CONTACT INFORMATION:

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email: carmen@raincollective.com

612-518-9447

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Carmen Gutiérrez-Bolger is a Cuban-born painter working in Northeast Minneapolis. Carmen’s abstractions are inspired by photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. She paints images of the heavens because she sees a reflection of all life in the cosmos. “With my art I explore my various and sometimes competing cultural perspectives – it helps me to feel connected.”

Carmen is currently exploring mixed-media and installation and is continuing to use her art to further her process of self identification and self realization.

EDUCATION:

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
University of Minnesota Split Rock Arts Program 2006/2005/2000/1999

EXHIBITIONS and JURIED SHOWS:

2008 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Situations, Juried Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN.
          Collaborative Installation: Conceived and Curated with Suzanne Skon –
          44 Minnesota artists participating
          Publication: The Hand to Hand Project: A Collaboration - a 134 page, self-published           book illustrating the installation: Hand to Hand
2008 Altered Esthetics Gallery, Midwest Sanctuary, Juried Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN.
2007 Casket Arts Building, Cuba/USA: Memories and Myths, Solo Exhibition, Mpls, MN.
2007/2005 Minnesota State Fair - 96th and 94th Annual Fine Arts Juried Exhibition
2007/2006/2005/2004 The Figure Show, Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts, Mpls, MN.
2007/2006/2005/2004 The Keg House Collective Group Show, Minneapolis, MN.
2005 Minnesota State Fair – 94th Annual Fine Arts Juried Exhibition, St. Paul, MN.
2005 Homewood Studios Gallery, Concordance, Minneapolis, MN.
2003 Minnetonka Ctr. for the Arts, Juried Figure Exhibition, The Figure Show, Wayzata, MN.
2003 Homewood Studios Gallery, Figuratively Speaking, Minneapolis, MN.
2003 Babylon Gallery, Images of War, Minneapolis, MN.
2002 Homewood Studios Gallery, Nudes:  Go Figure, Minneapolis, MN.
2001 WomenVenture, Women’s Voices, Women’s Vision, St. Paul, MN.
2001 Chicano Latino Arts Center and Museum, CreAmericas, Minneapolis, MN.

AWARDS:

2006 Honorable Mention
          Intermedia Arts, WARM Juried Show, Conversations: About Roots, Minneapolis, MN.
2005 Spanish Literacy Project Grant
          Arts for Academic Achievement, Minneapolis Public Schools, Fowell Middle School,
          Minneapolis, MN.
2003 University of Minnesota, Larson Art Gallery, MaleSurvivor Conference Juried Exhibition,
          Second Place The Healing Power of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
2002 Honorable Mention
          College of Visual Arts Gallery, WARM 23rd Annual Juried Exhibition,
          Women Imaging Peace and Freedom, St. Paul, MN.

FILM:

1999 Co-Producer: Puente de Almas (Bridge of Souls) – a feature length documentary           based on my family’s exile from Cuba.
2000 Screening of Puente de Almas at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival.
2000 D. L. Mabery Film/Video Awards – Feature Films Finalist

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:

Member of NEMAA (Northeast Minneapolis Artists Association)
Member of The Minneapolis Drawing Workshop’s Tuesday Co-op
Member of WARM (Women’s Art Registry of Minnesota)
Member of the Rain Collective