TINA MION
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Education
1978 - 1979 Studied with New Hampshire painter Sidney Willis
1979 - 1981 Paier College of Art, Hamden, CT
Solo Exhibitions
2019 “Midnight Muse” Mayeur Projects, Las Vegas, NM (catalogue)
“Music of the Spheres” New Mexico Performing Arts Society, Santa Fe, NM
2017 “Fire Water” McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art, Silver City, NM
2015 Coconino Center for the Arts Flagstaff “Memento Mori” 80 works of art, won Viola
award, Flagstaff, AZ
2014 David Anthony Gallery, Taos, NM
2010 “Death and Erasers” Sam Hill Galleries, Prescott, AZ
2006 National Portrait triennial portrait competition, Smithsonian National Portrait
Gallery, Washington, D.C. (included in exhibition book)
2004 Piedmont Arts Association Museum, Martinsville, VA
2003 Perspective Gallery, Blacksburg, VA
Hermitage Museum in Nashville, TN
2002 Portsmouth Arts and Cultural Museum, Portsmouth, VA
2000 Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum, West Branch, IA
1999 Truman Presidential Library and Museum, Independence, MO
1998 Eisenhower Presidential Museum and Library, Abilene, KS
1996 “Virtual Election” Sherry Fumpkin, Santa Monica CA, 53 paintings and an
interactive voting site
1988 Veerhoff gallery, Washington, D.C.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 “(Re)Opened,” Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2018 “In this Together” Two year traveling group exhibition celebrating the 60th year
anniversary of ACLU in Arizona
2016 “Beyond Flesh,” Volyz Clarke Gallery, New York, NY
2014 “Flash Back,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (exhibited alongside
Andy Warhol)
“We’ve Been Framed Women in Art,” Albrecht-Kemper Museum of art, St.
Joseph, MO
2011 “Three Paths to Expression,” Sam Maloof Museum, Loma Linda, CA
2010 Nelson-Atkins Museum Kansas City, MO
2009 Portrait Contest, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
2007 Tucson Biennial, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
“Framing Memory” Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. one of
four artists given their own rooms including Kerry James Marshall and Faith
Ringgold
“Portraits” Los Angeles Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2006 Portrait Contest, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. (catalogue)
Los Angeles Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (exhibited alongside Ed
Ruscha)
2000 “About Time” Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA
1999 Dimock Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1991 Martin Luther King Center, Washington, D.C. (part of New Creative Association
book published in Ukrainian, Russian and English)
Professional Experience
1985-1991 Commercial artist in Washington D.C. for National Geographic, Smithsonian Folk
Life Festival, Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, American Chemical Society,
John Hopkins University, etc.
1991 Lithographer at the Experimental Taller Grafica, Havana, Cuba
1997 Owner La Posada Hotel, architect Mary Colter’s 1930 masterpiece with her
husband. Moved to Winslow Arizona to fix up and bring back to life this Fred Harvey Hotel closed for 40 years.
1999 Invited Ed Ruscha to create a lithograph at Hamilton Press “Stop Action
Assassination”, included in book Hamilton Press Editions published 2005
Selected Publications & Public Engagement
Tina Mion’s art has been featured in many news and art programs including NPR’s Morning Edition with Susan Stamberg, Arizona Highways Television, American Public Media, CBS, News, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Boston Globe, etc.
2012 “Tina Mion: Behind the Studio door,” David Herzberg
Official selection at many film festivals, including Toronto Canada, Newport
Beach CA, Atlanta GA, Sedona AZ, San Luis Obispo CA, Minneapolis MN,
Durango CO
Won best documentary short at the American Independent Film Festival
2006 “Full Moon,” Paul Ruscha, Steidl, Gottinggen Germany, (chapter Tina Mion)
Tina Mion has been an invited lecturer at many venues including University of Chicago, National Portrait Gallery, Phoenix Art Museum, Los Angeles County Art Museum, CA
Her work has been used in University classes on both American History and Death and Dying.
Selected Collections
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City MO
LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Albrecht- Kemper Museum, Saint Joseph, MO