REPRESENTATION
Radius Gallery, Missoula, Montana, 406-541-7070, www.radiusgallery.com
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 Bobbie McKibbin: Second Sight, Radius Gallery, Montana
2013 Bobbie McKibbin: A Sense of Place, 4 Ravens Gallery, Montana
2008 New Work, Olson-Larsen Galleries
2005 Pastels, New Work, Olson-Larsen Galleries
2002 Pastels by Bobbie McKibbin, Olson-Larsen Galleries
1998 Western Images by Bobbie McKibbin, Artifacts Gallery, Montana
1998 Pastels by Bobbie McKibbin, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1995 Pastels by Bobbie McKibbin, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1993 Pastels: Bobbie McKibbin, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1991 Bobbie McKibbin: Hawaiian Landscapes, Village Galleries, Hawaii
1990 Drawings – Bobbie McKibbin, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1990 Bobbie McKibbin: New Works, Village Galleries, Hawaii
1989 McKibbin: Recent Works, Carega-Foxley-Leach Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1989 Bobbie McKibbin Pastels, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1989 Bobbie McKibbin: Drawings, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1987 Paintings & Pastels: Bobbie McKibbin, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1984 Bobbie McKibbin Pastels, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1982 Pastels by Bobbie McKibbin, Olson Larsen Galleries, Iowa
SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2014 Annual Landscape Show, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
2007 Figurative Work, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
2006 Fields and Flowers, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
2001 Landscapes, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
2000 Skyscapes & Landscape: The Ever-Changing Loess Hills, Those Fragile Giants of Western Iowa, Moorhead Cultural Center, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University, Iowa State Historical Museum, Sioux City Art Center
1999 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Olson-Larsen Galleries, Iowa
1999 Individual, Family & Community Resiliency, Brunnier Art Museum
1998 Art At Work, Des Moines Art Center
1996 Mentors Exposition: Teachers and Students, Simpson College, Iowa
1994-6 Land of the Fragile Giants – Landscapes & Environments of the Loess Hills, Commissioned works by the Brunnier Art Museum touring to: Sioux City Arts Center; Arts on Grand; MacNider Museum of Art; Waterloo Museum of Art; DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge; State Historical Museum, Iowa
1989 Winter Group Exhibition, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis
1989 Gallery Artists, vanStraaten Gallery, Chicago
1988 Atmosphere and Light, Carega-Foxley-Leach Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1987 European & American Perspective on Landscape, Carega-Foxley-Leach Gallery, Washington D.C.
1986 Landscape, vanStraaten Gallery, Chicago
1986 Midwest Places & People, Augustana College
1986 McKibbin and McKibbin: Paintings and Drawings, College of Mount St. Joseph, Cincinnati
1982 Alex McKibbin & Bobbie McKibbin: Paintings and Drawings, Blanden Mem. Art Museum, Iowa
1980 Hassam Fund Purchase Exhibition, American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
1980 McKibbin and Zirkle: A Two-Person Show, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa
1979 Alex McKibbin and Bobbie McKibbin: Recent Works, Century Center Art Center, Indiana
1979 McKibbin and Zirkle: A Two-Person Show, MacNider Museum, Iowa
1975 Emerging Graphic Artists, San Francisco
SELECTED CURATED OR JURIED EXHIBITION
2007 Obsessed: Weather in Art, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa.
1998 The Iowa Collection: Land of the Fragile Giants – Landscapes & Environments of the Loess Hills, residence of Ambassador & Mrs. Kenneth M. Quinn, Phnom Penn, Kingdom of Cambodia, U.S.Department of State.
1998 Iowa Artists 1998, Des Moines Art Center
1994 Iowa Artists, Des Moines Art Center
1993 All Iowa Show, Des Moines Art Center
1986 21st Annual Area Competitive Exhibition, MacNider Museum
1985 20th Annual Area Competitive Exhibition, MacNider Museum
1984 19th Annual Area Competitive Exhibition, MacNider Museum
1981 All Iowa Show, Des Moines Art Center
1979 Clay-Paper Exhibitio, The Octagon Gallery, Ames
1978 5th National Print Exhibition, Minot
1974 Mid State Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science
1974 Cincinnati Invitational Biannual Exhibition: Drawing & Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum
1974 10th National Print Exhibition, Silvermine Guild of Artists, Connecticut
1967 Gimble Young Artists Exhibition, Philadelphia
COLLECTIONS: Selected Museum and Corporate (excluding private)
National Museum of American Art (a.k.a.) Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, Iowa
State of Iowa: Art in State Buildings Program, Iowa
Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Iowa
The Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University
Charles MacNider Museum, Iowa
Drake University, Iowa
Miami University, Ohio
Allied Insurance, Iowa
American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Arizona
Arthur Anderson Co., Minneapolis
Board of Education, Philadelphia
Bradshaw/Fowler/Proctor & Fairgrave Law Firm, Iowa
Covenant Medical Center, Iowa
Ernst & Whinney, St. Louis
Gilmore Law Firm, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Hallmark Cards, Kansas City
Iowa Bankers Association, Des Moines
Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines
Kemper Insurance, Oak Grove, Illinois
Lutheran Hospital, Des Moines, Iowa
Maytag Corporation, Iowa
Meredith Corporation, Iowa
Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance, St. Paul
Missoula Art Museum, Montana
Missouri Public Service Company, Kansas City
Montgomery County Memorial Hospital, Illinois
Northwestern Bell Telephone
Pioneer Hybrid International, Johnston
Principal Financial Group, Des Moines
Ralston Purina, St. Louis
Ritz Carlton Hotel, Maui, Hawaii
3M Corporation, Minneapolis
COMMISSIONS (excluding numerous private commissions)
Firestone Corporation, Iowa
Pella Rollscreen, Iowa
Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., West Des Moines
Hotel Pattee, Perry, Iowa
Pioneer Corporation, Johnston, Iowa
University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics, Iowa City
1st Bank of Waterloo
1st Source Bank, South Bend, Indiana
Chamber of Commerce, City of Grinnell, Iowa
Grinnell College, Iowa
Shughart, Thomson, Kilroy Law Firm, Kansas City
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Pastel Journal, Cover and article “Improvising Beauty,” Michelle Taute, February, 2013
High Desert Journal, Issue #13, Cover and images inside, April, 2011
Missoula Living, Charles Finn, June 2007
Big Sky Journal, Charles Finn, Arts 2006
and two reproductions with Thomas McGuane’s excerpted short story.
Drawn West, touring exhibition catalog, 2005
Independent, Skylar Browning, June 2005
Holy Ground, Michael Carey, 2002
Notecards, Hotel Pattee, 2001
Lit by the Sun, The Art & Artists of the Hotel Pattee, Lela Gilbert, 2001
Meadville Tribune, June 1998
Iowa Artists 1998, Des Moines Art Center
Voices on the Landscape, Loess Hills Press, 1996
The Sesquicentennial Collection, Grinnell College, 1996
Iowa Artists 1994, Des Moines Art Center
Land of the Fragile Giants, Landscapes, Environments, & Peoples of the Loess Hills, Brunnier Art Museum, 1994.
Des Moines Register, Eliot Nusbaum, August 1991
Des Moines Register, Ken Fuson, November 1989
The American Artist Magazine, Mark Stegmeier, December 1988
Des Moines Register, Eliot Nusbaum, July 1988
Victorian Hotels, Symposium on the Small Town in America, 1987.
Ohio Arts Council, Daniel Brown, November-December 1986
Post-Dispatch, Patricia Degener, February 1986
Des Moines Register, Eliot Nusbaum, November 1985
South Bend Tribune, Jeanne Derbeck, June 1985
Bobbie McKibbin, The Landscape, touring exhibition catalog, 1984
Ft. Dodge Messenger, Kris Hillmer, April 1982
Lompoc Record, August 1983
South Bend Tribune, Jeanne Derbeck, May 1983
Corporate Digest Magazine, November/December 1982
Des Moines Register, Nick Baldwin, October 1982
Des Moines Register, Nick Baldwin, May 1981
James Drew and Lloyd Rodgers, Mirecourt Trio, 1980
Education
M.F.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
B.F.A., Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Academic Experience
1991 to 2007, Professor, Grinnell College
1982 to 1991, Associate Professor
1976 to 1982, Assistant Professor