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LYON, Mike (b. 1951, Kansas City, Missouri, USA)

Education:

  • 1975, BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
  • 1973, BA, Architecture & Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania

Solo exhibitions:

  • 2010 Mar 5-26 Mike Lyon: Selected Work Pool Art Center Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, MO
  • 2009 Apr 17-July 18 Figuring it out: prints and drawings by Mike Lyon. Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS
  • 2006 Sep 1-30 Mike Lyon: Large Scale Drawings and Woodblock Prints, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2004 Oct 18-31 Mike Lyon: My Life, Gallery EZOSHI, Kyoto Japan

Public Collections:

  • Miriana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS
  • Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
  • Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
  • Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
  • Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY

Selected group exhibitions:

  • 2009 Spring-Fall Interchange. (“Sarah”) Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2008 Spring Selected Works from the Permanent Collection (“Jon”) Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
  • 2008 Summer – Fall (“Crosby”) Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2007, Sep 7 – Nov 4 “Backstage Pass” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2007, May 26 – Sep 30 International Artists’ Exhibition, Centro per le Arti Contemporanee DEDALO, Pescara, Italy
  • 2007 April 25-28 Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
  • 2006 Aug Anderson Ranch Arts Center (“Mia”, “Aspen Grove”), Aspen, CO
  • 2006 May-June Print Exhibition, (“Aspen Grove”) Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
  • 2006 May “Only Relief” Ink Shop, Ithaca, NY
  • 2005 Jul 16-28 “Puzzle Print” New York Public Library – Donnell Library Center W.53 St. New York, NY
  • 2005 Apr 7-27 “McNeese Works on Paper Exhibition” (purchase award – catalog cover) Abercrombie Gallery, Lake Charles, LA
  • 2005 Mar 21 – Apr 22 “American Impressions – Contemporary American Printmaking” at Ben Shahn Galleries, Wayne, NJ
  • 2005 Feb Art and Design Conference, Horncastle College, Lincolnshire, UK
  • 2005 Jan 10 – Feb 14 “Japanese Woodcuts including work by April Vollmer, Mike Lyon, Daniel Heyman, Yasu Shibata, Takuji Hamanaka, Keiji Shinohara, Bill Paden and Suezan Aikins“, Burns Atrium Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY
  • 2004 Aug Anderson Ranch Arts Center (“Anthony”), Aspen, CO
  • 2003 Oct-Nov “Ink from Wood: Two Traditions“, exhibit highlighting Japanese and Western techniques in printmaking featuring artists Richard Bosman, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Karen Kunc, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz, Mike Lyon, Robert Mangold, Ben Shahn, Yasu Shibata, and Neil Welliver at The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
  • 2003 “Hand Print Press, 10 Years” University of Missouri Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO
  • 2003 May – Jun “Inspired by Japan” Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
  • 2003 Spring “Miniature Print Exhibition” Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
  • 2002 Aug “Baren Woodblock Print Exhibit” The Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
  • 2002 July – August “Sacred Trees and Endangered Species” Kent State University’s Geauga Campus Gallery, Burton, OH
  • 2003 Jan “David Bull Annual Print Exhibition” Tokyo, Japan
  • 2001 Nov – Jan 2002) “Woodcuts” Gallery of the Quebec Printmakers Council, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 2001 Aug “Endangered Species” Artists Unlimited, Florida Printmakers Society, Tampa, FL

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