I learned not to fear infinity, the far field, the windy cliffs of forever. Theodore Rothke
A bird does not sing because it has something to say. It sings because it has a song.
Chinese Proverb
Briefest of Resumes
EDUCATION: Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art, painting with Nathan Oliveira
Santa Fe Institute of Fine Art, Monotype with Garner Tullis, scholarship
Scottsdale School of Art, Life Drawing with Ned Jacobs
Graphic Workshop, Ron Pokrasso & Blue McRight
La Corte della Miniera, Etching with Egiziano Piersantini
University of California at Los Angeles and El Camino College, Redondo Beach, CA
FELLOWSHIPS & HONORS:Panelist on exhibition for the Border Artists, Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM 2024
Invited to have two paintings in the Capitol Art Collection, Santa Fe, NM 2018
Guest panelist for exhibit HERE & NOW, Las Cruces Museum of Art 2018
Curator: 'Las Cruces Visits Truth or Consequences' RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM 2017
Fellowship, Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, CA (2x)
Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA (2 x)
Fellowship awarded, Ragdale, Lake Forest, IL
Fellowship, Dorland Mountain Art Colony, Temecula, CA
Artist in Residence, Villa Yoli, Quintana Roo, Mexico
Art award judged by Wayne Thiebaud at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts
Grant from the California Arts Council
Guest curator for the Deming Center of the Arts, 2012
Guest panelist for exhibit HERE & NOW, Las Cruces Museum of Art 2015
Guest speaker on Art Collections, Preston Center for Contemporary Art, Las Cruces, NM
Guest speaker on Text in Art, New Mexico Southern University, Las Cruces, NM
Guest Teacher: Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton, CA & Graphic Workshop, Santa Fe, NM
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
TAOS NEWS, Taos Abstract, July 2024
The Albuquerque Journal reviewing Gallery with a Cause 2023
The INK Art Magazine, review by James Durham 2017
The INK Art Magazine, review by Kathleen Sloan 2012
THE magazine, Santa Fe, NM, review by Kathleen Sloan 2010
THE magazine, Santa Fe, NM, review by K. Sloan 2009
THE magazine, feature article by Guy Cross 2007
Alb. Arts; Silver City Daily Press; INK (2x); Tampa Bay Life (cover); Encore, Reno, NV....
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
FARRARO solo@ RioBravoFineArt, Truth of Consequences, NM solo 2025
BORDER ARTISTS @ RioBravoFineArt, TorC, NM group show 2025
THE DANCE BEGINS @ RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM 2024
CONNECTIONS :: CONJUTO @ Branigan Cultural Center, Las Cruces, NM. Border Artist exhibit 2024
BORDER ARTIST SMALL GEMS @ Gallery 925, Las Cruces, NM 2023
REVISITED +, solo @ RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM 2023
20 PAINTINGS, Gallery with a Cause, Albuquerque, NM 2022
NOLAN WINKLER & JEANNE RUNDELL, RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM, 2022
BORDER ARTISTS, Santa Fe Community College, Santa Fe, NM, 2022
RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM Gallery Artists, 2022
BLOOMS in the time of Corona, RioBravoFineArt Gallery, TorC, NM, solo. 2021
BLUE SKIES, DAAC, Border Artists. Dona Ana Arts Council Gallery, Las Cruces, NM, 2021
BLOOMS, DACC solo, Las Cruces, NM 2020. HERE & NOW, New Mexico Southern University, 2018
HERE & NOW, Las Cruces Museum of Art. 2018
PAINTING OUT LOUD, Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, Nolan Winkler & Lloyd Brown NM 2018
I LIKE YOUR OLD WORK BEST mini retrospective, RioBravoFineArt, Truth or Consequence, NM. 2017
NOW, RioBravoFineArt, Truth or Consequences, NM solo 2016
NEW MEXICO STORIES, Blue Dome Gallery, Silver City, NM solo 2015
WIDE BAY/HIGH DESERT II, Bundaberg Art Center, Queensland, AU August 2015
HERE & NOW, Las Cruces Fine Art Museum, May, June, July 2015
REDUCTION & FORM, Wheelhouse Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2015
Unsettled Gallery, Las Cruces, NM solo exhibition HOME BASE + 2014
Rio Bravo Fine Art, TorC, NM: Solo/HOME BASE 2014
WIDE BAY/HIGH DESERT, Childers Art Space, Queensland, Australia Invitational Exchange Show 2013
ELEMENTAL NEW MEXICO, Las Cruces, NM Museum of Fine Arts Invitational 2013
COMMON GROUND, Percha Creek Museum, Kingston, NM, curated exhibition 2013
Nolan Winkler TRANSITIONS, Rio Bravo Fine Art, Truth or Consequences, NM 2012
LAST PICTURE SHOW, Preston Contemporary Art Center, Las Cruces, NM 2011
THE FAMILY WINKLER, Main Street Gallery, Truth or Consequences, NM 2010
OPEN RANGE, New Mexico Farm & Ranch Museum, Las Cruces, NM 2007
REPETITIONS, Nolan Winkler, Blue Dome Gallery, Silver City, NM 2007
SELECTED COLLECTIONS: Geoffrey Notkin (Meteorite Man), TorC, NM
Lt. Gov. Diane & Herb Denish, Albuquerque, NM
Sol & Carol LeWitt, CT/NY/Italy. Senator Patrick Johnston, Stockton, CA
Ritz-Carleton, Sarasota, FL. Oracle, CA.
National September 11th Memorial Museum, NY
Todd Walton, author, Mendocino, CA; Fergus O'Farrell (singer/songwriter, artist), Ireland; Glen Hansard, Ireland
Joe McElroy (writer) & Barbara Ellmann (artist), NY; Gene Beery, CA (artist)
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