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Helander Bruce

Born:  Great Bend, Kansas, 1947

Former White House Fellow, National Endowment for the Arts
Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts Grant.
Fellow, Florida Artists Hall of Fame 2014.
Former Editor-in-Chief, The Art Economist magazine.

EDUCATION:

Rhode Island School of Design, BFA, 1969
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA, 1972
Yale University School of Publishing, 2011
Harvard Law School for Digital Journalism, 2011

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Abergs Museum, Gothenberg, Sweden
Absolut Vodka Company, Sweden
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Albany Museum of Art, Albany, Georgia
Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Boyar Corporation, New York, New York
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio
California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida
Charles A. Wustum Museum, Racine, Wisconsin
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Cuillo Centre for the Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
Danville Museum of Fine Arts, Danville, Virginia
Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina
Fine Arts Museum of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, Michigan
Florida Atlantic University Foundation, Boca Raton, Florida
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
International Collage Center, Milton, Pennsylvania
Kemper Museum of Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
Montreal Museum of Art, Quebec, Canada
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History, West Palm Beach, Florida
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Rochester Municipal Airport, Rochester, Minnesota
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Schacknow Museum of Fine Arts, Plantation, Florida
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C.
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Textron Corporation, Providence, Rhode Island
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona
Union County College Museum of Art, Union, New Jersey
United Nations, New York City
Vassar College, Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, New York
Wellesley College Museum, Wellesley, Massachusetts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas
WXEL Public Television and Radio, West Palm Beach, Florida
The White House, Washington, D. C.
Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

"Transformers in blue"

"Transformers in blue"

15x11 ½ in. in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2010

"Sidesplitter"

"Sidesplitter"

12½x11 in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2009

"High heel helper"

"High heel helper"

22x14 ½ in. in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2007

"Handbag"

"Handbag"

23x17 ¼ in. in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2013

"Bedlam"

"Bedlam"

17x12 in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2013

"Doubleheader"

"Doubleheader"

14x12 in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2010

"Garden discovery"

"Garden discovery"

22 ¾x13 in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2012

"Elvis reinvented"

"Elvis reinvented"

21x15 in. Original paper collage on museum board. 2012

SELECTED ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS:

2014    Valentine Ryabov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014    Converge Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania
2014    Georgia Scherman Projects, Toronto, Canada
2014    Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
2014    Blakeslee Gallery, Wellington, Florida
2013    ArtHouse429, New Collages & Paintings, West Palm Beach
2012    Peter Marcelle Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2010    Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2009    Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009    Art Basel Miami, Miami Art Space/Wynwood Art District, Florida
2009    Paul Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2008    Cuadro Fine Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2008    Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2007    Paul Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2006    IAG Galleries, Naples, Florida
2005    Paul Fisher Gallery, West Palm Beach, Florida
2004    Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
2004         Don O’Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004    Soho Arts South, Palm Beach, Florida
2003    Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
2003    Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
2003    Soho Arts South, Palm Beach, Florida
2002    Burton Marinkovich Fine Art, Washington, D. C.
2002    Waddington & Tribby Fine Art, Boca Raton, Florida
2001    Galleria di Palazzo Fuseri, Venice, Italy
2001    Gasiunasen Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida   
2000    Coral Springs Museum of Art, Coral Springs, Florida
1999    Lighthouse Center for the Arts, Tequesta, Florida
1999    West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
1998    Gallery Flux, Providence, Rhode Island
1998    Art Renaissance, New York, New York
1998    Virtual Gallery, Los Gatos, California
1998    Merrill Chase Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
1998    C. G. Rein Galleries, Scottsdale, Arizona
1998    Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, New York
1998    C. G. Rein Galleries, Edina, Minnesota
1998    Art Renaissance, Los Angeles, California
1998    Art Renaissance, San Francisco, California
1998    West End Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida
1997    Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, New York
1997    Galerie 624, West Palm Beach, Florida
1997    Clayton Galleries, Tampa, Florida
1997    West End Fine Arts West Palm Beach, Florida
1996    Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
1995    Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, New York
1994    Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Palm Beach, Florida
1994    Bonnier Gallery, New York, New York
1994    Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
1994    Gallery 28, Boston, Massachusetts
1994    Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1994    Marcia Rafelman Fine Arts, Toronto, Canada
1994    Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
1994    Jeanine Cox Fine Art, Miami Beach, Florida
1993    Lorenzo Rodriguez Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1993    Galerie Martine Namy-Caulier, Paris, France
1993    Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1993    Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California
1993    O. K. Harris Works of Art, Birmingham, Michigan
1992    Newport Art Museum, Newport, Rhode Island
1992    Galerie Martine Namy-Caulier, Paris, France
1992    Wake Forest University Museum, Winston-Salem, NC
1992    Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia
1991    O. K. Harris Works of Art, Birmingham, Michigan
1990    Virginia Lynch Gallery, Tiverton, Rhode Island
1990    Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, New York
1988    Shippee Gallery, New York, New York
1987    J. P. Natkin Gallery, New York, New York
1987    Tilghman Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1986    Gallery Parr, New York, New York
1981    Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York
1977    Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts
1976    Smith College, Northhampton, Massachusetts
1976    Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1975    Palazzo Cenci, Roma, Italy
1973    Leob Art Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1973    Prince Street Gallery, New York, New York

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