Miriam pulling a print.

Biography

Miriam Rudolph was born and raised in Paraguay, South America. In 2003 she moved to Winnipeg to study Fine Arts at the University of Manitoba where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours in 2007 and a Bachelor of Education in 2010. She completed the Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking at the University of Alberta, Edmonton (2017). She has received numerous scholarships, awards, and grants, such as the University of Alberta Graduate Recruitment Scholarship in 2014, the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) along with the Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Scholarship for Art and Design in 2015, and a Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant in 2019. She has shown her work nationally and internationally in Canada, the USA, Paraguay, Europe and Asia. She is happily settled in Winnipeg with a home studio, a printing press, a big vegetable garden, her husband and little son.

Artist Statement

disPOSSESSION

Mapping Home

CV

Education
2014-2017 University of Alberta
Master of Fine Arts - Printmaking
2007-2010 University of Manitoba
Bachelor of Education — Senior Years Stream
2003-2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours Degree
University of Manitoba
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Historias superpuestas: perspectivas sobre la colonización desde el Chaco, Fundación Migliorisi, Asunción, Paraguay. (Forthcoming).
2023 Layered Histories: Perspectives on Colonization from the Chaco, MHC Gallery, Winnipeg, MB.
Layered Histories: Perspectives on Colonization from the Chaco, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB.
disPOSSESSION, Gallery in the Park, Altona, MB.
2018 RECONFIGURACIONES - Vida chaqueña en transición, Fundación Migliorisi, Asunción, Paraguay.
2017 disPOSSESSION, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB.
disPOSSESSION, A/P Gallery, Calgary, AB.
disPOSSESSION, MFA Thesis Exhibition, FAB Gallery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB.
2013 The Art of Healing Program Exhibition, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN.
2013 Narratives of Home and Farewell, Small Works Series - McNally Robinson, Winnipeg, MB.
Encuentros y Despedidas, Espacio Miguel Acevedo - Manzana de la Rivera, Asunción, Paraguay.
2012 Narratives of Winnipeg and other works, Fleet Galleries, Winnipeg, MB.
Narratives of Home & Farewell, Threshold Gallery/Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN.
2011 Mapping Home, Pembina Hills Art Center, Morden, MB.
Mapping Home, Martha Street Studio, Winnipeg, MB, (juried).
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Without Margins, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
2024 Okanagan Print Triennial, Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, BC.
Without Margins, Main Gallery, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
Without Margins, SGCI, Rhode Island Convention Centre, Providence, Rhode Island.
2022 Headlines - The Art of the News Cycle, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, (curator: Riva Symko).
2020 Tidalectics Portfolio, School of Art - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.
2019 Perspectives in Printmaking: An Evolving Dynamic, Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, (curator: Lydia Gravis).
2018 Bienal Internacional de Arte SIART, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, La Paz, Bolivia, (curator: Lia Colombino).
Impact 10, Palacete del Embarcadero, Santander, Spain, (curator: Loit Joekalda).
ROC 2018 - Internationl Biennial Print Exhibit, National Taiwan Museum, Taiwan, (juried).
Fifth International Silk Road Exhibition, Shaanxi Provicinal Museum of Fine Art, Xi'an, China,
(curator: Loit Joekalda).
Art in the Anthropocene: a selection of visual research from the University of Alberta, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)/Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, Edmonton, Ab & Glasgow, Scotland, (curator: Joan Greer).
Anthropocities, United Nations International Conference on Climate Change, Shaw Centre, Edmonton, Ab.
6th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition, Norwalk, CT, (curator: Susan Tallman).
Global Matrix, Galleries at Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, (juried).
2017 Splitgraphic 8, Split University Gallery - Vasko Lipovac, Split, Croatia, (curator: Ingrid Ledent).
Fourth International Silk Road Exhibition, Shaanxi Provicinal Museum of Fine Art, Xi'an, China,
(curator: Loit Joekalda).
5th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition Selection, JVS Project Space, New York, NY, (curator: Julio Valdez).
Global Matrix IV, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN, (juried).
2016 2nd New York International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center, New York, NY,
(juror: David Kiehl).
5th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT,(juror: Andrew Raftery).
The Heart of America, Art in Embassies at the United States Department of State, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (curator: Claire D'Alba).
Tandem - Going Places Together, MHC Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, (juried: two person show).
2015 Formation, Guanlan Print Museum, Guanlan, China, (juried).
4th International Footprint Biennial Exhibition Selection, JVS Project Space, New York, NY,
(curator: Julio Valdez).
2014 7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro, Alijó, Portugal, (curator: Nuno Canelas).
4th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT, (juror: Elisabeth Hodermansky).
2013 Global Print 2013, Douro Museum, Alijó, Portugal, (Invitation by Nuno Canelas, Curator).
23 Parkside National Small Print Exhibition, Parkside Gallery, Kenosha, WI, (juror: John Hitchcock).
From Paraguay to Winnipeg - Explorations of Place, Home, & Childhood, MHC Gallery, Winnipeg, MB, (Two-Person).
2012 Mid America Print Council Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, Cape Girardeau, MO, (juror: Liz Zanis).
3rd Biennial Footprint International, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT,
(juror: Donald Sultan).
New Prints 2012/Summer, International Print Center New York, NY, (juror: Shahzia Sikander).
2011 Twenty: the 20th Cooperative Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN.
Canadian Impressions, Inter American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., (juried).
2010 2nd Biennial Footprint International, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT,
(juror: Anne Coffin)
2007

Thesis Works Exhibition, Gallery One One One, Winnipeg, MB, (curated by Robert Epp and Cliff Eyland).

Collections

SDCELAR, British Museum, London, UK

United States Embassy, Asunción, Paraguay

Dept. of Foreign Affairs - Canada House, London, UK

Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC

Manitoba Hydro, Winnipeg, Manitoba

National Leasing, Winnipeg, Manitoba

The Winnipeg Foundation, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Red River College, Winnipeg, Manitoba

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Guanlan Print Museum, China
Awards & Grants
2022

D.F. Plett Historical Research Foundation Grant

2019

Manitoba Arts Council Create Grant

2018

Nominated for the Queen Sonja Print Award, Norway

Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant (Paraguay)

Manitoba Arts Council Travel Grant (Spain)

2017

Splitgraphic 8, Young Artist Award, Split, Croatia

SGCI Awagami Paper Award

2016

2nd Place, 2nd New York International Miniature Print Exhibition, Manhattan Graphics Center

Manitoba Arts Council Student Bursary

Best in Show winner, 5th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, CT

2015

Alberta Foundation for the Arts Scholarship for Art and Design

Joseph-Armand Bombardier Graduate Scholarship

Walter H. Johns Graduate Fellowship

2014

University of Alberta Master's Recruitment Scholarship

Manitoba Arts Council Student Bursary

Best in Show winner, 4th Biennial International Footprint Competition

2012

Best Illustrated Book of the Year, Manitoba Book Awards

2011

B Grant, Manitoba Arts Council

Nominated for Winnipeg Arts Council On the Rise Award

2009

C Grant, Winnipeg Arts Council

C Grant, Manitoba Arts Council
2008

C Grant, Winnipeg Arts Council

C Grant, Manitoba Arts Council
Reviews &
Catalogues
Graphic Impressions - The SGC International Newsletter. Winter 2017. (Image)
  Gonzalez de Armas, Liuba. "FAB Gallery: Abstracting Place in Miriam Rudolph's disPOSSESSION.' The Gateway. March 14, 2017.
  Jans, TJ. "Miriam Rudolph: disPOSSESSION.'Curious Arts. University of Alberta. February 28, 2017.
  Art in Embassies Exhibition - United States Embassy Tbilisi. 2016. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  Global Matrix IV - International Print Exhibition. Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN. 2017. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  2nd New York International Miniature Print Exhibition. Mahattan Graphics Center. New York, NY. 2017. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  Formation - 2015 International Print Exhibition. China Printmaking Museum. Guanlan, Shenzhen, China. 2015. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  7th International Printmaking Biennial of Douro Alijo, Portugal. 2014. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  Abbe, Mary. “Reflections on a subtle eye." Star Tribune. Friday, December 16, 2011
  Canadian Impressions Washington, D.C., Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, 2011. Curator: Félix Ángel. (Exhibition Catalogue)
  Gillmor, Alison. “Intricate works will make you look twice.” Winnipeg Free Press. Thursday, January 27, 2011
  Roberts, Lorne. "Art explores sense of belonging." Winnipeg Free Press. Thursday, July 12, 2007