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Profile
Romi Sloboda was born in the United States in 1971 and spent her childhood living in both the United States and her mother’s native city, Seoul, Korea. She studied printmaking at the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and at the Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre in Florence, Italy. After living in Paris during a residency fellowship at the Cité International des Arts Fondation, she returned to the United States and moved with her husband, artist Chip Dunahugh, to Philadelphia where they resided eight years before moving west. She currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States.
Exhibition Record
Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2011 Waiting for Rain. Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2010 Wayne Ngan & Romi Sloboda. Omega Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
2008 Works from Agua Fria. Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Works on Paper & Paintings. Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2004 Vessel Preludes & Fugues. Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington,Delaware
Nine Cups and Other New Works. Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2003 Seven Seasons. Rodger LaPelle Galleries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Romi Sloboda. Whitaker Center for Science & the Arts, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
2001 Vessel. Peng Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1996 Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon. University City Public Library Gallery, Missouri
1995 Songs to the Moon in the Well. St. Louis Design Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 The Columbus Museum, H♀LOGRAPH: Women on Paper. Columbus, Georgia.
Santa Fe Community Gallery, Nature & Art: Source, Subject and Spirit. Santa Fe, NM
2016 Santa Fe Community Gallery, Breaking the Block. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2015 Pennsylvania State University Gallery, The Unspoken. Kensington, Pennsylvania
Santa Fe Community Gallery, Common Ground. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Boxheart Gallery, The Unspoken, traveling exhibition. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2014 Rodger LaPelle Galleries. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2013 Santa Fe Community Gallery, Viva Flora!. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011 Center for Contemporary Art, 18 Days. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2010 Rodger LaPelle Galleries. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2009 Whitaker Center for Science & the Arts, Ten Year Retrospective. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Salon Mar Graff, July Exhibition. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe Community Gallery, Monoprints. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Rodger LaPelle Galleries. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2008 Santa Fe Community Gallery, ReNew. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007 Chiaroscuro Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico
Rodger LaPelle Galleries. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2006 Addison Arts Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Rodger LaPelle Galleries. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Addison Arts Gallery. Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 Locus Gallery. St. Louis, Missouri
2000 International Print Triennial 2000, invitational traveling show. Cracow, Poland
Peng Gallery. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 University of Hawaii, 1999 Pacific Rim International Print Biennial. Hilo, Hawaii
Peng Gallery. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1998 State Museum of Pennsylvania, Art of the State. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1997 Artemisia Gallery, Carving the Forces of Change. Chicago, Illinois
Pernod Liquid Art Award Exhibition. New York, New York
Spiva Center for the Arts, 47th SPIVA Annual Competition. Joplin, Missouri
1996 Galerie Egelund, Paper Road International Exhibition. Copenhagen, Denmark
Galeria Mesa, Mesa Arts Center, Inside Story. Mesa, Arizona
University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Printmakers 1996. Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania
Maryville University, New Abstractions. St. Louis, Missouri
1995 Korean Cultural Center, 25th Anniversary Exhibition. Los Angeles, California
Residencies
Herekeke Arts Center, Lama, New Mexico, 2017
University of Texas at Dallas CentralTrak Residency, 2014
Cité International des Arts Fondation. Paris, France, 1993
Grants & Awards
2001 Window of Opportunity Award grant, The Leeway Foundation. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2000 Window of Opportunity Award grant, The Leeway Foundation. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1999 Acquisition award, Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
1997 Showcased artist, Pernod Liquid Art Fourth Annual Awards. New York, New York
Honorable Mention Award, 47th Annual SPIVA Art Competition. , Missouri
1996 Westinghouse Purchase Award, Pittsburgh Print Group. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Honoree, St. Louis “Salute to Women Artists”, sponsored by the National Association of Women Business Owners, St. Louis Women’s Caucus for the Arts, St. Louis Artists’ Guild
1993 Grace Miliken Traveling Award scholarship. Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
1992 Marsha Hertzman Blasingame Prize in printmaking. Washington University
1991 Edmund Henry Wuerpal drawing award. Washington University
1989 Chancellor Merit Scholarship. Washington University
Selected Public and Private Collections
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Georgia
Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
State of New Mexico, Art in Public Places, City Hall, Lovington, New Mexico
Barnes Jewish Children’s Hospitals Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
HK International Design
Missouri Baptist Hospital Women’s Center, St. Louis, Missouri
Westinghouse Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Nicaya Conseil, Venelles, France
Publications
Karrie Ross, "Artists, Art and Story: A Moment in Time, 2017"
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (February 25, 2018) English
ISBN-10: 1986004228 ISBN-13: 978-1986004220
Selected Bibliography
- Debbie Black, "Penn State New Kensington exhibit features works created through visual communication", Pittburgh Tribune-Review, July 2015
- Mia Johnson, "Romi Sloboda and Wayne Ngan", Preview - The Gallery Guide, November 2010
- Victoria Donohoe, "American Abstract Artists: Muscle and Rain”, review of Waiting for Rain, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2011
- R.B. Strauss, "First Friday of a New Age," review of Works from Agua Fria, The [Philadelphia] Weekly Press, November 2008
- Caitlin Gutekunst, "November’s First Friday," review of Works on Paper & Paintings. www.fallonandrosof.blogspot.com 2006
- Edward J. Sozanski, "Korean Ghosts", review of Nine Cups and Other New Works, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2004
- R.B. Strauss, "Delaware Roundup," review of Vessel Preludes & Fugues, Art Matters, June 2004
- Burt Wasserman, "Natural Selection," review of Seven Seasons, Primetime Arts & Entertainment, December 2003
- Roberta Fallon, "Nice and Old," review. www.fallonandrosof.blogspot.com. (sloboda 11/03)
- R.B. Strauss, "Spirited and Spiritual," review of Seven Seasons. The [Philadelphia] Weekly Press, November 2003
- Jeff Daniel, "Four Parts, Harmonic Whole," review of Tilting the Jar, Spilling the Moon, St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 1996
- Jeff Daniel, "Surging with Spontaneity," profile. St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 1996
- Jeff Daniel, "Songs to the Moon in the Well," review of Songs to the Moon in the Well, St. Louis Post Dispatch, September 1995
- Central West End Journal, "Sloboda Works with Oriental Elements," review of Songs to the Moon in the Well, August, 1995
Education
Washington University School of Fine Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, United States.
Diploma in Fine Arts with honors, concentration in printmaking.
Santa Reparata Graphic Arts Centre, Florence, Italy. Printmaking session.
The Textile Museum, Washington D.C., United States. Internship.
Related Skills & Activities
- New Mexico Museum of Art, Friends of Contemporary Art, Chair, 2009-2015
- Guest judge, Santa Fe Arts Commission “Common Ground: City of Santa Fe Art Exhibit and Prize,” 2012
- Visiting critic, Washington University School of Fine Arts. St. Louis. Missouri, 2006
- Presentation, Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware, 2004
- Artist's talk, St. Louis Women’s Caucus for the Arts, St. Louis, Missouri, 1996
- Contract printer for artist Sandy Walker 1993 - 2006