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ArtistJose Cobo

Public Reading/Slide Talk Date: 05/27/2010

Jose Cobo (b. 1958, Santander, Spain) studied at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a MFA in Sculpture (1985) and a Graduate Certificate in Art History, Theory and Criticism (1995). Solo exhibitions include the Maya Polsky Gallery in Chicago, Galeria Buades in Madrid, Galeria Alejandro Sales in Barcelona, Galeria Fernando Silio in Santander, Galeria Ferran Cano in Palma de Mallorca, (Spain), Galeria Vertice in Oviedo (Spain), Jon Oulman Gallery in Minneapolis, Fish Tank Gallery in New York, Sala de Arte Robayera in Miengo, Cantabria, (Spain), Arnes + Röpke in Madrid, and Galerie Stefan Röpke in Cologne (Germany). He participated in Art Chicago, ARCO (Madrid), FIAC (Paris), San Francisco International, Art Exposition, Art Miami, MACO (Mexico DF), Art Cologne (Germany), and Art Brussels (Belgium). He received the Beca de Artes Plasticas de la Fundacion Marclino Botin award in 1994. He has made several permanent outdoors public sculptures: “Monumento al Incendio y Reconstruccion de 1941”, Santander, “Dos Toros”, Madrid,“Raqueros”, Santander, “Banistas”, Castro Urdiales, Cantabria, “Sulero”, Santoña, Cantabria, “Hermanos Tonetti”, Santander.

NARI WARD

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, August 2008

Nari Ward (b. Jamaica, 1963) received a BA from Hunter College in 1991 and an MFA from Brooklyn College 1992. Exhibitions include two Whitney Biennials, Venice Biennale, and Documenta XI. Ward has also received commissions from the United Nations, and the World Health Organization, and has collaborated with Ralph Lemon, Bill T. Jones and Toni Morrison. Grants include American Academy of Arts and Letters, the National Endowment for the Arts,New York Foundation for the Arts, John Simon Guggenheim and Pollock Krasner Foundations. Ward currently lives in New York, and teaches at Hunter College.

MARY HAMBLETON

Vermont Studio Center Visiting Artist, May 2009

Mary Hambleton's solo exhibitions include Littlejohn Contemporary Gallery, in NYC (where she is represented), Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, NYC, and Knoedler Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions are numerous: The National Academy of Design, Brenda Taylor Gallery, The Painting Center, Robert Gilson Fine Arts, Robert Steele Gallery, and Max Protech. Articles and reviews of Hambleton’s paintings have been published in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, The Philadelphia Enquirer, and The Chicago Tribune.