VITAE
CAROL BIVINS
Denver, CO
Art Education:
University of New Mexico 2010-2012
Workshops: Margi Weir, Lauren Mantecon, Nicholas Wilton
Private Study: Leslie Ayers, Natalie Voelker
Solo Exhibitions
2025 solo exhibition, Carol Bivins : Paintings on Paper, RPO Gallery, Denver, CO
2024 solo exhibition, City O' City, Denver, CO
2024 solo exhibition, Rhythym and Repetition: The Palimpsest Paintings, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2023 solo exhibition, Back in Black, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO
2023 solo exhibition, Colorphrenia, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2021 solo exhibition, Ten : Works on Paper, The Annex, Denver, CO
2017 solo exhibition, Gang of Seven, Zendo Artspace, Albuquerque, NM
Selected Group and Juried Exhibitions
2026 juried exhibition, Red, White and Blue, CORE New Art Space, Lakewood, CO
2026 group exhibition, Between Rhythm and Shape, 360 Gallery, Denver, CO
2026 group exhibition, 4 Play, Black Book Gallery, Englewood, CO
2026 juried exhibition, 63rd Annual Juried Competition, Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
2026 invitational charity auction, ARTMA, Centennial, CO
2025 invitational exhibition, Living Tradition: Past. Present. Future.Colorado Women Artists, The Capitol
Building, Denver, CO, sponsored by the WCACO
2025 group exhibition, Between Here and There, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO
2025 juried exhibition, Lone Tree Arts Expo - 2025, Lone Tree Arts Center, Lone Tree, CO
2025 juried exhibition, New York, I Love You, Agora Gallery, NYC
2025 juried exhibition, Drawing Resistance, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2024 group exhibition, Expanded Horizons, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO
2024 juried exhibition, Seed, BRDG Project Gallery, Denver, CO
2024 juried exhibition, On Edge 2024, Edge Gallery, Lakewood, CO
2024 juried exhibition, 40th Annual Best of Colorado, Depot Art Gallery, Littleton, CO
2024 juried exhibition online, Monochrome Explored, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2024 juried exhibition, Art in B &W 24, 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO
2024 juried exhibition, Explorations in Monochromatic Art, Benicia Arts Center, Benicia, CA
2024 juried exhibition, Emerald: Celebrating 20 Years In The Arts, Webster Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
2024 juried exhibition, BLACK, WHITE or GRAY, 2024, Las Lagunas Art Gallery, Las Lagunas, CA
2023 juried exhibition, 10th Annual Living Mark, Verum Ultimatum Gallery, Portland, OR
2023 juried exhibition, Lone Tree Art Expo, Lone Tree Art Center, Lone Tree, CO
2023 invitational fundraiser, One Square Foot, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2023 group exhibition, Yellow, Artist Space Gallery, Online Exhibition
2023 juried exhibition, Co-Curator and Exhibitor, Taking Up Space, Curtis Center for the Arts,
Greenwood Village, CO / Jurors: Autumn T. Thomas, artist and Genevieve Waller, founder of
DARIA Magazine
2023 group exhibition, Essentially D'art, Fourth Anniversary Exhibition, D'art Gallery, Denver, CO
2023 juried exhibition, TRUTH, 2nd Annual Exhibition, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2023 juried exhibition, Living Tradition, Taza Gallery, Brighton, CO
2022 invitational fundraiser, Art In The Round - BRDG Project Contemporary Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 juried exhibition, SeeMe, Sasse Musuem of Art, Pomona, CA
2022 juried exhibition, Holy Moly, What's Next?, Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 member exhibition, Small Works, Big Ideas, WCACO, 40 West Arts, Lakewood, CO
2022 duo exhibition, Mystery and Metaphor, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2022 group exhibition, D'Art Gallery Third Anniversary Exhibition, D'Art Gallery, Denver, CO
2022 group exhibition, The Truth Show, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
2022 group exhibition, One Square Foot, REACH fundraiser, Redline Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2022 juried exhibition, #9 Annual Abstract Sanctuary, Verum Ultimatum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2022 juried exhibition, Monochromatic: One Color, Infinite Possibilities, O'Hanlon Center for the Arts,
Mill Valley, CA
2022 juried exhibition, Herstory 2022, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
2022 juried exhibition, Celebrating Color, RIWS, Pawtucket, RI
2022 member exhibition, Over Under Further Forever, WCACO, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, CO
2021 group exhibition, Colorado Women's Hall of Fame, Reframing Herstory, DAC, Denver, CO
2021 juried exhibition, Black & White Winter, R Gallery, Boulder, CO
2021 juried exhibition, Spot On #2, D'Art Gallery, Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, CO; Juror: Dr. Gwen
Chanzit, curator emerita of modern art and the Herbert Bayer Collection and Archive at the Denver
Art Museum.
2021 group exhibition, WEAR ORANGE : Art Exhibit Against Gun Violence, Doris Madsen Gallery,
Easthampton City, MA
2021 juried exhibition, Art Against Racism: Memorial.Monument.Movement, (permanent archive)
Visual Culture Gallery, New Jersey
2021 juried exhibition, Wreck - oning, Cade Gallery, AACC, Arnold, MD
2021 juried exhibition, Beautiful Possibilities, Woodwalk Gallery, Egg Harbor, WI; Juror: Elizabeth
Meissner-Gigstead, Executive Director of the Miller Art Museum, Sturgeon Bay, WI
2021 juried exhibition, Viral Influence: Art in the Time of Coronavirus, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
2021 juried exhibition, All Abstract, 311 Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2021 juried exhibition, Love… or Something like It 2021, Core New Art Space, Denver CO
2021 Curator, group exhibition, Beyond the Surface, WCACO Member Exhibition, Core New Art Space,
Denver CO
2020 juried exhibition, Checking In: A Call for Civic Connection, Redline Main Gallery, Redline
Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
2020 juried exhibition, Minimalism, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA
2020 juried exhibition, Old Myths, New Stories, Curtis Center for the Arts, Greenwood Village, CO
2020 juried exhibition, Political Discord, Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
2020 juried exhibition, Holy Moly, 2020! / The Year 'Til Now, Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver, CO
2020 juried exhibition, The Aqua Show 2020, Core New Art Space, Lakewood, CO
2020 member exhibition, Small Works Exhibit, WCA-CO, 40 Arts West District, Denver, CO
2020 juried exhibition, Meaning In Abstraction, R Gallery, Boulder, CO
2020 juried exhibition, Spot On, D'Art Gallery, Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, CO; Juror: Michael Paglia, art
historian, art critic for Westword Magazine and writer with essays on the visual arts published in Art
News, Architecture, Art Ltd., Modernism, Art & Auction and Sculpture Magazine
2020 juried exhibition, The New Vanguard: Explorations into the New Contemporary, Keep Contemporary,
Santa Fe, NM
2020 group exhibition, Underwater, fooLPRoof Contemporary Art Gallery, RiNo, Denver, CO
2019 juried exhibition, POP - The Power of Pink, New Studio of Visual Arts, Jupiter, FL
2019 juried exhibition, Gateway to the Imagination 2019, Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM; Juror:
Julie Sasse, Chief Curator, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Curator of Latin American
Art at the Tucson Museum of Art
2019 group exhibition, Take Notice, 6th Annual Benefit for Menaul's Artist-in Residence Program, Luanem
Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2019 juried exhibition, 2019 Contemporary Art Survey, The Lincoln Center, Ft. Collins, CO
2019 juried exhibition, No Creative Boundaries -- Anything Goes, 2nd Annual Juried Exhibition, Museum of
Encaustic Art (MEA), Santa Fe, NM
2018 group exhibition, Open House, Denver Art Company and Lewis Art Consulting, Denver, CO
2018 juried exhibition, Bees and Wax, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2018 group exhibition, Visions in Color, OnyxSwan Gallery, Old Town Albuquerque, NM
2017 group exhibition, It's A Joint Thang, Fine Art Framers & Nest, Santa Fe, NM
2017 group exhibition, Tincture, Winning Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
2017 group exhibition, My Garden, Real or Imaginary, Art Gallery 606, Albuquerque, NM
2017 juried exhibition, COLOR THEORY—Contemporary Abstraction, Perry and Carlson Gallery,
Mount Vernon, WA
2017 juried exhibition, Women's Work: A Celebration of Women & Creativity, Ghostwolf Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
2017 group exhibition, The Eighth Annual Peoples Art Show, 5G Gallery at the Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2017 group exhibition, Flame Annual Valentine's Show, Downtown Contemporary Gallery,
Albuquerque, NM
2014 group exhibition, The Fifth Annual Peoples Art Show, 5G Gallery at the Factory, Albuquerque, NM
2012 group exhibition, hangovers: a collaborative event showcasing new and emerging talent, Framing
Concepts Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
Public Art
2023 mural, Speak Her Name, Salida, CO
2022 mural, Celebrating Colorado Women Artists, Colorado Women's Day, Denver, CO
2020 mural, Togetherness, Colorado Mills Mall Mural Project "All Together Now" Lakewood, CO
2020 mural, Homage to Jean B. Smith, Santa Fe Arts District, Denver, CO
2020 group installation, MSU Denver Center for the Visual Art: The Walls Between Us, The Art In The
Everyday Community Quilt Project participant, ArtNauts Group Exhibition, Center for Visual Art,
Santa Fe Art District, Denver, CO
2017 group installation, Rise and Try to Imagine the Galaxies, Anderson-Abruzzo International Balloon
Museum, Albuquerque, NM and Spaceport America, Truth or Consequences, NM
Awards
2026 Honorable Mention award, "63rd Annual Juried Exhibition," Masur Museum, Monroe, LA
2025 Honorable Mention award, "New York, I Love You," Agora Gallery, NY, NY
2024 Honorable Mention award, "40th Annual Best of Colorado", Depot Art Gallery, Littleton, CO
2022 Honorable Mention award, "Celebrating Color," RIWS, Pawtucket, RI
2016 Winner, Blick's Pantone Color of the Year Art Challenge
Press/Bibliography
10th Annual Living Mark, Exhibition Book, Verum Ultimatum Gallery, Portland, OR, published 2023
TRUTH, Exhibition Book, Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO, published 2023
SeeMe, self-portrait exhibition catalog, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA, published August 2022
9th Annual Abstract Sanctuary Exhibition Booklet, Verum Ultimatum Art Gallery, Portland, OR, published March 2022
VoyageLA : Life & Work with Carol Bivins, http://voyagela.com/interview/life-work-carol-bivins-denver/, April 28, 2021
From Babe Walls to Detour, Colorado’s Biggest and Boldest Art Moments of 2020, Denver Post,
https://theknow.denverpost.com/2020/12/27/fine-arts-coronavirus/250979/, December 2020
Artsy Magazine: Minimalism, ShockBoxx Gallery, Hermosa Beach, CA, https://www.artsy.net/artwork/carol-bivins-not-always-the-way, November 2020
Old Myths, New Stories, Art Book, Curtis Center of the Arts, Littleton, CO, published December, 2020
She Votes 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, Commemorative Art Book developed by Bonnie Smith, SCWCA, September 2020
Featured Artist in online critique group sponsored by Xanadu Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ July 2020. The link for the broadcast is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpV1eSoYddI
Featured in photoLA 2020, Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA: a collection of portraits of LA Artists and Others by fine art photographer Jeffrey Sklan, February 2020
Galleries
Blo Back Gallery, Pueblo, CO
D'art 360 Gallery, Denver, CO
Viridian Artists, New York, NY
Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collections
Private collections across the U.S. and the United Kingdom