EDUCATION
MFA, Painting, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
MFA Program, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY
BFA, Painting (Magna Cum Laude), Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Camberwell College of Art & Syracuse London Centre, International Programs Abroad, London, England
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Traces, Forces, and Actions, Buckham Gallery, solo exhibition, Flint, MI
2024
Pushing through the Fog, Bagwell Center for Media and Art Gallery, Pellissippi State Community College, solo exhibition, Knoxville, TN
2022
Accumulations and Residues, Hall Gallery, Millsaps College, solo exhibition, Jackson, MS
2021
New Work, Moremen Gallery, Solo Exhibition (in their dedicated galleries), Louisville, KY
2020
Manifesting Presence, 3-person exhibit, Zygmunt Gierlach and Main Hall Galleries, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
Responding to Bosnia: work by Photojournalist James Kenney and Artist Yvonne Petkus, 2-person exhibit, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2018
Witness: Bosnian-Influenced Paintings, Moremen/Moloney Contemporary Gallery, Louisville, KY
2017
Arctic Residues – Sightings, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2016
Processing the Scape: Forces of Nature, Hvítahús Artist Residency, Krossavik/Hellissandur, Iceland
2015
Searching for Meaning, Hiestand Galleries, Solo Exhibition, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Recent Work: Yvonne Petkus & David Marquez, Ellis Walker Gallery, Two-person Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
2014
Searching, Smith Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
2013
Recent Works, Thigpen Library, Two-person Exhibit, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, TN
Peter Mitchev & Yvonne Petkus, Elisavet Gallery, Two-person Exhibition, Naxos, Greece
In Person, University of Alabama, Solo Exhibition of five paintings, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
2012
Recent Works, Elisavet II Gallery, Solo Exhibition of paintings and monotypes, Naxos, Greece
2011
Naxos Paintings, Elisavet Gallery, Solo Exhibition, works done on-site in Naxos, Greece
In This World, Gallery at 916, Solo Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
2010
Processing Imagery, Lucretia C. Begley Art Gallery Solo Exhibit, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY
2009
Recent Work, Gallery at 916, Two-person Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
2008
A-B(o)MB Jury Winners, Artoconecto/Bakehouse Arts Complex, 2-person show during Art Basel Miami, FL
Processing the Figure, Brad Cooper Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Tampa, FL
2007
figure, South Gallery, Two-person Exhibition, Jacksonville, FL
2006
Gestures, Artspace, Selected Three-person Exhibition, Raleigh, NC
Recent Work, Capitol Arts Alliance Inc. Gallery, Juried Two-person Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
XVI National Juried Exhibition Winner, Viridian Artists Inc. @ Chelsea, 2-person Exhibit, New York, NY
2005
Recent Paintings, Brad Cooper Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Tampa, FL
2004
Perceptions – Petkus, Raymer & Gannon, The Clara M. Eagle Gallery, 3-person Exhibit, Murray State
Paintings – Residues, Thigpen Library, Solo Exhibit, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, TN
Painting, Brad Cooper Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Tampa, FL
2003
The Drama and the Gesture, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Gallery, Solo Exhibit WKU, Bowling Green, KY
2002
Residue, Swanson Cralle East Market, Two-person Exhibition, Louisville, KY
2000
New Faculty Exhibition, Ivan Wilson Fine Arts Center Gallery, Two-person Exhibit, WKU, Bowling Green, KY
Recent Work, Black Lab Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1998
Recent Work, King County Art Gallery, Juried Solo Exhibit & Grant, King County Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
The Biennial Project Biennial 2024, The Biennial Project, Juried Group Exhibition, projected digitally at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2023
New Painting, SITE:Brooklyn Gallery, Juried (virtual) Group Exhibition, Juror: Rachel Gugelberger, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Dogwood Arts Regional Art Exhibition, Dogwood Arts, Juried Group Exhibition, Knoxville, TN
Dreams Deferred Collaboration, National Flute Association 51st Convention, Phoenix, AZ
Small Works, Buckham Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Flint, MI
Abound Credit Union 2023 Celebration of the Arts, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
Existence, Danock Inc. at Gallery Western, Juried Group Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2022
29th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Jasper Community Arts Thyen-Clark Cultural Center, Group Juried Exhibition, Jasper, IN
14th All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum presented by ArtWorks, Inc., Group Juried Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
ArtFields 2022, Juried Group Exhibition throughout Lake City, SC
Creatives Collect: Treasured Art & Objects from the Personal Collections of W&M Studio Art Faculty, group invited exhibition, Andrews Gallery, The College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
US Bank 2022 Celebration of the Arts, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY
11th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Curator Sarah Magnatta, Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV
2021
2021 SECAC Juried Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Curator (KMAC Museum) Joey Yates, Bolivar Art Gallery, School of Art/Visual Studies, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2021 Jerry E. Baker and Jack Lunt Memorial Art Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Artist Tiffany Calvert, BG, KY
Painting 2011-2021, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition (virtual – view here), Juror: Art Critic and Curator Peter Frank, Brooklyn, NY
The 2nd Annual Figural Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition (virtual - view here), Juror: Artist Victor Wang, The In Art Gallery, Edwardsville, IL
(re) Building, Juried Group Exhibition, (exhibition catalogue available here), Juror: Jerry Mclaughlin, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY
Hope: 11th Annual International Juried Exhibition, Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Curator/Artist Hilary Irons, The A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2021 Open Art Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Juried Group Exhibition (virtual), BG, KY
2020
ZSEIFS Fellowship Retrospective Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Group Exhibition, BG, KY
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2020 Open Art Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
2019
Baker/Lunt 27th Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
Interconnected, Invited Group Exhibit during the National Basketry Organization 10th Biennial Conference, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
Art of the South 2019, Memphis College of Art through Number: Inc., Juried Group Exhibition, Memphis, TN
EBB & FLOW: the power of water, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center in Association with the Smithsonian Institution, Juried Group Exhibition, Solomons, MA
The Biennial Project Biennial 2019, The Biennial Project, Juried Group Exhibition, projected digitally at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2019 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
2018
Empathy – 9th Annual International Juried Exhibition, The A.D. Gallery, UNC Pembroke, Juried Group Exhibition, Pembroke, NC
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2018 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
Jack Lunt 26th Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
2017
RESTRUCTURED: an intersectional feminist exhibition, Nave Gallery Annex, Juried Group Exhibition, Somerville, MA
PaperWest – A National Works on Paper Juried Group Exhibition, Gittins Gallery, University of Utah, Juror: Willie Cole, Salt Lake City, UT
Art of the South 2017, L Ross Gallery through Number: Inc., Juried Group Exhibition, Memphis, TN
Fine Art Exhibition, Dogwood Arts, Juried Group Exhibition, Knoxville, TN
Demographically Speaking, A Figurative Exhibition, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Jack Lunt 25th Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
2016
Chasing Ghosts: Art that Pierces the Veil through Remembrance, Legacy, and Beyond, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
One-off: Monotypes, Andrews Gallery of the College of William & Mary, Three-person Exhibit, Williamsburg, VA
Ways of Seeing, Kentucky Arts Council, Traveling Exhibition (juried from fellowship recipients), five KY venues
Jack Lunt Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
Flesh: Revealing A Passion for Paint, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
Between Oceans, SÍM Hafnarstræti Gallery, February '16 Artists in Residence Group Exhibition, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015
Fine Art Exhibition, Dogwood Arts, Juried Group Exhibition, Knoxville, TN
State of Painting, Anne Wright Wilson Fine Art Gallery, Georgetown College, Group Exhibition, Georgetown, KY
Jack Lunt Memorial Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2015 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
DIALOGIST, work included in quarterly journal of poetry & art, Volume II, Issue III
2014
12 x 12, Ellis Walker Gallery, Group Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY
Painting Alumni Retrospective, 914Works, Selected Group Exhibition, Syracuse, NY
The Living Mark, (featured artist), Verum Ultimum Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Portland, OR
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2014 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, BG, KY
WKU Department of Art Faculty Biennial, FAC Main Gallery, BG, KY
2013
Figures & Faces – Fighting with Fiction, Prographica Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
ArtVenice Biennale 2013, The Biennial Project, Juried Group Exhibition, projected digitally at Venice Biennale, Italy
Intersections, Ellis Walker Gallery, Two-person collaboration, exhibition, & charity auction for Common Threads/Chicago Marathon, BG, KY
Women Painting Women, Customs House Museum, Invitational Group Exhibition, Clarksville, TN
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2013 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, BG, KY
2012
Process as Content, Gallery Project, Group Exhibition, Ann Arbor, MI
Painting Painters Paint, Todd Art Gallery, Group Exhibition, MTSU, Murfreesboro, TN
2012 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, ArtWorks, Juried Group Exhibit, BG, KY
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2012 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juried Exhibit, BG, KY
2011
1st International Painting Annual, Manifest Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition-in-Print, Cincinnati, OH
2nd Semiannual Competition Dave Bown Projects, Juried Group Exhibition, NYC
Community of Artists, Department of Art faculty students, exhibit at Center for Research and Development
26th Annual Positive/Negative National, Slocumb Galleries, Juried Group Exhibit, ETSU, Johnson City, TN
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2011 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juried Exhibit, BG, KY
2010
dis.place.ment, UICA (Urban Institute of Contemporary Art), Juried Group Exhibition, Grand Rapids, MI
I Am Solitary I Am An Army Beers Lambert Contemporary Art/Surface Gallery (shortlisted), United Kingdom
26th Anniversary Benefit Annual Fine Art Auction, Brad Cooper Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, Tampa, FL
Germinate, Square Space Gallery, faculty and students from Vol State CC & WKU, Gallatin, TN
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2010 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2009
CoCA Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Juried Group Exhibition, Juror: Jess Van Nostrand, Seattle, WA
18th Annual Jack E. Lunt Memorial Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, BG, KY
2009 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Juried Group Exhibit, BG, KY
1st Annual Nude, Manifest Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
Face It, University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Knoxville, TN
Drawings, Elle LeSavette Gallery (later renamed Elisavet), Grand Opening Exhibition of new space, Naxos, Greece
LAL Open, Lexington Art League, Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Open Studio Exhibition, SVA Chelsea Studios, Exhibit of work done during residency, New York, NY
2009 ArtWorks Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, BG, KY
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2009 Open Art Exhibition, KY Library & Museum, Juror: Mitch Eckert, BG, KY
Nude International 2009, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2008
A-B(o)MB (Art Basel (of) Miami Beach), Artoconecto/Bakehouse Arts Complex, Juried Group Exhibit, Miami, FL
2008 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Juried Group Exhibit, BG, KY
Processing Influence: Studio Research, Art of France, University Gallery, Group Exhibition Bowling Green, KY
Drawings, Elle LeSavette Gallery (later renamed Elisavet), Group Exhibition, Naxos, Greece
ArtWorks Members Exhibition, Gallery at Lot 916, Juried Group Exhibit, Bowling Green, KY
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2008 Open Art Exhibition, Kentucky Library & Museum, Juried Exhibit, BG, KY
QX.net Nude International 2008, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2007
CoEXISTANCE, Brad Cooper Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, Tampa, FL
Resistance to Vision: Searching, Sifting, Finding, Seeing, Manifest Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Cincinnati, OH
In the Flesh, Target Gallery, at Torpedo Factory, Juried Group Exhibition, Alexandria, VA
Uncommon Wealth: Legacy of the Kentucky Arts Council Fellowships, 10 Locations, Traveling Invitational Exhibit
US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2007 Open Art Exhibition, Kentucky Library & Museum, Juried Exhibit, BG, KY
Nude International 2007, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Re: figure: Gods + Monsters, University Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, U Mass Dartmouth, New Bedford, MA
2006
22nd Anniversary Exhibition: Abstract Generations, Brad Cooper Gallery, Group Exhibition, Tampa, FL
Re: figure: Gods + Monsters, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Selected Group Exhibition, Cazenovia, NY
2006 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Annual Fine Art Auction, Brad Cooper Gallery, Fine Art Auction, Tampa, FL
The Figure Considered..., Main Gallery/Northern Kentucky University, Invitational Exhibit, Highland Heights, KY
Uncommon Wealth: Legacy of the Kentucky Arts Council Fellowships, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY (Invitational Group Exhibit sponsored jointly by the Lexington Art League and the Kentucky Arts Council with a grant from the NEA's American Masterpieces Program)
OH+5, The Dairy Barn, Juried Group Exhibition, Athens, OH
U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts 2005, The Kentucky Library and Museum, BG, KY
Nude International 2006, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2005
2005 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, BG, KY
Twenty-One: Works on Paper, Brad Cooper Gallery, Group Exhibition, Tampa, FL
Sixteenth National Juried Exhibition, Viridian Artists Inc. @ Chelsea, Juried Group Exhibition, New York, NY, Juror: Robert Rosenblum
Unzipped, The Chait Galleries Downtown, Juried Group Exhibition, Iowa City, IA
Small Works – 20th Annual Harper College National Exhibition, Harper College, Juried Exhibit, Palatine, IL
U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts 2005, The Kentucky Library and Museum, BG, KY
Nude International 2005, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Kentucky Arts Council Fellowship Exhibit 2004, Actors Theatre-Gallery, 2004 Fellowship Award Recipients, Louisville, KY
2004
20/20 Twenty Years Twenty Artists, Brad Cooper Gallery, Group exhibition, Tampa, FL
2004 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, BG, KY
Women's Art Show, Anna Eaton Stout Gallery, Invitational Exhibit of 4 Artists, Brescia University, Owensboro, KY
U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts 2004, The Kentucky Library and Museum, BG, KY
The Nude 2004, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
Contemporary Art From Around The World, Gallery International, Invitational Group Exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2003
2003 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, BG, KY
The Figure as Content, Andrews Gallery of the College of William Mary, 4-person exhibit, Williamsburg, VA
New American Paintings, Open Studios Press, Juried Group Exhibition published in national art periodical
KY National: A National Exhibit of Contemporary Art, Clara M. Eagle Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Murray State U, KY
Contemporary Approaches to Drawing, Andrews Gallery of the College of William & Mary, Invitational Exhibit of 4 Artists, Williamsburg, VA
The Nude 2003, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2002
Nude in The Post-Modern 2002, Brad Cooper Gallery, Internt'l Juried Exhibit, Tampa FL
2002 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Bowling Green, KY
Perceptual Experience: Contemporary American Figure Drawing, Frye Art Museum, Invitational Exhibit, Seattle, WA
Faculty Swap Exhibition, Owensboro University Galleries: Exchange between four Kentucky Universities
The Nude, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2001
21st Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Bowling Green, KY
Celebration of the Arts Firstar 16th Annual Open Art Exhibition, Firstar Bank, Bowling Green, KY
The Nude, Lexington Art League, Juried Group Exhibition, Lexington, KY
2000
50th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Juried Group Show, Evansville, IN
20th Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Capitol Arts Gallery, Juried Exhibit, Bowling Green, KY
Owensboro Art Guild 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Anna Eaton Stout Gallery, Brescia Univ., Owensboro, KY
Drawing Exhibition, College Art Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibit, Shoreline Community College, Seattle, WA
Splendor in the Bash: East of Eden & Garden of Good and Evil, Henry Art Gallery, Invitational Auction, Seattle, WA
Salon Group Exhibition, Black Lab Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
1999
Painting & Sculpture Exhibition, Rike Center Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, University of Dayton, OH
Art Department Faculty Show, Fisher Gallery, Group Exhibition, Cornish College of the ArtsSeattle, WA
1997-88
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall...Women in Self-Portrait, Mills Pond House Gallery, Juried Exhibition, St. James, NY
Political Art, SOIL, Juried Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Selections 96, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Invitational Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
Works in Progress, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, Group Exhibition, Seattle, WA
In Search of the Self, Cynthia Cote Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition, Calumet, MI
Selected Works, Central School of Art Gallery, Group Exhibitions, London, England – 1990, 1989
GRANTS/MAJOR AWARDS and HONORS
2024 Artist Professional Development Grant, Great Meadows Foundation, studio research in Venice, Italy, Zagreb, Croatia, and Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April/May 2024
U.S Juror, ZVONO Award Panel, part of YVAA/Central and Eastern Europe, organized in partnership between the KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, Trust for Mutual Understanding, and Residency Unlimited, Bihać, Bosnia and Herzegovina, May 2023
Awarded the designation of University Distinguished Professor, WKU, 2020
2019 Artist Professional Development Grant, Great Meadows Foundation, for participation in Kuma International Center for Visual Art from Post-Conflict Societies Conference on Contemporary Art, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2019 ZSEIFS Project Continuation Grant, Office of International Programs, WKU, for participation in Kuma International Center for Visual Art from Post-Conflict Societies Conference on Contemporary Art, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2017 Zuheir Sofia Endowed International Faculty Seminar (ZSEIFS) Fellowship Program, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014/2015 Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (University Level), Western Kentucky University
2014/2015 Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (College Level), Potter College of Arts & Letters, WKU
2012/2013 Research/Creative Activities Program Award, Western Kentucky University, Office of the Provost, KY for proposal, Searching for the Everywoman – series of monotypes and paintings.
2009 Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women
Finalist/Alternate, Fulbright Award, Fulbright Program – Ireland 2009
Art Basel Miami, selected as 1 of 2 artists featured during Art Basel Miami, by jurors of exhibit A-B(o)MB – Miami, FL, 2008
XVI National Juried Exhibition Winner, awarded 2- person exhibit, by Robert Rosenblum, New York City, NY, 2006
2004 Individual Artist Al Smith Fellowship Award, The Kentucky Arts Council
King County Arts Commission/King County Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition and Grant, 1998
SELECTED AWARDS & HONORS
Best of Show, Abound Credit Union 2023 Celebration of the Arts, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2023
Best of Show, 14th All Kentucky Juried Exhibition, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2022
First Place Award, 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, Marshall University, Huntington, WV, 2022
Third Place Award, The 2nd Annual Figural Exhibition, The In Art Gallery (online gallery), Edwardsville, IL, 2021
Best of Show, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2021 Open Art Exhibition, Kentucky Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2021
Best of Show and First Place Professional Painting, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2020 Open Art Exhibition, KY Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2020
Second Place Award, Baker/Lunt Memorial Juried Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2019
Third Place Award, Empathy – 9th Annual International Juried Exhibition, The A.D. Gallery, Pembroke, NC, 2018
Purchase Award, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2017 Open Art Exhibition, KY Museum, Bowling Green, KY, 2017
Second Place Award, Jack Lunt Memorial Juried Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2015
Led Study Abroad Course, Processing Influence: Art of Italy, Works on Paper, for WKU students, Italy 2015
First Place Painting, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2015 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2015
Featured Artist, Verum Ultimum Gallery for exhibition The Living Mark, Portland, OR, 2014
First Place Works on Paper, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2014 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2014
Best of Show, ArtWorks Members 6th Annual Fine Arts Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2013
Best of Show, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2013 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2013
Merit Award, 2012 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2012
Merit Award, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2013 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2012
Painting Professional 1st Place Award, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2010 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2010
Juror's Honorable Mention, CoCA Annual, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2009
Two-Dimensional Work 2nd Place Award, 2009 ArtWorks Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2009
Painting Professional 2nd Place Award, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2009 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2009
BG Women's Club Honor Award, 2008 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2008
Led Study Abroad Course, Processing Influence: Art of France, for WKU students, administraion and alumni – France 2008
Artist Enrichment Grant Review Panel, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Louisville, KY 2007
First Place Award, Painting Professional, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2008 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2008
Juror's Honorable Mention, In the Flesh, Alexandria, VA 2008
First Place Award, Painting Professional, US Bank Celebration of the Arts 2007 Open Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2007
Edward Jones Honor Award, 2006 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2006
Director's Choice Award, 2005 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2005
Purchase Award, Small Works–20th Annual Harper College National Exhibition, Harper College Foundation Art Collection, 2005
Award for Best Painting, U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts, Bowling Green, KY, 2005
Juror's Award, Nude International 2005, Lexington Art League, KY, 2005
Painting 2nd Place Award, U.S. Bank Celebration of the Arts, Bowling Green, KY, 2004
Evelyn Banks Bohannon Memorial Merit Award, 2003 All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2003
Third Award, The Nude 2003, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY, 2003
Second Award, Nude in the Post Modern, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL, 2002/3
Milliken Law Firm Award for Best Charcoal, 2002 Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2002
Merit Award, 21st Annual All Kentucky Juried Fine Art Exhibition, Bowling Green, KY, 2001
Siegfried Weng Purchase Award, 50th Mid-States Exhibition, Evansville, Indiana, 2000
Best of Show Award, Owensboro Art Guild 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, 2000
Best of Show Award, Celebration of the Arts Firstar 15th Annual Open Art Exhibition, 2000
Parnassus Scholarship, 1995
Hiram Gee Painting Award, 1991
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University Distinguished Professor, 2020-present (Professor 2012-2020, Associate Professor 2006-2012, Assistant Professor 2000-2006) Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Visiting Professor (two-year visiting faculty position), 1998 - 2000, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
RESIDENCIES
Processing Memory, Processing Place: Traces, Forces, Actions, La Macina di San Cresci Artist Residency Program, Greve in Chianti, Italy, March/April 2024
Referent: Cynosure in Psychogeography, arts letters & numbers Artist and Writing Residency Program led by Andrew Helton and Ginger Teppner, Averill Park, New York, one-week (attended remotely), July 2022
Hvítahús Artist Residency, Krossavik/Hellissandur, Iceland (Snaefellsnes Peninsula), one-month residency, March 2016
SÍM International Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland, one-month residency, February 2016
Naxos (and Athens), Greece, two-weeks as artist-in-residence, June 2011
School of Visual Arts, New York, New York, five-week residency, June 2009
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, four-week residency, July 2000
CURATORIAL PROJECT
Curated Proof of Existence: An Exhibit of Work by Contemporary Artists of Bosnian and Balkan Origin, an international exhibit of twelve artists, University Gallery, FAC, WKU, Bowling Green, KY, Jan–April 2018. Link to more info, photos, video here.
Also produced catalogue of exhibition available here.
LECTURES/PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2023
Paper Presented, Pushing through the Fog: From Crevasses to Mortar Shells to the Struggle of the Every Day, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled The Case for a New Sublime in Contemporary Painting, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, October 2023
Visiting Artist, conducted studio visits with four international artists-in-residence (from Italy, France, Kosovo, Serbia), Residency Unlimited International Residency Program, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Artist Talk, Accumulations and Residues, The Hall Gallery, Millsaps College, Jackson, MS
Paper Presented, Processing Influence: Inputs and their Traces, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled Studio Art > Show Us Your Influences, MICA, Baltimore, MD, October 2022 (originally 2021 but conference COVID-canceled)
Artist Talk, Artfields 2022, brief Artist Talk presented at The Bean Market during Artfields events, Lake City, SC
2020
Panel Chair, Glimpses and Decoys: Painters Seeking Meaning through Interplay of Image and Material, SECAC Annual Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (virtual format due to pandemic), December 2020
Gallery Talk by Photojournalist James Kenney and Artist Yvonne Petkus, Responding to Bosnia: An Exhibition by James Kenney and Yvonne Petkus, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY, February 7, 2020. Part of the WKU International Year of Revisited programming; reception sponsored by the WKU Office of Global Learning and International Affairs.
2019
Paper Presented: Proof of Existence: Artistic Processing as Strategy and Evidence, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled Destructive Forces: A Visual Response, Chattanooga, TN
Panel Member, panel of five, on issues surrounding visibility/invisibility in contemporary art, for Vienna-based (Austria) podcast Contemporary Matters. Recorded in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; to be released in late 2019
Presentation, Proof of Existence: An Exhibit of Work by Contemporary Artists of Bosnian and Balkan Origin, Kuma International Center for Visual Art from Post-Conflict Societies Second Annual Conference on Contemporary Art from Bosnian and Herzegovina, Bosniak Institute, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, July 2019
2018
Gallery Talk, Moremen/Moloney Contemporary Gallery, Louisville, KY
Panel Moderator, for panel discussion between artist Aida Šehović and filmmaker Rialda Zukić, WKU, BG, KY
Curator's Lecture, introducing Proof of Existence exhibit & Bosnian visiting artists, the HAD Artist Collective, WKU
Gallery Talks (several) for Proof of Existence: An Exhibit of Work by Contemporary Artists of Bosnian and Balkan Origin, international exhibit of twelve artists, University Gallery, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2017
Introduction/Discussion Leader for the film screening of Halima’s Path, IYOBiH Bosnian Film Festival, WKU, Bowling Green, KY – discussed information gleaned from meetings with the International Commission on Missing Persons in Sarajevo and their Identification Lab in Tuzla (during ZSEIFS fellowship) as relevant to the content of the film.
Artist Lecture and Monotype Workshop, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Artist Lecture: Arctic Residues – Sightings, Downing Museum, Bowling Green, KY
2015
Paper Presented: Imagery – Constants and Expansions, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled, Subject Matters: Considering How Subject Matter is Chosen in Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Workshop, Absence/Presence, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, series of three drawing workshops in conjunction with and in response to two museum exhibitions (Michelangelo and Phantom Bodies), Nashville, TN
Artist Lecture and Undergraduate/Graduate Critiques, Miami University, Oxford, OH
2014
Artist Lecture and Gallery Talk, Smith Gallery, Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Paper Presented: Serial Self – In Search of an Everywoman, College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference, session titled: The Unlikely Self, Chicago, IL
Illustration Lecture and Workshop to children (K-3rd grade) PBS Kids Go!, Bowling Green, KY
2013
Paper Presented: Beyond Gesture, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled, Impasto!, Greensboro, NC
Panel Discussion: Women Painting Women, Custom House Museum, Clarksville, TN
Artist Lecture, Graduate and Undergraduate Student Critiques, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2012
Paper Presented: Process Painting – Finding Imagery, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled, Still Painting, Durham, NC
Artist Talk, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
2011
Paper Presented: Building the Groundwork for a Sustained Practice, SECAC Annual Conference, session titled, Striving for Student Success in the World of Professional Practice, Savannah, GA
Paper Presented: Studio Research: Processing Residues – Finding Imagery, Athens Institute of Education and Research (ATINER), 2nd Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece
2010
Gallery Talk, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY
Artist Lecture, Graduate and Undergraduate Student Critiques, Portrait Painting Demonstration, University of Mississippi, University, MS
Paper Presented: Processing Imagery: Reflecting Issues of Contemporary Anxiety, College Art Association 98th Annual Conference, session titled: The Power of the Image: The Studio Artist and Civil Society, Chicago, IL
2009
Artist Lecture, Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, KY
Gallery Talk, Gallery at 916, Bowling Green, KY
Artist Lecture, Genderations Lecture Series, Womens Studies Program, WKU, Bowling Green, KY
2008
Artist Lecture, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
Illustration Lecture and Workshop to children (K-3rd grade), Reading Rainbow, Bowling Green, KY
2007
Led 'Distinct Dialogues' round table discussion titled Art after War: A Selection of Responses, Bowling Green, KY
Artist Lecture, South Gallery, Jacksonville, FL
Illustration Lecture and Workshop to children (K-3rd grade), Reading Rainbow, Bowling Green, KY
2006
Artist Lecture, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
Artist Lecture and Panel Discussion, Artspace, Raleigh, NC
Portrait Painting Workshop, Women and Kids Learning Together Summer Camp, Bowling Green, KY
Artist Lecture and Graduate Student Critiques, Boston University, Boston, MA
Illustration Lecture and Workshop to children (K-3rd grade) Reading Rainbow, Bowling Green, KY
2005
Artist Lecture, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
2004
Artist Lecture, Painting Demo, Advanced Student Critiques, Murray State University, Murray, KY
Artist Lecture, Thigpen Gallery, VSCC, Gallatin, TN
Painting Workshop, Artist Lecture, and Panel Discussion, Brescia College, Owensboro, KY
Panel Discussion on Education, Teaching Scholar's Institute, Murray State University, Murray, KY
Artist Lecture, Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
2003
Anatomy Lecture to Figure Sculpting course, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
The Drama and The Gesture, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
2002
Whistler's Painting Process, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Anatomy/Figure Drawing Demonstration, Grayson County High School, Grayson County, KY
2001
Artist Lecture and Anatomy Demonstration, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, TN
2000
Artist Lecture, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY
Artist Lecture, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Talk & Tour of studio for “The Painter’s Process” course, The Academy of Realist Art, Seattle, WA
Guest Lecturer for “Portraiture”, Art History, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
1998
Artist Lecture, Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle, WA
Artist Lecture, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Artist Lecture, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
PUBLICATIONS/PRESS
Painting Old Town Sarajevo II, used as cover art for: Brinkley, Jennifer, Birds in the City, chapbook of poetry (Finishing Line Press, August 2023) https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/birds-in-the-city-by-jennifer-brinkley/
SoKY Happenings, Painting Diagnosis, featured as Cover Image, Volume 14, Issue 11, April 2021
"A Persistent Body: The Work of Yvonne Petkus", feature article by Natalie Weis for Under Main, January 2021
https://undermain.art/visual-arts/a-persistent-body-the-work-of-yvonne-petkus/
"Art and Process with Yvonne Petkus", Dime Stories, Kentucky Museum Podcast, Season 4, Episode 3, aired February 9, 2021
https://anchor.fm/dimestories/episodes/Art-and-Process-with-Yvonne-Petkus-epssg4
WKU Spirit Magazine for Alumni featured article: "How do you teach an art class online?", written by Aurelia Spaulding, Deanna Jenkins, pages 49-52, Summer 2020 http://www.epagepub.com/publication/?m=14048&i=668468&p=50
"Bowling Green Art Museum Showcasing Exhibit Reflecting on Life and War in Bosnia", by Brandon Woempner and Kevin Willis, WKU NPR interview and article, February 27, 2020
https://www.wkyufm.org/post/bowling-green-art-museum-showcasing-exhibit-reflecting-life-and-war-bosnia#stream/0
"Responding to Bosnia: The Downing Museum to host a reception & gallery talk featuring the work of two WKU faculty members", Blogpost for WKU Global Learning and Study Abroad by Natasha Breu, February 7, 2020
https://international.blog.wku.edu/2020/02/07/responding-to-bosnia-the-downing-museum-to-host-a-reception-gallery-talk-featuring-the-work-of-two-wku-faculty-members/
"Ever-Present: Yvonne Petkus at Moremen Moloney" exhibition review by Hunter Kissel for Under Main, April 2018
https://undermain.art/visual-arts/ever-present-yvonne-petkus-at-moremen-moloney/
WKU Research Foundation featured article: "How two professors use visual arts to probe, question pervasive global issues", July 5, 2018 https://wkurf.org/two-professors-use-visual-arts-probe-question-pervasive-global-issues/
NPR Interview of Yvonne Petkus by Barbara Deeb about ZSEIFS, IYO Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the SpiritFunder Campaign to bring the HAD Artist Collective to WKU and Bowling green, November 15, 2018
"Demographically Speaking" at Lexington Art League's Louden House, Denise Stewart-Sanabria Blog (Petkus' work mentioned and image included, January, 29, 2017
Press for Frist Art Museum workshop: http://fristcenter.org/calendar/detail/three-day-studio-workshop-absence-and-presence-using-drawing-to-process-art#
"2015 Potter College Faculty Award Winners, Yvonne Petkus", PCAL Arts & Letters Magazine, pgs 31-32, Fall 2015 http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1011&context=pcal_pubs
Mudd, Aaron. "Professor's poetry collection based on experiences". The Daily News. October 9, 2015 (includes discussion of connection between author and my painting that was used for cover as well as some interview responses)
Painting, Braced, used as cover art for: Olmsted, Jane, seeking the other side (Fleur de Lis Press, 2015).
Interview: The Living Mark, Featured Artist, Verum Ultimum Gallery, Portland, OR, July 2014.
Arnold, Kristina. "Searching". Essay for exhibition brochure. The Van Every/Smith Galleries, March 2014.
Upchurch, Michael. "Some eerie, startling work at Prographica's 'Figures & Faces". The Seattle Times. Dec 27, 2013.
Parr-Moody, Karen. "'Women Painting Women' – The feminine perspective of seer and seen". The Leaf Chronicle. April 26, 2013.
Cantu, John Carlos. "Gallery Project exhibit explores notion of 'Process as Content'". AnnArbor.com, Dec 22, 2012.
Franz, Jason, (author/curator). First Annual International Painting Annual (INPA) (exhibition-in-print), Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press in association with Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2011.
Cain, LeeAnn. "The Woman Without Arms". RaiderView. November 8, 2010. pg 8.
Van Nostrand, Jess, (author/juror). 2009 Annual(catalogue), Seattle, WA: Center on Contemporary Art, 2009.
Franz, Jason, (author/curator). Nude(catalogue), Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press in association with Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2009.
Pepper, Jen (author/gallery director). Art Gallery Exhibitions: Fall 2005 – Spring 2008(book), Cazenovia, NY: The Art Gallery at Cazenovia College, 2008
Baker, Joanie. "WKU artist featured at Miami Fair". Daily News. Wednesday, January 14, 2009. Section B, pg 1.
Wilson, Amy. "The Naked Truth About Teaching The Art of the Nude". The Lexington Herald-Leader. January 9, 2009, pg 16.
Petkus, Yvonne. "Clothing is Superfluous to Examination of Human Condition". The Lexington Herald-Leader. January 11, 2008, pg 22.
Saulnier, Dana, (author/curator). Resistance to Vision: Searching, Sifting, Finding, Seeing(catalogue), Cincinnati, OH: Manifest Press in association with Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, 2007.
Carter, Catherine. "Artists probe contemporary issues through traditional methods". The Standard Times. March 2, 2007, Section B, pg 3.
Boyce, David B. "UMD gallery offers figurative exhibition". The Standard-Times 'ARTicles: Notes on the Arts'. February 11, 2007, Section C, pg 4.
Shaheen, Melissa. "Reviews: Gesture Drawing". www.artsramble.com. October 20, 2006.
Sung, Ellen. "From the studio to the street". The News & Observer. October 6, 2006.
Craig, Courtney. "WKU art professor's work on display in NYC". Daily News. Wednesday, June 29, 2005. Section B, pg 4.
Skipper, Bob. "The Drama and the Gesture". The Western Scholar. Bowling Green, KY: Volume 5, No. 2, Spring 2005, pgs. 26-29 & cover.
Smith, Justin. "nude international 2005". ACE Weekly. January 13, 2005, Vol. 22 No. 2, pgs 9-11.
Audette, Anna (editor), 100 Creative Drawing Ideas, Shambhala Publications (distr. Random House), Winter 03/04
On Teaching, Teaching Spirit a newsletter from the Center for Teaching and Learning, pg 2, WKU "Ideas not Absolutes" Volume 14, No. 1, September 2003.
New American Paintings, Boston, MA: Open Studios Press, Volume 46, July 2003.
Hambrick, Julie Ball. "Kentucky National 2003". dialogue magazine: the art, architecture, and design journal of the Heartland. May/June 2003, p. 59.
Lundin, Norman, (author/curator), West, Richard and Byrne, Debra, (editors). The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing, Seattle and London: Frye Art Museum in Association with the University of Washington Press, 2002.
Norris, John. "Girls, Girls, Girls". ACE Weekly. January 10, 2002, Vol. 21 No. 2.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Evansville Museum of Arts and Science, Evansville, IN
Harper College Foundation Art Collection
Jerry Baker (private collection)
Athens, Greece (private collection)
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Moreman Gallery, Louisville, KY
Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL
Elisavet Gallery, Naxos, Greece
EllisWalker Gallery, Bowling Green, KY