Valerie Mangion
VALERIE MANGION
14872 Creek Lane
Muscoda, WI 53573
valeriemangion.com
EDUCATION
1993 MFA/Painting, University of Wisconsin/Madison, Madison, WI
1979 BFA/Painting, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL (graduated with honors)
AWARDS
1998 2nd Place Cash Award, "11th Annual Women's Works," Woodstock, IL
1991 Honorable Mention, "Art for the Animals Classic III," National Anti-Vivisection Society, Chicago, IL
1979 Outstanding Senior Painter, University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, IL
EXHIBITIONS
Solo and two-person shows
2016 James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI. "Night Vision"
2012 Brewer Public Library, Richland Center, WI. Recent work.
2008 Ocooch Books & Libations Gallery, Richl. Center, WI, "Pesky Visions: A Retro-spectacle of Paintings from the 1970's to Now"
2006 Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield, WI, "Inspired By Animals"
2000 Wisconsin Union Galleries, Univ. of WI, Madison, "Dogs' Houses: How Country Dogs Live"
1999 Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN
1999 Wisconsin Academy Gallery, WI Acad. of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Madison, WI, "Let Go"
1996 Ray Edwards Gallery, Madison, WI, "Mostly Rats"
1996 The Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL, "Tales from the Farm"
1994 Red Oak Gallery, Madison, WI, "Small Images" (two)
1993 Red Oak Gallery, Madison, WI, "In Memory Of"
1992 Gallery B106, Madison, WI, "Natural-un-Natural" (two)
1991 Red Oak Gallery, Madison, WI, "I Love Animals"
1989 AFLN Gallery, Seattle, WA (two)
1979 Fine Arts Building, Champaign, IL, "works in a MORBIDLY HUMOROUS vein"
Group
2024 Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI, "TMA Contemporary 2024"
2024 Rountree Gallery, Platteville, WI, "The Drift" Annual Group Exhibition
2024 Circle Quarterly Art Review Magazine Issue 10, International Online Juried Competition
2024 Center for Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, 34th Annual Midwest Seasons
2023 Rountree, Gallery, Platteville, WI, five-woman show, "Kindred Spirits: Art of the Driftless"
2023 Gallerium Art Online International Exhibition, "Unreal - 2023"
2023 The Studio Door, San Diego, CA, "The Crow Show"
2022 River Arts Center, Prairie du Sac, WI, WVA South Central Member Show, "Midwest Seasons"
2022 Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI, WVA Juried Show, "Mother/Nature"
2022 UW-Hospital, Madison, WI, WVA South Central Chapter Member Show
2022 WVA South Central Chapter Virtual Exhibition, "This Is Home"
2022 Gallerium Art Online International Exhibition “Extinction - 2021 Save the Planet”
2021 Cedarburg Art Museum, Cedarburg, WI, "One Square Mile"
2021 UW-Hospital, Madison, WI Visual Artists South Central Chapter, "Forward"
2021 WI Visual Artists South Central Chapter Virtual Exhibition, "It's Changed Us In So Many Ways"
2021 The Studio Door, San Diego, CA "The Crow Show"
2021 Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI "Pandemic Portraits" postcard show
2020 Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL "Women's Works 2020 - 33rd Annual Show"
2019-2020 Cedarburg Art Musem, Cedarburg, WI, "Night Owls, CAM 2019 Juried Exhibition"
2019 Gallery of Wisconsin Art (GOWA), West Bend, WI, "Winter Exhibition 2019"
2018 Gallery of Wisconsin Art (GOWA), West Bend, WI, "Botanical Masterpieces"
2018 Gallery of Wisconsin Art (GOWA), West Bend, WI, "The FUNSHO"
2017 Gallery of Wisconsin Art, (GOWA), West Bend, WI, "Landscapes Then and Now"
2017 Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, "DuMA Biennial"
2016 Charles Allis Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, "FORWARD: A Survey of Wisconsin Art Now"
2015 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, “Shelter & Love.” Four paintings.
2013 Museum of Wisconsin Art, “MOWA 2013 Members’ Show”
2013 Harry & Laura Nohr Gallery, Univ. of WI, Platteville, “ArtsBuild Annual 2013"
2013 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, “Culture + Agriculture 2013”
2012 John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI. "Wisconsin Confidential"
2012 Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts, Brookfield, WI. "Wilson Center Retrospective"
2010 Harry and Laura Nohr Gallery, Univ. of WI, Platteville, "ArtsBuild Annual 2010"
2004 Wisconsin Academy Gallery, Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Overture Center, Madison, WI, "A Decade of Art from the Wisconsin Academy Gallery"
2005-2002 The Red Door Gallery, Richland Center, WI, "RAAC Center Color Fiesta Art Show"
2002 FADA 8th Annual Fine Art Show, Santa Monica, CA
2003, 2002 Blue Highways, Richland Center, WI, "Annual Festival of the Arts," Benefit Art Show
2002 The Anti-Cruelty Society, Chicago, IL, "Animal Images"
2001 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Cats & Dogs"
2003, 2001 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, "New Visions' Culture and Agriculture"
2003, 2001 Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, "Women's Works"
2001 Anderson Arts Center, Kenosha, WI, "For Women Only"
2000 Driftless Area Artisans Gallery, Richland Center, WI. Six paintings.
1999 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Sixth Annual Members' Exhibition" Juried.
1999 Harper College, Palatine, IL, "Small Works"
1999 Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, "12th Annual Women's Works"
1999 The Center for the Visual Arts, Wausau, WI, "Midwest Winter"
1998 The Paine Art Center & Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI, "The Art Garden"
1998 New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI, "New Visions' Culture and Agriculture 1998"
1998 Old Court House Arts Center, Woodstock, IL, "11th Annual Women's Works"
1998 Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, "International Exhibition on Animals in Art"
1998 Texas Tech Regional Hand Center, Lubbock, TX, "Show of Hands"
1997 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Narratives"
1997 Metropolitan Art Gallery, Dodgeville, WI
1995 Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Holy Baloney"
1994 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, "Exquisite Corpse: Lines of Correspondence"
1993 Valperine Gallery, Madison, WI, "Come On A Whim," whimsical and animal paintings.
1992 A-Space Gallery, Madison, WI, three-woman show.
1991-1992 7th Floor Gallery, Humanities Bldg, University of WI/Madison, Grad. 2D Review Show.
1991 Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Madison 16," group show of Madison artists.
1991 Edna Carlsten Gallery, U. of WI/Stevens Point, WI, "Wisconsin '91: A Juried Exhib. of WI Art"
1991 Gallery B106, Madison, WI, "Black & White," group show of gallery members.
1991 Gallery B106, Madison, WI, six-person show.
1990 Memorial Union Gallery, Madison, WI, "63rd Annual Grad Student Art Show"
1989 AFLN Gallery, Seattle, WA, "AFLN Open Show"
1988 Worth Ryder Gallery, University of California/Berkeley, CA, "Fate of the Animals," four works.
1988 A New Space Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Artists of Conscience," five-woman show.
1987 The Significant Form Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Washington Women Artists Annual Juried Exhib."
1985 Cameron University Department of Art, Lawton, OK, "Day of the Dead"
1985 Women's Cultural Center Gallery, Seattle, WA, "Reclaiming Our Images," five-woman show.
1982 Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, "58th Annual Rockford & Vicinity Juried Exhibition"
1979 Lincoln Trails Traveling Show (traveled throughout Illinois).
1979 Main Exhibition Hall, Fine Arts Building, Champaign, IL.
GALLERY AFFILIATION
2017-2023 Gallery of Wisconsin Art (GOWA), West Bend, WI
MEMBERSHIP
2020-2023 Wisconsin Visual Artists (WVA)
PRESS/PUBLICATIONS
2024 Circle Quarterly Art Review Winter 2024 Issue 10, Page 111.
2023 Artdose Magazine Weekly e-Newsletter October 8th issue features my painting "Enlightened One"
2023 The Studio Door, The Crow Show 2023 Ninth Annual Exhibition Catalog
2021 The Studio Door, The Crow Show 2021 Seventh Annual Exhibition Catalog
2020 "Valerie Mangion, A Contemporary Midwest Magic Regionalist," Featured Artist, Gallery of Wisconsin Art GOWA) Newsletter, Dec. 2020, galleryofwisconsinart.com
2019 "Mangion taking part in Winter Exhibition," The Richland Observer, January 17, 2019.
2017 "Landscapes Then and Now," by Andrew Webster, Outdoor Painter, November 8, 2017.
2017 "Landscapes and Mindscapes at Gallery of Wisconsin Art," by Judith Ann Moriarty, Shepherd Express, November 21, 2017
2017 "Art in Every Dimension," feature article by Tia Jones, Telegraph Herald, May 23, 2017
2016 On View/'John Craig: New Work' & 'Valerie Mangion: Night Vision' "Driftless Region Artists move beyond
their usual style" Sunday feature by Robyn Norton, Wisconsin State Journal, August 14, 2016 (also featured on-line at madison.com/wsj/entertainment/arts)
2016 "Woodsy Weirdness at the Watrous Gallery" interview by Sarah Witman for TONE Madison, on-line magazine, August 2, 2016
2016 "John Craig, Valerie Mangion" on-line at Isthmus picks, July 2016
2016 "Seven Madison art shows dig deep," on-line at Madison magazine, July 2016
2016 "Local artists featured in Madison exhibit," feature article by Dawn Kiefer, The Richland Observer, July 21, 2016
2016 "Art from the heart of the Driftless at Watrous," article by Michael Muckian, Wisconsin Gazette, July 14, 2016
2016 "Night Vison: Mangion's art to be exhibited at Madison Gallery," by Dawn Kiefer, The Richland Observer, June 23, 2016
2016 " 'Night Vision' with Valerie Mangion," featured by Mary Zinn's Working in Wisconsin blog, circlemblog.wordpress.com, Month: May 2016
2016 "Valerie Mangion: Night Vision A Driftless Region painter captures the nocturnal lives of animals," cover photo and 8-page photo essay, Wisconsin People & Ideas Magazine, Vol. 62, No.2, Spring 2016.
2012 Painting reproduced on print and on-line invitations for Wilson Center Retrospective show.
2008 "Mangion Displays Art," feature article by Dawn Kiefer, The Richland Observer, May 15, 2008
2006 Painting reproduced on cover of Winter Fine Arts Guide, Shepherd Express, January 19-25, 2008
2005 ArtsBuild Directory, Artists of Southwest Wisconsin 2005
2002 "Artist's works show love of animals," feature article by Dawn Kiefer, The Richland Observer, June 13, 2002
2002 Painting reproduced in article, "Arts Festival proceeds to aid Sister City, The Richland Observer, April 25, 2002
2002 Painting reproduced in Marshfield Clinic's 2002 Calendar (January).
2000 Painting reproduced in the Weekender Guide, The Capital Times, July 1-2, 2000.
2000 In "Arts in Pieces" column, Wisconsin State Journal, Sunday, May 28, 2000.
2000 Mentioned in Susan Lampert Smith article, "Art finds a home in Richland Center" regarding new gallery, Wisconsin State Journal, February 8, 2000.
1999 Mentioned in article, "Artists colorfully chair-up hospital project," Wisconsin State Journal, November 8, 1999.
1999 "Beauty and the Beasts, 'Madonna and Rat' artist switches to cows," article by C.R. Gabriel, Isthmus, August 6, 1999. Also, Critics Choice for Art in The Guide to Arts and Entertainment, same issue.
1999 "getting some PERSPECTIVE - Artist puts controversial painting behind her to take a surreal look at the local landscape," article by John Aehl, Wisconsin State Journal, August 5, 1999.
1999 "Art's a horse of a different color," article by Jacob Stockinger, The Capital Times, Aug. 4, 1999.
1998 Painting, "Pregnant Ewe," reproduced (b&w) in New Visions' Culture and Agriculture catalog.
1997 Mentioned (as an ill-treated artist) in Citizen article "Sunny-side up," regarding an arts editorial writer's questionable ethics and knowledge, Isthmus, October 10, 1997.
1997 Painting, "Emerging Artists" reproduced (b&w) in the Chicago READER, September 5, 1997.
1997 Painting, "Emerging Artists," featured on Chicago's WTTW Ch. 11 television show, "Art Beat", September 3, 1997
1997 "Rats, Foiled Again" presents the Playboy slant on the "Madonna and Rat" controversy, Forum section, Playboy, July 1997, P. 52.
1996 Article about "Madonna and Rat" controversy "Let's Have Fewer Rules" by Ruth Conniff published in the Progressive magazine, December 1996 issue. (Story also picked up by Alternet.)
1996 Additional letters regarding "Madonna and Rat" painting published in the Wisconsin State Journal, November 26, 1996 and November 16, 1996.
1996 Guest Editorial, "Controversial painting shows First Amendment's importance" by the Executive Director of the ACLU, Milwaukee, image of "Madonna and Rat" and two more letters published in the Wisconsin State Journal, Nov. 9, 1996.
1996 Quoted in Newsweek magazine, November 4, 1996 issue, regarding "Madonna and Rat".
1996 Brief mention in the "Off The Wire" column, P. 2, The Seattle Times, November 2, 1996.
1996 Articles "Conspicuous by Its Absence, the Community Reacts to "Madonna with (sic) Rat" and "Artist in the Eye of the
Storm" published in Tower Times, Volume 73, Issue 2, November 1996.
1996 Letters regarding "Madonna and Rat" controversy published in the Wisconsin State Journal, November 1, 1996.
1996 Psssst! Column, The Capital Times, P. 2, mentions that "Madonna and Rat" was featured on the Saturday Night Live
Weekend Update segment with Norm McDonald, October 28, 1996.
1996 Letters regarding "Madonna and Rat" published in the The Capital Times, October 25, 1996.
1996 Editorial, "Removing 'rat' art was right decision" published in the Wisconsin State Journal, October 25, 1996.
1996 Brief article about "Madonna and Rat" controversy published in USA Today,
"Across the USA: News From Every State" section under Wisconsin, October 25, 1996.
1996 Apparently article about "Madonna and Rat" covered in the Knoxville Sun, Tennessee.
1996 Article about "Madonna and Rat" controversy, "Madison school bans 'offensive' painting" appears in Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel, October 25, 1996.
1996 Painting, "Madonna and Rat" reproduced in The Wisconsin State Journal article, "Sacred to one, profane to others", P. 1,
Local Section, October 24, 1996, Madison, WI.
1996 Painting, "Madonna and Rat" reproduced larger in The Capital Times late edition article, retitled
"East High art gets the hook", P. 2, Sec. 1, October 23, 1996, Madison, WI.
1996 Painting, "Madonna and Rat" reproduced in The Capital Times article, "School removes painting", P. 2, Sec. 1, October 23,
1996, Madison, WI.
1994 Painting, "Stranded Pronghorn", selected for inclusion in an anthology titled "Flood In The Heartland" (editor did not find
publisher).
1993 Painting, "Pat's Journey," reproduced (black & white) in the Gallery Guide, The Capital Times/Wisconsin State Journal, May 7,
1993, Madison, WI.
1991 Painting, "Moon's Dream," reproduced (black & white) in the Gallery Guide, The Capital Times, October 17, 1991, Madison,
WI.
1989 Painting, "Philippines Meat Market," reproduced in The Animals' Voice magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, February.
1988 Mentioned in review of the Washington Women Artists' Juried Exhibition in REFLEX, Vol. 2, No. 1, January/February
1986 Drawing, "Vivisection," published in the L.A. Weekly; Los Angeles, CA.
1985 Drawing published in ADVOCATE, a publication of the American Humane Assoc., Denver, CO.
CONTROVERSY
1996 The controversy surrounding the removal of my painting, "Madonna and Rat" from the Ray Edwards Gallery at East High
School in Madison, WI extends to radio and television. Among other things, the painting was shown and discussed on
Channel 27 News, 6:00 pm, Madison, talked about on the Paul Harvey radio show, on stations WMAD and 1070 AM in
Madison, and the topic of a "Social Dilemma" segment on WIBA FM. I was live on WLUP radio in Chicago; interviewed three
times by WJFK radio out of Washington D.C. (broadcast nationally on the Westwood One Radio Network); was contacted by a reporter from the Washington Post, and by Chuck Smith, CBS News, New York for a possible show topic on new
television show in January. The USA Today article was flashed on the screen during the Weekend Update segment of the
Saturday Night Live show (October 26, 1996) while Norm McDonald joked about one of my printed comments.
TEACHING AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
2022 Speaker, Artists' Panel Discussion, "Mother/Nature" at Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI
1999 Visiting Artist, Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Wayzata, MN. Gave talk about my show to painting students and faculty.
1997 Visiting Artist during April Fine Arts Week, East High School, Madison, WI. Gave two slide talks as well as a painting
demonstration with question and answer format for students.
1993-1994 Lecturer, University of Wisconsin/Madison, Madison, WI. Art Department. Taught Art 222, Introduction to Painting. This
course introduces students to basic concepts, techniques and materials related to oil painting.
1991-1993 Teaching Assistant, University of Wisconsin/Madison, Madison, WI. Art Department. Taught Drawing 112 and 212, the first
two semesters of beginning drawing for art majors. Fully responsible for course content/syllabi, lectures, demonstrations and
evaluation of students.
OTHER
2022-1999 Paintings and/or photos reproduced as greeting cards, Red Oak Publishers (also '97,'96, '93).
2010 Painting purchased by the Provost & Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UW-Platteville
2010 Painting reproduced as cover art for poetry book, Core Hollow, Red Oak Publishers
2007 Contributed painted box to "Out of the Box Auction," Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
2006 Studio included in Richland Area Arts Council Studio Tour.
2004 Painting reproduced as cover art for poetry book, Boaz Moon, Red Oak Publishers.
1999 Participated in the "Chair Affair," a local charity event in which artists donated painted chairs.
1993 Completed two commissioned painted furniture pieces.
1991 Mary Jane Jacob, independent curator and critic, bought my work.
1989 Illustrated Dolphin Action Guide issue of PAWS newsletter (Progressive Animal Welfare Society, Lynnwood, WA).
1988 Designed T-shirts for NARN (Northwest Animal Rights Network, Seattle, WA).
1984 Illustrated cat owner's manual for PAWS, Lynnwood, WA.
1980 Created wall mural for Romano Studio, 43 E. Ohio, Chicago, IL.