Bill Gorcica
Contact Information
contact name: Bill Gorcica
email: bill@billgorcica.com
Experience
BS, Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, 1982
MA, Painting/Sculpture, Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ 1990
MFA, Visual Arts, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1992
Awards
Year 2000 Bush Artists Fellowship, Visual Arts, Three-Dimensional Art
Arts in Space Grant, Intermedia Arts Exhibition space, Jerome Foundation and Intermedia Arts, 10-11/98
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant in Media Arts, 6/98
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowship Outreach Project, New Genres/Alternative Art Forms, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, Sweet Briar, VA, one-month residency, 1997
Fulbright Scholarship, Painting/Printmaking, Krakow, Poland, 1993
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Full Fellowship, 1992
Exhibitions/Performance History
Art Croquet and Other Recent Works, Swansong Contemporary Arts, Maiden Rock, WI, 8-9/2008.
Art Croquet, ARTHouse, New London, MN, 7/2008.
Designer, 2008 Minnesota State Parks Vehicle Permit, 2008.
Bunny, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN, 11/2005.
Array, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, 11-12/2004.
Winter in Summer: Ice-Fishing House Mini Golf Hole, Walker in the Rough, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, May - Sept. 2004,
Digital Plus, New Works by Bill Gorcica, Kiehle Art Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 3-4/2002.
Canadian Rockies/Wallachian Beehives, W Oknych Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic, 11-12/2000.
Faculty Show, Kiehle Art Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 9-10/2000.
Sonic Circuits VII, Landmark Center, St. Paul, MN, 11/99.
record-recycle-reflection, Solo Show, Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, 9-10/99.
Eyes and Ears, Performing Arts Center, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN, 4/99.
Art in Space - Part One, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN, 10-11/98
1987-1997, A Skowhegan Decade, Alumni Exhibition and Benefit Auction, David Beitzel Gallery, Soho, NYC, 9/98
Collections
Portland Art Museum, The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Center for Graphic Arts, Portland, Oregon
Institute for International Education, Washington, D.C.
Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland
Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
Stichting International Museum, Vollenhove, Holland
Broadway Bank and Trust Company, Paterson, NJ
Paterson Museum, Paterson, NJ
Binney and Smith Company, Easton, PA
Montclair State University, Upper Montclair, NJ
Galleries
Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden, Minneapolis, MN
W Oknych Gallery, Olomouc, Czech Republic
Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Kiehle Art Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
David Beitzel Gallery, New York City
Publications
Walker Artist-designed Mini Golf hole reproduced in I.D. (International Design) magazine, Sept.-Oct. 2004 issue
work reproduced in "Art in America", May 1992 as part of Binney and Smith "Excellence in Art" award
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Active Place:
St. Cloud
Minnesota County:
Stearns
Artist Information
Roles
Digital Artist