Lael Burns

Vitae

 

​Education:

 

MFA, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking Minor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2005.

MA, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking Minor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2004.

BFA, Painting and Drawing, Printmaking Minor, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2001.

 

 

Selected Exhibitions/Residencies:

 

-I Like Your Work Juried Fall Exhibition and Print Publication, October, 2023.

-TCA Annual Alumni Show, TAG Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2023.

-Wavelength Space, Flat File Program, Ongoing, Chattanooga, TN, 2023-2024.

-Open Studios for Fall Gallery Night, The Studios, Fort Worth, TX, 2023.

-Member's Show, The MAC, Dallas, TX, 2023

-TCA Annual Alumni Show, TAG Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2022.

-5th Annual Small Works Show, Art Room, Fort Worth, TX, 2022.  

-Tiny Things, Wavelength Space, Chattanooga, TN, 2022.

-It's The Little Things, Girls Who Paint Gallery, Kensington, MD, 2022.

-TCA Annual Alumni Show, TAG Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2021.

​-Congruence, I Like Your Work Podcast Summer Exhibition curated by Bridgette Mayer, 2020.

-Family Reunion II, Fort Worth Community Arts Center with Art Tooth, Fort Worth, TX, 2019.

-Annual Small Works Show, Art Room, Fort Worth, TX, 2019.

-First Come, First Serve, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX, 2019.

-TCA Alumni, TAG Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2019.

-Chaos, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX, 2019.

-The Painted Palette, Art Tooth + Artspace 111 at the Artspace 111 Pop Up, Fort Worth, TX, July 2019.

-Glitter Dotted, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, June 2019. 2 Person Exhibition.

-The Art of Desert, Bass Performance Hall, Curated By Art Tooth, Forth Worth, TX, June 21, 2019.

-Trends in Abstraction, Trinity Art Gallery, Curator Jimmy Hudson, Dallas, TX, October-December, 2018. 3 Person Group Exhibition.

-10x10x10, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Jurors Sean Elwood and Monica Miller, Tieton, WA, 2018.

-Chaos, Ro2 Art, Dallas, TX, 2018.

-Hot and Sweaty, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2018.

-Dallas Art Dealers Association Spring Art Walk, LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX, March 31-April 14, 2018.

-Centering Abstraction, Gallery 414, Curator Barbara Koerble, Fort Worth, TX, January 27-February 25, 2018. 4 Person Group Exhibition.

-First Come, First Serve, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth, TX, February-March, 2018.

-Unseen Realities, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX, November-December 2016. Solo Exhibition.

-'These Are Our Friends', Art tooth Anniversary, Fort Worth, TX, 2017.

-MONA Biennial, Museum on Non-Visible Art - Skelf, London, 2017.

-The Minds Eye, Art 7 Gallery, Forth Worth, TX, 2017.

-Ro2ooth Small Works Show, Ro2 Art Gallery with Art Tooth, Dallas, TX, 2016.

-SIX, Small Works Show, Art Room Gallery, Fort Worth, TX, 2016.

 -Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Curator Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Fort Worth, TX, 2016. 

-ArtsGoggle, Gallery at Goggle, Fort Worth, TX, 2016.

-Studio Visit Magazine, Winter 2016 Edition, Curator: Jessica Roscio.

-FOUR, A Collaborative Exhibition between Art Tooth and Art Room Gallery, BRIK, Fort Worth, Texas, 2016.

-An Artist Residency in Motherhood, Hurst, Texas, July-December, 2016.

-Call of the Wild, Curated Group Show, TVAA Downtown Gallery, Dallas, TX, 2016.
-Hot and Sweaty, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2016.

-Nature v.s. Nurture, Curated Group Show, Art 120, Taylor Art Guild, Taylor, Texas, 2015.

-TCA Alumni, TAG Gallery, Curated Group Show,  Addison, TX, 2012.

-Southwest Juried Art Show, Lafayette, LA. 2009.

-Texas and Neighbors, Curated Group Show, Irving, TX, 2008.

-The Moving Crew, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE, 2007.

-Faculty Show, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX, 2007.

-Graduate Painting, Marvin Cone and Eaton-Buchan Gallery, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Group Invitational, 2005.      

-The Big Pink, Gauche Arthaus, Iowa City, IA, 2005.                      

-MFA Thesis Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, 2005.

-Domestic Entrails, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Collaboration with Ryan Standfest, 2005. 

-New Paintings, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Solo Show, 2005.

-Calamities and Cradlesongs, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, 2004.

-That Blob Can Dance!,  The Coal Cellar, University of Iowa, Solo Show, 2004.

-New Paintings, Byron Burford Gallery, University of Iowa, Solo Show, 2003.

-Inside, Eve Drewlowe Gallery, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Solo Show, 2003.

-B.F.A. Exhibition Show, Southern Methodist University, Pollock Gallery, 2001.

-New Paintings and Prints, Doolin Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Solo Show, 2001.

-New Paintings, Doolin Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Solo Show, 1999.

-Dallas Public Library, Downtown Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1997.

-Chase Bank Gallery, Dallas, TX, 1996.

                       

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Publications and Features:

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-I Like Your Work Fall Exhibition and Publication, Fall 2023.

-The Purposeful Mayonnaise, Issue 2.3, October 2022.

-Create! Magazine, Issue 13, Winter 2019, Curator: Margaret Winslow.

-Artist Meets Mother Blog, A Day In The Life Of Lael Burns, February 19, 2019.

-Peripheral Vision Arts, Issue 7, Salon 2017, Publication Fellowship Award, Curator: Georgia Erger.

-International Fine Arts Fund Blog, May 2017.

-Art Habens Contemporary Art Review, April 2017.

-Create! Magazine Blog, November 10 2016.

-Art and Seek, November 17 2016.

-Abstract Magazine, December 8 2016.

-The Tax Collection, December 13 2016.

-Four: A Collaborative Exhibition, Exhibition Catalog, 2016.

-Studio Visit Magazine, Winter Edition, 2016, Juror: Jessica Roscio.

-ArtsGoggle Program Catalog, 2016.

-Coe College News, October 3, 2005, Ceramics and Paintings at Coe Art Exhibit, 2005.

-The Daily Palette, Visual Arts in the Year of the Arts and Humanities. The University of Iowa, 2004.

 

 

Fellowships/Awards:

 

Mildred L Pelzer Trust Fellowship, University of Iowa, 2004-2005.

Chair’s Award, Southern Methodist University, 1997-2001.

Artistic Merit Scholarship Award, Southern Methodist University, 1997-2001.

Meadows Foundation Scholarship Award, Southern Methodist University, 2001.

 

 

Public Collections:

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Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas.

The University of Iowa, School of Art and Art History, Thesis Rental Collection Iowa City, Iowa