about
Peter Bodnar III lives in Louisville, KY and Vinalhaven, ME.
EDUCATION
M.F.A. 1976, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida
B.F.A. 1973, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois
Graduate Work 1973-74, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
Member of Florida State University Flying High Circus, 1974-75
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Visiting Lecturer - Drawing & Painting
Spalding University, Louisville, KY - 2004-to present
Visiting Lecturer - Foundations
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY - 1984 - 2004
Visiting Assistant Professor - Painting / Sculpture
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY - 1983-84, 2001-02
Assistant Professor and Head of Painting Department
Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY - 1976-83
Graduate Instructor - Basic Drawing
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida - 1975
Graduate Instructor - Figure Drawing and General Drawing
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York - 1973-74
GALLERY AFFILIATIONS
Swanson - Reed Contemporary, Louisville, KY
New ERA GAllery, Vinalhaven, ME
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
Swanson Contempoary, Louisville, KY - 2003, 2011
Swanson - Cralle East Market, Louisville, KY - 1999,2001
Galbreath Gallery, Lexington, KY - 1995
Swanson - Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1994
Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, KY - 1991
Swanson - Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1991
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, St. Francis, IN - 1990
Artswatch, Louisville, KY - 1989
Giles Gallery, Eastern KY University, Richmond, KY - 1988
Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois - 1982
New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, Indiana - 1982
Morlan Gallery,Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky - 1982
Rasdell Gallery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky - 1980
Bellarmine College, Louisville, Kentucky - 1978
University of Illinois, Fine Arts Building - 1973
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
New ERA Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME - 2007-2011
Green Earth / Vinalhaven- Site-Specific Installations w/ Lida Gordon -Vinalhaven, ME - 2009
Cultivate Beauty, 930 Art Center, Louisville, KY- 2008
To Have and To Hold : Artist Couples, Morlan Gallery, Transylvania Univ., Lexington, KY - 2007
Uncommon Wealth: Legacy of the KY Arts Council Fellowships, Lexington Art League, Lexinton, KY - 2006
Natural Selections, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH - 2005
Lunt Memorial Invitational Exhibition, Capitol Arts Center, Bowling Green, KY - 2003
HiteVision- Univ. of Louisville Faculty, Louisville, KY - 2002
Regional Juried Exhibition - Indianapolis Museum of Art / Columbus, Columbus, IN - 2001
Drawing the Future- LVAA, Louisville, KY - 2000
Transforming Material - Vinalhaven Press Gallery, Vinalhaven, ME - 1999
Group Invitational - Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Louisville, KY - 1999
Artist / Teachers - Allen R. Hite Art Institute, Louisville, KY - 1997
The River Artists - Owensboro Museum of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY - 1996
Prints in Series: Process and Product - Morlan Gallery, Transylvania Univ., Lexington, KY - 1994
1994 Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients, Images Friedman Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1994
What's New KY- Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY - 1994
Louisville Paper Invitational - LVAA, Louisville, KY - 1993
1993 Water Tower Annual- LVAA, Louisville, KY - 1993
Beyond Rectangles- Swanson-Cralle Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1993
Art That Heals- KY Art & Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1992
Owensboro Nat. Bank & the Arts: Part IV- Owensboro Mus. of Fine Art, Owensboro, KY - 1992
Lights- Morlan Gallery - Lexington, KY - 1990
Generations of Artists - Louisville Visual Art Association, Louisville, KY - 1990
Kentucky to Ecuador - Kingman Foundation Gallery, Quito, Ecuador -1989
New Works - Triangle Gallery, Lexington, KY - 1989
The Color is Red - Headley - Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY - 1989
Recent Paintings - Morlan Gallery - Lexington, KY - 1989
Fabulous Fakery - KY Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1989
Color - Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1989
For the Garden - KY Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1989
Kentucky Graphics '88 - Headley-Whitney Museum, Lexington, KY - 1988
Political Statements - Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1988
See The Light - KY Art and Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1988
On Target - an invitational, Zephyr Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1988
Beyond Tradition - Contemporary Forms, Owensboro Museum of Art, Owensboro, KY - 1988
Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN - 1987
Flamboyance, Fragmentation & the Sublime - Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY - 1987
Mask Invitational - KY Art & Craft Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1987
Southern Abstraction - City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC - traveling - 1987
Regional Expression - Center for Contemporary Art, Lexington, KY - 1987
Univ. of Louisville Group Show - Group Invitational - U of L Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1988
Artists / Teachers - Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY - 1986
Art in Architecture: Relationship & Process - KY Art and Craft Foundation Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1986
Summer Group Show - Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH - 1986
One-of-a-Kind Prints - Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1986
Collaborative Effort, with Cal Kowal, "Unique Buying Opportunities", funded by the NEA
Water Tower Art Association, Louisville, KY - 1985
The Artist and the Computer II - Southern Arts Federation Traveling Exhibition
Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1985
Signs and Symbols - Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1984
Landscape '84 - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH - 1984
J.B. Speed Rental and Purchase Gallery, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY - 1983 - 84
Regional '83 - Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
Art From Scrap - Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
Invitational Art Exhibit - Kentucky Horse Park, Lexington, KY - 1983
Prints/1983: Made in Kentucky - Traveling Exhibition, Louisville Art Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
Emerging Kentucky Artists - State Capitol Gallery, Frankfort, KY - 1983
Regional Collage Invitational - Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
Hearts for Arts Sake - Park Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
U of L Faculty Exhibition - Alan R. Hite Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1983
Fire I - Regional Juried Exhibition - "Red Light Review" performance, Art Center Association, Louisville, KY - 1983
Air I - Regional Juried Exhibition, Art Center Association, Louisville, KY - 1982
Earth I - Regional Juried Exhibition, Art Center Association, Louisville, KY - 1981
Out of the Pocket - New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, New Harmony, IN - 1981
Artlink - Fort Wayne, IN
Herron Gallery - Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
If And or But - Group Show/Event, 131 W. Main, Louisville, KY - 1981
Showcase 21 - Art Center Association, Louisville, KY - 1981
Imagery/Abstraction - Group Invitational, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN -1981
Artistoys - WHAS Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1980
Four-Person Watercolor Invitational - College of the Redwoods, Eureka, CA - 1980
National Mask Invitational - Performance and exhibit of performance objects - Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1980
L.S.A. Faculty Exhibition, Kentucky State University, Frankfort, KY - 1980
The Artist Looks at Himself- Group Invitational- Bellarmine College Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1980
Faculty/Student Show - Skydome Gallery, Lexington, KY - 1979
Mail Art Etc. - University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado - 1979
Tyler University, Philadelphia, PA - 1979
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL- 1979
Southeastern Painting Competition - S.E.C.C.A., Winston-Salem, NC - 1979
Hyatt Regency Louisville Exhibition - J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY - 1978
L.S.A. Faculty Show - Actors Theater, Louisville, KY - 1978
Mid-States Art Exhibition - Museum of Arts and Sciences, Evansville, IN - 1977
Fresh Paint - KY Arts Commission Traveling Exhibition of KY Painters
Northern Kentucky Arts Council Gallery - Covington
Liberty Gallery - Louisville
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art - Owensboro
Murray State University - Murray
Spalding College Art Gallery - Louisville
Kentucky State University - Frankfort
Centre College - Danville
University of Kentucky - Lexington
Morehead State University - Morehead
Faculty/Student Exhibition - Liberty Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1977
Faculty Exhibition - Louisville School of Art, Louisville, KY - 1977-82
BODNAR-CURRO-GORDON - Stairways Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1976
National Print and Drawing Show - Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois - 1972
GROUP SHOWS with ECLECTIC —LOUISVILLE ARTISTS COLLABORATIVE
"WINDOW WORKS"- a 35 minute documentary aired on local public access channels - 1982
Eclectic Window Works - an on-going series of installations and performances in downtown store windows - 1980-81
"Mayday Kentucky" - Lockport, Ky. - 1980, 1981
"Be Famous for Two Minutes..." - a videotape performance for public access cable, Louisville, KY. - 1980
Strategies: Artists in the Eighties - Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH - 1979
Palmyra Bait/Eclectic Large Images - Palmyra, IN - 1979
"Simultaneous Ground Hog Mail in Show" - Eclectic Cooperative Gallery, Louisville, KY - 1979
"Transmission, Absorption, Reflection" - Group Installation - Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville, KY - 1978
"The Bedroom" - Art Center Association, Louisville, KY - 1978
''Glyphormance'~ - Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville, Kentucky - 1977
"Eclectic" - Center for Photographic Studies, Louisville, KY - 1977
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
VISITING ARTIST
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY-2002
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY - 2001
University of Louisville, Louisville, KY - 1996
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY - 1988
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY - 1986
Elgin Community College, Elgin, Illinois, 1982
Transylvania University, Lexington, KY - 1982
St. Louis Community College, Florissant, MO - 1981
PANELIST
"The New Myth: Earthstory Rising", WATER panelist, M. Anderson Center for the Arts, St.Francis, IN - 1990
"Collaborative Effort Symposium", WTTA, Louisville, KY, 1985
"Art Galleries: Hardware & Software", Kentucky Arts Commission Conference, Frankfort, KY, 1978
GRANTS, AWARDS and RESIDENCIES
Professional Development Grant, KY Arts Council - 2003
$1,000 Second Prize, Arts on Main, Julien Robson, Juror, Shelbyville, KY - 2000
Al Smith Fellowship, KY Arts Council Grant - 1993
Mary Anderson Center for the Arts, St. Francis, IN - Spring 1990
SELECTED WRITING AND LECTURES
"Unique Buying Opportunities" - Mail-order catalog as part of "Collaborative Effort"
Water Tower Art Association, 1985
"ECLECTIC Approaches", Artist Lecture Series
Vinalhaven, Maine 1985
"ECLECTIC Approaches, or More Than One Cook in the Kitchen"
Art Center News Forum, May 1984
"SIGN READING: Symbols in Context, Vernacular Signals at Work"
Lecture in conjunction with Signs and Symbols , March 1984
EXHIBITIONS CURATED
"Marvin Finn" - The first one-person show of this original black artist (w/ catalog)
Louisville School of Art Gallery, 1982
"Hiram Williams - Recent Works" - L.S.A. Gallery 1979
"3 California Painters: B. Benson, T. Lieber, S. Lago" - L.S.A. Gallery 1978
"Bea Nettles, Charles Traub, Victor Landwebber" - L.S.A. Gallery 1977
INTERVIEWS, REVIEWS, PUBLISHED WORK
"curatorial Q&A: 9 questions for Peter Bodnar III"
artebella, October 5, 2016; john begley - interviewer;
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Aegon Corp.
Bank One
Brown - Forman Distilleries
Louisville Water Company
University of Louisville
Florida State Univ. Art Museum
Alliant Health Inc.
Cooper's & Lybrand Corp.
Sallie Bingham
William Wiley
MURALS / LARGE IMAGES / ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Palmyra Bait/Eclectic Large Images, Palmyra, IN - 1979
Louisville Palace Theater (w/ LSA students), Louisville, KY -1980
Kammerer Middle School Library (w/ LSA students), Louisville, KY -1981
Holiday Manor Walk (LA GRANDE JATTE comes to Louisville), Louisville, KY -1985
Jewish Hospital Outpatient Center Pedway, Louisville, KY - 1986
Citizen's Fidelity / former Penney's Building, Louisville, KY - 1987 Proposed
Norton's Hospital Parking Garage, Louisville, KY - 1987 Proposed
Louisville Water Co. Lobby, Louisville, KY - 1988 Proposed
Brentom Garden Center, St. Mathews, KY - 1988
Good Neighbor Food Coop, Louisville, KY - 1990
Theater Square / Ohio Theater Murals, Louisville, KY - 1991
ROCK IT Club, Louisville, KY - 1992
5th St. PARC Garage, Louisville, KY - 1992
Baxter Station, Louisville, KY - 1992 / 1994
Louisville Falls Fountain, Louisville, KY - 1992
Coyote's, Louisville, KY - 1992
Coyote's, Oldenberg Brewery, Ft. Mitchell, KY - 1993
Louisville Courier-Journal, Louisville, KY (lobby re-design) - 1994-5
Harper’s Restaurant, Louisville, KY - 1995
Squirrely’s Magic Tea Room, Louisville, KY - 1997
Louisville Water Company, New Headquarters, Louisville, KY-1998
St.Joseph’s Children’s Home, Dining Hall, Louisville, KY-2000
Fountain Fish, Adventure Playground, Waterfront Park, Louisville, KY - 2003