T.L. Solien

1949 Born in Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America

1973 Receives Bachelor of Arts, Moorhead State University, Minnesota

1977 Receives Masters of Fine Arts from University of Nebraska, Lincoln

1980 First solo exhibition, Fort Worth Art Center, Texas

1981 Receives Jerome Foundation and Bush Foundation grants

1982 Included in exhibition, The Bewildered Image, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota. Completes a portfolio of drypoints, Fragments of Hope, at Vermillion Editions Limited, Minneapolis. Receives Rockefeller Foundation Studio Fellowship, Paris

1983 Solo exhibition, American Center, Paris; included in Biennial exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The American Artist as Printmaker, The Brooklyn Museum, New York

1984 Included in exhibitions: Images and impressions: painters who print, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Here and Now, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina. Designs sets and costumes for The Mirror, by Leigh Dillard, performed by New Dance Ensemble, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1985 Included in Biennial exhibition, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC;. Completes edition, Psyche: the blue martin, at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, commissioned by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1986 Receives McKnight Fellowship, Minnesota. Included in exhibitions: New acquisitions: works on paper, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Boston collects, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Massachusetts; Saints and sinners, DeCorova Museum, Lincoln; State of the art: recent acquisitions, Plains Art Museum, Moorhead, Minnesota. Completes edition, Excalibur, at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York

1987 Included in exhibitions: Avant-Garde in the eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; First artists portfolio, Chemical Bank, New York

1988 Included in exhibitions: The combination print: 1980s, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Summit; First impressions, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1989-90 Included in travelling exhibition, First impressions: early prints by forty-six contemporary artists, originating at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; included in exhibition, The 1980s: selections from the Joshua P. Smith Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1990 Receives Bush Foundation Artists Fellowship, Minnesota City

1991 Included in exhibition, The artists among us, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks. Solo exhibition, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

1993-96 Teaches at University of Iowa, Iowa City

1994 Receives McKnight Mid-Career Artist Fellowship, Minnesota

1995 Included in exhibitions: The bewildered image 2, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota; Landfall Press: a survey, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Wisconsin; Printmaking in America: the collaborative presses 1960-1990, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois; McKnight Fellows Exhibition, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota

1997- present Associate Professor of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison

1999 Solo exhibition, at Evanston Art Center, Illinois

2005 Solo exhibition, Hollow, at Luise Ross Gallery, New York

2007 Solo exhibition, T.L. Solien Drawings: 1997-2003, at Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis

2008 Retrospective, T.L. Solien: myths and monsters, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin; receives Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship in Painting

2009 Solo exhibition, T.L. Solien: to the West, Luise Ross Gallery, New York; included in exhibition, Something wicked this way comes, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin

2010 Solo exhibitions: Bogusville, Bockley Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota; T.L. Solien drawings, Rowe Art Gallery, Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin; included in exhibition, Alchemy and image: T.L. Solien, Fred Stonehouse, John Wilde, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois; receives Wisconsin State Arts Board Fellowship

2012 Included in exhibition, Someone else's dream, Hyde Park Art Centre, Chicago, Illinois

2013 Solo exhibition, T.L. Solien: toward the setting sun, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, North Dakota. T.L. Solien currently lives and works in Madison, Wisconsin

Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2007; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2014 This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.