Colleen Blackard
Bio
Colleen Blackard is a monotype and installation artist from Austin, TX. She received her MFA in Studio Art at UT Austin in 2024, and her BA from Hampshire College in 2009.
She is the recipient of international residencies and fellowships such as Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA, Atelierhaus Hilmsen in Germany, Cill Rialaig in Ireland, and Jentel in Wyoming. She received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2017 and the Dorothy Antoinette LaSelle Travel Fellowship in 2024, and she was the 2025 Jerry Manson Resident at Flatbed Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Austin, TX, with a solo show, “An Unfound Door,” at Flatbed in January 2026.
In Spring 2026, she was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant to support her International Residency at Cork Printmakers in Ireland, and she has been awarded the U.S. Fulbright Student Grant to continue her work in Cork through Spring 2027.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries such as ACA Galleries and Site:Brooklyn in NYC, Mönchskirche Gallery in Germany, ISSO Gallery in Tokyo, Foltz Fine Art in Houston, and SPRING/BREAK Art Show. Her work has been featured in Drawing Magazine, Artspace, the Japanese travel show, “Hotel no Madokora,” and “The Artist’s Well,” hosted by Alan Keane in Dublin.
Statement
My artwork blends landscape and myth to create an otherworld for viewers to enter. As part of my process, I travel to remote sites and create artwork to share my experiences of these places with the local community and abroad. I utilize methods of monotype printmaking, drawing, and installation to connect external landscapes to memories and dreams. My installations envision humans as part of nature, belonging to the landscape; and create a space to contemplate this relationship.
