GEO RUTHERFORD
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E X H I B I T I O N S


2021       On the Lake, solo exhibition at the Ace Hotel, Chicago, Illinois
2021       Bay View Gallery Night, The Bindery, Milwaukee 
2021       Cohort, MFA Thesis Exhibition group show, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2021       Reclamation:  Artists’ Books On The Environment, San Francisco, California 
2020    Marin Society of Artists, Fresh Art 2020 Juried Show, San Rafael, California
2020    Core New Art Space, Juried Small Works Show, Denver, Colorado 
2020    Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Competition, Abilene, Texas
2020    Union Art Gallery Juried Student Show, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2020    Best in Show at Power Tools, Glen Arbor Art Center, Glen Arbor, Michigan 
2020    4th Biennial Wings and Water, River Arts Center, Prairie du Sauk , Wisconsin
2019     Best in Show at Union Art Gallery Juried Student Show, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
2019    Wisconsin Print, Kenosha Creative Space, Kenosha, Wisconsin
2019     The Nature of Disappearance, The Silverwood Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota 
2018     Swarm to Table, University of Wisconsin Biology Department, Madison, Wisconsin
2016     Black and White, Riverside Art Gallery, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2015     Solo Exhibit, Dexter Library, Dexter, Michigan
2013     Group Exhibit, Bona Sera Restaurant, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2013     Solo Exhibit, Ollie’s Restaurant, Ypsilanti, Michigan
2013     Solo Undergraduate Show, Student Gallery, Eastern Michigan University


P R E S S  A N D  P U B L I C A T I O N S
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  • 2021  Presenter at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Conservation Symposium 
    • https://www.cmnh.org/conservation-symposium-2021
  • 2o21  Artist Talk for the Discover-E with the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
    • https://www.crowdcast.io/e/greatlakeswithgeo
  • 2021  Interview, Wisconsin Sea Grant: Voices of the Coast 
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtMK4wBwBY
  • 2021  Interview, Spectrum News Milwaukee with Maddie Burakoff and Jeff Dahdah 
    • https://spectrumnews1.com/wi/milwaukee/news/2021/05/07/trash-to-treasure--how-one-wisconsinite-is-spreading-great-lakes-awareness-through-art-and-tiktok
  • 2020 Unsalted Great Lakes Podcast Interview with Allison Devereaux 
    • https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/great-lakes-tiktok/id1531336714?i=1000501938081
  • 2020 NPR Interview, Wisconsin Public Radio with Rob Ferrett
    • https://www.wpr.org/artist-books-explore-beauty-and-fragility-great-lakes-ecosystem
  • 2020 NPR Interview, Michigan Radio, Stateside with April Baer
    • https://www.michiganradio.org/post/stateside-primary-preview-great-lakes-art-book-mi-s-first-transgender-teacher-year
  • 2017-2019  Presentation at Michigan Art Education Conference and the National Art Education Conference: #WhyYouMatter Healing through Public Art
  • 2016 Co-created the #WhyYouMatter project with Laura Naar. Created the Website: 
    • http://www.whyyoumatter.org/
  • 2016 #WhyYouMatter Public Art Project 
    • http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2017/01/chelsea_why_you_matter.html
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy_vCXceLi8
  • 2015 National Gold Metal Portfolio Scholastic Art and Writing award and $10,000 scholarship for my printmaking student, Abraham Cone
    • https://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/2016/03/chelsea_high_school_student_wi.html
  • 2014 Ben Farris Quintet, Album Art      
    • http://www.bferrisbass.com/2016/11/ben-ferris-quintet-debut-album-home.html
  • 2013 Presentation at Michigan Art Education Association Conference: Data for the Art Department
  • 2013 Cellar Roots Magazine Vol. 42 produced by Eastern Michigan University,Department of Student Media pg. 29-35
  • 2012 Presentation on Modern Printmaking at the EMU Undergraduate Symposium and had work in the 2013 Design Expo.
2012 The Eastern Echo Video Interview-- The Printmaking Concentration Show by Adam Wright
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