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 Fellowships
NeoData Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Boulder CO 2002
AHAB /Addison Mini-Grant, Boulder CO 1999 – 2000
Awards
Best of Category, 17th Annual Louisville National Photography Exhibition, Louisville CO 2008
Honorable Mention, Core New Art Space, Juried Exhibition, Denver CO 2008
Festival Category Award, Nolita Film Festival, Even the Door Must Open, NYC 2005
Honorable Mention, All-Colorado Juried Exhibition, Emmanuel Gallery, Denver CO 2004
Best Experimental Art Film, Boulder Community Media Award, Boulder CO 2004
Rocky Mountain News Critics Choice, March, Denver CO 2002
Rocky Mountain News Critics Choice, Denver CO 1999
Best of Show - CORE New Art Space, Denver CO 1998
Best of Show - CORE New Art Space, Denver CO 1995
Merit Award, Louisville Art Center Juried Exhibition, Louisville CO 1990
Merit Award, Mountainside Art Guild, Juried Exhibition, Boulder CO 1990
Merit Awards (2) Louisville Art Center Juried Exhibition, Louisville CO 1989
Exhibitions
2011
Old Firehouse Art Center, Two-Person Exhibition, Longmont CO
2010
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Grand Junction CO
2008
Louisville Art Association - Seventeenth Annual Photography Show, Juried CO
Center for Fine Art Photography, Juried Photography Exhibition, Ft. Collins CO
Core New Art Space, Juried Photography Exhibition, Denver CO
Old Firehouse Art Center, Invitational Photography Exhibition, Longmont CO
2007
Core New Art Space, Juried Exhibition, Denver CO
2005
Nolita Film Festival, Film Festival Selection, 'Even the Door Must Open,’ NYC
Muse Gallery, Invitational Video Exhibition: "MindScope One", Longmont, CO
2004
Dairy Center for the Arts, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Boulder CO
Emmanuel Gallery, All-Colorado Juried Exhibition, Denver CO
Rocky Mountain Biennial, Juried, Museum of Contemporary Art, Ft. Collins, CO
Bug Theater, Video Screening, Everything Possible Film Festival, Denver CO
Boulder Community Media Awards, Best Experimental Art Film, Boulder CO
Old Firehouse Art Center, Video Exhibition, Longmont CO
2003
Red Reels at Rock Island, Film Screening, Denver CO
One minute Film Festival, Film Festival Selection, ‘Tintinnabula in One’, Toronto Canada
The Old Firehouse Art Center, Invitational Video Exhibition, Longmont CO
Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, 'Six American Artists', Bangalore, India
The Lincoln Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Fort Collins, CO
UMC Gallery, University of Colorado, Juried Exhibition, Boulder CO
Cordell Taylor Gallery, 'Panopticon 21', iMiNiMi Collaborative Installation, Denver CO
2002
United States Air Force Academy, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Colorado Springs CO
Amnesty International Western Regional Conference, Invitational Exhibition, Denver CO
Durango Arts Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Durango CO
Krasl Art Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, St. Joseph MI
Lakewood Cultural Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Lakewood CO
2001
Gallery 100, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Cape Girardeau MO
Manhattan Arts Center, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Manhattan KS
2000
Core New Art Space, Two-Person Exhibition, Denver CO
Colorado 2000, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Juried Exhibition, CO
Twelfth Night Celebration of the Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Boulder CO
Longmont Museum, Invitational Exhibition, Longmont CO
1999
The Fra Angelico Celebration of Art & Spirituality, Invitational Exhibition, Denver CO
Denver Center for the Performing Arts & Canaan Gallery, Denver CO
Core New Art Space, Two-Person Exhibition, Denver CO
Western Colorado Center for the Arts, All-Colorado Juried Exhibition, Grand Junction CO
Boulder Public Library, Two-Person Exhibition, Boulder CO
Assoc. for Applied Psychophysiology, Invitational Exhibition, Denver CO
Dairy Center for the Arts, iMiNiMi Collaborative Exhibition, Boulder CO
Ron Judish Fine Arts, Invitational Exhibition, Denver CO
1998 & Earlier - Selected Exhibitions
Curtis Arts & Humanities, All Colorado Juried Exhibition, 1998 Greenwood Village CO
Alternative Arts Alliance, Juried Exhibition, Thirty-Artist Three-City Tour, 1996 Denver CO
Krasl Art Center, Solo Exhibition, 1991 St. Joseph MI
Louisville Art Center, Juried Exhibition, 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