Craig Rubadoux Résumé

Public, Museum and Corporate Collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida
Samuel P.Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, Florida
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada
American Embassy Collection, Madrid, Spain
Larios Corporation, Madrid, Spain
Volvo Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
International Telephone and Telegraph
American Telephone and Telegraph
State of Florida Department of Natural Resources
R.J. Reynolds Corporation
General Telephone and Electric
First Federal Bank, Janksonville, Florida
Holland and Knight, Tampa, Florida
Fine Arts Society, Sarasota, Florida
Tampa Public Library, Tampa Florida
NCNB National Bank, Tampa, Florida
Miami Dade Community College, Miami, Florida
Tropicana Corporation, Bradenton, Florida
Home Federal, St. Petersburg, Florida
NCNB Ellis Bank, Longboat Key, Florida
Federal Reserve Bank, Maimi, Florida
Kirk Pinkerton, Sarasota, Florida
Barnett Banks of Florida: Ft Lauderdale, Tampa, Ft Myers, St. Petersburg
Alachua County Library District, Gainesville, Florida
Southern Bell Corporation
Foley and Lardner, Tampa, Florida
North Miami Regional Library, Miami, Florida
Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida
Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, Tampa, Florida
Palm Beach International Airport, Palm Beach, Florida
Capers Inc., Tampa, Florida
West and Company, Tampa, Florida
City of Orlando Public Art Collection, Orlando, Florida
City of Orlando Public Art Collection, Ordando, Florida
United Missouri Bank, NA, Kansas City, Missouri
Anchor Glass, Tampa, Florida
Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, Florida

Selected Museum Exhibitions Solo

1990       Lauderdale Museum of Art, "Recent Work by Craig Rubadoux"
1986       Ringling Museum of Art, "Craig Rubadoux: Works of Paper", 1962-1984
                 Affiliate Tour:  Brevard Art Center and Museum, Florida; Gulf Coast Art Center,
                 Cornell Fine Arts Center
1974       Ringling Museum of Art, "Craig Rubadoux: Animal Studies", Sarasota, FL
1967       Lowe Museum of Art, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
1963-1964      Ringling Museum of Art, "Man and Beast", Sarasota, Florida

Exhibitions Museums Group Exhibits

2003    Brevard Art Museum, "Rubadoux aux Deux", Melbourne, Florida
2002    South Florida Museum, "Natural Florida: Paintings form the Geiger & Percy Collection", Bradenton, Florida
1997    Ringling Museum of Art, "Baroque Bash, a Fan Fantasy" Sarasota, FL
1997    Gulf Coast Museum, "A Vision for the Arts", Belleair, Florida
1990    Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, "The Collaborative Spirit: works by Craig Rubadoux, Norman Jensen and William Schaaf", Sarasota, Florida
1990    Kentucky Derby Museum, "Horse Fresh: 16 Contemporary American Artists", Louisville, Kentucky
1987    Museum of Art, "Made in Florida", Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
1987    Tampa Museum of Art, "Tampa Celebrates", Tampa, Florida
1987    Polk Museum of Art, "All Florida Biennial Exhibitions", Lakeland, Florida
1986    Museum of Fine Art, "Recent Acquisitions: A Selection of Gifts", St. Petersburg, Florida
1986    Polk Museum of Art, "A Corporate Collections: Barnett Banks of Florida", Lakeland, Florida
1977    Ringling Museum of Art, "The Circus in Art", Sarasota, Florida
1974    Ringling Museum of Art, "Contemporary Religious Imagery" Sarasota, FL

Public Commissions

1994    University of South Florida, "Concert/Caples" 9'x6' oil on canvas, Caples Fine Art Complex, Sarasota, Florida
1992    State of Florida, University of Central Florida, "Florida Song" 8'x14', oil on canvas, Arts Complex, Orlando, Florida
1992    Alachua County Library District, "Paynes Prairie Song", 5'x10', oil on canvas, Millhopper Branch Library, Gainesville, Florida
1991    Florida Department of Law Enforcement, "Hillsborough Hammock", 6'x12', oil on canvas, Tampa, Florida
1988    Palm Beach International Airport, "Golden Dolphins", 4'x8', oil on paper, Palm Beach, Florida
1979    Dade County Art in Public Places, "Nursery Rhymes", 6'x8', ceramic mural, South Miami Day Care, Miami, Florida
1977    Dade County Art in Public Places Building Collection, "Parade", 11'x54', oil on canvas, North Miami Regional Library, Miami, Florida

Selected Teaching, Lectures, Visiting Artist

1994    New College of the University of South Florida, Sarasota, Florida
1991    Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
1991    The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
1990    Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida
1987    The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
1986    The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida
1985    The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
1981    The South Florida Art Institute of Hollywood, Florida
1972    The University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
1972    Florida International University, Miami, Florida
1969    University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Selected Awards and Fellowships

1987    First Prize, Festival of States, Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
1984    First Prize, Two Centers Show, Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida
1981    Alfred University Fellowship, Summer Place, Alfred, New York
1980-81    Ossabaw Island Project Fellowship, Ossabaw Island, Georgia
1980    Individual Artist Grant for Sculpture, Fine Arts Council of Florida
1978    Individual Artist Grant for Painting, Fine Arts Council of Florida
1963    Purchase Prize, The Gallery, "National Invitational", Ft Lauderdale, Florida

Biography

1937    Craig Rubadoux is born in Rochester, New York on March 7
1945    While still a child Craig's family moves to Sarasota, Florida.
             In Sarasota, he paints landscapes and is inspired by the exotic animals and
             performers of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
1954    He wins a one year scholarship to the Ringling School of Art and Design and
             apprentices with noted illustrator Ben Stahl.
1964    He travels to Italy and France. He exhibits with Frank Rampolla Univ. of Tampa, FL.
1969    Craig teaches figure drawing at the University of Florida in Gainesville and at
              the University of South Florida, Tampa. He travels to Mexico.
1971-72  Craig Teaches at the University of South Florida, Tampa
1972    Craig teaches art at Florida International Univ., Miami, and travels to Europe.
1979    He is invited to participate as a member of the Ossabaw Island Project, Georgia.
1983    Craig discovers Nova Scotia and buys a cottage overlooking the Atlantic
              Ocean. He begins to divide time between Nova Scotia and Sarasota.
              He has a exhibition at Brevard Community College in Melbourne, Florida with
              his son, a photographer.
1986    The Ringling Museum of Art exhibits a twenty year retrospective of his work on paper.
1987-04  He creates paintings the Sarasota Music Festival uses as posters to promote
              the Festival.
              He exhibits at the Gallery Contemporanea in Jacksonville, Florida.
1988    He is awarded the commission Hillsborough Hammock by the Florida
              Department of Law Enforcement in Tampa, Florida.
1989    He exhibits at Houston North Gallery in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia.
              He builds a studio next to his cottage at Rose Bay.
1994    Exhibits at the Washington Irving Center, Madrid, Spain

1997    He travelled through Province visiting Avignon , Roussillon, St. Remy, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Saintes-Marie-de-la-Mer, Cassis, and Paris

1999-2000   Visits to Buenos Aires
2000    Craig travels to South America where he falls in love with Argentina's national dance, the Tango.
              The colorful personalities and costumes of the dancers in Buenos Aires
              inspire a series of paintings demonstrating motion and passion.
2004    He travels to Paris.


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