| Selected Exhibitions |
2009 |
Curator - Landscape & Memory, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan
20/20 Vision, Second Edition, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, Georgia
The Distance of Horizon,Duderstadt Video Studio, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (Solo)
Terra Incognita, Five MFA Thesis Exhibitions, Wild(t) Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI |
2008 |
Curator - Place.Mark, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Informal, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
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2007 |
Do You Live Here?, Act Station, Hikone, Japan
Waiting for Translation, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
My Private Utopia, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
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2006 |
Remnants of Passage, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
Omaha Film Festival, Omaha, NE (Best Nebraska Short Award)
Norfolk Arts Center Film Festival, Norfolk, NE |
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2005 |
The Director’s Cut, New York, NY
Semi-Finalist, Angelus Awards Student Film Festival, Hollywood, CA
NextFrame: UFVA’s Touring Festival of International Student Film & Video, Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
Arizona State University Art Museum Short Film Festival, Tempe, AZ
The Visual Short Film Festival, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium, Lincoln, NE
Catherine Meier – From The Plain, Rotunda Gallery, Lincoln, NE (Solo)
A Time To Speak, Lux Center for the Arts, Lincoln, NE (Solo) |
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2004 |
17th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Culture-Fluid, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, SC
Mid-America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition, MAPC Print Conference
The Show 2004, Jackson Artworks, Omaha, NE (Bronze Award, AIGA – Nebraska, Student Category)
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| Grants and Fellowships |
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship for Graduate Study, Awarded by the United States Department of Education, 2006-09
Rackham Thesis Research Grant for travel and research in Mongolia, Rackham Graduate School, University of Michigan, 2007
Southern Graphics Council Undergraduate Student Fellowship, 2005
Hixson-Lied Endowment Undergraduate Creative Research Grant, 2005
UCARE (Undergraduate Creative Activities and Research Experiences) Grant, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Two-year funded program, 2002-04 |
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| Field Studies and International Programs |
Taipei Drift, International Workshop for Art Academies, Taipei, Taiwan, 2008
Individually selected to represent the University of Michigan School of Art & Design. Workshop focused on art as community intervention in the city of Taipei. Worked collaboratively with students from Australia, Finland, Israel, and Czech Republic.
Bio-Regions Expedition, Darhad Valley, Mongolia, May – June, 2008
Joined Professor Cliff Montagne and BioRegions NGO, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT. NGO conducted projects to build ecological profile of Bagh One, Darhad Valley, and sponsored annual Blue Valley artist awards program to promote and encourage traditional arts. Undertook additional individual travel for thesis research to Menengiyn Tal (flat steppe), Eastern Mongolia.
Field Study in the North Dakota Badlands and Great Plains highways, August 2008
For comparative study of Mongolian Steppe and U.S. Great Plains.
International Experience – University of Michigan School of Art & Design, May – June, 2007
Based in Hikone, Japan, with extensive travel to Tokyo, Kyoto, Naoshima, Kanazawa, and small villages. Worked with Japanese artists, interacted with residents of senior citizen’s homes, university faculty, shop owners, and rice farmers.
Study Abroad, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Florence, Italy, June 2005
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Having recently completed a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Michigan, Catherine Meier started her formal art training after an illustrious career as a truck driver, hauling cattle throughout the entire Great Plains region of the United States. A native of Nebraska, Catherine received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. Her work as an artist seeks to visualize the interplay between interior thought and exterior landscape, and to illuminate the experience of existing in vast space. Catherine recently traveled to Mongolia, a land geographically similar to the Great Plains, but completely different in culture and structure. Through her own displacement in a familiar yet foreign landscape she further explored the relationship between interior and exterior terrain. Her experience, ideas, and understanding of landscape and perception are realized through large-scale prints, drawings, and animation. Catherine is the recipient of the national Jacob K. Javits fellowship for graduate study.