MONIKA TEAL
RESUME
RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS | HONORS
2017 Visarte, Switzerland juried membership
2015 Women Environmental Artists Directory
2013 Award for Cultural Challenge in the Arts by Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
2006 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award financial assistance grant through Atlantic Center for the Arts
2005 TIPP International Residency Program, Tihany, Hungary
2004 Hermitage Artists Residency, Manasota Key, Florida (May-June)
2003 Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, The Florence Biennale, Italy
2002 National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) Invitational Residency & Exhibition, Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba
2001 Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange. One-Month Residency. Global Tapestry
2000 Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, Vermont-Residency
1997 Seaside Institute. Seaside, Florida-Residency
1990/91 North Carolina Visual Arts Fellowship
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2011 "Exhibiting Change" International Museum of Women, San Francisco, USA
2003 "North Carolina Artists" - Fayetteville Museum of Art
2002 "Bacchus" - Muzeul National de Arta Cluj, Romania
2002 "Bacchus" - Accademia d'Arte Moderna, Montecatini, Italia
1999 "Border Biennial" - York County Museum of Art, South Carolina
1998 "One Hundred Mile Radius" - Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida
1995 "Weihnachtsausstellung" - Olten Art Museum, Switzerland
1990 "Select Exhibition" - Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
1990 "Weihnachtsausstellung" - Solothurn Art Museum, Switzerland
1987 "Fallen Sisters" - Solo Exhibition, Asheville Art Museum. North Carolina
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Monika Teal. Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC
2021 Gruppen Ausstellung. Galerie Gepard 14. Bern, Switzerland
2020 "Good in Tension", Centrepoint Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Monika Teal, Galerie Muster Meier, Bern, Switzerland
2016 Cité Internationale de Paris, Maison Etat Unis, Paris, France
2014 Galerie 9, Solothurn, Switzerland
2013 Es War Einmal (Once Upon A Time). Au Salon Galerie, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2011 "Landscapes" - Exhibition at Crandall Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio
2010 "Wolf"-Solo Exhibition, Chapelle Nouvelle Galerie, Magglingen, Switzerland
2010 "Monika Teal" - Solo Exhibition, Freitagsgalerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
2009 "Monika Teal" - Blowers Gallery, University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina
2008 "Animalistic" - Centrepoint Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2006 "Existing in a State of Innocence" - Schloss Hollligen, Bern, Switzerland
2005 "Der Verlust der Unschuld" - Staedtli Gallerie, Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland
2003 "Innocence Lost" - Marie-Terrel Gallery, Asheville, NC
2002 "ENCUENTRO" - Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. (First American Woman painter invited by
UNEAC [Union Nacional de Artistes y Escritores], to exhibit in Santiago, Cuba)
2001 "New Paintings" - Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, North Carolina
1999 "All Together Now" - University of North Carolina at Pembroke
1998 "Freaks and Geeks Sideshow" - Gallery Leontine, Florida
1997 "Teal/Fulton Ross" - Fulton Burt Gallery. Sarasota, Florida
1996 "Hierhin" - Saulenhalle des Landhauses Gallerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 "New Work" - Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University
1994 "Teal" - Galerie Boulangerie, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1993 "Heroes" - Frauenzentrum, Bern, Switzerland
1992 "Neue Bilder" - Forum, ETC., Bern, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2022 EINBLICK-AUSBLICK. Jedlitschka Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland
2022 "WOMEN ONLY." Galerie 25, Siselen bei Aarberg, Switzerland
2022 Gruppen Ausstellung. Pflugfabrik, Ersigen, Switzerland
2021 "WE ART IT." Kunstraum Gerard 14. Liebefeld, Switzerland
2021 "30 Annual Miniartextil "Palazzo Volpi Museum" Invitational, Como, Italy
2021 "10th Annual "ALL WOMEN" exhibition. Special recognition. LIGHTSPACETIME.ART
2021 Pflugfabrik Opening Exhibition Swiss Artists. PflugFabrik Event GmbH. Switzerland
2021 Miniartextil, 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Como, Italy
2020 "TALKING WALLS." Front of Bicycle, Basel Art Center, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Galerie 25, 100 Jahre Flowerpower
2019 SGBK Schloesschen Biberst
2019 La Nef, Noirmont, Cantonale Berne Jura
2019 Berner Galerien Wochenende, Muster Meier Galerie, Monika Teal, Flurina Hack, Simon Kiener
2019 "Blau." Galerie 25, Siselen, Switzerland
2018 "We Wish You," Kollektiv Rohling, Bern, CH
2018 "Monika Teal, Petra Bürgisser, Beat Julius Müller, Alfred Trinkler," Schlösschen Vorder-Bleichenberg, Biberst, Switzerland
2017 "Birdland," Galerie Tom Blaess, Bern, Switzerland
2017 "Reclaiming Earth," Jewett Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2016 "The Artful Life." Asheville Area Arts Council. North Carolina, USA
2016 Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Maison Etat Unis. Paris, France
2016 "Invito A Tavola." Miniartextil. Le Beffroi, Montrouge/Paris and Venice, Italy
2015 "Jahresendausstellung 2015." SGBK, Galerie Postgasse/Kunstlerhaus, Bern, CH
2015 "Invitation A Table," Gyf-sur-Yvette, Chateau du Val Fleury, France
2015 "25 Jahre." Jubiläumsausstellung, Atelier Tom Blaess. Bern, CH
2015 "Invito A Tavola," Miniartextil, Galerie San Francesco. Como, Italia
2014 Basel Art Center, Front of Bicycle, Basel, Switzerland
2014 "Eros" Miniartextil, Como, Italy, Venice, Italy and Montrouge/Paris, France
2014 "Carte Blanche" Galerie Alte Kapelle, Kaufdorf, Bern, Switzerland
2014 Galerie 9, Solothurn, Switzerland
2013 "Art Toppling Tobacco," Traveling Exhibition, Australia
2013 22nd Mainzer Minipressen Messe, Mainz, Germany
2013 Joli Moi de Mai, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2011 "Kraft Und Schoenheit" - Chapelle Novel Galerie, Magglingen, Switzerland
2011 "Absatzspitze" - GSBK Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2010 "Becoming The Animal" - Exhibition at Garage Gallery, San Diego, California
2010 "What Matters Most" - Exhibition at Exit Art Underground Space, New York, New York
2009 "Multiples" - 18th Grenchen Triennale, Grenchen & Bern, Switzerland
2009 "Grafika Maxima" - Woodblock Print, Traveling Exhibit, Grenchen and Bern, Switzerland
2009 "String of Pearls" - Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
2006 "Operatic Laughing" - Curated John Torreano, Atlantic Center Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2006 "Angels, Devils, Dogs and Cats" - Gallery Szinhely. Budapest, Hungary
2003 "Summer Group Exhibition" Marie-Terrell Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2000-03 "Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands" - The Women's Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
2002 "Landscapes" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
2002 Instituto di Cultura Europeo, Italy
2001 "Black and White" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
1999 "VSC Work" - Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont
1999 "Transplanted" - Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1999 "Figuratively Speaking" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
1998 "Sense of Touch" - Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
1998 "I Am Woman" - Art 1, Gastonia, North Carolina
1997 "Two Times Two" - Fulton-Burt Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1996 "All Facets of Realism" - Blue Twenty-Two Galerie, Frienbach, Switzerland
1996 "Kuenstler Aus USA, Mexico, Norwegen, und Spanien," Galerie Belsola, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
1995 "WertstART" - Begegnungszentrum Ausstellung, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 "Kandidatten Ausstellung" - Galerie Gesellschaft, Schweiz, GSMBK
1990 "Fantasy or Reality?" - Trade Street Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
1990 "North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship" - Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center
for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990 "30/30" Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, North Carolina
1990 "Womanspirit: Myth or Metaphor" - Women's Caucus for Art, Miami, Florida
1990 "The Self As Other" - Westminster College Art Gallery, Westminster, Pennsylvania
1990 "The Self As Other" - Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
1990 "The Best In The West" - Western North Carolina Arts Center
1989 "The Figure When It's Speaking" - World Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
1989 Brenau National Invitational Exhibition" - Gainesville, Georgia
1989 "Henley Southeast Spectrum" - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1989 "Bank on the Arts" - Wilson Art Center Invitational, Wilson, North Carolina
1987 "New Works" - Chelsea Gallery. Western Carolina University. North Carolina
1987 "Northwest Art Expo" - Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1987 "Henley Southeast Spectrum" - Southeastern United States Traveling, Purchase Award
1986 "Food and the Figure" - Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1986 "Three Artist Exhibition" - Fremont Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1986 "Self-Portraits" - Women's Cultural Center, Seattle, Washington
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum, USA
TSI Seattle, USA
Appleton Papers, USA
Toscano Firma, Switzerland
Belk Gallery, WCU, NC, USA
Villa Maria, Bern, Switzerland
Two Creeks Consulting, USA
Henley Paper Company, USA
Wachovia Bank, USA
Idea Factory, San Francisco, USA
Sojourner Institute, North Carolina, USA
R. Phelps, Marin County Commission on Status of Women, California, USA
Rudolfo Vaillant Garcia, Presidente Comite/UNEAC, Santiago de Cuba
Guedel AG, Switzerland
INSTRUCTOR | LECTURER
University of North Carolina, Asheville, Art in Prisons Program-2002, 2003,2006, 2007, 2008
AB Technical College, Asheville, North Carolina -2008
University of North Carolina, Asheville. Adjunct & Continuing Ed.-1991, 1999, 2000, 2001
Western Carolina University, Adjunct, Art History-1991, 1998
University of Berne & Burgdorf Technikum, Switzerland. Guest Lecturer-1995
Begegnungszentrum. Painting/Drawing Instructor, Solothurn, Switzerland-1994
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, North Carolina's Governor's School. Guest Lecturer-1995
ART-RELATED EXPERIENCES
In-Painter. Fine Art Restoration, Painting Restoration-1999-2000
Conservation Laboratories, Painting Restoration-2000-2003
Art Critic, Northwest Florida Daily News-1997-1998
Art Critic, Asheville Citizen Times-1990-1992
Founding Board Member, Global Tapestry, Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange
Art Critic, Hello Bern Magazine, Bern Switzerland
EDUCATION AND WORKING EXPERIENCE
Studios, past and present, in Switzerland and Kansas City/ Seattle/ Asheville, Cuba, Tuscany,Italy
Western Carolina University. MA, Painting
Seattle New School of Visual Concepts non-degree program, 3 years
Seattle Institute of Art (Burnley School of Art) non degree program 2 years
University of Minnesota, BA