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Michael Kroetch

Select Solo Exhibitions / Installations

 

2019    Alex Gallery, Dupont Circle,    Washington, DC  (neo-fresco)

 

2018   Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA  (neo-fresco)

 

2017   Momentum Worldwide Gallery [Kunstquartier Bethanien], Berlin, Germany (photo)

 

2011    Anne Pincus Gallery, Munich, Germany  (photo / performance art)

 

2011    The Readery, Munich, Germany  (performance art)

 

2010    Westend Gallery, Munich, Germany  (neo-fresco)

 

2007    Opus6ix Gallery, Eugene, OR  (neo-fresco)

 

1993    Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR (video / performance art / poetry)

 

1993    New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR

 (video / performance art / poetry)

 

1992    Alphabet Gallery, New York, NY  

(video)

 

1989    New Zone Gallery, Eugene, OR  (performance art / poetry)

 

1988    Aperture Gallery, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, OR  (photo-collage)

 

1987    Warehouse Gallery, Eugene, OR (sculpture installation /performance art / poetry)

 

1986    Gallery 141, Univ. Oregon, Eugene, OR  (photo / performance art)

Select Group Exhibitions / Installations

 

2018    Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center, Lorton, VA  (neo-fresco)

 

2018    One Love Exhibition, Manassas, VA  (neo-fresco)

 

2015    Kreuzberg Attic & Atelier, Berlin,

Germany  (photo / performance art)

 

2013    The Underneath Space, Berlin, Germany   (photo / performance art)

 

2006    Pike Gallery, Camus WA  (neo-fresco)

 

2006    Hope Abbey, Eugene, OR  (neo-fresco)

 

2003    Tsunami Gallery, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco / performance art / poetry)

 

1996    Clearwaters, Eugene, OR (neo-fresco / photo / performance art)

 

1994    American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)

 

1993    American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)

 

1992    American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (video)

 

1992    Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA (video)

 

1992    Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR (video)

 

1991    Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle, WA  (video)

 

1991    Director’s Guild, Los Angeles,  CA  (video)

 

1991    American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA  (video)

1991    Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA (video)

 

1990    Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (video)

 

Awards / Grants

 

2020    Washington Awards Program: Alex Gallery named DC’s Best Gallery of 2019

 

2018    Arches Gallery, The Workhouse Art Center: 1st Place People’s Choice Award:

                 May (Alte)

                 Oct (Fynshav)

                 Nov (Everything Is Illuminated)

                 Dec (Everything Is Illuminated)

 

1994    Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (Terminator Dog)

 

1993    Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (The Car Dreams, Part 2)

 

1992    Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (The Car Dreams, Part 1)

 

1991    Sony Corporation: Best Short Video (This is Not a Condom)

 

1991    Oregon Arts Commission: Film/Video Fellowship (Is it Love if it has no Eyes?)

 

1991    Lane Art Council: City of Eugene Art Grant (Is it Love if it has no Eyes?)

 

1990    American Film Insitute: World’s Top 20 Art Videos (This is Not a Condom)

 

1989    Nat Horne Theatre, NY: Year’s Best Short Plays (Rudolf)

 

1989    Red Octopus Theatre, Newport, OR: National Best Play Contest (Postman)  

 

Select Art Publications

 

2020    Lance Olsen’s newest novel My Red Heaven (Dzanc Press)  8 images from Kroetch’s The Lost Worlds of Berlin

2019   “Ceremony” featured in Washington Post review of Kroetch’s Alex Gallery Solo Exhibition         

 

2019   Art Historian Florie Gilbard’s Essay, There’s A Crack In Everything,

                 Featured in Alex Gallery’s full-color 34-page Catalog, Michael Kroetch

 

1992    “This is Not a Condom” video still image featured on cover of Oregon Art

                 Commission’s Annual Bulletin

 

 

 

Select Literary Publications

 

2007      2Grlz  “The Big Wave” (illustrated

online prose / fiction)

 

2006      Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 3 “Science Fiction” (excerpt from The Cousin Stories)

 

2003      Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 2  “The End” (short fiction)

 

2002      Northwest Review “The Bodguard” (novel excerpt)

 

2001      Northwest Edge Fiction, Book 1  “Misery” (illustrated fiction)

 

2001      University of Oregon Campus: Then & Now, 125 Years

 

2000      Eugene 1945-2000: Decisions That Made A Community 

        “Making the Arts Matter,” (historical article)

 

1997      Two Girls Review “The End of All That” (story)  

 

1996      Stringtown   “The String People” (story)

 

1992      Two Girls Review “The Car Dreams” (100 short fictions)

 

1988      Timberline “Confirmation”  (short story)

 

 

Select Theatrical Productions

 

1996    The Shadow Zone, Eugene, OR   (Wild Kingdom)

 

1993    KQGN Public Access Television, Eugene, OR   (Stage Fright)

 

1993    Portland Mercury Stage, Portland, OR 

(Mr. Toad Goes to War)

 

1992    5th Street Public Market, Eugene, OR  (The Car Dreams)

 

1989    Nat Horne Theatre, NY, NY (Rudolf)

 

1989    Blackbox Theater, Eugene, OR (Sometimes The Postman Don’t Ring At All)

 

 

Residencies

2021  Pushkinskaya 10 Art Residency:

Saint Petersburg, Russia

2013  Davidovich Art Residency:

Prague, Czech Republic

 

1989  Sylvia Beech Playwright Residency: Newport, Oregon

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