Lissa Hunter
Resume
1967 BA, Painting,
Selected One-person Shows
2008 The Vault Project, Quirk Gallery,
2007 Life Stories, Telluride Gallery of Fine Art, Telluride CO
2006 Uncommon Things, Jane Sauer Gallery,
2005 Pas
2004 dis/appear,
Random Acts, Gallery Materia,
2003 Histories,
June Fitzpatrick Gallery,
2002
The Munson Gallery,
2001
2000 The Munson Gallery,
Gallery Materia,
1999 R. Duane Reed Gallery,
The Sybaris Gallery,
1998 The Munson Gallery,
1996 The St. Botolph Club,
1995
1994 Okun Gallery,
1993
Gallery on the Green,
1992
1991 Gallery on the Green,
1989 Gallery on the Green,
1988 Clay and Fiber Gallery,
American Craft at the Armory,
1987 The Elements Gallery,
Artworks Gallery,
Gallery on the Green,
1986 Netsky Gallery,
1985 Nancy Margolis Gallery,
1984 Gallery on the Green,
Clay and Fiber Gallery,
1983 Netsky Gallery,
Gallery on the Green,
1982 Clay and Fiber Gallery,
1981 Gallery on the Green,
1980 Gallery on the Green,
Selected Group Shows
Tiny, Whitney Art Works,
2006 Basket (R)evolution,
The
Baskets: No
Boundaries, Jane Sauer Thirteen Moons Gallery,
2005 Baskets Around the World: Elemental Techniques—Artistic Vision,
Gorham ME
Intertwined: New
International Baskets from the Collection of Sara and David Lieberman,
2004 20/20
Envision,
2003 At the Edge of the Field: Contemporary Basketry in
2002 Past-Present-Future,
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Center for
Baskets Now:
Natural Elements: Sculptural Expressions,
Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman-Works
Galleries,
2001 Society of Arts and Crafts,
Contemporary Baskets 2001, del Mano Gallery,
Haystack: Pivotal
Transformations, Center for
2000 The 7th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition,
1999 Fabric and Fiber '99,
American Basketmaking: Tradition and Innovation, Arrowmont,
1998 Modus Operandi: A Survey
of Contemporary Fiber, The Works Gallery,
Five Points of View: Baskets by Contemporary Artists, San Francisco Craft and
San Francisco
1997 Nancy
Sachs Gallery,
New Baskets: Expanding the Concept, Craft
Eighth Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
1996 Seventh Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
The Works Gallery,
1995 Exploring Along the Outer Edges, Craft
The
New Basket,
1994 Contemporary Basketry,
Fifth Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
Ceramic and Fiber: A New Generation, Wustum Museum of Fine Arts,
Racine WI and Gingrass Gallery,
Milwaukee WI
1993 Makers '93,
New Fiber: Five
Artists, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art,
1992 Basketry
Recent Acquisitions, American Craft Museum,
Focus: American
Baskets, Banaker Gallery,
Outer Skin/Inner Space,
3rd Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
1991 2nd Annual Basketry Invitational, The Sybaris Gallery,
Basketry: From All
Directions, Arrowmont,
1990 The
Hand and the Spirit Gallery,
Baskets Circa 1990, Hibberd McGrath Gallery, Breckenridge CO
Collage of Papers, St. Botolph Club,
1989 Southwest Exposure, Gayle Willson Gallery,
Paper, Moyer Gallery,
Focus: American
Basketry, Banaker Gallery,
1988 Focus: American Basketry,
Katie Gingrass Gallery,
Basketry '88: Evolution Into Sculpture, Wita Gardiner Gallery,
12th Biennial National Crafts Exhibition, ISU,
The Fiber Vessel,
1987 Craft
1986 The Works,
Basketry Visions,
The Basket: Form
and Function, International Gallery,
1985 Within and Beyond the Basket, Pacific Basin Gallery of Textile
Arts,
Fiber Images: I.U.
1983 The Descendants, North Dakota
Corporated and Museum Collections
The
The
The
Insurance Company of North
America,
SOHIO Petroleum Headquarters,
Copley Venture Capital,
Federal Reserve Bank Building,
Fine Arts Museums of
Jeanne and Garo Antreasian,
Karen Johnson Boyd,
Ron and Lisa Brill,
Daphne Farago,
Key
Diane and Marc Grainer,
Shirley Jacobs, Chevy Chase
MD
Jack
Barbara and Ed Okun,
Fred and
Douglas and Cindy Ring,
Pleasant Rowland,
George Saxe,
Connie and Bob Springborn,
Honors
Residency at Yaddo,
Maine Crafts Association
Board of Directors, 1988-95, president 1991-93
Selected Publications
Review, ArtNews,
February 2007
Lissa Hunter Histories Real & Imagined, Upala Press, April 2006
“Review: Lissa Hunter”, American Craft, April/May 2004
"Lissa Hunter: Stories", Review, Fiberarts,
March/April 2001
"Lissa Hunter: On Being Human", Profile, Fiberarts, November/December 1998
Review, Janet Koplos, Art in
Craft in
"Commentary", Fiberarts, Summer 1992
"Handmade Paper and the
Bowl", by Roxane Orgill, Fiberarts, Summer 1992
"Inviting Vessels",
Threads Magazine, October/November 1989
"Design for
Basketry", The Newsbasket,
October 1988
Papermaking for Basketry,
edited by Lynn Stearns, Press de LaPlantz 1988
The Downeast Guide to
"The Successful
Artist", The Newsbasket,
December 1987
"Lissa Hunter", The Newsbasket, August 1987
The Basketmaker's Art, edited by Rob Pulleyn, Lark Books 1987
"Contemporary
Archeology: The Baskets of Lissa
Hunter", by Jessica Scarborough, Fiberarts,
September/October 1982
Northern Ontario Crafts Conference,
2006
2005 One-year appointment to develop graduate degree program, Maine
College of Art,
2003 North Country Studio Conference,
2000
1999 Textile Study Group,
Artist in Residence,
1998 The Renwick Museum, workshop and lecture,
Guest Artist,
1997
Mid-Atlantic Fiber Association Conference,
1996 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
1995
1994 Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts,
1993 Split Rock Arts Program,
1992 Visiting Artist,
1991
Basketry from All Directions, Arrowmont,
Basketry Network, Harbourfront,
Council of American Embroiderers,
1989 Midwest Weavers Conference,
1988 Guest Artist,
1987 Basketry Focus '87, Harbourfront Craft
Studios,
1986 Telluride Basketry Symposium, Telluride CO
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