Chaitra Garrick

www.cgarrick.com

chaitra1@yahoo.com 

curriculum vitae

 

Education

 

2008               Master of Fine Arts Candidate, Florida International University, USA

2004               Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Arlington, USA summa cum laude

 

 

Experience

 

2005-2007       Graduate Teaching Assistant to Clive King, Professor of Drawing, Florida International

          University, USA

2008                  Instructor of Record, Beginning and Intermediate Drawing, Florida International University,

          USA

 

 

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions

 

2008                  Paths

                          Frost Gallery, Miami, FL

2008                  Beads

                          Bakehouse, Miami, FL

2007                  The Sky Is Yellow

                          South Florida Art Center, Miami, FL

2007                Imagined

                        Off the Map Gallery, Miami, FL

2006                Intersections

                        Art Basil Miami/Macy’s, Miami, FL

2006                  Tales

                          Mary-Ann Wolfe Theater, Miami, FL

                         (solo exhibition)

2006                Zero Gravity

                        Martin and Pat Fine Center for the Arts, Miami, FL

2006                The Eight

                        Off the Map Gallery, Miami, FL

2006                Not Really a Cartoon

                        Hugin Munin Gallery, Miami, FL

2006                DV8

                        Off the Map Gallery, Miami, FL

2005                New Texas Talent

                        Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX

                        Juror: Nancy Cohen Isreal

2004                Midnight Run

                        Gallery 407, Dallas, TX

                        (solo exhibition)

2004                Art in the Metroplex

                        Monnig Meteorite Gallery, Fort Worth, TX

                        Juror: Larry Rinder

2004                Flight

                        Gallery 171, Arlington, TX

                        Juror: Betty Hicks

2004                Excoriate

                        Galley 171, Arlington, TX

                        (solo exhibition)

2003                Dia de los Muertos

                        Gallery 171, Arlington, TX

                        Juror: Terri Cummings

2003                Poetry and Art

                        Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX

                        Juror: Kathryn Shields

 

 

2003                Elements

                        Fort Worth Community Arts Center, Fort Worth, TX

                        Juror: Benito Huerta

2002                21st Annual

                        500X Gallery, Dallas, TX

 

 

Selected Awards

 

2008                 Betty Laird Perry Purchase Award, Frost Museum, USA

2006               Aaron Friedman Scholarship, Women in the Visual Arts, USA

2004               University Scholar, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

2004               Alpha Xi, University of Texas at Arlington, USA

 

                       

Selected Collections                    

 

Frost Museum, Miami, Florida

David Herrmann, L.L.P., Dallas, Texas

Joseph Barraco Sr., Dallas, Texas

Joseph Barraco Jr., Dallas, Texas

Health-Search, L.L.C., Dallas, Texas

Elizabeth Miers, Oxford, Mississippi

Leah K. Hairston, Fort Worth, Texas

Helen Burgos, Miami, Florida

Zuaryc Pedrozo, Miami, Florida