KEVIN GIESE
1013A E Townsend St Milwaukee WI 53212 414-372-3452 kgiese48@gmail.com www.kevingiese.com
EDUCATION
2007 Master of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee 2005 Master of Arts, Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
1992 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
AWARDS
2013 Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L Nohl Suitcase Export Fund for Visual Art
2012 Macrostie Art Center – Best of Show
2005-06 Frederick R Layton Scholarship 1990-91 Elsa Albrecht Scholarship Award 1989-90 Frederick R Layton Scholarship 1988-89 Frederick R Layton Scholarship
SELECTED EXHIBITION
2019 UW Milwaukee, Sum Total, Faculty Biennial, Kenilworth Square East Open Studios, Milwaukee WI
Var Gallery, Not Quite Functional, Milwaukee WI
2017 UW Milwaukee, Sum Total, Faculty Biennial, Kenilworth Square East Open Studios, Milwaukee WI
2016 Charles Allis Art Museum, Forward 2016, Milwaukee WI Gallery 224, Bachman’s Warbler, Port Washington WI
2015 Racine Art Museum, Urban Wood Encounter, Racine WI Watrous Gallery, Logjam, Madison WI
2014 Kenilworth Square East Open Studios, Milwaukee WI
Gallery 224, Self Portraits, Port Washington WI
Lynden Sculpture Garden, Urban Wood Encounter, River Hills WI
2013 Union Gallery, Fully Furnished, Milwaukee, WI
MacRostie Art Center, Solo Exhibition, Grand Rapids MN
Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, Chasing Horizons, Milwaukee WI Portrait Society Gallery, Winter Chapel (solo exhibition), Milwaukee WI
2012 MacRostie Art Center, 20th Annual Juried Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MN, Gallery 224, Up North, Port Washington WI Kenilworth Square East Open Studios, Milwaukee WI Nut Factory Open House, Milwaukee WI
2011 Stumptown Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Alma WI
Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Quiet (three-person exhibition), Milwaukee
2010 Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Group Exhibition, Milwaukee WI
Stumptown Gallery, Kevin Giese (solo exhibition), Alma WI
Lynden Sculpture Garden, Inside/Outside (two-person exhibition), River Hills WI The Armoury/Cedar Gallery, Four-person Exhibition, Milwaukee WI
Dean Jensen Gallery, Big Bangs Small Bucks, Milwaukee WI
INOVA2, Joseph Friebert and Students, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Rahr-West Art Museum, Wisconsin Biennial, Manitowoc WI
Dean Jensen Gallery, Not all Black and White (Featured Artist), Milwaukee WI Woodland Pattern Book Center, Seeing Green, Milwaukee WI
2007 INOVA, Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2006 INOVA 2, Second Skin, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2005 INOVA 2, Master’s Thesis Exhibition, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
2003 Charles Allis Art Museum, Invitational Self-Portrait Exhibition, Milwaukee WI
2002 Wriston Art Center, Minnesota Twilight (Solo Exhibition), Appleton WI
2001 Payne Art Center, Five State Juried Landscape Exhibition, Oshkosh WI
1999 Northwestern Mutual Gallery, Totems (Solo Exhibition), Milwaukee WI
1998 Nicolet Art Gallery, Northern National Juried Exhibition, Rhinelander WI
1996 Galleria Del Conte, Giese, Niec, Rathsack (Three-person Exhibition), Milwaukee WI
PUBLICATIONS
-Bachman’s Warbler, Exhibition Catalogue, Gallery 224, 2016
-Inside/Outside, Exhibition Catalogue, Lynden Sculpture Garden, 2010 and 2011
REVIEWS
The Surprising Splendor of “Urban” Wood, Urban Milwaukee, December 2014
Mary Louise Schumacher, The Poetry of Kevin Giese’s Winter Chapel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/ArtCity Blog, February 2013
Judith Ann Moriarty, Art and Nature at The Portrait Society, Shepherd Express, January 2013
Peggy Sue Dunigan, Lynden Sculpture Garden’s Inviting ‘Inside/Outside’, Shepherd Express, July 2010
Peggy Sue Dunigan, Dean Jensen Gallery’s ‘Big Bangs, Small Bucks’, Shepherd Express, December 2009
Maureen Post, Dean Jensen Gallery “Not All Black and White”, OnMilwaukee, June 2008
INTERVIEWS
Nate Imig, Kevin Giese: Artist Who Makes Milwaukee, Radio Milwaukee, February 2012
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2015-Present Design/Fabrication, Chipstone Foundation, Fox Point WI
2007-Present, Lecturer, Drawing, Wood Shop Technician, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee