About the artist:

EDUCATION: BFA, Painting, University of Minnesota, 1971 ONE ARTIST EXHIBITIONS: Coffman Gallery, University of Minnesota Coffman Gallery Fendrick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Hanson Cowles Gallery, Minneapolis Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Mead Gallery of Art, Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. FendrickGalleiy Kathryn Markel Gallery, New York Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud College, St. Cloud, MN Dart Gallery, Chicago Glen Hanson Gallery, Minneapolis Kathryn Markel Gallery Dart Gallery Fendrick Gallery Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston Glen Hanson Gallery University of North Dakota Timothy Bums Gallery, St. Louis Signet Arts, St. Louis Getler Pall Gallery, New York Hamline University, St. Paul Cantor Lemberg Gallery, Detroit Barbara Balkin Gallery, Chicago Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis Thomas Segal Gallery Getler Pall Gallery Eve Mannes Gallery, Atlanta Dolan Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia Thomson Gallery Thomas Smith Fine Arts, Ft. Wayne, IN Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Goteborg & Stockholm Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto A.P. Giannini Gallery, Bank of America, San Francisco G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles Sette Publishing, Tempe Dolan Maxwell Gallery Thomson Galllery Thomas Smith Fine Arts Smith Andersen Gallery Thorden Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm Dolan Maxwell Gallery Michael Dunev Gallery, San Francisco Cantor Lemberg Gallery Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto Wetterlmg Gallery, Goteborg Dolan Maxwell Gallery, New York University of Missouri--Kansas City Gallery of Art Smith Andersen Heland Wetterling, Stockholm Eve Marines Gallery, Atlanta Klein Art Works, Chicago Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis Steensland Gallery, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN, travels to Tweed Museum f Art in Duluth, MN, and Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN Tyler Graphics, Mt. Kisco, NY Dunev Gallery, San Francisco Smith Andersen Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Klein Art Works Wetterling Gallery. Stockholm The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City Thomson Gallery Tyler Graphics Atrium Gallery, St. Louis Smith Andersen Klein Art Works Atrium Gallery, Connecticut College Smith Andersen Columbus State University, Columbus, GA Flanders Contemporary Art, Mpls Tyler Graphics Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm Atrium Gallery Flanders Contemporary Art Smith Andersen Morgan Gallery, Kansas City Atrium Gallery Smith Anderson Lemberg Gallery Flanders Contemporary Art Deborah Davis Fine Art, Hudson, NY 2004: Atrium Gallery 2005: Smith Andersen Flanders Contemporary Art Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2006: Flanders Contemporary Art SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: Three Young Artists, Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis Printmakers I Midwest Invitational, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Markings, Western Michigan University, Kalamazo Drawings, Margo leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Works on Paper, Dayton's Gallery 12 Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wash., D.C. Fifteen from the Corcoran, Fendrick Gallery Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery Axeirod, Bjorklund, Herdegen, Sonnan-- Walker Art Center Drawings, Greenburg Gallery, St. Louis Art of the State: The State of Art, Mpls. Institute of Art Bjorkland, Sorman--Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN Collector's Show, Des Moines Art Center The Material Dominant, Museum of Art, Penn State University The Book as Art II, Fendrick Gallery Vice President's Residence, Washington, D.C. Paper as Medium, SITES (Smithsonian Institution) Painting and Sculpture Today / 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art Twenty-First National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum Printmaking in Modem American Illustration, Pratt Graphics Center Gallery 13th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia New Works by Twin Cities Artists, Landmark Center, St. Paul Works on Paper, Dart Gallery World Print Ill, San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art New Acquisitions, Mpls. Institute of Arts Artist and Printer, Walker Art Center Bienal Americana de Artes Grauicas, Museo de Arte, Modemo, La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia Great Prints, Thomas Segal Gallery Graphica Creativa, Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla, Finland Lithography IV, Tamarind Institute & The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Contemporary Collage, Alice Simsar Gallery, Am Harbor New American Paperworks, World Print Council (traveling exhibition 1982-1986) Houston, Birmingham, Seoul, Hong Kong, Manila, Singapore, Kyoto, Fukuoka Vermilion Editions: Arakawa, Grooms, Sorman--The American Center, Paris Dimensional Aspects of Painting, Klein Gallery, Chicago Expansions: new Approaches and Applications of the Printed Image, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage Six on Paper, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto 23rd National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum Impressions: Experimental Prints, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Hassam and Speicer Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts And Letters Eighth British International Print Biennial The National Mid-year Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown The Modem Art of the Print: Selections from the Lois and Michael Toil Collection, Williams College Museum of Art & Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Prints from Tyler Graphics, Walker Art Center Coast to Coast, Gallery One, Ft. Worth Paperworks, Walker Art Center Fifty Artists, Fifty printers--University Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Ken Tyler Printer Extraordinary, Australian National Gallery, Canberra Tamarind 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Associated American Artists, New York Modem American Printmaking, Amerika-Haus, Hanover, West Germany Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles Great American Prints 1984-1985, Dolan Maxwell Gallery Smith Andersen Gallery Pace Editions, New York Public and Private: American Prints Today, The 24th Annual Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum V Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas, Museo De Arte Moderno, La Tertulia, Cali, Columbia Lever Meyerson Gallery, New York Kulturtorvet Gallery, Copenhagen Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, The Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, II American Graphic Arts, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Recent American Graphics, Garton and Cooke, London Minnesota Center for Book Arts Dolan Maxwell Gallery Walker Art Center Scott Hanson Gallery, New York Columnar, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers Thomson Gallery Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama The Combination Print 1980's, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit Imprimatur, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, and Greenville Co. Museum of Art, Greenville, SC Three American Printshops, Associated American Artists Great American Prints 1987-1988, Dolan Maxwell Gallery Joy Emery Gallery, Grosse Pt., MI First Impressions, Walker Art Center Art of the '80s from the Collection of Chemical Bank, The Montclaire Museum, Montclaire, N.J. The Artist and the Book, Walker Art Center The 1980's: Prints from the Collection of Joshua P. Smith, The National Gallery SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, organized by International Art Projects, a division of World Print Council--travels to Seoul, Wellington and Nelson, New Zealand, Manila, Taipei, Hong Kong, Kuala Lampur, and Singapore Contemporary Illustrated Books: Word and Image 1967-1988, organized by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York--travels to Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc., N.Y., Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art Prints of the '80s, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y Echo Press: A Decade of Printmaking, Indiana University Art Museum The Painted Monotype, Dunev Gallery, San Fransisco Echo Press at Dolan Maxwell, Philadelphia Portraits of Literature, Palo Alto Cultural Center 42nd Annual Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Small Drawings, Klein Art Works, Chicago The Second Bhrat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints,.Roopankar Museum of Fine Arts, Bhopol, India The 5th International Biennial Print Exhibit, Taipei R.O.C. Monotypes, Joan Prats Gallery, New York, N.Y. Hockney, LaNoue, Sorman--Bobbie Greenfield Fine Arts, L.A. Contemporary Uses of Wax and Encaustic, Palo Alto Cultural Center Innovation in Collaborative Printmaking: Kenneth Tyler 1963-1992--Yokohama Museum Of Art Contemporary American Art Exhibition, Tokushima Modern Art Museum Contemporary Classics-The Illustrated Book Redefined, Minnesota Center for Book Arts 20th International Biennial of Graphic Art, Ljubljana Scene at a Place and Time, the Print Club, Philadelphia Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints & Presses 1960-1990, Zimmerli Art Museum University of Nebraska, Lincoln USA Within Limits, Galeria Millan, Sao Paulo, Brazil Carolyn Ruff Gallery, Minneapolis Lembcrg Gallery Beyond Print, LaSalle, SIA College of Arts, Singapore Cumberland Gallery, Nashville Singular Impressions (The Monotype in America), National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. A Thought Intercepted, California Museum of Art, Santa Rosa Printed Abstraction: Prints From Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Center for Contempotary Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Fukushima, Japan Smith Andersen and the Art of Collaborative Printmaking, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno Multiplicity, Vanderbilt University, Nashville Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington D.C. Forums That Speak: CLGA and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Fukushima, Japan 23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana 175 Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Visiting--Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco 2001: Impression to Form, Singapore Art Museum 2002: 177th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design Steven Sorman, Stephen Talasnik, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT Davidson Galleries, Seattle 2004: Printed Matter, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT 2005: Looking Back and Moving Forward: success in the making, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota Print Matters; The Kenneth E. Tyler Gift, Tate Liverpool, Tate Modern Works on Paper, Deborah Davis Fine Art The Art of the Screenprint, The Detroit Institute of Arts 2006: Vermillion Editions Limited: Prints, Multiples, Artist's Books, 1977-1992, Minneapolis Institute of Artts Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printers and Publishers, The Grolier Club, New York MUSEUM COLLECTIONS: St. Louis Museum of Art Minneapolis Institute of Arts Walker Art Center MOMA Des Moines Art Center Whitney Museum McGill University Rare Book Library Power Museum of Art, Sydney, Australia M.H. DeYoung Museum Toledo Museum of Art Ft. Wayne Museum of Art The Art Institute of Chicago Aschenbach Foundation, Museums of San Fransisco The National Gallery of Art Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota The Fogg Museum The Australian National Gallery, Canberra Stedlijk Museum The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts New York Public Library Indiana University Museum of Art Palm Springs Desert Museum Rutgers Print Archive Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago The Smithsonian Museum of American Art The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University The Milwaukee Art Museum Princeton University, The Art Museum Cleveland Museum of Art Smith College Museum of Art Center for Contemporary Graphic Art, Tyler Graphics Archive Collection, Fukushima, Japan Singapore Art Museum Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI The Detroit Institute of Arts The Sheldon Museum of Art The Houston Museum of Fine Arts The Tate Gallery The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Baltimore Museum of Art SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS: IBM Prudential AT&T Coopers and Lybrand Hospital Corporation of America Goldman Sachs Co. General Mills Amerada Hess Wm. Mercer Inc. Owens Corning Chase Manhattan Continental Illinois Minneapolis First Banks Norwest Banks Kutak, Rock, and Huie Webb Publishing Gelco Corp. Bank of America Chemical Bank Dai Nippon Piper Jaffray Standard Federal Bank The St. Paul Companies Hallmark The Cleveland Clinics COMMISSIONS: Prudential Insurance WCCO Television, Minneapolis IBM Honeywell Hyatt Regency, O'Hare The Springhill Foundation The St. Paul Companies First Bank Place, Mpls The Cleveland Clinics The Cleveland Museum of Art Print Club Lincoln Center, List Print Collection FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: 1979: Bush Foundation 1979: Minnesota State Arts Board 1980: Merit Award, World Print III 1982: Rockefeller Foundation/American Center Artist In Residence, Paris 1991: Merit Award, 2nd Bhrat Bhavan International Biennial of Prints LECTURES, VISITING ARTIST WORKSHOPS: Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN Walker Art Center University of North Dakota Indiana University University of Nebraska at Omaha Indiana University Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis College of Art and Design University of Minnesota Inter Society Color Council, Toronto University of South Dakota Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts, Reykjavik Icelandic Printmakers Association, American Cultural Center, Reykjavik Institute of Theory and History of Art, Prague National Gallery of Czechoslovakia University of Nebraska Kansas City Art Institute Wayne State University, Detroit University of Iowa, Iowa City Penn State University St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN Macalester College, St. Paul, MN Kyoto Seika College of Art Fukuoka University Tokushima Modern Art Museum Nagoya University of Arts Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art Tokyo American Center University of Iowa Museum of Art Colorado College Carleton College, Northfield, Mn University of Iowa Indiana University Washington University, St. Louis Columbus State University, Columbus, Ga University of Wisconsin, Madison Minneapolis Institute of Arts SUNY, New Paltz Smith College Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Wayne State University, Detroit Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI University of Minnesota University of Hartford School of Art Indiana University BIBLIOGRAPHY: DesChamps, Madeline,La Peinture Ainericaine Paris, 1981 Field, Richard, Prints History of an Art Contemporary Trends Geneva, 1981 Gilmour, Pat, Ken Tyler Master Printer. New York, 1986 Walker Art Center, Tyler Graphics The Extended Image New York, 1987 Tyler Graphics Catalogue Raisonne New York, 1987 Hampl, Patricia and Sorman, Steven, Spillville Mpls., 1987 Gilmour, Pat (Editor), Lasting Impressions Lithography as Art Canberra, 1988 Ross, John, Romano, Clare, and Ross, Tim, The Complete Printmaker. New York, 1990 Toale, Bernard, Basic Printmaking Techniques Worcester, 1992 Hanson, Trudy, Mickenburg, David, Moser, Joann, and Walker, Barry, Printmaking in America/ Collaborative Prints and Presses 1960-1990 New York, 1995 Moser, Joann, Singular Impressions The Monotype in America Washington D.C., 1997 Devon, Marjorie, Tamarind Forty Years Albuquerque, 2000 Printmakers Midwest Invitational Walker Art Center, 1973 34th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1975 Akagawa Byme,Kahn Leicester Axelrod Bjorklund Herdegen Sorman Walker Art Center, 1975 Paper as Medium Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1978 Twenty-first National Print Exhibition Brooklyn Museum, 1978 Portfolio 15, Northwestern National Bank, Mpls., 1978 Painting and Sculpture Today / 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art New Works by Twin Cities Artists Landmark Center, St. Paul, 1979 International Biennial of Graphic Art Ljubljana, Jugoslavia, 1979 World Print III World Print Council, San Francisco, 1980 Artist and Printer Walker Art Center, 1980 Bienal Americana de Artes Grauicas, Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia, 1981 GraphicaCreativa Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland, 1981 General Mills Art Collection 1981 New American Paperworks World Print Council, 1982 The American Artist as Printer Brooklyn Museum, 1983 Bank of America Acquisitions San Francisco, 1982-83, 1984 The Modern Art of the Print Williams College Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1984 Eighth British International Print Biennale Bradford Galleries and Museums, 1984 Coopers and Lybrand Boston 1984 Prints from Tyler Graphics Walker Art Center, 1984 The Atelier In America-A Collaboration Between Printer and Artist Northern Ill. University, 1985 Fifty Artists Fifty Printers University of New Mexico, 1985 Modem American Printmaking Amerika-Haus, Hanover, West Germany, 1985 Steven Sorman Collage Prints and Monoprints, Tyler Graphics, Ltd.,Bedford Village, NY, 1985 Steven Sorman Paintings Monotypes Graphics Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, 1985 Tamarind Impressions Recent Lithographs Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, 1985 Tamarind 25 Years 1985 The Atelier In America Northern Illinois University, 1985 Steven Sonnan Dolan Maxwell Gallery, Philadelphia, 1986 V Bienal Americana de Artes Graficas Museum of Modern Art, Cali, Colombia, 1986 Public and Private American Prints Today Brooklyn Museum, 1986 Recent Graphics from American Print Shops Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL, 1986 Steven Sorman Thorden Wetterling Galleries, Stockholm, 1987 Art of the 80's Montclaire Museum and Chemical Bank, 1988 The Combination Print 1980's New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, 1989 Steven Sorman Wetterling Gallery, Goteborg, 1989 Ken Tyler -25 Glorious Years Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, 1989 First Impressions Walker Art Center, 1989 The 1980's Prints from the Collection of Joshua P Smith The National Gallery, 1989 Contemporary Illustrated Books Word and Image 1967-1988 Independent Curators Inc., N.Y., 1989 Mind and Matter New American Abstraction International Art Projects, a division of World Print Council, 1990 Steven Somian Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, 1990 Echo Press A Decade of Printmaking Indiana University Art Museum, 1990 The 5th International Biennial Print Exhibit Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 1991 Art for Children's Survival Unicef Benefit Auction, Sotheby's, 1991 Contemporary American Art Exhibition Tokushima Modem Art Museum, Japan, 1992 Innovation in Collaborative Printmaking Kenneth Tyler 1963-1992 Yokohama Museum of Art, 1992 Utopia/Dystopia The Print Club, Philadelphia, 1992 Contemporary Classics-The Illustrated Book Redefined Minnesota Center For Book Arts, 1993 20th International Biennial of Graphic Art Ljubljana, 1993 Scene at a Place and Time the Print Club, Philadelphia, 1994 Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics Archive Collection Fukushima, Japan, 1995 Beyond Print LaSalle SIA College of the Arts, Singapore, 1996 Steven Sonnan Inside Weather Tyler Graphics, 1998 Print Matters The Kenneth E Tyler Gift,The Tate Modern MAGAZINES: American Painting Regains It's Vital Signs The Village Voice, 3/17/1975 Steven Sorman Paintings and Drawings Art Week, Jan. 1977 Review, Art International, The New Lugano Review, Oct. 1977 Prints of Worth: A Question of Taste The Print Collector's Newsletter, Sept.-Oct. 1979 Three Artists-Three Arguments and Steven Sorman-an Interview The Print Collector's Newsletter, Mar. -Apr., 1980 Printmaking The Medium Isn't the Message Anymore Art News, Mar. 1980 Review, Art News, Nov. 1981 Review, New Art Examiner, May 1983 Steven Sorman Arts Magazine, Publication of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 1983 Steven Somian Arts Magazine, Feb. 1984 Review, Art News, Mar. 1984 Steven Sonnan New Monopnnts and Variant Editions The Print Collector's Newsletter, Mar.-Apr. 1985 The Medium isn't the Message Art News, Oct. 1985 Spillville Arts, Publication of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Oct. 1986 Review, Art in America, Mar. 1987 Leading into the Work A Conversation about Making Prints The Tamarind Papers, Spring, 1987 The Printed Word Twin Cities, May 1987 Books The Minnesota Monthly,. May 1987 The Lyric Response The Hungry Mind Review, Summer, 1987 Review, The New York Times Book Review, 7/26/1987 Review, Arts Magazine, May 1988 Review, Fine Print, Fall, 1988 If You Want the Print to Stay Paste it Down Steven SonnanatTyler Graphics The Print Collector's Newsletter, July - August 1989 Review, Art in America, July 1989 Review, New Art Examiner, June 1991 Review, Print Collector's Newsletter, Jan.-Feb. 1992 Art and Antiques, April, 1994 Review, Print Collector's Newsletter, July-Aug. 1994 New Art Examiner, Nov. 1994 Journal of the Print World, Summer, 2001 NEWSPAPERS: Review, Minneapolis Tribune, 9/20/1973 Review, Washington Star, 6/6/1975 Review, Washington Star, 11/21/1975 Review, Minneapolis Tribune, 12/3/1976 Minnesota Daily, 4/14/1978 Review, Chicago Sun Times, 9/30/1979 Review, Chicago Tribune, 10/5/79 Review, Boston Globe, 7/26/1980 Review, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 4/18/1981 Review, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 4/18/1981 St. Louis Globe-Democrat, 8/9/1981 Review, Birmingham-Bloomfield Eccentric, 10/28/1982 Minneapolis Tribune, 4/22/1983 Review, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 11/30/1983 Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/19/1984 Minneapolis Star, 10/7/1984 Minnesota Daily, 11/28/1984 Review, Detroit Free Press, 5/12/1985 Review, Los Angeles Times, 11/8/1985 Review, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 10/26/1986 Review, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, 10/26/1986 New York Times, Westchester Edition, 11/29/1987 Review, Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/29/1988 Minneapolis Star and Tribune, 7/23/1989 San Francisco Chronicle, 1/16/1990 Minneapolis Star and Tribune,, 11/161991 St. Louis Post Dispatch, 12/12/1996 Chicago Tribune, 10/4/1996 Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, 3/28/1997 St Paul Pioneer Press, 10/20/97 Cincinnati Enquirer, 9/4/98 St. Paul Pioneer Press, 12/23/99 St. Louis Post Dispatch, 2/18/01 Minneapolis Star Tribune, 11/15/02