Fawzia Khan Resume
Education
2005 BFA, Sculpture, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Obstetrics & Gynecology Residency, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, MO
1987 BA, Biology, Doctor of Medicine, University of Missouri Kansas City, KC, MO
2003 Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, MN, (Art courses)
Grants/Awards
2022 Finalist, McKnight Fiber Artist Fellowship
2020 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2009 Honorable Mention, Members’ Juried Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts
2008 Honorable Mention, Society of Minnesota Sculptors Juried Exhibition
2005 Award of Merit, Members’ Juried Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts
2004 Honorable Mention, 45th Midwestern Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum
2004 Jason M. Leidahl Memorial Scholarship, Dept. of Art, University of Minnesota
2002 Mary Alexander Brumby Scholarship, Dept. of Art & Design, MSU Moorhead, MN
2001 Mary Alexander Brumby Scholarship, Dept. of Art & Design, MSU Moorhead. MN
2000 F. W. Mohr Family Scholarship, Dept. of Art & Design, MSU Moorhead, MN
2000 Juror’s Choice Award, MSU Moorhead Juried Student Exhibition (Juror: Martin Weinstein, Founder of Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN)
Solo Exhibitions
2024 upcoming show, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Birdbrains, The Trailhead, Theodore Wirth Regional Park, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Endemic, Artistry, Bloomington, MN
2023 Persevere, First Universalist Church, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Becoming Visible, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2021 Persevere, The Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
2017 Off the Wall Showcase, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2010 Birdbrains, Concordia University, St. Paul, MN
Birdbrains II, Charles D. Redpenning Gallery, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2009 Off the Wall Showcase, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2008 Birdbrains, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2007 The Interdependent Web, First Universalist Church gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Collaborative Projects
2010 Society of Arts in Healthcare National Conference (closing performance in collaboration with Stuart Pimsler Dance Theatre and Simone Perrin, vocalist), Minneapolis, MN
Small Group Exhibitions
2024 upcoming exhibition, Transformation, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2024 Visual Prayer, Tychman Shapiro Gallery, Sabes Center, Minneapolis, MN
2024 Between Reason and Madness, South Asia Institute, Chicago, IL
2023 Hope and Healing in Pandemic Times, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church, St. Paul, MN
2023 Hope and Healing in Pandemic Times, Adath Jeshurun synagogue, Minnetonka, MN
2022 Between the Stripes, Under the Stars, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN (curated by Fawzia Khan, [catalogue])
2022 Breath of Words, Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
2019 I Contain Multitudes, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI (curated by Nina Ghanbarzadeh, artist [catalogue])
2010 Ancestry: Celebrating our Diversity and Commonality in Community, University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center, Minneapolis, MN (with Lynn Fellman)
Invitational Exhibitions
2024 Dakota County Star Quilters Quilt Show, Lawshe Memorial Museum, Dakota County Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
2021 Sustaining Hues, Gage Gallery, Augsburg University, Minneapolis, MN
2021 Ekphrasis: Sister Arts II, Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI
2021 Pandemic Art Lessons, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
2019 She Inspires Me: images of girls and women by girls and women, University of Minnesota Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2012 53rd Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2008 49th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2007 Layers: An Exploration of Race and Identity, The Minneapolis Foundation, Minneapolis, MN
48th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2006 47th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2005 46th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2004 45th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2003 44th Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2002 43rd Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
2001 42nd Annual Midwestern Invitational Exhibition, Rourke Art Museum, Moorhead, MN
Group Exhibitions
2023 Objects of Substance, Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (curated by Melanie Herzog)
2023 Untitled 17, Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN. (Juror: Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez, Director, Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN)
2022 Ever-Present: Birds in our Daily Lives, Silverwood Park Gallery, St. Anthony, MN (Juror: Mike Curran, arts writer and independent curator)
2019 Work from the Women’s Art Institute, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN
2019 Carve, Cast & Coil: International Sculpture from the Permanent Collection, The Warehouse, Milwaukee, WI
2019 Mirrored Mosaics: Artists’ Reflections on Being Muslim in Minnesota, Art Works Eagan, Eagan, MN
2016 December Impressions, Leg Up Studio, Minneapolis, MN
2015 Satellite coral reef, Mississippi Watershed Management Offices, Minneapolis, MN
2012 12’12’12’ Special Exhibition, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, MN
2010 Foot in the Door 4, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Sesquicentennial Art Exhibit, First Universalist Church, Minneapolis, MN
Juried Members Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
Juried Members Exhibition, Society of Minnesota Sculptors, Bloomington Art Center, MN
2008 Juried Members Exhibition, Society of Minnesota Sculptors, Phipps Art Center, Hudson, WI
I Heart You, Quarter Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Didn’t Your Mother Ever Tell You Not to Play with Fire?, West Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Sculpting Naturally, Reedy Gallery, Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska, MN
2006 Juried Members Exhibition, Society of Minnesota Sculptors, Hopkins, MN (Jurors: Andréa Stanislav, Assistant Professor, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, and Brad Jirka, Professor, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN)
2005 Juried Members Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, Award of Merit (Juror: Jenny Schmid, Associate Professor of Art, University of Minnesota)
BFA exhibition, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Best of Undergraduate Exhibition, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2004 University of Minnesota Student Scholarship Exhibition, Minneapolis, MN
The Art of Democracy: Tools of Persuasion, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2003 North Dakota Museum of Art Juried Student Art Exhibition, Grand Forks, ND. (Juror: Brian Szott, Curator, Minnesota State Historical Society)
Minnesota State University Moorhead Juried Student Exhibition, Moorhead, MN. (Juror: Lyndel King, Executive Director/Chief Curator, Weisman Museum, Minneapolis, MN)
2001 Minnesota State University Moorhead Juried Student Exhibition, Moorhead, MN. (Juror: Annette Carlozzi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX)
2000 Minnesota State University Moorhead Juried Student Exhibition, Moorhead, MN. (Juror: Martin Weinstein, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, MN)
Commissions
2018 Public Art Commission, Tapestry, (5 x 8 ft.) etched and stained design in concrete pavement, The Artery, Hopkins, MN
Collections
Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Warehouse Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Donald M. Fraser Early Childhood Family Development Center, Minneapolis, MN
Radio/Television
Loretta Bebeau, “Artists Can Talk,” MCN6, Minneapolis, MN, March 19, 2023
Ellie Krug, Interview, AM950 KTNF, Eden Prairie, MN, May 1, 2021
MNOriginal, Twin Cities Public Television, October 19, 2013. www.mnoriginal.org
Website Publications
2024 Xiao Faria da Cunha, “The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness at South Asia Institute,” Chicago Artist Writers, March 27, 2024
2024 Mrittika Ghosh, “Reimagining South Asian Womanhood: A Review of The Paglees: Between Reason and Madness,” Sixty Inches from Center, Feb 23, 2024
Reimagining South Asian Womanhood
2024 Regan Dockery, “The Nonconformists: A Review of ‘The Paglees-Between Reason and Madness’ at South Asia Institute,” New City Art, February 13, 2024
2024 Wendy Wei, “The Paglees Color the Lens of Collective Feminism,” Chicago Reader, January 26, 2024
The Paglees Color the Lens of Collective Feminism
2023 Russ White, “Where Are They Now?” Where Are They Now: Art Alum Fawzia Khan
2022 Emily Bright, “Art Hounds,” Minnesota Public Radio, November 17, 2022
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2022/11/17/art-hounds-minnesota-multimedia-shows-challenge-viewers
2021 Emily Bright, “Art Hounds,” Minnesota Public Radio, June 10, 2021
2021 Kristen Miller, “New Exhibit by Hopkins Artist Reflects on Overcoming Barriers for Women, Immigrants,” Sun Sailor, June 2, 2021
2019 Alicia Eler, “Half of Milwaukee exhibition made up of female artists from the Twin Cities,” Star Tribune Artcetera blog, February 4, 2019
2012 Jay Orff, “My Little Town: Reflections on art and commerce,” MNArtists.org, September 13, 2012
http://www.mnartists.org/article.do?rid=321119
Lectures/Workshops
2022 Between the Stripes, Under the Stars, panelist, Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Paul, MN, December 7, 2022
2022 “Workshop: Use of words in art,” Willow Elementary and Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, September 27.
2022 Breath of Words, panelist, the Phipps Center for the Arts, Hudson, WI, October 23, 2022
2021 Becoming Visible, artist talk, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN, May 20, 2021
2020 Pandemic Art Lessons, panelist, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN, December 3.
2019 “Navigating Cultures,” I Contain Multitudes, panelist, sponsored by Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI, February 7.
Professional Service
2019 Juror, Sculpture class, Minnesota State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition
2005-2011 Visual Arts Committee, Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hopkins, MN
2011-2016 Chair, Artstreet Committee (public art program), Hopkins, MN
2011-2013 Consultant, the Artery Committee (public art installation), Hopkins, MN
2010-2018 Public Art committee, Hopkins, MN