RICK VISSER
920 – 11th Ave.
Longmont, CO 80501
303-776-2161
visser920 at msn dot com
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Education
MA, Goddard College, 1973
BA, 1967, Grand Valley State University w/ Honors
Grants and Awards
Honorable Mention, The Captured Moment, Core New Art Space, Juried Exhibition, 2008
Nolita Film Festival, Film Festival Award for 'Even the Door Must Open.' 2005
Honorable Mention, 2004 All-Colorado Juried Exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver
2004 Boulder Community Media Award (CATV): Best Experimental Art Film
2002 NeoData Endowment for The Arts Fellowship
Rocky Mountain News Critics Choice, March, 2002
AHAB /Addison Mini-Grant 1999 - 2000
Rocky Mountain News Critics Choice, October 1999
Best of Show - CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO 1998
Best of Show - CORE New Art Space, Denver, CO 1995
Exhibitions
2008
Louisville Art Association - Seventeenth Annual Photography Show, Juried, CO
Center for Fine Art Photography, Edgy Exhibition, Juried, Ft. Collins, CO
Core New Art Space, Photography Exhibition, Juried, Denver, CO
Old Firehouse Art Center, Photography Exhibition, Invitational, Longmont, CO
2007
Core New Art Space, WOW Juried, Denver, CO
The Blind Photographer, Solo Exhibition, Flatirons Gallery, Boulder, CO
2006
Sabbatical - Move household & build new studio
2005
NYC, 'Even the Door Must Open' – Nolita Film Festival Award
Muse Gallery, Video: "MindScope One", Longmont, CO
2004
Dairy Center for the Arts, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Boulder
Emmanuel Gallery , ‘ZIPCO’, All-Colorado Juried Exhibition, Denver
2004 Rocky Mountain Biennial, MOCA Ft. Collins, CO
Bug Theater, Everything Possible Film Festival Screening, Denver
Boulder Community Media Awards, Best Experimental Art Film
Old Firehouse Art Center, Three-Video Exhibition, Longmont, CO
2003
Red Reels At Rock Island, Film Screening: Two Videos, Denver, CO
One minute Film Festival, ‘Tintinnabula in One’, Toronto, Canada
The Old Firehouse Art Center, 'Science Fair', Longmont, CO
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, 'Six American Artists', Bangalore, India
The Lincoln Center, 'Weaving Chaos’, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Fort Collins, CO
UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Juried
Cordell Taylor Gallery, 'Panopticon 21', iMiNiMi Collaboratiove Installation, Denver
2002
United States Air Force Academy, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Colorado Springs, CO
Amnesty International Western Regional Conference, Invitational Exhibition, Denver
Barking Dog Cafe, Lyons, CO, Solo Exhibition
Durango Arts Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Durango, Colorado
Krasl Art Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative, St. Joseph, MI
Lakewood Cultural Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Lakewood, CO
2001
Gallery 100, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Cape Girardeau, MO
Manhattan Arts Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative, Manhattan, Kansas
2000
Core New Art Space, Two-Person Exhibition
Colorado 2000, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Juried Exhibition
Twelfth Night Celebration of The Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Boulder
Longmont Museum, Invitational Exhibition, Longmont, CO
1999
The Fra Angelico Celebration of Art & Spirituality, Invitational Exhibition
Denver Center for the Performing Arts & Canaan Gallery, Denver, CO
Core New Art Space, "Road Dogs", Two-Person Exhibition, Denver, CO
Western Colorado Center for The Arts, "Contemporary Colorado"
Juried Invitational, Grand Junction, CO
Boulder Public Library, "Growing Concerns", Boulder, CO
Assoc. for Applied Psychophysiology, Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO
Dairy Center For The Arts, "IMINIMI: Precarious Connections, Boulder
Ron Judish Fine Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Denver, CO
1998 & Earlier - Selected Exhibitions
Curtis Arts & Humanities, 'All Colorado,' Juried, 1998 Greenwood Village, CO
Alternative Arts Alliance, Juried, Thirty Artist Three City Tour, 1996, CO
Krasl Art Center, Solo Exhbition, 1991, St. Joseph, MI
Louisville Art Center, Juried Merit Award, 1990 Louisville, CO
Mountainside Art Guild, Juried Merit Award, 1990 Boulder, CO
Wild Basin Gallery, Featured Artist, 1990 Allenspark, CO
Louisville Art Center, Two Juried Merit Awards, 1989 Louisville, CO