: Five Years of Collaboration & Experimentation” Elvehjem Museum, Madison, Wisconsin
1994 “Winter Group Exhibition” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 “IFPPA” New York, New York
1994 “Print Fair” Cleveland, Ohio
1994 “Realism” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1994 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1994 “Department of Art Faculty Exhibition” Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, Wisconsin
1994 “Contemporary Realists” Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, Wi.
1993 “Group Exhibition” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y.
1993 “The Wisconsin Triennial” Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1993 “Summer Exhibition” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y.
1993 “Group Exhibition” New York Arts Club, New York, N.Y.
1993 “IFPPA” New York, New York
1993 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993 “Previews of l993” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York
1993 “Art Chicago” Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
1993 “Print Fest” Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1993 “Works on Paper” New York, New York
1993 “Still-Life and Landscape” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1992 “Small Painting Exhibition” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York
1992 “Remarkable Women” Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1992 “WHA” Art Exhibition and Auction” Memorial Union Gallery, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
1992 “Women in the Bowdoin Collection” Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
1992 “Summer Invitational Exhibition” J. Cacciola Galleries, New York, N.Y.
1992 “Chicago International Art Expo” Tandem Press Prints, Chicago, Illinois
1992 “Wisconsin Arts Board Award Winners Exhibition” Katie Gingrass Gallery Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1992 “Group Exhibition” Steibel Modern, New York, New York
1992 “Prints from Tandem Press” Seattle International Art Expo, Seattle, Washington
1992 “Prints from Tandem Press” Cedar Rapids Museum, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1992 Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
199l “International Fine Print Dealers Association Exhibition” Tandem Press, The Armory, New York, N.Y.
199l “Prints from Tandem Press” Alice Simsar Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
199l “Wisconsin ‘9l” Edna Carlsten Gallery,
University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
199l “Ardara Annual Show” Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland
199l “Summer 1991” Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Mass.
1990 “Small Works/ Big Talent” Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Mass.
1990 “UW Art Faculty Exhibition” The Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison,
1990 “Wisconsin Triennial” Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1990 “Women Faculty Exhibition” University of Wisconsin Humanities Building Art Gallery
l990 “The Boston Art Fair” Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Mass.
l989 “Award Winners Exhibition” Central Missouri State University Art Gallery, Warrensburg, Missouri
l989 “American Realism” Parkersburg Art Center, Parkersburg, West Virginia
l989 “City Reflections” Levinson Kane Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
l989 “A Matter of Perspective” Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, Memorial Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
l989 “The Greater Midwest International Exhibition IV” Central Missouri State University Art Center Gallery, Warrensburg, Missouri
l989 “The Florida National” Florida State University Gallery and Museum
Tallahassee, Florida
l988 “All on Paper/Sculpture in Any Media” Clary-Miner Gallery, Buffalo, New York
l988 “Ego Amigo” Galeria Mesa, Mesa, Arizona
l988 “Women ‘88” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California
l988 “Frisco 100” Alligator Gallery, San Francisco, California
l988 “First St. Selects” First Street Gallery, New York, New York
l988 “Art .... Made in USA” Stadische Galerie, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Regensberg, West Germany
l988 “23rd University of Delaware Biennial Exhibition” University of Deleware Art Gallery, Newark, Delaware
l988 June Levinson Fine Arts, Needham, Massachusetts
l987 “Studied from Life” Bayly Art Museum, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville,Virginia
l987-6 Portraits Inc., New York, New York