

(American, b. 1956)
德雷克大學(Drake University)藝術碩士,主修繪畫。現居住、創作、教授於美國佛羅里達州,以 Silverpoint 銀針筆創作大型裝置著稱。經由銀針筆的精密與洗煉灰階獨樹一格的創作方式,探討宇宙生命的起源。作品曾受邀參與備受國際尊崇的美國藝術暨文學學會 (American Academy of Arts and Letters) 邀請展,創作並收錄於多本銀針筆歷史書冊,歐美展出經歷豐富。獲全美十數間美術館永久收藏,包括紐約美術與設計博物館(Museum of Arts and Design)、邁阿密佩雷斯美術館(Perez Museum of Art)、斯賓塞美術館、與科勒藝術中心…等等,Carol Prusa 於2017年獲得了SECAC藝術成就獎,並在2019年於美國佛羅里達博卡拉頓藝術博物館(Boca Raton Museum of Art)舉辦大型個展。
‘Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America’ Telfair Museum, 2020 2005年245x120cm銀針筆木板畫作 ’Silent Pregnancy‘ ,入選Telfair Museum ‘1945至今美國戰後代表藝術家 Complex Uncertainties: Artists in Postwar America’ 全美巡迴展。
Carol Prusa “Silver Linings” Solo Exhibition, Polk Museum of Art, Florida
The 11th Annual Manifest Prizewinner: Carol Prusa以作品Many Moons榮獲非營利組織Annual Manifest Prize首獎。Manifest Prize由20位加拿大及美國的藝術專業人士組成評選小組,經多輪篩選評論後,選出年度首獎。
Selected Publication of Carol Prusa, 2007-2020
自2014年起於Bluerider ART舉辦個展,至2020為第五度個展。受到文藝復興圓頂教堂繪畫的啟發,Carol Prusa 開始埋首銀針筆繪畫研究,以機械紋理低調洗練的灰階,展現自成一格的創作風格。早期以半弧形體,後逐漸展現360度球體功力,近期轉向平面畫作以及大型裝置,跳脫以往球體裝置,開創新平面風格,卻仍為觀者營造無限的視覺感。深受宇宙學、自然科學所啟發,為宇宙萬物間的「未知」所著迷,也融合她於90年代所研究的俄羅斯東正教與藏傳佛教的藝術傳統。美國知名攝影師Bruce Weber 曾於展覽刊物中稱許藝術家Carol Prusa 為「當今銀針筆界最具創新力的藝術家之一」,她將古老的銀針筆技法,結合雕刻樹脂、玻璃纖維、金屬箔甚至是LED燈等當代媒材,根據其複雜程度與規模,一件作品可能需耗費數千小時才得以完成。
Heads of the Virgin and Child, 1508-10 c., Raffaello Santi da Urbino, called Raphael, Silverpoint on pink prepared paper, 14.3 x 11.1 cm, British Museum, London.
Installation shot, Carol Prusa “Scale the Wall” Exhibition, Bluerider ART,2019
Installation shot, Carol Prusa “Infinite Cosmos”, Bluerider ART,2016
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Night Vision, Anne Norton Sculpture Garden and Museum, Palm Beach, USA
2020 Spooky Action, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 DarkLight, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2018 Carol Prusa – Silverpoint Drawing, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Dark Energy, Endicott College, Massachusetts, USA
2017 Liminal Worlds, Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
2017 Voids, Walls, Clusters, Filaments, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2017 Thin Spaces, Art Center Sarasota, Florida, USA
2016 Infinite Cosmos, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2015 Overflow, Kostuik Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015 University of North Carolina, North Carolina, USA
2015 Unfathomable, Alan Avery Gallery, Georgia, USA
2014-2015 Silver Universe, Bluerider ART Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Entanglement, Sarasota Art Center, Florida, USA
2014 Fearful Symmetry, Florida Atlantic University, Zadok Gallery, Miami, USA
2013 Emergent Worlds, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Wyoming, USA
2013 Liminal Worlds, York College, Pennsylvania, USA
2012 Emergent Worlds, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Michigan, USA
2012 Optic Nerve, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2012 Non-equilibrium, University of Arkansas, Arkansas, USA
2010 Cosmic Fabric, EO Art Lab, Connecticut, USA
2009 Successive Approximations, University of Maine Museum of Art, Maine, USA
2009 Silver Linings, Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2008 Spooky Action, Finestra Artspace, Chicago, USA
2007 Coherent Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, USA
Selected Curated Exhibitions
2021 Tenacity, 5-person exhibition, Chautauqua Institution, New York
2020 Ossuary, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD), Milwaukee, WI
2020 Miami Artists to Watch, Mitte Projects, Wynwood Arts 29, Miami, FL
2019 Portrait: Kentler in 58 Works, Kentler International Drawing Space, New York
(curated by David Houston)
2019 Scale the Wall, presented large-scale projection installation “Folded Worlds” in a three person
Show at the Sonshan Creative and Cultural park, Taipei, Taiway – sponsored by Bluerider Art
2019 Kalliope, Florida State College at Jacksonville, Florida
2018 The Future of Craft Part I, Museum of Arts and Design, Columbus Circle, NYC
2018 FLAT???, Kentler International Drawing Space, Red Hook, NYC
2018 Feminine, Alan Avery Art, Atlanta, Georgia
2018 Sacred, Clarke College, Dubuque, Iowa
2018 Silver Lining, Columbus State University, Georgia
2018 Selected, Muster-Meier Gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2018 Accrochage: Group Exhibition, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 Silver Lining; Contemporary Works in Silverpoint, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Mississippi, USA
2017 Glasstress, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2017 Looking Back, Cornell Art Museum, Florida, USA
2016 Numinous, Lisa Brintz Gallery, Florida, USA
2016 All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, USA
2016 Destinesia, Stephen Romano Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2016 Worlds, Bascomb Museum, Western North Carolina, USA
2016 Friends, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2015 Metalpoint, Morris Graves Museum, USA
2015 Illuminations (Curated by Adriana Herrera), Miami Biennale, Miami, Florida, USA
2015 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy, New York, USA
2015 Miscellaneous, Le Salon Vert, Geneva, Switzerland
2015 Crossing the Lines, Garrison Art Center, Garrison, New York, USA
2015 Art in the Natural World and Cultured Settings (Curated by Bernice Steinbaum), Miami, USA
2015 Encyclopedia of Fernal Affairs, originating in San Francisco and traveling to Asia,
Vargas Contemporary Mus, Manila, Philippines
2014 Mixed Matrix, Tinney Contemporary, Tennessee, USA
2014 Collectors and their Collections, Jewish Museum, Miami, USA
2014 Endangered Visions, Manila, Philippines
2014 Kohler 40th Anniversary Artist in Industry Exhibition, Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
2014 Selected Artists, Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Florida, USA
2014 Ossuary, Indiana University, Herron Galleries, Indiana, USA
2013 Curator Selections, Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
2013 GRAM Selects, Grand Rapids Museum of Art, Michigan, USA
2013 Standing on the Bones, University of Tennessee, Downtown Gallery, Tennessee, USA
2012 Empire of Things, University Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
2012 Modern and Contemporary Art from the Telfair, Telfair Art Museum, Jepson Center’s Steward Gallery, Georgia, USA
2012 Winter Salon, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2012 Woman to Woman, Bakehouse Art Center, Miami, USA
2012 The Abstract Universe, Maloney Art Gallery, New Jersey, USA
2011 Summertime, Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2011 Seeing is Knowing: The Universe, Carleton College, Minnesota, USA
2011 Believe it or Not, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Florida, USA
2010 Between Here and There: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection (Curated by Peter Boswell, Senior Curator), Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2010 Metaphysical Materiality, Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA
2010 Luminous Lines (Curated by Margaret Mathews-Berenson), Scripts College, California, USA
Public Collections
Arkansas Arts Center, Arkansas, USA
Appalachian State University, Catherine Smith Gallery, North Carolina, USA
Bienes Center for the Literary Art, Broward County Library, Florida, USA
Central Missouri State University, President’s Gallery, Missouri, USA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri, USA
Drake University, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Iowa, USA
Emaar Hospitality Group, Dubai, UAE
Evansville Museum of Art and Science, Indiana, USA
Florida Atlantic University, Florida, USA
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee, USA
Iowa State University, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Margaret Sloss Women’s Center, Iowa, USA
Iowa State University, Memorial Union, Iowa, USA
Kohler Art Center, Wisconsin, USA
Kohler Company, Wisconsin, USA
Messiah College, Pennsylvania, USA
Miami Art Museum, Florida, USA
Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), Florida, USA
Polk Museum of Art, Florida, USA
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, Wellness Center, Florida, USA
University of Florida – Public Art, NIMET Nanotechnology, USA
University of Kansas, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA
University of Oregon Special Collections, University Library, Oregon, USA
University of Wyoming Museum of Art, Wyoming, USA
U.S. Embassy, Managua, Nicaragua
Wartburg College, Iowa, USA
Selected Honors
2020 Selected for artist book to be made through IS Projects, funded by the Knight Foundation
2020 Selected for Scientific Delirium Madness; a month-long residency, public and academic forums,
published blogs and articles in LEONARDO/ISAST’s journal published by MIT Press.
This unique residency is a collaborative initiative of Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts,
Sciences and Technology (ISAST) and Djerassi Resident Artists Program (6 artists and 6 scientists)
2019 Edwards Distinguished Professor in the Arts, Visiting Artist, Marshall University,
Huntington, West Virginia
2019 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist (Dec. 2019)
2018 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2017 Awarded SECAC Artistic Achievement Award at 2017 national conference,
Columbus, Ohio, USA
2017 Nomination for USA Artist Fellowship
2016 Artist residency in glass at Berengo Foundation, Murano, Italy
2015 Nominated and selected for American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational (Received purchase award for museum collection), New York, USA
2015 Vermont Studio Program, Invited Visiting Artist/Lecturer
2014 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2014 Southeastern College Art Conference Artist Fellowship
2013 Art OMI International Artist Residency, New York, USA
2013 Vermont Studio Program, Visiting Artist
2012 Ubertalli Award for Outstanding Artist, Palm Beach County
2012 Kohler Artist in Industry residency
2011 Scholar of the Year at the Professor rank, Florida Atlantic University
2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists
2008 State of Florida Artist Fellowship
2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship, Brown University, National project award
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