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RESIDENCIES 

2005 TIPP International Residency Program, Tihany, Hungary

2004 Hermitage Artists Residency, Manasota Key, FL USA (May-June)

2002 National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) Invitational Residency & Exhibition, Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba

2002 ENCUENTRO, 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

 

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 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award, Atlantic Center for the Arts
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

        First American Woman painter invited by UNEAC to exhibit in Santiago, Cuba
1990 North Carolina Visual Arts Fellowship  

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MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2011 Exhibiting Change, International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA USA

2003 North Carolina Artists, Fayetteville Museum of Art, Fayetteville, AR USA
2002 Bacchus, Muzeul Național de Arta Cluj, Romania
2002 Bacchus, Accademia d'Arte Moderna, Montecatini, Italia
1999 Border Biennial, York County Museum of Art, Rock Hill, SC USA

1998 One Hundred Mile Radius, Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL USA
1995 Weihnachtsausstellung, Olten Art Museum, Switzerland
1990 Select Exhibition, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC USA
1990 Weihnachtsausstellung, Solothurn Art Museum, Switzerland
1987 Fallen Sisters - Solo Exhibition, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC USA  

 

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2024 Habitat Contemporary Gallery, Kansas City, MO USA

2023 WORKS ON PAPER, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC USA

2022 Monika Teal, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC USA

2021 Gruppenausstellung, 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, Crandall Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, OH USA
2010 Wolf - Solo Exhibition, Chapelle Nouvelle Galerie, Magglingen, Switzerland
2010 Monika Teal, Freitagsgalerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
2009 Monika Teal, Blowers Gallery, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC USA

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 USA
2002 ENCUENTRO, Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

2001 New Paintings, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, Mars Hill, NC USA

1999 All Together Now, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC USA
1998 Freaks and Geeks Sideshow, Gallery Leontine, FL USA
1997 Teal/Fulton Ross, Fulton Burt Gallery, Sarasota, FL USA
1996 Hierhin, Saulenhalle des Landhauses Gallerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 New Work, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC USA
1994 Teal, Galerie Boulangerie, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1993 Heroes, Frauenzentrum, Bern, Switzerland
1992 Neue Bilder, Forum, ETC., Bern, Switzerland  

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Flat Files, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO USA

2023 Gruppenausstellung, Alte Brennerei Gallery, Unterramsern, Switzerland

2023 Monika Teal, Grand Bohemian Gallery, Asheville, NC USA

2022 Einblick-Ausblick, Jedlitschka Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland

2022 Women Only, Galerie 25, Siselen bei Aarberg, Switzerland

2022 Gruppenausstellung, Pflugfabrik, Ersigen, Switzerland

2021 We Are It,  Kunstraum Gerard 14,  Liebefeld, Switzerland  

2021 30 Annual Miniartextil "Palazzo Volpi Museum" Invitational, Como, Italy

2021 10th Annual "All Women" Exhibition, special recognition, online, 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, SGBK Schloesschen, Biberst, Switzerland 

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, Switzerland

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, CA, USA

2016 The Artful Life,  Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville, NC, USA

2016 Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.  Maison Etat Unis. Paris, France 

2016 Invito A Tavola,  Miniartextil,  Le Beffroi, MontrougeParis and Venice, Italy

2015 Jahresendausstellung 2015 SGBK, Galerie Postgasse/Künstlerhaus, Bern, Switzerland

2015 Invitation À Table, Gyf-sur-Yvette, Chateau du Val Fleury, France

2015 25 Jahre, Jubiläumsausstellung, Atelier Tom Blaess, Bern, Switzerland

2015 Invito A Tavola, Miniartextil, Galerie San Francesco. Como, Italia

2014 Front of Bicycle, Basel Art Center, 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, CA USA
2010 What Matters Most, Exhibition at Exit Art Underground Space, New York, NY USA
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, NC, USA
2006 Operatic Laughing, Curated John Torreano, Atlantic Center Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, FL USA 

2006 Angels, Devils, Dogs and Cats, Gallery Szinhely, Budapest, Hungary
2003 Summer Group Exhibition, Marie-Terrell Gallery, Asheville, NC USA
2000-03 Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands, The Women's Center, Chapel Hill, NC USA 

2002 Landscapes,  Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC USA
2002 Istituto di Cultura Europeo, Italy
2001 Black and White, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC USA
1999 VSC Work, Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, VT USA
1999 Transplanted, Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem, NC USA
1999 Figuratively Speaking, Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC USA
1998 Sense of Touch, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC USA
1998 I Am Woman, Art 1, Gastonia, NC USA
1997 Two Times Two, Fulton-Burt Gallery, Sarasota, FL USA

1996 All Facets of Realism, Blue Twenty-Two Galerie, Frienbach, Switzerland
1996 Künstler Aus USA, Mexico, Norwegen, und Spanien, Galerie Belsola, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
1995 WertstART, Begegnungszentrum Ausstellung, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 Kandidaten Ausstellung, Galerie Gesellschaft, Schweiz, GSMBK
1990 Fantasy or Reality?, Trade Street Gallery, Tryon, NC USA
1990 North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center
for the Arts, Charlotte, NC USA
1990 30/30, Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, NC USA
1990 Womanspirit: Myth or Metaphor, Women's Caucus for Art, Miami, FL
1990 The Self As Other, Westminster College Art Gallery, Westminster, PA USA
1990 The Self As Other, Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, NC USA
1990 The Best In The West, Western North Carolina Arts Center, NC USA
1989 The Figure When It's Speaking, World Gallery, Asheville, NC USA
1989 Brenau National Invitational Exhibition, Gainesville, GA USA
1989 Henley Southeast Spectrum, Winston-Salem, NC USA
1989 Bank on the Arts, Wilson Art Center Invitational, Wilson, NC USA
1987 New Works, Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University, NC USA

1987 Northwest Art Expo, Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, WA USA
1987 Henley Southeast Spectrum, Southeastern United States Traveling, Purchase Award
1986 Food and the Figure, Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, WA
1986 Three Artist Exhibition, Fremont Gallery, Seattle, WA
1986 Self-Portraits, Women's Cultural Center, Seattle, WA  

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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

2002-03, 2006-08 University of North Carolina, Asheville, Art in Prisons Program

2008 AB Technical College, Asheville
1991, 1999-2001 University of North Carolina, Asheville, Adjunct & Continuing Ed.

1991, 1998 Western Carolina University, Adjunct, Art History
1995 University of Berne & Burgdorf Technikum, Switzerland, Guest Lecturer
1995 St. Andrews Presbyterian College, NC's Governor's School, Guest Lecturer 

1994 Begegnungszentrum, Painting/Drawing Instructor, Solothurn, Switzerland

 

ART-RELATED EXPERIENCES 

1999-2000 In-Painter. Fine Art Restoration, Painting Restoration
2000-2003 Conservation Laboratories, Painting Restoration

1997-98 Art Critic, Northwest Florida Daily News
2000 Founding Board Member, Global Tapestry, Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange
1994-97 Art Critic, Hello Bern Magazine, Bern Switzerland

1990-92 Art Critic, Asheville Citizen Times, Asheville, NC USA​
 

EDUCATION

MA, Painting, Western Carolina University
Seattle New School of Visual Concepts, non-degree program

Seattle Institute of Art (Burnley School of Art), non degree program
BA, University of Minnesota