Irene Delka McCray Resume
Selected Solo and Small Group Exhibitions
2018 – Counterpoint, (Five Gallery Artists), Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 – Perfect Voices, (four person) Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
Member of the Year Award Exhibition, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2015 – Color Matters, (three person) Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 – Cloth, (two person), Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2012 – Threads, (two person) Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
-Out Figured, (six person) Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2011 – Holocaust, (Two Person) with Holocaust Seminar, Denver Seminary, CO
2009 - Figure Matters (Four Person), Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
2007 – Looking Back to Now, Solo, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
-Bravery of Being, (two person), Canyon Galleries, Boulder, CO
-Burden of Flesh, (two person), Phillip J Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain
College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO
2005 - Irene Delka McCray, (Solo) Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
2004 - Telling Fantasies, (Solo) Pirate, a Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
2003 - Precious Beyond, (Solo) Pirate, a Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
2002 - Indefinite Locations, (Solo) Pirate, a Contemporary Art Oasis, Denver, CO
2002 - Imminence, Bas Bleu Theater, (Solo) Fort Collins, CO
1997 - Irene Delka McCray, (Solo) Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe,
NM
1987 - Irene Delka, (Solo) Pacific Grove Art Center, Pacific Grove, CA
1985 - Irene Delka,(Solo) Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, CO
Selected Invitational or Significant Juried Exhibitions
2018 – Pink Progression, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO
Denver Public Library, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
2017 – Art and Conflict, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
2017 – Director’s Choice, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2016 – CSART Colorado, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Boulder, CO
2016 – Small but Mighty, Sandra Phillips Gallery Denver, CO
2016 – Local Folks, Longmont Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2016 – Fresh Art, Longmont Old Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2015 – Conscious and Unconscious, Images of the Real and Surreal, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO
2014 – From Here to There, Drawing Exchange From Colorado to Wales, Elysium
Gallery, Wales, and CSU Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
-Women of Excellence, Sandra Phillips Gallery
-Dashing and Crashing, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Ill
2013 – New Beginnings, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
2013 – Soft Subversions, Pirate Contemporary Gallery, Denver, CO
2012 – Faces, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
2010 – Mix, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO
2008 – Art is Political, Gallery Artists, Sandra Phillips Gallery, Denver, CO
-Rocky Mountain Biennial, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, CO
– Character Sketches, Loveland Art Museum, Loveland, CO
2007 - State of Mind, Five State Regional Invitational, New Mexico State University,
Las Cruces, NM
2005 - Figure Painting Invitational, Emmanuel Gallery, University of
Colorado/Denver
2005 - Performing Portraits, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2004 - Scene Colorado/Sin Colorado, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2004 - Storytellers, Fact or Fiction, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder
1988-89 - Significant Colorado Women Artists of the Twentieth Century, National
Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC; Toured CO - Arvada Center
for the Arts, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Sangra de Cristo Art Center,
Canon City Fine Arts
Museum Collection - Denver Art Museum, Underneath Time, aquired 1987
Faculty Exhibitions
2000 – 2008, 2010, 1012, 2014, 2015, 2017 Phillip Steele Gallery, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design , Lakewood, CO
2004 - Front Range Community College, Westminster, CO
1996 - Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe, NM
1992 - 1997 - Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM
Recent Awards – 2008 Milash Representational Painting Award from Boulder County Arts Alliance, 1st Place Curtis Arts Center Biennial, Littleton, CO, Faculty Development Awards: Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design – 2011 Course release to prepare for exhibition; 2010, 2009, and 2008 for partial funding of exhibitions
Education
2000 - MFA in Visual Arts, Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, VT
1971 – BFA in Art/Painting, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1965 – Colorado College, Summer Studio Arts Program
1987 -1995 – Zahourek Systems Anatomy In Clay Study, Loveland, CO.
1985 – 1998 – Individual Studies in Dream work and Psychology at Boulder Jungian
School, Boulder CO, and Anne Yeomans, Archetypal Therapist, Santa Fe,
NM.
Faculty Positions
2000 – Present - Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO,
Professor Emeritus in Foundation Studies and Fine Arts
2001 – Front Range Community College, Adjunct Drawing Instructor
2000 – University of Colorado at Denver, Adjunct Drawing Instructor
1999 – Belmont Center for the Arts, Belmont, CA, Life Drawing and Painting Instructor
1991 – 1998 – Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, Adjunct Instructor
Responsibilities: teach Beginning and Intermediate Painting, Basic Drawing,
Figure Painting, Figure Drawing and Drawing with Color, Curriculum
Development, Exhibitions Committee, Search Committees, and Planning for New
Arts Complex.
1995 – 1998 – Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe, NM, Artist in
Residence, Undergraduate and Graduate Instructor, responsibilities: teach
Figure Painting and Figure Drawing, Course Planning and Development.
Community Services:
1987 – 1989 – Boulder Artists’ Gallery, Co-Founder, Board of Directors, Exhibitions
Committee
1987 – 1989 – Boulder Center for the Visual Arts (now BMOCA), Board of Directors,
Exhibitions, Committee, Chair of Education Committee
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