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Colleen Buzzard              

buzzardcolleen@gmail.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023    Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, On the Verge, Rochester, NY

2022    Anderson Arts Building, Shaping Voids, Rochester, NY

2020    Frontispace, Granularities, Art and Music Library at Rush Rhees,  University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2017    Davison Gallery, Roberts Wesleyan College, Angle of Repose, Rochester, NY 

2017    Buffalo Arts Studio, Entangled, Tri-Main Center, Buffalo, NY

2015    Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College Frames of Mind, Rochester, NY

2011    Anderson Arts Building, Perturbations, installation, Rochester, NY

2006    Studio 354, Language Lab, installation, Hungerford Building, Rochester, NY

2006    Rochester Contemporary, Making Sense, installation projection, Rochester, NY

2000    Rush Rhees Art Library Gallery, Colleen Buzzard: Recent Works, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY   
1998    Whitelyes Atrium Gallery, 19 works by Colleen Buzzard, Bayswater, London, UK

1991    St.Bartholomew’s Hospital, Colleen Buzzard: Works on Paper, London, UK

OTHER SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2019    Memorial Art Gallery, 66th Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Award Winner Rochester, NY

2018    Main Street Arts, Upstate New York Drawing Invitational, Six Contemporary Artists, Clifton Springs, NY

2017    Tower Fine Arts Gallery, Thinking About Drawing, SUNY Brockport College, curated by Jim Morris, Invitational, Brockport, NY

2016    Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Amid/In WNY, Part Seven, Invitational, Buffalo, NY

2015    Schweinfurth Memorial Art Gallery, Water Effect, Invitational, Auburn, NY

2014    Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Cartography:  Artists as Map Makers, Invitational, Auburn, NY

2014    Gallery 50, Invitational, Toronto, Canada

2013    King St. Stephen Museum, Fifth International Artists' Book Exhibition, Invitational,  Székesfehérvár, Hungary

2013    Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Made in NY 2013, Juried, Auburn, NY

2010    Anderson Arts Building, Confluence; smack, dab, confab, Collaborative Installation with C. Kelly,  M. O’Connor, & C. Buzzard, Rochester, NY

2009    Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Made in NY 2009, Invitational, Auburn, NY

2008    Mercer Gallery Wall Project, And So It Goes, Invitational, Rochester, NY 

2007    Rochester Contemporary Art Center Lab Space, Transformations: Artists and Scientists Collaborate, Invitational,  Rochester, NY

2007    Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Drawing on Purpose, Invitational, Auburn, NY

2007    Rochester Philharmonic by Invitation, Contemporary Recreation of Modest Mussorgsky 1874 “Pictures at An Exhibition”

2005    Hartnett Gallery, Regional Invitational Exhibition, University of Rochester, NY

2005    Rochester Contemporary Art Center, (un)bound, Juried, Rochester, NY

2004    Rochester Contemporary Lab Space, Reiterations:  C. Buzzard, A. Havens, N. Topolski, Rochester, NY 

1996    Hoxton Hall, Women’s Photography, Invitational, London, UK

1996    National Trust Sutton House Gallery, Meta, group show, London, UK

1995    Tram Depot Gallery, Stitches in Time, 2-person show, Clapton, London, England

1989    Metropole Arts Centre Gallery, BAG, Juried, Folkstone, UK

1988    Art Works Space, Uncommon Places, 2-person show, London, UK

 

ARTIST COLLABORATIONS

2017    Meditations on Mapping in 7 venues with Karen Sardisco, curatorial and art work

2016    “Reflections” film by Johannes Bockwoldt, Rochester Fringe Festival

2011    Installation, Confluence, smack, dab, confab, with Cinda Kelly and Martha O’Connor

2007    An Edition Among 6, with Havens, Jacobson, McCarney, A. Topolski, N. Topolski

2006    Transformation, Portfolio Print Project with 16 artists, Southern Graphics     Conference, Il

2003    Rochester Contemporary Commemorative Folio, six artists, Rochester, NY

2003    BOA Editions, Electronic Virtual Arts Library, Rochester, NY

PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

2023     Artist’s talk, On the Verge, Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY

2020    Artist’s talk, Granularities, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

2017    Points of Departure, Meditations on Mapping, Catalogue and essays, sponsored by Mercer Gallery, Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY

2017    The Smoke of Horses, Poems by Charles Raffery, BOA Editions, Cover art, 

2016    Fringe Project Film interview, Merged IV, Johannes Bockwoldt

2013    Pecha Kucha Talk, Invitational, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY

2013    No Need of Sympathy, Poems by Fleda Brown, BOA Editions, Cover Art

2012    Cancer Cell, Cover art, May 2012

2012    Cell Reports, Inaugural Issue, Cover art, Jan. 2012

2011    Remnants of Another Age, by Nikola Madzirov, BOA Editions, Cover Art

2010    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, June 2010

2010    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, Feb. 2010

2010    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, Jan. 2010

2009    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, June 2009

2009    One Thousand Pieces, by Alexis Lathem, Finishing Line Press, Cover art

2008    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, Dec. 2008

2007    Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, Cover art, Nov. 2007

CURATORIAL

inside/out, An exhibition of 13 artists exploring place and identity for Rochester Biennial, Current Seen, 2019

Points of Departure; Meditations on Mapping in 7 Venues, Mercer Gallery of Monroe Community College, Rochester Institute of Technology Sunken Gallery, University of Rochester Art and Music Library Gallery, Dept of Rare Books, & Art and Music Library, Rochester Contemporary Art Center Lab Space, Visual Studies Workshop,  co-curated with Karen Sardisco, August – November 2017 

PRESS/AWARDS

INDA 15, Manifest International Drawing Annual 15, upcoming, Summer 2024

Elmer Louis Award, Memorial Art Gallery, 2019

Main Street Arts, online Inside the Artist’s Studio 2018

Amid/In WNY, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, curated by Kyle butler, John Massier, Rebecca Wing, Catalogue and writings, 2016

The Post Standard, “CNY artists well represented in ‘Made in NY’ “ by Katherine Rushworth, 4/28/2013

 

COLLECTIONS

Special Collections:

Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Drawing on Maps, 

(Artist’s Book) & 2 collaborative folios 

King St. Stephen Museum, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, the knowledge (Artist’s Book)

Private collections in the UK, Germany, and USA

COMMUNITY 

Ongoing Exhibitions in Colleen Buzzard Studio: mostly solo shows of over 70 invited artists, 2010 to present

2022        Invited Juror, University of Rochester, Undergraduate Show, Department of Art and Art History, Hartnett Gallery

2021-present    Visual Studies Workshop, Board of Directors, Rochester, NY

2019        Invited curator, Rochester Biennial Current Seen, a City Arts Festival

2016-present    Edge Award at Rochester Contemporary Arts Center, sponsor and judge

2015        Invited Juror, Monroe Community College, Student Art Exhibition

2011        Invited Juror, University of Rochester, Undergraduate Show, Department  of Art and Art History, Hartnett Gallery

2008-2019           Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Board of Directors

2004-2007           Program Committee, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center

2004        Acting Interim Co-Director, Rochester Contemporary Arts Center

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