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2000
MFA, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
1997
BFA, Millikin University, Decatur, IL
2009
KwaZulu-Natal Series. Jack Heath Gallery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2008
Tract: New Work by Michael Wille. Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
2006
Michael Wille. Epping Gallery, McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, IL.
2004
Recent Prints and Paintings: Michael Wille and Sarah Smelser. Oesterle Gallery, North Central College, Naperville, IL.
2003
Duality: Michael Wille and Brandon Reese. Rike Center Art Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH.
2002
New Paintings. O’Connor Gallery of Art, Dominican University, River Forest, IL.
2001
Bridges: Michael Wille and Brandon Reese. City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, OK.
The Bowling Green Series. City Arts Venue, Springfield, IL.
Tactile Abstractions: Michael Wille and Jillian Unger. A Hunger Artist Gallery, Albuquerque, NM.
2000
The Bowling Green Series. ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL.
Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.
1999
The Bowling Green Series. University Center Gallery, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL.
2009
Disasters (Michael Wille, Vulindlela Nyoni and Angel Haro). Resolution Gallery of Digital Art, Johannesburg, South Africa. Curator: Ricardo Fornoni.
Illinois. Mclean Country Arts Center, Bloomington, IL.
EXPOSED. ArtWorks Gallery, Cincinnati, OH.
Touch Faith. Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH. Curator: Jeffrey Cortland Jones.
Selections from the Permanent Collection. Jack Heath Gallery, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
2008
Make, Shift, Home. Space Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA. Curators: Mario Marzan and Sharmila Venkatasubban
Faculty Biennial. Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL Curator: Barry Blinderman, Director of University Galleries, Normal, IL
Considerable. Studio O - ArtStreet. University of Dayton, Dayton, OH. Curator: Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Considerable. Green Light Art Project, Philadelphia, PA. Curator: Jeffrey Cortland Jones
2007
Mapping the Terrain: New Directions in Abstract Painting. Southeastern Louisiana University Contemporary Art Gallery, Hammond, LA. Curator: Dale Newkirk, Gallery Director.
Pattern and Decoration. University Gallery, Morehead State University, Morehead, KY. Curator: Jennifer Reis, Gallery Director.
Holiday Group Show. Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO.
…and I am blue… Artist Invitational Exhibition. McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL. Curator: Alison Hatcher, MCAC Curator
Secrets 2007: Invitational. Artworks Gallery. Cincinnati, OH
Without Like or As: Painting and Poetics. Illinois State University Galleries (Gallery 2), Normal, IL Curator: Benjamin Gardner
All Media. Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL. Curator: Chuck Gniech, Exhibitions Curator
New American Talent: The Twenty-Second Exhibition. ArtHouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. Del Rio Council for the Arts at the Firehouse Gallery, Del Rio, TX. TexasJuror: Anne Ellegood, Associate Curator at the Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.
2006
Reveal / Conceal: Michael Wille, Seth Rouser and Rachel White. ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC.
Summertime. Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL.
New American Paintings (Midwest Edition): Juried Exhibition in Print No. 65. Juror: Carl Belz, Director Emeritus, Rose Museum of Brandeis University.
Boston Drawing Project. Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA. Curator: Joseph Carroll.
Here and Abroad: 5th Annual Art International. Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
Jazz: Michael Wille, Jason Shelby and Rob Davis. Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL. Curator: John Fraser.
Teacher as Mentor. Curator: Alison Hatcher, MCAC Curator.
McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL.
Decatur Arts Council, Decatur, IL.
2005
Mighty Midwest Biennial III. New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI.
Leading Lights: A BGSU Art Alumni Invitational Exhibition. Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Curator: Jacqueline Nathan, Gallery Director
The Modern Landscape: An Illinois Artist Invitational. Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL.
It’s A Small World. Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA.
New Art ’05: Reason and Squalor. Kingston Gallery, Boston, MA. Juror: Laura Heon, Curator, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.
Dorothy’s Red Slippers. McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL. Curator: Alison Hatcher, MCAC Curator
House of Cards. An Exhibition of the Emerging Art of Artist Trading Cards, The Columbus Center for the Paper and Book Arts, Columbus, OH.
Faculty Biennial. Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL Curator: Barry Blinderman, Director of University Galleries, Normal, IL
2004
Matt Wenc, Julie Vari, and Michael Wille. The 34th Annual Pilsen Artist Open House, Chicago, IL
Faculty Drawing. Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL
2003
So Square. McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL.
New American Paintings (Midwest Edition): Juried Exhibition in Print No. 47. Juror: Staci Boris, Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Faculty Biennial. Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL Curator: Barry Blinderman, Director of University Galleries, Normal, IL
2002
A Good Look. Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL.
New Faculty Exhibition. Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, IL.
20th Annual National Small Works Exhibition, Schoharie County Arts Center, Cobleskill, NY. Juror: Moira Kelly, Director, Air Gallery, London, England
Present
Resolution Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Hoffman LaChance Contemporary, St. Louis, MO
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (works on consignment within the Boston Drawing Project)
Soho Myriad, Atlanta, GA (works on consignment) and Los Angeles, CA
US Artist’s Exhibition. The Witness (Entertainment p. 14) Durban, South Africa. 2/26/09
New American Talent 22. Page 48 (work featured). ArtHouse, Austin, TX 2007.
"A Day in the Life of a Ragdale Artist". Michael Wille. www.ragdale.blogspot.com 7/07.
Artspace in Raleigh, NC Offers Three New Exhibits to End 2006, Carolina Arts: A Publication Covering The Arts In The Carolinas. 12/06.
New American Paintings Volume 65. (works featured). The Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA. 8/06.
Quality of ‘Inter/National” exhibit illustrates gallery’s momentum. Kurt Shaw, Tribune-Review Art Critic / Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Pittsburgh, PA 1/15/06.
Mighty Midwest Biennial III. Page 25 (work featured). New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI 2005.
6 O’Clock News. “Local Artist From ISU Getting Some National Attention” WMBD-TV (CBS) Host: Lisa Miller. Peoria, IL, 3/24/04.
Jazz Impressionists (CD front, back cover images and interior booklet of images) Starbucks Coffee, Sony Music Special Projects. 2004.
New American Paintings Volume 47. Pages 154-157 (works featured). The Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA. 8/03.
Abstract Details, Abstract Forms, Pamela Dillon and Carol Simmons / Dayton Daily News. (Entertainment C2) Dayton, OH 1/12/03.
Changing the Real Into the Abstract, Jennifer Berg / Forest Leaves. (Diversions B12) River Forest, IL 9/25/02.
New American Paintings Volume 29. Pages 170-173 (works featured). The Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA 8/00.
2009
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
One-month Visiting Professor, Visiting Artist
2007
The Ora Lerman Charitable Trust Artist Residency at Soaring Gardens (Summer Residency), Laceyville, PA
2006
Ragdale Foundation (Summer Residency), Lake Forest, IL
2005
Ragdale Foundation (Summer Residency), Lake Forest, IL
2009
Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Artist Talk in conjunction with Special Topics class “Space and Place”
University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
(1) Artist Talk
(2) Topics in International Curricula in Painting
2008
The 7th Biennial Thomas R. Watson Conference in Rhetoric and Composition, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY.
Conference Title: “The New Work of Composing” Session Title: Collaborative Teaching: Across Disciplinary Borders. Co-presenter of "Once Removed, Twice Removed” with Weston Cutter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
2007
North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA.
Conference Title: “Beyond Other Boundaries: Sport within/against/across Borders.” Panel Title: “Sporting Spaces”. Co-presenter of "Crossing Boundaries: How Art and Sociology Interface at Jacobs Field" with Dr. Timothy Jurkovac, Associate Professor, Firelands College, OH
Temple University in Japan, Tokyo, Japan
Visiting Artist Lecturer in conjunction with Tyler School of Art Summer Workshop: Drawing
Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Artist Talk in conjunction with "Mapping The Terrain: New Directions in Abstract Painting"
Morehead State University, Morehead, KY
Artist Talk in conjunction with "Pattern and Decoration"
2005
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
Visiting Artist Lecturer (including graduate and undergraduate individual critiques)
Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
Visiting Artist Lecturer (including graduate and undergraduate individual critiques)
2003
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Artist Talk in conjunction with " Duality: Michael Wille and Brandon Reese"
State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Visiting Artist and Lecturer (including graduate and undergraduate individual critiques)
2002
Dominican University, River Forest, IL
Artist Talk in conjunction with "New Paintings"
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Artist Talk
2001
Millikin University, Decatur, IL
Visiting Artist Lecturer
Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY
Visiting Artist Lecturer
1999
The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
Visiting Artist Lecture in conjunction with "The Bowling Green Series"
Collection of Avalere Health LLC, Washington, DC
Collection of Vinson & Elkins LLP, Houston, TX
The Collection of author P.J. O’Rourke, Seattle, WA
Benzinger Family Winery, LLC Collection, Glen Ellen, CA
Mathis Brothers Furniture Company Corporate Collection, Oklahoma City, OK
Collection of the Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA
Collection of The Renaissance Suites Hotel, Chicago, IL
Collection of The Reach Hotel, Key West, FL
Collection of The Palomar Hotel, Dallas, TX
Collection of Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, LA
Collection of Normal Editions Workshop, Illinois State University, Normal, IL
Collection of Crown Plaza Times Square, New York, NY
Collection of Hilton Miami Downtown, Miami, FL
Collection of Orlando Hilton, Orlando, FL
Public Collection of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA: Project to make a suite of six 8" x 8" paintings for the Collection of the Four Seasons Hotel, Boston, MA through Soho Myriad in Atlanta
The Renaissance Suites Hotel, Chicago, IL: Project to make a 18" x 14" painting for the Collection of the Renaissance Suites Hotel, Chicago, IL through Soho Myriad in Atlanta
The Reach Hotel, Key West, FL: Project to make three paintings (each 56" x 21") for the Collection of The Reach Hotel in Key West, FL through Soho Myriad in Atlanta
Crown Plaza Times Square, New York, NY: Project to make two paintings (each 44" x 56") for the Collection of The Crown Plaza Hotel through Soho Myriad in Atlanta
Hilton Miami Downtown, Miami, FL: Project to make a painting (36" x 42") for the Collection of The Hilton in Miami, FL.
Benzinger Family Winery, LLC, Glen Ellen, CA:
Project to make a painting for permanent collection and usage on label for wine bottle.
Orlando Hilton, Orlando, FL: Project to make a painting (60" x 60") for the Collection of the Orlando Hilton through Soho Myriad in Los Angeles.
2008 - present
Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Associate Professor of Art
2002-2008
Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Assistant Professor of Art
2001-2002
Illinois State University, Normal, IL. Assistant Instructional Professor of Art
2000-2001
Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. Full-time Instructor of Art
1998
St. Anthony's School, Zuni, NM. 3rd Grade Teacher and 8Th Grade Art Teacher
