Résumé
Willie Ray Parish [email protected]
821 N. Main Avenue www.willierayparish.com
Tucson AZ 85705
Education
1978 Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, M.F.A.
1970 University of Mississippi, B.F.A.
Founder
1997 Border Art Residency, A foundation supporting Art and Artists in
La Union, New Mexico.
Employment History
2013 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 Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, Spread grant, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Best in Show, Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2007 Nominated for the Texas Prize, from Art House, Austin, Texas
2002 Nominated for the 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
Solo/featured Exhibitions
2019 “Evidence: Art Lives” (2-person), Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac AZ
2018 “Art Lives,” (2-person), Gallery 2Sun, Tucson AZ
“Humpbacks and Warheads, ”El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
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
1992 City of Redlands, California
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
Group Exhibitions
2023 Tucson Jewish Community Center
2011 Preston Contemporary Art Center, Mesilla, New Mexico
2010 “Montexico” Casper, Wyoming, curated by Pat Kikut
2010 Kemp Art Center, Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Wichita Falls Texas, curated by Sherry Owens
2010 “Earthbound” The State of Sculpture in Texas, curated by Deborah Fullerton, The Museum of South Texas
2009 “Art in the Park” City of Midland , Texas
2009 Martin Museum of Art, feature Exhibition, Baylor University, curated by
2009 “Art in The Park” Midland, Texas
2007 Parish/Hendrick Two Person Exhibition,
Under The Sun Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2007 10th Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium Exhibition, TX 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,” curated by Maryanne Redding, New Mexico State University
20042002 “Dumbo and Beyond,” Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
20052001 “War Stories,” NEWSEUM, Arlington, Viriginia
2000 “Houston Sculpture 2000,” International Sculpture Conference, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
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, New Mexico
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-’89 Art L,A,. 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, Texas
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-’86 “Excellence ‘87” and Excellence ’86,” Dallas, Texas
1986 The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio
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
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions
2019 Sculpture Tucson
2017 Sculpture Tucson
2014 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas
2010-11 “Art on the Green,” Kemp Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
2009-10 City of Midland, Texas
2009 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
2009 Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2009 Texas Sculpture Symposium Exhibition
2003 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Ray Parish
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
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
Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, Spread grant, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
2008 Best in Show, Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco TX
2007 Nominated for the Texas Prize, from Art House, Austin, TX
2006 Nominated for the 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
1981 Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Artist of the Year, Mississippi
1989 Best Sculpture, “Seven Western States,” Long Beach CA
1987 University Research Institute Grant, $2,000
1988 Foothills Art Center Award, “North American Sculpture Exhibition,” Golden CO
1981 Institute of Arts and Letters, Mississippi Visual Artist of the Year
Commissions and Collections
2023 Iowa Art Farm (outdoor sculpture and camera obscura)
2022 Pima Community College (East Campus), Tucson AZ
2020 City of Oro Valley AZ
2018 Pima Community College (West Campus), Tucson AZ
2015 “Millennium Marker,” University of Texas at El Paso
2014 Wise Family Theater, University of Texas at El Paso
2014 Collection of Steve and Carol Johnson, El Paso Texas
2011 The Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas
2011 Earthship Biotecture, Taos, New Mexico Art in Public Places purchase
2010 Mississippi Museum of Art Permanent Collection
2010 City of Forest, Mississippi, Permanent Collection
2010 “Warhead” purchased by the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University for the permanent collection
2009 “Alchemy”, University of Mississippi, permanent collection on campus
2009 Santa Fe College acquired a sculpture for their collection of sculpture on campus
2008 Commissioned by the City of El Paso for five sculptures in a Sculpture Park on Alabama St. at Harrison St. $50,000
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, 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, NY
1983 Family Practices Associates, Muncie, Indiana
1979 Deposit Guaranty Bank, Jackson, Mississippi
1975 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
Reviews and Articles
2007 Featured in “Art With A Twist” El Paso Industry Magazine, Feb March
2007 “The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart”, North Carolina artist and former professor
1998 Sculpture Magazine, May, by Matthew Kangas
1998 Art Access, March, Seattle, by Alec Clayton
1993 THE Magazine, April, Santa Fe, by Simone Ellis
1992 Pasatiempo, August, Santa Fe, by Candelora Versace
1992 Art Talk, January, Scottsdale, by Donna Michael
1991 Artspace, March- April, by Neery Melkonian
1991 Visions Art Quarterly, Spring, Josine Ianco-Starrels
1989 Art Talk, Scottsdale
1986 Artweek, September, by Ferrell Beck
1979 Art Voices South, Summer, by Marta Burton
Curator/Juror
-2022 (Juror) Border Art Residency, El Paso, Texas
2016 (Juror) outdoor sculpture exhibition, Appalachian State University,
Boone NC
2014 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas
2007 (Juror) Van Horn Border Patrol Station Sculpture Commission
2007 (with Greg Elliot) The Kemp Art Center, “Art on the Green” Wichita Falls, Texas
2007 Inaugural Exhibition, Olo Gallery, El Paso, Texas
821 N. Main Avenue www.willierayparish.com
Tucson AZ 85705
Education
1978 Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County, M.F.A.
1970 University of Mississippi, B.F.A.
Founder
1997 Border Art Residency, A foundation supporting Art and Artists in
La Union, New Mexico.
Employment History
2013 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 Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, Spread grant, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2008 Best in Show, Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2007 Nominated for the Texas Prize, from Art House, Austin, Texas
2002 Nominated for the 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
Solo/featured Exhibitions
2019 “Evidence: Art Lives” (2-person), Tubac Center for the Arts, Tubac AZ
2018 “Art Lives,” (2-person), Gallery 2Sun, Tucson AZ
“Humpbacks and Warheads, ”El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso TX
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
1992 City of Redlands, California
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
Group Exhibitions
2023 Tucson Jewish Community Center
2011 Preston Contemporary Art Center, Mesilla, New Mexico
2010 “Montexico” Casper, Wyoming, curated by Pat Kikut
2010 Kemp Art Center, Sculpture Garden Exhibition, Wichita Falls Texas, curated by Sherry Owens
2010 “Earthbound” The State of Sculpture in Texas, curated by Deborah Fullerton, The Museum of South Texas
2009 “Art in the Park” City of Midland , Texas
2009 Martin Museum of Art, feature Exhibition, Baylor University, curated by
2009 “Art in The Park” Midland, Texas
2007 Parish/Hendrick Two Person Exhibition,
Under The Sun Gallery, El Paso, Texas
2007 10th Annual Texas Sculpture Symposium Exhibition, TX 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,” curated by Maryanne Redding, New Mexico State University
20042002 “Dumbo and Beyond,” Davis Gallery, Austin, Texas
20052001 “War Stories,” NEWSEUM, Arlington, Viriginia
2000 “Houston Sculpture 2000,” International Sculpture Conference, Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
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, New Mexico
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-’89 Art L,A,. 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, Texas
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-’86 “Excellence ‘87” and Excellence ’86,” Dallas, Texas
1986 The Dairy Barn, Athens, Ohio
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
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibitions
2019 Sculpture Tucson
2017 Sculpture Tucson
2014 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas
2010-11 “Art on the Green,” Kemp Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
2009-10 City of Midland, Texas
2009 Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Austin, Texas
2009 Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco, Texas
2009 Texas Sculpture Symposium Exhibition
2003 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, curated by Ray Parish
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
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
Grants and Awards
2011 Finalist, Spread grant, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe NM
2008 Best in Show, Waco National Sculpture Exhibition, Waco TX
2007 Nominated for the Texas Prize, from Art House, Austin, TX
2006 Nominated for the 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
1981 Institute of Arts and Letters, Visual Artist of the Year, Mississippi
1989 Best Sculpture, “Seven Western States,” Long Beach CA
1987 University Research Institute Grant, $2,000
1988 Foothills Art Center Award, “North American Sculpture Exhibition,” Golden CO
1981 Institute of Arts and Letters, Mississippi Visual Artist of the Year
Commissions and Collections
2023 Iowa Art Farm (outdoor sculpture and camera obscura)
2022 Pima Community College (East Campus), Tucson AZ
2020 City of Oro Valley AZ
2018 Pima Community College (West Campus), Tucson AZ
2015 “Millennium Marker,” University of Texas at El Paso
2014 Wise Family Theater, University of Texas at El Paso
2014 Collection of Steve and Carol Johnson, El Paso Texas
2011 The Museum of Texas Tech, Lubbock, Texas
2011 Earthship Biotecture, Taos, New Mexico Art in Public Places purchase
2010 Mississippi Museum of Art Permanent Collection
2010 City of Forest, Mississippi, Permanent Collection
2010 “Warhead” purchased by the Martin Museum of Art at Baylor University for the permanent collection
2009 “Alchemy”, University of Mississippi, permanent collection on campus
2009 Santa Fe College acquired a sculpture for their collection of sculpture on campus
2008 Commissioned by the City of El Paso for five sculptures in a Sculpture Park on Alabama St. at Harrison St. $50,000
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, 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, NY
1983 Family Practices Associates, Muncie, Indiana
1979 Deposit Guaranty Bank, Jackson, Mississippi
1975 Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian, Mississippi
Reviews and Articles
2007 Featured in “Art With A Twist” El Paso Industry Magazine, Feb March
2007 “The Private Diary of Noyes Capehart”, North Carolina artist and former professor
1998 Sculpture Magazine, May, by Matthew Kangas
1998 Art Access, March, Seattle, by Alec Clayton
1993 THE Magazine, April, Santa Fe, by Simone Ellis
1992 Pasatiempo, August, Santa Fe, by Candelora Versace
1992 Art Talk, January, Scottsdale, by Donna Michael
1991 Artspace, March- April, by Neery Melkonian
1991 Visions Art Quarterly, Spring, Josine Ianco-Starrels
1989 Art Talk, Scottsdale
1986 Artweek, September, by Ferrell Beck
1979 Art Voices South, Summer, by Marta Burton
Curator/Juror
-2022 (Juror) Border Art Residency, El Paso, Texas
2016 (Juror) outdoor sculpture exhibition, Appalachian State University,
Boone NC
2014 “Art on the Rim,” El Paso, Texas
2007 (Juror) Van Horn Border Patrol Station Sculpture Commission
2007 (with Greg Elliot) The Kemp Art Center, “Art on the Green” Wichita Falls, Texas
2007 Inaugural Exhibition, Olo Gallery, El Paso, Texas