about gary passanise
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, MAAA
Pollack Krasner Foundation, New York City
Creative Artist Project, Missouri Arts Council
Ford Foundation Award for Painting
Sverdrup Travel Scholar
Exhibitions **denotes solo exhibition
2021
Rouge/Red, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
bilingual: abstract & Figurative, bruno david gallery, saint louis, MO
the other art fair fair: Brooklyn, Invitational, Brooklyn EXPO, GreenPOint, NY
2020
Overview 2020, Bruno David Gallery, saint louis, MO
Art is Action: Curated by Roseann Weiss, Virtual Exhibit & Auction to benefit Bread & Roses of Missouri, Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, Saint Louis,MO
2019
Small Worlds, Bruno David Gallery, saint louis, MO
Art is Labor, Sculpture and Assemblage, Curator Dale Chambers,
Arcade Contemporary Art Projects, Webster University, Saint Louis, MO
2018
Twenty-Seven Nights**, Sculpture, Painting and Prints, Bruno David Gallery,
SAINT LOUIS, MO
Heavy, Sculpture, Macklind Appliance, Sculpture, Saint Louis, MO
Overview 2018, Bruno David Gallery, saint louis, MO
2017
Drawing from the Collection, Forty Years at Laumeier, Laumeier International Sculpture Park, Saint LOuis, MO
New Paintings and Prints, Bruno David Gallery, SAINT LOUIS, MO
2016
Selected Paintings 1996-2016, Arcade Contemporary Art ProjeCts, Saint Louis, MO**
Group Exhibit, Gallery Artists, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2015
Volume I, Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
40 at 100, Cecille R. Hunt Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
All Formalities Aside, Ruth Reese Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
New Paintings, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO**
2014
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibiton, Contemporary Art museum st. louis, Saint Louis, MO
International Painting Annual IV, Manifest Gallery, Cinncinati, OH.
2013
“New Sculpture” Stern Studio, Vienna, Austria**
“Blue, White, Red” Bruno David Gallery Saint Louis, MO
“Horror Vacuii” New Paintings: Gary Passanise & Shane Simmons,
The MX Exchange, Saint Louis, MO
2012
“Constructions” Space B, New York City **
“Survey-Fifteen Years of Painting”, The Everbank Gallery, Saint Louis, MO**
“Recent Paintings” Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Mo**
“Contemplating Limits”, University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, Texas
“Tenth Anniversary Exhibition”, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia MO
“Paper”, curator: Ahzad Bogosian “Regional Arts Commission:, Saint louis, MO
“Contemporary Artists Respond to Art History”, Edwardsville Arts Center, IL
2011-2010
“Legends of Warcraft”. Muli-media Video Installation, SOHA Gallery, Saint Louis**
“Current Paintings”, Invitational Group Exhibition, Edwardsville Art Center, IL
“The Sky Is No Longer the Limit”, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO**
“Invitational Group Exhibit of Gallery Artist,” Thomas Masters, Chicago, IL
“Invitational Group Exhibit”, mixed media Installation, Mad Art Gallery, Saint Louis
2009
“Diary of Consequence” Snowflake Citystock Saint Louis, MO**
“Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition”, Thomas Masters Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Alumni Invitational” Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL
“Works on Paper” William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2008-2007
“No-Structure-New Sculpture” Metropolitan Gallery, Saint Louis, MO**
“Sixteen on 21” Metropolitan Gallery, Webster University Faculty, Saint Louis, MO
“The Columbia Invitational”, Columbia Art League, Columbia, MO
“East/West-Painting Illinois/Missouri” Edwardsville Center for the Arts,
“New Paintings” Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO**
“St. Louis Painters”, Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
2006-2005
“Abstraction in the Heartland” Daum Museum, Sedalia, MO
”New Work”, William Shearburn Gallery, Saint Louis**
“New Sculpture-Elements of Scale”, Art and Artists, Washington DC & Washington University, Barnes Jewish Medical Center, Outdoor Site, Saint Louis
2004-2003
“White Girl” Project Series, Installation Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis**
“PM Project” Phatory LLC, New York City**
“East Village Howl Fest”, Group Invitational, New York City
2002-2001
“Laumeier Acquisitions 1997-2000”, Laumeier International Sculpture Park, Saint louis, mo
“Grado Sequence” Mixed Media Video Installation, Leather Trades Gallery, Saint louis,
MO
“Spring Exposition”, Joseph Silvestro Gallery Catalogue Resonae, Brooklyn, NY
“New Sculpture & Paintings” Stein Gallery, Saint louis, mo**
2000-1998
“Heartland” Hendron Gallery Lindenwood University, Installation, saint louis, mo**
“Kursk” Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, Mixed Media Installation Saint louis, mo
“The First Five Years” Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, Saint louis, mo
“ Inform V” Lemp Gallery saint Louis, mo
1997-1996
“Group Invitational”MMC Gallery, Marymount College NYC
“City Series” Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Cedar Rapids IA
“New Paintings & Sculpture “ Mossa Center, Saint louis, mo**
“Millennium” Thomas K Lang Gallery Vienna Austria**
“Light & Color” Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art New York City
“American Painters” Central Academy of Art Contemporary Beijing China
“Wax Structures” Stein Gallery Saint louis, mo**
1995-1994
“Constructions” LedisFlam, New York City**
“New Paintings & Prints” CSK Gallery Denver CO **
“Resonant Light” Laumeier International Sculpture Park, Saint louis, mo**
“Recent Work “ LedisFlam, NYC**
“Conscience of the Rectangle” Stein Gallery, Sculptural Installation Saint louis, mo**
“New Sculpture” New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, new harmony, IN**
1993-1991
“Constructions” LedisFlam NYC**
“National Painting” Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences, evansville, IN
“Material” Deson Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL
“Sculpture” Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint louis, mo**
“ Group Invitational” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York City
“ Webster University Faculty” Ballarat University, Victoria, Australia
“Contemporary Sculptors”, Lindenwood University, Saint Charles, MO
“Emerging Artists” Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
“Group Invitational” Robert Morrison Gallery, New York City
“New Work” Elliot Smith Gallery, Saint louis, mo**
