SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 - The Lost Expressionist. created and art directed. The Manitoba Museum, Winnipeg, Canada.
2017 - Four paintings in How it Ends, Forest Whittaker. Netflix.
2012 - Online exhibition, Cerise: A Journal of Literature, Arts and Culture. USA, France.
2005 - Description without Place, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
2003 - Selected Works: Paintings, California Institute for Integral Studies, San Francisco.
2000 - Quattro: Internationale Gruppenausstellung Eine Retrospektive Biennale dell’Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Galerie Mouratti, Vienna, Austria.
1999 - Biennale Internazionale della Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italia.
1999 - Industrial Romance: Paintings, University of California, San Francisco.
1998 - Industrial Romance, Site Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
1996 - Eccentric Spaces: Paintings and Drawings, Lafayette, California.
1994 - Paintings, Canessa Gallery, San Francisco.
1992 - The Grotto Cycle, Jeanne Brewer Gallery, University of California, San Francisco.
1992 - The Grotto Cycle: Paintings, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, Canada.
1992 - Paintings from the Grotto Cycle and Other Works, Beck Center Museum, Cleveland, Ohio.
1989 - Drawings, Regis College, Denver, Colorado.
1988 - The Grotto Cycle: Paintings, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.
1981 - Occurrences: Four Manitoba Painters, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Soul Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.
2018 - Industrial Sublime, painting in Terra Infirma, an international juried show, Dr. Bernard Heller Museum, New York.
2018 - Ev(e)olution viii— Migration, National Association of Women Artists, New York Public Library, Riverside, New York.
2018 - Open Horizons, Juried Painting Exhibition, National Association of Women Artists, County College of Morris Gallery, New Jersey.
2018 - Small Works, National Association of Women Artists, New York.
2014 - On Principle: Creative Direction at the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
2008 - Into Our Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada.
2007 - Orange Corner: Ken Lochead and His Circle, Gallery One One One, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
2005 - Winter Exhibition, Blue Room Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1999 - Biennale Statewide Competition and Exhibition: Pastels, The Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California.
1997 - Magnum Opus X, 10th International Open Exhibition, Sacramento Fine Arts Center, California.
1997 - The Anxious Image: New Psychological Realism, Cleveland State University Art Gallery, Ohio.
1996 - From Realism to Abstraction: A Contemporary Survey of Bay Area Drawings, Triton Museum of Art; Santa Clara, California.
1990 - Charles Scott Gallery Emily Carr College of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada.
1990 - Syracuse Stage, N. Y. Syracuse University, Faculty Exhibition.
COLLABORATIONS AND ART PUBLISHED
2003-2008 - Art Direction for the School of Art, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada.
1992-2002 Art Direction for Fine Arts, Music and Graphic Design programs of University of California-Berkeley Extension.
1992 - Design development interior for Bethel Synagogue, Richmond, Arthur Erickson Architects, Vancouver, British Columbia.
1990 - Book cover painting, “The Bate Building” in Deford, a novel published by Breitenbush Books, Portland, Oregon.
AWARDS, HONORS, & RESIDENCIES
2021 St. Mary’s College of Maryland Artist in Residence
2020 - University of Manitoba Creative Works Grant
2020 - Manitoba Arts Council Share Award
2018 - Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Special Grant for The Lost Expressionist
2016 - Artist in Residence, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia
2013 - Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley
2013 - John A. Sproul Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, Canadian Studies, fine arts and anthropology
2011 - Manitoba Heritage Foundation Grant
2010 - Jewish Foundation of Manitoba Special Grant
2006 - Artist's Residency, The Artists' House, St. Mary's College, Maryland
2005 - Artist's Residency, The Artists' House, St. Mary's College, Maryland
2003 - Who’s Who of American Art
2002 - California College of Art Faculty Grant
2000 - Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the Government of Canada for Quattro: A Retrospective of Four Artists from the Florence Biennale, Galerie Mourati, Vienna
1999 - Exhibited in Biennale Internazionale dell' Arte Contemporanea, Florence, Italy.
1994-1998 - Artists Committee Representative on San Francisco Art Institute Board of Trustees
1998 - Canada Council for the Arts Travel Grant in visual arts
1996 - The World Who's Who of Women
1994 - Canada Council for the Arts Grant in visual arts.
1992 - The Who's Who in American Education, 1991-92; Who's Who in Religion Fourth edition, 1991-992, Who’s Who in the World, 1985
1990 - The Southwest Art Review: An Illustrated Survey of the Region's Museums, Galleries, and Leading Artists, Second edition, 1991-92.
1989 - American Artist: An Illustrated Survey of Leading Contemporaries, - Canada, Latin America, U.S.A. American References Chicago, 1990.
1988 - Artist's residency, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony for the Arts, New York.
1984 - The Canada Council for the Arts Grant in visual arts
SELECTED ARTIST PRESENTATIONS - HIGHLIGHTS
2021 - Through Her Own Eyes: Surrealist Women Artists, & Understanding the Surrealist Imagination, invited talks for the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia.
2020 - McNally Robinson Bookstore presents Celia Rabinovitch online book launch of Duchamp's Pipe: A Chess Romance: Marcel Duchamp & George Koltanowski, hosted by Ann McCoy
2018 - Making the Ordinary Extraordinary, In the Know Lecture Series, Asper Campus, Winnipeg
2016 - From Matter to Metaphor, Artist in Residence, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, British Columbia
2016 - Kurt Seligmann and Jewish Mysticism, in The Occult Humanities Conference on the Esoteric Tradition, New York University, New York
2016 - Magic, Fetishism, and the Savage Object, for International Symposium on Man Ray: Human Equations and marking Dada’s centennial – Dada Then and Now. (Curator Adina Kamien-Kahzdan) The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
2011 - The Receptive Eye: The Studio Visit, Invited keynote, Manitoba Society of Artists Conference
2010 - The Lost Expressionist, University of California, Berkeley Canadian Studies Committee.
2009 - Visiting Artist, Jerusalem Studio School, Israel, June - July 26 2009.
2008 - In Pursuit of the Uncanny, Art Now, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
2002 - Images and Anecdotes from a Reluctant Expatriate: A personal perspective through paintings, Canadian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, California
2000 - The Daemonic Goddess in Archaic and Modern Art, Women’s Caucus on Art (CAA) California College of Arts, Oakland, California
1995 - Invited Lecture, Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada.
1994 - Women in Sacred Space, 15th Biennial International Sculpture Conference, San Francisco, California
1992 - The Grotto Cycle, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada.
POSITIONS
2008-2019 - Professor Art & Art History, School of Art, University of Manitoba.
2014-2018 - Director of Research (Honorary), Seligmann Center for the Arts, Warwick, New York.
2013-2015 - Visiting Scholar University of California, Berkeley, Art practice, Anthropology, Canadian Studies.
2013 - John A Sproul Fellow, University of California, Berkeley.
2003-2008 - Director, School of Art, University of Manitoba. Directed conceptual, practical and fiscal aspects of five BFA programs in fine arts, authored and created an MFA program.
1995-2002 - Lecturer, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, and University of California, Berkeley, Extension.
1999-2000 - Adjunct, California College of Art.
1994-1996 - Adjunct, San Francisco Art Institute.
1992-2002 - Program Director, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, and Music, University of California, Berkeley, Extension. Responsible for curriculum, planning, hiring for all programs.
1989-1990 - Visiting Artist, Painting; Graduate Faculty, College of Fine and Performing Arts, School of Art, Syracuse University.
1983-1990 - Assistant Professor, Graduate Faculty, Department of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture, University of Colorado Denver. Teach life drawing, painting and Masters of Humanities.
1983-1988 - Visiting Professor, University of Colorado Boulder. Interdisciplinary seminar "Religion and Modern Art".
EDUCATION
1984 - Ph.D. McGill University, Montreal. Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research, History of Religions & History of Art
1980 - M.F.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison, Painting and Drawing.
Undergraduate degrees in Fine Arts, and in Asian religions from the University of Manitoba.