Education

1993                Metals: MFA, Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, USA

1987                Sculpture: MFA, Brooklyn College, New York, USA

1980                Painting: BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

 

Teaching

 

1995 - ongoing Webster University, Asst. Professor, Sculpture, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002    

 Workshops, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, USA

1987-90         Asst. Professor, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA

 

Commissions

 

2004               “Garden for the Floating Life,” Greensboro Public Library, Hemphill Branch, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

2004               “Industrial Rococo,” Grand Hall, Ziegler House, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2003               “Bus Shelter Pipe Dreams,” Arts-in-Transit Public Art in Action, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

 

Grants & Awards

 

2001-2             The Project Room (w/Kurt Perschke) Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2001                National Endowment for the Arts Residency, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, USA

1998                The Project Room, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis

1993-95           Artist-in-Residence, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina, USA

1995                Finalist, Southern Arts Federation Fellowship, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

 

Bibliography

 

Watkin, Mel, “Christina Shmigel at St. Louis University Museum of Art,” Art in America, Jan 2005, Vol. 1, P.133

Dugan, Cory, "A Social Affair Climbs So Hard…," The Commercial Appeal Memphis, Tennessee, Nov 23, 2003, F6

Cooper, Ivy, "Review of Regarding Objects," Riverfront Times, June, 2003

Castro, Jan, “Reviews: St. Louis, Christina Shmigel, St. Louis Art Museum,” Sculpture, June 2003, Vol.22 No 6, pgs 72-73

Allen, Michael, “Beautiful Pipes: Reflections on Christina Shmigel’s The Logic of Attachment,” Confluence, April-May 2003, Vol. 9,No.2

Daniels, Jeff, “Sculptor Turns Pipe Dreams Into Art,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Sunday, Dec 15, 2002, pg. C11

Cooper, Ivy, “Inside Out: Shmigel Evokes Our Gutted Past Without Dewy-eyed Nostalgia,” Riverfront Times, Dec 18-24, 2002, pg. 59

Zapf, Rudy. “SLAM Goes Local,” Playback, January 2003, pg.22

The First International Sculpture Exhibition 2002, catalog, National Museum of History, Kaohsiung, Taipei, Taiwan pgs. 12, 24-25

“Currents 87”: Christina Shmigel, St. Louis Art Museum Magazine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Huck, Chris, “Ancient Futures: The Art of the Blacksmith at the Third Millenium,” Nova Scotia, Canada, 2001

Kunst in der Landschaft V., [deA] Verlag: Gumpoldskirchen-Wien. 2000

Meilach, Dona, Decorative and Sculptural Ironwork, Schiffer Publishing: Pennsylvania, USA, 1999

Hansson, Bobby, The Fine Art of the Tin Can: Techniques and Inspirations,

Lark Books: Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 1996

“Gambit,” New Orleans Weekly, Bookhardt, Eric. “The Art of the Tower,” Jan 17, 1995

McClellan, Marian, “Shmigel’s Sentinels,” New Orleans Art Review, Jan/Feb, 1995

Duffy, Robert, “The Ship of the Unconscious,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Sept 15, 1995

Patterson, Tom, “Four Artists in Solo Shows Make Their Case

For Beauty,” Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, November, 1994

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2003             Project Room, Saint Louis University Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2002             Saint Louis Art Museum, Currents Exhibition, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2001             Webster University Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2001             Gallery W.D.O, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

2000             Bonsack Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1999             Thomas K. Lang Gallery, Vienna, Austria

1998             Quartersaw Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA

1995             Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

1994  Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

1992             Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

1991             West Baton Rouge Museum, Louisiana, USA

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2004-2005     Eliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2003             “A Social Affair,” University of Memphis, Tennessee

2003             Philip Slein Gallery, inaugural show, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

                    “Regarding Objects,” Sheldon Theater Art Galleries, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

 

2002             “ArtCache,” 2003 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2002             “A New Era of Sculpture,” National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan

2001             Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

2001             “Ancient Futures,” Nova Scotia Centre for Craft and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

2000              “International Environmental Art Symposium,” Seoul, South Korea

2000              “Ironing,” National Ornamental Metals Museum, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

2000              John Elder Gallery, New York, New York, USA

1999              Kunst in der Landschaft, Gut Gasteil Gallery, Gasteil, Austria

1998               “Women of Iron,” Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, USA

1998   “Bottomland: Forum for Contemporary Art,” St. Louis, Missouri, USA

1997              “Drawing Invitational,” Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

1996              “Dwellings,” Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Florida, USA

1995              “Drawings,” Marcia Woods Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA