Curriculum Vitae
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DAVID REED GRACIE
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 2004
Master of Fine Arts
University of Hartford, Hartford Art School, Hartford, CT. 2000
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Employment
Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, NE. 2004-Present
Associate Professor of Art, Elder Gallery Director
Fellowships/Awards
- Hixon Lied Visiting Artist, University of Nebraska,Lincoln, 2020
- Peterson Endowed Chair, Department of Art, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2017-20
- Nebraska Individual Artist Fellowship, 2016
- Mayor’s Arts Awards: Kimmel Foundation Award-Visual, Lincoln , NE. 2015
- U.S. Professor of the Year Award Nomination, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 2014-15
- Dr. Margaret J. Prouty Faculty Teaching Award, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 2013-14
- New American Paintings West, 2013
- Finalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery
\ Smithsonian Institution, DC. 2009
- Best of Show, Fort Wayne Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2006
- University Fellow, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. 2002-2003
- Jack Beal Scholarship, University of Hartford, Oneonta, NY. 2000
- Alexander Goldfarb Purchase Award, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. 1999
Selected Exhibitions
- Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina, Asheville, NC. 2022
- Losing Ground, University of Colorado, Pueblo, CO. 2020
- My Paranoid Style: Paintings by David Gracie, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, NE. 2019
- Your Plus-One, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA. 2019
- One Lane Bridge: Paintings by David Gracie, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE. 2019
- Crash Landing: Paintings by David Gracie, Exeter Gallery, Baltimore, MD. 2018
- Nebraska Arts Council Award 2016 Visual Artist Fellowships, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearny, NE. 2017
- Hartford Art School Alumni Invitational Exhibition, Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, CT. 2017
- The Suburban Summer Show, The Suburban Milwaukee River West, Milwaukee, WI. 2016
- The Suburban: 15 Years, Curated by Michelle Grabner, Rose DiSalvo Herzog and Alexander Herzog, Mt Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA 2015
- Taught, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE 2015
- Certain Densities Of Perceptual Painting, Curated by Matthew Ballou, University of Missouri Bingham Gallery, Columbia, MO 2013
- It Might Get Small, Curated by Aaron Holz, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2013
- New Paintings, The University Club, Chicago, IL 2013
- It is What it is, University of Colorado, Pueblo, CO 2011
- Mouthing: The Sentient Limb, Curated by Kelly Kaczynski, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL 2011
- It is Hard to be Here When Everything is There. It is Hard to be There When Everything is Here, Spatium, Lincoln, NE 2011
- Art Chicago, Gillock Gallery, Chicago, IL 2011
- Faculty Show, Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2011
- Off the Bus, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2010
- Small Works, Gillock Gallery Presents, Paris, France 2010
- Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition, National Portrait Gallery 2009-2010
\ Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- Not for Sale, Gillock Gallery 2009
- Three Way, Tugboat Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2008
- Alumni Show, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT 2008
- Bowery Gallery, NY, NY 2008
- Bridge Art Fair, Gillock Gallery, Chicago, IL 2007
- Faculty Show, Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE 2007
- Bridge Art Fair, Gillock Gallery, London, UK 2007
- Portraits, Confluence Gallery, Twisp, WA 2007
- Tugboat Presents, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE. 2007
- Realist Tendencies on Paper, Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Evanston, IL 2006
- Bridge Art Fair, Aron Packer Gallery, Miami, FL 2006
- Art Chicago, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL 2006
- Biennial, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN. 2006
- Zombie Eyes: Recent Paintings by David R. Gracie, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2006
- The Tugboat Gallery Presents, Hot Shops Art Center, Omaha, NE. 2006
- Small Wonders: A Return to Innocence, Public Installation, Lincoln, NE. 2005
- Gillock Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2005
- Four More, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2005
- Faculty Show, Elder Gallery, Lincoln, NE. 2004
- Group Show, Aron Packer Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2004
- Portraits, Gillock Gallery, Chicago, IL. 2004
- Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Block Museum, Evanston, IL. 2004
- Mysticism, Gillock Gallery, Evanston, IL. 2003
- In Memory of Rachel Sternshein, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. 2003
- New England Realists, Elements Gallery, Rockland, ME. 2002
- National Small Works Exhibition, Gallery on the Green, Camton, CT. 2001
- Thesis Exhibition, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. 2000
- Alexander Goldfarb Memorial Exhibition, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. 1999