Curriculum Vita
Amy MacLennan
2021 - present: Curator, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, Indiana
2010 - 2021: Associate Professor of Art, McKendree University, Lebanon, Illinois
2011 - 2021: Director, McKendree University Gallery of Art
EDUCATION
2007 MFA in Painting and Drawing, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
1982 BFA in Photography and Printmaking, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
1981 Printmaking studies at the University of London, Birkbeck College, London, England (summer)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Minded States: Paintings, Pastels, Prints, and Drawings, May 19 - June 9, Gaslight Art Colony, Marshall, IL
Housekeeping, May 5 - 25, IFell Gallery, Bloomington, IN
2017 Hubris (with Kevin Kao), March 9 - April 2, McKendree University Gallery of Art, Lebanon, IL
2010 Making the Seen (with Michael Neary), February 2 - 26, Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, IN
2008 Place/Memory, November 2 - 25, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE Place/Memory, September 5 - October 24, Arts Place, Portland, IN
2007 MFA Exhibition, April 16 - 21, University Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
Place/Memory, December 6 - 22, Halcyon Contemporary Art, Terre Haute, IN
2005 Recent Work by Amy MacLennan, Rose- Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Drawing from Perception, Invention and Memory, January 16 - March 8, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Eve Mansdorf, juror.
2019 75th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, September 6 - October 20, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, David Butler, Executive Director, Knoxville Museum of Art, juror
Prairie Center of the Arts Alumni Show, August 10 - September 13, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Midwest Paint Group Responds to Ripon College's Van Dyck Paintings, June 24 - September 6, Caestecker Art Gallery, Ripon College, Ripon, WS
Edwardsville 200th Anniversary Show, May 31 - July 5, invitational, John Denhouter, juror
Midwest Paint Group and Invited Guests: Self Portraits, February 16 - August 25, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoake, VA
Midwest Paint Group & van Dyke, June 24 - September 6, Ripon College
2018 Midwest Paint Group, Galesburg Art Center, Galesburg, IL
East Meets Midwest II, September 22 - January 6, 2019, Springfield Museum of Art, Springfield, OH
Midwest Paint Group, July 6 - 28, Village Gallery, Caledonia, NY
Drawing from Perception VIII, January 16 - February 25, Wright State University, Catherine Kehoe, juror
2017 East Meets Midwest II, October 12 - November 11, Andrews Gallery, William & Mary College, Williamsburg, VA
Self Portrait: Midwest Paint Group and Invited Guests, March 3 - April 2, Dutoit Gallery, Dayton, OH
A Winters Work: Midwest Paint Group, February 6 - 24, KC Gallery, Kishwaukee College, Malta, IL
2016 Alumni Exhibition, University Art Gallery, mid-August-mid-October, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
2015 The Artist Next Door, July 4 - August 2, McKendree University Gallery of Art, Lebanon, IL
2014 Paintings by Amy MacLennan, January - May, So South 7 Gallery. Terre Haute, IN
2013 Twelve Ways of Looking at a Painting: an Homage to Jean Hélion and “Le Grand Luxembourg”, October 2013 - March 2014, Lovejoy Library, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Faculty Show, September 5 - 26, McKendree University Gallery of Art, Lebanon, IL
Drawing from Perception VII, January 15 - February 24, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
2012 Bowery Gallery Juried Competition, July 31 - August 18, New York, NY
Realism and Its Discontents, September 17 - Novemer 25, Manchester College, North Manchester, IN
Realism and Its Discontents, March 27 - May 6, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Faculty Show, November 1 - 25, McKendree University Gallery of Art, Lebanon, IL
Memory, January 16 - February 23, Art Saint Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2011 Lower Piney Landscapes: a Wyoming Winter, Open Studio at Jentel Artist Residency, Banner, WY
2010 34th Annual Beverly Art Competition, November 5 - December 27, Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, IL
Resident Artists, September 4 - 24, Warehouse Gallery 1, Prairie Center of the Arts, Peoria, IL
Hastings College Faculty Show, March 8 - April 11, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
Pastel National, March 19-May17, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS
2009 Selections from the Permanent Collection, Hastings College Art Gallery, Hastings, NE
2007 New Work by the Midwest Paint Group, September 1 - December 14, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN
Reflexions Bound artist products Creative Marks: Summer 2007 Visual Arts Faculty and Staff Exhibition, June 25 - July 4, Visual Arts Gallery, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI
Portraits--Examining Self Through Subject: Works From the Indiana State University Permanent Collection, July 9 - August 17, University Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
63rd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, David Edgar, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, February 15 - March 2, Indiana State University, Robert F. Schroeder, juror
Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition, juried, March 9 - April 13, Bradley University Heuser Art Center, Peoria, IL, Judith K. Brodsky, juror
2006 Corpus, juried, November 15 -December 8, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
62nd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, July 8 - September 1, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Patricia Hickson, juror
Three Women Painters, invitational, June 16 - July 21, Bicentennial Art Center and Museum, Paris, IL
Rockford Midwestern, juried, May 19 - July 23, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, Gregory Knight, juror
2nd Annual Self Portrait Exhibition, juried, May 19 - June 9, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
SHE, juried, March 17 - March 31, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, February 15 - March 3, Terre Haute, IN, Jeff Zimmerman, juror
UNO, invitational, January 20 - February 3, 33 Collective Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 4:2:1, four artist exhibit, Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN
61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Susan Rosenberg, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Dominic Molon, juror
ISU Select, invitational, Dean Johnson Gallery, Indianapolis, IN, January 28 - March 10
2004 60th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Nato Thompson, juror
ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN, Eve Andrée Laramée, juror
SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS
2019 Nancy and Fred Nation Award of Recognition, 75th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, September 6-October 20, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, David butler, Executive Director, Knoxville Museum of Art, juor
2018 Anonymous Award of Distinction, 74th Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition, September 7-October 21, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Philip Koch, senior professor at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, juror
2009 Artists and Lecturer Series grants, Hastings College, Hastings, NE, Chandra Glaeseman, The Marks We Leave Behind, and Nancy Nichols, Poetry and Painting
2008 The Big Read, N.E.A. grant participant
2007 The Big Read, N.E.A. grant participant
Jonathon K. Baker Memorial Award for Black and White Drawing, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Robert F. Schroeder, juror
2006 Mrs. Jo Anne Forbes Award of Honor, 62nd Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Patricia Hickson, curator of the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, juror
Best of Show, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Jeff Zimmerman, juror
2005 Best of Show, ISU Juried Student Exhibition, Dominic Molon, Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, juror
Dr. & Mrs. Robert Puckett Award of Honor, 61st Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Susan Rosenberg, Assistant Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Seattle Art Museum, juror
2004 Vernon B. Cristee Award of Honor, 60th Annual Wabash Valley Juried Exhibition, Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN, Nato Thompson, Assistant Curator at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, juror