WILLIAM SWETCHARNIK

Home, studio: 7044 Woodville Road, Mount Airy, Maryland 21771 USA; Telephone: (301) 831-7286
        Temporary: Apartado Postal 5785, Tegucigalpa, Honduras; Telephone (504) 211-8369
        Electronic mail: william@swetcharnik.com

Education: Rhode Island School of Design; University of California at San Diego; etc.

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:
Art in Embassies Program, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Installation in Ambassador's Residence, 1998-99)
Alianza Francesa, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Exposición Nacional Premiado, 1988)
Museo de la República, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (Exposición de Antología Nacional, 1987)
Hood College, Frederick, Maryland (Solo exhibitions, 1995, 1991)
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland (Solo installation exhibition, 1993)
Gordon College, Wenham, Massachusetts (Solo exhibition, 1993)
Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, Virginia (Solo installation exhibition, 1992)
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia (National invitational exhibition, 1992)
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, Maryland (Regional invitational exhibitions, 1981-1989)
Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, Florida (Permanent collection exhibitions, 1988-)
National Academy of Design, New York City (National invitational exhibition, 1990)
Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland (Solo installation, 1989)
Springville Museum of Art, Springville, Utah (National invitational exhibition, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985)
Grand Central Gallery, New York City (American Artist National Exhibition, 1987)
Loudoun County Museum, Leesburg, Virginia (Invitational group exhibition, 1987)
National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC ("Looking at Earth" invitational exhibition, 1986-1987)
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC (Solo installation, 1987)
Maryland College of Art and Design, Silver Spring, Maryland (Solo exhibition, 1986)
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, California (Solo and group exhibitions, 1984, 1985)
Foxhall Gallery, Washington, DC (Solo and group exhibitions, 1980-1985)
Harbor Gallery, New York City, Cold Spring Harbor (Solo and group exhibitions, 1982 - 1984)
The Four Arts Society, Palm Beach, Florida (National invitational exhibition, 1984)
The Hermitage Museum, Norfolk, Virginia (Pastel Society of America invitational exhibition, 1984)
National Arts Club, New York City (Annual national exhibition, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980)
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio (Annual national exhibition, 1982, 1983)
Cork Gallery of Lincoln Center, New York City (Pastel Society of America invitational exhibition, 1982)
Mount Saint Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland (Solo exhibition, 1981)
Weinberg Center for the Arts, Frederick, Maryland (Solo exhibition, 1980)

Selected Fellowships, Grants, Residencies:
CIES Fulbright Fellowship, Honduras, 1994-1995
Arts America Lecturing Fellowship, Belarus, 1994
Artist-in Residence, First International Marc Chagall Arts Festival, Vitebsk, Belarus, 1994
Hood College Artist-in-Residence, Frederick, Maryland, 1990-1995
Arts America Lecturing Fellowship, Honduras, 1992
IIE Fulbright Fellowships, Spain, 1988-1989, 1987-1988
Ragdale Foundation Artist-in-Residence, Chicago, Illinois, 1989, 1993
Yaddo Artist-in Residence, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1987, 1993
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Artist-in Residence, Sweetbriar, Virginia, 1992
Cintas Fellowship, 1985-1986
Stacey Fellowship, 1983-1984
Millay Colony Artist-in Residence, Austerlitz, New York, 1983

Selected Public Collections:
Art Museum of Florida International University, Miami, Florida (Cintas Foundation, New York City)
Commission For Cultural Exchange Between the United States and Spain, Madrid
Vitebsk Cultural Center, Belarus

Selected Publications:
American Artist, August, 1984 (by Robin Longman, pp. 40-41, 90-92); June 1987 (by John Stewart Ingle, pp. 40, 74).
American Art Quarterly, Winter, 1999 (by Karen Mulder)

revised on: 6.2000

See Biographical Profile, William Swetcharnik
See Biographical Profile, Sara Morris Swetcharnik