SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 |
Available Providence James K. Schmidt Gallery, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois (catalog) |
| 2018 |
Chromarray Hawn Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, curated by Emily Rueggeberg |
| 2015 |
Air to Ground Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas (catalog) |
| 2012 |
(Re)Turn Blue Star Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas |
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Constance Lowe: Leap Year Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2006 |
nether land Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (brochure) |
| 2005 |
Constance Lowe: Graft cactus bra SPACE, San Antonio, Texas |
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Constance Lowe Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 2000 |
NoworNever The Project Room, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1999 |
striking likeness University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas |
| 1998 |
Colony Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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striking likeness “New Works 98.1: Tadashi Kawamata, Glenn Ligon, Constance Lowe,” International Artist in Residency Program, ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas (brochure) |
| 1996 |
Blankets, Furniture, Painting 1993-96 Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri (brochure) |
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Control of Appearances Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, Texas |
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New Material Milagros Contemporary Art, San Antonio, Texas |
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Appetite for System and Recent Drawings Laredo Community College, Laredo, Texas |
| 1995 |
Appetite for System I Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (brochure) |
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Selected Works from “Appetite for System” Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1994 |
Appetite for System Rrose Amarillo Exhibition Space, San Antonio, Texas (brochure) |
| 1989 |
Paintings/Objects ARC Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
SELECTED PAIRED EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 |
Nate Cassie & Constance Lowe: Minding the Gaps Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2008 |
Equivocal Topographies Richard Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas (catalog) |
| 2004 |
Double Vision: Alicia Beach and Constance Lowe Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona (catalog) |
| 1990 |
Constance Lowe and Robert Michael Smith: Recent Work Anderson and Anderson Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| 1989 |
Submerged Circuitry: Virginia Bradley and Constance Lowe Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (brochure) |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2025 |
For Fran Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas, curated by Hills Snyder |
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Irrationally Speaking Ruby City/The Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2024 |
Do You Really Believe That? Ft. Worth Contemporary Art, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas. Memorial exhibition for Frances Colpitt, curated by
Jennifer Davy, Constance Lowe, Sara-Jayne Parsons, Scott Sherer, and Hills Snyder. |
| 2025 |
Traveled to University Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio (catalog) |
| 2020 |
Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, curated by Suzanne Weaver and Lana Meador (catalog) |
| 2016 |
Straight from San Antonio Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City |
| 2015 |
Ruiz Healy Art at INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida |
| 2014 |
Ruiz Healy Art at INK Miami Art Fair, Miami, Florida |
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Sky’s the Limit Bank of America Central Lobby, Houston, Texas |
| 2013 |
Collective Reflection Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas |
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Continuous Change Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2012 |
The Long View David Shelton Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2011 |
San Antonio Draws McNay Art Museum, San Antonio |
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Ruiz Healy Art at the Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas |
| 2010 |
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960’s San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (publication) |
| 2008 |
Summer Invitational Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
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Abstraction Ruiz Healy Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2007 |
All in an Afternoon: Contemporary Drawing Monash University, Caulfield, Australia |
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Visual Directions: Texas Craighead-Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
| 2006 |
Blur. Contemporary Quarterly #3 virtual exhibition at www.contemporaryquarterly.com (printed catalog) |
| 2005 |
Nice to Meet You Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
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Construct: Disclose Southern Space Project, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2004 |
The Stray Show, Chicago, Illinois Cactus Bra Space, San Antonio |
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H20: Considering the Hydrosphere Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2002 |
Drawing in San Antonio McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
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Easy as 1,2,3 RC Gallery, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2002 |
Blue Star Past and Future Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas |
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Texas Dialogues: Scenic Overlook Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas |
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Neo Rococo University of Texas at San Antonio Art Gallery |
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Departure/Return Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas |
| 2000 |
Central Texas Survey Houston Sculpture 2000 (in conjunction with the International Sculpture Conference) Houston, Texas |
| 1998 |
A Cool Show (abstract paintings) Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, Texas |
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Collective Visions San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1998 |
Constance Lowe, Al Souza, and Dan Sutherland Fostick-Nelson Gallery, New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, New York and Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York |
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a posteriori charlieuniformtango, Dallas, Texas |
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Black Eye Visual Arts and Technology Gallery, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas |
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Ars Botanica Austin College, Sherman, Texas |
| 1997 |
Revelation Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas (catalog) |
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2nd Texas Annual Exhibition Contemporary Art Center of Ft. Worth, Texas |
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ABC Exhibition (Advisory Board Chooses) Diverse Works, Houston, Texas |
| 1995 |
Blue Star Ten. Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas |
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Made in San Antonio Dowd Art Gallery, State University of New York College at Cortland |
| 1994 |
Accumulated Evidence: Drawings by Jesse Amado, Meg Langhorne, Constance Lowe and Dan Sutherland Visual Arts & Technology Gallery, San Antonio College. San Antonio, Texas |
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Invitational Sculpture Exhibition Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas |
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Putting It On Paper McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1992 |
Blue Star Seven (+7) Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas |
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Six Yaddo Artists Smithtown Township Arts Council, St. James, New York |
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Baja Tejas: South Texas Artists - Works on Paper Peruvian/American Cultural Institute, Lima (Miraflores), Peru |
| 1990 |
Working on Paper: Contemporary American Drawings High Museum at Georgia-Pacific Center, Atlanta, Georgia (catalog) |
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| Gallery Artists Group Exhibitions at Ruiz-Healy Art |
| 2024 |
Madre Tierra |
| 2017 |
On the Curve |
| 2013 |
Collective Reflection |
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Continuous Change |
| 2008 |
Abstraction |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Book
Rubin, David (curator), Robert C. Morgan, and Daniel Pinchbeck Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960's San Antonio Museum of Art in association with the MIT Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England) 2010
Exhibition Publications
Arning, Bill Constance Lowe: striking likeness, ArtPace, San Antonio 1998 (brochure)
Colpitt, Frances Double Vision, Phoenix Art Museum 2004 (catalog)
Appetite for System, Rrose Amarillo, San Antonio 1994 (brochure)
Garza, Auriel Constance Lowe (artist entry), Do You Really Believe That? Ft. Worth Contemporary Art 2024 and University of Texas at San Antonio 2025 (catalog)
Hearst, Alison Air to Ground, Ruiz-Healy Art 2015 (catalog)
Ryan, Dinah "Constance Lowe" Equivocal Topographies, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio 2008 (catalog)
Available Providence James K. Schmidt Gallery, Principia College, Elsah, Illinois (catalog)
Spector, Buzz "Odd Objects/of Desire" Appetite for System, I-Space Gallery, Chicago 1995
Watkin, Mel Blankets, Furniture, Painting 1993-96, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis 1996
Weaver, Suzanne and Meador, Lana Texas Women: A New History of Abstract Art, San Antonio Museum of Art 2020
Whitney, Kathleen "Characteristics of the Fantastic" nether land, Widener Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford 2006
Selected Exhibition Reviews
Colpitt, Frances "Contemporary Art Month, San Antonio, Texas" CIRCA Fall 1995, p.43
Connors, Thomas "Chicago (Damien Hirst, Nancy Rubins, Constance Lowe)" Sculpture July/August 1995, p. 45
Freeman, David McCall "Collective Visions: San Antonio Museum of Art" Artlies, Fall 1998
Goddard, Dan "Striking Visions: 'New Works' Begins a New Year at ArtPace" San Antonio Express-News, April 8, 1998
Keren, Jackie "Constance Lowe: Nether Land" Art New England June/July 2006, p. 22
Kutner, Janet "Constance Lowe at UNT", Dallas Morning News, June 18, 1999
Landi, Ann. "The Ecstatic Esthetic" Art News, March 2010
Rushing, W. Jackson "Permanent Impermanence or The Paradox of Sculpture" Sculpture October 2000, p. 74 (illustration only)
Tiredo, Michelle "Constance Lowe at I Space" New Art Examiner May 1995, p.48
Features
Kastner, Jeffrey "Obscure Objects of Desire" Artpaper, No. 4 December 1990, p. 16
Roth, Nancy "Submerged Circuitry"Arts (Minneapolis Institute of Art) December 1990, p. 8
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2024 |
Do You Really Believe That? (with Jennifer Davy, Sara-Jayne Parsons, Scott Sherer, and Hills Snyder) Memorial exhibition for Frances Colpitt, curator, critic, scholar and educator |
| 2011 |
Magnetic Fields (Barbara Kreft, Richard Martinez, Kim Owens, and Dan Sutherland) Russell Hill Rogers Gallery, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas (brochure) |
| 2000 |
Edible Material: Paul Kittelson and Robert Ziebell UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas |
| 1997 |
Picture Play: Seven Texas Painters University Art Gallery, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas |
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Surface Tensions Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas (brochure) |
| 1994 |
Accumulated Evidence: Drawings by Jesse Amado, Meg Langhorne, Constance Lowe and Dan Sutherland Visual Arts & Technology Gallery, San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas |
WRITING
Magnetic Fields exhibition brochure, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, Texas 2011
"In and Out of Bounds" feature article and cover illustration, ArtLies October 2003
Surface Tensions exhibition brochure, Blue Star Art Space, San Antonio, Texas 1997
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museums
Ruby City/The Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Healthcare and Education
Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois (State of Illinois Percent for Art Purchase)
Holdsworth Center for Educational Leadership, Austin, Texas
South Texas Blood and Tissue Center, San Antonio, Texas
University Health Women and Children's Hospital, San Antonio, Texas
University of Central Florida, Orlando
University of Texas/MD Anderson Cancer Center, League City, Texas
University of Texas at San Antonio
Willmar Community College, Willmar, Minnesota (State of Minnesota Percent for Art Purchase)
Corporate
CE Group, San Antonio, Texas
First National Bank of South Texas, San Antonio, Texas
Harland Clarke Holdings, San Antonio, Texas
HoltCat Company, San Antonio, Texas
Matthews and Branscomb, San Antonio, Texas
North Shore Bank of Commerce, Duluth, Minnesota
AWARDS
2007 Artist Foundation of San Antonio, Visual Arts Award
2003 ArtPace Travel Grant
1998 ArtPace International Artist in Residence Program, selected by Elizabeth Armstrong, David Avalos, Dana Friis-Hansen, Thelma Golden, and Maaretta Jaukkuri
1991 Resident Fellow at Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, New York
Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant
1988 Arts Midwest/National Endowment for the Arts Artist's Fellowship for works on paper
TEACHING
Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at San Antonio
2015 – 2016 Professor • 1997 – 2015 Associate Professor • 1991-1997 Assistant Professor
Spring 1997 Instructor-in-Residence Kunstakademiet I Trondheim, Norway
1987-1991 Senior Lecturer Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1989-1991 Lecturer Department of Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Spring 1988 Visiting Artist Department of Studio Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1983-1986 Tenured Instructor Art Department, Anoka Ramsey Community College, Coon Rapids, Minnesota
1979-1981 Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Art and Design, University of Illinois
Urbana/Champaign
EDUCATION
1986-1987 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (studies in culture theory and criticism)
1979 MFA Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
1973 BFA Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
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