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T.L Solien, born in Fargo North Dakota in 1949, received a BA degree in Art from Moorhead State University, Moorhead MN in 1973, and an MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1977.
Solien has been invited to participate in numerous exhibitions of National and International magnitude including, the 1983 Whitney Biennial, the 39th Biennial of American Painting at the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C.; Avant-Grade in the 80”s, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum NY; Images and Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and Contemporary Drawings, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA.
Solien’s work has been visible in over 35 solo exhibitions in the last 25 years,
and was the subject of a 25 year retrospective titled, “T.L. Solien: Myths and Monsters” organized by the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI.
T.L. Solien has been the recipient of numerous honors, including multiple Bush Foundation and Jerome Foundation fellowships, University of Wisconsin Graduate School Research Grants, and has been named “Outstanding Alumni” at both the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Moorhead State University, MN. In 2008 Solien was awarded a fellowship from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, and in 2010 received a Wisconsin State Arts Board fellowship.
Solien held teaching positions at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT; and the Art Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI. Solien retired from teaching in 2020.
Solien is represented in numerous corporate and public collections including, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Walker Art Center, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Chase Manhattan Bank, Exxon Corporation, New York University, Indiana University Art Museum, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND, and the Chazen Museum, Madison, WI , The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; and the Milwaukee Museum of Art.
Solien is represented by OTI Gallery, Los Angeles CA, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee WI
EDUCATION
1977 M.F.A., University of Nebraska (painting and sculpture) Major Professors: Richard Trickey, Douglas Ross
1973 B.A., Moorhead State University, MN
TEACHING
2005-present Professor 2-D (Painting) Department of Art
2002-2005 Associate Professor, 2-D (Painting) , Department of Art University of Wisconsin-Madison
1997-2002 Assistant Professor, 2-D (Painting), Department of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1996-1997 Visiting Associate Professor (Painting, Drawing, Printmaking), Montana State University, Bozeman
1992-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor (Painting and Drawing), University of Iowa
1991 Visiting Artist (one quarter), The Ohio State University, Columbus
HONORS/GRANTS/AWARDS
2017 University of Wisconsin Arts Institute Award in the Creative Arts
University of Wisconsin WARF named professorship
Graduate Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1997-2017)
2011 Vilas Research Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010 Wisconsin State Arts Board Fellowship 2008 Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in Painting, NY
2005 Emily Mead Baldwin-Bascom Professorship in the Creative Arts
1995 Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
1994 McKnight Foundation Mid-Career" Artist Fellowship, MN
1990 Bush Foundation Artists Fellowship, MN
1988 Best Painter over 30, "Best of Twin Cities", Twin Cities Magazine
1986 McKnight Fellowship, MN
1986 "People to Watch", Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine
1984 Outstanding Young Alumni, Moorhead State University, MN
1982 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship, Studio and Exhibition Program, Paris
1981 Bush Foundation Artists Fellowship, MN 1981 Jerome Foundation Fellowship, MN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Disturbances Foreign and Domestic”. OTI Gallery, Los Angeles CA
TL Solien “A Look At The Sky” Nemeth Art Ccenter, Park Rapids, MN
Curated by Christopher Atkins (postponed due to COVID19)
TL Solien “ Toward the Setting Sun” Levee Contemporary, Princeton WI
(postponed due to COVID19)
2019 T.L. Solien : Forest Fighter/ Black Eye Joke
2017 TL Solien: “The Foreseeable Past Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
TL Solien: “Recent Work” Antonio Columbo Gallery, Milan, IT
2016 TL Solien: Toward the Setting Sun” Visual Art Center, Sioux Falls, SD
2015 TL Solien: “Yesterday, It Was Sunny” Florida Gulf Coast University.
Fort Meyers Florida
2015 TL Solien Recent Work”, Rhinelander Art Center, Rhinelander WI
2014 TL Solien “Toward the Setting Sun”, Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, Nebras
TL Solien “Toward the Setting Sun”, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT
TL Solien “Toward the Setting Sun”, Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska
2013 TL Solien “Toward the Setting Sun” Plains Museum, Fargo ND (traveling)
TL Solien: “the loneliest gods” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2010 TL Solien: “Bogusville”, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
“TL Solien Drawings” Carroll University, WI
"TL Solien" St. Ambrose University, Davenport IA
2009 TL Solien “To the West” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2008 TL Solien “Myths and Monsters” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
2008 “TL Solien: Works on Paper” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee
2007 TL Solien “Drawings 1997-2004” Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2006 TL Solien: “Insulatus” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “TL Solien: Monotypes” Washington University, St. Louis, MO
2005 “TL Solien: Cemetery Stack” Rhodes College, Memphis TN
2004 “TL Solien: Hollow” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “TL Solien: Boiled Over” Museum of Art, Bowling Green University, OH
2003 “TL Solien: Works on Paper” Wilson Center for the Arts, Waukesha Wisconsin
2002 Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia PA
2002 The Print Center, Philadelphia PA
2002 Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2001 "Small Frescoes" Wendy Cooper Gallery, Madison WI
2001 "Nocturnal" The Wisconsin Academy, Madison WI
2000 "Innocence Transfigured" Fassbender Gallery, Chicago IL
1999 Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
1997 Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
1996 Wienstein Gallery, Minneapolis
1994 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
1993 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
1991 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
1990 Des Moines Art Center, IA
1990 Michael Walls Gallery, New York
1989 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1988 Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
1988 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
1987 Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York
1987 van Straaten Gallery, Chicago
1986 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1986 John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
1985 Getler/Pall/Saper Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1984 Cantor/Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 Getler/Pall Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Getler/Pall Gallery, New York
1983 van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Les Pierres Du Minnesota” American Center, Paris FRA
1981 Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis
1980 Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth
1980 Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis
1979 Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis
1979 Minneapolis College of Art and Design
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2020 KIAF Art Fair, Korea (Virtual). OTI Gallery, Los Angeles CA
“The Dog Show” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee WI
“Chroma” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2019 “Nature Morte” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2018 “Mistakes” Gallery Also, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Sarah Abramson
“Big” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
2017 TL Solien/ Sean Gannon, Paris/London/Hong Kong Gallery, Chicago IL
“Ocotillo”, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA
2016 “Super Natural” Kohler Museum of Art, Sheboygan, WI
“Wisconsin Triennial” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
“How High” Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
“
Gotitforcheap”, David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, DK, Steinslandberliner
Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden, Haik Headquarters, Oslo, Norway, Agnes B
Official Gallery, Paris, France
"Wallflowers” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“Faculty Quadrennial”, Chazen Museum, Madison, WI
2015 TL Solien & Ryan Travis Christian, Left Field Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
“Duck” Greenpoint Station Gallery, Brooklyn,NY
“Duck” Matador Project Space, Los Angeles, CA
“Summer in Wisconsin” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2014 “Summer in Wisconsin” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee WI
“25 Years of Tandem Press” Chazen Museum, Madison WI
2013 “Contemporary Collage” Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, WI
“The New Rococco” (3 person exhibition) Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
“Contemporary Prints” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“25th Anniversary Exhibition” Tory Folliard gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2012 "Someone Else’s Dream" Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
‘Design Initiatives” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI
UW Faculty Quadrennial” Chazen Museum, Madison WI
2011 "Small" Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2010 “ Alchemy and Image” Rockford Museum of Art (Solien, Stonehouse, Wilde)
“Apple Pie: Symbols of Americana in the MMOCA Collection”, Madison, WI “MMOCA Design 2010 “
“Human Touch” Joselyn Museum of Art, Omaha, NE
“The White Album”, Plains Museum, Fargo ND
“Selected Vision” James Watrous Gallery, Wisconsin Academy, Madison, WI
“Summer In Wisconsin” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2009 “Pretty, Strange” ,Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
“Something Wicked This Way Comes” Madison Museum of Contemporary Art,
2008 University of Wisconsin Faculty Quadrennial, Chazen Museum, Madison WI
2007 “Rare Birds” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
Pelter Gallery, Greenville, SC
“Luise Ross Gallery NYC: TL Solien, Chynna Marks, John Dilg” Wake Forest, North Carolina
2006 “Fun” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
“Human Touch”, ICA-Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Darling Projects” Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago
“Drawn” Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas TX
2005 “Chicago International Art Exposition”, Chicago, IL
“Welcome” Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2004 “Decades” Wisconsin Academy of Art, Madison, WI
“Portrait: Investigation of Self” Camberwell College of Art, The London Institute; University of West England, Bristol; University of Utah, Salt Lake City ; Montana State University, Bozeman
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
“Collectors Exhibition” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas
“Nebraska Printmakers” Great Plains Gallery, UNL-Lincoln, NE
“Tooth and Nail”, Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
“Strange Presences” Tory Folliard Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2003 “University of Wisconsin-Madison Faculty Quadrennial, Elvehjem Museum Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY
2003 WAM ( Jon Oulman Gallery) Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis MN
2003 US/ Great Britain Print Exhibition (organized by Montana State University)
2002 Chicago International Art Exposition at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
2001 “ Cartoons, Dolls and Childrens Stories” Delta Axis/Marshall Arts Gallery, Memphis, TN
2000 Chicago International Art Exposition at Navy Pier, Chicago IL.
"New Acquisitions" Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
"Gallery Artists" Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
1999 "15x15"x30" Fassbender Gallery, Chicago
“Gallery Artists” Wienstien Gallery, Minneapolis
1998 Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Game of Chance ,Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Game of Chance, Rockford College Art Gallery, Rockford, IL
Game of Chance, Santa Monica College Art Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
25th Anniversary Exhibition, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago
“Gallery Artists” Wienstien Gallery, Minneapolis
1997 Game of Chance, Printworks Gallery, Chicago
Game of Chance, Suzanne Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
Tyler Graphics Archive, Center for Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Landfall Press: a Survey, Milwaukee Museum of Art
Museum Without Walls, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Prints from the Minneapolis Art Institute, American Embassy, Tokyo, Japan
1995 “ Bewildered Image2”, T.L. Solien, Lance Kiland, Minneapolis Art Institute
Printmaking in America: The Collaborative Print and Presses 1960-1990,
Bloch Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
McKnight Fellows Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
University of Iowa Faculty Exhibition, Museum of Art, University of Iowa
1994 “The Moderns: 20th Century Art From the Permanent Collection, RISD
Museum, Providence RI
1992 Little Jewels, John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Ohio State University, Columbus
Works in Edition: Recent Releases, John C. Stoller & Co., Minneapolis
“100 Years of American Prints” Sheldon Museum, Lincoln NE
1991 “The Art of this Century: Painting, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts from the
Permanent Collection” RISD Museum, Providence, RI
1990 Chicago International Art Exposition at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
1989 The 1980's: Selections From the Joshua P. Smith Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Contemporary Drawings”, High Museum of Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
1989 Gallery Artists, Michael Walls Gallery, NY 1988 First Impressions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1987 “Avant-Garde in the Eighties”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
1987 Selections From the Frederick Weismann Collection, Baltimore Museum (and traveling)
1986 Chicago International Art Exposition at Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
First Bank Collection, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
First Artist Portfolio, Chemical Bank, NY
Eight McKnight Artists, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Selections: Gallery Artists, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, NY
1986 National Print Invitational, Anchorage, AK
State of the Art: Recent Acquisitions, Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
New Acquisitions: Works on Paper, Walker Art Center, MN Boston Collects, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
“Saints and Sinners”, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Contemporary Graphics: Sheldon Selection” Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, NE
1984 39th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, Corcoran Museum, Washington, DC
“Images and Impressions”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
24x24, Ruth Siegal Gallery, NY
“ Drawings”, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, NY
The American Artist as Printmaker, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
“Contemporary Prints”, Delahunty Gallery, Dallas
1982 The Bewildered Image, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
1981 General Mills Art Collection, Lock Haven Center, Orlando, FL
1981 Prints and Multiples, Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis
1977 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1976 Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, NE
1975 Ohio State University, Columbus University of Tennessee, Knoxville
COLLECTIONS
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Milwaukee Museum of Art
American Express Company
Bank America Collection
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
First Bank of Minneapolis
Des Moines Art Center
Sheldon Memorial Gallery, University of Nebraska
General Mills Company
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Indiana University Art Museum
Plains Art Museum, Fargo ND
North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota
University of Iowa Museum of Art
Rutgers University
Chazen Museum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pepperdine University
Art Institute of Chicago
National Museum of American Art, Washington DC
Smithsonian, Washington DC
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Prudential Insurance Company
Rhode Island School of Design
The Rivendell Collection
Tyler Graphics Collection
Walker Art Center
Frederick Weismann Foundation
Whitney Museum of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tate Gallery, London
Singapore Art Museum
Oak Park Public Library, IL
The Sheldon Museum, Lincoln NE