Gael
Stack, Chair of the Art Department at UH
 Gael
Stack is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor of Art at the University
of Houston. She has exhibited in museums and galleries nationally
and internationally. Her work is in numerous permanent collections
including the Beaux Art Museum, Saintes, France; the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Menil Collection, Houston, Texas;
the Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut; the Krannert
Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois; the Dallas Museum of Art; the San
Antonio Museum of Art; the El Paso Museum of Art; and the Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston. Major exhibitions include two solo shows
at the Musee de L’Echevinage, Saintes, France (catalogues);
two group exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogues);
“Three Visions,” Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires,
Argentina, traveling to Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Comientes,
Argentina (catalogue); “Collaborations: Artists and Printers,”
organized by Tamarind Institute, traveled internationally under
the auspices of the United States Information Agency’s Arts
America program (catalogue) and “New Art from A New City,
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue). She has
won numerous awards, including two from the National Endowment for
the Arts and one from the Tiffany Foundation. She was a Distinguished
Visiting Professor of Art at Yale University and has lectured widely.
Moody Gallery in Houston, Texas has represented and exhibited her
work since 1989. She has also exhibited with Janie C. Lee Gallery
in Houston and New York; and at Beitzel Fine Art, New York and Condeso/Lawler,
New York. She has served on the Municipal Arts Commission for the
City of Houston and the board of the Contemporary Arts Museum, and
currently is a board member of the Cultural Arts Council of Houston-Harris
County.
Professor Stack has a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana and a Master of
Fine Arts degree from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. She
heads a department that has become the region’s premier training
ground for the visual arts. The University of Houston Department
of Art produces highly productive graduates who are able to forge
successful careers in the arts and in academia. She has been a catalyst
in the development of a nationally recognized faculty of highly
diverse, innovative artists and art historians. The department’s
open environment has fostered the collaboration and innovation in
the visual arts that makes Houston one of the most vital contemporary
art scenes in the United States.
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