E-mail: lynncriswell55@gmail.com
Links:
Lynn Criswell’s Archive
Blog, Michael Bishop and Lynn Criswell
Michael Bishop Sculpture
Review by Carey Wilson: Clowntime is here
2019 Artist in Residence, Gate 27, Istanbul, Turkey
2016 Artist in Residence, Cam Ocağı / The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Zev Family Support Center, CA
2010-2015 Visiting studio artist, ten month and five month residency, Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission, Sacramento, CA. Site: Sacramento International Airport, Terminal B
2005 Artist in Residence at Kurtz GmbH, Wiebelbach, Germany
2002-2003 Art in Public Places Award, State of California, Capitol East End Project, Sacramento, CA
2002 Tamara Thomas, Fine Arts Services Inc., Los Angeles, CA
1998 Chico Arts Commission, awarded public arts commission, downtown municipal building, Chico, CA
2022 “Shuffling the Familiar,” B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
2019 “Time lost-Time gained,” 44 A Sanat Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey
2019 “Cutting, Stitching, Painting and Removing,” Artspace 1616, Sacramento, CA
2017 “Portraits,” Artspace 1616, Sacramento, CA
2010 “New Work,” Skinner Howard Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2008 “Telling,” Limn Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 “Show and Tell,” Limn Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 “No Peace For The Inner Child,” John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
2000 “The Next Lesson,” Redding Museum of Art & History, Redding, CA
2000 “2 Lessons,” Davis Art Center, Davis, CA
1999 “Personal Iconography,” UNI Gallery Of Art, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
1999 “Parables,” Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1998 “Double Edged Faces,” A.I.R. Gallery, Gallery II, New York, New York
1997 “New Work,” Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California
1995 “Egress-Transgression,” Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, California
1993 “Recent Sculpture And Paintings On Panels,” Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1989 “Lynn Criswell - New Work,” Michael Himovitz Gallery, Sacramento, CA
1984 Redding Museum, Redding, California
1983 “Glassworks,” Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2022 “Shuffling the Familiar / Not Now Then,” Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
2011 “Yeni Eserler,” New Work, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2005 “Kunst und Kultur bei Kurtz” – “Art and Culture at Kurtz,” Wiebelbach, Germany
1994 “Objects and Subjects,” Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA
1991 “Black And White In Color,” Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 Lynn Criswell and Michael Bishop – “New Work,” Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1985 “Recent Work,” Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
2016 “Cam Ocağı Vakfı Exhibition,” Tophane-i Amire, Istanbul, Turkey
2013 “The Elastic Past,” Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
2012 “John Cage,” Kuad Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2006 “Peekapoo,” Limn Gallery San Francisco, CA
2000 “Sassy Sexy Sweet Sordid Surreal,” Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 “California Art Index #17,” Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1995 “Eclectic Selection,” Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1995 “Art & Survival,” Vartai Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
1992 “Discovery! Contemporary California Narration’s,” American Cultural Center, Brussels, Belgium
1990 “California Eccentrics,” University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
1990 “New Work,” Klabal Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1990 “Write On! Letters, Words, And Art,” Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AR
1986 “Homage To Joseph Beuys,” The Embassy Gallery of West Germany, Izmir, Turkey
1985 California “Artists Look At Architecture,” TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco, California
1985 “Studio Glass: A Contemporary American Survey,” Redding Museum, Redding, CA
1984 “3-Dimensions,” Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
1984 “San Francisco Art Commission: Celebration Of Form,” Ft. Mason, San Francisco, California
1984 “Glassworks,” Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA
1983 “Constructions,” Temporary Exhibition and Cultural Program, San Francisco Airport Commission, San Francisco, CA
1981-1984 “American In Glass,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
1981 Traveled throughout the U.S.A. and Europe
2018 “Portraits,” Artspace 1616, printed by MAS Matbaa, Istanbul, Turkey
2017 “Portraits,” Documentation of 27 felt works, Istanbul studio, Turkey
2016 “Artist In Residence,” Cam Ocağı Vakfı / The Glass Furnace, Istanbul, Turkey
2011 “Yeni Eserler,” New Work, Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2009 “Memory Lead,” LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 “Kunst und Kultur bei Kurtz” – “Art and Culture at Kurtz,” Wiebelbach, Germany
2002 “No Peace For The Inner Child,” John Natsoulas Gallery,Davis, CA
1985 “3-Dimensions,” Main Gallery, Fox Fine Arts Center, University of Texas at El Paso, Texas
1981 “American In Glass,” Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, Wisconsin
2018 Wilson, Carey, “Clowntime is here,” Chico News & Review
2010 Dalkey, Victoria, “Dean de Cocker and Lynn Criswell,” Sacramento Bee
2005 JBR/Breuninger, “Kunstwerkstatt,” bei Kurtz, Samtag
1999 Hess, Harvey, “Three-in-one exhibition at UNI Gallery of Art hits 10 on scale,” Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier
1999 Kimi Julian, “Women’s Work,” Sacramento News and Review
1997 Victoria Dalkey, “Lynn Criswell Looks Back,” Sacramento Bee
1997 Cassandra Dearborne, “Lynn Criswell: art as language and objects of femme,” On The Town Magizine
1995 Diane Weissman, “Pittura Metaphysica,” About Art
1994 Marie Vickers Horne, “Objects and Subjects,” Art Of California
1990 Glowen, Ron, “Life’s Journey,” Artweek
1985 Singh, Saunthy, “Defined By Medium,” Artweek
1984 French, Christopher, “Continuing The Art-Craft Discours,” Artweek
1984 Simon, Richard, “Here’s A Crystal-Clear Example of Glass As An ArtisticMedium,” The Sacramento Union
1984 Winter, David, “People Who Live In Glass Houses…,” Times Tribune
1983 Latorior, Irene, “Bishop/Criswell Exhibition At Monterey Museum Gallery,” The Sunday Peninsula Herald
2010-2020 Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
2004, 2002 Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
2000 Redding Museum of Art & History, Redding, California
1999 University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
1995 Cornish School of The Arts, Seattle, Washington
1993 State University of New York, New Paltz, New York
1993 Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
1993 University of Anatolia, Eskisehir, Turkey
1993 Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
1990 Mills College, Oakland, California
1986 United States Information Agency, Ankara, Turkey
1985 The Wiesbaden Sculpture Group, Wiesbaden, Germany
1985 Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, Monterey, California