Jim Proctor
Contact Information
contact name: Jim Proctor
email: jim_proctor@hotmail.com
Experience
St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. B.A. (May 1992). Majors: Studio Art, Religion
Awards
2005 FORECAST Public Art Affairs Public Project Grant
2002 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Assistance Fellowship
2001 Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
2000 Minnesota State Fair Merit Award-sculpture
2000 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary Fellowship (funded by the Jerome Foundation)
Exhibitions/Performance History
Bird x Bird 2006 Exhibition and Auction
Northrup King Building, Minneapolis, MN
Oct 6, 2006
Into/Out of Nature
The Phipps Galleries, and Willow River State Park, Hudson, WI
September 15-October 29, 2006
The Buckthorn Menace
funded by FORECAST Public Art
West River Parkway and 24th St, Minneapolis, MN
October 2005-Oct 2006
Nature in Photography, Oils, Sculpture & Textiles
Frank Stone Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
April, 2005
WAM art expo
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
November 12-14, 2004
Minneapolis 55408
Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
July, 2004
Baker’s Dozen
Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
April, 2004
Roots of Renewal
Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
September-December, 2003
Sculptures: William Pergl, Jim Proctor
Nightengale Gallery, Eastern Oregon University, La Grande, OR
February-March, 2002
Soap Number 3
No Name Exhibitions @ the Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
July-August, 2000
Minnesota Bleak
College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN
January-February, 2000
Gathered Seeds, Gathered Spaces
Northfield Arts Guild, Northfield, MN
October, 1999
Publications
"Transforming Buckthorn in a Big Way: Minneapolis Artist Jim Proctor Makes a Doozy of a Dandelion," By Neil Cunningham (Thicket! Vol. 5 No. 1 Winter 2006): http://www.mda.state.mn.us/plants/thicket/volume5no1/mpls_artist.htm
""Buckthorn Menace" stalks river bluffs" By Chris Steller (The Bridge, January 27, 2006): http://www.readthebridge.info/node/733
Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 4, 2000, Free Time section, pg 12-13.
". . . Proctor is the most original sculptor to appear in these parts in a long while. His tiny constructions, invisibly crafted, look entirely natural even though they are hybrids as strange as the famous fur-lined teacup by the surrealist sculptor Merit Oppenheim." -Mary Abbe
Biographical Information
Country of Citizenship:
United States
Gender:
Male
Active Place:
Minneapolis
Minnesota County:
Hennepin
