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curriculum vitae

EDUCATION

2026

2023

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EXHIBITIONS

2025

2025

2025

2025

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2025

2025

 

2024 

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2024

2024

2024

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2023

2023

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AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS 

2023-26

2025

2024

2024

2023

2023

2023 

2023

2019-22

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2025

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2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

 

RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS

2022

2021

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2024-25 

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2025

2025

2024-25

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2024

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2024

2023

2020-23

2021-23

2020-21

2020

LAINIE ETTEMA

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MFA (pending), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (expected May 2026)

BFA summa cum laude, Art and Design, Alma College, Alma, MI

Minor in Women’s & Gender Studies

 

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Solo Exhibition, Plaything, 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL

Solo Exhibition, Beige, Parker Studios, Gainesville, FL

One Eye Open, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France (in collaboration with Taylor Baxley)

Primary Colors, an international juried exhibition, Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery, Special Recognition Artist          (Jurors: Chris and Valerie Hoffman, Co-founders, Fusion Art LLC, Santa Fe, NM)

Book-ish, juried exhibition, 4Most Gallery, Gainesville, FL (Jurors: Zoe and Mads Kellough, artists, Brooklyn, NY)

School of Art and Art History Juried Student Exhibition, Libby Gallery, Gainesville, FL

(Juror: Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon, Chief Curator, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL)

Anything that Moves, an international juried exhibition, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, Second Place Award            (Jurors: Sasha Barrett, Kristin Bloom, Lily Kip, Crystal McCallie, Joseph Taylor, Jordan Brist, Jacob Kreiger,

Russell Brausch, and Rachel Ingle, artists, Missoula, MT)

Emerald Coast, a national juried exhibition, McIlroy Gallery, Niceville, FL (Juror: Sarah Knobel, artist, Brooklyn, NY)

Common Craft, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

School of Art and Art History Juried Student Exhibition, Libby Gallery, Gainesville, FL

(Juror: Jenifer Inacio, Associate Curator, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL)

In-Haus Habitat, Gainesville, FL

Ablaze, BFA Capstone Exhibition, Flora Kirsch Beck Gallery, Alma College, Alma, MI

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12-month Graduate Fellowship, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Windgate University Fellowship, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Gatlinburg, TN

Harold Garde Studio Art Scholarship, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

MFA Travel Grant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

MFA Travel Grant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Kapp Honors Award (sole recipient), Alma College, Alma, MI

Michigan Colleges Alliance Campus Community Challenge Scholarship, Henry Ford Learning Institute, Dearborn, MI 

Design Thinking Certification, Henry Ford Learning Institute, Dearborn, MI

Distinguished Art Scholarship, Alma College, Alma, MI

 

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Dr. Maya Prathim Dora-Laskey. Trans(formations). New York City, Lived Places Publishing.

(Illustrations under contract).

Rachel Macaulay, Editor, “Issue 05,” Anti-Misogyny Club, June 24, 2025. 30.

“Volume 7,” Dinner + No Show, April 19, 2024. 51-53.

Charlayne-Aye Olegario, Editor in Chief, “Dichotomy,” Pine River Anthology. April 2023. 1, 5, 14, 19, 22, 18, 2.

Alaina Ettema, Editor in Chief, “Apophenia,” Pine River Anthology. April 2022. Cover art, 3, 15, 19, 28, 29, 40, 49.

Alaina Ettema, Editor in Chief, “Kalopsia,” Pine River Anthology. March 2021. Cover art, 24, 46.

Natalie Truxall and Allison Woodland, Creative Directors, “Evanescent,” Pine River Anthology. March 2020. 18, 21, 29.

 

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Ox Bow, School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI (August 7 - 13)

Ox Bow, School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI (August 23 - 28)

 

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Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Introduction to Painting [instructor of record],              Summer 2024, Summer 2025, Fall 2025)

Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Post-digital Painting, Fall 2025)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Figure Drawing [instructor of record], Spring 2025)

Teaching Assistant Abroad, Université Catholique de Lille, Lille, France

(Art & Engineering, May – June 2024, May – June 2025)

Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Observational Painting [instructor of record],

Spring 2024)

Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Workshop for Art Research and Practice (WARP), Fall 2024)

Teaching Assistant, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Figure Painting, Fall 2023)

Teaching Assistant, Alma College, Alma, MI (Drawing and Painting)

Co-op Drawing Class Leader, Alma College, Alma, MI

Art Tutor, Alma College, Alma MI

Gallery Assistant, Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, MI

© 2023 by Lainie Ettema

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