artist resume selected works and experience
cheryl wilgren clyne
clyne003@umn.edu
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clyne003@umn.edu
cheryl wilgren clyne
education
2008
MFA / Experimental and Media Arts (formerly Time and Interactivity) / University of Minnesota
area of specialization: film, digital video, animation, sound, drawing, photography, printmaking, combined media, installation, exhibition organization, history and theory
2005
Inter-College Program / Thematic Bachelor of Science / Film + Architecture / University of Minnesota
area of specialization: design, animation, digital video, architectural + film history and theory
selected one person or featured artist exhibitions
2009 (*upcoming)
*nature future, art residency exhibit with Rebecca Krinke, Licherode, Germany
*you can fall, Pocket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
here is better than anywhere, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2008
you better be lucky, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
seaworthy, (a cap of lead across the sky) MFA Thesis Exhibition, Kathryn Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Lost Land, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
air sweet air, Harry M. Drake Gallery, Saint Paul, MN
what is between, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2007 not the running type, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
spider wow, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2003
Emerging Digerati the Interviews, Institute for New Media Studies, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Schematics, Oak Street Cinema and Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Selected group exhibitions
2009
Experimental and Media Arts, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2008
2008 Short Film Festival, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
Purgatory and Paradise, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Czech Printmaking 2008, Art Org Gallery, Northfield, MN
Why You Belong, Jennifer Phelps Juror, Burnet Art Gallery, Chambers Hotel, Minneapolis, MN
Why You Belong, Quarter Gallery Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
land of ideas, Licherode, Germany
Pingyao International Photography Exhibition, Pingyao, China
The roads flow, the semis roll, the potholes grow, Bohemian Press, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
I heart u, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Breaking Barriers, Giddens Learning Center Art Gallery, Hamline University, Saint Paul, MN
New Minneapolis Prints, Bohemian Press, Jaide, Minneapolis, MN (juried)
culturing technology, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
The Penny Dreadfuls, Northrup King Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2007
MFA Third Annual Open Studios, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bamboo Festival: International Photography Exhibit, Anji, China
Vogelfre 7, Darmstadt, Germany
Nature Scopes, Gallery Space Beam, Incheon, South Korea
Nature Scopes, Gallery Art Space C, Island of Cheju, South Korea
Nature Scopes, Nature in Mind, Special Exhibition Hall, National Museum Gongju, South Korea
Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale 2007, Gongju, South Korea (juried)
Out of the Comfort Zone, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
International Nature Art Forum 2007, Licherode, Germany (juried)
Beijing Film Academy Exhibition and Exchange, Beijing, China
twenty one days, NYCAMS, Chelsea, New York
Ephemerality, Ephemeral Spaces, Tyler Studios, Minneapolis, MN (juried)
Sound in Art / Art in Sound, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Saint Paul, MN
Annual Scholarship & Fellowship Exhibition, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN
Mnartists.org Free First Saturday, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2007 4th Annual Women’s Caucus for Art International Video Shorts Film Festival, Barnard College, New York, NY (juried)
2006
MFA Second Annual Open Studios, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Pattern, Language Strut Construct, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Open Door 2, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (juried)
North American Graduate Student Art Survey, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (juried)
Women with Vision, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (juried by Sheryl Mousley)
2005
MFA Open Studios, Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Bicycle Film Festival, Bell Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (jury)
Multi-Plex, Soap Factory Gallery, Projection Room, Minneapolis, MN
Justice by Design, Open Book, Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, MN
2004
Wounded City, Pantages Theater, Minneapolis, MN
Wounded City, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2003
16 Spaces of Hope, Cedar Cultural Center, Minneapolis, MN
Emerging Digerati, Institute for New Media Studies, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
selected employment / instruction / exhibit organization / curatorial
2008-2011
co-founder / organizer / curator, nature future / Licherode Artist Residency program Germany - Minnesota, Ökologisches Schullandheimand, Licherode, Germany
adjunct instructor, Beijing Now preparation for exchange: ARTS 5490 fall 2008, spring 2009, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN / digital video + (developed, proposed and now teaching course)
adjunct instructor, Introduction to Experimental and New Media Art: ARTS 1601 (formerly titled Introduction to Time and Interactivity: ARTS 1601 and Electronic Art: ARTS 1601) digital video +, fall 2008, fall 2009, spring 2010, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2010
instructor, Design Camp, teaching digital video through design to grades 2-4, Design Institute, University of Minnesota and Edina Highlands Elementary School
2009
director / editor, Design Camp: a documentary, (teaching digital video) grades 2-4, Design Institute, University of Minnesota and Edina Highlands Elementary School
curator / organizer / founder, be cinema (part 2), Studio E, CLA Television Studios student screening event, University of Minnesota
organizer / instructor 危机 Weiji / crisis = danger + opportunity, Beijing Now Collaborations, student collaborative art project exchanges from Beijing Film Academy and University of Minnesota, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota
co-curator / organizer / founder, future future, open call international film festival (with juror to be announced soon) Minneapolis, MN
2005-2008
graduate instructional technology fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Studio B and E, Television Studios, Video Services, University of Minnesota
2008
curator / organizer / founder, five by five, international exhibit with juror Jennifer Phelps, Art Director, Chambers Luxury Art Hotel, Pocket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
coordinator / organizer, Beijing Film Academy Exhibitions and Exchanges, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
curator / organizer, to the bind, artists from Beijing Film Academy, Pocket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
founder / organizer, BFA + UMN digital bridge, creating an online digital exchange between the Beijing Film Academy and the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota, with Jenny Schmid, Colin McFadden, Sonja Peterson, for international sharing of art work and ideas.
instructor, Design Camp, teaching digital video through design to grades 2-4, Design Institute, University of Minnesota and Edina Highlands Elementary School
instructor of record, Introduction to Time and Interactivity: ARTS 1601, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, summer semester (digital video +)
instructor of record, Introduction to Time and Interactivity: ARTS 1601, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, spring semester (digital video +)
curator / organizer, be cinema 2, CLA Television Studios student screening event, Studio E, University of Minnesota
co-curator / organizer, (with Jennifer Phelps, Art Director, Chambers) why you belong: self in the 21st century, juried international exhibit with Beijing Film Academy and University of Minnesota, students and faculty Chambers Luxury Art Hotel and Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
co-curator / organizer, why you belong: self in the 21st century, exhibition Beijing Film Academy and University of Minnesota, Quarter Gallery, Regis Center for Art, UMN, Minneapolis, MN
technology and digital video consultant, Course Transformation Program, College of Liberal Arts Office of Information Technology, University of Minnesota
co-founder / co-director, Pocket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
co-director, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
co-director, Pocket Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
co-curator / organizer, making change, juror Jennifer Phelps, Art Director, Chamber Luxury Art Hotel, Pocket Gallery Minneapolis, MN
2005-2007
curator / organizer, Galen Roen Room Gallery, University of Minnesota
2007
organizer / participant, MFA Third Annual Open Studios, University of Minnesota
instructor of record, Introduction to Time and Interactivity: ARTS 1601, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, fall semester
graduate student coordinator / organizer, Beijing Film Academy Exhibition and Exchange, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
co-director / organizer / founder, No Mittens Film Festival, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror, Diane Mullin, Associate Curator, (digital video +) Weisman Art Museum
co-curator / organizer / founder, the glass eye, INFLUX, Regis Center for Art, (digital video +) University of Minnesota
co-organizer, Open Door 3, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, juror, Diane Mullin, Associate Curator, Weisman Art Museum
curator / organizer / founder, be cinema, CLA Television Studios student screening event, (digital video +) University of Minnesota
director, Rosalux Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2003-2006
curator / organizer, Emerging Digerati, Institute for New Media Studies, University of Minnesota (digital video +)
2006
instructor of record, Electronic Art: ARTS 1601, University of Minnesota, Department of Art summer semester (digital video +)
2002-2005
curatorial assistant, Digital Visual Resource Collection, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota (Supervisor: Barbara Brenny barbara_brenny@ncsu.edu )
2005
organizer / founding member, MFA Open Studios (first annual), University of Minnesota, Department of Art
2004
public art program intern / with Shelly Willis, Public Spaces Curator, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota
selected residencies
2010
nature future, Oekologisches Schullandheim, Licherode, Germany
2009
nature future, Oekologisches Schullandheim, Licherode, Germany
2008
Artist in residence, Photography School, Beijing Film Academy, Beijing, China
2007
International Nature Art Forum 2007, Oekologisches Schullandheim, Licherode, Germany
selected educational opportunities
2007-2008
Beijing Film Academy Exhibition and Exchange, Beijing China
2007
New York Seminar with Andréa Stanislav / NYCAMS, Chelsea NY
2002-2004
Project One: Spaces of Hope, Project Two: Wounded City Globalization and Intervention Art with Alfredo Jaar, Winton Chair, UMN, CLA special topics
Selected awards and grants
2008
Curriculum Development and Building Intellectual Strength Grant, Consortium for the Study of the Asias, for development of new course Beijing Now, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
2007-2008
Patricia Tillberg Hasselmo Fellowship, Department of Art, University of Minnesota
MFA Travel Support Grants, (5) Dept of Art, University of Minnesota,
Red Pockets Scholarship, travel award, China Center UMN, Beijing, China
Hsiao Scholarship, travel award, China Center UMN, Beijing, China
College of Liberal Arts – Office of Instructional Technology Fellow Travel Support Grants, (3) University of Minnesota
2006
North American Graduate Student Art Survey, at the Nash, Juror’s Choice Award Third Place, Diane Mullin, Associate Curator, Weisman Art Museum, Juror
2005-2006
Shelly and Max Berman Memorial Scholarship, University of Minnesota
GSIII Scholarship, University of Minnesota
2003
Artist Quarter Collective Grant, University of Minnesota
selected publications, and press
2009 (*upcoming)
* here is better than anywhere: you can fall, essay by Casey Jarrin, Assistant Professor of English, Macalester College, exhibition catalog of mixed media and film projects by Cheryl Wilgren Clyne from 2007-2009 (dvd included)
Is Idealism for the Weak?, Collier White, The Thousandth Word, Secrets of the City, Minneapolis / Saint Paul, MN, January 29, 2009
2008
Art: Lost Land, Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Saint Paul, August 7, 2008,
why you belong, exhibition catalog, Chambers Luxury Art Hotel and Burnet Art Gallery
The Penny Dreadfuls, exhibition catalog, Northrup King Building Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Paradises and Purgatory, exhibition catalog, cover, Wilson Library, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2007
Recent Projects, Public Art Review, issue 37, fall/winter 2007 page 91
Vogelfrei 7 Wintergarten, exhibition catalog, Germany, October 2007
International Bamboo Festival, exhibition catalog, China, October 2007
Geumgang Nature Art Pre-Biennale 2007, exhibition catalog, South Korea
Connecting: Beijing – Minneapolis, Art E Facts, Fall 2007, Department of Art News, by Cheryl Wilgren Clyne (page 6)
Before the Word, MPLS Art, July 23, 2007, by Collier White
Not the Running Types, Metro Twin Cities Metropolitan Magazine, July 2007 page 071
Faces of Beijing in Quarter Gallery, July 11, 2007, UMN News, by Pauline Oo
2006
Art on Call, (podcast) Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 2006
http://newmedia.walkerart.org/aoc/index.wac
Women with Vision, Minnesota Women’s Press, February 2006
Lectures, commissions, collections (private and public), filmography (93 films as of 4.12.2009) and other information available upon request