LYNN RANDOLPH
Houston, Texas
www.lynnrandolph.com

EDUCATION:
1961 University of Texas at Austin, B.F.A.

 

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
 
2003 "Spirits on the Coast: New Paintings by Lynn Randolph," Joan Wich Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 "Millennial Myths: Paintings by Lynn Randolph," Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Catalogue: essays by Walter Hopps, Donna Haraway, and Marilyn Zeitlin.
1997 "The Body and Technoscience: A Series of Spectacles," University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas
1995 "Virgins in Vertigo and Juicy Women," Lynn Goode Gallery, Houston, Texas
1991 Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas
1990 "A Return To Alien Roots: Painting Outside Mainstream Western Art," The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA. Catalogue: essay by Margaret Miles.
1986 Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas
1984 Graham Gallery, Houston, Texas. Catalogue: text by Lucy Lippard and William Graham
1978 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
   

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2004 "Democracy In America," Arizona State University Museum, Tempe, AZ
2002 "Other Sights: Renzo Barchi, Lynn Randolph, Valton Tyler," O'Kane Gallery, University of Houston - Downtown
2001 "Secret Wars," The Art Car Museum, Houston, TX. Catalogue
2001-2002 Double Take, The Art League of Houston, The Art Center of Waco, Texas, The Art Museum of South East Texas, Beaumont, Texas, D. Berman Gallery, Austin, Texas. Catalogue.
2000 "The Vulnerable Body," ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 "Altered Landscapes," ArtScan Gallery, Houston, Texas
1998 "Identity," University of Houston - Clear Lake. Essay by MaryRoss Taylor
1994 "Phantoms, Freaks, and the Fantastic," Diverse Works, Houston, Texas.
1993 "The Mask in Contemporary Art," Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston, Texas.
1992 "Slouching Towards 2000: The Politics of Gender," Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas; Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas. Catalogue: essay by Lucy Lippard.
1992 "Iconoclasm in Contemporary Texas Art," Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 
1991 "The Power of Enduring Presence: Ten Texas Women," Women and Their Work, Austin. Catalogue: text by Kathryn Davidson. 
1991 "A Sense of Place: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Texas Art." San Antonio Museum of Art.
1990 "Everyday Miracles: Retablos, Ex-votos, and Contemporary Texas Artists," Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas
1989 "Evidence: Contemporary Narrative Art of the Southwest," San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas. Catalogue.
1988 "Texas Women," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
1988 "Acts of Faith: Politics and the Spirit." Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio. Catalogue.
1988 Houston '88 (Houston Art Dealers Association), Cullen Center, Houston, Texas
1987 "Third Coast Review: A Look at Art in Texas," Aspen Art Museum Aspen, Colorado. Catalogue: text by Annette DeMeo Carlozzi.
1986 "The Texas Landscape, 1900-1986," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas. Catalogue: essay by Susie Kalil.
1986 "Prisoners of Conscience," (Organized by Amnesty International) Diverse Works, Houston, Texas. Catalogue.
1985 "Texas Artists in Los Angeles," Southern California Gallery for Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1982 "Thirteen Artists: A Look at Houston," Georgia State University Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1980 "Ten Houston Artists in Dallas," 500 Exposition Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1980 "Texas Artists," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1979 "FIRE," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas. Catalogue.
 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
San Antonio Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Prudential Insurance Company
The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe/Harvard, Cambridge, Massachussetts
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
The Menil Collection, Houston
The National Museum of Women in the Arts
 

 

AWARDS AND PRIZES:
1989 Fellowship, The Bunting Institute, Radcliffe College. 
1987 Residency at Yaddo, June.
 

 

LECTURES AND CONFERENCES:
 
2002 "Slide Jam," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1998 "Ways of Seeing: The Convergence of Art, Science, and Technology," the Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas - Medical Branch, Galveston.
1998 "The Identity Issue of Women Artists: A Diacritical Perspective," South-Central Women's Studies Conference, University of Houston - Clear Lake.
1998 "Cyborgs, Wonder Woman, and Techno-Angels: Collaborations between Lynn Randolph and Donna Haraway."
"Webs of Discourse," the annual conference of the Center for Comparative Literature, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
1996 "Cyborgs, Wonder Woman, and Techno-Angels: Collaborations between Lynn Randolph and Donna Haraway," Center for the Critical analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
1995 "Between Cultural Eras: The Effects of Postmodern Thinking on the Modernist Concepts of Regionalism," College Art Association, San Antonio, Texas, January.
1993 "The Ilusas (Deluded Women): Representations of Women Who Are Out of Bounds," Bunting Institute, Cambridge, Massachussetts
1992 "Shape Shifting: Toward Multifaceted Representations of Women's Bodies." College Art Association, Chicago.
1991 Participant, Women's Caucus for Art, National Conference, Washington, D.C.
1988 Lecture: "Clyde Connell," Williams College Williamstown, MA
1987 Slide presentation on Clyde Connell. National Sculpture Conference: Works by Women. Cincinnati, OH
1983 Speaker, Coalition of Women's Art Organizations and the National Women's Caucus for Art, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA
   

 

PUBLICATIONS:
 
1990 "A Return to Alien Roots: Painting Outside Mainstream Western Culture," Radcliffe Papers.
1986 "The Impulse to Art," The Inquirer (September/October).
1985 "Clyde Connell," Women's Art Journal, v. 6:2 (Fall/Winter), pp 30 - 34.
1984 "Clyde Connell," Catalogue for Women's Caucus for Art, Women of Honor Exhibition, 1985. (with S. Bloom)
1983 "Beyond Political and Economic Equality," Women Artists' News, v. 8:4 (May/June).
   

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
 
2004 The Nation, cover of issue dated September 13, 2004
2003 Don Quaintance, "Lynn Randolph: Spirits on the Coast," ArtLies, Summer 2003
2002 Kris Axtman, "Political Dissent Can Bring Federal Agents to Door," Progressive Magazine Dec. 29th
2001 Mathew Rothchild, "The New McCarthyism," Progressive Magazine December 29th
2001 Patricia Johnson, "Intimacy Permeates Double Take", The Houston Chronicle Feb. 10th, 2001
2000 Kvinder Kon Forsking 9. Argang.rr.2 (front and back cover and pp.8 )
Donna Haraway, an interview with Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, How Like A Leaf (Routledge) pp. 102, 116, 120-121, 145
1999 Lynn Randolph, an interview with Emily Todd, ArtLies #24
1998 Caroline Goesner, ArtLies #19 (Spring).
1997 Deborah J. Haynes, The Vocation of the Artist, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
1997 Shaila Dewan, "Picture This: Lynn Randolph brings a touch of reality to the Medical Center," Houston Press, January.
1996 Donna Haraway, Modest Witness @ the Second Millennium: FeMale Man Meets Oncomousetm, Routledge: New York (Cover Art and Ten Plates with commentary).
1996 William Simon, Postmodern Sexualities, London: Routledge (Cover Art).
1995-1996 Calyx, vol. 16: 2 (Winter), pp. 80-83.
1995 Susie Kalil, "No More Girlish Games," Houston Press, March 16-22. 
1994 Susie Kalil, "The Small and the Dreadful," Houston Press, November 17-23.
1993 Susie Kalil, "Art Against Barbie, Houston Press, Jan. 28 - Feb. 3, p. 34.
1993 Therese Lichtenstein, "Slouching Towards 2000: The Politics of Gender," Art Forum, March.
1992 David Connelly, Art Papers. January/February, p. 66.
1991 Donna Haraway, "Promises of Monsters," in Cultural Studies, (eds.) L. Grossberg, et al. (London: Routl.)
1991 Estella Lauter, Quandrant. XXIII: 7 (Spring), p. 40.
1991 Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, Donna J. Haraway. London: Free Association Books. (Cover Art and Plate #1.)
1990 Sciences, New York Academy of Science. November/December
1990 Thomas Frick, Art in America, December
1988 No Bluebonnets, No Yellow Roses: Essays on Texas Women in the Arts, edited by Sylvia Moore. New York: Mid March Press, 1988. Essay by Robert Hobbs. Spring.
1988 Review by Helen Cullinan, "Lucy Lippard fights for art of personal belief." Cleveland Plain Dealer, Jan 8.
1988 Heresies: A Feminist Publication. Issue #23.
1987 Women of Power, Issue 6: Spring.
1987 Review by Donna Tennant, Artspace: SW Art Quarterly, Spring.
1987 Review by Suzanne Bloom/Ed Hill, Art Forum. March.
1986 Review by P. C. Johnson, Houston Chronicle, Nov. 25.
1985 Lucie-Smith, Edward. American Art Now (New York: Morrow)
1984 Bell, Michael S., "Surrealism - An Alternative Approach: Veristic Attitudes in the Work and writings of Contemporary Surrealists," Leonardo, vol.17 #4.
1984 Lippard, Lucy. Catalogue: One-person Show, Graham Gallery.
1984 Lauter, Estella, Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Art by 20th Century Women. (Indiana University Press).
1983 Lippard, Lucy. Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory (New York: Pantheon).
1979 Lippard, Lucy. "Texas Red Hots," Art in America, (July/August).
1977 "Four Houston Women Artists," MS Magazine, February
   

 

ORGANIZATIONS:
 
2003 The Ilusas: A Women's Drum Corp
1998 Artists' Board, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston
1997 Co-chair, 1988 Annual Conference of the Women's Caucus for Art
1995 Organizer, Houston Area Artists' Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America
1991 National Women's Caucus for Art: National Advisory Board (1986-88), Regional Vice-president (1986-1988), President, Houston Chapter (1979-1980)
   

 

OTHER WORK IN THE ARTS:
 
1995 Curator, "The Presence of the Absence of the Presence," Barbara Davis Gallery, Penzoil Place, Houston.
1995 Houston coordinator, "Art Under Duress: El Salvador 1980-present," Lawndale Art and Performance Center.
1995 Performance Piece: ART BABBLE, the Illusas, College Art Association, San Antonio.
1982 Designed sets for Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare. Main Street Theater.
1977 Set Designs for Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh, Space/Dance/Theater, Houston, Texas.
   

 

 

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