BEN WOITENA
1302 Waugh Drive, PMB 259
Telephone/Facsimile: 713-861-7791
Email:
axismundi32442@sbcglobal.net
www.benwoitenasculptor.com
BORN: San
Antonio,
Texas
1942
RESIDES: Houston,
Texas
1971
EDUCATION: The
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas - B.F.A.
1961 -1964
The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California M.F.A.
1968 -1970
TEACHING: Glassell
School of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
1971 -1998
DOCUMENTARIES: Thirty
minute documentary awarded by Houston’s National Educational
Television Station (Channel 8, KUHT) entitled, Actual Yardage
Gained
1976
Twenty minute film in conjunction with The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
exhibition entitled Studio
1977
One hour documentary by Professor Jay McHale, Associate Professor of
English, Salem State College, Salem, MA entitled Kerouac Commemorative
Dedication
1988
Eleven minute documentary by Houston’s Public Television Station (Channel 8,
KUHT)
entitled Sculpture on the Green
1994
COMMISSIONS: Jack Kerouac
Commemorative, Eastern Canal Park,
Lowell, Massachusetts
1988
Emett F. Lowry Commemorative, Texas City,
Texas
1990
Time Line, Bush Intercontinental Airport, “Terminal E”, Houston, Texas
2005
Kinkaid School Centennial Sculpture, Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas
2005
EXHIBITS:
2007: Justice for All?: Artists
Reflect on the Death Penalty, M2
Gallery, Houston, Texas
Fifth Annual Sculptors
Dominion Invitational 2007, Outdoor
Gallery and Sculpture
Garden Exhibit, Large to Monumental Scale Sculpture, San Antonio, Texas
Metal Art, Foundry Art Centre, St. Charles, Missouri 63301
2007 Waco National Outdoor Sculpture Invitational, Waco, Texa
Texas Uprising 2007, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Sunset
Station,
San Antonio, Texas
Sculpture Invasion, Koehnline Museum of Art, Oakton Community College,
Des Plaines, Illinois
2007 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Texas State University, San Marcos, Tx
2006:
A Southern Presence, Lexington Art
League, Lexington, Kentucky
Justice for All?: Artists Reflect on the Death Penalty, Gallery Lombardi,
Austin, Texas
Fourth Annual Sculptors Dominion
Invitational 2006, Outdoor Gallery
and Sculpture
Garden Exhibit, Large to Monumental Scale Sculpture, San Antonio, Texas
Miniature Art, 22 Annual Exhibition, Council for the Arts, Chambersburg, PA
2005:
Third Annual Sculptors Dominion Invitational
2005, Outdoor Gallery and Sculpture
Garden Exhibit, Large to Monumental Scale Sculpture, San Antonio, Texas
Navy Pier Walk 2005, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
2004:
Texas Uprising, Indoor & Outdoor
Sculpture, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center
and
Sunset Station, San Antonio, Texas
Second Annual Sculptors Dominion Invitational 2004, Outdoor Gallery and
Sculpture
Garden Exhibit, Large to Monumental Scale Sculpture, San Antonio, Texas
38th Annual National
Drawing and Small Sculpture Show,
Del Mar College, Corpus
Christi, Texas
2003:
Avenue Community Development Corporation Seventh Annual Art on the Avenue,
Winter
Street Art Space, Houston, Texas
38 for XXXIII, Reliant Energy Plaza, Houston, Texas
2002: Pier Walk Maquette Exhibition, Field Museum, Chicago,
Illinois
Synthesis,
Richard Stout and Ben Woitena, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, Texas
Pier Walk 2002, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
North Carolina Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Greensboro, North Carolina
Pier Walk Maquette Exhibition,
Southwestern Illinois University, William
and Florence
Schmidt Art Center, Illinois
2001: Texas Best! Sculptors on Sculpture, 2000 Lecture Series,
January 24, 2001, Umlauf
Sculpture Garden and Museum, Austin
Pier Walk 2000 Maquette Exhibition,
James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, Illinois
Ben Woitena, Sculpture and Drawings,
San Antonio College, Visual Arts Center Gallery,
San Antonio, Texas
Robert Tiemann, Paintings and Ben
Woitena, Sculpture and Drawings,
Joan Grona Gallery,
San Antonio, Texas
Pier Walk 2001,
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
The 41st Annual
Invitational Awards, Sculpture,
Longview Museum of Fine Arts,
Longview, Texas
2000:
Pier Walk 2000 Maquette Exhibition,
James R. Thompson Center, Chicago, Illinois
Texas A & M University Art in Public Places Program organized by the Arts
Council of
Brazos Valley, City of Bryan Municipal Building, Bryan, Texas
34th Annual National
Drawing and Small Sculpture Show,
Del Mar College, Corpus
Christi, Texas
Journey: Sculpture 2000,
Large out door sculpture exhibition conceived and curated by
Ben Woitena to coincide with the 18th International Sculpture
Conference, Houston
Sculpture 2000,
sponsored by the International Sculpture Conference, Houston, Texas
Pier Walk 2000,
Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois
Life & Death:
Sculpture Court, Art League of Houston, Houston, Texas
Go Figure,
Houston Sculpture 2000, Group exhibition of area sculptors, Louisiana Place
Houston,
Texas
Oakton Community College exhibition of large scale sculpture entitled Around
Midnight,
Des
Plaines, Illinois
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
John DeFore, “A public sculptor’s
intimate side”, San Antonio Current, ArtSpace, p. 15,
March 15-21, 2001, (photograph)
The Art Center of Waco, Altered States, catalogue, Waco, Texas,
September, 1998.
Little, Carol Morris, A Comprehensive Guide To Outdoor Sculpture In Texas,
pp. 25, 29-30,
43, 54, 117, 278-279, 302, 402,447, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1996.
(photograph)
Grabel, Naomi, Editor, “Cast: Marble Sculptor, Ben Woitena,” Houston
Performances, Arts
And Theatre Magazine,
p.15, October, 1992.
Wilson, Michael, Editor, Danton’s Death, book, Alley Theatre,
Houston, Texas, 1992.
Hickey, Dave, Free-lance writer/art critic, “Outdoor Sculpture Looking at Art in
Public Places
‘Ben Woitena-Dos Equis,’ “ Abilene Fifth Annual Outdoor Sculpture
Exhibition and
Retrospective,
catalogue, June 1986. (photograph)
Schjedahl, Peter, “Art and Money in the City of Future-Think,” Houston City
Magazine,
pp. 46 & 56, February, 1980. (photograph)
Reese, Becky Duval, Curator, Made in Texas, catalogue, Archer M.
Huntington Gallery,
University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin, August, 1979.
(photograph)
Smith, Roberta, “Twelve Days of Texas”, Art In America, pp. 42-48
July/August, 1976.
(photograph)
COLLECTIONS:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
City of Houston, Memorial Park, Houston, Texas
Trammell Crow Company, Irving, Texas
The Woodlands Corporation, The Woodlands, Texas
City of Abilene, Civic Center Grounds, Abilene, Texas
Old Jail Art Center, Albany, Texas
Museum of the Southeast, Beaumont, Texas
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas
Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas
City of Houston, Terminal “E”, Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Texas
Kinkaid School, Houston, Texas