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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
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