PETER AMBROSE BIOGRAPHY


BORN

1953
New York, NY


EDUCATION

1977
MFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago

1975
BFA, Carnegie Mellon University

1974
Yale University, Summer School of Art and Music


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1983
Visiting Artist, 2-D, 3-D Design and Graduate Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University

1995-96
Independent Study in Exhibition installation, art handling, restoration, Saint Louis University

1998
Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, Saint Louis University


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1999
Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1998
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

1997
Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

1996
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO

1991
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York (Drawing show)

1990
Peter Ambrose: "The Metaphorical Figure", University Art Museum, SUNY, Binghamton, NY
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

1988
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

1985
Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY

1981
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Balkin Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

1977
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2002
"Summer Group Exhibition", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

2000
"Summer Group Exhibition", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

1999
"Gallery Artists", Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"CONTEXT: A Survey of Minimalism", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA

1998
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA

1995
Contemporary and Sculpture, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
"Century of Silence", The Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY
University Art Museum, SUNY, Binghampton, NY

1994
Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL
Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1993
"Inaugural Exhibition", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
"Three Sculptors", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

1992
"Sculptors Drawings", Champion International Paper, Stanford, CT

1991
"20th Century Collage", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Centre Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico, Musee dÍart Moderne et dÍArt Contemporarain, Nice, France
1989
"Body Fragments", Shea & Beker Gallery, NY

1985
Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY

1984
Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL


AWARDS


1990
Pollock Krasner Fellowship

1989
New York Experimental Glass Workshop Grant

1981
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant

1978
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant

1977
E. L. Ryerson Fellowship, The Arts Institute of Chicago


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arthur Anderson and Company, Chicago, IL
Amerada Hess Corporation Art Institute of Chicago, Walter Netsch Bequest, Chicago, IL
Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO
Brooklyn Union Gass Company, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Champion Paper Company, Ridgefield, CT
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Global Crossing, Los Angeles, CA
Kay, Schloler, Fierman, Hays and Handler, NY
New Jersey Life, NJ
Norwest Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Prudential Insurance, NY, NY and Tokyo, Japan
St. Louis ChildrenÍs Hospital, St. Louis, MO


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Doe, Donald B., In Shape: Six Sculptors, (catalog), Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, December, 1998.
Pincus, Robert L., Sculptor Works with Figures, San Diego Union Tribune, January 15, 1998.
Melrod, George, Art and Antiques, October, 1996.
Duffy, Robert, St. Louis Post Dispatch, November, 1996.
Gamwell Lynn, Century of Silence, (catalog), University Art Museum SUNY, Binghamton, NY, November 1993.
Princenthal, Nancy, Peter Ambrose, Art in America, March, 1992.
Glueck, Grace, Peter Ambrose, The New York Observer, November, 1992.
Westfall, Stephen, American Art Today: Surface Tension (catalog), 1991, Florida International University, Miami, FL.
Thompson, Walter, Peter Ambrose at Rosa Esman Gallery, Art in America, September, 1989.
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, September, 1983.
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, May, 1983.
Sofer, Ken, Art News, April, 1984.
Burleigh, Bob, New Art Examiner, November, 1981.
Hayden, Harold, Chicago Sun Times, October 18, 1981.
Russell, John, Where to See New Artists, New York Times, June, 1980.
Frank, Peter, Village Voice, June, 1979.
Lippard, Lucy, Exchanges 1 (catalog), The Henry Street Settlement, 1979.
Spector, Buzz, New Art Examiner, May, 1977.
Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, June, 1977.
Hayden, Harold, Chicago Sun Times, June 13, 1977.