VIRGINIA FOLKESTAD
Sculptor/Installation Artist
Studio: 4701 National Western Dr., Denver, CO 80216 vfolkestad@gmail.com
AWARDS/GRANTS
2014 Merit Scholarship, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
2008 Artist-in-Residence, RedLine, 3 years, Denver. Colorado
2007 Best of Show, second place,Rhonda Schaller Gallery, New York (Chelsea), NY
2005 Steven Heater Merit Scholarship, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado 2003 2003 Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts
2003 Artist Grant, U.S. Embassy, Bratislava, Slovakia
2003 Artist Grant, U.S. Steel, Kosice, Slovakia
2002 Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Residency, Johnson, Vermont
2000 Residency, Dorland Mountain Art Colony. Temecula, California
1999 Best Gallery Show-Solo, Best of Denver 1999, Westword
1998 Living Treasures of Colorado, featuring Virginia Folkestad, award winning artistvideo produced by ART ON TV
1997 1997 Artist Fellowship in Visual Arts, Colorado Council on the Arts
1996 Sam Maloof Woodworking Merit Scholarship, Anderson Ranch,Snowmass, Colorado
Best Installation Show, Best of Denver 1996, Westword
Juror’s Award, Postcards II, Dearing Galleries, Taos, New Mexico
1994-95 Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute Associateship and Grant
Student’s Choice Award, 17th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition, Salina, Kansas
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Noiseless Foot of Time solo exhibition Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2018 Primordial Soup collaborative Installation with artist Tracey Adams, San Jose Institute of
Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
2011 Zugzwang collaboration with BNC Dance Sarah Tallman (Wonderbound) various venues
Canzonetta for Oboe, Symphony No. 2: Adagio forStrings
2008 Solo Exhibition Brayham Contemporary ArtGallery,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2006 Drift Carol Keller Project Space, Denver, Colorado
2005 Stoppers Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver,Colorado
2003 Isthmus/go-between- Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver,Colorado 2001 Distant Conversations – OZ Architecture, Denver, Colorado
1999 Musical Chairs: a competition for position -- Arvada Center for theArts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
1998 Cornerstones -ARTYARD, Denver, Colorado
1997
Vital Connections - ARC Gallery, RAW SPACE, Chicago, Illinois 1996
Playing for Time - Edge Gallery, Denver,Colorado
Nature Study - Spark Gallery, Denver,Colorado
Equal Terms - Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado 1995
Trans formation(a comedy) - Spark Gallery, Denver,Colorado
1994
Measurement of time of value - Edge Gallery, Denver,Colorado
Homesick- Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado 1993
COMFORT... - Edge Gallery, Denver, Colorado
1992
Strangers Bearing Gifts - Auraria Library Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Juried
PUBLIC ART
2014 LoDoLights - Current3 - ReDesign of Light Installation, Wynkoop Bridge, Denver, CO
2010-11 Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX design work through Merrick Engineering
2009 LoDoLights - Current3 Light Installation, Wynkoop Bridge, Denver, Colorado
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Sidekicks Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado Invitation
2018 10X RedLine, Denver, Colorado
2016 Looking Back/Moving Forward, Arvada Center for Arts andHumanities, Arvada, Colorado Invitation
2014 Movers and Shapers - Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver,Colorado
2011-12 Light Supply - Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, Colorado
2011 Do it! - Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, Denver, Colorado
2010 RedLine at Republic Plaza -- Republic Plaza, Denver, Colorado
2009 SYSTEMIC -- RedLine, Denver, Colorado
2009 Synapse/Synapses -- Monterey Peninsula College, Monterey,California
2008 More Big Beautiful Things – Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Colorado
2007 Small Rays of Hope and Fragments of a Larger Idea Rhonda Schaller Gallery, Chelsea, New York, Juried
2007 Colorado Masters, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO,Invitation
2006 Best Colorado Artists, Denver International Airport, Denver, CO,Juried
2005 Art Inside the Park, Jefferson City, MissouriCompact Competition, Louisiana State Univ. Baton Rouge, LA
Juror: Dr. Stephanie Hanor, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Jurors’ Exhibit, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO 2004 Open Ground, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY,invitation
Between the Lines: traveling full circle –three person exhibition, Carl Cherry Art Center, Carmel, CA
Sculpture Invitational, Art Students League, Denver CO, invitation
2003 Between the Lines: traveling full circle, U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pictures of Vermont, Andy Warhol Museum, Medzilaborce,Slovakia./ Sarisska Gallery, Presov, Slovakia/ Vychodoslovenska Gallery, Kosice, SlovakiaInvitation
Resolution,IrontonGallery,Denver,Colorado Invitation
Oblique Angle, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Englewood, Colorado. Invitation
35th Anniversary Exhibition: 26 Great Artists, Four Great Styles Foothills Art Center,
2002 Texas National2002 Stephen F.Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TexasJuried, Sandy Skoglund
Hot Summer Days Carson/Masuoka Gallery, Denver, Colorado
2001 Infinite Possibilities Carson/Masuoka Gallery, Denver,Colorado 2000-2001
Time and Place: One Hundred Years of Women Artists inColoradoMetropolitan Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado, Invitation/show traveled until May 2001. One artist for each decade. Folkestad was chosen to represent the 1990’s.
1999 Celebrate Colorado Artists- Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Juried
1998 Objects of Personal Significance- Metropolitan Center for the Visual Arts,Denver, Colorado, Invitation
1997 ANA 26-Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MontanaJuried: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
Object of Colorado-Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado Juried
RMWI Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition - Denver Art Museum + Jewish Community Center, Singer Art Galley, Denver, Colorado + Museum of Outdoor Arts, Madden Art Gallery, Englewood, Colorado
1996 New American Talent: The Twelfth Exhibition - Austin Museum of Art at Laguna Gloria, Austin, Texas(selected to travel throughout Texas for two yrs) Juried, Lisa Phillips: Catalog
DWCA National Juried Show/Breaking the Role - Trammell Crow Center Dallas, Texas, Juried / Catalog
Denver ZIP 802 Show - University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO Juried, Donald Kuspit Catalog
Exchange - ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Colorado Artists:Recent Acquisitions - Denver Art Museum, Close Range Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Artists’ Postcards II Dearing Galleries, Taos, New Mexico Juried/Juror’s Award
The Art of Women - Republic Plaza Building, Denver, ColoradoInvitation
IN Tolerance - Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
In Sharp Focus - Dana Hall Gallery, Wellesley, Massachusetts andFrancis Gallery, Western New Mexico University, Silver City, NewMexic
1995 17th Annual Jurored Art Exhibition-Salina Art Center, Salina, Kansas Juried/Catalog
Spark Gallery at the University of Southern Colorado-Pueblo, Colorado
1994 Artists’ Postcards-Dearing Galleries, Taos, New MexicoJuried
Out of the Dollhouse-Core New Art Space, Denver, Colorado
Women’s Work-Boulder, Colorado
Alternative Imagery-Foothills Art Center, Golden, Colorado and GlenwoodSprings Center For the Arts, Glenwood Springs, Colorado, Juried
Talking from the Same Place-Regis College, O’Sullivan Art Complex, Denver,Colorado, Invitation
1993 A Show of Place- UMC Gallery, Boulder, Colorado
AAA+ - The Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado,Juried
1992 Reiterations - Emmanuel Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Juried
Outsiders Show - Pirate, A Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, Colorado, Juried
1990 Colorado in 3 Dimensions - Photo Mirage Gallery, Denver, Colorado,Juried
1989 Outsiders- Kyle Belding Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Juried
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Kaiser Permanente, Denver, Colorado
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado (collaboration) Peter Kudla, Metropolitan Homes, Denver, Colorado George & Lynn Goldstein, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Dr. Wagner and Annalee Schorr, Denver, Colorado Ms. Sue Cannon, Lakewood, Colorado
Deborah Henson, Longmont, Colorado
Wenderski Collection, Colorado Springs, Colorado Mrs. Lawrence Claman, Dallas, Texas
Rick De Golia, Carmel, California
Susan Evans, Denver, Colorado
Karen Imperial, Palo Alto, California
Tracey Adams, Carmel, California
Jim Logue, Casper, Wyoming
Paul Jameson, Omaha, Nebraska
EDUCATION
1991 BFA - Metropolitan State College of Denver Denver, Colorado
Honors
1996 Furniture Making Workshop, Brian Kelly, instructor
Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
Sculptural Forms and Blacksmithing, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina Vessel Forging, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina
Woodworking Building for the Elements, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
2011 Chasing/Repousse’, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, North Carolina Animated Theatre, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, Colorado
GUEST LECTURER/WORK RELATED EXPERIENCE
Adjunct, Sculpture, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Colorado 2006-2007 Adjunct Lecturer, Sculpture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 2005 Presenter, National Art Education Association Convention, Denver, CO, 2004 Adjunct Lecturer, Sculpture, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, 2002-03
Illinois Arts Council, juror, 2003 Artists Fellowship Review in Visual Arts, Chicago, IL
Public Art Commission, Castle Rock, Colorado, founding committee member, 2001-
Colorado Council on the Arts. Percent for Art Selection Committee Member Arapaho Community College, Douglas County Center
Mayor’s Office of Art, Culture and Film, Member Search Committee, Performing Arts Large Sculpture Collaboration Workshop, Metropolitan State College Center for the Visual Arts, Denver, Colorado Curator,ComposingaLife.RockyMountainWomen’sInstitution touring through Colorado Collaboration Workshop-leader, Composing a Life Symposium, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado
Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, Colorado (lecture)
Member Search Committee, Sculpture Department Head, MSCD, Denver, Colorado University of Denver, Denver, Colorado (lecture)
Denver Housing Authority, children’s art workshoporganizer
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, Colorado (lecture)
Regis College, Denver, Colorado (lecture)
Denver Art Museum, Landscape as Metaphor, tour leader
City Arts on Tour, Denver Public Schools Art Workshops, Denver, Colorado Highlands Ranch High School, Douglas County, Colorado (lecture)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS - past and present
DAM Contemporaries, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado Board of Directors 1998-2019
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Colorado
Castle Rock Art Commission, Castle Rock, Colorado
Board of Directors, 2001-2006, Chair 2002-2004
Rocky Mountain Women’s Institute, Denver, Colorado, Board of Directors Chair 1999-2000 Alternative Arts Alliance, Denver, Colorado, Board of Directors 1994-1996
Edge Gallery, Denver, Colorado 1991-1998 President1995
Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado1991-1998
the Invisible Museum, Denver, Colorado, Board of Directors 1998-2000
Represented by Sandra Phillips Gallery 47 W. 11th Ave. Denver, CO 303-573-5969
BIBLIOGRAPHY - selected
2019 Paglia, Michael “Virginia Folkestad, Materialis Cover a Lot of Territory” Westword May 8, 2019
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Paglia, Michael “Mind Mixers”, Westword, (2-28-08) 42.
2007 Denver Woman magazine, “Art Explores Life: Sculptor Virginia Folkestad deals with
the conceptual” (August/September 2007) 88-91. photo credit 2004 Rocky Mountain News, “Top of the Rocky 2004/2005”, Top Installation Artist
Monterey County Herald, Imaginary Scale of Fate and Fortune, (September 9-15, 2004) 26. photo credit
2003 Chandler, Mary Voelz,. “An installation of elegance”, Rocky Mountain News, (October 10, 2003) 22D. photo credit
2003 MacMillan, Kyle “Playground gear gets new context”, The Denver Post, (November 3, 2003) 3F photo credit
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