CV

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

Education:

1973, BA, Architecture & Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
1975, BFA, Painting, Kansas City Art Institute
1996 – 1998, five week study of mokuhanga under Hiroki Morinoue
2017 one week study of the baren under Goto Hidehiko

Active Boards:

Anderson Ranch Arts Center (2018 – present), Snowmass Village, CO
Tamarind Institute (2016 – present), Albuquerque, NM
International Mokuhanga Association (2018 – present), Tokyo, Japan
Studios, Inc (2011 – 2022), Kansas City, MO

Museum Permanent Collections and Selected Corporate Collections

Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Miriana Kistler Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY
Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
Humbert Balsan Collection, New York, NY
New York Public Library, New York, NY
Department of Architecture, University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO
The Collectors Fund, Kansas City, MO
Consumer Growth Partners, Kansas City, MO
Bishop-McCann, Kansas City, MO
Inergy, L.P., Kansas City, MO
Barkley, Kansas City, MO
Emprise Bank, Wichita
UMB, Kansas City,

Solo exhibitions

2022 May 26 – Jun 24 String Theory: Mike Lyon’s Paintings, Drawings, and Stringed Instruments Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO
~~2020 Apr 13 – May 12 (postponed due to pandemic) String Theory: Paintings, Drawings, and Stringed Instruments, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass, CO~~
2019 Apr 1 – 30 Mike Lyon: Post-Digital Drawing and Painting, Weinberger Drawing Room, Kansas City, MO
2017 Jan 17-Apr 16, The XY Zs of Post-Digital Gesture: Drawings & Prints by Mike Lyon, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2012 Mar 1-Apr 26, Mike Lyon: Drawings & Prints. Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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

Selected group exhibitions

2023-May-2022 “Global Dimensions” international mokuhanga artists at Walla Walla Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
Feb 25 – Mar 25 “COLOR BLOCK PRINTS TODAY: Marking A Wichita Centennial” Reuben Saunders Gallery, Wichita, Kansas (Featured artists: Jean Gumpper, Karen Kunc, Leon Loughridge, Mike Lyon, Michelle Martin, Walter Padgett, Mark Sisson)
2022 Feb 26 – Aug 7 “The International Block Print Renaissance, Then and Now—1922–2022, Block Print Exhibitions in Wichita, Kansas” at Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS (Sarah Reclining, Linda in Black, Secret Garden)
2020 Aug 15 – Sep 26 “New Media 10101” at Peninsula School of Art, Fish Creek, WI
2020 June 15 – July 15 “Face Forward: The Art of Portraiture” at Rachael Cozad Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2020 Jan 24 “Printkite: an Invitational Rokkaku Kite Project” organized by Koichi Yamamoto for SGCI Puertografico, San Juan, PR
2019 Nov 25 2020 Jan 25 – Mar 15 “Good Form, Decorum, and in the Manner: Portraits from the Collections of Washington Print Club Members” Katzen American University Museum, Washington, DC
2019 Sep 15 – Nov 29 “Look Me in the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City” at Epsten Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2019 May 1 – Jul 28 “Breaking Boundaries” international mokuhanga artists at Walla Walla Foundry Gallery, Walla Walla, WA
2019 Feb “Beyond 72 dpi: the postdigitalprintmaker exhibited SGCI Texas
2019 Jan 11 – Mar 16 “Drawn” (‘Elena’ awarded 1st prize) George A SPIVA Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2018 Summer Unexpected Encounters: Important acquisitions of the past decade Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
2018 May – June “code self portrait” exhibited in Drawn & Etched Weinberger Fine Art, Kansas City, MO
2018 Jan 19 – Feb 23 “What if Christ…” in Drawing Discourse at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery at UNC, Asheville, NC
2018 Jan 3 Mokuhanga: Impressions Past and Present Crowell and West Galleries at Union College, Schenectady, NY
2017 Oct – Nov Globalizing Mokuhanga, Studio 7 Fine Arts, Holualoa, HI
2017 Jul 14 – Sep 22 River Market Regional Exhibition, Mallin and Charno Galleries, Kansas City, MO
2017 Jun 2 – Aug 19, Summer Invitational, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2017 Dec 23, 2016 – June 25, 2017, Pattern Scheme, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2016 Aug – Oct, Fresh: KCAI Alumni, The Epsten Gallery in partnership with Kansas City Art Institute, Overland Park, KS
2016 May Assimilation, Kenilworth Square East Gallery at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2014 Dec – Mar, 2015 2014 Shanghai International Printmaking Exhibition, China Art Museum, Shanghai, PRC
2013 Mar Southern Graphics Council Homespun Technology, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, Milwaukee, WI
2012 May 13 – Jul 3 synthesis SPIVA Center for the Arts, Joplin, MO
2012 Mar 23–Oct 12 Personal Effects portraits and still lifes from the permanent collection, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
2011 Jul 30-Sep 18 IN JAPAN moku-hanga by 39 invited international artists, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 April-June AMERICA NOW AND HERE – Eric Fischl et all curated exhibition of American art, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2011 The Kansas City Collection rotating exhibition of selected artists (http://thekccollection.com/)
2010 Oct – Mokuhanga and Beyond, woodcuts by Jacomijn den Engelsen, Holland, Elizabeth Forrest, Canada, Daniel Heyman, USA, Dariuz Kaca, Poland, Mike Lyon, USA, Tuula Moilanen, Finland/Japan, Eva Pietzcker, Germany, April Vollmer, USA, Barbara Wybou, Canada in conjunction with Printopolis International Symposium on Printmaking, The Paper Place, Toronto, ON, Canada
2010 Oct – Editions and Artists Book Fair (booth exhibit with Center for Contemporary Printmaking), New York, NY
2010 June-Sept – Virtual Media: Computer-aided Art from the Collection. Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
2010 Summer Invitational Exhibition, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
2010 The Kansas City Collection year-long rotating exhibit thekccollection.com
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

Books

2021 “The International Block Print Renaissance: Then and Now” by Barbara J. Thompson, Wichita Art Museum, pp 291, 304-305
2019 “Look Me in the Eye: Portraits of Kansas City” by Mike Lyon and Elizabeth Kirsch, exhibition catalog 137 pages, Epsten Gallery
2019 Silverpoint and Metalpoint Drawing: A Complete Guide to the Medium by Susan Schwalb and Tom Mazzullo, Routledge, pp 90-92
2016 Modern Printmaking by Sylvie Covey, Random House / Penguin pages 18, 24-25, 29, 44-47, 285-292
2015 Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop by April Vollmer, Watson-Guptill pages 130-131, 198, 222
2012 Post-digital Printmaking: CNC and Digital Methods by Paul Catanese & Angela Geary, A & C Black, London, Chapter 10: Mike Lyon

Other Publications

2018 “Mokuhanga: What’s In a Name?” by Claire Cuccio, pages 26-27, Printmaking Today Summer 2018, Cello Press, Ltd
2018 Art in Print Volume 2 Number 2, “Mokuhanga International” by April Vollmer, artinprint.org/article/mokuhanga-international
2018 Drawing Discourse: 9^th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Drawing, University of North Carolina, pages 44-45
2018 Mokuhanga: Impressions Past and Present, Union College Department of Visual Arts
2017 Japanese woodblock exhibit makes good impression at Feigenbaum Center
2016 Siddur Romemu, by David Ingber, Romemu New York, 120 pages (Grass-2 illustrated)
2014 Dec PoetsArtists Issue 59 “The Power of Drawing” curated by Steven Da Luz, pages 3, 74-75, 99
2012 Dec Grabado y Edicion No. 36, Sosaku Hanga by April Vollmer, pages 70-72, photo page 70
2012 Jul-Aug Art in Print Volume 2, Number 2, Pages Mokuhanga International by April Vollmer, pages 4 – 12, photo page 5
2010 The Kansas City Collection, Mike Lyon exhibition catalog (essay by Raechell Smith)
2009 PRINT QUARTERLY, XXVI, Number 4, December 2009, Page 409 Mike Lyon
2009 K-State Collegian July 1, Artist’s works inspired by Japanese prints, mechanics, Features and Opinions
2009 Apr Beach Museum of Art exhibition catalog Figuring it out: prints and drawings by Mike Lyon
2009 Apr 30 Kansas City Star kc art at ksu, article and photo, Arts and Entertainment, page 36
2005 May Artelino Mike Lyon – born 1951
2005 Apr Ukiyoe Gallery Thunderous’ Kansas City Printmaker — Mike Lyon http://www.ukiyoe-gallery.com/lyon.htm
2005 May 29 Kansas City Star article and photo, Page H4
2005 McNeese Works on Paper exhibition catalog, Cover and inside pages
2004 Oct American Artist Magazine, Page 11
2004 The Kyoto Galleries Federation of Arts Monthly News, 10/2004, pg 5
2004 Kyoto Woodcuts, exhibition catalog
2003 The Hand Print Press @ 10 Years pgs 5, 6, 14,15 by Stephen Goddard, Spencer Museum
2003 Simply Haiku http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv2n2/haiga-traditional/Mike_Lyon/
2002 CIDTALK http://cidtalk.com/?p=486