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Monika Teal: USA
Artist - Bern

Monika Teal’s career as an artist began with her studies at the University of Minnesota and continued with the Seattle School of Visual Concepts and Western Carolina University. Teal has exhibited across the US as well as in European venues, such as Paris, Venice, and Como. She continues to pursue her career in Switzerland.  Monika has received awards and honors on national levels and incorporates her experiences and relationships in a developed and conscious manner.

For Teal, art is a form of social material.  Her intent is to address issues of awareness and understanding of our presence in the world. Her art is meant to mediate and guide our actions. She focuses on magic, innocence, and loss of innocence in our lives.
 
Her art comes from her personal life. It is grounded in her heritage and her past.  As with many present-day artists, she is engaging in real-world issues.  Teal attempts to breach the gap between life and art by raising an appreciation and awareness of our world.
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FRONTOFBICYCLE EXHIBITIONS 2020 - 2021
2020 - Talking Walls - Riehentorstrasse 31, Basel
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RESIDENCIES | FELLOWSHIPS | HONORS
2017 - Visarte, Switzerland
2015 - Women Environmental Artists Directory
2013 -  Award for Cultural Challenge in the Arts by Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri
2006 - Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
2006 - Joan Mitchell Foundation Award financial assistance grant through Atlantic Center for the Arts
2005 - TIPP International Residency Program, Tihany, Hungary
2004 - Hermitage Artists Residency, Manasota Key, Florida (May-June)
2003 - Biennale Internazionale Dell'Arte Contemporanea, The Florence Biennale, Italy
2002 - National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC) Invitation for One-Month Residency and Exhibition at Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba
2001 - Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange. One-Month Residency. Global Tapestry
2000 - Vermont Studio Center. Johnson, Vermont-Residency
1997 - Seaside Institute. Seaside, Florida-Residency
1990/91 North Carolina Visual Arts Fellowship

MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2011 - "Exhibiting Change" International Museum of Women, San Francisco, USA, online exhibition 2003 "North Carolina Artists" - Fayetteville Museum of Art
2002 - "Bacchus" - Muzeul National de Arta Cluj, Romania
2002 - "Bacchus" - Accademia d'Arte Moderna, Montecatini, Italia
1999 - "Border Biennial" - York County Museum of Art, South Carolina
1998 - "One Hundred Mile Radius" - Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida
1995 - "Weihnachtsausstellung" - Olten Art Museum, Switzerland
1990 - "Select Exhibition" - Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina
1990 - "Weihnachtsausstellung" - Solothurn Art Museum, Switzerland
1987 - "Fallen Sisters" - Solo Exhibition, Asheville Art Museum. North Carolina

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 - Monika Teal, Galerie Muster Meier, Bern, Switzerland
2014 - Galerie 9, Solothurn, Switzerland
2013 - Es War Einmal (Once Upon A Time). Au Salon Galerie, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2011 - "Landscapes" - Exhibition at Crandall Gallery, Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio
2010 - "Wolf"-Solo Exhibition, Chapelle Nouvelle Galerie, Magglingen, Switzerland
2010 - "Monika Teal" - Solo Exhibition, Freitagsgalerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
2009 - "Monika Teal" - Blowers Gallery, University of North Carolina, Asheville, North Carolina
2008 - "Animalistic" - Centrepoint Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2006 - "Existing in a State of Innocence" - Schloss Hollligen, Bern, Switzerland
2005 - "Der Verlust der Unschuld" - Staedtli Gallerie, Wangen an der Aare, Switzerland
2003 - "Innocence Lost" - Marie-Terrel Gallery, Asheville, NC
2002 - "ENCUENTRO" - Galerie Oriente, Santiago de Cuba. (First American Woman painter invited by UNEAC [Union Nacional de Artistes y Escritores], to exhibit in Santiago, Cuba)
2001 - "New Paintings" - Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, North Carolina
1999 - "All Together Now" - University of North Carolina at Pembroke
1998 - "Freaks and Geeks Sideshow" - Gallery Leontine, Florida
1997 - "Teal/Fulton Ross" - Fulton Burt Gallery. Sarasota, Florida
1996 - "Hierhin" - Saulenhalle des Landhauses Gallerie, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 - "New Work" - Chelsea Gallery, Western Carolina University
1994 - "Teal" - Galerie Boulangerie, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
1993 - "Heroes" - Frauenzentrum, Bern, Switzerland
1992 - "Neue Bilder" - Forum, ETC., Bern, Switzerland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 - "Talking Walls" Basel Art Center, frontofbicycle Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2018 - "Monika Teal, Petra Bürgisser, Beat Julius Müller, Alfred Trinkler," Schlösschen Vorder-Bleichenberg, Biberst, Switzerland 2017 "Birdland," Galerie Tom Blaess, Bern, Switzerland
2017 - "Reclaiming Earth" Jewett Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
2016 - "The Artful Life." Asheville Area Arts Council. North Carolina, USA
2016 - Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Maison Etat Unis. Paris, France
2016 - "Invito A Tavola." Miniartextil. Belffroi, Montrouge/Paris.
2015 - "Jahresendausstellung 2015." SGBK, Galerie Postgasse/Kunstlerhaus, Bern, CH
2015 - "Invitation A Table," Gyf-sur-Yvette, Chateau du Val Fleury, France
2015 - "25 Jahre." Jubiläumsausstellung, Atelier Tom Blaess. Bern, CH
2015 - "Invito A Tavola," Miniartextil, Galerie San Francesco. Como, Italia
2014 - Basel Art Center, frontofbicycle Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2014 - "Eros" Miniartextil, Venice, Italy and Montrouge/Paris, France
2014 - "Carte Blanche" Galerie Alte Kapelle, Kaufdorf, Bern, Switzerland
2014 - Galerie 9, Solothurn, Switzerland
2013 - "Art Toppling Tobacco," Traveling Exhibition, Australia
2013 - 22nd Mainzer Minipressen Messe, Mainz, Germany
2013 - Joli Moi de Mai, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland
2011 - "Kraft Und Schoenheit" - Chapelle Novel Galerie, Magglingen, Switzerland
2011 - "Absatzspitze" - GSBK Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2010 - "Becoming The Animal" - Exhibition at Garage Gallery, San Diego, California
2010 - "What Matters Most" - Exhibition at Exit Art Underground Space, New York, New York
2009 - "Multiples" - 18th Grenchen Triennale, Grenchen & Bern, Switzerland
2009 - "Grafika Maxima" - Woodblock Print, Traveling Exhibit, Grenchen and Bern, Switzerland
2009 - "String of Pearls" - Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
2006 - "Operatic Laughing" - Curated John Torreano, Atlantic Center Gallery, New Smyrna Beach, Florida 2006 "Angels, Devils, Dogs and Cats" - Gallery Szinhely. Budapest, Hungary
2003 - "Summer Group Exhibition" Marie-Terrell Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
2000-03 - "Through Women's Eyes, By Women's Hands" - The Women's Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2002 "Landscapes" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
2002 - Instituto di Cultura Europeo, Italy
2001 - "Black and White" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
1999 - "VSC Work" - Red Mill Gallery, Johnson, Vermont
1999 - "Transplanted" - Sawtooth Gallery, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1999 - "Figuratively Speaking" - Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
1998 - "Sense of Touch" - Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
1998 - "I Am Woman" - Art 1, Gastonia, North Carolina
1997 - "Two Times Two" - Fulton-Burt Gallery, Sarasota, Florida
1996 - "All Facets of Realism" - Blue Twenty-Two Galerie, Frienbach, Switzerland
1996 "Kuenstler Aus USA, Mexico, Norwegen, und Spanien," Galerie Belsola, Rheinfelden, Switzerland
1995 - "WertstART" - Begegnungszentrum Ausstellung, Solothurn, Switzerland
1995 - "Kandidatten Ausstellung" - Galerie Gesellschaft, Schweiz, GSMBK
1990 - "Fantasy or Reality?" - Trade Street Gallery, Tryon, North Carolina
1990 - "North Carolina Arts Council Artist Fellowship" - Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, North Carolina
1990 - "30/30" Weizenblatt Gallery, Mars Hill College, North Carolina
1990 - "Womanspirit: Myth or Metaphor" - Women's Caucus for Art, Miami, Florida
1990 - "The Self As Other" - Westminster College Art Gallery, Westminster, Pennsylvania 1990 "The Self As Other" - Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Salisbury, North Carolina
1990 - "The Best In The West" - Western North Carolina Arts Center
1989 - "The Figure When It's Speaking" - World Gallery, Asheville, North Carolina
1989 - Brenau National Invitational Exhibition" - Gainesville, Georgia
1989 - "Henley Southeast Spectrum" - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
1989 - "Bank on the Arts" - Wilson Art Center Invitational, Wilson, North Carolina
1987 - "New Works" - Chelsea Gallery. Western Carolina University. North Carolina
1987 - "Northwest Art Expo" - Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1987 - "Henley Southeast Spectrum" - Southeastern United States Traveling, Purchase Award 1986 "Food and the Figure" - Marianne Partlow Gallery, Olympia, Washington
1986 - "Three Artist Exhibition" - Fremont Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1986 - "Self-Portraits" - Women's Cultural Center, Seattle, Washington

SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Asheville Art Museum,USA TSI Seattle, USA
Appleton Papers, USA Toscano Firma, Switzerland Belk Gallery, WCU, NC, USA Villa Maria, Bern, Switzerland Credit Suisse, Switzerland Two Creeks Consulting, USA Henley Paper Company, USA Wachovia Bank, USA
Idea Factory, San Francisco, USA
Sojourner Institute, North Carolina, USA
R. Phelps, Marin County Commission on Status of Women, California, USA Rudolfo Vaillant Garcia, Presidente Comite/UNEAC, Santiago de Cuba Guedel AG, Switzerland

INSTRUCTOR | LECTURER

University of North Carolina, Asheville, Art in Prisons Program-2002, 2003,2006, 2007, 2008
AB Technical College, Asheville, North Carolina -2008
University of North Carolina, Asheville. Adjunct & Continuing Ed.-1991, 1999, 2000, 2001 Western Carolina University, Adjunct, Art History-1991, 1998
University of Berne & Burgdorf Technikum, Switzerland. Guest Lecturer-1995 Begegnungszentrum. Painting/Drawing Instructor, Solothurn, Switzerland-1994
St. Andrews Presbyterian College, North Carolina's Governor's School. Guest Lecturer-1995

ART-RELATED EXPERIENCES

In-Painter. Fine Art Restoration, Painting Restoration-1999-2000
Conservation Laboratories, Painting Restoration-2000-2003
Art Critic, Northwest Florida Daily News-1997-1998
Art Critic, Asheville Citizen Times-1990-1992
Founding Board Member, Global Tapestry, Eastern Cuba Cultural Exchange
Art Critic, Hello Bern Magazine, Bern Switzerland
Lectures at Burgdorf Technikum, Switzerland/ Richmond Community College,USA/
Buncombe County Community College,USA/ Inner Wheel, Rotary, Bern, Switzerland

EDUCATION AND WORKING EXPERIENCE
Studios, past and present, in Switzerland and Kansas City/ Seattle/ Asheville, Cuba, Tuscany,Italy Western Carolina University. MA, Painting
Seattle New School of Visual Concepts non-degree program, 3 years
Seattle Institute of Art (Burnley School of Art) non degree program 2 years
University of Minnesota, BA
Adjunct Professor of Art, University of NC, Asheville
Adjunct Professor of Art, Western Carolina University
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