Jill Bedgood
Texas. USA
jillbedgood@gmail.com
www.jillbedgood.com
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 1983 University of Texas, Austin, TX: Mixed Media Sculpture & Art History
B.F.A. 1976 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Painting & Art History
ART RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
Art Residency, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, The Contemporary at Blue Star, San
Antonio, TX 2023.
Mary Jo Laughlin & Eula Whitehouse Memorial Award, Native Plant Society of Texas, 2021.
Texas Art 2017, Award, Houston, TX 2017
The Arts Commission Design Awards: Top 100: Community Screen: Code Drawings, 2013
Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy, 2009 & 2005
Artist Residency & Fellow Rockefeller Foundation Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, October 2000
New Forms Regional Initiatives Grant, 1995
Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Sweet Briar, Virginia, 1994
Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award in Sculpture, 1989
The MacDowell Colony Fellowship / Residency, Peterborough, New Hampshire, 1988
Art Matters, Inc. Grant, New York, New York, 1988
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 The Weight of Things, G Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX
2020 Solo Exhibition: Barnacles of Existence, Women & Their Work Art Space, Austin, TX
2020 Jill Bedgood, Art Gallery, University of Texas-Arlington, Arlington, TX
2019 Cantos of Light, Rudolph Blume Fine Art/ArtScan Gallery, Houston, TX
2017 Soliloquy, Box13 ArtSpace, Houston, TX
2016 Soliloquy, Austin College, Sherman, TX
2015 Soliloquy, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
2013 Book of Hours: Intervention, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
2013 The Conversation: Piecemeal: Steve Wiman & Jill Bedgood, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, TX
2013 Book of Hours: Intervention, Hanover College, Hanover, IN
2006 Contagion, University of Texas-El Paso campus rest rooms, El Paso, TX
2004 Jill Bedgood - Jim Brown - Cathy Cunningham, Art League, Houston, TX
2002 At the Edge of Paradise: Cappella, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2000 Deadly Sins & Worldly Virtues, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
1996 Pilgrimage: Transformation, sculpture on grounds, Austin Museum of Art, TX
1996 Torture/Sacrifice: Flesh/Spirit, Ida Green Gallery, Austin College, Sherman, TX
1994 DESCENT colab with Beverly Penn, Weber State University Art Department Gallery, Ogden, UT
1991 Jill Bedgood, Fox Fine Arts Center, University of TX, El Paso, TX
1990 Turn the Scale, Women and Their Work Art Gallery, Austin, TX
1990 Presence and Place: Four Austin Sculptors, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Quotations from Daily Life, Austin Community College Gallery, Austin, TX
2021 Solid State, Sculpture Month Houston, Houston First, Houston, TX
In the Environment, TSG, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
Texas Art 2021, Artspace 111, Fort Worth, TX
State of Sculpture, San Angelo Museum of Fine Art, San Angelo, TX
On the Bayou, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX
2020 Texas Art 2020, Assistance League, Houston, TX
2019 True North, Houston Heights Blvd., Houston, TX
Alterations, Interventions, and Other Manipulations, Musical Bridges, San Antonio, TX
2018 New Texas Art, Dallas Dealers Association, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
Annual #5, Christina Rees, ArtSpace 111, Fort Worth, TX
2017 Tensile Strength, Site Specific Installation: Even Song, Silos at Sawyer Yards, Houston, TX
Texas Art 2017, Williams Tower, Houston, TX
Unbound & Reincarnated: Beyond the Boundaries of the Book, Prizer Arts & Letters, Austin, TX
Naissance, Long Center Gallery, Austin, TX
2016 Craft Texas 2016, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX
Man’s Inhumanity to Man, Holocaust Museum, Houston, TX
2015 Adjunct, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
2015 Gently Fried, Mexican American Cultural Center, Austin, TX
2014 Texas Sculpture: A Panoramic View, Lawndale Art Space, Houston, TX
2013 transFIGURATION: SOAP, Canopy, Austin, TX
2013 Let’s talk about love, baby: Love Book Project, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2012 Western Sequels, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey, 2013, and National School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
2012 Interior, Texas Sculpture Group, Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, TX
2011 Solid Substance, G Gallery, Houston, TX
2011 Texas Sculpture Group, Austin Bergstrom International Airport Gallery, Austin, TX
2010 Art on the Green, Kemp Center, Wichita Falls, TX
2010 30 -Years: Invitational Reunion Sculpture Exhibition, Center Contemporary Art, Abilene, TX
2008 Texas Chair Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2002 Dumbo & Beyond, Davis Gallery, Austin, TX, 2002
2002 Home Sweet Home, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
2001 Sky’s the Limit, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
2000 Sculpture 2000, Epixenter Gallery, Houston, TX
1998 Textual Negotiations, Lawndale Art Space, Houston, TX
1997 Abilene Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Abilene, TX
1997 Second Texas Annual, Contemporary Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
1996 Connemara Nature Conservancy Sculpture Exhibition, Connemara Conservancy, Dallas, TX
1996 Dreams, Center for Women and Their Work, Austin, TX
1995 Evocative Object, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX
1995 h x w x DEPTH, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1994 Synesthesia, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX
1994 Self-Possessed, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1993 In the beginning . . ., invitational, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX
1993 Texas Biennial, Dallas, TX
1993 Off the Map, Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX
1993 Drawing into the 90s, Laguna Gloria art Museum, Austin, TX, traveling
1992 On Death/La Muerte, Bridge Center for Contemporary Art, El Paso, TX
1992 Experiencias en un Nuevo Orden Mundial, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia
1992 Primarily Paint, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX—traveling
1991 Maps & Madness, Longwood Arts Gallery, Bronx, New York
1991 Against Inequity: Culture and Politics, 500X Gallery, Dallas, TX
1991 Under Southwestern Skies, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo
1990 Collage, Center Women & Their Work Art Gallery, Austin, TX
1990 Southwest ‘90, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa, Fe, New Mexico
1989 Loaded, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, TX
1989 Women Artists, Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, California
1988 Comment, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
1988 Art of the Madonna, Old St. Patrick’s Church and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 Back to the Future, Lawndale Art & Performance Center, Houston, TX
1988 Exhibit A, AVAA, Dougherty Cultural Arts Center, Austin, TX
1987 New Works, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1987 Objex, Austin Visual Arts Association, Austin, TX
1987 Handmade in Texas, Craft Guild of Dallas, LTV Center, Dallas, TX [Paul Harris, curator]
1986 150 Works by Texas Women Artists, Women’s Caucus for Art, Dallas City Hall, Dallas, TX
1986 Sculpture Symposium, Transco Tower, Houston, TX [Clyde Connell, juror]
1986 Austin 1986, Austin Visual Arts Association, Center Gallery, Austin, TX
ART COMMISISONS IN THE PUBLIC REALM & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
City of Fort Worth, TX: Summer Creek Master Plan & Mile Markers, in process
City of Fort Worth, Chisholm Trail Community Park: Art + Knowledge, 2021
City of Austin & Bergstrom-Mueller International Airport: Texas Mythology/Texas Reality: Big Hair & Big Hats, 1995 and re-fabrication, 2015
City of Austin: San Jacinto River: Currency, 2014
City of Austin: Northwest Recreation Center: Community Screen, 2012
Artist Consultant, City of Austin & Graeber Simmons & Cowan Architects: Waller Creek Project, 2012
City of Austin Waller Creek Boathouse: Etched Glass Interior Wall, 2012
Visiting Artist, Art Department, U-Texas El Paso: Contagion soap, 2006
Concept Designs, U-Texas Austin: Tower Garden Memorial: evolution, July 2002
Concept Designs, Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate Memorial, San Antonio, TX, 1999
City of Austin TX: Convention Center: Texas Botanicals, 1998
In collaboration with Steve Wiman, City of Austin: South Austin Senior Citizens Center: Community Quilt Mosaics, 1995
City of Austin: Zilker Park Playscape: Conceptual Drawings, 1988
Phantom Ship Concrete Bas Relief Retaining Wall, 1990-1991
PUBLICATIONS / ART IN BOOKS
The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community through Public Art and Urban Design, by Ronald Lee Fleming, 2007, “Texas Reality Mythology: Big Hair & Hats,” pg. 232.
Stuck at the Airport: The Very Best of Services, Dining and Unexpected Attractions by Harriet Baskas, “Big Hair and Hats” public art in rest rooms of Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, 2001.
Mississippi Mud, drawing “Administer Last Rites on Impact,” Issue #38, 1996, page 40.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION IN THE ARTS
Professor, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
January 2010 – December 2022: Basic Two-Dimensional Design with Color Theory; Three-Dimensional Design; Drawing All Levels; Figure Drawing All Levels; Sculpture One; Watercolor
Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art & Art History, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX
Fall Semester 2017 & 2016: Beginning Drawing
Professor, Visual Connectivity Workshop in Lisbon Portugal
U-Texas Austin Department of Communications & school in Lisbon, one week, May 2017.
Lecturer, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art & Art History, University of Texas at Austin, TX
September 2014 – December 2014; September 2007 - December 2008; September 2003 – December 2004; September 2002 – December 2002: Two-Dimensional Design with Color Theory; Three Dimensional Design; Beginning Figure Drawing, Sculpture All Levels, Digital Time
Visiting Artist-in-Residence, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, Knoxville, Tennessee
January 2005 - May 2005 / September 1999 - May 2000: Three Dimensional Design; Sculpture All Levels; Art in the Public Realm: History Theory & Practice; Graduate Seminar
Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
January 2003 – May 2003; January 2002 – May 2002; September 1989 - January 1995;
July 9 - August 12, 1995, Second Summer Session, England Program, SWT in Canterbury
September 1987 - May 1988: Two-Dimensional Design with Color Theory; Three-Dimensional Design; Drawing All Levels; Figure Drawing All Levels
Assistant Professor, Adjunct Faculty, Art Department, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX: September 1997 - May 1998: Beginning Drawing
Artist-in-Residence in Education, Texas Commission on the Arts:
City of Austin Cultural Affairs Division, Austin, TX: December 1, 1988 - May 31, 1989
Edna I.S.D., Edna, TX: September 29 - December 10, 1986
Lake Travis I.S.D., Lake Travis, TX: April 1 - June 30, 1986
ORGANIZATIONS, MEMBERSHIPS, COMMUNITY SERVICE
Blue Star Contemporary Art Space, San Antonio, TX, Board of Directors, 2016-2017
Art in Public Places Panel Member & Chair, City of Austin, TX, 2002-2003
Austin Visual Arts Association, Board of Directors, 1987-1988
Texas Sculpture Group, Austin TX, Board of Directors, 2011-2015
Women and Their Work, Board of Directors, 1994; Artists Advisory Council, 1991-1995; Auction Committee, 1991-1992, 1994
REVIEWS & ARTICLES in the New York Times, New Art Examiner, Sculpture, High Performance, ArtLies, NPR, CNN online, Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, Dallas Morning News, San Antonio Express, Rivard Report, various Texas newspapers.