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E D U C A T I O N : Present – 2009 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA Painting & Printmaking Department Bachelor of Fine Arts candidate, May 2013 Magna cum laude 3.9 GPA Summer 2012 VCUarts, East Corinth, VA Color and the Landscape, organized by Corin Hewitt, Erica Svec, Zachary Wollard, Nancy Lupo and Hannah Walsh E X P E R I E N C E : Present – 2011 Gallery Assistant Anderson Gallery, VCU, Richmond, VA

• Install and de-install exhibitions • Monitor gallery • Assist director, head of exhibitions and gallery

coordinator with daily operational duties • Represent the gallery and protect the artwork at

opening events • Assist in clerical duties • Wrap and crate artworks • Supervise gallery sales • Distribute of posters and print media

Present – 2011 Monitor & Collaborator Sponge HQ, VCU, Richmond, VA

• Monitor the space during open hours • Design and install exhibitions • Provide work for upcoming events and exhibitions • “Hoosh” and aesthetically organize space • Host and plan events • Maintain the archive • Design and distribute posters and print media • Wrote and designed the Lab Book (Guide to the

Sponge HQ) • Organize Sponge HQ “Open Late” events •

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Colleen Billing, continued Experience, continued: 2013 Artist Assistant, Raewyn Martyn Richmond, VA

• Helped install and fabricate her VCU MFA exhibition S K I L L S: Computer Expertise: Proficient on both PC and MAC platforms

• Scanning • Microsoft Office • Adobe Illustrator • Adobe Photoshop • Excel • Final Cut Pro 7 & 10 • iMovie • Google SketchUp • iBooks Author

Technical Expertise:

• Painting: Acrylic, Oil, Mixed Media • Printmaking: Intaglio/Etching, Digital • Natural Dyeing

A W A R D S & D I S T I N C T I O N S : 2013 – 2009 Deanʼs Honor List School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University Academic Achievement Grant Virginia Commonwealth University 2013 Award of Excellence Painting and Printmaking Department Virginia Commonwealth University 2012 Merit Based Tuition Scholarship Virginia Commonwealth University Junior Faculty Choice Award Painting and Printmaking Department Virginia Commonwealth University Bon Air Artists Association Award Nominated by Departmental Faculty

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Colleen Billing, continued Awards & Distinctions, continued: Merit Studio Advanced Painting Program Selected by faculty each semester; graduate school focus and setting. 2011 Theresa A. Pollak Award Nominated by Departmental Faculty 2010 Qatar Exchange Travel Scholarship School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University E X H I B I T I O N S : 2013 Fish Bowl Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Interaction 42”, Reni Gower & Barbara Tisserat, curators Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Juried Fine Arts Undergraduate Exhibition”, Lisa Freiman, juror Crenshaw House, Student Art Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Placing the Placeless” 2306 B Grove Ave, Richmond, VA, “one night stand” PAPR, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Senior Show”, Sally Bowring, curator The Byrd Theater, Richmond, VA, “A Color Film and Everything Like That” film screening, Corin Hewitt, organizer and instructor Crit Room 3, Richmond, VA, “”girls” gone… ʻwildʼ {!}” 2012 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, “Monster Drawing Rally” Student Art Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “Homecoming” Linden Row Inn, 1708 Satellite Exhibition, Richmond, VA, “New Faces 2012”, Amie Oliver, curator

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Colleen Billing, continued Exhibitions, continued: Plant Zero, Richmond, VA, “Good and Good For You”, Reni Gower and Philip Hinge, curators East Corinth, VT, “A Color Film and Everything Like That”, Corin Hewitt, organizer and course instructor Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, “MoMA Studio: Common Senses”, Sponge HQ Archivist and Collaborator, Mildredʼs Lane, host, Hope Ginsburg, coordinator and instructor Plant Zero, Richmond, VA, “Appropriately Rustic”, Hilary Wilder, curator Peer Pleasure Gallery, Richmond, VA “The Whole Truth Museum,” Brianna Gribben, Elise Isom, Cameron Robinson, Cody Platt, curators Sponge HQ, Richmond, VA, “And the Lake Had Alligators”, Hope Ginsburg, organizer 1000 W. Broad St, Richmond, VA, “Whoomp, there it is!”, Nancy Lupo, curator 2011 The Garage, Charlottesville, VA “Poem for Nobody” F.A.B. Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “VIEW / 2011”, James Busby, curator 2010 1000 W. Broad St, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, “AFO Show” P R O J E C T S: 2012 Sponge HQ, Richmond, VA, “Weather Mass Movement,” a project by visiting artists SP Weather Station

• SP Weather Station host • Aided in the creation of a stop-motion animation video • Host and preparation of a pancake breakfast

2011 Private Residence, Forest Hill, MD

• Design and execution of an interior 4ʼ x 6ʼ mural

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Colleen Billing, continued B I B L I O G R A P H Y : Interaction 42, published by Blurb for VCU Painting and Printmaking Department in conjunction with the Interaction 42 exhibition, “Interaction 42,” 2013 Making A Color Film and Everything Like That, documentary by Austin Lynch about “A Color Film and Everything Like That,” 2013 A Color Film and Something Like That, published and compiled by S. Riley Duncan in conjunction with “Making A Color Film and Everything Like That” and “A Color Film and Everything Like That,” 2013 GOOD AND GOOD FOR YOU, published by Blurb in conjunction with the Merit Studio exhibition, “Good and Good for You”, 2012 The Whole Truth Museum, published by the curators of the exhibition “The Whole Truth Museum”, 2012