CV JAMIE PANZER

EXHIBITIONS

Solo
2016

If Love Is The Answer, What Is The Question? Big Medium, Austin, Texas
2012 

Bullshit Detector. Co-Lab, Austin, TX
2011

You See… Thing Is… Big Medium, Austin, TX


1998
H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore MD
1995 - Gallery M, Baltimore MD



Group
2013

Of A Technological Nature, Austin Museum Of Art, Laguna Gloria, Austin, TX


2012

More Awkward Than Heavy, Ink Tank Labs, Austin, TX

Art From The Ashes, Austin, TX

ABB Gallery Photography Exhibition, Austin, TX


2011

E.A.S.T. Selections, Big Medium, Austin, TX

Landgrabber, Pump Project, Austin,
TX
Monsters, Domy Books, Austin, TX

Art Outside Festival of the Arts, Apache Pass, Texas

Mini Show, Birdhouse Gallery, Austin, TX


2010

88, Domy Books & OK Mountain, Austin, TX

The Soladitas Walks, Big Medium, Austin, TX

Stations of the Cross, Pump Project, Austin, TX


2009

Texas Biennial, Austin TX


2008

Yard Dog Gallery, Marfa TX


1996

Unclassified MICA

Hostile Witness: Taking the Methods of Media and Surveillance Into Your Own Hands
. WPA, Washington DC


1995

School 33 Art Center, Baltimore MD


1993

MFA Thesis Exhibit, The University of Texas @ Austin, Austin TX


1992

I Heart Art Foster-Freeman Gallery, San Antonio TX
1991
Beyond Photography. Juried exhibition organized by the Texas Fine Arts Association

Mystery and Intrigue Juried exhibition, Dallas TX
Peoples Art Store, Galveston TX

Mexi-Carte Museum, Austin TX

Pals of PrinciPal, Commerce Street Co-op, Houston TX


1981

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh PA
 
EDUCATION
1993 - MFA The University of Texas @ Austin, Austin TX


1989-90 - Maryland Institute College of Art, Mount Royal School, Baltimore MD


19887-89 - The University of Texas @ Austin, non-degree program, Austin TX


1980-84 - BFA Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA




AWARDS
2012
AVAA nomination- Artist of the Year

http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-31-12-11-03-2012-austin-visual-arts-awards-finalists-announced

2011
Austin Chronicle: Best Solo Art Exhibit

http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2012-01-06/top-10-arts-events-of-2011-in-no-particular-order


1992
Merit Scholarship Award, The University of Texas @ Austin

1991
University
Travel Grant, Participate/Document Christo's Umbrella Project, Hitachi, Japan

University Travel Grant, Participate In Chinati Foundation Program/Seminar, Marfa, TX

Jurors Merit Award Beyond Photography, Texas Fine Arts Association

Merit Scholarship Award, The University of Texas @ Austin


1990

First Place, Allen Ginsberg Annual Poetry Contest, Baltimore MD

Bio
Jamie Panzer was born in New York, New York, reared in Silver Spring, Maryland,
and currently lives and works in Austin, Texas. He attended Old Dominion University
on a Soccer Scholarship, transferred to Carnegie-Mellon University to earn a BFA in
Art and Graphic Design, and then moved to Austin. He attended the Maryland Institute,
College of Art as a Graduate candidate for a year but returned to Austin to complete his
degree from The University of Texas at Austin as the first in the newly inaugurated
Transmedia Program in 1993. He then relocated to Baltimore to assume a position as
Assistant Director of Exhibitions at MICA and soon after became Art Director at an
interactive advertising agency in New York. He has exhibited in Pittsburgh, New York,
Austin, Houston, Dallas, Baltimore, Washington, DC, San Antonio and Los Angeles.
Panzer has shown extensively in Austin since his return to Texas. This will be his
second solo exhibition at Big Medium.
Artist's Statement

In my cross-disciplinary practice I scheme to reveal what is often hidden in plain sight,
using any and all means at my disposal to capitalize on what others have discarded,
taken for granted or are indifferent to. Materials are recycled based on how they appear
to resemble something else. For instance—the way a stick mimics a sword or magic wand.

I set about conjoining and manipulating them to create a newly contextualized ensemble.
I want to transform the overlooked into something novel, something of intrigue, humor
and or morbid curiosity.
 
The aim is to raise eyebrows—playing mischief with routine
convention—by presenting new things that are perceived to oscillate between
the familiar and illusion. This paradox lies at the core of my work and illuminates
allegorical possibilities specific to each project. This has been a consistent motif
throughout the arc of my creative development.