Curriculum Vitae
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton Street, Xarts 012
(415) 422-5657, edhongisto@usfca.edu
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Education:
1999 Yale University School of Art, MFA, Painting/Printmaking
1998 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
1997 Maine College of Art, BFA, Painting
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Research:
Awards, Grants and Honorariums:
2021 Faculty Development Awards for Research and Scholarly Travel, USF, 2006-present.
2010 Graves Award in the Humanities
2009 Affiliate Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts
2008 Collaborative Student Research Stipend, USF, 2008, 2009
2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, for work in the field of
Painting and Installation
Alumni Visiting Artist, Printmaking Alumni Print Collaboration Artist
Keynote Speaker, MECA, Portland, ME
2005 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, for work in the field of Painting and Installation
NYC, Percent for Art alternate for schools IS/HS 362, PS93
2003 Special Editions, Printmaking Residency, Lower Eastside Printshop, NY
2002 NEA Grant for C.W.O.S through Artspace, New Haven CT.
N.Y.F.A. Painting Fellowship
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship, Residency
CAA 9/11 Fellowship
2001 Robert Florsheim Fellowship
Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Residency
2000 Dieu Donne Papermill, Workspace Program Residency
1999 Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award, Yale University
(for excellence in landscape painting)
1998 Binney / Smith Materials Grant
Nathaniel Saltonstall Memorial Fellowship, Scholarship
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1997 Bouton Barret Award
Charles E. Culpeper Award
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Selected One Person and Group Art Exhibitions:
2023 Adapting to Wildfire, Marin Civic Center Galleries, San Rafael, CA
If I’d known then, Triennial Faculty Exhibition, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF
2022 Collapse, whatsnextforearth.com
2021 Favorite Things: TREES, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, CA
2020 Studio Visit: Triennial Faculty Exhibition, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF
2018 Eye4Adventure, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2017 Superstruct, One-person exhibition, Rooftop Sculpture Terrace, USF, SF
2016 The Finnish & Finnish American Collection, ArtStart, Inc, Rhinelander, WI
Art Hotel, M5Arts, Sacramento, CA
2015 Cangiantismo, One-person exhibition, 24th Anniversary, Finnish-American
Artist Series, Finlandia University, Hancock, MI
2014 Square Fibs, One-person exhibition, Janalyn Hanson Gallery, Mount
Mercy University, Cedar Rapids, IA
Magic Window, Evans Contemporary, Peterborough, Ontario, CA
Painting Now, SUVA, Tucson, AZ
It’s Alive, Compound Gallery, Oakland, CA
Steamed, Triennial Faculty Exhibition, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF
2012 Repetition/Delirium, Maupin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Annual Art Auction, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
2010 Triennial Faculty Exhibition, Thacher Gallery, USF, SF, CA
Summer Solstice Benefit, Philagrafika, Locks Gallery Philadelphia, PA
Monoprint Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
PLATFORM 2: Black Swan Event (one-person exhibition), deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalogue)
2009 Fall Open House, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Aggregrate, Alumni Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Art, MECA, Portland, ME
This and That, Triple Base Gallery, SF, curated by Christine Wong Yap,
Monoprint Marathon, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose
2008 Bloom, 51 Gallery, MCLA, North Adams, MA
Strange Fruit”, Autobody Contemporary Art, Alameda CA (inaugural exhibition)
The Burmese-American Art Exchange, Myanmar Institute of Theology New Treasure Gallery, Rangoon, Burma
Between the Lines, Thacher Gallery, USF, San Francisco CA
2007 Nothing but space, (3 person exhibition),Bucheon Gallery, SF, CA
Jewcy . Com (inactive)
Looser, Smoother, Faster, Westchester C.C. Art Gallery
Seven Meca Painters, June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, ME
2006 Painting Potluck, Maine College of Art, Porteous Window Collaboration
Activator, Bates Museum of Art, Lewiston, ME (Catalogue)
2005 Unrehearsed Acts, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum, Flushing Meadows, Corona Park, NY
Chicago Art Fair, through Rudolph Projects, Houston, TX
2004 Impact: New Mural Projects, PPOW Gallery, NYC
Playpen, drawing performance, Drawing Center, NYC
Curator’s Choice, Curated by Lilly Wei, selected by Stephanie Cash, Black and White Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Faculty Exhibition, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, MT (Catalogue)
2003 Influence, Faculty Exhibition, MSU-Bozeman, Copeland Gallery, Bozeman, MT
On and Off the Wall, NYFA Painters Fellowship Exhibition, Phillip Auction House, NY
Escape from New York, NJCVA, Summit, NJ (curated by J. Murrison) (Catalogue)
Seven Walls, Eight Views, Arena Gallery
Accumulated Destiny, Untitled Space, New Haven CT
Eric Hongisto, Jim Gaylord, PS 122 gallery, NYC (two-person exhibition)
Art works made as paper and on paper, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Dumbo, NY
2002 Hudson Walker Gallery, Provincetown MA (solo exhibition)
CWOS, Artist space, New Haven CT
Scratch, Arena Gallery, NYC
Painting Lately, Henry St. Settlement Abrons Art Center, NYC
Looking In, LMCC Window Front Show, 50 Murray St., NYC
Emerging Artist Fellowship, Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY
Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, NY
Pfawc!!, Mills Gallery, Boston Center For the Arts, MA
DNA@DNA: Genetic Imprints, DNA Gallery, Provincetown MA
Paper Remix, Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC (Catalogue)
2001 White Room, White Columns, NYC (solo exhibition)
FAWC Fellows, Provincetown Art Association, MA
What I did this summer…, Allston Skirt, Boston MA
Out of line and over the top, PS 122, NYC
Skowhegan Alumni Show/ Auction, Knoedler Gallery, NYC
Painting/ Not Painting, White Columns NYC
Subjective Color, Untitled (Space) New Haven CT
2000 Flat File, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn
Pogo Stick, CACG, Las Vegas NV
Works on Paper, Baron/ Boisante, NYC
Line, Arena@Feed, Brooklyn NY
Growing into Space, Silverstein Gallery, NYC
Brown, Hongisto and Vaughan, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn (three person show)
Location, Brooklyn Art . Com (inactive)
of Existence, Silverstein Gallery, NYC (three person show)
1999 Trippy World, Baron/Boisante, NYC
Parallels, Untitled Space, New Haven, CT
Soft Numbers, MFA Thesis, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1998 Bank Holiday, First National Bank, Skowhegan ME
MFA, Norfolk Estate Gallery, Norfolk, CT
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Publications/Reviews:
2021 Hongisto, Eric, Fairfield Osborn Preserve, Artist Book, Edition of 8, Blurb
2013 Hongisto, Eric, Reading a Mural: Diego Rivera's Man at the Crossroads essay, Word and Image, Pearson
2012 Hongisto, Eric, Reading a Mural, essay, The World is a Text, Pearson
2011 Fine Arts Students Beautify Construction Site Green Walls, San Francisco Foghorn, October 2011
2010 Bozicnik, Nina Eric Hongisto: Black Swan Event, Catalog, DeCordova Musum
USF Commemorates Slain Priest With Art and Prayer, San Francisco, Foghorn, September 2010
2009 Larmon, Amy, Topographic Musings, Phoenix, 9/9/2009
2008 Ruby Mag # 31, online magazine rubymag.com
Bosely, Veronica, Berkshires.org, Art is in Full Bloom at MCLA Gallery 51, April 2008
2007 Porges, Maria, ShotgunReview.com, “Nothing But Space: Nathan Haenlein, Eric, Hongisto, Jeanne Lorenz” 7/23/2007
2006 Thompson, Chris, Phoenix, “Retooled” Activator, 2/2/2006
2004 Johnson, Ken, NY Times, July 30th, “Impact: New Mural Projects”
2003 Bischoff, Dan Star Ledger Friday September 5, 2003 "Escape From NY: New Work from the Outer Borough
Mpi, Oroma, Yale Daily News, March 7, 2003, Ten Artists imagine bold "Destiny"
2002 Hoffman Hank, New Haven Advocate, October 7, 2002 “The Shapes of Things to Come”
Johnson, Ken NY Times Friday, August 23, 2002 pg. E32 “A Pluralist Exhibition in the Plural Borough”
Vlachos, Constantine Queens International Exhibition Catalogue pg. 14
McQuaid, Cate Boston Globe “Some Shining Moments From P-town Artists at Mills Gallery” Friday, August 16, 262 #47
Silver, Joanne Boston Herald Friday August 16 2002, “P-town stirs wave of creativity”
Cape Cod Voice, Cover and article, January 31- February 13th,
2002 Volume 1, No 2 Harrison, Sue Provincetown Banner, January 8, 2002 “FAWC Fellows”
2001 Greene, Tamsen Columbia Daily Spectator, March 28th , 2001 “Painting Reborn”
Birke, Judy New Haven Register, March, 4th. E1, “Two shows examine color, objective and subjective"
Hoffman, Hank New Haven Advocate, “Color My World”
2000 Cotter, Holland NY Times Friday, May 12, 2000 “Line”
Daigle, Claire New Art Examiner March 2000 vol. 27 No 6 pg. 48-49
Korotkin, Joyce NY Arts, January 2000 vol. 5 No 1 pg. 107
Brandvik, Erica CityLife, July 20, 2000, pg. 61
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Public Lectures:
2015 Finlandia University
2010 DeCordova Museum
2009 University of Colorado in Boulder
2008 Wellesley College
2007 Maine College of Art
2006 Bates College
2004 Princeton University
SUNY Buffalo
University of San Francisco
2003 Montana State University- Bozeman