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BIOGRAPHY

Annette Lawrence

1965 Born in Rockville Center, NY

Education

1996 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME

1994 Core Program, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX

1990 M.F.A., Maryland Institute College, Baltimore, MD

1988 Graduate Study in Sculpture, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

1986 B.F.A., University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT

1983 Study Abroad, Richmond College, The American College of London

Solo Exhibitions            Group Exhibitions

2005

Edge, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Annette Lawrence, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY

2004

Annette Lawrence, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Testsite 04.4, Collaboration with Curator Annette Carozi, Testsite, Austin, Texas

2003

Piano, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Theory, The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Drawings, The Gallery at UTA, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX

2002

Annette Lawrence: Audio Visual, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA

2001

Annette Lawrence, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

2000

Indigo Sun, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Concentrations 36: Annette Lawrence, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Transparent/Opaque, Installation, University of Michigan Museum of Art,

Ann Arbor, MI

1999

First Dance, Installation, Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX

1998

Annette Lawrence: Installation, African American Museum, Dallas, TX

Recent Works, Bag Factory, Johannesburg, South Africa

Lineage, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1997

ConText, Women and Their Work, Austin, TX

1996

Same Way, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

Circus/Juice, Sculpture Court Installation, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX

1995

Same Way, ArtPace Center for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

1991

Wallpaper, Firehouse Gallery, Houston, TX

Acts of Peace, The community Artists collective/Barnes Blackman Galleries,

Houston, TX

Group Exhibitions            Solo Exhibitions

2007

Taking Possession, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

P.R.I.N.T. - Looking Back, Pressing Forward, University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas

2006

Matter of Time, Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, NY

New Now Next The Contemporary Blanton, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

The Collection in Context: Gesture, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, New York

2005

Double Consciousness, Black Conceptual Art since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

Pairings, The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX

2004

5th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas

Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter-Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Essential Space, The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Texas Prime, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

For Nothing, The Bank, Midland, Australia

African-American Art from the MFAH Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas

2003

Flip, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Drawings, University of Texas, Arlington, TX

Artists and their Mentors, Gallery 414, Fort Worth, TX

Texas Trialogues, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX

2002

Next, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Two by Two for AIDS and Art (amfAR), Dallas, TX

Hard Core, The Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX

Time/Frame, Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

Selected Works from the Print Research Institute of North Texas, Irving Arts Center, Irving, TX

Modalities of the Visible: A Survey of Contemporary Art in North Texas, Forum Gallery, Brookhaven College, Farmers Branch, TX

2001

Three Centuries of African American Art, African American Museum, Dallas, TX

Admirals Club Art Program, Terminal A, Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, TX

Serie VII, Teatro Humanidad, Austin, TX

Five By Seven By X, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX

Faculty Show, North Texas University, Denton, TX

2000

Sitegiest, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA

Street Life, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Crossing State Lines: Texas Art from the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

Serie Project, Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, TX

Five By Seven By X, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX

Faculty Show, North Texas University, Denton, TX

Next Text, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

1999

Texas Paper, The Gallery at University of Texas Arlington, Arlington, TX

Other Narratives, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Connemara Conservancy 1999 Sculpture Show, Connemara Conservancy, Plano, TX

Faculty Show, North Texas University, Denton, TX

1998

Identity, University of Houston at Clear Lake, Clear Lake, TX

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

Faculty Show, North Texas University, Denton, TX

1997

1997 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery UNC-G, Greensboro, NC

Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX

Yari-Yari: Visual Verbal Connections, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba,

New York, NY

Second Texas Annual, Contemporary Art Center of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

Faculty Show, North Texas University, Denton, TX

1996

Texas Collection, Modern - Postmodern, Museum of Fine Arts Houston,

Houston, TX

Animal Farm, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, TX

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1995

Link, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1994

Core Fellows Exhibition, The Glassell School of Art/Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, TX

Re-Collections, Project Row Houses, Houston, TX

Drawing, Crossing the Line, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

Brave New World, Lanning Gallery, Houston, TX

New York, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

I Remember...,, Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX

1993

Texas Contemporary Acquisitions of the ‘90s, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Drawing Conclusions, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

Making Their Mark, Houston International Festival, Houston, TX

Core Fellows Exhibition, The Glassell School of Art/Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, TX

The Language of Drawing, Barnes Blackman Galleries, Houston, TX

3D Rupture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Conventional forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art/Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, TX

Houston Women Film/Videomakers, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX

1992

Gender: Fact or Fiction, Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Fresh Visions, New Voices, Glassell School of Art/Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Houston, TX

Fotofest, Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX

Confirmations, Mexico-Arte Museum, Multi-Cultural Works, Austin, TX

Navigating the Light, Houston Women Media Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

3D Rupture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1991

Forerunners and Newcomers Revisited, Dishman Art Gallery, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

1990

Symbolic Images, Junior Black Academy of Arts & Letters, Dallas, TX

Black Arts Alliance 1990 Juried Exhibit, Carver Museum, Austin, TX

Urban Forces, Artscape 1990, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1989

Sculpture at Snug Harbor, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY

Currents, City Hall Courtyard Galleries, Baltimore, MD

1988

Ethique & Television AD Libitum Video Library, Montebeliard, France

Film/Video Artfest, Manhattan Cable, New York City, NY

1987

The Immediate Past, Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY

1986

Multiple Choice, Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

GUEST ARTIST / LECTURES

2005

New York Studio School, slide lecture, New York, NY

University of Houston, slide lecture, Houston, TX

2004

Contemporary Arts Museum, gallery talk, Houston, TX

Dunn and Brown Contemporary, slide lecture, Dallas, TX

Essential Space, gallery talk, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

2003

Sound Seen: Oral History, Recorded Stories, Sound Portraits, McKiney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Core Lecture Series, slide lecture, Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX

Friday Morning Lecture, slide lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX

2002

Sweeney Art Gallery, UC Riverside, slide lecture and gallery talk, Riverside, CA

Florida State University, slide lecture, Tallahassee, FL

2001

Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX

Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

University of Ohio, Athens, OH

UNT League for Professional Women, Denton, TX

2000

California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Carnegie Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Grayson County College, Sherman, TX

1999

Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA

Dallas Visual Arts Center, Dallas, TX

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Grayson County, College, Sherman, TX

1998

School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Visiting Artist Lecture, Chicago, IL

African American Museum, Dallas, TX

UNT Women’s Studies Colloquium, Denton, TX

Fordsburg Artists’ studios, Johannesburg South Africa

Leadership Dallas/African American Museum, Dallas, TX

NTIEVA’s Texas Artist Series, Fort Worth, TX

1997

Kimbell Art Museum, Artists’ Eye Series, Fort Worth, TX

Hartford Art School, Experimental Studio Department, West Hartford, CT

Maryland Institute College of Art, Lecture and Graduate studio visits,

Baltimore, MD

Woment & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1996

Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX

1995

Fort Worth Musuem of Modern Art, Tuesday Evening Series, Fort Worth, TX

University of Texas at Arlington, Art Department, Arlington, TX

Rice University, Art Department, Houston, TX.

1994

Diverse Works, Artists Who Write, Houston, TX

1992

Texas Southern University, Art Department, Houston, TX

1990

Teen Summit, Black Entertainment Television, Washington, DC

1989

Howard University 18th Annual Communications Conference, Washington, DC

AWARDS /GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS/HONORS

2004

Faculty Department Leave, University of North Texas

Who’s Who in American Art, 25th Edition

2000

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, African American Art Advisory Association Award

1999

Who’s Who in American Art, 23rd Edition

Who’s Who in American Art, Millennium Edition

1998

Junior Faculty Research Award, University of North Texas

1996

Sowhegan Camille Cosby Award for African American Artists

1994

Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists Kimbrough Fund

Art Matters Grant

Cultural Arts Council of Houston Artist Award

1993

Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art / Museum of Fine Arts Houston

1991

Independent Production Fund, South Wes Alternate Media Project

National Alliance of Media Arts Center/Media Arts Development Fund, The Community Artists’ Collective, Houston, TX

1990

Patricia Robert Harris Fellowship, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2000

The Greenhill School, Dallas, TX

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

1998

Fordsburg Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg South Africa

1992

Housing Authority City of Houston, Project BRIDGE, Houston, TX

1990

The Community Artist’s Collective, Houston, TX

THEATER/PERFORMANCE COLLABORATIONS

1995

Parachute Project, Diverse Works, Houston, TX

1991

Amazon Papers, Artscape 1991, Mt. Royal Station, Baltimore, MD

1990

Square One, Eva Anderson’s Baltimore Dance Theater, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Sangoma, The Women’s Company at Crossroads, New Brunswick, NJ

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

American Airlines Corporation, Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

Applied Computational Engineering and Sciences Building, University of Texas, Austin, TX

ArtPace Center for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX

Bank of America, Dallas, TX

Belo Corporation, Dallas, TX

University of Texas at Austin Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

Federal Reserve Bank, Dallas, TX

Goldman Sachs & Company, New York, NY

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Tucker Technology Center, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

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