Rollin Kocsis Studio
Color - Movement - Energy - Emotion
Memphis Tennessee

Expressionistic Surrealism

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Rollin Kocsis

 Rollin Kocsis 

BIO


Born: South Bend, Indiana
Education: B.S., Art Education, Indiana University
M.A.T., Art Education, University of Memphis
M.F.A. Painting, University of Memphis
Art Teacher, Memphis City Schools,  1971 to 2009


ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS
2003 Best In Show Award
Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Art Exhibition

Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN
2000 Best-In-Show Award

Mid-South Art Teachers Juried Exhibition
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1993 Honorable Mention
Tom Peyton Memorial Arts Festival, Alexandria, LA

1991 Juror's Award - Memphis Arts In The Park Festival

1989 First Place in Photo-journalism
Tennessee Teacher Magazine
Tennessee State Educator's Editors

1985 Second Place photography award
17th National Show
Fine Arts League - La Junta, Colorado

1984 - 1985 Purchase prize
Tennessee Valley Authority Art-In-Architecture

1984 Finalist
Best of Photography Annual: 1984
Photographer's Forum

1983 Third Place photography award
Seventh Annual Photography Exhibition, Birmingham, AL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Parallel Worlds, Christian Brother's Univ., Memphis, TN.

2008 Recent Paintings:  Landscapes and Still Lifes, Theatre Memphis
2005 Layers, Solo Exhibit, UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN

2005 The Past Two Years, Solo Exhibition, UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN

2004 Rays of Life, Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN

2003 Recent Paintings, Solo Exhibition
UniversalArt Gallery, Memphis, TN

1999 Selected Still Life Paintings, Gallery 509, Memphis, TN

1993 K-SCOPE: A collection of paintings
Christian Brother's College University Gallery, Memphis, TN

1990 The Still Life and Beyond, Cossett Branch Library, Memphis, TN

1989 Male I Series: Photographic Serigraphs,
Turner Clark Gallery, Memphis, TN

1984 Collage Paintings, Theater Memphis, TN

1983 Southern Reflections: Collage Painting,
Turner Clark Gallery, Memphis, TN

EXHIBITION RECORD

2009 Green Energy Project
Sunset Gallery,

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

2004 Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Exhibition
Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN

2003 Memphis Arts In The Park Senior Juried Exhibition
Hope and Healing Center, Memphis, TN

2003 Art With A Southern Drawl, Juried Exhibition, University of Mobile, Mobile, Alabama

2002 Memphis Arts In The Park Juried Exhibition, Memphis, Tennessee

2002 Donor's Show, Art Day, Greater Memphis Arts Council, Memphis, TN

1999 - 2001 Mid-South Art Teacher's Juried Exhibition, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

1996 Tennessee Art Teacher's Exhibition, Appalachian Center For Crafts, TN

1994 Tennessee Art Teacher's Juried Purchase Exhibition,
Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN. Joy Patty, Juror, High Museum of Art


1993 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Oklahoma Art Workshops, Tulsa, OK

1992 Exhibit ‘92, National Oil and Acrylic Painter's Society
Columbia College, Osage Beach, Missouri

1991 Memphis Arts In The Park Festival, Claudia De Monte, Univ. of Maryland, Juror

1991 Contemporary Art on Canvas - Gallery on the Circle
Annapolis, Maryland. Frederick R. Brandt, Juror, Curator 20th Century Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

1992 Showcase ‘92 - Heart of the Arts Juried Arts Exhibit, Beaverton, Oregon

1992 Delta Artists Rising, Memphis North Light Gallery

1991  Visual Arts Exhibition, Decatur Arts Festival, DeKalb Council for the Arts, Decatur/Atlanta, GA.

1991 Eleventh Annual National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center For the Arts, Wichita, Kansas

1991 Seventh Annual Juried Exhibition, North Coast Collage Society, Stocker Center Gallery, Hudson, Ohio

1990 Eminent Elements: Group Show, North Light Gallery, Memphis, TN

1990 Against The Tide, Nexus Contemporary Art Gallery, Ann Holcomb and Cindy Patton, curators, Atlanta, Georgia

1990 Fifth Annual Regional Exhibition, Southside Art League, Indianapolis, IN

1990 Memphis Arts In The Park Festival, William Christenbery, Juror

1990 Thirty-Third Delta Juried Art Exhibition, Linda Catheart, Juror, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas

1989 Works On Paper, Memphis State University Gallery

1985 Seventeenth National Art Show, Fine Arts League, La Junta, CO

1984 Magic Silver Show, Murray Sate University, KY

1984 Art South, Memphis State University

1983 Seventh Annual Photography Exhibition, Greater Birmingham
Arts Alliance, Birmingham, Alabama

1980 The Box - New Form, New Function, Arrowmont School Of Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

1973 10th Annual Southern Tier Arts and Crafts Show

 

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