KOMENT BIO

ELLEN KOMENT
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:
EncausticWorks 2012, edited by Joanne Mattera, available June 2012
Encaustic Art Institute online Magazine, June 2012
“Art & Letters, Love & Desires” Ellen Koment & Jack Leissring
Architectural Digest, Oct 2010
New Mexico Magazine, Oct 2010

RECENT EVENTS:
Montserrat Encaustic Conference, Presenter: June 2010:
“Working Large in Encaustic”
R&F Encaustics “Artist of the Month”, March, 2010
Artists Talk on Art, Panel Moderator, NYC, Oct, 2009: “Encaustic Today”

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITS
Box Gallery, Santa Fe, July, 2010 “Juxtaposed”,
Box Gallery, Santa Fe, 2008 “Recent Paintings”
Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, 2005 Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, 2004
Helix Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, 2000
Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, 1997 Cynthia Woody Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona, January 1997 Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1996 Ebert Gallery, San Francisco, California 1995 Vita Gallery, Portland, Oregon 1994 Shapiro Jameson Gallery, San Francisco, California 1991 Pheonix College Art Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona1991 J. Noblett Gallery, Sonoma, California 1990, 1988, 1987 Clatsop College Gallery, Astoria, Oregon 1987 Piper Sonoma, Healdsburg, California 1986 Solano College Gallery, Fairfield, California 1984 The Annex Gallery, Santa Rosa, California 1983

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Miniatures and More, Albuquerque Museum, 2012
"Waxed" IMA Museum, San Juan Island, 2012
"Abstracts", Karan Ruhlen Gallery, 2012
“Tryptich Show”, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2010
“Global Currency Exchange”, Oslo Open, Oslo, Norway, 2010
Zane Bennett Contemporary, encaustics 2009
Originals 2007, Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM ENCAUSTIC Waxlander Gallery 2001, 2002
Women Artists of New Mexico, National Museum of Women in the Arts, @ Lewallen Gallery, Santa Fe, 1999, ENCAUSTIC
Cup Show, Karan Ruhlen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1999, ENCAUSTIC
Moxley/Ross Naranjo Santa Fe, NM 1998
Santa Fe International Academy of Art, 1997
Animals, Waxlander Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico 1996
Fenix Gallery, Taos, New Mexico 1995 Annual Exhibit, The Oregon Arts Council, Salem, Oregon 1993 Introductions, Solomon Dubnick Gallery, Sacramento, California 1992 Opening/Closing, Artspace, Los Angeles, California 1991 Balance Brought Forward, Artspace, Los Angeles, California 1991 Arts 1990, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California 1990 Arts 1989, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa, California 1989 Painting Invitational, Bowery Gallery, New York City, New York 1988 Four Artists, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California 1988The San Francisco Arts Festival Juried Exhibit, San Francisco, California 1984 Juried Exhibition, The Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California 1969
New Painters, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF,CA, 1967,

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
1998 Gottlieb Foundation Emergency Assistance Grant
1997 Creative Work Grant, University of New Mexico 1994 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant
1991 Sonoma County Visual Artist's Grant (NEA)
1986 Helene Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant
1983 McDonald Mansion, Stained Glass Commission Helen Wurlitzer Foundation Residency Grant
REVIEWS
Pasatiempo, New Mexican, April 1996 Pasatiempo, New Mexican, February 1996 Painting for Katy "Bird" Magnunsen, Artweek, Jan 1993 Landscapes, Press Democrat, 1990 Four Artists, Oakland Tribune, 1985 New Painters at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA 1966
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Santa Fe Community College (presently) University of New Mexico College of Santa Fe Western Oregon State College Santa Rosa Junior College

EDUCATION M.A. Painting, UC Berkeley, 1983 BFA Cooper Union Art School, New York City

ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOPS:
Private workshops in encaustic. 1994-present http://www.nmencausticworkshops.blogspot.com







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