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Biography | Resume | Artist's Statement
| Richard
Swanson: Resume 585 South Rodney St.
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| Born | St. Paul, Minnesota, 1944 |
| Education | M.F.A., Sculpture, University of Montana,
Missoula, 1994 M.S., Psychobiology, University of California, Irvine, 1969 B.A., Biology, Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, 1966 |
| Selected Awards and Honors |
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| 2000 | Helena Presents (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant |
| 1999 | Montana Arts Council, Percent-for-Art Award, Sculpture |
| 1997 | Helena Presents (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant |
| 1996 | Art Matters Foundation (New York,
NY), Individual Artist Fellowship Invited Participant, Yixing Symposium for Western Potters, Yixing, China |
| 1995 | New Forms: Regional Initiative Grant
(7 western states) Montana Arts Council, Individual Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts First Place Award, National Congress of Art and Design, Salt Lake City |
| 1994, 1988 | Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT), Individual Artist Grant |
| 1992-94 | Fell-Oskins Scholarship, University of Montana, Missoula |
| 1974-76 | Resident Artist, Archie Bray Foundation, Helena, Montana |
| Selected Solo Exhibitions and Installations |
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| 2005 |
Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana AKAR, Iowa City, Iowa A.L. Swanson Gallery, Helena, Montana |
| 2004 | Utah State University, Logan, Utah |
| 2002 | Gallery of Visual Arts, University
of Montana, Missoula, Montana Turman Gallery, Helena, Montana Botanica, Bozeman, Montana |
| 2001 | Archie Bray Foundation, permanent
landscape installation, Helena, Montana Paris Gibson Museum of Art, landscape installation, Great Falls, Montana |
| 2000 | Montana State University, permanent installation, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1999 | Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho Laramie County Community College, Cheyenne, Wyoming Rocky Mountain College, permanent installation, Billings, Montana |
| 1998 | Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota |
| 1997 | Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, Montana |
| 1996-97 | Site-specific landscape installation, near Drummond, Montana |
| 1996 | Beall Park Art Center, Bozeman, Montana |
| 1995 | National Congress of Art & Design,
Salt Lake City, Utah Myrna Loy Center, site-specific installation, Helena, Montana Holter Museum of Art, site-specific installation, Helena, Montana |
| 1994 | Paxson Gallery, The University of Montana,
Missoula, Montana Myrna Loy Center, Helena, Montana |
| Sculpture/ Dance Collaborations |
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| 1999 | "Material Forces," Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho |
| 1998 | "Altered States," Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota |
| 1996-97 | "Balance and Bounty: A Collaboration in the Landscape of the Agrarian West", near Drummond, Montana |
| 1996 | "Shimmerings," Performing Arts Building, University of Montana, Missoula |
| 1995 | "Wishbones," Myrna Loy
Center, Helena, Montana |
| 1994 | "Building Bridges," Van Buren Street Bridge, Missoula, Montana |
| Selected Group Exhibitions |
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| 2004 | "Bellevue Sculpture Exhibition,"
Bellevue, Washington "A Ceramic Continuum," Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture, Spokane, Washington |
| 2003 | "Beyond Boundaries," ASU
Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona "Short Stories," Center for Ceramic Arts, Berkeley, California |
| 2002 | "Entanglements," Anne Reed
Gallery, Sun Valley, Idaho "Terra Sutra," Arts Incubator, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2001 | "The Yixing Effect," Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, Massachusetts |
| 2000 | "Defining Moments in Contemporary Ceramics," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California |
| 1999 | "Erotica in Ceramic Art," Ferrin Gallery, Northampton, Massachusetts |
| 1998 | "New Art of the West 6, " Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| 1997 | "Purple Sands-Western Potters in
China," JBK, Amsterdam, Holland "Montana: Myth & Reality," Sutton West Gallery, Missoula, Montana "Crosscurrents," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1996 | "Montana Choice", Hockaday
Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana "Land Inspired," Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho |
| 1995 | "SOFA Exposition 1995", Ferrin
Gallery, Chicago, Illinois "ANA 24," Holter Museum of Art, Helena, Montana |
| 1994 | "Invented Memories: Installations by Three Artists," SAA, Salem, Oregon |
| 1993 | "Three Person Show," Sutton
West Gallery, Missoula, Montana "Please Touch the Art," Missoula Museum of the Arts, Missoula, Montana |
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