Artist CV

MICHAEL BAUERMEISTER 

EDUCATION

Minneapolis College of Art and Design  1975-76
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture-Kansas City Art Institute, 1979

EXHIBITIONS, ETC.

Curator for “Form and Content-Beyond the Empty Vessel” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2009
Commissioned to create panels for entry to Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO, 2009
“Wood 3” harrison Gallery, Key West Florida,2009
“Michael Bauermeister” (solo show) Sherrie Gallerie Columbus Ohio 2009
“A Perfect Marriage:Wood into Color” (invitational, catalogue)SOFA Chicago,IL, 2008
“Over the Edge, Woodturning into Sculpture” (catalogue) Prichard Gallery, Moscow,ID, 2008
“Steeped in Color” solo show, Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2008
“Silent Conversations” (juried, catalogue) Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO 2007
“Shy Boy, She Devil, and Isis”(invitaional, catalogue)Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 2007
“Nights in Rodanthe”  work in included in Warner Bros. film  2008
“Vortex 2006”solo show Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2006
Carol Duke Award Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA 2006
“Wood Vessels and Sculpture” solo show University Art Center, Lincoln, NE 2005
Solo Show, Craft Alliance, St. Louis, MO, 2005
“Whole Grain, Sculptural Wood” (invitational) SOFA, Chicago, IL, 2004
“Tree of Life”(invitational)The Woodturning Center  Philadelphia, PA 2004
First Place St. Louis Art Fair, St. Louis, Mo. 2004, 2005
“Nature Transformed” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, 2004
“One Step Back Two Steps Forward”(invitational) Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2003
“A Tribute to Rude Osolnick” Kentucky Museum of Art and Design, Louisville, 2003
“Craft Forms 2003” (invitaional) Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA 2003
“Planting, Potting and Pruning” Racine Art Museum, (invitaional)  2003
“CraftHouston 2003” Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (catalogue)
25th Annual Contemporary Crafts (Purchase Award) Mesa Arts Center,Mesa,AZ 2003, 2004
“The Nature of Craft” Craft Alliance,(invitaional) St. Louis, Mo. 2003
Visiting Artist, Virginia Commonwealth University, November, 2002
“Best of Wood” award American Craft Exposition, Evanston, IL 2002
Commissioned to create Missouri Arts Awards 2002
Smithsonian Craft Show, Washington, DC  2002, 2003, 2007
Niche Award 2002
“Blurring the Line: Where Vessel and Sculpture Meet” Craft Alliance, St. Louis, Mo. 2002 
“Nuances d’ete”  Carlin Gallery, Paris, France 2001
“New Talent in Crafts” (4-person)Wustum Museum, Racine, WI, 2000
“Wood Invitational”American Art Co. Tacoma, WA  2000-2008
“Studio Wood the New Frontier” (invitational) Patina Gallery, Santa Fe, NM  2000
“Defining Vessels” Chico Art Center, Chico, CA 2000
“Sculpture & Fine Crafts” (Reinhardt Prize) St. Louis Artists’ Guild 2000
Award of Excellence ACC Baltimore, Winter 2000
“Wood and Form” (solo show) Iowa Artisan’s Gallery, Iowa City, 1999
“Stone Series” (solo show) Sloan-Jordan Gallery, Austin, TX 1999
Solo exhibit-Camden Fine Art Center, Camden, South Carolina August, 1999
“Turned Wood” (invitational) Del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  1999-2008
Solo exhibit-Kansas City Art Institute, Nov. 1998
“SOFA Chicago” Navy Pier Chicago, IL 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 ,2004,2005
“Michael Bauermeister Tall Vessel Series” (solo show)Grovewood Gallery, Asheville, NC, 1997 “Jahresmesse Kunsthandwerk 96’” Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg,1996 (invitated) 
“Michael Bauermeister Carved Bowl Series” (solo show)Bluestem Gallery, MO  Nov. 1995

COLLECTIONS

Smithsonian Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington D.C.
University of Michigan Museum, Ann Arbor
Mesa Museum of Contemporary Art, Mesa AZ
Ron and Anita Wornick
Arthur and Jane Mason
Bob Bohlen

PUBLICATIONS

Wood Art Today 2 by Jeffery Snyder,  Schiffer Publications 2010
Masters-Woodturning, by Jim Christianson, Lark Books 2009
500 Wood Bowls by Ray Leier and Jan Peters,  Lark Books, 2004
Wood Art Today by Dona Meilach, Schiffer Publications 2003
Scratching the Surface by Michael Hosaluk, North Light Books 2002
Object Lessons, Guild Publications, 2001
American Craft, June,1995