LESLIE VANSEN / WORKS / CV
EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1967-1970, Master of Fine Arts, Painting
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
1964-1967, Bachelor of Arts
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1978-2020
Chair, Department of Visual Art, 2001-2007, 1985-1989
Associate Dean, School of Fine Arts, 1994/95
Acting Dean, School of Fine Arts, 1993/94
Associate Chair, Department of Art, 1980-1983
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Set and Reset/Reset animation projections for UWM Dance department Winterdances, February 2015, NEA supported restaging of 1983 Trisha Brown choreographic work
Triptych, dance concert and exhibition collaboration with Chris Burns, Music, and Luc Vanier, Dance, Peck School of the Arts, UWM, June 2008 Kenilworth Square East
SiteLines collaborative studio research drawings with UWM Art and Design graduate students, Kenilworth Square research space, November 2006 – May 2013
Visiting Artist and Juror, No Big Heads National Self-portrait Exhibition,University of Alaska, Anchorage, December, 2004
College Art Association Panel presenter, February 2003, Work Site/Sight paper title for The Meaning of Labor in Contemporary Art session
Guest Curator, Present Tense exhibition, UWM University Art Museum, Fine Arts Galleries, January/February 1992
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Beginning and Continuing, The Alice Wilds, Milwaukee, WI
2008
Leslie Vansen: Dichotomies, Paintings 1992-2008 Wriston Art Center Galleries,Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin, September/October 2008
2003
Leslie Vansen, Recent Paintings, Inova Gallery Three, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, September/October 2003
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Surfacing, UW Eau Claire, January/February 2017 (scheduled/invitational group)
50 Years of Watercolor Wisconsin, Racine Art Museum, October 2016-January 2017
(invitational group based on RAM’s collections)
2015
Error as Architecture, Jazz Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, October, 2015 (invitational group exhibition)
Interface: Meetings of Art and Technology, Union ArtGallery, UWM, January 26-February 20, 2015
2013
Systems for Abstraction, James Watrous Gallery of Wisconsin Art, Overture Center, Madison, WI, July/August 2013 (invitational group)
2012
Michelle Grabner: The Inova Survey, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Inova Gallery,
summer/fall 2012 (invitational group exhibition)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Reinhart, Boerner, Van Duren, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2018
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Racine Art Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Rahr-West Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Waterloo Art Museum, Waterloo, Iowa
Colby-Sawyer College, New London, New Hampshire
University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Business, Management Institute
ASQ, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
General Electric, Stratford, Connecticut
Monroe, Rifkin, Denver, Colorado
Miller Wisconsin Collection, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Heritage Insurance Company, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Dayton Hudson Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Prudential Insurance, Minneapolis, Minnesota
3M Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota
First National Bank Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
First Bank Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota
CUNA Mutual of Madison, Wisconsin
Nicolet Instruments Company, Madison, Wisconsin