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PETER AMBROSE
BORN: 1953 New York, NY
EDUCATION:
1977 MFA, The School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1975 BFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
1974 Yale University, Summer School of Art and Music, New Haven, CT
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2006 “Recent Sculpture,” Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2000 Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1999 Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1998 Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
1997 Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
1996 Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1991 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York (Drawing show)
1990 Peter Ambrose: "The Metaphorical Figure", University Art Museum, SUNY, Binghamton, NY
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
Balkin Fine Arts, Chicago, IL
1977 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 “Gallery Selections,” Scott Richards Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
“Summer Group Exhibition,” Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2008 Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2007 "Summer Group Exhibition,” Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2003 Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2002 “Inaugural Group Exhibition” Scott White Contemporary, Telluride, CO
"Summer Group Exhibition,” Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
2000 Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
1999 "Gallery Artists", Elliott Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
"CONTEXT: A Survey of Minimalism", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA
1998 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA
1995 Contemporary and Sculpture, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
"Century of Silence", The Academy of Arts and Sciences, New York,
NY University Art Museum, SUNY, Binghampton, NY
1994 Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami, FL Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 "Inaugural Exhibition", Scott White Contemporary, La Jolla, CA "Three Sculptors", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Sculptors Drawings", Champion International Paper, Stanford, CT
1991 "20th Century Collage", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, traveling to Centre Cultural Arte
Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Musee dÍart Moderne et dÍArt Contemporarain, Nice, France
1989 "Body Fragments", Shea & Beker Gallery, NY
1985 Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL
HONORS & AWARDS:
2009 Commission, International University, Scripps Ranch, creation of a sculpture for Gani Art Sculpture Garden
1990 Pollock Krasner Fellowship
1989 New York Experimental Glass Workshop Grant
1981 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1977 E. L. Ryerson Fellowship, The Arts Institute of Chicago
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Arthur Anderson and Company, Chicago, IL
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Walter Netsch Bequest, Chicago, IL
Bryan Cave, St. Louis, MO
Brooklyn Union Gas Company, Brooklyn, NY
Butler Museum of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Champion Paper Company, Ridgefield, CT
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Global Crossing, Los Angeles, CA
Kay, Schloler, Fierman, Hays and Handler, New York, NY
New Jersey Life, NJ
Norwest Bank, Minneapolis, MN
Prudential Insurance, New York, NY and Tokyo, Japan
St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, MO
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1998 Adjunct faculty, Sculpture, Saint Louis University
1995-96 Independent study in exhibition installation, art handling, restoration, Saint Louis University
1983 Visiting Artist, 2-D, 3-D Design and Graduate Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2007 Pincus, Ropbert L., “Distant Relations,” San Diego Union Tribune, October 5
1998 Doe, Donald B., In Shape: Six Sculptors (catalog), Cedar Rapids Art Museum
Pincus, Robert L., “Sculptor Works with Figures,” San Diego Union Tribune, Jan. 15
1996 Melrod, George, review, Art and Antiques, October
Duffy, Robert, review, St. Louis Post Dispatch, November
1993 Gamwell Lynn, Century of Silence (catalog), University Art Museum, SUNY, Binghamton, NY, November
1992 Princenthal, Nancy, “Peter Ambrose,” Art in America, March
Glueck, Grace, “Peter Ambrose,” The New York Observer, November
1991 Westfall, Stephen, American Art Today: Surface Tension (catalog)
Florida International University, Miami, FL
1989 Thompson, Walter, “Peter Ambrose at Rosa Esman Gallery,” Art in America, Sept.
1984 Sofer, Ken, review, Art News, April
1983 Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, September
Westfall, Stephen, Arts Magazine, May
1981 Burleigh, Bob, New Art Examiner, November
Hayden, Harold, Chicago Sun Times, October 18
1980 Russell, John, “Where to See New Artists,” New York Times, June
1979 Frank, Peter, Village Voice, June
Lippard, Lucy, Exchanges 1 (catalog), The Henry Street Settlement, 1979
1977 Spector, Buzz, New Art Examiner, May
Artner, Alan, Chicago Tribune, June
Hayden, Harold, Chicago Sun Times, June 13
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