Paintings and Works on Paper, 2015–2025
October 24 – November 29, 2025
Opening Reception: Friday, October 24 | 5:30–7:30 PM
Panel Discussion: Saturday, October 25 | 1–3 PM
Artist Talk: Saturday, November 1 | 1–3 PM
713.521.7500
By Sarah Foltz
After ten years without a major solo exhibition in his home state, Michael Roque Collins returns to Houston this fall with Floating Worlds: Paintings and Works on Paper, 2015–2025, on view at Foltz Fine Art from October 24 through November 29, 2025. The exhibition brings together over a decade of visionary work across three major series—Transmission of Light, Reliquary, and the eponymous Floating World —offering a profound meditation on the human condition, mythic transformation, and the elusive boundaries between reality and dream.
With over fifty solo exhibitions to his name across internationally recognized institutions, Collins’ reemergence in Houston is more than a homecoming—it’s a full-circle moment. The artist was raised amid the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Houston’s modernist vanguard. His father, Lowell Collins, once led the Museum School at the Museum of Fine Arts, now the Glassell School of Art. Michael’s formative years were spent in a world where painting was both practice and philosophy, where Rothko’s silence and Burchfield’s haunted woods whispered from the walls.
Yet to call Collins a “Houston artist” is to reduce the metaphysical reach of a painter whose work is frequently likened to Goya, Caravaggio, and the literary depths of Rilke or Faulkner. His canvases do not depict scenes; they evoke thresholds. Bleeding ochres, scorched indigos, gardens overtaken by time—these are not images but relics from an inner cosmos. They are, as he calls them, “ethereal membranes,” layered with dream, memory, and morphic resonance.
Floating between allegory and abstraction, Collins’ paintings are inhabited by the recurring forms of decaying architecture, coastal relics, ritual figures, and above all, gardens—lush and overgrown, often consuming what humanity leaves behind. In these gardens, nature is not passive, but a moral force, one that punishes hubris and restores balance. They are spaces of reckoning and regeneration.
The exhibition includes large-scale oil paintings on linen alongside intimately scaled works on paper, all executed with Collins’ distinctive tactile language—scraped, pooled, veiled, and inscribed. His physical process echoes the psychological depth of the work. “I follow the currents of thinking, feeling, and willing,” he says. “Each painting reveals itself through discovery.”
A long-time professor and mentor, recently retired from Houston Christian University, Collins has never painted for fashion or favor. As one curator remarked, “While others chase trends, he constructs temples.” His works are timeless, not because they ignore the present, but because they engage the eternal: beauty, suffering, death, rebirth.
As Floating Worlds makes clear, Collins is not interested in irony or detachment. He paints with a sincerity so unflinching it becomes radical. His art asks viewers to contemplate—not just to look, but to feel, to reckon, to remember.
When asked what he hopes audiences will take from this new body of work, Collins simply said, “Hope. Even if they must travel through darkness to find it.”
That journey—through shadow, ruin, mystery, and ultimately light—is what Floating Worlds invites us to undertake.
In my most recent solo exhibition entitled, Floating Worlds, all of the art, which includes large, medium and small works of oil on linen, and works on paper, I explore lush surfaces, which combine multiple symbolic elements. I investigate themes such as the symbiotic, romantic relationship of darkness and light, the cyclical nature of life and death, the complexities of inner psychological life, and the mysteries and vital importance of individual spirituality. These themes find creative expression through a rich system of synergistically connected metaphoric subjects: dreams of primitive ritual forms, the figure, modern day power plants, classical architectural forms, coastal subjects, and above all, gardens. These are all conceived in an allegorical manner where ideas are expressed in an indeterminatestatehopefullyleavingtheviewerfloatinginworldsofmystery.
In many recent series the garden spaces contain verdant vegetation, which erupts with life amidst abandoned factories, decaying ancient roman buildings and other vestiges of a collapsed human presence. In my paintings nature becomes a punitive element. The architecture is being eviscerated by nature. The buildings are metaphors for our naiveté in believing that nature may be controlled and that it is somehow independent to what humankind inflicts on the planet. Since childhood, I continue to be influenced by my native coastal surroundings, characterized by subtropical vegetation and sweltering, humid atmosphere and symbolic references to water. I imbue these and other elements drawn from my personal experience into a mystical artistic vision articulating the human condition which I feelpossessesacertainterriblebeauty.
The process of my painting relates to my body movement and to the texture of surface, both its opacity and translucency. Pigment is applied by knife, hand, brush, scraping, veiling and pooling. The sequence of feeding the surface is completely subject to the energy held in each unique painting which I am sensitive to as the content evolves. Most ideas begin in a chiaroscuro world as color develops of its ownaccord. I follow the currents of thinking, feeling and willing, which will allow discovery toemerge.
Most fundamentally, my painting relates to the tenants of Post Symbolism, where each painting is an ethereal membrane suggesting the poetic as experienced through dreams, memory, mystery, and morphic resonance. The paintings generate an aura of evanescence conveying essential ambiguities. The resulting opposing thematic elements are centered in supernatural realms where enlightenment and darkness, the mythic and quotidian, by the balancing of abstraction and representation, are revealed in visions of the cyclic patterns of destructionandcreationpresentinnature.Thediscoveredsubjects in eachpainting reveal an art balancing the creative notions of art about art and art about life and the humancondition.
-Michael Roque Collins
Michael Collins: Floating Worlds Painting Price List
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Caesar's Garden, 2025 oil on linen
60 x 42 in
Framed 63 x 45 x 2.75 in $20,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Circling above Twilight, 2024-25 oil on birch panel
30 x 22 in
Framed 33 x 25 x 2.75 in
$8,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Garden of Vestal Virgins with Temple of Antoninus, 2024-25 oil on wood panel
49.50 x 40 in
Framed 52.50 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Crouching Gabriel, 2025 oil on paper on board
20 x 14.25 in
Framed 23 x 17.25 x 2.75 in
$4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: In the Eye of God II, 2025 oil on linen
52 x 50 in
Framed 55.50 x 53.25 x 2.75 in $22,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Night
Studio With Red Wooden Birds, 2025 oil on linen
72 x 60 in
Framed 74.50 x 62.50 x 2.75 in
$36,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums, 2025 oil on birch panel
30.25 x 22.25 in
Framed 33.25 x 25.25 x 2.75 in $8,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Garden of Stone Wings - Diptych, 2021-23 oil on linen
80 x 120 in
$75,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Pleasure Pond II, 2024-25 oil on linen
50 x 40 in
Framed 52.50 x 42.50 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Red Family Stone, 2025 oil on paper on board
35.75 x 27 in
Framed 39 x 30 x 2.75 in $9,500.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Small Chapel with Black Roses, 2025 oil on birch panel
30 x 20 in
Framed 33 x 23 x 2.75 in
$8,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: The Arc II, 2021-25 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 22.50 x 18.50 x 2.75 in
$4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Within the Hive, 2023-24 oil on linen
80 x 60 in
Framed 83 x 63 x 2.75 in
$38,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Remembrance of the Temple, 2016-17 oil on linen
50 x 60 in
Framed 53 x 63 x 2.75 in
$25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: After the Burning, 2018-19 oil on linen
72 x 60 in
Framed 75 x 63 x 2.75 in
$36,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Blue Room, 2018-19 oil on linen
40 x 30 in
Framed 42 x 32.25 x 2.75 in
$13,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Colima Dog, 2018-19 oil on linen
16 x 20 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in
$4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Dream of Spindle Twigs, 2018-19 oil on linen
100 x 72 in
Framed 103 x 75 x 2.75 in
$58,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: From the Shore of Wooden Birds, 2017-18 oil on linen
50 x 40 in
Framed 52.50 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Garden of Cures, 2018-19 oil on linen
60 x 50 in
Framed 63.25 x 53 x 2.75 in
$25,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Behind the Hidden Door, 2018-19 oil on linen
45 x 53 in
Framed 48 x 56 x 2.75 in
$20,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Morning Blooms, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Morning Shore, 2018-19 oil on linen
66 x 60 in
Framed 69 x 63 x 2.75 in $32,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Night Sailing, 2018-19 oil on linen
70.50 x 60 in
Framed 73.50 x 62.50 x 2.75 in $36,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Remembering the Sculpture of Ichabod Crane, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Riding Past Giants (Still life with Bronze), 2018-19 oil on linen
16 x 20 in Framed 19 x 23 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: On the Red Table, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: On the Red Table by the River of Paradise, 2017-18 oil on linen
60 x 50 in
Framed 63 x 53 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Passport Flowers, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Primitive Valley, 2018-19 oil on linen
50 x 40 in
Framed 53 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Sailing with Yellow Bird, 2018-19 oil on linen
66 x 60 in Framed 69.25 x 63 x 2.75 in $32,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Songhai Portrait (The Gift), 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: The Cure (Congo Nail Fetish), 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in
Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: The Gauntlet II, 2018-19 oil on linen
37 x 29 in
Framed 40 x 32 x 2.75 in $13,500.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Wooden Birds, 2018-19 oil on linen
16 x 20 in
Framed 19 x 23 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Yoruba Ibeji twin figures, 2024 oil on canvas
30 x 22 in
Framed 33 x 25 x 2.75 in $8,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission of Light Series: Temple of Virtues, 2021-25 oil on linen
16 x 20 in
Framed 19 x 23 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Venetian Series: Rupture of the Nave, 2014-15 oil on linen
60 x 50 in
Framed 62.50 x 52.50 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Coastal Primitive Series / Tides of Memory: After the Moonlight, 2010 oil on linen
50 x 60 in
Framed 53.50 x 63 x 3 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Earth Rhythms (Falling Waters) Series: Dark Eddy #5, 2012-13 oil on linen
60 x 50 in
Framed 62.50 x 52.50 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
Michael Collins: Floating Worlds Works on Paper Price List
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Caesar Garden, 2025 ink and watercolor on Arches
140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.75 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Chemical Garden II, 2025
ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.50 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Chemical Garden II, 2025
watercolor and body color with gum arabic on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.25 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Congo Nail Fetish Studio Still Life, 2025 watercolor on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.25 x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream Garden, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.25 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Hadrian's Villa, 2025 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.50 x 7 in
Framed 18 x 15.50 x 1.50 in
$1,600.00 7.
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Night Studio, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Night Studio with Red Wooden Birds, 2024 - 25 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.75 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Finding the Inside, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.75 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Finding the Inside, 2025
watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11.75 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Floating in the Nave, 2025 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.25 x 6.50 in
Framed 15.25 x 12.25 x 1.50 in
$1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Flowers of the Inner Eye, 2025
watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11.25 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Growing from the Pleasure Pond, 2022-23 watercolor and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.50 x 9.50 in
Framed 19.50 x 15.50 x 1.50 in
$2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: In the Eye of God II, 2025
watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
14 x 10.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Moon
Rising, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.75 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums, 2024 ink and watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums in the Dream Gardens, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.75 x 3.75 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Night Studio, 2017-2018 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
10 x 8 in
Framed 17.75 x 15 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Passing Through Darkness, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
5 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Passing Through Prayer Stones, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00 SOLD
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Pleasure
Pond II, 2025
watercolor and ink on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
13 x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Rising
Above - Before the Portal, 2024 ink and watercolor on Arches
140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Rising Moon, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
12.50 x 9.25 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Small Chapel With Black Roses, 2025 ink and watercolor on Arches
140lb acid free paper
5 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in
$750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Southern Man, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11.25 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: The Volcano, 2025 ink on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14 x 9.25 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,200.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Three Bell Tide, 2025 watercolor - transparent and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
10.25 x 14.25 in
Framed 17.25 x 21.25 x 1.50 in
$2,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Tori Gate with Flower Walls, 2025 watercolor and body color on Amalfi acid free cold pressed paper
14 x 20.50 in
Framed 21 x 26.25 x 1.50 in $5,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Forest Totems, 2015-16 Transparent watercolor on Saint Armand acid free cold pressed paper
8 x 10 in
Framed 15 x 18 x 1.50 in $1,800.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Dream of Spindle Twigs, 2018-19 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.75 x 7 in
Framed 18 x 15.50 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Hall of Masks, 2019
watercolor and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.50 x 10.25 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: On the Red Table by the River to Paradise II, 2018 watercolor on cold pressed Amalfi paper
14.25 x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,500.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series:
Bound in my Chemical Garden, 2022
watercolor on peroni acid free cold pressed paper
7.25 x 4.50 in
Framed 13.25 x 10.25 in
$750.00
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Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Classical Tide, 2014
watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
7.50 x 14 in
Framed 14.50 x 21.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series:
Forum Temple, 2022-2023
Watercolor Bodycolor on Moleskin and Duralar Transparent Sheet
10 x 7 in
Framed 15.50 x 12.50 x 1.50 in
$1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Growing Through the Temple, 2022-2023
watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.75 x 6.75 in
Framed 15.25 x 12.25 in
$1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Temple of Vespa, 2022-2023
watercolor and ink on moleskin
9.75 x 7 in
Framed 15.50 x 12.50 x 1.50 in
$1,600.00
$1,600.00 SOLD SOLD
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Coastal Rails, 2022-2023
watercolor and body color on Amalfi acid free cold pressed paper
6.75 x 4.25 in
Framed 13.25 x 10.25 in
$1,250.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Vestal Virgin with Temple of Antoninus, 2020
Watercolor with body color and ink on moleskin
9.75 x 7.25 in
Framed 14.25 x 11.25 in
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Caesar's Garden, 2025 oil on linen 60 x 42 in Framed 63 x 45 x 2.75 in $20,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Caesar Garden, 2025 ink and watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.75 x 3.25 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
713.521.7500
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Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Chemical Garden II, 2025 watercolor and body color with gum arabic on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.25 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Chemical Garden II, 2025 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.50 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Floating Worlds Series: Circling above Twilight, 2024-25 oil on birch panel
30 x 22 in Framed 33 x 25 x 2.75 in $8,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Congo Nail Fetish Studio Still Life, 2025 watercolor on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper 14.25 x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,200.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Crouching Gabriel, 2025 oil on paper on board 20 x 14.25 in
Framed 23 x 17.25 x 2.75 in
$4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream Garden, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.25 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Hadrian's Villa, 2025
watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.50 x 7 in
Framed 18 x 15.50 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
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Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Night Studio, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper 11 x 9.50 in Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,000.00
Floating Worlds Series: Dream of Night Studio with Red Wooden Birds, 2024 - 25 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.75 x 3.50 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Floating Worlds Series: Finding the Inside, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11.75 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Finding the Inside, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.75 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Floating in the Nave, 2025 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.25 x 6.50 in
Framed 15.25 x 12.25 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Flowers of the Inner Eye, 2025
watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
11.25 x 9.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Garden of Stone Wings - Diptych, 2021-23 oil on linen
80 x 120 in $75,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Growing from the Pleasure Pond, 2022-23
watercolor and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.50 x 9.50 in
Framed 19.50 x 15.50 x 1.50 in $2,200.00
713.521.7500
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Garden of Vestal
Virgins with Temple of Antoninus, 2024-25 oil on wood panel
49.50 x 40 in Framed 52.50 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Floating Worlds Series: In the Eye of God II, 2025 oil on linen
52 x 50 in
Framed 55.50 x 53.25 x 2.75 in $22,500.00
Floating Worlds Series: In the Eye of God II, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
14 x 10.50 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Moon Rising, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.75 x 3.25 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums, 2024 ink and watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums, 2025 oil on birch panel
30.25 x 22.50 in
Framed 33.25 x 25.25 x 2.75 in $8,000.00
Floating Worlds Series: My Caladiums in the Dream Gardens, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
4.75 x 3.75 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Floating Worlds Series: Night Studio, 2017-2018
watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
10 x 8 in
Framed 17.75 x 15 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Passing Through Darkness, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed acid free paper
5 x 3.50 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Passing Through Prayer Stones, 2024 ink on Arches 140 lb cold pressed, acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
713.521.7500 www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Pleasure Pond II, 2024-25 oil on linen
50 x 40 in
Framed 52.50 x 42.50 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Pleasure Pond II, 2025
watercolor and ink on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
13 x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,200.00
35.75 x 27 in Framed 39 x 30 x 2.75 in $9,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Rising Above - Before the Portal, 2024 ink and watercolor on Arches 140 lb cold pressed on acid free paper
4.50 x 3.50 in
Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Rising Moon, 2025 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
12.50 x 9.25 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in
$2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Small Chapel With Black Roses, 2025 ink and watercolor on Arches 140lb acid free paper
5 x 3.50 in Framed 11.25 x 9.25 x 1.50 in $750.00
713.521.7500
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: Small Chapel with Black Roses, 2025 oil on birch panel
30 x 20 in Framed 33 x 22 x 2.75 in $8,000.00
Roque Collins
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: The Arc, 2022-24 oil on linen
20 x 16 in Framed 22.50 x 18.50 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Floating Worlds Series: The Volcano, 2025 ink on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14 x 9.25 in Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,200.00
Floating Worlds Series: Three Bell Tide, 2025
watercolor - transparent and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
10.25 x 14.25 in
Framed 17.25 x 21.25 x 1.50 in $2,500.00
Floating Worlds Series: Tori Gate with Flower Walls, 2025
watercolor and body color on Amalfi acid free cold pressed paper
14 x 20.50 in
Framed 21 x 26.25 x 1.50 in $5,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Forest Totems, 2015-16
Transparent watercolor on Saint Armand acid free cold pressed paper
8 x 10 in
Framed 15 x 18 x 1.50 in $1,800.00
713.521.7500 www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Inland Mountain Journey Series: Remembrance of the Temple, 2016-17 oil on linen
50 x 60 in
Framed 53 x 63 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Behind the Hidden Door, 2018-19 oil on linen
45 x 53 in Framed 48 x 56 x 2.75 in $20,000.00
713.521.7500 www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: After the Burning, 2018-2019 oil on linen
72 x 60 in Framed 75 x 63 x 2.75 in $36,000.00
After the Burning was inspired in a dream by a fire we experienced in our family, and one that took the life of my beloved grandmother. Rather than expressing the worst recollection of this event, the painting celebrates her life with a setting of apparent flowers. The flowers were comprised of Ethnographic passport forms carved from African elephant knee caps. These passports were used as a form of identification when passing from one tribe to another, one place to another. And now my "Passport Flowers" express the journey my grandmother took in her passing. My dream painting of After the Burning also shows the many shelves of primitive art that I remember after the fire. The darkened interior gives way to to an Italian vista filled with the painterly suggestion of a warm illumination, worthy of receiving her spirit.
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Blue Room, 2018-19 oil on linen
40 x 30 in Framed 42 x 32.25 x 2.75 in $13,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Congo Nail Fetish, 2018-19 oil on linen
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Colima Dog, 2018 oil on linen
16 x 20 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
20 x 16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Dream of Spindle Twigs, 2018-19 watercolor and ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.75 x 7 in Framed 18 x 15.50 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
713.521.7500
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Dream of Spindle Twigs, 2018-19 oil on linen
100 x 72 in
Framed 103 x 75 x 2.75 in $58,000.00
Dream of Spindle Twigs evolves from a dream and reflects a studio imagined as a Gothic realm where all manner of ancestry recognition might be visible. My dream featured the beginning of a luminous painting resting within the rich dark recesses of a memory of our shared past where the power of the creative is realized through both destruction and creation mythology. My Spindle Twigs subjects, so vivid in my dreams, are from my personal mythological realm and are often repeating icons that strip away down to the bone, the denial, guilt and fear so prevalent in our current splenetic era. The painting of these personal mythological beings is surrounded by all manner of primitive collectibles, which my father and I have so valued.
The foreground of the painting is the faint recognition of my father's image, an everyday man, holding jade green stones in hopes of finding a deeper meaning t his carvings, meaning that will connect to the primitive forms represented in the painting. Meanings which might free us from the constraints of contemporary tradition drowning in the lust for new forms while overlooking the vast rich traditions so plentifully expressed in our collective past. This painting personally unlocks the connective tissues holding the past, present and future together in a deep sense of allegic mystery, which drive me as an artist and will always validate the need for painting as a powerful expression of our shared humanity.
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Remembering the Sculpture of Ichabod
Crane, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in
$4,000.00
713.521.7500
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Hall of Masks, 2019 watercolor and body color on Amalfi cold pressed acid free paper
14.50 x 10.25 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,500.00
Michael Roque Collins
713.521.7500 www.foltzgallery.com
Reliquaries Series: Morning Blooms, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Morning Shore, 2018-19 oil on linen
66 x 60 in Framed 69 x 63 x 2.75 in $32,000.00
A dreamscape reveals a lake or pond near Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy. It is filled with various forms of primitive sculpture forms. The distant illumination sheds light on the threatening body of water and further defines the flowers and forms I dreamed of as a child. The wooden birds sit precariously near the edge of the table. The flowers may portray forms of beauty or the masks and mystery of an unspecified culture.
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: On the Red Table, 2018-19 oil on linen 20 X16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
ReliquariesSeries:OntheRedTablebytheRivertoParadiseII, 2018
watercolor on cold pressed Amalfi paper
14.25x 10 in
Framed 21.25 x 17.25 x 1.50 in $2,500.00
Reliquaries Series: On the Red Table by the River of Paradise, 2017-18 oil on
60 x 50 in Framed 63 x 53 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
On the Red Table By the River Of Paradise recalls a dream of a wooden sculpture, created by my father in the mid 1940's that is surrounded by all manner of primitive masks and vegetation. These give way to a flowing river that is unearthing, along its banks, Oceanic and primitive forms as it flows to a distant and sacred illumination.
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Passport Flowers, 2018-19 oil on linen
20 X16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Primitive Valley, 2018-19 oil on linen
50x40 in Framed 53 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Primitive Valley evolves from a dream of my father, representing everyday man who is deaf and blind at the healing edge of water, as he encounters and remembers a primitive valley filled with beloved ethnographic art. The painting, for me, represents the moment of surrender and leaving one existence for another.
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
ReliquariesSeries:SailingwithYellowBird, 2018-19 oil on linen
66 x 60 in Framed 69.25 x 63 x 2.75 in $32,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
ReliquariesSeries:RidingPastGiants(Still lifewithBronze),2018-19 oil on linen
16 x 20 in Framed 19 x 23 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: From the Shore of Wooden Birds, 2017-18 oil on linen
50 x 40 in Framed 52.50 x 43 x 2.75 in $18,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: Wooden Birds, 2018-19 oil on linen
16 x 20 in
Framed 19 x 23 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Reliquaries Series: Songhai Portrait (The Gift), 2018-19 oil on linen
20 x 16 in Framed 23 x 19 x 2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Reliquaries Series: The Gauntlet II,2018-19 oil on linen
36.75X30in Framed40x32x2.75in $13,500.00
Gauntlet Il echoes an earlier painting from the mid 1990's where a gauntlet or channel becomes the focus of a dream. In the passageway all manner of artifacts are present where one might make their way past them either towards or away.
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission of Light Series: Coastal Rails, 2022-2023
watercolor and body color on Amalfi acid free cold pressed paper
6.75 x 4.25in
Framed13.25 x10.25in
$1,250.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission ofLight Series: Bound in my Chemical Garden, 2022
watercolor on peroni acid free cold pressed paper
7.25 x 4.5 in
Framed13.25x10.25in
$750.00
www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission of Light Series: Temple of Virtues, 2022-24 oil on linen 16 X20 in Framed 19 x23 x2.75 in $4,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission of Light Series: Classical Tide, 2014 watercolor and ink on Almalfi, cold pressed acid free paper
7.50 x 14 in Framed 14.50 x 21.25 x 1.50 in $2,000.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions ofLight Series: Forum Temple, 2022-2023
Watercolor Bodycolor on Moleskin and Duralar Transparent Sheet 10x7 in
Framed 15.50 x 12.50 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmission of Light Series: Temple of Vespa, 2022-2023
watercolor and ink on moleskin
9.75 x 7 in
Framed 15.50 x 12.50 x 1.50 in $1,600.00
713.521.7500 www.foltzgallery.com
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions of Light Series: Vestal Virgin with Temple of Antoninus, 2020
Watercolor with body color and ink on moleskin
9.75 x 7.25 in
Framed 14.25 x 11.25 in $1,600.00
Michael Roque Collins
Transmissions ofLight Series: Growing Through the Temple, 2022-2023
watercolorand ink on Moleskin, acid free paper
9.75 x 6.75 in Framed 15.25 x 12.25 in $1,600.00
As a child the gondolier dreamed of being a pirate.
He recalls the night before, his young wife asleep in bed. The water quivers, and his memory of home fades as the canal fills with mist.
In the early morning light, the air is teeming with the dust of death, like Kosovo after the bomb. (He remembers the explosion, hears it again and again, as the tour guide announces a decayed stone building where a great artist once lived, an example of byzantine architecture.)
In the distance, a view of the city emerges, gleaming like a treasure chest.
You know it's a trap, he thinks, but still can't help sailing towards it.
Poem by Ms. Kelcey Edwards, Assistant Professor of Film Hofstra University, New York, NY
Michael Roque Collins
Coastal Primitive Series / Tides of Memory: After the Moonlight, 2010 oil on linen
50 x 60 in
Framed 53.50 x 63 x 3 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins Earth Rhythms (Falling Waters) Series: Dark Eddy #5, 2012-13 oil on linen
60 x 50 in
Framed 62.50 x 52.50 x 2.75 in $25,000.00
Michael Roque Collins (American, b. 1955)
Michael Roque Collins is an artist recognized for producing some of the most profoundly affecting figurative Post Symbolist paintings seen today in Contemporary art. He was born in Houston, Texas, in 1955 and maintains his primary studio in this Gulf Coast city.
His lush oil paintings rip deep meaning from thick paint and bold line. Layering and slicing with his brush and palette knife, he mines the metaphorical mysteries of archetypal symbols—especially those of regeneration and renewal. For both his style and subject matter, Collins has been described by critics as one of the most unique painters whose work is exhibited in Santa Fe.
His oil-on-linen paintings and mixed media paintings on photographs bear homage to the transcendence that can be found in compassionate contemplation of the cycling and balance between enlightenment and darkness, creation and destruction, order and disorder, both in the human condition and the natural world. It has been said that his paintings have an American spiritual resonance with the paintings of Anselm Kiefer or Gerhard Richter. They are conduits to memories that lie deeply buried in our childhood psyches as well as universal, archetypal memories of the sublime. In his paintings we find Blakean beauty resident in the terrible. An imagistic light seems to come from within, augmenting the sense of mystery and transforming metaphorical fields of darkness into parables of hope for the future.
Collins acknowledges a variety of influences, including Max Beckmann, Charles Burchfield, JWT Turner and the Hudson River School. Primitive art objects collected by his father gave him early exposure to strong and direct expressions of the supernatural within the natural environment of daily life. Though these influences were important to the developing foundations of his art, his distinctive style originates from his personal conception of light, value, color and lines. Ideas emerge from his dreams, revealing visions of the conscious and unconscious mind.
Born in Texas in 1955, Collins earned a BFA from the University of Houston in 1978 and later earned an MFA in painting from Southern Methodist University. Since the mid-1970s he has directed the Lowell Collins School of Art in Houston; he has also held positions on the art faculties of several universities.
His art has been curated in more than 250 group exhibitions in the U.S., Cuba, Peru, Germany, China, Mexico, France, Denmark, Greece, India, and Turkey. His paintings have received more than 50 juried awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts-Middle American Arts Alliance grant for excellence in painting and works on paper, as well as three Cultural Arts Council of Houston grant awards for excellence in painting. Collins has held many university teaching positions and is currently the Senior Director of the Visual Arts Department, at Houston Baptist University, where he is also Artist-in-Residence in Painting, Professor of Art and focuses on teaching in the MFA program.
From Ruins To Resurrection/Sacred Landscapes of Michael Roque Collins, a hardbound publication of his work published in 2009 by Halcyon Press, features essays by Ken Marvel, owner/director of LewAllen Galleries; Jim Edwards, a distinguished curator and expert of the art of the American West; and Edward Lucie-Smith, an internationally renowned art writer in England and author of more than 100 canonical texts covering the themes found in contemporary art.
His works have been favorably reviewed in a variety of international arts publications, such as Art News Magazine, Art In America, Art Lies, and Art World Magazine. Collins has had over 50 solo exhibitions at nationally and internationally recognized gallery and museum venues including Foltz Fine Art in Houston, Texas, LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Gerald Peters Gallery in Dallas, Texas, Art Space/Virginia Miller Galleries in Miami, Florida, Redbud Gallery in Houston, Texas, La Galerie K in Paris, France, and spaces in Santiago, Cuba, Berlin and Leipzig, Germany. His works may be seen in 13 museums in the U.S., including The Art Museum of South Texas in Corpus Christi, Texas, Bass Museum in Miami, Florida, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana, the El Paso Museum of Art in San Antonio, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as well numerous corporate collections.
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1998SouthernMethodistUniversity,Dallas,TX,MFAinPainting
1984UniversityofHouston,Houston,TX,PostBaccalaureateStudiesinDrawing/Painting
1978UniversityofHouston,Houston,TX,BFA
1963–73 LowellCollinsSchoolofArt,Houston,TX
1960MuseumofFineArtsArtSchool,Houston,TX
2022MiddleAmericanArtAlliance-NationalEndowmentfortheArts; 50 Stories/50 Years selectedandinterviewedasapreviousMAAA-NEAfellowshiprecipientforExcellencein PaintingonWorksonPaperin1994toshareasummaryofgrowthindevelopmentsincethe earlieraward.
2011 Unesco, Bioethics and Human Rights Global Art Competition Prize,fromtheUnited NationsEducation
2008HuntingPrizeFinalist,Painting,GalaMay3,2008,Houston,TX
2007BaylorUniversity,VisitingArtistGrant,Waco,TX
2006ResidencyAward,TheAtelierHouse,Hilmsen1,Hilmsen,Germany
2005UniversityofMiami,CoralGables,FL,VisitingArtistGrant
1999ArtLeagueofHouston,5thAnnualOpenExhibition,GrandPrize,Painting
1996–98SouthernMethodistUniversity,Dallas,TX,MeadowsGraduateArtisticScholarship AwardandTeachingAssistantship
1995CulturalArtsCouncilofHouston,CreativeArtists’Program,VisualArtsGrantfor Painting
1994Mid-AmericaArtsAlliance/NationalEndowmentfortheArts,FellowshipAwardin PaintingsandWorksonPaper VisualArtsAlliance11thAnnualExhibition,FirstPlace, Painting
1993CulturalArtsCouncilofHouston,CreativeArtists’Program,ArtistProjectGrant
1991CulturalArtsCouncilofHouston,CreativeArtists’Program,VisualArtsGrantfor Painting
1988AlexandriaMuseumofArt, Seventh Annual National Competition,curatedbyDr Ned Rifkin,MeritAward,Painting
1989 Florida National,FloridaStateUniversity,HonorableMention,catalogue
1985BaytownNationalJuriedArtExhibition,FirstPlaceandTwoHonorableMentions, Watercolor,Baytown,TX
1984 Tri-State Exhibit,JuriedArtExhibition,ThirdPlace,Beaumont,TX Spring Exhibition, WatercolorArtSociety,TopAwardforTransparentWatercolor,Houston,TX
1983ArtLeagueofHouston, Figuratively Speaking,FirstPlace,Watercolor,juriedbyAlan HacklenNationalWatercolorSociety, 63rd Annual Exhibition,WatercolorWestAwardfor transparentwatercolor,SanDiego,CA Tri-State Exhibit,JuriedArtExhibition,Honorable Mention,Beaumont,TX Spring Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,FlorenceStelzer MemorialAward,Houston,TX Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors, WilliamS.WebbAward,NY
1982TexasFineArtsAssociation,workselectedfortravelingexhibition,Austin,TX
GalvestonArtLeague,HonorableMention,ThirdPlace,FourthPlace,Galveston,TX Fall Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,ThirdPlace,Houston,TX Spring Exhibition,Watercolor ArtSociety,MeritAward,Houston,TX Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,D.F.McGrannCo.Award,NY
1981 Dimensions Exhibition,HoustonArtLeague,HonorableMention,Houston,TX
1980 Tri-State Exhibit,JuriedArtExhibition,SecondPlace,Beaumont,TX Spring Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,MeritAward,Houston,TX
1975BaytownArtShow,PurchaseAward,Baytown,TX
1974BaytownArtShow,PurchaseAward,Baytown,TX
2023 Coastal Gardens,RedbudArtsCenter,Houston,TX In the Chama, Where the Spirit Flows,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM
2021 Transmissions of Light,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM Salon Prive, Preview of Transmissions of Light Series,presentedbyLewAllenGalleriesatHoustonBaptistUniversity, Houston,TX
2019 Salon Prive, Preview of The Reliquaries Series,presentedbyLewAllenGalleriesatSaint StreetStudio,Houston,TX Reliquaries Series,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM
2018 Paintings and Works on Paper of Michael Roque Collins - 1988–2018,Clark&Associates, Houston,TX
2017 Tides of Memory,McMurrayUniversity,Abilene,TX Salon Prive, Preview of The Inland Mountain Journey Series,PresentedbyLewAllenGalleriesatSaintStreetStudio, Houston,TX Inland Mountain Journey,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM
2016 Works on Paper,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM
2015 The Venetian Series,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM Salon Prive, Preview of The Venetian Series,presentedbyLewAllenGalleriesatSaintStreetStudio,Houston,TX
2013 Beyond Earth’s Rhythm,LewAllenGalleriesattheRailyard,SantaFe,NM
2011 Tides of Memory,LewAllenGalleriesattheRailyard,SantaFe,NM
2010 Shadowlands,RichardGallery,Berlin,Germany
2009 From Ruins to Resurrection,LewAllenGalleriesattheRailyard,SantaFe,NM UAC Gallery(curatedbyJimEdwards),HBU,Houston,TX
2008 Sojourn In the Shadowlands,GGallery,Houston,TX Sacred Landscapes,FelipeCossio delPomarCulturalCenter,SanIsidro,Lima,Peru Sojourn in the Shadowlands,Munchskirche Museum,Salzweddel,Germany
2007 Memory Gardens,LewAllenContemporaryGallery,SantaFe,NM Sacred Landscapes, GeraldPetersGalleriesDallas,Dallas,TX Ritual of Memory,GGallery,HoustonTX
2006 Solo Survey,MontgomeryCollegeArtCenter
2005 Forum Rituals,CorpusChristiArtCenter,CorpusChristi,TX
2004 Recent Works of Michael Roque Collins,BacardiMuseum,Santiago,Cuba A Ritual of Memory,LewAllenContemporary,SantaFe,NM Tropological Landscapes,EllenNoelArt Museum,Odessa,TX
2003 Gardens of Mystery,Gallery101inconjunctionwithRedBudGallery,Houston,TX Sacred & Profane Spaces,RedbudGallery,Houston,TX
2001 Retrospective solo exhibition,UniversityofSaintThomasGallery,Houston,TX
2000 Michael Roque Collins,EdithBakerGallery,Dallas,TX
1999 Retrospective Solo Exhibition,HoustonArtLeague,RetrospectiveSoloExhibition,
Houston,TX Gardens of Terrible Beauty,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL
1998 BrookhavenCollege,Dallas,Texas
1997 LowellCollinsGallery,Houston,TX
1996 Sacred & Profane Spaces,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL
1995McMurtreyGallery,Houston,TX
1994C.G.JungCenter,Houston,TX
1993McMurtreyGallery,Houston,TX
1991McMurtreyGallery,Houston,TX
1990McMurtreyGallery,Houston,TX
1989JungCenter,Houston,TX FramboyanGallery,NewOrleans,LA McMurtrey Gallery,Houston,TX
1987Hooks-EpsteinGalleries,Inc.,Houston,TX
1986Hooks-EpsteinGalleries,Inc.,Houston,TX
1983Hooks-EpsteinGalleries,Inc.,Houston,TX
2019
Crosscurrent Yokohama-Texas 2019 Exhibition,KanagawaPrefectureGallery,Yokohama,Japan
O What a Night!,OgdenMuseumofSouthernArt,NewOrleans,LA 2018
Foundations III,DebraColtonGallery,Houston,TX
BIG,OgdenMuseumofSouthernArt,NewOrleans,LA
O What a Night!,OgdenMuseumofSouthernArt,NewOrleans,LA Texas Eclectics,MacedonianMuseumofContemporaryArt,Thessaloniki,Greece Co-Works,TiekenGalleryLA,LosAngeles,CA
2nd Annual Flower Show,SplendoraGardens,Splendora,TX 2017
So Long, Farewell, Good By,SpringStreetStudiosGroupExhibit,Houston,TX LewAllenGalleriesGroupExhibition,LewAllenGalleriesRailyard,SantaFe,NM 2016
Genocide: Man’s Inhumanity to Man,HolocaustMuseumHouston,Houston,TX
Transmissions of Light, Collected Works by Michael Roque Collins and Lowell Daunt Collins,TwoAllenCenter—BrookfieldProperties,Houston,TX 2015
Divergent Illusions,ArtSpaceVirginiaMillerGalleries,Miami,FL
Objects of Interest: Recent Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection,OgdenMuseumof SouthernArt,NewOrleans,Louisiana Visual Transcendence, Tides of Memory,TexasA&MUniversityGalleries,CollegeStation,TX Eye Candy,SpringStreetGalleryandStudios,Houston,TX
Never Let It Rest-Sojourns in the Shadowlands,DetroitHolocaustMemorialCenterand Museum,Detroit,MI
2014
MAC@20 Part II-Twentieth Anniversary,McKinneyAvenueContemporary(MAC),Dallas,TX
2 Voices Painting/Poetry: Collins/Boyleston,UACContemporaryGallery,HBU,Houston,TX
2 Person Exhibition: Collins and Edwards,Gallery220atHBU,Houston,TX
2013
Western Sequels: Art From the Lone Star State,acuratedinternationalexhibitionofTexasArt, fullcolorcatalog,SchoolofFineArtsMuseum,MimarSinanFineArtsUniversity,Istanbul, Turkey
Western Sequels: Art From the Lone Star State,acuratedinternationalexhibitionofTexasArt, fullcolorcatalog,Athens,Greece
Christmas Small Works,NorwoodFlynnGallery,Dallas,Texas
GroupExhibitionofGalleryArtists,LaGalerieK,Paris,France
GroupExhibitionofRepresentedArtists,LewAllenGalleriesRailyard,SantaFe,NM 2012
A l'Origine,LaGalerieK,Paris,France
Houston Art Fair,LewAllenGalleries,Houston,Texas
Go West Exchange,exhibitionofFrenchandTexasArtistsinatwocityexchangeindialoguein bothParis,FranceandHouston,TX
Elbe Und Flut,TangemundeMuseumofArt,Tangemunde,Germany
Falling Waters Series,Focusedpreview,LewAllenGalleries,SantaFe,NM Small Works,NorwoodFlynnGallery,Dallas,TX 2011
Houston Arts Fair,LewAllenContemporaryGalleries,Booth,SantaFe,NM
The Tarp,ContinuationoftheGroupexhibitionofTexasTarppaintings,Cuba
Miami Art Fair,LewAllenContemporaryGalleries
H2O,MuseGallery,HydrabadIndia
Go West,aninternationaltravelingexhibition–Texas-France,Unescoexhibitionspace,Paris, France
Texas Drops By,MadisMadGallery,Madrid,Spain
LewAllenContemporaryRailyardSummerExhibition,SantaFe,NM 2010
Texas Drops Off Some Cloth,Trujillo,Peru
The Language of Myth,NorwoodFlynnGallery,Dallas,TX
ArthouseInvitation 5 x 7 exhibition,Arthouse,Austin,TX
5 x 7 Exhibition,LandmarkArtsGallery,TexasTechUniversitySchoolofArt,Lubbock,TX 2009
Earth’s Influence,CuratorJanetHassinger,FineArtsGallery,CollegeoftheMainland,Texas City,TX,October20–November20,2009.MRCLecture,Nov.2,2009
Horizons: The Semiotics of Latitude,CuratorMr.KenMarvel,LewAllenContemporary,Santa Fe,N.M.,Feb–March,2009
Walking On Ashes,two-personexhibition,CollinsMolzberger,curatedbyJimEdwards; paintings,worksonphotograph,glassfusion,installation,mixedmedia,rakuclay,bronze,steel, sound,digitalshortfilmprojectionsandlightinstillation,UACGalleryHBU,Houston,Texas, March5–April15,2009
Memorial Exhibition, Walking on Ashes,McNairHall,MorrisCulturalArtsCenter,HBU,in conjunctionwiththeHolocaustMuseum,curatorMarciDallas,ontheoccasionofalectureby Ms.MadelineAlbright,January31,2009,Houston,TX
Texas Twang,ShiftStudio,curatedbyWayneGilbertandMagdalenCelestino,openingJan.8 andupthroughJan.31,2009,Seattle,Washington
Anti-Matter,GalleryattheUniversityofTexasPermianBasin,curatedbyWayneGilbert,Jan.
23–Feb.,2009,groupexhibitioncomprisedofTexasartists,Odessa,TX
Red Dot Art Fair,Miami,LewAllenContemporary,Jan.2009
Hearts and Souls,SalzkircheTangermuendeMuseum,Salzkirche,Germany,July–August,2009
Amistad II,MuseodeArteContemporario,Arequipa,Peru,curatedbyMr.MaxHutchinson (DirectorofM2Gallery),Mr GusKopriva(DirectorofRedbudGallery)andJimEdwards,Art Curator.Colorcatalogue
2008
Grand Opening of the Encantado Gallery space,LewAllenContemporaryGalleries,SantaFe, N.M.,October–November,2008
5”x 7” Group exhibition,LandmarkArtsGallery,TexasTechUniversity,2008,Lubbock,TX
Hansa Art Exhibition,Salzwedel,Germany,mixedmediapaintingonB&Wphotograph, June–Jul20,2008
Texas and German Artists,ZerbstMuseum,Germany,HansMoltzberger,Hilmsen,Germany, Jan.–Mar 2008
Curators Choice,ArtMuseumOfSouthTexas,Jan–March,2008.CuratorMs.MichelleLocke, CorpusChristi,TX
Recent Acquisitions,ArtMuseumofSouthTexas,September–December,2008,CorpusChristi, TX
LA Art Fair,TenArtistsfromLewAllenContemporaryGallery,SantaFe,N.M.CuratedbyMr KenMarvel FacultyExhibition,UniversityAcademicCenterGallery,HBU,Sept.–Oct.2008,Houston,TX HoustonArtLeagueAuctionandexhibitionfortheArtistandPatronoftheyear,Houston,TX, Nov.,2009
Red Dot,juriedinternationalartexhibition,Miami,Florida,representedbyLewAllen ContemporaryGalleries,SantaFe,N.M.,Dec.3–9,2008
2007
GGallery Glee,curatedbyMr.WayneGilbert,Dec.1,2007throughJan.1,2008
Amistad, Texas Artists,MuseoDeLaNacion,Lima,Peru,curatedbyMr GusKopriva,Director ofRedbudProjects,ColorCatalogue,Sept.12–Oct.9,2007;AmistadTraveling,Trujillo ContemporaryMuseumofArt,Peru,November–December,2007
Camp Marfa,curatedbyMr WayneGilbertandLesterMarks,Marfa,Texas;travelingto Lubbock,TX,andSmithersGallery,Huntsville,Texas,Dec.–Jan.,2007–08
Ulterior Motifs,curatedbyMr JohnSmithers,Huntsville,TX,Dec.–Jan.,2007–08,Color Catalogue.Oct.5–Nov.11,2007
HoustonCityHallAnnex juriedartonloanexhibition,JurorMr.MarshalLightman Ulterior Motifs XI,ArlingtonMuseumofArt,April13–May;travelingtoWichitaFallsMuseum ofArt.ColorCatalogue
More Is More—Maximalist Trends in Recent American Painting,FloridaStateUniversity Museum,CuratorMariaFlores,NationalSurvey,Colorcatalogue,Jan.–March,2007 AnnualFacultyExhibition,McNairHall,HoustonBaptistUniversity,Houston,TX.Color catalogue,JimEdwards,curator FacultyandArtAlumniexhibition,MorrisCulturalArtsCenter,HoustonBaptistUniversity LA Art Fair,2007,Jan.,LewAllenContemporary,LosAngeles,CA
2006
GGallery Throw Down,curatedbyMr WayneGilbert,selectedgalleryartists,Dec.2–29, 2006
ArtMuseumofSouthTexas Grand Opening of their Permanent Collection and the Legaretto Wing,CorpusChristi,Texas,Oct.5th,Permanentdisplay,Colorcatalogue.Workdisplayed: “CourtyardofBoundTrees”,2004,oilonlinen,100”x144”,museumpurchasemadepossible fromtheCollectorsGuild
Contemporary Art Houston,ShanghaiMuseumofFineArts,CuratorMr.ChristopherZhu Mr.GusKopriva,July–August,2006,Shanghai,China.250pagecolorhardboundtext.39artists included
LewAllenContemporary Small works exhibition,curatedbyKenMarvel(Director),Fall 2006,SantaFe,N.M.
AmarilloMuseumofArt 12 x 12 Exhibition Invitational,October2006,Amarillo,TX
GGallery Clean Slate,curatedbyWayneGilbert,Houston,Texas,Apr 1–May5th,2006
Sacred Landscapes,MichaelR.Collins,KennethDixonandJimWoodson,ArtMuseumof SouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX,Feb.23rd–May21st,2006.Colorcatalogue,traveling.Curated byDeborahFullerton Influences exhibition,FourGermanandFourAmericanPainters,totravelthroughoutGermany Arthouseinvitationaltravelinggroupexhibition 5”†x 7” Austin,Texas,totravelthroughout galleriesandmuseumsaroundTexas
LA Art Fair,LewAllenContemporaryexhibitionselectedartists,curatedbyMr RobertGardner, Co-directorofLewAllenContemporaryGallery,SantaFe,N.M. 2005
Sojourn in the Shadowlands,MichaelR.Collins SharonKopriva,two-personexhibitionat LewAllenContemporary,Nov.4–28,2005
Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Mixed Media,McKinneyAvenueContemporary,Sept.10–Oct.17,Dallas,Texas Collins,Komodore,KollockattheMAC,2005
AmarilloMuseumofArt 12x12 Exhibition Invitational,Oct.–Nov.,2005.CuratedbyTom Troperizer,Director,AmarilloMuseumofArt
RedbudGalleryand101Gallery 12 x 12 fundraiserandexhibitionforKatrinarelief benefitingtheRedCross,October,Houston,TX
Arte de Italia, Glancing Back Looking Forward,ICC,TexasTechUniversity,curatorJaneBell, October,2005
CityofHoustoninvitational,year-longexhibitionatCityHall.CuratedbyGusKopriva,Director ofRedbudGallery,Houston,TX
LewAllenContemporary Sojourn in the Shadowlands,CollinsandKopriva,paintings, sculpture,drawings,mixedmediaonphotographs.Nov.4–Dec.15,2005
Paper,GeraldPetersGallery,Dallas,TX.,CuratedDirectorAshleyTatum,May20–July,2005
MichaelCollins,HarryGeffert,TerrelJames,SharonKopriva,PamelaNelson,DanRissie ArthouseTexas 5” x 7” Group invitational Exhibition,Austin,TX,May2005
BuddyHollyMuseum Ulterior Motifs,May–June,2005
2004
Line-Up,Gallery101,RedbudProjects,Dec.2004–January2005,Houston,Texas
LewAllenContemporary,previewexhibition, Ritual of Memory,OklahomaCity,Ok.,July,2004
LewAllenContemporary,previewexhibition, Ritual of Memory,Houston,Tx.,September,2004
Ulterior Motifs,NewBransfelsMuseumofArtandMusic,Oct.–Jan.2004–2005
Ulterior Motifs,AmarilloMuseumofArt,Amarillo,TX,July–September,2004.Selectedartists fromHouston,Lubbock
The Artists of LewAllen Contemporary,SantaFe,N.M.,May–July,2004atTheAmarillo MuseumofArt
FallArtFacultyExhibition,TexasTechUniversity,LandmarkGallery,Lubbock,TX,fall2005
Ulterior Motifs No. 6,WheelerBro’sStudiosfeaturingselectedartistsfromHouston&Lubbock, TX
Coastal Connections; Contemporary Art from Houston and Corpus Christi,WeilGallery,Texas A&MUniversity,CorpusChristi,TX,curatedbyGusKopriva,Director,RedbudGallery, Houston,TX
The Space Between,LowellCollinsGallery,Houston,TX,curatedbyWayneGilbertand MichaelCollins 2003
Other Worlds,Texas,German&CubanArtistsinCuba,MuseumofNaturalHistory,Havana, Cuba TheArtGuys,JohnAlexander,DanAllison,SharonKopriva,LuizJimenez,James Surls,NancyKienholz,MichaelCollins,WayneGilbert,TerryAllen,RamzyTelly,JohnBerry, Weihong,EdWilson,GeorgDick,DetlefSchweiger,etc.
LandmarkArts,TheGalleriesofTexasTechUniversity,FacultyExhibition,curatedbyJoe Arredondo,GalleryDirector,Lubbock,TX(catalogue)
First Impressions – Printmaking Exhibition,NorthHarrisCollege,Visual,Applied&Performing Arts,Houston,TX,curatedbyDonStevenson(brochure)
Dark Aquarius,Huntsville,TX,curatedbyJohnKerrSmither FacultyExhibition,SamHoustonStateUniversity,Huntsville,TX
Ulterior Motifs No. 5, HUMID, Hot, Sweet and Sticky,WheelerBro’sStudiosinconjunction withTexasTechUniversity,Lubbock,TX
HuddlefortheArts2004,CulturalArtsCouncilofHouston,invitationalexhibitionsupporting theCACHawardstotheartists’program
2003: Art and Soul,TexasAccountantsandLawyersfortheArts,Houston,TX ArtMuseumofSouthTexas’AnnualGalaExhibition&Auction,CorpusChristi,TX Mythology,IceHouseGallery,Huntsville,TX,curatedbyProfessorsSharonKingandTony Shipp
2002
The Art of Being American,ArtMuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX,curatedbyDr.Bill Otton(colorcatalogue)
MeadowsMuseumofArt From Darkness Into Light,SpiritualityintheArtsConference Exhibition,9–11,Dallas,TX
Houston Works,InvitationalExhibitionof20AmericanArtists,ArtCo-Gallery,Leipzig, Germany,sponsoredbyRedbudGallery,traveledtovariousmuseumsandgalleriesthroughout Germany(colorcatalogue)
OrangeShowGala,HoustonPoloClub,ArtisticandDecorationDirector,installation,and exhibition
I-45 Combined,LowellCollinsGallery,Houston,TX,anexhibitioninconjunctionwithSam HoustonStateUniversityArtFaculty
The Necessity of the Image,ParadigmGallery,Dallas,TX
The Heavenly Ball,HoustonGrandOperaAuction,Houston,TX
Texas Art Patron of the Year Gala & Auction Exhibition,ArtLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX
Art Scan,RudolphProjects(Two-personExhibition),VineStreetStudios,Houston,TX
Phoenix Show,RedBudGallery,Houston,TX
FacultyExhibition,HoustonBaptistUniversity,Houston,TX
2001
RedBudGallery,Houston,TX,curatedbyMichaelLuna,travelingexhibition
DonnaRogersFineArts Collins/Grotfeldt,Houston,TX
HoustonBaptistUniversity/LowellCollinsGallery Vessels of the Soul,Houston,TX
AssistanceLeagueofHoustonCelebratesTexasArt2001,Houston,TX,juriedbyTerriSultan, Director,BlafferGallery,UniversityofHouston
ArtCenterofWaco Art View 2001,30thAnnualCelebration,Waco,TX,curatedbyLogan Psychomanias,AndyAntippasGallery,NewOrleans,LA(Two-personExhibitionCollins/ Komodore)
HoustonBaptistUniversityFacultyExhibition,LowellCollinsGallery,Houston,TX
TheArtMuseumofSouthTexas Masterpieces,CorpusChristi,TX
2001: An Arts Space Odyssey,TexasAccountantsandLawyersfortheArts,Houston,TX Night at the Alambra,HoustonGrandOperaAuction,Houston,TX
2000
Departure/Return,MeadowsArtMuseum,SouthernMethodistUniversity,Dallas,TX
JoanWich&Co.Gallery,Houston,TX
RedBudGallery,Houston,TX
Enchanted Gardens,EdithBakerGallery,Dallas,TX
HoustonArtLeague’sAuction,Houston,TX
1999
ParchmanStremmelGalleries,SanAntonio,TX
EdithBakerGallery,Dallas,TX,InvitationalMaskExhibition
Auction 2000,ArtLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX
DallasVisualArtsLiveAuction,Dallas,TX
TheGaddisGeeslinGallery,SamHoustonStateUniversity,Huntsville,TX(Two-Person Exhibition)
Square Roots,SouthTexasInstitutefortheArts,CorpusChristi,TX 1998
1998 Open Show,ArtLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX,juriedbyBertLong(GrandPrizefor Painting)
53rd Annual Competition,TheGraceMuseum,Abilene,TX,juriedbyJesusMoroles Critic’s Choice,DallasVisualArtCenter,Dallas,TX,curatedbyElizabethFerrer(Directorof theAustinMuseumofArt,Austin,TX)andStephenVollmer(CuratorofElPasoMuseumof Art,ElPaso,TX)
Michael Collins & Michael Kennaugh,Hooper-SchaeferFineArtsCenter,BaylorUniversity, Waco,TX
Masters of Yesterday & Tomorrow,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL 1997
Summit Bound,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL
Visions of Landscape,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralCables,FL
The Texas International,UniversityofTexas ElPaso,DepartmentofArt,FoxFineArts Center,juriedbyDr.ThomasMcEvilley(Director,ProfessorofArt,RiceUniversity,Houston,
TX);MarkAlexander,Director,UniversityArtGalleries,ExhibitionCurator Establishment and Revelation,DallasVisualArtCenter,Dallas,Ten-PersonExhibition:Michael Collins,GaelStack,DickWray,LucasJohnson,VirgilGrotfeldt,MaryMcCleary,John Hernandez,DixieFriendgay,T.PaulHernandez,JoeGuy;essayandcuratedbyBenitoHuerta (colorcatalogue)
1996
Atom,WeekendGallery,Houston,TX,Four-personExhibition:MichaelCollins,Otto,Richard FluhrandGregSpaulding
Interplay: Celebrating the Poetry of Pablo Neruda,SloverMcCutcheonGallery,Houston,TX 32 Texas Artists,TheUniversityofTexas,HoustonHealthScienceCenterGallery,Houston,TX Order and Chaos,ArtMuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX
Texas Art Celebration 1996,AssistanceLeagueofHouston,CullenCenter,Houston,TX,curated byJockReynolds
MiamiArtExpo VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL 1995
MiamiArtExpo VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL
Red Hot,TexasFineArtsAssociation,1995InvitationalExhibition,Austin,TX
ArtMuseumofSouthTexas MatrixSeries,CorpusChristi,TX,Dr.WilliamOtton,Director; NewArt/Collins-Diamond,Two-PersonExhibition Figuration,VirginiaMillerGallery,CoralGables,FL MichaelCollins,LucasJohnson, SharonKopriva,TomHopkins,BrianO’Connor,EustaciaMarsales
1994
Varied Visions - Interpretations of the Landscape,VirginiaMillerGalleries,CoralGables,FL Summer Series,ArtMuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX.SelectedbyMuseum CuratorialStaff
Texas Art International,InternationalJuriedVisualArtCompetition,UniversityofTexasatEl Paso,FoxFineArtsCenter,ElPaso,TX,juriedbyDr.DonaldB.Kuspit
Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art,AmarilloMuseumofArt,Amarillo,TX,curatedby PatrickMcCracken,Director
VisualArtsAllianceEleventhAnnualExhibition,curatedbyDr.WilliamOtton,Director,Art MuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX(FirstPlace,Painting)
Texas Art Celebration 1994,AssistanceLeagueofHouston,CullenCenter,Houston,TX,curated byDr NedRifkin(thenChiefCuratoroftheSculptureGarden,SmithsonianInstitution, Washington,D.C.;nowdirectoroftheHighMuseum,Atlanta,GA)
Confluence, 1994,HillCountryArtsFoundation22ndAnnualExhibition,Ingram,TX,curated byJimEdwards
McMurtreyGallery,Houston,TX
Landscape II,MartinRathburnGallery,SanAntonio,TX
AmarilloCompetition,AmarilloArtCenter,curatedbyJimEdwards,IndependentCurator Houston, Narrative,MartinRathburnGallery,SanAntonio,TX Artists:MichaelCollins, JoAnnBrigham,LydiaBodnar-Balahutrak,SharonKopriva 1993
1993 Critic’s Choice,D’ArtVisualArtCenter,Dallas,Texas,curatedbyPatrickMcCracken, DirectoroftheAmarilloArtCenter;BeckyDuvallReese,DirectoroftheElPasoMuseumof Art;JimEdwards,IndependentCurator
1992
ArleneLewAllenGallery,GroupIntroductionExhibitionwithJudyChicago,SantaFe,NM AlexandriaMuseumofArt,11thAnnualJuriedExhibition;juriedbyMarilynZeitlyn,Director fortheWashingtonProjectoftheArts,Washington,D.C.(Catalogue)(GalleryLecture)
New Texas Art,CheneyCowlesMuseum,Spokane;travelingtoBoiseArtMuseum,Boise, Idaho;alsoothermuseumsoftheNorthwestandMidwest;curatedbyJimEdwards,Brown CuratoroftheSanAntonioMuseumofArt(Catalogue)
Texas Visions - The Barrett Collection,curatedbyMichaelEnnis,CuratorandArtWriter; organizedbyInterCulturaandtheDallasMuseumofArt,aninternationaltravelingexhibition scheduledforEngland,Germany,France,Spain,MexicoandJapan(Hardboundcolored catalogue)
1991
Eighth Annual Open Juried Exhibition,VisualArtsAlliance,TranscoGallery,juriedbySally Sprout
On Line: Drawings by Texas Artists,AmarilloArtCenter,Amarillo,TX(traveling)
1990
Ritual and Myth,GriffithGallery,GriffithFineArtsBuilding,StephenF.AustinState University,curatedbyMarkDiamond
1989
Texas Realism Celebration,ArtMuseumofSoutheastTexas,curatedbySheilaStewart
New Art: Paintings from New York, Texas and California,LagunaGloriaArtMuseum,Austin, TX,curatedbyHenryT.Hopkins,DirectorFrederickR.WisemanArtFoundation,LosAngeles, CA(Catalogue)
Looking at Color,TranscoEnergyCorporation,Houston,TX,curatedbyDougBlake
Evidence Contemporary Figurative, Narrative Painters of the Southwest,SanAntonioMuseum ofArt,SanAntonio,TX,curatedbyJimEdwards,BrownCurator,SanAntonioMuseumofArt (Catalogue)
Florida National,FloridaStateUniversityMuseum,Tallahassee,FL(Catalogue)(Honorable Mention)
1988
Conscience and Content,HoustonArtLeague,Houston,TX,curatedbyJoanS.Robinson,Ph.D. Seventh Annual National Competition,AlexandriaMuseumofArt,Alexandria,LA,curatedby NedRifkin(catalogue)(juror’sMeritAward)
Houston 88,CullenCenter,Houston,TX,curatedbyMarilynZeitlyn,NeilPrince,andAnne Tucker(Catalogue)
Texas Art Celebration, ’88,TheAssistanceLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX(Catalogue)
Curator’s Choice,elevenworks paintings,watercolorsanddrawings ArtMuseumof SoutheastTexas,Beaumont,TX,curatedbyPattersonSims,curatorofSeattleMuseumofArt, Seattle,WA(Catalogue)
1987
East End Show,UniversityofHouston,Houston,TX
New American Talent,TexasFineArtsAssociation,LagunaGloriaArtMuseum,Austin,TX (Catalogue)(CashHonorarium)
Anatomy of a Drawing,Hooks-EpsteinGalleries,Inc.,Houston,TX
1986
Sixteenth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition,SouthwestTexasStateUniversity,SanMarcos,TX BaytownJuriedArtShow,Baytown,TX(Award)
Faculty Selects...in Honor of the Texas Sesquicentennial,CollegeoftheMainland,TexasCity, TX
20th Annual Exhibition,JewishCommunityCenterJuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX (Catalogue)
1985
Texas Visions,ArtLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX,TranscoGallery(Catalogue) BaytownJuriedArtShow,Baytown,TX(FirstPlace,TwoHonorableMentions)
1984
JewishCommunityCenterJuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX
Tri-State Exhibit,JuriedArtExhibition,ThirdPlace,Beaumont,TX
1983
GalvestonArtLeague,Galveston,TX
Tri-State Exhibit,JuriedExhibition,HonorableMention,Beaumont,TX
TexasWatercolorSociety,SanAntonio,TX
Spring Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,FlorenceStelzerMemorialAward,Houston,TX
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,NewYork(WilliamS.WebbAward)
TexasFineArtsAssociation,Austin,TX(workselectedfortravelingexhibition)
Figuratively Speaking,ArtLeagueofHouston(FirstPlace),juriedbyAlanHacklen 63rd Annual Exhibition,NationalWatercolorSociety,SanDiego,CA(WatercolorWestAward) (Catalogue)
1982
Texas Art,BastropAssociationfortheArts,Bastrop,TX
Introductions, ’82,Hooks-EpsteinGalleries,Inc.,Houston,TX
JewishCommunityCenter,JuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX BaytownArtShow,Baytown,TX
GalvestonArtLeague,Galveston,TX(HonorableMention,ThirdPlace,FourthPlace)
Dimensions,ArtLeagueofHouston,Houston,TX
Fall Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,ThirdPlace,Houston,TX
Spring Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,MeritAward,Houston,TX
Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,NY(D.F McGrannCo.Award)
1981
Dimensions Exhibition,HoustonArtLeague,HonorableMention,Houston,TX Fall Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,Houston,TX
1980
SouthwesternFederationWatercolorSociety,Lubbock,TX
Tri-Sate Exhibit,JuriedArtExhibition,SecondPlace,Beaumont,TX
JewishCommunityCenterJuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX
Spring Exhibition,WatercolorArtSociety,MeritAward,Houston,TX SpringfieldMuseumofFineArtsNationalExhibition,Springfield,UT
1979
JewishCommunityCenter,JuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX BaytownArtShow,Baytown,TX
1975
BaytownArtShow,Baytown,TX(PurchaseAward)
1974
BaytownArtShow,Baytown,TX(PurchaseAward)
JewishCommunityCenterJuriedArtExhibition,Houston,TX
TheMuseumofFineArts,Houston,TX
St.ThomasUniversity,JonesHallGallery,Houston,TX
OgdenMuseum,NewOrleans,LA
EllenNoelMuseum,Odessa,TX
BassMuseumofArt,MiamiBeach,FL
LoweMuseumofArt,Miami,FL
SanAntonioMuseumofArt,SanAntonio,TX
TexasCommerceBank,Houston,TX
McGintyArchitects&Associates,Houston,TX
TranscoEnergyCorp.,Houston,TX
ElPasoMuseumofArt,ElPaso,TX McKenzieGroup,Houston,TX
FirstNorthernTrustofChicago,Houston,TX ArtMuseumofSouthTexas,CorpusChristi,TX
SimonsPetroleum,OklahomaCity,OK
J.WayneStarkUniversityGallery,TexasA&MUniversity,CollegeStation,TX MuseumoftheSouthwest,Midland,TX
OldJailArtCenter,Albany,TX
StrakeJesuitArtMuseum,Houston,TX
