Biography

Biography

BILL AMUNDSON

Staughton, WI

EDUCATION

1975 B.S. Degree in Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison

SOLO and TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2011 “Blurred Vision,” Plus Gallery, Denver, CO (forthecoming - October)
2010 “Wanted: Will Bill Amundson,” Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 “Urban Landscapes-Gary Sweeney and Bill Amundson,” Palo Alto College, San Antonio, Texas
2009 “Brave New World,” Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 “Drawings”, Cloyd Snook Gallery, Adams State College, Alamosa, CO
2008 “Disabled Development”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2008 “Misreading the Signs: Drawings by Bill Amundson”, Smokebrush Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2008 “Loose Connections: Gary Sweeney- Bill Amundson”, Big Medium Gallery, Austin, TX
2008 “Disabled Development: William Amundson”, Brayham Contemporary Art, Toronto, ON, Canada
2007 “Disabled Development: Drawings by Bill Amundson”, Todd Madigan Gallery, Bakersfield, CA
2007 “Colorado Landscape II: Suburban Graffiti”, Wall Drawing/Installation, RMCAD, Denver, CO
2006 “Bill Amundson: Drawings”, Joan Grona Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2006 “Bill Amundson: Nervous Patriot”, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Bill Amundson: Drawings”, PII Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2005 “Bill Amundson: Drawings for the New Millenium”, Intimate Gallery, Lincon Center, Fort Collins, CO
2004 “Baby you can drive my car” (with Phil Bender), Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
2004 “Bill Amundson: Confessions of a Suburban Redgionalist”, Hoag Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2004 “Images from the New West”, West Gallery, CSU-Northridge, Northridge, CA
2003 “Open House- New Drawings and Constructions by Bill Amundson”, Ironton Studios, Denver, CO
2003 “Landscapes, Neighborhoods, Portraits and Franchises”, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCAD, Denver, CO
2002 “Drawings”, Eye Lounge Gallery, Phoenix, AZ
2002 “Colorado Landscape”, Treasure Chest, Pirate Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 “Art Stuff II- The Sequel”, Red Shift Gallery, Denver, CO
1999 “Drawings”, Gammage Auditorium Galleries, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1998 “Portraits and Playlands”, Intimate Gallery, Licolin Center, Fort Collins, CO
1997 “Billboards and Playlands”, Zip 37 Gallery, Denver, CO
1996 “Self Portraits of Men”, Zip 37 Gallery, Denver, CO
1995 “Landscapes, Neighborhoods, Still Lives and Restaurants”, Zip 37 Gallery
1993 “Kitchen Magicians & Other Suburban Realities (with Lanny Feiger)”, New Gallery, Rapid City, SD
1991 “Fifteen Years of Confusion:Drawings and Constructions 1976-1991”, Tointon Gallery, Greeley, CO
1990 “Confessions of a Suburban Regionalist”, Alpha Gallery, Denver, CO
1988 “Outside In: Landscapes, Interiors and Curios”, Lovelande Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
1986 “Bill Amundson: Sculpture and Drawings”, Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center, Pueblo, CO
1984 “Sub-Suburban”, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, CO
1983 “Art Stuff II”, Main & Class of 1925 Galleries, Memorail Union, University of Wisconson, Madison, WI
1982 “Art Stuff”, Center Gallery, Lory Student Center, CSU, Fort Collins, CO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 “Objectophelia,” Capsule Gallery / MCA Denver, Denver, CO
2010 “A Sense of Humor,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (forthecoming, summer 2010)
2010 “Under the Big Top,” Parchman Stremmel Gallery, San Antonio, TX (Curated by Gary Sweeney)
2010 “Timmy Flynn's Hardware Store,” Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
2010 “Face to Face,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2010 “Icebreaker: The Best of the Rino District,” Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO
2009 “Twirling Dali's Moustache (Local Artists Go Surreal!),”Loveland Museum and Gallery, Loveland, CO
2009 “The Colored Pencil,” William and Florence Schmidt Art Center, Southwestern Illinois College, Belleville, IL
2009 “The Masters ReMastered,” Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2009 “Draw the Line,” Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2008 “Seductive Gesture: Figurative Drawing from the American Collection”, Manley Gallery, Colorado Springs, CO
2008 “Focus: The figure”, Modern and Contemporary Galleries, Hamilton Building, DAM, Denver, CO
2008 “The House that Sprawl Built”, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, NJ
2008 “Poop Deck Project 3: FAILURE”, The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar, Lakewood, CO
2007 “CU Faculty Exhibitions”, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2007 “CCD Biennial- Faculty Art Show”, Emmanual Gallery, Metro State University, Denver, CO
2007 “REALationships: Works of Surreal Inspiration”, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
2006 “Nature of Things/Things in Nature”, Art Students League of Denver, Denver, CO
2006 “The Dog and Pony Show”, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
2006 “The Making of Dust: 1 Poem + 21 Artist Interpretations”, Weilworks Gallery, Denver, CO
2006 “Food: A feastful exhibit of hunger and satisfaction”, Sliding Door Gallery, Denver, CO
2006 “Drawn to Scale”, Spokane Falls Community College Art Gallery, Spokane, WA
2006 “I <3 the Burbs”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 “More than one Picasso”, Loveland Museum/Gallery, Loveland, CO
2005 “missionCreep.com LIVE”, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 “Strangely Familiar”, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
2004 “Scene Colorado/Sin Colorado”, DAM, Denver, CO
2004 “100 Drawings”, Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2004 “Colored Pencil”, KS Art, New York, NY
2001 “10th Annual Colorado Governor's Art Show & Sale”, Loveland Museum and Galleries, Loveland, CO
2000 “Past Revisited”, Loveland Museum and Galleries, Loveland, CO
1999 “Family Impressions”, Arvada Center for Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
1999 “1999 Art Equinox- A regional servay of Contemporary Art”, Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MO
1998 “DRAW”, Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus Denver, CO
1997 “Art and Provocation: Images from Rebels”, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
1996 “Colorado Artists – Recent Acquisitions”, Modern & Contemporary Department, Close Range Gallery,
Denver Art Museum Denver, Colorado
1996 “Pencil Pushers-Contemporary Art in Colored Pencil”, CORE New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
1992 “Found Objects”, Loveland Museum & Galleries, Loveland, Colorado
1988 “A Mix of Humor”, Elder Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
1988 “An Exhibition of Small Works”, The School of Art at the University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
1987 “The Colorado Drawing Show”, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
1986 “Image Wars – An Exhibition of Oppositional Art”, Curated by Lucy Lippard, The Center for Idea Art, Denver, CO
1981 “Four Artists”, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado
1980 “Wood Wisconsin”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

RECENT ARTICLES

2009 “Art's neurotic everyman Bill Amundson edges into the frame at Plus Gallery,” by Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post, July 10
2008 “Artist’s Work Satirizes Consumer Culture,” by Ron Schira, Reading Eagle, September 17
2008 “Sending up Suburbia”, by Frances Gomeztagle, Colorado Springs Independent, May 1
2008 “Good Reasons to Take the 501”, by Leah Sandals, Toronto National Post, February 23
2007 “White Man Art: Bill Amundson Captures Suburbia in All it’s Glory”, by Amelia Ishmael-Boulder Weekly, June
2006 “Home Grown Talent Spreads Its Roots”, by Kyle MacMillan - Denver Post, June 30
2006 “American Suburbia: Private Realms Public Reality”, Catalogue Essay by Ellen J. Keiter, Curator for “I Y the Burbs”,
January
2006 “Drawn to Scale” – Show Essay by Louise Lewis, Director of CSUN Art Galleries, February
2004 “Drawn To Humor” – Pueblo Chieftain, Sunday, February 18
2003 “Bill Amundson: Living Large, Drawing Small” – Go-Go Magazine, January 9-22
2001 “At Home with Bill Amundson” – Westword, September 20
2001 “Helping Colorado Laugh at Itself” - Denver Rocky Mountain News, July 5

PUBLIC LECTURES

2008 What’s So Funny About Art? Denver Colorado Artposium, sponsored by the Colorado Art Ranch October 3-4
2008 Smokebrush Gallery, Colorado Springs – “Slogging Through It”, May 22
2004 National Art Education Association National Conference, Denver, April 17
2003 Arapahoe Community College Art Department, April
2002 Metro Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, May
2002 Art Student’s League of Denver, March
2001 Rocky Mountain College of Art & Design, November
2001 Colorado Art Education Association Annual Fall Conference, October
PUBLIC LECTURES continued
2001 Denver Art Museum, May
2000 Colorado State University, November

AWARDS

2010 AFKEY Award - Denver Art Museum's DAM Contemporaries, Denver, CO
2004 Merit Award – Cherry Creek Arts Festival, Denver, CO
2004 Belmar Arts District Achievement Award
2002 Juror’s Award – Celebrate Colorado Artist’s Festival
2000 First Place Drawing – Celebrate Colorado Artist’s Festival

COMMISSIONS

2010 Mellow Mushroom, Denver, CO
2009 Denver Theatre District, DPAC Billboard, Denver, CO
2006 City of Aurora, Aurora, Colorado 2005
First Community Bank of Denver, Denver, CO
2000-2001 Jeppesen Corporation, Englewood, CO