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exhibitions, collections, awards
SELECTED SOLO AND INVITATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Suspended Inter Spaces exhibition, Installation Printed Through Time and Space,
VisArts Gallery, Rockville, MD
Living a Dark Night, curated by Dr. Paula Sengupta, presented by the Kala Chaupal
Trust, INDIA Catalog, Exhibition, Traveling: https://livinginadarknight.in/
since 2021
2021 Approach at Toyota City Folk Craft Museum, Kirakutei and Toyota Civic Gallery, JAPAN
Origins & Destinations Traveling: University of Tasmania, AUSTRALIA and Shanghai
Biennale, CHINA
2020 The Art On Paper fair, NYC, in conjunction with Central Booking
Materiality: Hand Papermaking in the Age of Isolation virtual exhibition, North American Hand Papermakers
Currents virtual exhibition, North American Hand Papermakers
Fast Film Festival, Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
2019 Topographies of Life: Pam Rogers, Lynn Sures, Mel Watkin
American University Museum at Katzen Center, Washington, DC
Pulparazzi: Painting with Paper Jamestown Art Center, Jamestown, RI
2018 Fossil Tales - Central Booking Gallery, NYC
Matrices of Making - University of Iowa Gallery, IA
2016 Paper Monument - Central Booking Gallery, NY
Full Circle: Beck Whitehead and the Pulparazzi - Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX
2015 Lynn Sures: CATALUNYA - Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY
New Print Horizons - Central Booking Gallery, presented by Vellum Magazine
Alchemical Vessels - Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, DC
2014 Common Descent - Central Booking Gallery, New York, NY curated by Maddy Rosenberg
Combat Paper: Word Made Flesh - Allegheny College, Meadville, PA
The Nexus of Art and Craft in Paper - Complesso San Benedetto, Fabriano, ITALY
Contemporary Watermarking in Fine Art - Complesso San Benedetto, Fabriano, ITALY
2013 Lynn Sures: This Really is My Thing - Gordon Parks Gallery, Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN
Arte en Papel Amate - Gallery Sindicato de Trabajadores de la Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, MEXICO
Siamo Quel Che Mangiamo: Sustenance and Art - Pirelli Tower, Milan, ITALY
The Art of Jazz - LH Horton Jr. Gallery, San Joaquin Delta College, Stockton, CA
Fabriano 1264, 750 Years of Western Paper:carrying knowledge, spreading culture, connecting people Embassy of Italy, Washington, DC
2012 Lynn Sures: Strange Rocks - Clayworks Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Lynn Sures: De La Tierra - Academia de San Carlos Gallery, UNAM, Mexico City, MEXICO
The Art of Handmade Paper - Sonoma Valley Art Museum, Sonoma, CA
Dichotomies: Nine Artists Explore Pulp and Paper - Convivium 33 Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Regarding the Diversity of Mexican Plants - La Fabrica Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, MEXICO Colossal Paper - Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Watermarks - Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
Premio Acquerello - Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY
2011 Korean International Craft Biennial, Cheongju, KOREA
Fine & Dirty: Contemporary Letterpress Art - Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis
Pulp it up, Break it down; Artists get real - Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2010 Lynn Sures: Navigating Below the Surface - Isik University Gallery, Istanbul, TURKEY
Mind, Body, Spirit - University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD
Cream - WPA at Katzen Museum, American University, Washington, DC
Premio Acquerello - Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY
Music Bo(o)x - 87FLORIDA, Washington, D.C.
Paper Stew - Zig-Zag Gallery, the Plains, VA
2009 Paper Narratives - Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Between the Lines - Artisan Books, Fitzroy, Victoria, AUSTRALIA
A Selection of Handmade Paper Art - Ozu Washi/Oji Paper Museum, Tokyo, JAPAN
Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition - Sanbao, CHINA
The Codex & The Helix: Book Arts Exploring Evolution - Foley Ctr., Gonzaga Univ., WA
Shared Journeys - Level 17 Artspace, Victoria University,, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
New Paper, Old Land - Burnie Regional Art Gallery, Burnie, AUSTRALIA
Tasmania 1:100,000: Mapping the Island - The IXL Atrium, Hobart, AUSTRALIA
Wasser I Zeichen - Kulturburo Bremen Nord, Bremen, GERMANY
“Scythia 7” International Exhibition on Textile Art Kherson, UKRAINE
Sculpture Now 2009 - Washington Square, Washington, DC
Gettysburg Festival - Musselman Library, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
The World of Paper - Wisconsin River Paper Museum in Wisconsin Rapids, WI; traveling to Indianapolis Central Library, Indianapolis, IN
Ink-N-Print - Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Washington D.C.
2008 Blowing in the Wind Paper – lightness - Muzeum Papiernictwa w Dusznikach Zdroju, POLAND
Wasser I Zeichen - Kulturburo Bremen Nord, Bremen, GERMANY
Scythia 7 International Exhibition on Textile Art - Kherson, UKRAINE
Modest in Scale - Abecedarian Gallery, Denver, CO
Reader’s Art 8 - Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2007 Pulp Function - Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA; curator Lloyd Herman
Singular Objects - Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY curator Maddy Rosenberg
Lynn Sures: Frasassi Kunstvault - Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD
Lynn Sures: 1x20 - The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC; curator, Eric Denker Of Paper - Montpelier Cultural Art Center, Laurel, MD
2006 8th International Book Art Festival—TIME - The City Art Gallery, Lodz, POLAND
Paper Road - Oesterreichisches Papiermuseum, Steyrermuhl, AUSTRIA
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Second International Biennial for the Artist’s Book - Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, EGYPT (catalog)
Preciousness of Paper Korean Hanji Festival - Jeon-Buk Cultural Centre, Jeonju City, SOUTH KOREA
Centro d’Arte Minerva, Perugia, ITALY
Plane and Form - curated by Jeff Rathermel, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Bookmarked! - Crockatt & Powell Independent Bookshop, London, ENGLAND 5th National Juried Book Arts Exhibition - Bright Hill Center, MA
Collaboration as a Medium- Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD (catalog)
2005 Lynn Sures: Body Art - Arte Contemporanea Cortona, Fortezza Medicea Girifalco di Cortona, ITALY
Il Corpo Femminile - Fortezza Medicea Girifalco di Cortona, ITALY
Paper Now-2005 - Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan Kyoko Ibe, curator
Collaboration as a Medium - Edison Gallery, Washington, DC (catalog)
Works on Paper - J. Willard Marriott Library, Salt Lake City, UT
Fourth International Triennial - Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts,
Chicago, IL
Guild of Papermakers, Moravian Edition, 2005 - Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA
Paper, Wood and Stone - Sandy Spring Museum, Sandy Spring, MD
Pulp Fiction - Paper Circle, Athens/Nelsonville, OH
2004 Lynn Sures: Architecture - Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Flora - National Botanical Gardens, Washington, DC (catalog)
Heading East - Jeonbuk, Jeujong, KOREA
Innovative Printmaking on Handmade Paper - American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
Matter and Spirit - Wells Book Arts Center, Wells College, Aurora, NY
Art in Embassies - Embassy of Sri Lanka collection for Ambassador Lunstead (catalog)
Paper Cuts: The Art of Contemporary Paper - traveled under Exhibits USA, the national museum
division of Mid America Arts Alliance Blue Heron Gallery, Deer Isle, ME
2003 A World of Paper - Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago, CHILE
Paper Road - Musee International de l’Automobile, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Mini-textile International Exhibition - Kherson, UKRAINE (cd catalog)
American Paper Arts - Crane Museum of Papermaking, Dalton, MA
A Reader’s Art 3 - Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI; curator Susan Hensel
2002 Lynn Sures: Particolari - Gallery K, Washington, DC
Lynn Sures: For Details and Expanses - Foreman Gallery, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY, catalog essay by Joann Moser, Senior Curator, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Paper 2002 Handmade Paper Invitational - Northern Michigan University Art Museum,Marquette, MI; curator John Hubbard
Vecchio Mondo Visto Dal Nuovo - Palazzo Gazzoli, Terni, ITALY
Group exhibition, University of South Dakota Gallery, Vermillion, SD
2001 Repetition - Sandler Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Speaking Volumes - American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
2000 Lynn Sures:Dunes and Hills - Gallery K, Washington, DC
Like a Painting/Like a Book: Innovative Paper - Russell Hill Rogers Exhibition Gallery, Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX; curator Beck Whitehead, (catalog)
Peter Sowiski and Lynn Sures: On the Pole - WB Hartsfield Airport, Atlanta, GA
Paper Road - Santa Maria della Scala Museum, Siena, ITALY
1999 Lynn Sures:White Sands - American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
Book Art: Techniques and Personal Visions - Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA; curator Barbara
Lynn Morris
Council Room: the Artist Heraldry Show - McLean Project for the Arts, Emerson Gallery, McLean,
VA; curator Andrea Pollan
Sense of Place: 1999 Works by Contemporary Maryland Artists - Government House, Annapolis, MD
1997 Vintage 1997: Paper in the Sonoma Valley - Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA; juror John Babcock
Consider the Tomato - Ripley, TN; curator Dolph Smith
1996 Lynn Sures: Places - Ameen Gallery, Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, LA
Artscape ‘96 - Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD; juror Fred Wilson
National Paper Invitational - Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; curator Ted Ramsey
1995 Lynn Sures: Places - Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Mapping: A New Millenium - invitational installation, Donna Koretsky/ Lynn Sures Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN
1993 Lynn Sures: Landscapes Caught in Time - Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, DC
Paperworks - Westbrook Gallery, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
Lynn Sures: Landscapes - Arnold and Porter, Washington, DC
1992 Postcards-Then & Now - Brody's Gallery, Washington, DC
1991 Progressions in Paper - The Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Athens, OH;
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (catalog)
1989 Lynn Sures: At the Beginning of the World - Addison/Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
1988 Maryland Invitational 1988 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, curator David Ryan (catalog) (traveling)
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
AARP, Washington, DC
Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano, ITALY
Amagansett Applied Arts, Amagansett, NY
American Express, Wilmington, DE
American Museum of Papermaking, Atlanta, GA
Arizona State University, Library, Tempe, AZ
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, EGYPT
Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris, FRANCE
The Banff Centre, Banff, CANADA
Cerritos Library, Cerritos, CA
The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Crane Museum of Papermaking, Dalton, MA
Department of State of the United States of America
Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI
Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY
The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Florida State University
George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
Il Bisonte International Graphics Studio, Florence, ITALY
Isik University, Istanbul, TURKEY
Kami No Ondo, Nagoya, JAPAN
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Museo della Carta, Amalfi, ITALY
Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy
Nashua Paper Company
National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC
National Library of New Zealand, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
Ohio University, Alden Library, Athens, OH
Rhode Island School of Design, Library, Providence, RI
Sallie Mae Corporation, Washington, DC
Smith College, Mortimer Rare Book Library, Northampton, MA
University of Denver, CO
University of Tennessee, Library, Knoxville, TN
Yale University, Library, New Haven, CT
AWARDS - RESIDENCIES
2022 Research Associate, Drawing, Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC since 2018
2021 Artist Residency at Press at the Palace of the Governors, Santa Fe, NM printing the book La Mano dell’Uomo/The Human Hand by Bruno Caruso, handmade artist book by Thomas Leech and Lynn Sures published by the Press
2019 Artist Residency at Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, ITALY designing and papermaking for the book La Mano dell’Uomo/The Human Hand by Bruno Caruso, handmade artist book by Thomas Leech and Lynn Sures
2018 Artist Residency at Carriage House Paper, Brooklyn, NY, pulp painting for the series Portraits of the Anthropocene
2017 Artist Residency at Olorgesailie, Kenya prehistoric research and excavation site
2015 Artist Residency at Museu Molí Paperer de Capellades, Capellades, SPAIN
Artist Residency at l’Accademia delle arti Cartarie, Fabriano, ITALY
2013 Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle, ME “New Works” Residency (also resident in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012)
2013 Recipient of Faculty development awards 2013 (“Contemporary Blacksmithing” course, Penland, NC), 2012 (Exhibitions and IAPMA Conference in Cleveland, OH), 2012 (Panel Chair CBAA Conference San Francisco,CA), 2011 (Demonstrator SGCI Conference St. Louis, MO, and Panel Chair CBAA Conference Indiana), 2010 (TURKEY exhibition shipping); 2009 (USA conference); 2008 (Italy research and symposium); 2007 (Print residency with Hand Print Workshop International); 2005 (Japan symposium); 2004 (Japan research); 2001 (Italy symposium); 2000 (Italy conference); 1998 (USA conference); 1996 (USA conference), Corcoran College of Art & Design, Washington, DC
2012 Corcoran/Pittman resident artist, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
2011 Penland Artist/Educators’ Retreat, Penland, NC
2010 Creative Projects Grant FY11, Arts and Humanities Council, Montgomery County, MD for residency at Baltimore Clayworks, Baltimore, MD
2009 Creative Projects Grant FY09, Arts and Humanities Council, Montgomery County, MD for residency at Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
2008 Individual Artist Award in Visual Arts, Maryland State Arts Council
2008 Creative Projects Grant FY08, Arts and Humanities Council, Montgomery County, MD for residency at Hand Print Workshop International, Alexandria, VA
2006 George Sugarman Foundation Grant funding for travel to Fabriano, Italy Museo della Carta e della Filigrana, Fabriano, Italy, Pulp Painting Residency
2004 Wells College, Aurora, NY, Wells Book Arts Center Residency
Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, MD, Papermaking Residency
2000 Recipient, Best in Show, “Paper in the Millenium”, Georgia Tech U., Atlanta, GA. Jo Anne Paschall and Martha Connell, jurors
1998 University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Green Street Printmaking Studio Residency
1991 Individual Visual Artist Grant, Maryland State Arts Council
1987 Grant in Aid, Maryland State Arts Council