Monika Steinhoff
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MONIKA
STEINHOFF


Painting   as   Visionary   Mirror

RESUME

Born:   1941 in  Swienemuende, Germany;

Education:    UCLA, B.A.   1962-  64
                           M.A. UCLA  June 1965
Summer  1965 - 1966   Independent University Studies, Saarbruecken   and  Munich, Germany
1966-69   Ph.D. Program, University of California,  Berkeley

​1975 - 77 Studied Meditation and Yoga with Baba Hari Dass
1987. Henriette Wyeth Master Class, SF Art Institute
2012   Study of 9 Palaces Qi Gong    to present 
2020   - 2022   Writing of Memoir of my life and Art:  " Walking Home"
2023    Publishing the above with Sunstone Press

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 September    Featured Artist:  NM Painters Exhibition  Highlands University , Las Vegas, NM

2020    Spring  "My  Cosmology​ and other Apocalyptic Paintings"   A SEA Gallery   Old Santa  Fe Trail
2019 -2020    Solo show of anti war paintings   Peenemuende Museum (see below)

2018    "Berkeley"  and other  "New Work"  A SEA Gallery  Canyon Rd, Santa Fe  
2015    Installation of  Von Braun Bronze (# 3)  in Historisches u. Culturelles Museum, Peenemuende, Usaedom, Germany
​​2014    Spring: "Heart, Trees...and Rain," inspired by journey to Artist's Birthplace  

2013     Fall: "Unseen Work"  returned from European shows 

2012    October   Opening of A SEA Gallery, Santa Fe Railyard , NM

2011   Jan. 10 - Feb. 24. Dresden, Germany: Curator - Peggy Lange at Galarie Sybille Nutt

2010   June - Leipzig, Germany:  Collectors Invitational; 
             July - Jay Etkin Gallery, Santa Fe Railyard, " New Work"

2008   December - Ausstellung am Tegern See/Munich - Park Hotel Egern Hšfe, Germany;
             Peggy Lange, Curator.

2005   November "Etchings of Santa Fe and Northern  NM," NM Printmakers Gallery

2004    May 28 - July 30   University of New Mexico @ Los Alamos: "Meeting the Buddha in L.A."

2001   June - "Drought, Fire and Rain" Hand Artes Gallery - Truchas, NM

1999   February - June, Roswell Museum And Art Center N M   Retrospective

1996   "Crossing the Great Water," LYA Gallery, Santa Fe;   Hand Artes Gallery,  Truchas,  NM;
             "Warum Berlin?" Galerie am Havel Ufer, Berlin , Germany

1994   "Monika Steinhoff Pinturas", Galeria de Arte Marstelle, Mexico  City, Mexico

1991    "Journey of the Fool," Part II, Peyton Wright  Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1989   "Out of the Closet," a 10 Year Retrospective,   St. John's College Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1988   "Interiors and Street  Scenes"     Zaplin Lampert, Santa Fe, NM

1987   "Ballet Sketches," Dewey  Galleries, Ltd. , Santa Fe, NM

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024  Oct. 1 - Dec. 31 "PROTEST" Focus/Forum, ABQ
            Sept. - Oct. Highlands University, New Mexico Painters Exhibitions.
            September  Santa Fe Studio Tour, NM (3rd year)

2023    2 Week March to April  Monothon    Printing at  5 SF Studios   Benefit for Youth Artists  

2008   12-12      Etching Exhibition -" Santa Fe Etching Club"  at Argos & Levin Studio

2006   March:   Mazur Museum of Art,  Monroe, LA;         
            "Wildlands Benefit Print Show"  Wilderness  Alliance, Albuquerque, NM

2005 Sept. - Feb. "Women in the Arts"  NM Fine ARTS Museum   
         Nov., - Feb. Am. Friends Service Com. Benefit,  Pasadena, CA

2004 August Taos Fetchin Museum, National Exhibition of Am. Watercolor

2003 June -  Sept. NM Museum of Fine Arts: "The Show ",
          SW States Biennial;  Albuquerque Museum - Women in the Arts: "Traces of the Journey"

2002    September 1st Austrian Biennale : Huettenberg/Klagenfurt, Austria

1996 (& 1990) "SOUTHWEST '96" Museum  of Fine Arts, Museum of NM

1995   "Dezember Salon," Taube Galerie, Berlin , Germany

1994     Florida Society of Fine Arts,  Invitational Exhibition, Museum of Latin Am. Art, Miami, Florida

​1993     "Magical Realists,"      Turner-Carroll  Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

1991 - 1992 "New Work by gallery Artists"   Peyton Wright Gallery

1988     "Etchings and Aquatints," SF Print Gallery

1986      Santa Fe Festival of the Arts, Armory for the Arts, NM

1983     "Janet Stein Romero and Monika Steinhoff," Governor's Gallery, State Capital Bldg., Santa Fe


SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS 

Greg  De Prince; Lyn & Ellen Fox; Bonnie Franklin; Julian & Gladys  Heldman; 
Dan Lynch; Rickey Medlock, MD;   Eric Lynch: Dallas Denny;    Dr. Robert Bell
Don & Judy Meredith;   Ann  & Jim Townsend, Sam & Ethel Ballen,    Daniel Schmalzer,  Anna T. Lane,
Liz Robbins.   Margaret Amada,   Crimson Crabtree,       David Blitz

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

IBM Cincinnati, Ohio; N M  Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe; Albuquerque Museum; Roswell
Museum:  Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC;   Culturelles u. Historisches Museum, Peenemuende,Usedom, Ge rmany 

Mural Commission: 1998:  City of Santa Fe NM, "May the Forest be with You" 20’x 40’

SELECTED WORK EXPERIENCE

1958  - Designer for Sporting Goods Co. Santa Barbara , Ca.
1964 - Instructor of American Studies, University of Saarbrueken, Germany
1965  - '69   Teaching Assistant University of California,  Berkeley
1969-1972 taught English, German and Crafts at Holy Names HS in  Oakland, Ca.
1975-83 Taught Yoga at College of Santa Fe.
2010 - 2014  taught German at SFCC

​Self-supporting Artist since 1970 - 2023    Santa Fe, N M 

Private Tutor of 9 Palaces Qi Gong   2022 to Present 

SELECTED ADMINISTRATION/BOARD OF DIRECTORS
EXPERIENCE

 
2009 - 2020    Owner of A SEA Gallery (Association of Socially engaged Artists)   

2000   September joined  EWAM   Board of Directors
​1976    One  of a Kind Artists Co-operative   President (7 years)
1982    Board of Directors, Santa Fe Food Co-operative 

1990 - 96    Frioles Village Original 14  Families (renamed Aldea)


REPRESENTED BY

​Hand Artes, Truchas, New Mexico; Steinhoff Studio  505 982-1978  Lorenzo Rd. # 157