Resume
ALONSO SIERRALTA
275 Syndicate Street North
St. Paul, MN 55104
(651) 641-8740
sierralta@csp.edu
EDUCATION______________________________________________
MFA University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1997
BFA University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1993
TEACHING EXPERIENCE___________________________________
Concordia University. Term Faculty. 10/02 to present.
Classes taught: Spanish 101, 102, 201, 202, 301, 302, Approaching Art, Painting and Color & Design, Painting II, Painting III, 2-D Design,
3-D Design, Sculpture I, Sculpture II.
Art Institute of Minnesota. Full-time faculty. 1/99 to 8/02
Classes taught: Fundamentals of Drawing, Intermediate
Drawing,Advanced Life Drawing, Fundamentals of Design,
History of Art and Design, Mixed Media, Contemporary Art History, and Color and Design.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE_______________________________
-Project Art for Nature (PAN) member, 2004 to present.
-Set Designer. Time Track Productions. Summer, 2003
-Ultrabaroque Advisory Board. Walker Art Center. Fall, 2002.
-Lecturer at Minnesota Biennial Sculpture. Artist?s slide talks.
-Minnesota Museum of American Art. St. Paul, MN, 2002.
-Invited lecturer at Mt. Senario College. Ladysmith, WI. 2000.
-Commissioned murals and sculptures for District 66 Schools, Omaha, NE. Duties include: Design of, execution, and budgeting for, paintings and sculptures. 1993.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS_____________________________________
-56th Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN, Dec 2004
-Nineteenth Annual Greater Midwest International Exhibition, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, MO, January, 2004.
-?Exhibits 2003?, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN
-?Mixed Media IV International Juried Art Exhibition, Period Gallery, Omaha, NE, 2002.
-Minnesota Biennial Sculpture and Installation, Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN, 2002.
-?The Best Contemporary Art 2001 WWW National Juried Art
Exhibition?, Period Gallery, www.periodgallery.com
Omaha, NE 2001.
-?Flora/Fauna?, College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2001
-?Flesh?, College of Visual Arts Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2000.
-Selected Works at Jones? St. Brewery, Omaha, NE. 1997.
-University of Nebraska, Lincoln Master of Fine Arts Current
Graduates Exhibition at Hastings College. 1997.
-Master Thesis Exhibition, ?Recent Works?, Gallery of the Art Department, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 1997.
-?Contrasts and Comparisons Exhibition?, Antiquarium Art Gallery, Omaha, NE. 1997.
-Sheldon Biennial Graduate Exhibition, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. 1995.
-?Recent Works?, University of Nebraska, Omaha Fine Arts Gallery, Omaha, NE. 1993.
-?Latin Artists?, El Museo Latino, Omaha, NE. 1993.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS_______________________________________
-?Transplant?, Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN 2004
-?New Sculpture? University of Virginia, Charlotesville, VA, 2004.
-?Recent Sculpture?, Mount Senario College Art Department. Ladysmith, WI. 2000.
-?Alonso Sierralta: Recent Sculpture?, Paul Whitney Larson Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN. 2001
-?New Works? Kishwaukee College Art Department. Malta, IL. 2001.
-?Dualism?, Concordia University Art Gallery, St. Paul, MN 2001.
AWARDS________________________________________________
Special Recognition, Period Gallery 2001.
Regent?s Fellowship, University of Nebraska 1996.
Bertha Mengedoht Hatz Memorial Award 1992.
Best of Show, 9th Annual NATA Art Show 1991.
BIBLIOGRAPHY__________________________________________
Object Magazine, ?Organic Plastic, Wooden Honey?, 1/31/02
?Alonso Sierralta: Recent Sculpture?, St. Paul Pioneer Press, St. Paul, MN, January 12, 2001.
?Sierralta shows sculptures at Kishwaukee art gallery?, Daily Chronicle, DeKalb, IL, Friday, April 6, 2001.
Macmillan, Kyle, ?Contrasts and Comparisons Exhibition?
Omaha World Herald, Omaha, NE. 1997.
PUBLICATIONS___________________________________________
The 19th Annual Greater Midwest International Catalogue, Jan.26 ? Feb. 27, 2004
The 56th Arrowhead Biennial Catalogue, Nov. 11 ? Jan. 23, 2005
