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contact name: pete driessen
phone: 612-782-9185
email: pete@petedriessen.com

location address:
681 17th Avenue NE. #117
Minneapolis MN 55413

open to public: yes
hours: By appointment.

mailing address:
681 17th Avenue NE. #117
Minneapolis MN 55413

Related Organizations:
TuckUnder Projects, Minneapolis, MN

Areas of Focus:
Contemporary Painting; Interdisciplinary Art Theory; Color Theory

Teaching & Research Interests:
Broad base centering on interdisciplinary notions of art, wholeness & politics

Selected Education:
96-98 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art/Painting, Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, VT
86-88 Post-Graduate Diploma in Graphic Design, Portfolio Center, Atlanta, GA
83-85 Bachelor of Arts in Studio Arts, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
80-82 Major in Visual Communications, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Professional Experience:
85-Present Visual Artist & Painter, Minneapolis, MN
00-05 Adjunct Instructor, Foundations/Color Theory, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
98-00 Art Educator, Teaching Assistant & Substitute, Breck School, Golden Valley, MN
85-93 Art Director & Graphic Designer, Minneapolis, MN, Atlanta, GA, & Paramus, NJ

Selected Awards/Honors:
10 Giant Steps Scholarship, Springboard for the Arts, St. Paul, MN
09 First National Bank-Waseca, Individual Artist Grant, Waseca, MN- (as artist/producer)
09 Culligan Soft Water, Corporate Artist Grant, Waseca, MN- (as artist/producer)
01-05 Bush Faculty Development Grants, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN -(Seven grants)
01 Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council/Annual South Central Exhibit, Carnegie Arts Center, Mankato, MN -Juror
00 Metropolitan Regional Arts Council/Small Arts Grant - (as artist/producer)
00 Minneapolis Arts Commission/Neighborhood Arts New Presenters Grant - (as artist/producer)
00 Minnesota State Arts Board - Artist Assistance Fellowship
99 Minneapolis College of Art & Design/Jerome Foundation Fellowship Grant - (Semi-finalist)

Selected Solo Exhibitions:
10 Nauticalia Tentacalus, They Won't Find Us Here Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
10 Curatorial Cult Club/Kwestion Quration?, Walker Art Center Open Field, Minneapolis, MN
10 Gorgonica/New Works in Process, Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN
09 Waseca Fleet, Waseca Art Center, Waseca, MN
09 Delirious Drone/New Works in Process, Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN Installation
08 801 Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
06 ExtraOrdinary PanCapitalist Renditions/The Triptychs, California Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
01 Pancapitalist Oscillations, Stevenson Gallery, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
99/00 Art in the Mayors Office /Minneapolis Arts Commission/City Hall, Minneapolis, MN
98 Sway from the Swarm, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Wood Gallery, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
96 Engagement: Recent Objectifications, Lutheran Brotherhood Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
96-10 Art-A-Whirl Open Studio, NEMAA Art-A-Whirl, Minneapolis, MN (13 open studios)
94 Mark Rasmussen Presents Pete Driessen, Jack Wold Art Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
93 Pete Driessen: New Works, Caffe Solo, Minneapolis, MN

Selected Group Exhibitions:
10 The Drawing Club, Walker Art Center Open Field, Minneapolis, MN
10 Sandwich Bar for Peace, Minneapolis, MN
10 Summer Invitational, Gallery 13, Minneapolis, MN
10 Foot in the Door Show/MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Mpls. MN
09 Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
09 MnArtists.org/Minnesota Saints, Saints Stadium, Saint Paul, MN
09 Cache @ the Casket, Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN
09 $99. Sale Exhibition, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
09 Summer Funk, Gallery 13, Minneapolis, MN
08 Monster Drawing Rally, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
08 Collecting Collections, ARP Release, Art of This, Minneapolis, MN
08 Translating Politics, Unconvention, Northrup King Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
08 Northern Exposure, Gallery 13, Minneapolis, MN
08 Cache @ the Casket, Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN
08 NEMAA Fall Fine Art Exhibit, Grain Belt Brewery, Minneapolis, MN
08 $99. Sale Exhibition, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
07 MN Biennial 3D-II, MN Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN Juror: Jennifer Jankauskas
07 Nuestra Frida, Art Jones Gallery, Casket Arts, Minneapolis, MN
07 Mush, Mush, Masculinity, Ephemera Space Gallery, St. Paul, MN Juror: Patricia Briggs
07 Minnesota Emerging Artists Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Minneapolis, MN
07 Painting with Fire/War Murals, Chen Gallery, CCSU, New Britain, CT
06 Art for Change/A Peace Campaign, Winnebago Gallery, Madison, WI
04 Fundamentalism, Tyler St. Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
04 Art of Democracy: Tools of Persuasion, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
04 Calling, CVA Biennial Faculty Exhibit, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
04 Art of War, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN
03 Art on the Plains 6, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND Juror: Joan Rothfuss
03 Nin Una Mas (Not One More), Mira Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
00, 03 College of Visual Arts Biennial Faculty Exhibits, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
02-04 Art of Today: Artists from MN & ND, Rolling Plains Gallery, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND (Tour)
02 New Dimensions/Culture & Agriculture, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
01 In Heat: An Erotic Art Exhibition, Fugitive Art Center, Nashville, TN
01 ANA 30, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. Juror: Peter Schjeldahl
01 Century 2/New Glass & Paintings, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI
01 HotHouse, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
00/01 MSAB Artist Assistance Fellowship Exhibition, Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN
00 Flesh, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
00 Necessary Differences II, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (as Artist/Curator/Producer)
00 Artists of the New Millennium, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL Juror: James Yood
00 Foot in the Door Show/ MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
00 Breck Art Faculty Exhibit, George R. A. Johnson Gallery, Breck School, Golden Valley, MN
99/00 On the Edge 1999.999. Millennium Exhibit, Icebox Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
99 ANA 28. Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. Juror: Peter Plagens
99 Civic Responsibility, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
98, 99 Erotica 98 & Erotica 99, Art Jones Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
99 A to Z/A Public Hanging, Argyle Zebra Gallery, St. Paul, MN
98 The Opening, Oculus Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA. Juror: Susan E. Ryan
98 MN Aids Project Benefit Exhibition, Winchester Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
98 MSAB/RCA/Studio 125 Time Capsule, Franconia Sculpture Park, Schaefer, MN
98 Traditional & Contemporary Sacred Art, World Artists for Tibet, St. Marks Cathedral, Minneapolis, MN
98 Art Orgy, Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund Benefit Art Auction, Art & Us, Minneapolis, MN
97 Vital Intersections/The City, Art & Faith/L ‘art et la foi en ville /CIVA Biennial, Montreal, Canada
97 The Truth Cannot be Silenced/In Honor of Sr. Diana Ortiz, Studio 125, St. Paul, MN
96 Where Do You Draw the Line? , Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
95 Soap Factory Benefit /Volunteer Show, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
95 Domestic Sexual Assault Outreach Center Auction, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
95 Necessary Differences, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
95 Expressions of Devotion: A Collection of American Religious Art, Premier Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
95 Minnesota State Fair 84th Annual Art Exhibition, St. Paul, MN
95 Hopkins, MN: A City Becomes a Gallery, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
95 Minnesota AIDS Art Memorial Auctions I & II, St. Paul, MN
94 Native Persons, Waseca Arts Center, Waseca, MN
92 The Circle of Found Art & Functional Art, Wilensky Arts, Minneapolis, MN
85 Bachelor of Art Senior Exhibit, Catherine Murphy Gallery, College of St. Catherine, St. Paul, MN

Selected Performances/Distributions/Participations:
10 Curatorial Cult Club/Kwestion Quration? Walker Art Center Open Field, Minneapolis, MN (As Artist)
10 List of Curating Praxis, Techniques & the General Thoughts That Go Thru a Curators Brain When Preparing, Producing, & Curating the Spatiality of a Prominent Museum Based Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN (Signed Limited Ed. Of 100 Copies)
10 A Random List of Nearly 200 Emotional & Confused Thoughts That Go Thru a Deceived & Betrayed Artists Mind When Going Thru a Difficult Divorce, Minneapolis, MN(Signed Limited Ed. Of 100 Copies)
10 We Work Here/A Conversation on Art, Economics, & Community. Works Progress, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN (As Artist/Participant)
09 An Aesthetic List of 99 Art Critic Beers & Ales with Prices Separated into 3 Categories. Minneapolis, MN (Signed Limited Ed. Of 100 Copies)
09 Status Via Proximity: My Selected Notes on Alco 60 Sheet Memo Pad. In TC Daily Planet/Arts Orbit, Minneapolis, MN, 3/20/09. (Artists Review Notes) http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/2009/03/15/elizabeth-peyton-notes-toward-review.html
08 An Arbitrary Short List of Forty Past & Present Mark Makers and Their Selected Renderings in Somewhat Random Order, Monster Drawing Event, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN(Signed Limited Ed. Of 100 Copies)
08 The Neurotic & Obsessive Collectors Selected List of 110(+10 Bonus) Duplicated Art & Design Mailers, 1990-2007. As Received at the Artists Studio. Randomly Chosen From Moving Boxes, in No Order. Collecting Collections/ARP, Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (Signed Limited Ed. of 100 Copies)
06 Triangulation Statement, ExtraOrdinary PanCapitalist Renditions, California Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (as artist)
01 Do It! , SooVac, Minneapolis, MN (As participant/CAE True Crime)
00 Severed Pancapitalist Phalli Rolodex, Foot in the Door Show, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (as artist)
99 In Honor of Civic Responsibility: 50 Quotes, Katherine Nash Gallery, UMN, Minneapolis, MN (as artist)

Selected Corporate Commissions/Permanent Collections:

Blockbuster Video, Little Falls Housing Partnership, Metropolitan Interiors, MidAmerica Entertainment, Paradox Management, Plains Art Museum Study Collection(Fargo, ND),Waseca Arts Center Permanent Collection



Over 100 private collections.

For galleries see exhibitions list.

Selected Websites:
08 Saatchi.com. www.saatchi.com
07 Pete Driessen. www.petedriessen.com
07 MyArtspace.com. www.myartspace.com
06 Irving Sandler Artist File. www.afonline.artistsspace.org
06 NEMAA. www.nemaa.org
05 MN Artists.org. www.mnartists.org/pete_driessen

Selected Web Collections:
Berg, Emma. ART ON THE WALL: A Conversation with a "Regular Joe" Collector, Named Cate.
Mnartists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?rid=164292
Bloom, Ken. MASHUP. In Access+Engage Issue 16.2, April 22, 2007. Mnartists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?action=start&rid=143851
Driessen, Pete. ExtraOrdinary PanCapitalist Renditions/The Triptychs, Nov. 2007. Mnartists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?action=start&rid=120567
Foot in the Door, MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN, January-April 2000. http://www.artsmia.org/foot-in-the-door/2000entry.cfm?r=1&c=201
MFA-V Alumni Exhibit, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, 2008. http://www.vcmfav.com/time/2d/driessen_pete/index.htm
Mush, Mush, Masculinity. Ephemeral Space, St. Paul, MN. http://www.ephemeralspace.com/FashionGalleryView/pages/070908_1132.htm
Nuestra Frida (Our Frida). In Access+Engage, November 28, 2007. Mnartists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?action=start&rid=169441
Peiken, Matt. Three Minute Egg. Art A Whirl Part Three, May 16, 2009. (studio interview) http://blip.tv/file/2135001
Sheets, Monica. Minnesota Emerging Artists Gallery, MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis, MN. Mnartists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?action=start&rid=161371
Valentinas Nightmare. UMN Center for Genocide and Holocaust Studies, Minneapolis, MN, 2004. http://www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/responses/driessen/

Selected Lectures/Panels/Workshops:
09 Waseca Fleet, Waseca Arts Center, Waseca, MN Opening Talk
08 MN Biennial 3D-II Slide-A-Rama, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN
06 ChromOrgasm: Chromancing the Color Moshpit, SECAA Conference, Nashville, TN
04 Chromancing with Hues: Color & Its Interlocutors, MACAA Interplay Conference, UMN, Minneapolis, MN
02 Pancapitalism: The Development of Socio-political Symbolism in my Artwork. CVA, St. Paul, MN
02 War & Peace, Rhogue Buddha Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Invited Artist/Panellist
01 Minnesota State Arts Board - Artist Assistance Fellowship (2D), MSAB, St. Paul, MN Panellist
01 Grants & Exhibitions, BFA/Senior Survey, Art Department, UMN, Minneapolis, MN, Invited Artist/Panellist
01 Waseca Arts Council Juried Student Workshop, Waseca Arts Center, Waseca, MN, Invited Artist
00 MSAB/RCA Focus Group @ ND II, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN, Facilitator/Artist
00 Art, Politics, & Protest. Salon Artisimo, Art Jones Gallery, Minneapolis, MN, Invited Panellist/Artist
99 Civic Responsibility, Katherine Nash Gallery, UMN, Minneapolis, MN, Artist talk/slide lecture
96 Five Minute Slide Lecture, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN, Juried slide lecture.

Selected Bibliography
Abbe, Mary. Art Review/Out of the playpen, into the gallery. Minneapolis Star Tribune, November 21, 2007. http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/art/11917131.html
Berg, Emma. ART ON THE WALL: A Conversation with a "Regular Joe" Collector, Named Cate. In Access+Engage, MnArtists.org. http://www.mnartists.org/tourHome.do?rid=164292
Carlson Gustafson, Amy. Walker Show inspires artist to express their ‘Frida experience.’ St. Paul Pioneer Press, Friday, November 30, 2007, p. 1E, 3E.
Driessen, Pete. Status Via Proximity: My Selected Notes on Alco 60 Sheet Memo Pad. In TC Daily Planet/Arts Orbit, Minneapolis, MN, 3/20/09. (Artists Review Notes) http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/blog/2009/03/15/elizabeth-peyton-notes-toward-review.html
Haga, Charles. Exhibit Showcases Civic Responsibility. Minneapolis Star Tribune, Thursday, May 6, 1999. (Interview)
Hager, Ruth Ann. Wasea Fleet Exhibit runs through July 25. In Waseca County News, June 17, 2009. http://www.wasecacountynews.com/news.php?viewStory=3084
Hanson, Doug. These Artists are Doing it for Themselves. Minneapolis Star Tribune, October 27, 2000.(Review)
Klefstad, Ann. Seeing the 3D Biennial at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Mnartists.org, December 10, 2007. http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=171403
Klefstad, Ann. Art/Minnesota Biennial: 3D ll. The Rake, December 2007, p. 22.
http://www.rakemag.com/arts-culture/so-little-time/minnesota-biennial-3d-ii
Klefstad, Ann. Art/Nuestra Frida (Our Frida). The Rake, December 2007, p. 22-23.
http://www.rakemag.com/arts-culture/so-little-time/nuestra-frida-our-frida
Lieu, Loosely. Ruling: Minnesota Biennial 3D-ll. ARP! (A Real Publication), Vol.1, Issue 3, p.19.
McElhatton, Heather(Producer) Word of Mouth Arts: Necessary Differences II, NPR, St. Paul, MN, Oct. 20, 2000 (Radio Interview)
Morstad, Marya. ArtMatters: ND II. Minneapolis, MN: KFAI Radio, 10/13/2000. (Interview)
Peiken, Matt. MMAA: Minnesota in three dimensions. Walker Art Center Blog. http://blogs.walkerart.org/visualarts/2007/11/19/mmaa-museum/
Peiken, Matt. Three Minute Egg. Art A Whirl Part Three, http://blip.tv/file/2135001 May 16, 2009.(Video/studio interview)
Roberts, Chris. Art Hounds/Minnesota Public Radio, 06/10/09, Artist Studio/Radio Interview
pace: none;">Stulen, Scott. Play Ball/Walker Blog:http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2009/05/20/play-ball

Selected Professional Affiliation/Related Education/Community Activism
ARMS (98-06), College Art Association (96-10), Necessary Differences (93-06), Radical Art Caucus (01-05)

Country of Citizenship:
United States

Birth Place:
Minneapolis

Birth Date:
September 19, 1961

Gender:
Male

Active Place:
Minneapolis

Minnesota County:
Hennepin

Painter

http://www.petedriessen.com 

ART ON THE WALL: Cate Curry's Collection
Black Canvas
Drones
Extraordinary Pancapitalist Renditions
ExtraOrdinary PanCapitalist Renditions: The Triptychs
Gomer Pyle/Jim Nabors
MASHUP a+E Issue 16.2: Guest Curator Ken Bloom, Director of the Tweed Museum of Art
Minnesota Emerging Artists Exhibition
Nuestra Frida (Our Frida): Interpretations, Explorations, Exploitations
Octopus/Squids
Phallic, Phalli/ Penis, Penial
Provocative
Ships by Pete Driessen
Spiders
Waseca Fleet
W's as a Visual Element

Black Canvas
Drones
ExtraOrdinary PanCapitalist Renditions: The Triptychs
Gomer Pyle/Jim Nabors
Octopus/Squids
Phallic, Phalli/ Penis, Penial
Ships by Pete Driessen
Spiders
Waseca Fleet
W's as a Visual Element