Patricia Wheeler
GALLERY REPRESENTATION 2022:
Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill , Maine
Carver Hill Gallery, CAMDEN, Maine
EXHIBITIONS: painting and mixed media
2022 - 2010: Cynthia Winings Gallery, Blue Hill, Maine, featured artist
2022-2020: Carver Hill Gallery, Camden, Maine
2021-2000: Rowboat Gallery, Pacific City, Oregon
2014: Gallery Within at Reversing Falls Sanctuary: Farm/Art Exchange
2014: Carver Hill Gallery: Balance Point: Patricia Wheeler & J. Fred Woell
2014: Signature Nine Gallery, Roanoke, Virginia: Image/Text-Object: Patricia Wheeler & J. Fred Woell
2013: Aarhus Gallery, Belfast, ME: Reciprocity
2012-2014: Woodwalk Gallery, Door County, WI
2012-2014: Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2012-2016: Chapter Two Gallery, Corea, ME
2011: Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2011: Turtle Gallery, Deer Isle ME: Visual Journals
2010: I-95 Triennial: University of Maine Museum, Bangor, ME
2009: Sitka 16th annual Art Invitational, Portland, Oregon
2009: Spring Box Gallery, Portland, Oregon: Netters
2009: Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, Maine: Distance Forward, J. Fred Woell & Patricia Wheeler
2009: Courthouse Gallery, Ellsworth, Maine: Great Spruce Head Island Residency Exhibition
2008: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon: Lunations
2008: University of Southern Maine, Lewiston, ME: Patricia Wheeler,The Art of Protest
2008: Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME: Traces: Artist's Journals
2006, 2007: Georgetown University School of Law, Washington, D.C. Human Rights Institute: Security Blanket
2006: University of Maine, Orono, ME: paintings and ritual objects
2006: Hudson Museum, Maine Center for the Arts, University of Maine, Orono: Embedded Quilts From the Iraq War
2006: Kentucky Museum of Art & Craft: Living It Large
2005: Dokuz Eylul University: Visions in Textiles 2005: Izmir, Turkey, textile exhibition
2005: College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME: War Flowers: From Swords to Plowshares
2004: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME: Un/Coverings: Maine Contemporary Fiber Survey
2004: University of Maine Presque Isle: Embedded Quilts
2004: Boothbay Harbor Opera House, ME: Maine Contemporary Quilts
2004: Fine Focus’04: National traveling quilt exhibition
2004: Colby College: 20/20 EnVision
2004: TSL GALLERY, Hudson, N.Y.: Fear/Jealousy/Greed
2003: Women’s Caucus For Art, FL: Not Just A Pretty Face
2003: Cambridge Artists’ Cooperative, Boston, MA: Fifth Biannual Book Arts Show
2003: Elan Fine Arts: Rockland, ME: Across The Line, Paintings From Oaxaca
2003: Beginner’s Mind Gallery: Deer Isle, ME: Growing Season
2002: Library of Congress, Wash. D.C.: Permanent Collection
2002: Exit Art: New York City: Reactions
2001: Colby College Waterville, ME: Women in the Arts
2001: Munson Gallery: Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001: Hungarian Consulate: New York City: traveling exhibition
2000: Biennial 2000: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME
2000: University of the Arts: Philadelphia, PA : Deer Isle Six
1997: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME: Plainsong, Six Voices
1997: Between the Muse Gallery: Rockland, ME
1996: Clark Gallery: Lincoln, MA: Thirteen
VIDEO PROJECTS
2008: Oregon College of Art & Craft, premiere: Kathy Kelly: Peace Warrior, video portrait
2007: Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA: Ghost Dance, video, with Meg Wolfe
2007: University of Maine, Farmington: video & lecture, Art & Politics
2007: Maine Urban Projection Project (MUPP) artistic director & founder
2006: Maine Film Festival at the Maine Social forum, presenter
2005: Smithsonian Museum of American Art: video: J. Fred Woell, The Man Who Knew Too Much
2005: Maine Public Access TV: The Iraq War Cloth 2, documentary- occupation of Senator Susan Collin’s Bangor office
2005: Maine Public Access TV: The Iraq War Cloth documentary. (Rep. Tom Allen’s Portland office)
2005: Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, ME: video screening: Intersection
RESIDENCIES/AWARDS
2022: Maine Community Foundation Grant: RFS Currents, Free Art Classes program
2014: Maine Community Foundation Grant, for 2014 RFS Farm/Art Exchange (founder & director)
2011/2012: Artist in Residence: Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Otis, Oregon: 3 1/2 months, painting, assemblage
2008: Artist in Residence: Sitka Center for Art &Ecology, Otis, Oregon: painting & videography: 2 months
2007: Fiber National: Lancaster Museum of Art, PA , cash award
2007: Code Pink, Washington, D.C. week-long residency
2004: Oregon College of Art & Craft, Portland, Oregon: Senior Resident, Painting
2004: Puffin Foundation Grant: Maine Artists Peace Project, founder & director
2004: Robert MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, Maine: Artist in Residence: video, construction & painting
2002: Robert MacNamara Foundation, Westport Island, Maine: Artist in Residence, Westport Island, ME: painting
TEACHING
2022: Reversing Falls Sanctuary, Currents, Free Art Classes funded by Maine Community Foundation’s Expansion Fund
2015: Penland School of Craft, N.C. Painting from the Intuitive, 2 week painting intensive.
2015 through 2000: Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, Portland, OR: mixed media painting : Architecture of Memory, Painting from the Intuitive
2015 through 2005: Sitka Center for Art & Ecology: Otis, OR: mixed media painting: Memento Painting, Painting Archeology
2013: The Penland School of Crafts, N.C. Painting from the Intuitive, 5 day painting intensive
2013: The Studio School, Roanoke, Virginia: Architecture of Memory, 5 day painting intensive
2010: Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME: Mixed media workshop,
2010, '07, 06,'02, : Haystack Mountain School, Deer Isle, ME: high school mentor program, mixed media
2009: Peninsula Art School, Door County, WI: painting intensive
2008: Crealde School of Art, Winter Park, Florida: Architecture of Memory, painting workshop
2007: Haystack Mt. School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine: Architecture of Memory, painting workshop
2006: Hui No’Eau, Makawao, Hawaii: Painting workshop and lecture
2004: Peninsula Art School, Fish Creek, WI: Workshop: Memento Painting
1999: Vermont College: MFA program, Artist/Teacher, Mixed Media
1998: Maine Coast Artists: Rockport, ME: Assemblage with J. Fred Woell
1994: Haystack Mt. School: Deer Isle, ME: Collage/Assemblage
EDUCATION
Rutgers University, B.A. 1982, High Honors, Studio Art