Michael Newhall
Contact:
12100 Skyline
Los Gatos, CA 95033
408-741-9099 / 669-208-2166
michaelnewhall.com / michaelnewhall.myportfolio.com
Birth date: April 7, 1945
Education:
1980-82 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
1967-70 University of Wisconsin, Whitewater and Stevens Point, BS,
Comprehensive Fine Arts Major
1964-65 Art Students League of New York
1963-64 School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Professional Activities:
2004- Jikoji Zen Center, Resident Teacher
1989-02 Naropa Institute, Continuing Education, Boulder, CO instructor: watercolor, figure drawing, figure painting, meditation practicum, meditation forms and history
2000-02 Anderson Ranch Art Center; instructor, sumi brush painting, meditation
1997-99 Marpa & Associates, Boulder, CO; landscape design, model-making, illustration
1995-98 Naropa Institute, Visual Art Department, Boulder CO; instructor: figure drawing, painting
1993-95 Jikoji Zen Retreat Center, Los Gatos, CA; shuso, director
1976-92 Kitchen Sink Press, Princeton, WI; free lance artist: illustration, book production specialties
1992 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Drawing Department, instructor: multi-level painting
1992 Kalamazoo Valley Community College, Kalamazoo, MI; instructor: painting
1992 Western Michigan University, Art Department, Kalamazoo, MI; instructor: figure drawing, drawing
1990-91 Mendicino Art Center, instructor, figure drawing, figure painting
1987 Osaka Institute of Arts, Osaka, Japan; visiting artist, lecturer
1984-87 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Fine Arts Department, Milwaukee, WI; instructor: watercolor, drawing
1984 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Studio School, Chicago, IL; instructor: figure drawing, figure painting
1983 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Drawing Department, Chicago IL, instructor: figure drawing
1977-79 Green Lake Center for the Developmentally Disabled, Berlin, WI; creative arts instructor
1975-77 Over the Edge Design Group, La Farge, WI; layout design and illustration
1961-66 Jim Newhall Advertising, Madison, WI; illustration
Awards:
1987 Wisconsin Arts Board Project Grant, Sculpture
1985 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship, Painting
1984 Wustum Museum of Art, Racine, WI, Painting
1982 Frederick J. Foster Traveling Fellowship Award, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1981 Robert Rice Jenkins Memorial Prize, The Art Institute of Chicago Print and Multiple Exhibition
1981-82 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Scholarship Awards
1980 Wisconsin Arts Board, Artist Fellowship, Painting
1963 Scholarship Award, Milwaukee Journal, to the Art Students League of New York
1962 Scholarship, Painting Award, University of Kansas, The Fine Arts Summer School
One-Person Exhibitions:
2019 Cafe Society Art Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2016 Enso Gallery, Half Moon Bay, CA
2015 Grohmann Museum, Milwaukee, WI
2001 Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
2000 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2000 San Francisco Zen Center Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Trident Gallery, Boulder, CO
1998 Cindy Bordeau Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1989 Gallery of the Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1988 Cloud Cliff Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1984 Halsted Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Bradley Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1983 Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine. WI
1982 Artventures Gallery, Green Lake, WI
1982 Oshkosh Museum, Oshkosh,WI
1982 Dobrick Gallery, Chicago, IL
1982 Ripon College Gallery, Ripon, WI
1974 Edna Carlson Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI
Group Exhibitions:
2016 Portrait Society Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2015 University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Union Art Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2000 Buddhist Art, Oskar Friedel Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998 Faculty Show, Naropa Gallery, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1998 Cityscapes, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1998 Portraits - Eye of the Beholder, Peltz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1997 Faculty Show, Naropa Gallery, Naropa Institute, Boulder, CO
1987 Wisconsin Triennial, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1985 Beverly Art Center, Chicago, IL
1985 Madison National Watercolor Exhibition, Edgewood College,
Madison, WI
1984 Watercolor Wisconsin, Wunstum Museum of Art, Racine, WI
1984 National Watercolor Invitational, Clark Art Center, Rockford
College, Rockford,, IL
1984 Chicago and Vicinity Show, Art Institute of Chicago
1983 Governor's Office Exhibition, Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI
1983 Wisconsin 62: Wisconsin Painters and Sculpture Exhibition, UW
Milwaukee and Beloit College, WI
1982 Remains to be Seen, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
1982 Watercolors 1982, Bethel College, Saint Paul, MN
1981-83 The Art Institute of Chicago Print + Multiple Traveling Exhibition: Lakeview Museum, Peoria, IL; National Academy of Design, New York, NY; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL;Quincy Society of Fine Arts, Quincy, IL; University Museum, SIU, Carbondale, IL; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR.
1982-83 Watercolor Wisconsin, Traveling Exhibition
1982 Watercolor Wisconsin, Wunstum Museum of Art, Racine, WI
1982 The Art Institute of Chicago, The School Show
1982 The Art Institute o…f Chicago, Fellowship Awards Exhibition
1982 Miniature Show, Exhibition of Small Works, Bradley Gallery Milwaukee, WI
1981 Realist Watercolors from the Frumpkin-Struve Gallery, Traveling Exhibition
1981 Woodlands Patterns Gallery, Zen Benefit Show, Milwaukee,
1981 Four/Four Show, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981 Print + Multiples, 79th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1975 Union Art League of Chicago, Chicago. IL
1972 Beloit Biannual, Beloit, WI
1969 University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Salon of Art, Madison, WI Ø
Publications:
Lion’s Roar Magazine, Buddhafield Painting, 2019
Buddhadharma Magazine , illustration, 2014, 2017
Shambala Sun, March 2001, “Emotional Alchemy” article illustration: Closet Shrine, No. 4
Shambala Sun, January, 1999, “The Hermit and the Activist”, article illustrations of three Monk Head paintings: Monk Head Painting #32 (Actually You); Monk Head Painting #31 (Direction of the Wind); Monk Head Painting #30 (Round the Neighborhood)
Turning Wheel, winter, 1999, cover illustration: Monk Head,16
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, March 18, 1998, gallery review: James Auer, “Artist’s monk-head drawings form a vast exhibit of faith, love, hope.” illustration: Monk Head Painting, #2 (Cry Baby).
Shambala Sun, May 1996, “The Monk Heads, Drawings by Michael Newhall.” Five-page article including individual drawings, installation views and an artist’s statement.
Vajradhatu Sun, August September, 1989, “Portfolio - Michael Newhall”, Five reproductions from the Buddhafield Series, short biography.
Wisconsin Triennial 1987, 1987, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Catalog - painting checklist, biography and the illustration: Hydra, Study No. 4
Watercolor Wisconsin ‘84, December, 1984, Charles A..Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, Racine, WI., Catalog - painting checklist and illustration: Yokobue (The Flute).
National Watercolor Invitational, 19B84, Clark Arts Center Gallery, Rockford College, Rockford, IL, Catalog - painting checklist, short biography and illustration: Kashiwagi (Fish Bowl Bhumi).
Michael Newhall: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1983, Charles A. Wustum Museum of Fine Arts, biography and the illustration: Hungry Ghost, No. 11.
The Milwaukee Journal, October 24, 1982, Museum exhibition review by James Auer: “Hungry Ghost Series at the Oshkosh Public Museum”, article and illustration: “Hungry Ghost Tree, East Face.”
Prints + Multiples, 79th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, 1981, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL., catalog - illustration: The Buddha Family (lithograph).