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| EDUCATION | |
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| 1977 | M.F.A., George Washington University, Washington, DC |
| 1976-7 | The Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC |
| 1973 | B.S., Kent State University, Kent, Ohio |
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| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
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| 2008 | Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, Texas |
| 2006 | The University of Houston Art Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 2000 | The Arts Alliance Center of Clear Lake, Texas |
| 1995-6 | Reed Whipple Cultural Center, City of Las Vegas, Nevada |
| 1995 | The Nave Museum of Art, Texas (catalogue) |
| 1995 | Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas |
| 1995 | The Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas |
| 1993 | The Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas |
| 1991 | Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas |
| 1988 | Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| 1985 | University of Houston at Clear Lake, Houston, Texas |
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| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
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| 2006 | The Portrait; invitational, Bering & James Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2005 | About Face; invitational, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 2005 | Across the Ocean, invitational traveling exhibit opening at the National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2004 | Texas Vision: The Barrett Collection; The Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX (catalogue) |
| 2004 | Just A Taste, painting invitational; Monarch Sculpture Park, Tenino, WA |
| 2000 | Imprints - Mementos, three-person invitational; Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX |
| 2000 | Miniatures, invitational; Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, TX |
| 1999 | Thresholds, four-person invitational; Concordia University, Austin, TX |
| 1998-9 | Self-Portraits, invitational; Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| 1998 | The Figure, invitational; Valley House Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| 1998 | 1996 Texas Competition Winners, 3-person exhibition; The Art Center, Waco, TX |
| 1997 | Mixed Mediums: Cycles of the Spiritual, 3-person invitational; Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C. |
| 1996-8 | The Portrait; Roberts Weslayan College Art Gallery, Rochester, NY U.S. Tour including Bethel College, St. Paul, Minn.; Calvin College, Michigan; Houghton College, NY |
| 1996-7 | Through A Glass Darkly; Adair Margo Gallery, El Paso, TX |
| 1996 | Artes Sagrado; Concordia University Art Gallery, Austin, TX |
| 1995 | Tangled Roots, invitational; Bowling Green State University, OH (catalogue) |
| 1995-6 | Small Works from Houston to Russia; invitational Travelling exhibition to Moscow, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg |
| 1993-4 | International Painters' Symposium Exhibition; Kyiv Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine; Artists' Union Exhibition Hall, Mykolayiv, Ukraine |
| 1993 | Narratives, 4-person invitational; Martin-Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX |
| 1992 | On Death/La Muerte; Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX |
| 1991 | On Line: Drawings by Texas Artists; Amarillo Art Center, TX |
| 1991 | Five Years Since Chornobyl; Alla Rogers Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1990 | Sacred and Profane, invitational; Judy Youens Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1989 | Revelation and Devotion: The Spirit of Religion in Contemporary Painting; Sherry French Gallery, NYC |
| 1989 | Vision and Dialogue 2; Louisiana State University Gallery, LA (catalogue) |
| 1989 | Food; Grand Central Galleries, NYC (catalogue) |
| 1989 | Love and Charity: The Tradition of Caritas in Contemporary Painting; Sherry French Gallery, NYC; Noyes Museum, NJ; SUNY, New York |
| 1989 | 1989 Texas Art 1989; Cullen Center, Houston, TX |
| 1989 | At the Edge - A National Print and Drawing Exhibition; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX |
| 1987 | Pieces, interdisciplinary installation/performance; Stages Theater, Houston, TX |
| 1986 | Emerging Realists: East Meets South; College of the Mainland, TX (catalogue) |
| 1986 | Figurative Realist Painting; Bowling Green State University Art Gallery, OH (catalogue) |
| 1986-7 | Frivolity and Mortality: The Tradition of Vanitas in Contemporary Painting; Sherry French Gallery, NYC |
| 1985 | Texas Visions; Transco Art Gallery, Houston, TX (catalogue) Tour of Texas museums/galleries during Sesquicentennial of Texas |
| 1985 | Houston Profile; Art League of Houston, Houston, TX.; Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA (catalogue) |
| 1984 | Hoyt National Drawing and Painting Show; Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, PA. (catalogue) |
| 1984 | 48th Annual National Midyear Show; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1983 | First Annual Prize Competition; Provincetown Museum, MA (catalogue) |
| 1982 | Artists' International Exhibit; Ukrainian-Canadian Art Foundation, Toronto, Canada (catalogue) |
| 1981 | Two-person exhibition; O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston, TX |
| 1979 | The Human Experience, two-person exhibition; Houston Central Public Library, Houston, TX |
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| SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS | |
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| 2005 | Publication of bilingual monograph Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak / Лідія Боднар-Балагутрак |
| 1996 | Artist Residency; Ukrainian Academy of Art, Kyiv, Ukraine - Invitational Honorarium |
| 1993 | Creative Artist Program Award, Visual Art; Cultural Arts Council of Houston |
| 1993 | Second International Painters' Symposium in Ukraine - Invitational Honorarium |
| 1991 | IREX (International Research & Exchanges Board) Grant |
| 1989 | Louisiana State University Guest Artist Series Grant |
| 1985 | La Napoule Art Foundation Grant; Art Symposium in La Napoule, France |
| 1985 | NEA Artist Honorarium; "Houston Profile '85", Art League of Houston |
| 1979 | Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund Grant |
| 1979 | Scurlock Foundation Grant |
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| SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS | |
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| Oxford University, Oxford, England | |
| The Barrett Collection, Dallas, TX | |
| Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX | |
| Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX | |
| Grace Museum, Abilene, TX | |
| Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX | |
| The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania | |
| Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| The Art Center, Waco, TX | |
| Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX | |
| University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, TX | |
| The University of Houston, Houston, TX | |
| Dimock Gallery, George Washington University, Washington DC | |
| Museo D'Arte Dell'Universita Cattolica, Rome, Italy | |
| Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX | |
| Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, TX | |
| Transco Energy Company, Houston, TX | |
| Reliant Energy, Houston, TX | |
| Concordia University, Austin, TX | |
| Friendswood Development Corp., Exxon, Houston, TX | |
| The University of Dayton, Dayton, Ohio | |
| John Zink Company, Tulsa, Oklahoma | |
| Dr. & Mrs. H. Bailey, Jr., Little Rock, Arkansas | |
| Bertrand Bory, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| Nancy Reddin Kienholz, Berlin, Germany & Hope, Idaho | |
| Janet Fish, NYC | |
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| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | |
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| Marychevskyy, Mykola, ed., LYDIA BODNAR-BALAHUTRAK / ЛІДІЯ БОДНАР-БАЛАГУТРАК, Sophia-A Publishing, Kyiv, c. 2005. | |
| Brettell, Richard R. and Michael Ennis, TEXAS VISIONS: THE BARRETT COLLECTION, The Meadows Museum, c. 2004. | |
| Todorovich, K. K., "Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak: Imprints-Mementos", ARTLIES, summer 2000. | |
| Gaetan, Victor and Eleanor Kennelly. "Three Women Painters, Three Spiritual Visions", N.C. REGISTER, Nov. 2-8, 1997. | |
| Mudrak, Myroslava. "Tangled Roots; Where Have All the Mallows Gone?" essay for Tangled Roots exhibition catalogue, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, c. 1995. | |
| Tennant, Donna. "Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak: Elegies", ARTLIES, Oct./Nov. 1995. | |
| Tennant, Donna. "Elegies", essay for Elegies exhibition catalogue, The Nave Museum, c.1995. |
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| Bass, Shermakaye. "Visual Art Center Looks...", DALLAS MORNING NEWS (Apr. 10, 1995) | |
| Paul, Angus. "Ukrainian-American Art and Soul", GW MAGAZINE, winter 1995. | |
| Rogers, Alla. "Out of Isolation", THE WORLD AND I, August 1994. | |
| Crespo, Michael. HOW TO MAKE AN OIL PAINTING, Watson-Guptill, c.1990. | |
| Chadwick, Susan. "Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, paintings and drawings at Graham Gallery", THE HOUSTON POST, (June 5, 1988) | |
| Crespo, Michael. WATERCOLOR DAY BY DAY, Watson-Guptill, c.1987. | |
| Longman, Robin. "Emerging Artists", AMERICAN ARTIST, August 1985. | |
| Kyle, Jill. "Portrait of a Figure Painter", IN ART, June 1985. | |
| Johnson, Patricia C. "Pleasant Surprises...", HOUSTON CHRONICLE, (Dec. 17, 1983) | |
| Vander Lee, Jana. "Houston Figurative Art" catalogue essay, C.O.M., c.1984. | |
| Flowers, Susan. "The Human Experience", SOUTHWEST ART, 10 (July, 1980) | |
| Tennant, Donna. "Downtown Exhibit Tries to Blend...", HOUSTON CHRONICLE, (Dec. 14, 1979) |
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| Crossley, Mimi. "Reviews: Ratliff, Bodnar, and Parker", HOUSTON POST (Dec. 7, 1979) | |
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| TEACHING EXPERIENCE | |
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| 2008 | The Glassell School of Art, Museum of Art, Houston, TX |
| 2004 | The High School for Performing and Visual Art, Houston, TX |
| 2000 | College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX |
| 1981-2003 | University of Houston at Clear Lake, Houston, TX |
| 1977-79 | San Jacinto College, North Campus Houston, TX |
| 1973-75 | Parma City Public Schools Parma, OH |
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| LECTURES AND WORKSHOPS | |
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| 2003 | Slide/Lecture about Holodomor artwork, The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX |
| 1999 | Presenter, Transcending Boundaries Artists Conference, Monarch Contemporary Art Center, Tenino, WA |
| 1997 | Curator, Artists in Ukraine: Works on Paper exhibition ( catalogue) O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston-Downtown; College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX |
| 1997 | Interview/Art featured on television newsmagazine "Windows on Ukraine", USIA |
| 1996 | Kyiv Art Academy Kyiv, Ukraine Visiting Artist/Lecturer |
| 1994 | Interview/Art featured on television newsmagazine "Steve Smith's Sunday" |
| 1993 | Second International Painters' Symposium and Children's Art Exchange Program in Ukraine; Guest Artist and Instructor |
| 1991 | L'viv Institute of Fine & Applied Arts, L'viv, Ukraine Guest Lecturer/Artist Residency |
| 1990 | Panelist, "Realism in Art", PCA/ACA Conference, San Antonio, TX |
| 1989 | Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA Visiting Artist/Guest Lecturer |
| 1988-86 | College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX Workshop and Lecture on figure painting and drawing |
| 1985 | Interview on "Youth Show", Voice of America, broadcast throughout Ukraine |
| 1983 | University of Pittsburgh, PA Visiting Guest Lecturer |