ANNIE STRADER
Associate Professor and Chair of Art
Wabash College
Websites: www.anniestrader.com, www.thebridgeclub.net
EDUCATION
2005 MFA , University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
2002 BFA, Ohio University; Athens, Ohio
GRANTS
2013 The IDEA Fund, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
2013 Mid-America Arts Alliance, Artistic Innovations Grant
2012 Enhancement Research Grant, Sam Houston State University
2009 Visual Artist Network, Artist Residency Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2023 BAN, live performance and solo exhibition, Re-Institute, Millerton,NY, (The Bridge Club)
2022 What Have I To Dread, Kresge Gallery, Lyon College (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2018 Happy and Sad Rabbits, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Murray State University, Murray, KY (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2015 Cut, live performance and solo exhibition of photographs from previous performances, Art Palace, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2015 Dirty Little, live site-specific performance in conjunction with “The Trailer” project, Ohio University Visiting Artist Series, Athens, OH (The Bridge Club)
2014 The Verge, live site-specific performance in conjunction with “The Trailer” project, the performance was part of the programming for Prospect 3+ International Art Biennial and took place at Press Street/Antennae Gallery, New Orleans, LA (The Bridge Club)
2014. Plan, live site-specific performance, commissioned by Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA (The Bridge Club)
2014. Vanishing Methods, Northcutt Steele Gallery, Montana State University; Billings, MT (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2014. Warning Signs, series of two live site-specific performances, lecture, panel discussion and community engagement workshop in conjunction with “The Trailer” project, The Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (The Bridge Club)
2014. Purported to be dark, solo exhibit, San Jacinto College Black Box Installation Series, Houston, TX (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2014. Colony, series of three live performances, community engagement workshop and panel discussion with The Trailer project for New Genre Arts Festival XXI. Living Arts, Tulsa, OK (The Bridge Club)
2013 Waltz Across Texas, series of live performance work in conjunction with “The Trailer” project, created for The Texas Biennial; various non-art locations in Austin and San Antonio, TX (The Bridge Club)
2013. The Trailer, Mobile performance and installation project inaugural tour, Lawndale Art Center and various non-art locations in Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2013. Inheritance, live performance and installation, Box 13 Art Space, NCECA conference, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2013. STILL, solo exhibit of performance photographs, Art Palace, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2012 Environments, Interrogating Space, site-specific installation, The Baum Gallery, The University of Central Arkansas, Conway, AR, Curator: Kristin Beal (Strader+ Weedman Projects)
2012. Loose Snare, site specific performance commissioned for FLUX 2012, Atlanta, GA (The Bridge Club)
2012. The Billboard Project, digital media project on public digital billboard, Atlanta, GA (The Bridge Club)
2012. Medium, live gallery specific performance, Art Palace, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2011 Locating Eden, solo exhibit, Window to Sculpture Emerging Artist Series, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH
2011. Applied Geometry, live Performance, The Wassaic Project Summer Festival, Wassaic,NY (The Bridge Club)
2011. Dwell, live performance “Oculus”, commissioned by The Contemporary Art Center at Woodside, Troy, NY (The Bridge Club)
2011. Shell, solo exhibit, installation, video, and live performance, 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL (The Bridge Club)
2011 Natural Resources, solo exhibit, installation, video, and live performance, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2011. Ness, two-person exhibit, The University of The Pacific, Stockton, CA
2011 Between, PODS Installation Series Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2010 Something is always Far Away, solo exhibit, The Hartnett Gallery, The University of Rochester; Rochester, NY
2010. Music Box, site-specific performance created for “Off the Strip, Performance and New Genres Art Festival” organized by the Contemporary Art Center; Las Vegas, NV (The Bridge Club)
2010. The Distance, solo exhibit, The Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS
2009 Quiescence, solo exhibit, Hendrix College Art Gallery, Conway, AR
2009. A History of Objects, solo exhibit, The ROY G BIV Gallery; Columbus, OH
2009. Tenants at Will, live performance, installation and video work, The Hilton Hotel; Knoxville, TN. This exhibition was part of the National Performance Network and Visual Artist Network annual conference. Supported by a VAN artist residency award. (Catalogue)(The Bridge Club)
2009. The Observation Room, solo exhibit, live performance, installation and video work, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA (The Bridge Club)
2008 Domestic Surveillance, digital/ performance work, www.resistlooking.net (The Bridge Club)
2007 Desperate Longings, solo exhibit, Clayton Staples Gallery, Wichita State University; Wichita, KS
2007. Ceaseless and Solitary, live performance and installation, The Durango Art Center, CO (The Bridge Club)
2006 Obstacles for Love, solo exhibit, The Link Gallery, Denver, CO
2006. Shift Work, site-specific performance, Steelworks Museum of Industry and Culture, Pueblo, CO (The Bridge Club)
2005 MFA Graduate Thesis Exhibition, The CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO (solo)
GROUP EXHIBITS & FESTIVALS
2022 High Beams #6 Denver, Performance, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. (The Bridge Club)
Experimental Film and Video 2022, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, Korea. (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2018 State Lines, Southwestern University, Sarofim School of Fine Art Gallery, curated by Hilary Hunt and Arturo Palacios of DEASIL (The Bridge Club)
2017 Blot, The Nerve – Performance Art Festival, Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Live performance and installation (The Bridge Club)
2017. Instar, City Arts, Wichita, KS, two-person exhibit with Monika Meler
We want a President, CUNSTHAUS, Tampa, FL. Juror: Margaret Miller
2016 Better than Art, Modern Makers, Cincinnati, OH. Jurors: Amanda Curreri, University of Cincinnati, Rod Northcutt, Miami University, Oxford, OH, Catherine Richards and Ahn Tran of Modern Makers
2016. Now and Then, Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, MO Curators: Casey Whittier and Blanca Guerra
2016. Art Palace Presents at Art Alliance Austin exhibited as part of the Art City Fair, Austin, TX
2015 Primera Bienal Internacional De Asunción 2015, Asunción Paraguay, site-specific installation of Bound for Love an ongoing installation project, Curated by Royce W. Smith. (October- November 2015)
2014 Reclaimed: Installation, Performance & Site-Specific Works, catalog and on-line exhibit Curators: (The Board of Art Axis: Brian Harper, Dylan Beck, Adam Welch, Dandee Pattee, Samuel Johnson, Alanna DeRocchi)
2014. Women III, The Kennedy Museum of Art, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, (The Bridge Club)
2014. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Group exhibit, selected past recipients of The Idea Fund. Diverse Works, Houston, TX, (The Bridge Club)
2014. To Each, Their Own. Group exhibit. Art Palace, Houston, TX, (The Bridge Club) 2013 Sadie Hawkins, Curator: Leigh Arnold, Central Trak, University of Texas, Dallas, TX (The Bridge Club)
2014. Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Art Palace Booth, Houston, TX, (The Bridge Club)
2014. Currents International New Media Festival, Medium, live performance and installation, Santa Fe, New Mexico (The Bridge Club)
2014. The Texas Biennial, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX (The Bridge Club)
2014. Re-View: summer group show, performance photographs, Art Palace, Houston, TX (The Bridge Club)
2014. From Yellow Clay to Black Gumbo, Pollock Gallery, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, Dallas, TX and Winter Street Studio, NCECA, Houston, TX
2012 It’s a Phase, Site-Specific Projects for Russ Pitman Park, Houston, TX, Curator: Divya Murthy (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2011 Video Sculpture, exhibit in conjunction with The Nam June Paik Conference, Reed Gallery, DAAP, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, Curator: Mark Harris
2011. S L O W Show, 307 Gallery, The Lamar Dodd School of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; Curator: Nell Andrews
2011. The Love Show, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY; Juror: Becky Alley Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2011. Beacons: An Exhibition of Luminous Art, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI(Juried)
2010 Low Lives 2, performance work titled Torrent Echo, transmitted live via the internet and projected in galleries throughout the U.S. including El Museo del Barrio, NYC; Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco, CA; Diaspora Vibe, Miami, FL; The Temporary Space, Houston, TX; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, MN; Terminal, Clarksville, TN; Co-Lab, Austin, TX; & Studio 304, Brooklyn, NY, April 30, 2010 Curator: Jorge Rojas (The Bridge Club)
2010. Supercellica, A Squirrelly Girls Exhibition, Walnut Gallery, Wichita, KS
2010. I Knew A Man’s Light Show, Marxhausen Gallery of Art, Concordia University, Seward, NE
2010. No New Tale to Tell, Contemporary Narrative Art, The Claypool-Young Art Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY. (Juried)
2009 Crafting Romance, The Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA (Juried)
2008 Center to Edge: 2008 River City Biennale, Front Window, installation & video, Fisch Haus Gallery & Heterotopia, Wichita, KS (Catalogue) Curator: Stacey Switzer (The Bridge Club)
2008. 1440 Minutes, IDEA Space, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO. (The Bridge Club) LICC/ London International Creative Competition, shortlist, performance category. (Catalogue) (The Bridge Club)
2007 Storage Space, video installation, SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH (The Bridge Club)
2007. Ad Astra Per Aspera: Featuring the best faculty teaching in Kansas, Shift Space Gallery, Wichita, KS
2007. The Match Show, Dubhe Carreno Gallery, Chicago, IL
2007. Intersections: Artifice & Matter, The Durango Art Center, Durango, CO
2007. Body Images, NCECA, Galerie Hertz, Louisville, KY
2007. Toast, The University of Colorado, Sibelle Wolle Fine Arts Building, Boulder, CO (The Bridge Club)
2006 Chromophilia, The Fisch Haus Gallery, Wichita, KS
2006. The Game Show, The Contemporary Crafts Gallery & Museum, Portland, OR
2006. Eroticizing the West, Colorado State University Art Museum, Pueblo, CO
2005 The Drawing Show, Boulder Museum Of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO Beyond Dolls, The Dairy Barn Center for Visual Arts, Athens, OH Excavation of Memory, The Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2019 Keynote Speaker for MFA Intensive, University of St. Francis, Ft. Wayne, IN (Strader + Weedman Projects)
2015 Ohio University, Athens, OH (The Bridge Club)
2014 The Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS (The Bridge Club)
2013 Texas A & M Commerce, Commerce, TX
2012 Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Box 13 Art Space, Houston, TX
2011 The University of The Pacific, Stockton, CA
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
2010 University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Concordia University, Seward, NE
The University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
2009 Hendrix College, Conway AR