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Margaret Evangeline

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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2004 -Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2003 -Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Simoon, Wilmington, DC
-New Gallery, heavymetalgirls, Houston, TX
-Paul Rodgers/9W, Friendly Fire, New York, NY
-Art Resources Transfer, On Light and Shadow, with Fran Siegel, New York, NY
2002 -Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2001 -Paul Rodgers/9W, New York, NY
-Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
-Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
-Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach,
-Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-Alva Gallery, New London, CT
2000 -Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
-650 Madison Avenue Exhibiton Program, New York, NY
1999 -Howard Scott / M13 Gallery, New York, NY
-Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-Hafnarborg Museum of Fine Art, Reykjavik, Iceland
-Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY
1998 -Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
-Saint Peter's Church , Citicorp, New York, NY
1997 -Galerie du Tableau, Marseille, France
-Windows, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
1996 -Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1995 -Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
1994 -Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1993 -Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-Artifacts Gallery, Birmingham, AL
1992 -Res Nova Gallery, New York, NY
1991 -Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
1990 -Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1987 -Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1986 -New Orleans Performing Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1985 -Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1982 -Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1978 -Fine Arts Gallery, University of New Orleans, LA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2003 -Abstraction, Winston Wachter Mayer, New York, NY
-<Not( Painting)>, The Ise Foundation, curator Koan Jeff Baysa, New York, NY
-Summer Group Show, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
-Gun & Wound Show, White Box Gallery, curator, Alisoun Meehan, New York, NY
-Materiality, Wayne State University, Sandra Dupret, Curator, Detroit, MI
-Womankind, Butters Gallery, Portland, OR
-Art Chicago, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
-Absolute Art, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
-Chicago Art Fair, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago , IL
2002 -New Concepts, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
-New Faces '02, Robert Kidd Gallery, curator, Ray Fleming, Birmingham, MI
-Lysis, Pamela Auchincloss Projects, curator, Koan Jeff Baysa, New York, NY
-500 Works on Paper, Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York, NY
-Postcards From The Edge, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
-25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
-New Talent, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
-Body Work, Islip Museum, Islip, curator, Leslie Heller, New York, NY
-Art Chicago, Navy Piers, Byron Roche Gallery Space, Chicago, IL
-Art Omi Anniversary, Paul Rodgers/9w, New York, NY
2001 -Julia Street North, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA
-Body Work, The Work Space, curator, Lesley Heller, New York, NY
-Beauty and the Beast, Paul Rodgers 9/W, New York, NY
-Outlooks, Paul Rodgers,9/W, New York, NY
-Group Show, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, Lisa Hatchadoorian, Assistant Corporate Curator
-Affinities, Anita Friedman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Robert Edleman, Gina Fiore, Curators
-Reactions, Exit Art, New York, NY, Jodi Hanel and Bibi Marti, Curators
2000 -Fall Group Show, Betty Wasserman Art & Interiors, Ltd., New York, NY
-68 Years, 68 Masters, ACA Galleries, New York, NY
-Younger Artists, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
-Selections, Summer 2000, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
-Summer Group Show, Vanier Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
-Months and Moons, ACA Gallery, New York, NY
-Between Tenderness and Tension, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan, Chien Hui Kao, Curator
-Ethereal and Material, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Dede Young, Curator
-Absolute Vision 5, Byron Roche Gallery, Chicago, IL
-Summer Group Show, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
-Contemporary Masters, Blue Hill Cultural Center, Pearl River, NY
1999 -Margaret Evangeline and Linda Schrank, Rosenberg+Kaufman Gallery,New York, NY
-Marilyn!, E. Peterson Gallery, New York, NY
-Artists as Teachers, Merrill Lynch Financial Center, The Lobby Gallery, New York, NY,
Helen Varola, Curator
-Vanishing Pt. Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
-Self Image, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-d’Art International Group Selections, The Limelight, New York, NY
-Art/OMI Open Studio Tour, Omi, NY
-The Power of Drawing, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
-The Flatiron Show, Betty Wasserman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1998 -Crossing Lines, Art in General, New York, NY
-Pay Per It, Sideshow 195, Brooklyn, NY
-Modular Component, Central Fine Arts, New York, NY
-What's On The Wall, Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
-Open Salvo, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
-Paper, Jeffery Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
-Gramercy Park Art Fair, Gina Fiore Salon, New York, NY
-Architectonic, Chi Meat, Brooklyn, NY
-Roaming Group Show, Fall, World House Gallery, New York, NY
1997 -On Paper, Avanti Gallery, New York, NY
-Natural Selection, Z Gallery, New York, NY, Dominique Nahas, Curator
-World View, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, New York, NY
-Solo, Museum of the City of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
-Americans in Italy and Italians in America, Teatro Degli Artisti, Rome
-67 Broad Street, The Art Exchange Show, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
-Fresh, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Arts, New York, NY
1996 -Light & Color, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art, New York, NY
1994 -Wirstrom & Asprodites, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1993 -12th Annual, Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, LA, Peter Frank, curator
-Gallery Artists, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-Innovations, Madelyn Jordan Gallery, New York, NY
-Cryptic Room, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
-Summer Group Show, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992 -Under Glass & in the Round, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
-Summer Group Show, Res Nova Gallery, New York, NY
-Mostly Big, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1991 -Construction/Collage, Loyola Gallery Downtown, New Orleans, LA
-Artists on War, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
1990 -Summer Group Show, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
-Rough & Almost Ready, GVG Gallery, Houston, TX
-Changing Group Exhibition, Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA
-The Agony and the Ecstasy, Downtown Gallery, New Orleans, LA
-Lisette Copping & Margaret Wirstrom, Delgado College, New Orleans, LA
-Bonnie Amos & Margaret Evangeline, Art on the Tracks, Pensacola, FL

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AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2001 -Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Grant, New York, NY
1999 -ART/OMI Foundation Artist in Residence, Omi, NY
1996 -New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1991 -Villa Montalvo Foundation Artist in Residence, Saratoga, CA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Audubon Brokers, New Orleans, LA
Bank of the South, Atlanta, GA
Cannon's Restaurant, New Orleans, LA
Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA
Chestnut Tower, Chicago, IL
Digital Communications Associates, Alpharetta, GA
Entergy Foundation, Jackson, MS
Hilton Hotel, Palm Beach, FL
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Jax Brewery Development, New Orleans, LA
First City Bank, Baton Rouge, LA
Lobman & Carnahan, Metairie, LA
Morrison Productions, New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Omni Hotel, Miami, FL
Omnicom, New York, NY
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Pfizer, New York, NY
Raddison Suite Hotel, New Orleans, LA
Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfern, New Orleans, LA
Texaco, Houston, TX