
	Jon Eric Riis Resume Education 1967 B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Il 1969 M.F.A., Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI 1970 Fulbright Grant, Viswa Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India Selected Awards, Grants, and Scholarships Outstanding Student Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 1969 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1974 National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1977 (funding apprentice in tapestry studio) Partners of the America’s Grant for study of textiles in Brazil, 1978 A.I.A. Award for contributions of Art in Architecture, 1978 Special Award, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary, 2001 Honorary Award, 10th Int’l Triennial of Tapestry, Lotz, Poland, 2001 Selected Professional Organization Museum of Art and Design - Atlanta, Founding member and Executive Board member, 1989-1999 Selected Tapestry Commissions SunTrust Bank, Georgia Headquarters, Atlanta GA Commerce Union Bank, Nashville TN Southern Bell Headquarters, Atlanta GA King Faisal Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Pan Pacific Singapore Hotel, Singapore Shanghai Ritz Carlton Hotel, Shanghai, China The Temple Synagogue, Atlanta GA Congregation B’nai Torah Synagogue, Atlanta GA Selected Collections Metropolitan Museum, New York NY Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH American Museum of Art and Design, New York NY Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia SC Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN High Museum of Art, Atlanta GA Selected Juror Panels American juror for the 11th Int’l Triennial of Tapestry, Lotz, Poland, 2004 American juror for the 5th Int’l Textile’05 Biennial, Kaunas, Lithuania, 2005 Selected Exhibitions 1998 “Contemporary Georgia Fiber: Five Perspectives”, GA Museum of Art, Athens GA 1999 “Beadz’, New Work by Contemporary Artists, American Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY 2001 “Karpit”, Int’l Tapestry Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary 2001 “ The 10th Int’l Triennial of Tapestry, Lotz, Poland 2002 “Southeastern Craft Innovators”, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN 2002 “Festival of Fiber-Biennial”, Int’l Tapestry Exhibit, Beauvais, France 2002 “American Tapestry Biennial 4” Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, BC, Canada 2003 Triennial 9 Form and Contents – Body Language Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY 2003 “Representing Representation VI”, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York 2004 “By Hand in the Electric Age”, Textile Museum, Washington, DC 2005 Tournai Int’l Textile Art Triennial, Ki Monologue Competition, Tournai, Belgium 2005 “Fiber: A New World View”, National Craft Gallery of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland 2005 Cheongju Int’l Craft Biennale 2005, National Cheongju Museum, Cheongju City, Korea 2005 5th Int’l Kaunas Textile Biennial, National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania 2005 “The Edges of Grace: Provocation, Uncommon Craft”. Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA 2005 “Kapit 2 Metamorphoses”, Int’l Exhibition of Contemporary Tapestry, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 2006 “Wrapped in Color”, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue WA 2006 “Bridge 9”, Society for Contemporary Craft, Pittsburgh PA 2007 – 2009 Exhibition: “One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement”, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 2007 – 2009 Exhibition: “Craft in America: Expanding Traditions”, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock AK; Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland OR; Int’l Museum, San Diego CA; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston TX; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills MI; National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City OK; Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA 2007 “Mode of Life Exhibition”; Cheongju Int’l Craft Biennale 2007 Cheongju City, Republic of Korea 2007 “Private Pleasures”, Collecting Contemporary Textile Art, The Textile Museum, Washington, DC 2008 – 2009 Exhibition: “Traditions/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Tradition Art”. Atlanta History Center, Atlanta GA . Kentucky Museum of Art, Louisville KY; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville TN; Southern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem NC; Sumter County Museum, Sumter SC; Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi MS 2008 Sixth Int’l Fiber Biennial, Snyderman-Works Galleries, Philadelphia PA 2009 Solo Exhibition: Jon Eric Riis “Sourcing the World”, June 5 - August 14 The Chung Youang Yang Embroidery Museum , Sookmyung Woman’s University, Seoul, South Korea, and from September 1 - 10 Chosun University Museum, Kwang-ju City, South Korea.