2023
Diver, MSP Terminal 1, Gallery E4, Minneapolis
March 1, 2023 – March 1, 2024
1st. Anniversary Exhibit, Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis
March 18 – May 6, 2023
Abstract, Minnetonka Center for the Arts
April 13 – May 12, 2023
Light Tales, a Project Space Exhibition, Kolman & Reeb Gallery, Minneapolis
June 17 – August 19, 2023
2022
Shape Shifting Verse, Traffic Zone Gallery, Minneapolis
January 10 – February 11, 2022
Color Show: Part 5, Blue, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis
January 8 – March 5, 2022
Thoughtful Dialogue: 15 Years of Form + Content, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis
April 21 – May 28, 2022
2021
Color Show: Part 4, Orange, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis
January 9 – April 3, 2021
Small Trembles, FUS Gallery, Minneapolis
March 1 – 31, 2021
Title Collective Exhibition, Century College, White Bear Lake, MN
March 15 – May 10, 2021
The Nature Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis
April 10 – June 19, 2021
2020
Color Show: Part 3, Yellow, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis
The Heart’s Bright and Dark Light, Cummings Art Gallery, Mary D’Angelo Arts Center, Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA SOLO
Intersessions: Experiments in Venice and Rome, Traffic Zone Gallery for Visual Artists, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
The Heart’s Bright and Dark Light, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine University, St. Paul, MN SOLO
2019
The Heart’s Bright and Dark Light, Alice R. Rogers and Target Galleries, Saint John’s University Art Center, Collegeville, MN SOLO
Color Show: Part 2, Red, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Pulse Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, Kolman & Pryor Gallery
2018
L/Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
Landscape: Natural Fit, Imagined Prospects, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Color Show: Part 1, White, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2016
Plymouth Congregational Church Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Summer Group Exhibition 2016, L/Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
Tiny Art Show, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2015
Ghost of the Figure, Kolman and Pryor Gallery Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Inside Sensation, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
No Boys Allowed, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2013
FLOOD, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
30” x 30”: New Abstract Painting in the Twin Cities, Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Minneapolis
Substance of Life, paintings by Betsy Beyers, Jil Evans, Jodi Reeb and Patrick Pryor. Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Curious Passions: The Diverse Inquiries of Traffic Zone Artists. Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minnetonka, MN
2012
Minnesota Museum of American Art, Painting the Place Between, Inaugural Exhibit
Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN SOLO
Landscape of the Mind, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
Mapping Spectral Traces, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota
Connections, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2011
Breaking Light, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
2010
Flaten Art Museum, This, Here, Now: Nature and Human Consciousness
Movement-Process-Reflection with Margaret Wall-Romana, Bethel University
Sketch Work, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2009
Galapagos Cactus Wars, m55art Gallery, Long Island City, NY SOLO
Galapagos Cactus Wars, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Traffic Zone Center for the Visual Arts, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
2008
Prints in Time, Flaten Art Museum
Intimate Immensity, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Form+Contentx2, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2007
Dutch Opera, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Current Trends in Abstraction, Flanders Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Painter’s Painting, with Brian Frink, Ryuta Nakajima and Chris Zarendow, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, MN
Prints on Ice, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis
Trace Elements, Form + Content Gallery, Minneapolis
2006
Flaten Art Museum: Ever Present
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis
2005
Minnesota Museum of American Art: Abstract Painting in Minnesota, 1930-Present
Ripple River Gallery, Aitken, MN SOLO
Images: 30 on 30: A Collaboration of Artists and Writers, MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN
Unframed Prints, Ninth Street Entry Gallery, St. Paul, MN curated by Jeff Wetzig
2004
Abstraction and Figurative Narrative: Recent Paintings and Drawings by Jil Evans and T.L. Solien, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire,WI
Abstraction in Minnesota, 1930 to the Present, curated by Thomas Barry. Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
The Weight of Paper, curated by Anne Davey, Delta Axis at Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN
Move, Invitational at Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Anderson Center, Redwing, MN
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Summer and Winter members shows, Minneapolis
Ripple River Gallery, Deerwood, MN
2003
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2002
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, In Situ: Fallen Angels, Stripes and Spots, Holes and Tentacles, New Paintings by Jil Evans, James Holmberg and Cristi Rinklin
Tiepolo’s Cloud, Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN SOLO
2001
Steensland Museum, Northfield, MN, Tiepolo’s Cloud, SOLO,
Traveling to: Conkling Gallery, Minnesota State University, Mankato
Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas SOLO
Concordia University, St.Paul, MN SOLO
George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
Second Floor Contemporary, Memphis, TN
Buckham Gallery, Flint, MI
2000
Doug Flanders Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
1998
Halle Ford Museum of Art, Salem, Oregon: Inaugural Exhibition
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Minnesota, MN SOLO
1997
City Hall, office of Mayor Sharon Sayles Belton, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Two Painters (with Maria Santiago), College of Visual Arts Gallery, St.Paul, MN
Muse Sommers Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1996
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Earth, Water, Air and Fire
Valparaiso University Museum of Art, Inaugural Gifts
Rochester Art Center, MN Juror: Ruth Appelhof
1995
Minneapolis Institute of Art, New Acquisitions
Steensland Museum, Northfield, MN, Four Degrees of Abstraction
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH SOLO
Six Crossings Field, an exhibit with Meg Ojala at Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
CROSSROADS: RECENT ABSTRACT PAINTING, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
1994
The Painting Center, New York City, NY SOLO
Walter Wickiser Gallery, New York City, NY
1993
Willamette University Art Museum, New Additions
Musee-atelier ADZAK, Paris, France
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN
Center Art Gallery, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI
1992
Shadow Maker, Buckham Fine Arts Project, Flint, MI
1991
Franz Bader Gallery, Washington, D.C. SOLO
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL SOLO
Minnesota Metaphor, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Black and White, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN, SOLO
Pairings in Clay, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN
1989
Minneapolis Institute of Art, Prints and Drawing Show
University of Wisconsin at River Falls, WI SOLO
Jerome Fellowship Exhibit, MCAD, Minneapolis, MN
Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL SOLO
1988
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN SOLO
4′ Square, Sazama-Brauer Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hamline University, St. Paul, MN
1987 – 1992
Chicago International Art Exposition, Thomson Gallery
1987
Thomson Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Faculty Art Show, Steensland Gallery, St. Olaf College, MN
Choices. Twenty Painters from the Midwest, Minneapolis
College of Art and Design, MN. Travelling to:
Wurston Art Museum, Racine, WI, Evanston Art Center
1986
Faculty Art Show, Steensland Gallery, St. Olaf College, MN
1985
Light in the California Landscape, Sacred Heart School, Menlo Park, CA
Faculty Art Show, Steensland Gallery, St. Olaf College,
MFA Show, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1983
35th Iowa Artists ’83, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
1982
The Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
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