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 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. Artist Statement Through large works of oil on linen and mixed media on photographs, 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: primitive ritual forms, the figure, modern day power plants, classical architectural forms, coastal subjects, dreams and above all, gardens. 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 feel possesses a certain terrible beauty. 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 own accord. I follow the currents of thinking, feeling and willing, which will allow discovery to emerge. 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 destruction and creation present in nature. The discovered subjects in each painting reveal an art balancing the creative notions of art about art and art about life and the human condition. Michael Roque Collins (b. 1955) EDUCATION:1998 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, MFA in Painting 1984 University of Houston, Houston, TX, Post Baccalaureate Studies in Drawing/Painting 1978 University of Houston, Houston, TX, BFA 1963-73 Lowell Collins School of Art, Houston, TX 1960 Museum of Fine Arts Art School, Houston, TX Selected Honors and Awards 2022 Middle American Art Alliance - National Endowment for the Arts; 50 Stories/50 Years selected and interviewed as a previous MAAA-NEA fellowship recipient for Excellence in Painting on Works on Paper in 1994 to share a summary of growth in development since the earlier award.2011 Unesco, Bioethics and Human Rights Global Art Competition Prize, from the United Nations Education 2008 Hunting Prize Finalist, Painting, Gala May 3, 2008, Houston, TX 2007 Baylor University, Visiting Artist Grant, Waco, TX 2006 Residency Award, The Atelier House, Hilmsen 1, Hilmsen, Germany 2005 University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, Visiting Artist Grant 1999 Art League of Houston, 5th Annual Open Exhibition, Grand Prize, Painting 1996-98 Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, Meadows Graduate Artistic Scholarship Award and Teaching Assistantship 1995 Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artists’ Program, Visual Arts Grant for Painting 1994 Mid-America Arts Alliance/National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship Award in Paintings and Works on Paper Visual Arts Alliance 11th Annual Exhibition, First Place, Painting 1993 Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artists’ Program, Artist Project Grant 1991 Cultural Arts Council of Houston, Creative Artists’ Program, Visual Arts Grant for Painting 1988 Alexandria Museum of Art, “Seventh Annual National Competition,” curated by Dr. Ned Rifkin, Merit Award, Painting.1989 “Florida National”, Florida State University, Honorable Mention, catalogue.1985 Baytown National Juried Art Exhibition, First Place and Two Honorable Mentions, Watercolor, Baytown, TX.1984 “Tri-State Exhibit,” Juried Art Exhibition, Third Place, Beaumont, TX “Spring Exhibition,” Watercolor Art Society, Top Award for Transparent Watercolor, Houston, TX.1983 Art League of Houston, “Figuratively Speaking,” First Place, Watercolor, juried by Alan Hacklen.National Watercolor Society, “63rd Annual Exhibition,” Watercolor West Award for transparent watercolor, San Diego, CA.Tri-State Exhibit,” Juried Art Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Beaumont, TX.“Spring Exhibition,” Watercolor Art Society, Florence Stelzer Memorial Award, Houston, TX. Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,” William S. Webb Award, NY.1982 Texas Fine Arts Association, work selected for traveling exhibition, Austin, TX.Galveston Art League, Honorable Mention, Third Place, Fourth Place, Galveston, TX.“Fall Exhibition,” Watercolor Art Society, Third Place, Houston, TX.“Spring Exhibition,” Watercolor Art Society, Merit Award, Houston, TX.“Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,” D.F. McGrann Co. Award, NY.1981 “Dimensions Exhibition,” Houston Art League, Honorable Mention, Houston, TX.1980 “Tri-State Exhibit,” Juried Art Exhibition, Second Place, Beaumont, TX.“Spring Exhibition,” Watercolor Art Society, Merit Award, Houston, TX.1975 Baytown Art Show, Purchase Award, Baytown, TX.1974 Baytown Art Show, Purchase Award, Baytown, TX. Solo Exhibitions 2023 Coastal Gardens, Redbud Arts Center, Houston, TX In the Chama, Where the Spirit Flows, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2021 Transmissions of Light, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Salon Prive, Preview of Transmissions of Light Series, presented by LewAllen Galleries at Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX2019 Salon Prive, Preview of The Reliquaries Series, presented by LewAllen Galleries at Saint Street Studio, Houston, TX Reliquaries Series, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2018 Paintings and Works on Paper of Michael Roque Collins - 1988-2018, Clark & Associates, Houston, TX2017 Tides of Memory, McMurray University, Abilene, TX Salon Prive, Preview of The Inland Mountain Journey Series, Presented by LewAllen Galleries at Saint Street Studio, Houston, TX Inland Mountain Journey, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2016 Works on Paper, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM2015 The Venetian Series, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Salon Prive, Preview of The Venetian Series, presented by LewAllen Galleries at Saint Street Studio, Houston, TX2013 Beyond Earth’s Rhythm, LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard, Santa Fe, NM 2011 Tides of Memory, LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard, Santa Fe, NM 2010 Shadowlands, Richard Gallery, Berlin, Germany2009 From Ruins to Resurrection, LewAllen Galleries at the Railyard, Santa Fe,NMUAC Gallery (curated by Jim Edwards), HBU, Houston, TX 2008 Sojourn In the Shadowlands, G Gallery, Houston, TX Sacred Landscapes, Felipe Cossio del Pomar Cultural Center, San Isidro, Lima, Peru Sojourn in the Shadowlands, Munchskirche Museum, Salzweddel, Germany 2007 Memory Gardens, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM Sacred Landscapes, Gerald Peters Galleries Dallas, Dallas, TX Ritual of Memory, G Gallery, Houston TX 2006 Solo Survey, Montgomery College Art Center 2005 Forum Rituals, Corpus Christi Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX 2004 Recent Works of Michael Roque Collins, Bacardi Museum, Santiago, Cuba A Ritual of Memory, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM Tropological Landscapes, Ellen Noel Art Museum, Odessa, TX2003 Gardens of Mystery, Gallery 101 in conjunction with Red Bud Gallery, Houston, TX Sacred & Profane Spaces, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX 2001 Retrospective solo exhibition, University of Saint Thomas Gallery, Houston, TX 2000 Michael Roque Collins, Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX 1999 Retrospective Solo Exhibition, Houston Art League, Retrospective Solo Exhibition, Houston, TX Gardens of Terrible Beauty, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL 1998 Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas 1997 Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX 1996 Sacred & Profane Spaces, Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL 1995 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1994 C. G. Jung Center, Houston, TX 1993 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1991 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1990 McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1989 Jung Center, Houston, TX Framboyan Gallery, New Orleans, LA McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX 1987 Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, TX 1986 Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, TX 1983 Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, TX Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Crosscurrent Yokohama-Texas 2019 Exhibition, Kanagawa Prefecture Gallery, Yokohama, Japan O What a Night! Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA2018 Foundations III, Debra Colton Gallery, Houston, TX BIG, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA O What a Night! Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA Texas Eclectics, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece Co-Works, Tieken Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA 2nd Annual Flower Show, Splendora Gardens, Splendora, TX2017 So Long, Farewell, Good By, Spring Street Studios Group Exhibit, Houston, TX LewAllen Galleries Group Exhibition, LewAllen Galleries Railyard, Santa Fe, NM2016 Genocide: Man’s Inhumanity to Man, Holocaust Museum Houston, Houston, TX Transmissions of Light, Collected Works by Michael Roque Collins and Lowell Daunt Collins, Two Allen Center--Brookfield Properties, Houston, TX2015 Divergent Illusions, ArtSpace Virginia Miller Galleries, Miami, FL Objects of Interest: Recent Acquisitions for the Permanent Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, Louisiana. Visual Transcendence, Tides of Memory, Texas A&M University Galleries, College Station, TX Eye Candy, Spring Street Gallery and Studios, Houston, TX Never Let It Rest-Sojourns in the Shadowlands, Detroit Holocaust Memorial Center and Museum, Detroit, MI2014 MAC@20 Part II-Twentieth Anniversary, McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, TX 2 Voices Painting/Poetry: Collins/Boyleston, UAC Contemporary Gallery, HBU, Houston, TX 2 Person Exhibition: Collins and Edwards, Gallery 220 at HBU, Houston, TX 2013 Western Sequels: Art From the Lone Star State, a curated international exhibition of Texas Art, Full color catalog. School of Fine Arts Museum, Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Istanbul, Turkey. Western Sequels: Art From the Lone Star State, a curated international exhibition of Texas Art, Full color catalog, Athens, Greece Christmas Small Works group exhibition, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, Texas, Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, La Galerie K, Paris, France. Group Exhibition of Represented Artists, LewAllen Galleries Railyard, Santa Fe, NM2012 A l'Origine, La Galerie K, Paris, France Houston Art Fair, LewAllen Galleries, Houston, Texas Go West Exchange exhibition, French and Texas Artists in a two city exhibition exchanging in dialogue in both Paris France and Houston, TX Elbe Und Flut, Tangemunde Museum of Art, Tangemunde, Germany Falling Waters Series, Focused preview, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM Small Works Exhibition, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, TX 2011 Houston Arts Fair, LewAllen Contemporary Galleries, Booth, Santa Fe, NM The Tarp, Continuation of the Group exhibition of Texas Tarp paintings, Cuba Miami Art Fair, LewAllen Contemporary Galleries H2O, Muse Gallery, Hydrabad India Go West, An international traveling exhibition –Texas-France, Unesco exhibition space Paris, France Texas Drops By, MadisMad Gallery, Madrid, Spain LewAllen Contemporary Railyard Summer Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM 2010 Texas Drops Off Some Cloth, Trujillo, Peru The Language of Myth, Norwood Flynn Gallery, Dallas, TX Arthouse Invitation 5 x 7 exhibition, Arthouse, Austin, TX 5 x 7 Exhibition, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University School of Art, Lubbock TX 2009 Earth’s Influence, Curator Janet Hassinger, Fine Arts Gallery, College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX. October 20- November, 20 2009. MRC Lecture, Nov. 2, 2009.Horizons: The Semiotics of Latitude, Curator Mr. Ken Marvel, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe ,N.M. Feb-March, 2009.Walking On Ashes, two-person exhibition, Collins Molzberger, Curated by Jim Edwards, paintings, works on photograph, glass fusion, Installation, mixed media, raku clay, bronze, steel, sound, digital short film projections and light instillation. UAC Gallery HBU, Houston Texas, March 5-April 15, 2009.Memorial Exhibition, Walking on Ashes, McNair Hall, Morris Cultural Arts Center, HBU, in conjunction with the Holocaust Museum, curator Marci Dallas, on the occasion of a lecture by Ms. Madeline Albright January 31, 2009, Houston TX.Texas Twang, Shift Studio, Curated by Wayne Gilbert, and Magdalen Celestino, Opening Jan 8, and up through Jan. 31, 2009. Seattle Washington.Anti-Matter, Gallery at the University of Texas Permian Basin, Curated By Wayne Gilbert, Jan 23-Feb. 2009, Group exhibition comprised of Texas artists. Odessa TX.Red Dot Art Fair, Miami, LewAllen Contemporary, Jan. 2009.Hearts and Souls, Salzkirche Tangermuende Museum, Salzkirche, Germany July August 2009.Amistad II, Museo de Arte Contemporario, Arequipa, Peru. Curated by Mr. Max Hutchinson, Director of M2 Gallery, Mr. Gus Kopriva, Director of Redbud Gallery and Jim Edwards, Art Curator. Color catalogue.2008 Grand Opening of the Encantado Gallery space, LewAllen Contemporary Galleries Santa Fe, N.M. October –November 2008.5”†x 7”†Group exhibition, Landmark Arts Gallery, Texas Tech University, 2008, Lubbock TX.Hansa Art Exhibition, Salzwedel Germany, Mixed media painting on B&W photograph. June – Jul20, 2008.Texas and German Artists, Zerbst Museum, Germany, Hans Moltzberger, Hilmsen Germany, Jan.-Mar. 2008.Curators Choice, Art Museum Of South Texas, Jan-March, 2008. Curator Ms. Michelle Locke, Corpus Christi TX.Recent Acquisitions, Art Museum of South Texas, , September – Dec. 2008, Corpus Christi, TX.LA Art Fair, Ten Artists from LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe N.M. Curated by Mr. Ken Marvel.Faculty Exhibition, University Academic Center Gallery, HBU, Sept. Oct. 2008, Houston, TX.Houston Art League Auction and exhibition for the Artist and Patron of the year, Houston, TX. Nov, 2009.Red Dot, Juried international art exhibition Miami Florida, Represented by LewAllen Contemporary Galleries, Santa Fe N.M. Dec 3-9, 20082007 GGallery -Glee, Curated by Mr. Wayne Gilbert, Dec1, 07 through Jan1, 2008.Amistad, Texas Artists , Museo De La Nacion- Lima, Peru Curated by Mr. Gus Kopriva Director of Redbud Projects, Color Catalogue, September 12th- October 9th 2007. Exhibition sponsored by a private individual group and the US State Department. Color catalogue. Amistad Traveling, Trujillo Contemporary Museum of Art, Peru,. November –December 2007.Camp Marfa, Curated by Mr. Wayne Gilbert and Lester Marks, Marfa Texas, Traveling to Lubbock, TX. and Smithers Gallery, Huntsville Texas, Dec-Jan. 2007-08.Ulterior Motifs, Curated by Mr. John Smithers, Huntsville TX. Dec-Jan 2007-08Color Catalogue. October 5th to Nov. 11th 2007.Houston City Hall Annex-juried art on loan exhibition, Juror Mr. Marshal Lightman.Ulterior Motifs XI Arlington Museum of Art, , Arlington Museum Of Art, April 13th- May, Traveling to Wichita Falls Museum of Art. Color Catalogue.More Is More-Maximalist Trends in Recent American Painting, Florida State University. Museum, Curator, Maria Flores, National Survey Color catalogue. Jan-March 2007.Annual faculty Exhibition, McNair Hall, Houston Baptist University, Houston TX. Color catalogue, Jim Edwards curator.Faculty and Art Alumni exhibition, Morris Cultural Arts Center Houston Baptist University.LA Art Fair, 2007, Jan. LewAllen Contemporary, Los Angeles CA.2006 GGallery, Throw Down, Curated by Mr. Wayne Gilbert, selected gallery artists. Dec.2- 29. 2006.Art Museum of South Texas, Grand Opening of their Permanent Collection and the Legaretto Wing. Corpus Christ Texas, October 5th, Permanent display, Color catalogue. Work displayed, “Courtyard of Bound Trees”, 2004, oil on linen, 100” x 144”, Museum purchase made possible from the Collectors Guild.Contemporary Art Houston, Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, Curator, Mr. Christopher Zhu- Mr. Gus Kopriva,July-August 2006, Shanghai China. 250 page Color hardbound text.. 39 artists included.LewAllen Contemporary, Small works exhibition, curated by Ken Marvel -Director, Fall 2006. Santa Fe N.M.Amarillo Museum of Art, 12 x 12 Exhibition Invitational, October 2006, Amarillo TX.GGallery Clean Slate, , Curated by Wayne Gilbert, Houston Texas, April 1-May 5th, 2006.Sacred Landscapes, Michael R. Collins, Kenneth Dixon and Jim Woodson, Art Museum of SouthTexas, Corpus Christi TX,, Feb. 23rd, May 21st 2006. Color catalogue, traveling. Curated by Deborah Fullerton.Influences exhibition, Four German and Four American Painters, To travel throughout Germany.Arthouse invitational traveling group exhibition 5”†x 7”. Austin Texas, To travel throughout galleries and Museums around Texas.LA Art Fair, LewAllen Contemporary exhibition selected artists, Curated by Mr. Robert Gardner, Co director of LewAllen Contemporary Gallery Santa Fe N.M.2005 Sojourn in the Shadowlands, Michael R. Collins-Sharon Kopriva, 2005, two person exhibition at LewAllen Contemporary, November 4th- 28th, 2005.Paintings, Sculptures, Drawings and Mixed Media. Mckinney Avenue Contemporary, September 10th – October 17th, Dallas Texas, Collins, Komodore Kollock at the Mac. 2005.Amarillo Museum of Art, 12x12 Exhibition Invitational, October-November, 2005 Curated by Tom Troperizer. Director, Amarillo Museum of Art.Redbud Gallery and 101 Gallery 12 x 12 fundraiser and exhibition for Katrina relief benefiting the Red Cross, October, Houston TX.Arte de Italia, Glancing Back Looking Forward, ICC, Texas Tech University, curator Jane Bell, October, 2005.City of Houston invitational, year long exhibition at City Hall. Curated by Gus Kopriva director of Redbud gallery Houston TX.LewAllen Contemporary, Sojourn in the Shadowlands, Collins and Kopriva, Paintings, sculpture, Drawings, mixed media on photographs. November 4-Dec 15, 2005.Paper, Gerald Perters Gallery, Dallas TX., Curated Director Ashley Tatum, May 20- July 2005.Michael Collins Harry Geffert, Terrel James, Sharon Kopriva, Pamela Nelson, Dan Rissie.Arthouse Texas, 5” x 7” Group invitational Exhibition, Austin Tx. May-2005.Buddy Holly Museum, Ulterior Motifs, May-June 20052004 Line-Up, Gallery 101, Redbud Projects, Dec. 2004- January 2005, Houston, Texas.LewAllen Contemporary, preview exhibition, Ritual of Memory, Oklahoma City Ok. July, 2004.LewAllen Contemporary, preview exhibition, Ritual of Memory, Houston, Tx. September 2004.Ulterior Motifs, New Bransfels Museum of Art and Music, Oct.-Jan.. 2004-2005.Ulterior Motifs, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX . July-September 2004. Selected artists from Houston Lubbock.The Artists of LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM,. May- July, 2004 at The Amarillo Museum of Art.Fall Art Faculty Exhibition, Texas Tech University, Landmark Gallery, Lubbock, TX, fall 2005.“Ulterior Motifs No. 6,”†Wheeler Bro’s Studios featuring selected artists from Houston & Lubbock, TX.“Coastal Connections;”†Contemporary Art from Houston and Corpus Christi, Weil Gallery, Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, TX, curated by Gus Kopriva, Director, Redbud Gallery, Houston, TX.“The Space Between,”†Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Wayne Gilbert and Michael Collins.2003 “Other Worlds,”†Texas, German & Cuban Artists in Cuba, Museum of Natural History, Havana, Cuba, The Art Guys, John Alexander, Dan Allison, Sharon Kopriva, Luiz Jimenez, James Surls, Nancy Kienholz, Michael Collins, Wayne Gilbert, Terry Allen, Ramzy Telly, John Berry, Weihong, Ed Wilson, Georg Dick, Detlef Schweiger, etc.Landmark Arts, The Galleries of Texas Tech University, Faculty Exhibition, curated by Joe Arredondo, Gallery Director, Lubbock, TX (catalogue).“First Impressions –†Printmaking Exhibition,”†North Harris College, Visual, Applied & Performing Arts, Houston, TX, curated by Don Stevenson (brochure).“Dark Aquarius,”†Huntsville, TX, curated by John Kerr Smither.Faculty Exhibition, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX.“Ulterior Motifs No. 5, HUMID, Hot, Sweet and Sticky,” Wheeler Bro’s Studios in conjunction with Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX.Huddle for the Arts 2004, Cultural Arts Council of Houston, invitational exhibition supporting the CACH awards to the artists’ program.“2003: Art and Soul,” Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Houston, TX.Art Museum of South Texas’†Annual Gala Exhibition & Auction, Corpus Christi, TX.“Mythology,”†Ice House Gallery, Huntsville, TX, curated by Professors Sharon King and Tony Shipp.2002 “The Art of Being American,”†Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, curated by Dr. Bill Otton (color catalogue)Meadows Museum of Art, “From Darkness Into Light,” Spirituality in the Arts Conference Exhibition, 9-11, Dallas, TX“Houston Works,”†Invitational Exhibition of 20 American Artists, ArtCo-Gallery, Leipzig, Germany, sponsored by Redbud Gallery, traveled to various museums and galleries throughout Germany (color catalogue)Orange Show Gala, Houston Polo Club, Artistic and Decoration Director, installation, and exhibition“I-45 Combined,”†Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX, an exhibition in conjunction with Sam Houston State University Art Faculty.“The Necessity of the Image,”†Paradigm Gallery, Dallas, TX“The Heavenly Ball,”†Houston Grand Opera Auction, Houston, TX“Texas Art Patron of the Year Gala & Auction Exhibition,”†Art League of Houston, Houston,TX.“Art Scan,”†Rudolph Projects (Two-person Exhibition), Vine Street Studios, Houston, TX“Phoenix Show,”†Red Bud Gallery, Houston, TXFaculty Exhibition, Houston Baptist University, Houston, TX2001 Red Bud Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Michael Luna, traveling exhibition.Donna Rogers Fine Arts, “Collins/Grotfeldt,” Houston, TXHouston Baptist University/Lowell Collins Gallery, “Vessels of the Soul,”†Houston, TXAssistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2001, Houston, TX, juried by Terri Sultan. Director, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston.Art Center of Waco, “Art View 2001,”†30th Annual Celebration, Waco, TX, curated by Logan.“Psychomanias,”†Andy Antippas Gallery, New Orleans, LA (Two-person Exhibition Collins/ Komodore).Houston Baptist University Faculty Exhibition, Lowell Collins Gallery, Houston, TX.The Art Museum of South Texas, “Masterpieces,”†Corpus Christi, TX. 2001: An Arts Space Odyssey, Texas Accountants and Lawyers for the Arts, Houston, TX.“Night at the Alambra,”†Houston Grand Opera Auction, Houston, TX.2000 “Departure/Return,”†Meadows Art Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.Joan Wich & Co. Gallery, Houston, TX.Red Bud Gallery, Houston, TX.“Enchanted Gardens,”†Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX.Houston Art League’s Auction, Houston, TX.1999 Parchman Stremmel Galleries, San Antonio, TX.Edith Baker Gallery, Dallas, TX, Invitational Mask Exhibition.Auction 2000, Art League of Houston, Houston, TX.Dallas Visual Arts Live Auction, Dallas, TX.The Gaddis Geeslin Gallery, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville, TX (Two-Person Exhibition)“Square Roots,”†South Texas Institute for the Arts, Corpus Christi, TX1998 “1998 Open Show,”†Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, juried by Bert Long (Grand Prize for Painting)“53rd Annual Competition,”†The Grace Museum, Abilene, TX, juried by Jesus Moroles“Critic’s Choice,”†Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, TX, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer, Director of the Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX and Stephen Vollmer, Curator of El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX“Michael Collins & Michael Kennaugh,”Hooper-Schaefer Fine Arts Center Baylor University, Waco, TX.“Masters of Yesterday & Tomorrow,”†Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.1997 “Summit Bound,”†Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.“Visions of Landscape,”†Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Cables, FL.“The Texas International,”†University of Texas -- El Paso, Department of Art, Fox Fine Arts Center, juried by Dr. Thomas McEvilley, Director, Professor of Art, Rice University, Houston, TX; Mark Alexander, Director, University Art Galleries, Exhibition Curator“Establishment and Revelation,”†Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Ten-Person Exhibition: Michael Collins, Gael Stack, Dick Wray, Lucas Johnson, Virgil Grotfeldt, Mary McCleary, John Hernandez, Dixie Friendgay, T.Paul Hernandez, Joe Guy; essay and curated by Benito Huerta (color catalogue)1996 “Atom,”†Weekend Gallery, Houston, TX, Four-person Exhibition: Michael Collins, Otto, Richard Fluhr and Greg Spaulding.“Interplay: Celebrating the Poetry of Pablo Neruda,”†Slover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, TX.“32 Texas Artists,”†The University of Texas, Houston Health Science Center Gallery, Houston, TX.“Order and Chaos,”†Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX.“Texas Art Celebration 1996,”†Assistance League of Houston, Cullen Center, Houston, TX, curated by Jock Reynolds.Miami Art Expo - Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.1995 Miami Art Expo - Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.“Red Hot,”†Texas Fine Arts Association, 1995 Invitational Exhibition, Austin, TXArt Museum of South Texas-Matrix Series, Corpus Christi, TX, Dr. William Otton, Director;New Art/Collins-Diamond, Two-Person Exhibition.“Figuration,”†Virginia Miller Gallery, Coral Gables, FL - Michael Collins, Lucas Johnson, Sharon Kopriva, Tom Hopkins, Brian O’Connor, Eustacia Marsales.1994 “Varied Visions - Interpretations of the Landscape,”†Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL.“Summer Series,”†Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX. Selected by Museum Curatorial Staff.“Texas Art International,”†International Juried Visual Art Competition, University of Texas at El Paso, Fox Fine Arts Center, El Paso, TX, juried by Dr. Donald B. Kuspit.“Looking West/Glancing East: New Texas Art,”†Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX, curated by Patrick McCracken, Director.Visual Arts Alliance Eleventh Annual Exhibition, curated by Dr. William Otton, Director, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX (First Place, Painting).“Texas Art Celebration 1994,”†Assistance League of Houston, Cullen Center, Houston, TX, curated by Dr. Ned Rifkin then Chief Curator of the Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., now director of the High Museum, Atlanta, GA.“Confluence, 1994,”†Hill Country Arts Foundation 22nd Annual Exhibition, Ingram, TX, curated by Jim Edwards.McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, TX.“Landscape II,”†Martin Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX.Amarillo Competition, Amarillo Art Center, curated by Jim Edwards, Independent Curator.“Houston, Narrative,”†Martin Rathburn Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Artists: Michael Collins,JoAnn Brigham, Lydia Bodnar-Balahutrak, Sharon Kopriva.1993 “1993 Critic’s Choice,”†D’Art Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas, curated by PatrickMcCracken,Director of the Amarillo Art Center; Becky Duvall Reese, Director of the El Paso Museum of Art; Jim Edwards, Independent Curator.1992 Arlene LewAllen Gallery, Group Introduction Exhibition with Judy Chicago, Santa Fe, NMAlexandria Museum of Art, 11th Annual Juried Exhibition; juried by Marilyn Zeitlyn, Director for the Washington Project of the Arts, Washington, D.C. (Catalogue) (Gallery Lecture).“New Texas Art,”†Cheney Cowles Museum, Spokane, traveling to Boise Art Museum, Boise,Idaho; also other museums of the Northwest and Midwest; curated by Jim Edwards, Brown Curator of the San Antonio Museum of Art (Catalogue).“Texas Visions - The Barrett Collection,”†curated by Michael Ennis, Curator and Art Writer; organized by InterCultura and the Dallas Museum of Art, and international traveling exhibition scheduled for England, Germany, France, Spain, Mexico and Japan (Hardbound colored catalogue).1991 “Eighth Annual Open Juried Exhibition,”†Visual Arts Alliance, Transco Gallery, juried by Sally Sprout.“On Line: Drawings by Texas Artists,”†Amarillo Art Center, Amarillo, TX (traveling).1990 “Ritual and Myth,”†Griffith Gallery, Griffith Fine Arts Building, Stephen F. Austin State University, curated by Mark Diamond.1989 “Texas Realism”†Celebration, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, curated by Sheila Stewart.“New Art: Paintings from New York, Texas and California”, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, curated by Henry T. Hopkins, Director Frederick R. Wiseman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA (Catalogue).“Looking at Color,”†Transco Energy Corporation, Houston, TX, curated by Doug Blake.“Evidence Contemporary Figurative, Narrative Painters of the Southwest,”†San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, curated by Jim Edwards, Brown Curator, San Antonio Museum of Art, (Catalogue).“Florida National,”†Florida State University Museum, Tallahassee, FL (Catalogue);(Honorable Mention)1988 “Conscience and Content,”†Houston Art League, Houston, TX, curated by Joan S. Robinson, Ph.D.“Seventh Annual National Competition,”†Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA, curated by Ned Rifkin (catalogue)(juror’s Merit Award).“Houston 88,”†Cullen Center, Houston, TX, curated by Marilyn Zeitlyn, Neil Prince, and Anne Tucker (Catalogue).“Texas Art Celebration, ’88,”†The Assistance League of Houston, Houston, TX (Catalogue)“Curator’s Choice,”†Eleven works -- paintings, watercolors and drawings, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX, curated by Patterson Sims, curator of Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA (Catalogue).1987 “East End Show,”†University of Houston, Houston, TX.“New American Talent,”†Texas Fine Arts Association, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX, (Catalogue) (Cash Honorarium)“Anatomy of a Drawing,”†Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, TX.1986 “Sixteenth Annual Works on Paper Exhibition”†Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, TX Baytown Juried Art Show, Baytown, TX (Award)“Faculty Selects...in Honor of the Texas Sesquicentennial,”†College of the Mainland, Texas City, TX.“20th Annual Exhibition,”†Jewish Community Center Juried Art Exhibition,” Houston, TX (Catalogue).1985 “Texas Visions,”†Art League of Houston, Houston, TX, Transco Gallery (Catalogue). Baytown Juried Art Show, Baytown, TX (First Place, Two Honorable Mentions).1984 Jewish Community Center Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX.“Tri-State Exhibit,”†Beaumont, TX (Third Place).1983 Galveston Art League, Galveston, TX.“Tri-State Exhibit,”†Juried Exhibition, Beaumont, TX (Honorable Mention).Texas Watercolor Society, San Antonio, TX.“Spring Exhibition,”†Watercolor Art Society, Houston, TX (Florence Stelzer Memorial Award)“Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,”†New York (William S. Webb Award).Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX (work selected for traveling exhibition).“Figuratively Speaking,”†Art League of Houston, Houston, TX (First Place).“63rd Annual Exhibition,”†National Watercolor Society, San Diego, CA (Watercolor West Award) (Catalogue).1982 “Texas Art,”†Bastrop Association for the Arts, Bastrop, TX.“Introductions, ’82,”†Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Inc., Houston, TX.Jewish Community Center, Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX.Baytown Art Show, Baytown, TX.Galveston Art League, Galveston, TX (Honorable Mention, Third Place, Fourth Place).“Dimensions,”†Art League of Houston, Houston, TX.“Fall Exhibition,”†Watercolor Art Society, Houston, TX (Third Place).“Spring Exhibition,”†Watercolor Art Society, Houston, TX (Merit Award).“Adirondacks National Exhibition of American Watercolors,”†NY (D.F. McGrann Co. Award).1981 “Dimensions Exhibition,”†Houston Art League, Houston, TX (Honorable Mention).“Fall Exhibition,”†Watercolor Art Society, Houston,TX.1980 Southwestern Federation Watercolor Society, Lubbock, TX.“Tri-Sate Exhibit,”†Juried Art Exhibition, Beaumont, TX (Second Place).Jewish Community Center Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX.“Spring Exhibition,”†Watercolor Art Society, Houston, TX (Merit Award).Springfield Museum of Fine Arts National Exhibition, Springfield, UT.1979 Jewish Community Center, Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX.Baytown Art Show, Baytown, TX.1975 Baytown Art Show, Baytown, TX (Purchase Award).1974 Baytown Art Show, Baytown, TX (Purchase Award).Jewish Community Center Juried Art Exhibition, Houston, TX. MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONSThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TXSt. Thomas University, Jones Hall Gallery, Houston, TXOgden Museum, New Orleans, LAEllen Noel Museum, Odessa TXBass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FLLowe Museum of Art, Miami, FL San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX Texas Commerce Bank, Houston, TX McGinty Architects & Associates, Houston, TX Transco Energy Corp. Houston, TX El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX McKenzie Group, Houston, TX First Northern Trust of Chicago, Houston, TX Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Simons Petroleum, Oklahoma City, OKJ. Wayne Stark University Gallery, Texas A&M University, College Station, TXMuseum of the Southwest, Midland, TXOld Jail Art Center, Albany, TX​Strake Jesuit Art Museum, Houston, TX