Résumé
WILLIE RAY PARISH
821 North Main Avenue
Tucson AZ 85705
wparish@utep.edu
Employment History
Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at El Paso
1984 - 2013 University of Texas At El Paso, Professor of Art, Sculpture
2000 - 2001 Acting Chairman, Department of Art, UTEP
1990 - 1993 Chairman, Department of Art, UTEP
1981 - 1984 Ball State University, Assistant Professor of Sculpture
1978 - 1981 Mississippi Museum of Art, Director of Education
Education
1978 Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, M.F.A.
1970 University of Mississippi, B.F.A.
1999 Founder, Border Art Residency, La Union, New Mexico
2000-2015 Director, Border Art Residency (affiliated with the El Pas0 Community Foundation)
Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, Site Santa Fe Spread Grant
2010 Nominee, Texas Medal of Arts Award
2009 Best in Show, Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2007 Nominee, Texas Prize, ArtHouse, Austin, Texas
2005 Nominee Nancy Graves Foundation Award
2000 Adolph and Ester Gottlieb Foundation Grant, $5,000
2000 University Research Institute Grant, $5,000
1994 University Research Institute Grant, $1,500
1990 Penny McCall Foundation, Artists Grant, $10,000
1989 Best Sculpture, Seven Western States, Long Beach, California
1987 University Research Institute Grant, $2,000
1988 Foothills Art Center Award, North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
1981 Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Artist of the Year, Mississippi
Exhibitions
2019 Art Lives (with Becky Hendrick), Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac, Arizona
2018 Art Lives (with Becky Hendrick), TuSun Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
2011 Preston Contemporary Gallery. Mesilla, New Mexico
2010 Montexico, Casper, Wyoming, Curated by Pat Kikut
2010 Kemp Art Center, Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Wichita Falls, Texas
2010 Earthbound, The State of Sculpture in Texas, The Museum of South Texas
2009 Art in the Park, City of Midland, Texas
2009 Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas
2007 Parish/Hendrick Exhibition, Under The Sun Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2007 10th Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium Exhibition, Texas State Univ.,
San Marcos, Texas
2007 Oso Bay Biennial: Islander Sculpture Invitational, Corpus Christi, Texas
2007 Sculpture Dominion Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas
2006 Art and Sol Exhibition, El Paso, Texas
2006 Texas 100, El Paso Museum of Art, curated by Becky Duval Reese
2003 Summer Regional Invitational 2003, New Mexico State University
2002 Dumbo and Beyond, Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
2001 War Stories, NEWSEUM, Arlington, Virginia
2000 Houston Sculpture 2000, International Sculpture Conference, Houston,
1999 Refocus, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
1998 El Paso Museum of Art Opening Exhibition, El Paso, Texas
1996 Transpositionen, Gallery M, Berlin, Germany
1996 Albert Peterson Gallery, Orlando, Florida
1995 A Texas Summer, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1995 Adair Margo Gallery Summer Exhibition, El Paso, Texas
1993 Reminiscing: A Show of Sculpture, Charlotte Jackson Gallery, Santa Fe NM
1991 Mississippi Homecoming, Brown Fine Art, Jackson, Mississippi
1990 Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
1992 Second Nature, Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
1991 Capirotada, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
1991 Singular Visions, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 Drawings by Sculptors, Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 Recent Sculpture, Space Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990 Art LA,. Los Angeles, California
1990 Southwest ’90, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989 A Century of Sculpture in Texas, Archer Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin
1989 Seven Western States, Long Beach, California
1989 North American Sculpture Exhibition, Golden, Colorado
1987 New American Talent, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas
1987 Excellence ‘87, Dallas, Texas
1986 The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio
1986 Excellence '86, Dallas, Texas
1984 El Instituto Internacional de Artes, Juarez, Mexico
1982 Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
1978 M.F.A. Exhibition, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California
1977 Art in Public Places, Cheney Cowles Museum of Art, Spokane, Washington
One Person Exhibitions
2016 El Paso Museum of Art, "Humpbacks and Warheads"
1998 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1999 Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1996 Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas
1995 Marilyn Wilson Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama
1994 Gaier Contemporary Gallery, Orlando, Florida
1994 No Justice, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
1992 Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1990 Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989 Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1988 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1989 Art Institute of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
1988 Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas
1986 University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas
1983 Ball State University, Muncie Indiana
1982 Muncie Museum of Contemporary Art, Muncie, Indiana
1981 Mississippi Museum of Art, Focus Gallery, Jackson, Mississippi
1981 Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia
1981 The Creative Exchange, Jackson, Mississippi
1986 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
Outdoor Sculpture Shows
2010 Art on the Green, Kemp Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
2009 Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2003 Art on the Rim, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas
2003 Outdoor Sculpture on Campus, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
2002 15th Annual Sculpture Exhibition, Lawrence, Kansas
2001 Art in Public Places, Brazos Valley Arts Council, College Station, Texas
2000 Sculpture Garden Biennial, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi
1999 Sculpture Park Exhibition, L.S.U., Baton Rouge, Louisiana
1999 Irving Museum of Art, Irving, Texas
1999 Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
1998 City of Midland, Midland, Texas
1998 Sculpturescape, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
1995 Fifteenth Annual Abilene Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, Texas
1996 Connemara Conservancy Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Dallas, Texas
1995 Fifteenth Annual Abilene Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, Texas
1994 Sculpture Tour, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
1993 College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993 City of San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas
1992 City of Redlands, California
Curator/Juror
2016 Rosen Sculpture Exhibition, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC 2014 Art on the Rim, El Paso, Texas
2012 Marfa X, (10 UTEP art students), Presidio Hotel, Marfa, Texas
2007 Juror, Van Horn Border Patrol Station Sculpture Commission
2007 Co-Curator, The Kemp Art Center, Art on the Green, Wichita Falls, Texas
2007 Curator, Inaugural Exhibition at Olo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2003 Art on the Rim, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, Texas
2002 Hard Art, Border Art Residency, La Union, New Mexico
2003 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Intelligent Office Complex, El Paso, Texas
1993 16th Annual Abilene Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, Texas
Commissions and Collections
2015 “Millennium Marker,” University of Texas at El Paso
2015 “Crossroads,” Collection of Kurt and Judith Ross, El Paso, Texas
2014 Four sculptures, University of Texas at El Paso Department of Theater
2014 Five sculptures, Collection of Carol and Steve Johnson, El Paso, Texas
2010 “Rainhead,” City of Forest, Mississippi
2010 “Carcass,” permanent collection, Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson MS
2010 “Warhead,” Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University permanent collection
2009 “Alchemy,” University of Mississippi, permanent collection
2009 Santa Fe College permanent collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 City of El Paso, TX (5 sculptures) Sculpture Park, Alabama St.
2003 Memorial to Milan Macias, Wiggs Middle School, El Paso, Texas
2001 “War Stories,” The NEWSEUM, Arlington, Virginia
2001 Dr. Karen Houston, Jackson, Mississippi
2000 Katherine Kohlmeyer, Houston Texas
1996 El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
1994 Weber State University, Ogden, Utah
1991 Michael Palm, New York City, New York, and Telluride, Colorado
1991 Carol M. Carnes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991 Diana Wong, Malibu, California
1990 Robert Linton, New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico
1989 Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, New Mexico
1988 John Fortenberry, New York, New York
1983 Family Practices Associates, Muncie, Indiana
1979 Deposit Guaranty Bank, Jackson, Mississippi
1975 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
Reviews and Articles
2007 “Art With A Twist,” El Paso Industry Magazine, February/March issue
2007 “The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart”
1998 Sculpture Magazine, May issue, by Matthew Kansas
1998 Art Access, March issue, Seattle, Washington, by Alec Clayton
1993 THE Magazine, April issue, Santa Fe, by Simone Ellis
1992 Pasatiempo, August issue, Santa Fe, by Candelora Versace
1992 Art Talk, January issue, Scottsdale, by Donna Michael
1991 Artspace, March/April issue, by Neery Melkonian
1991 Visions Art Quarterly, Spring issue, by Josine Ianco-Starrels
1989 Art Talk, Scottsdale, Arizona
1986 Artweek, September, by Ferrell Beck
1979 Art Voices South, Summer, by Marta Burton