Ruth Bolduan
Home Address:
1649 West Grace Street
Richmond, VA 23220
(804) 355-9707
Gallery Address
Anton Gallery, 2108 R St, NW
Washington, DC 20008
(202) 328-0828
EDUCATION
1980 M.F.A., American University.
(Thesis: Painting: A Search for Mythic Content and Monumental Form)
1969 B.A., American University,Washington, DC. (Phi Kappa Phi, 1969)
TEACHING
1994-96 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
Associate Professor
1987-94 Virginia Commonwealth University, Assistant Professor
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 1994
- Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
- 1991
- Anton Gallery, Richmond, VA
- 1989
- Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
1708 East Main Street Gallery, Richmond. VA
- 1987
- Wilson Galleries, Anderson University, Anderson, IN
Retrospective, Gaulladet University, Washington, DC
City Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1982
- Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
- 1981
- Emerson Gallery, McLean, VA
Maryland College of Art & Design, Silver Spring, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 1996
- Works on Paper. Richmond Arts Council, Richmond, VA
- 1995
- Lavori su Carta. Bloom, Mezzago/Milan, Italy
Virginia Invitational: Painter's Painters. Longwood Fine Arts Center, Farmville, VA
Lilith. Rockville Arts Place, MD (Curated by J.W. Mahoney)
Sources of Strength. District of Columbia Art Center, DC
Diverse Works. Galerie Corti. Brussels, Belgium
- 1994
- The Tree, Part I. Sasakawa USA Gallery, Washington, DC
PFAC Juried Exhibition. Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA (Juried by Bernice Steinbaum)
Fourth Annual National Juried Exhibition. 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA. (Juried by Gary Stephan)
Invitational Exchange. MARS Artspace. Phoenix, Arizona
- 1993
- What Heaven Looks Like. San Jose State University; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
- 1992
- American Prints. Cinema center, Moscow, CIS
- 1990-91
- Washington/Moscow Art Exchange Exhibition. (Curated by Maria Shashkina, Contemporay Curator, Tretyakov Gallery)
Carnegie Library,Washington, DC, 1991
Tretyokov Gallery, Moscow, USSR, 1990
McLean Project fo the Arts, McLean, VA, 1990
- 1990
- Reinvestigating Myth. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Lyon/Washington Exchange. Summner School Museum, Washington, DC; Domi Nostrae Gallery, Lyon, France
Approaching the Figure. Georgetown University, Washington
Inherited Memories. Goucher College, Baltimore, MD.
- 1989
- Edges of Eros. Washington, DC. (Curated by Andrea Pollan)
- 1988
- Washington/Budapest Exchange. Fine Arts Academy, Budapest, Hungary
Significant Movement, Part II: Myth, Allegory, and Romanticism. Anton Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1987
- Barriers. Jim Diaz Gallery, New York, (Curated by Leon Fried)
- 1984
- 8 Painters from Washington. Weekend Gallery, West Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany
- 1983
- Options '83. Washington Project for the Arts. Washington, DC.
- 1981
- Area Exhibition. Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA. (Juried by Howard Fox)
- 1980
- Appalachian National Drawing Competition. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. (Curated by Marisol Escobar)
PUBLICATIONS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
Casiraghy, Alberto. Frammento di Dante. Milan/Osnago: Edizioni Pulcinoelefante, 1995 (artist book)
Coopersmith, Georgia. Painter's Painters. Longwood College, 1995
Figura, John. Ruth Bolduan. Washington: Anton Gallery, 1994
Finnegan, Patrick. Reinvestigating Myth. Pittsburgh: Frick Gallery, 1990
Gay, Ted. Art Exchange Washington-Moscow. Washington, 1991
Glazer, Helen. Inhereted Memories: Mythological Themes in Contemporary Art. Baltimore: Goucher College, 1990
Miller, E. Ethelbert. From Soweto to Gaza. Washington: Howard U.,1988
Moreno, Ignacio. Ruth Bolduan-Paintings. Richmond:1708 Gallery, 1989
Ostheimer, Andy. What Heaven Looks Like. San Jose State U., 1995
Pagan, Mary Ann. Appraoching the Figure-Part Two. Washington: Georgeown University, 1990
Shannon, Joe and Jim Love. Options '83. Washington: Washington Project for the Arts, 1983
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Anton Gallery 2I08 R Street, NW tel: (202) 328-0828
Washinton, DC 20008 FX: (202) 745-5842