PROJECTS/INITIATIVES

2021-2022 Free the Deeds public art installation, various locations across Minneapolis, MN

2020 Central Area Graphic Arts Collective Dreamsland-Minneapolis, MN

2018 Returning the River Molly Van Avery, Mike Hoyt, Dameun Strange – Illuminate the Lock NorthernLights.MN, Mississippi Park Connection, Mississippi National River & Recreation Area
2016-2017 Imagining Equity – Molly Van Avery & Mike Hoyt – Commission for the City of Minneapolis Department of Community Planning and Economic Development
2015-present Dreamsland

2015 Art Blocks – Pillsbury House Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
2014 Weinland Park Story Book – Wexner Center for the Arts – Columbus, OH
2013 VI IKKE TYGGE GUMMI PAA – Potluck Supper With Projects To Follow – Works Progress/Coffee House Press – Minneapolis North High School

2013 Wish Well – Arts on Chicago – Pillsbury House & Theatre – Minneapolis, MN
2013 – 2019 One Another

2012 Rolling Revelry Sooline Serenade
2005-2019 Norae Shanty

2000 Fire & Ice Garden – Rice Park – St. Paul, MN

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 Wanderstar – Public Functionary – Minneapolis, MN

2021 To Hold The Land – Furlong Gallery – UW Stout, WI 

2020 Portray: Contemporary Portraiture in Minnesota – Anderson Center-Red Wing, MN

2019 Mississippi. An Anthropocene River –St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam – Minneapolis, MN

2019 Continuum: McKnight Visual Artists Fellows 2014–2018 – MCAD Gallery – Minneapolis, MN

2019 Culture of Health Expressions – Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Indianapolis, IN

2018 A River and Longing – Third Place Gallery – Minneapolis, MN

2016 Mike Hoyt & Wing Young Huie – Asian Arts Initiative – Philadelphia, PA
2015 Shoe String Theory – Popup369 – St. Paul, MN
2014 Metatranslations – American Swedish Institute & Coffee House Press – Minneapolis, MN
2013 Objects from Community Engaged Art– Third Place Gallery – Minneapolis, MN
2013 Jerome Emerging Artists Exhibition – MCAD Gallery – Minneapolis, MN
2013 554CHANGE – Intermedia Arts – Minneapolis, MN
2012 Love Is Love – Intermedia Arts – Minneapolis, MN
2012 Artists On the Verge 3 – Northern Lights MN – Soap Factory – Minneapolis, MN
2011 Franconia Sculpture Park-Franconia, MN
2009 Slow News International – The Arts At Marks Garage – Honolulu, HI
2009-2011 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition University Hawaii Art Gallery – Honolulu, HI, 2008 ArtWise: 15 Years of Kulture Klub Collaborative – Soo Visual Arts Center – Minneapolis, MN
2005-2009 Art Shanty Projects – Medicine Lake – Plymouth, MN
2008 Norae Shanty – Walker Art Center Sculpture Garden – Minneapolis, MN
2008 Norae Shanty Hawaii (traveling) The Arts at Marks Garage – Honolulu, HI, Fort Street Market –

Honolulu, HI, Kapiolani Community College – Honolulu, HI, Halau Ku Mana Native Hawai’ian middle school, HI, University Hawai’i Manoa
2008 Solo exhibit – Kopp Center Gallery – Normandale College – Bloomington, MN
2008 The Common Room – The Soap Factory – Minneapolis, MN
2008 The UnConvention – Northern Lights – Peavey Plaza – Minneapolis, MN
2006 Karaoke Battle- Walker Art Center – Minneapolis, MN 2007 Festival of Appropriation MNArtists.org/Soap Factory – Minneapolis, MN
2005 Meantime – solo exhibition – Olin Galleries – Roanoke College, VA
2005-2007 Version Festival – Zhou Brothers Center – Chicago, IL
2007 Layers: an exploration of race and identity – Minneapolis Foundation, MN
2003 Comfort Food -Soo Visual Arts Center-Minneapolis, MN
2003 Where You From? -Banfill Lock – Fridley, MN
2001 The Deal – NoName Exhibitions/Red Eye Collaborative Minneapolis, MN
1998 Theatre Of Wonder – 25 years In The Heart Of The Beast – Weisman Museum-Minneapolis, MN
1998 Ten– NoName Exhibitions at the Soap Factory – Minneapolis, MN
1996 Civic Responsibility – Katherine Nash Gallery – Minneapolis, MN
1996 Identities, Symbols and Icons – Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN
1995 Diversity Art Works– Hennepin County Government Center – Minneapolis, MN

1995 Solo show – Traditions Gallery; Allina Foundation – Minnetonka, MN

 

RESIDENCIES
2023 Lanesboro Arts, Lanesboro, MN

2017 Kultur Stadt:Salzburg, Salsburg, Austria
2016 Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Intersections Visiting Artist and Scholar Program, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
2004 Visiting Artist Exhibition Program – Roanoke College, VA
2003 NoName Exhibitions Studio Program
2001 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary, 4 week Artist In Residence
1998 Kulture Klub Collaborative, Artist In Residence

 

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2020 Minnesota State Arts Board – Cultural Community Partnership Grant

2019 Returning the River selected by Americans for the Arts Public Art Network Award

2017-2020 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation – Culture of Health Leader
2016-2017 City of Minneapolis – public art commission
2015 CURA Artist Neighborhood Partnership Initiative
2014 McKnight Visual Artist Fellowship
2014 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant
2012/13 Jerome Foundation Emerging Artists fellowship
2011 Northern Lights – Artist On the Verge Fellowship
2011 Minnesota State Arts Board – Cultural Community Partnership
2001 Blacklock Nature Sanctuary – Jerome Fellowship
1998 Minnesota State Arts Board – Cultural Collaborations Grant

 

PUBLICATIONS

2022 Hanabata Days – A graphic memoir

2018 A River and Longing

2014 Weinland Park Story Book Wexner Center for the Arts

 

EDUCATION
1994 Minneapolis College of Art & Design, BFA