G
A R Y
P A S
S A N
I S E
Education
MFA Painting Drawing Southern Illinois University EDW 1981
BFA Painting
Drawing Webster University STL 1977
Awards
National Endowment for the Arts, 1994
Pollack Krasner Foundation New York City 1989
Creative Artist Project MAC 1989
Ford Foundation Award 1981
Current Positions
Professor, Director of Painting, Leigh Gerdine College of Art, Webster University
Executive Director, The Santo Foundation
Exhibitions
**denotes solo exhibition
2009
“Diary of Consequence” Snowflake Citystock St. Louis, MO**
“Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition”, Thomas Masters
Gallery, Chicago IL
“Alumni Invitational” Southern Illinois University, Edw IL
“Works on Paper” William Shearburn Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2008
Metropolitan Gallery,
“No-Structure” New Sculpture** St. Louis, MO
Metropolitan Gallery, “Sixteen on 21” Webster University Faculty, St. Louis, MO
Columbia Art League, “The Columbia Invitational”, Columbia, MO
Edwardsville Center for the Arts,
“East/West Painting Illinois/Missouri” Invitational
2007
Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art,
Kansas City, MO **
Daum Museum, “St. Louis
Painters”, Sedalia, MO
2006
Daum Museum, “Abstraction in the Heartland” Sedalia, MO
2005
William Shearburn Gallery, New Work, Saint Louis**
Arts and Artists, Washington DC. “Elements of
Scale” Washington University, St. Louis
2004
Contemporary Art
Museum Saint Louis Project
Series
Video Installation
“ White Girl” **
The Phatory LLC
“PM Project” NYC**
2002
Laumeier Acquisitions 1997-2000 Laumeier International
Sculpture Park STL
1608, Installation “Grado Sequence” STL.
2001
Joseph Silvestro Gallery “Spring Exposition” Catalogue Resonae
Brooklyn NY
Stein Gallery New Paintings STL**
2000
Hendron Gallery Lindenwood University Installation “Heartland” STL**
Crowe T. Brooks Gallery, Installation
“Kursk” STL
1998
Museum of Contemporary Religious Art,
“The First Five Years” STL
Lemp Gallery “ Inform V” STL
1997
MMC Gallery, Marymount College NYC
Cedar Rapids Museum of Art “City
Series” Cedar Rapids IA
Mossa Center New Paintings & Sculpture STL**
Thomas K Lang Gallery
“Millennium” Vienna Austria **
1996
Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art “Light & Color” NYC
Central Academy of Art Contemporary American Painters Beijing China
Stein Gallery
“Wax Structures” STL**
1995
LedisFlam
“Constructions” NYC **
CSK Gallery “New Paintings &
Prints” Denver CO **
Laumeier International Sculpture Park “Resonant
Light” STL **
1994
LedisFlam Recent Work NYC **
Stein Gallery Installation “Conscience of the Rectangle” STL**
1993
LedisFlam NYC **
National Painting Evansville Museum of Arts and Sciences IN
Deson Saunders Gallery “Material” Chicago IL
Elliot Smith Gallery New Work STL **
Rosa
Esman Gallery NYC
1992
Ballarat University, “ Webster University”, Victoria Australia
Lindenwood University, “Contemporary Sculptors”, St.Charles, MO
Albright Knox Museum, “Emerging Artists”, Buffalo, New York
Robert Morrison Gallery, “New Work”, New York
1991
Rosa
Esman Gallery NYC
Elliot Smith Gallery STL **
Public
Collections
Stuttgart Museum of Contemporary Art West Germany
Central Academy of Art Beijing China
Saint Louis Art
Museum
Laumeier International Sculpture Park
Albright Knox Museum Buffalo New York
Springfield Art
Museum
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Mitchell Museum
Pulitzer Publishing
Mercantile Trust
Olney Central College
Southern Illinois University
Owensboro Museum of Fine Art
National Gallery of Brooklyn
Webster University St Louis & Vienna Austria
Emerson Electric
Price Waterhouse
Paragon
Southwestern Bell
St. Louis Children’s Hospital
General Steel
Historic Restoration
May Companies
Anheuser Busch
American Airlines
AT&T
A G Edwards
Renaissance Grand Hotel
Daum Museum, Sedalia, Mo.
Peabody Energy
First National Bank Columbia
Contact
Information
Gary Passanise
4236 Lindell Blvd.
Suite LL10
Saint Louis MO, 63108
314 412 1665 cell
garypassanise@hotmail.com
www.garypassanise.org
http://www.santofoundation.org
