EDUCATION

1994    Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
MFA Painting

1991    Florida International University, Miami, FL
BFA Visual Arts - major in painting

1979    Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology

1976    Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
MS Clinical Psychology

1973    University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL
BA Psychology, minor in Educational Psychology

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2025, 2024    Miami Individual Artists Stipend Program Award, Miami-Dade County
    Department of Cultural Affairs

2023    Artist Access Grant to support residency in Oaxaca, Mexico, Miami-Dade County
    Department of Cultural Affairs

2022    Miami Individual Artists Stipend Program Award; Miami-Dade County Department of     Cultural Affairs with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts

2019    Hemera Contemplative Fellowship, The Garrison Institute

    Korea Bojagi Project & Travel, made possible with support from Oolite Arts,
    Miami, FL

2018    American Academy in Rome, Visiting Scholars/Visiting Artists Program

2017    Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Nominee

    National Association of Counties Achievement Award,
    Arts & Historic Preservation Category, Wall of Honor Memorial
    (with Miami International Airport - MIA)

2016    Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Nominee

    The Japan Foundation New York, Grant for Arts & Culture (with MIA)
    
2012    Knight Foundation, Knight Arts Challenge Award (with MIA) 
2012    North America Airports Council International, Excellence in Community     Outreach, 1st Place (with MIA)
                                    
2011    North America Airports Council International, Excellence in Customer Service     Initiatives, 1st Place (with MIA)                                    
2010    Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council

    Florida Airports Council, Community Affairs Award (with MIA)

2007    Artist Enhancement Grant, State of Florida, Division of Cultural Affairs

    Catto Scholarship Fund Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO

2005    Miami-Dade County Manager’s “Achievement of Excellence” Award, Miami, FL
    
2003    North America Airports Council International, Excellence in Marketing and
    Communications Award, 1st Place, Special Events, for the exhibition, Healing the World
    (with MIA)

2000    Awarded residency at The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA

1998    Artist Access Grant, Tigertail Productions, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council

    Awarded residency at The Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA

1994 - 95    J. William Fulbright Scholarship for Graduate Study Abroad (Spain) - 9 months;
Approved for Extension - 3 months

1994    Yale University School of Art, Winsor Newton Oil Bar Limited Prize
In Recognition of Outstanding Work

1993 - 94    Yale University Tuition Scholarship
1992 - 93    Yale University Tuition Scholarship

1991    Faculty Commendation for Excellence in Art, Florida International University

    Betty Laird Purchase Award
The Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, FL

    Purchase Award, The Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

    Awarded residency at Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1974 - 79           Full Scholarship, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

1971 - 73    University of Miami Scholarship

 

2026    Ida y Vuelta, Museo Textil, Oaxaca, Mexico

2025    In beauty may I walk,  Pryor Gallery, Atlanta GA

2024    All We Really Want to Do Is Dance, Oolite Arts, Windows at Walgreens, Miami Beach, FL

2024    The Colours of Spring, Museum of Art-DeLand, Deland, FL

2023    All the Light We Cannot See, The Deering Estate, Miami, FL  
    Out of Eden, The Gallery at Creative Pinellas, Largo, FL
    
2022    Come Slowly – Eden!, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
    
    Kiss the Joy as It Flies: O-mikuji, Installation, Special Collections & University Archives,
    Florida International University, Miami, FL
    
2021    The Earth Laughs in Flowers, MIA Galleries, Miami International Airport,
    Miami, FL

2019    The Intensest Rendezvous, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2018    Presences, Melvin Gallery, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FL

2017    A Verdant Heart: New Paintings, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

2016    Along the Road of Dreams, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
    Along the Road of Dreams, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Recent Work, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, Bridgehampton, NY

2015    There is Only the Dance, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL

2014    Sometimes There Are No Rules, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2013    Too Much of a Good Thing is Wonderful, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts,
    Bridgehampton, NY        

2012    Meditations on the Between, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY

2012    Azul: Works on Paper, The Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2011    Wild Companions, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
    Holding the Space, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, Indiana
    New Paintings, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY    

2009    New Work, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
    Odegard’s Ongoing Artist Series, Odegard Showroom, Miami Design District, Miami, FL
    
2006    Recent Work, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
    In summer, the song sings itself, Art @ Work, Arturo Mosquera Collection, Miami, FL

2005    Working the Fields, Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL  1997    Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, FL

2025    Bojagi & Beyond, Korea Bojagi Forum 2025;  The Four Elements, XI Biennial of Textile Art,
    Miami, FL

2024    Unfolding, Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, Nevada
    Layers: An Exhibition of Textile Works by artisans from the Nationally recognized Art Cloth
    Network, Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, IL

2023    Industry-Luxury, Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts, Bethlehem, PA
    Unfolding, The Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA
    Bojagi Journey 2023, curated by Patricia King,
    The Pacific Northwest Quilt & Fiber Arts Museum, La Conner, WA

2022    40 Women Pulling at the Threads of Social Discourse, Museum of Contemporary Art,
    Westport, CT
    El Hilo Conductor II, Instituto Cultural de Mexico en Miami, Miami, FL

2021    Talking Threads: Dialogues with Weavers and Knotters of South Florida,
    Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL (a companion exhibition to A Beautiful Mess: Weavers     and Knotters of the Vanguard, organized by the Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts     in Walnut Creek, CA
    
2021    Women Pulling at the Thread of Social Discourse – The Quilt, Fiber Artists Miami Association     (FAMA), CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL
    August Women, curated by Elena Prohaska, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts at Bridgehampton, NY
    Art Factory Project, Spaced Out: Time is Art, curated by Adriana Herrera, Miami, FL
    Threaded, curated by Rina Gitlin, The Consulate General of Mexico, Miami, FL
    El Hilo Conductor, The Box Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL
    Not All That Glitters Is Gold: Selection of Works by Women Artists in the Mosquera Collection
    (Part I), Miami, FL

2020    Questions + Answers, Selected works by 2020 Penland School Instructors,
    Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
    Women Pulling at the Thread of Social Discourse, Fiber Artists Miami Association (FAMA),
    CAMP Gallery, Miami, FL

2019    Good Vibrations II, Leslie Curran Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL
Artists’ Drawings of their Studios, Art and Culture Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL
Life and Work of an Idea: Miami’s Art@Work and Farside Gallery in Buenos Aires,
     Colectivo Periferia, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2017    Pulling the Thread, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
More Women Painting, co-production of Design Sublime, Girls’ Club & Available Space,
    Miami, FL

2016    Bojagi: The Living Tradition, Suwon/Hwasung Museum, Suwon (Seoul), South Korea
Art @ Work, Part III-Miami-Based Artists:  Better Alive Than Dead, Arturo Mosquera               Collection, Miami, FL

Pigment and Paper, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Friends, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL

2015    Yolanda Sánchez and Don Swanson, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
     Aesthetics & Values Exhibition, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum,
Florida International University, Miami, FL

2014    Thirty Years on the Road, curated by Edouard Duval-Carrié, ArtCenter, Miami Beach, FL
    Korea Bojagi Forum, Jeju Museum of Contemporaty Art, Jeju Culture Artists Village,
Jeju Island, South Korea
Chojun Textile and Quilt Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2013    Abstract Thinking, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
Abstract, adj.:  Expressing a quality apart from an object, Ringling College of Art & Design,           Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL
Paint City, Florida International University, Miami Beach Urban Studios, Miami Beach, FL

2012    A Través del Entramado: Ver Sin Ser Visto, Museo Siyâsa, Murcia, Spain
Aqua Art Miami (ArtBasel Miami Beach), Kathryn Markel Gallery, Miami, FL
Korea Bojagi Forum, International Exhibition, Bojagi and Beyond, Seoul, Korea
Kenise Barnes Fine Art at Designing Greenwich, Stamford, CT

2012     Paint, Bridge Red Studios/Project Space, Miami, FL
Little Languages/Coded Pictures, curated by Michelle Weinberg and Theresa Hackett,  
    Florida Focus Exhibition: A Celebration of Contemporary Florida Art,
    curated by Ken Rollins, The Studio@620, St. Petersburg, FL

2011    Uncommon Threads, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
             The Search for Self-Identity in Cuban Contemporary Art, Café XIII,
    The Journeys of Cuban Writers and Artists, Gallery of the Errol Barrow Center for the     Imagination, University of West Indies, Barbados
Outdoor Installation, Suwong Hwaseong International Theatre and Arts Festival, Seoul, Korea
Bojagi International Exhibition, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
Works on Paper, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL

2010    Good & Plenty/Art Basel 2010, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Ways of World-Making: Notes on the Passion for Collecting, Miami-Dade College,     Wolfson Campus, The Freedom Tower, Miami, FL
Kathryn Markel Gallery, Artists’ Invitational, New York, NY
Café X: The Journey of Cuban Artists, Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination, in     conjunction with the symposium, Celebrating the Cuban Diaspora,
    University of the West Indies, Barbados

2009    Just Breathe, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

2009    NEW/NOW: New Painting and Drawing, The Schoolhouse Gallery,
    Provincetown, MA

2008    Café VIII: The Journey of Cuban Artists, Temple University, Rome Campus,
    Rome, Italy

2007    Café VII: The Journeys of Cuban Artists, Arizona State University,         
    Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Gallery, Glendale, AZ
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    Building Picturing, The Painting Center, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued)

2007    Vision de un Lenguaje Abstracto, A. Cueto Gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2005    Introductions 05, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005    Crossing the Line, The Painting Center, New York, NY
A Group Show, Scott White Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA

    The Right Work at the Right Time, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL

2004    Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO; LaJolla, CA
    Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2003    Scott White Contemporary Art, Telluride, CO; LaJolla, CA
    Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2002    Eliciting a Response:  Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Art,
     Ft. Lauderdale, FL
The No Show, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Miami Art Exchange Non-Affiliated Juried Exhibition in conjunction with Art
Basel 2002, The Living Room, Miami, FL

2002    Stomping Ground 1, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
Art Times, Cheryl Hazan Arts Gallery, New York, NY
    Paper View, ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL

2001    Home Grown, Art Center South Florida, Miami Beach, FL
2000    Inner Vistas: Self-Portraits of the ArtCenter/South Florida, Miami Beach, FL

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
Graham University Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL, State of Florida Art in State     Buildings Program
The Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Neiman Marcus Corporate Headquarters, Dallas, TX
Chojun Textile & Quilt Museum, Seoul, South Korea
J. Crew, New York, NY
New York Presbyterian Hospital, NY, NY
Collection of Preston H. Haskell, Jacksonville, FL