Graceann Warn, American, born 1955, was raised in New Jersey.  In 1978 she graduated with a degree in landscape architecture. Later, while pursuing a Master's in Landscape Architecture
at the University of Michigan and working as a landscape architect, she made the decision to devote her life to making art.  She has been a full time studio artist since 1985
with work exhibited and collected nationally and internationally.  She lives in in Ann Arbor, Michigan with her husband Geoff.

 

 

EDUCATION 2001-2002  University of Michigan, Theater Design, coursework 1990-1993  University of Michigan, Classical Art and Archaeology, coursework 1983-1984  University of Michigan, Landscape Architecture, graduate studies 1978 Michigan State University, Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, Recipient ‘Certificate of Honor’, American Society of Landscape Architects Various professional workshops in bookbinding, papermaking, metalwork, prop building SELECTED SHOWS and EXHIBITIONS 2011 Artist Project, New York, NY SOFA/New York, New York, NY Next Step Gallery, Ferndale, MI:  Spring Happening Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI:  Objects of Desire Side Street Gallery, Gloucester, MA: Peterson + Warn Hoadley Gallery  Lenox, MA: Abstraction: Two Views Left Bank Gallery  Wellfleet, MA: Jump! Miller Gallery, Cincinnati, OH: 2 person show Lacoste Gallery, Concord, MA Sopa Fine Arts, Kelowna, British Columbia SOFA Chicago/Next Step Gallery,  Chicago, IL Philadelphia Craft Show  Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art 2010 Architectural Digest Show, New York, NY Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, NE: Summer Abstraction Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI:  Lost and Found Detroit Artist’s Market, Detroit, MI:  Wordage Next Step Gallery, Ferndale, MI:  Spring Happening Hoadley Gallery  Lenox, MA Left Bank Gallery  Wellfleet, MA:New Paintings River Gallery  Chelsea, MI:  Sotto Voce SOFA Chicago/Next Step Gallery,  Chicago, Ill 2009 Altered Space Gallery, Venice, CA Water Street Gallery, Douglas, MI:  Group show Next Step Gallery, Ferndale, MI:  Spring Happening Left Bank Gallery  Wellfleet, MA:  Two person show Hoadley Gallery  Lenox, MA: Two person show SOFA Chicago/Next Step Gallery,  Chicago, IL 2008    MA Doran Gallery,  Tulsa, OK Altered Space Gallery, Venice, CA Left Bank Galler,y  Wellfleet, MA:  Sum Hoadley Gallery,  Lenox, MA: Two person show Mark Milliken Gallery,  New York, NY 2007    River Gallery  Chelsea, MI:  Palimpsest Left Bank Gallery  Wellfleet, MA:  Trace Hoadley Gallery  Lenox, MA: Two person show Belushi Pisano Gallery  Martha’s Vineyard, MA Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI: 12 + 12   Altered Space  Venice, CA: Solo show 2006 Gallery Project  Ann Arbor, MI:  Minimal/Maximum Robinson Gallery Birmingham, MI: Waxing Euphoric Belushi Pisano Gallery  Martha’s Vineyard, MA: Warn + Pisano Left Bank Gallery  Wellfleet, MA: Mysteries+ Minor Epiphanies Hoadley Gallery  Lenox, MA: Two person show Gallery DePaul  Lancaster, PA: Odyssey: Tales of Travel Philadelphia Craft Show  Philadelphia, PA: Philadelphia Museum of Art

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Toscana Americana, Santorini, Greece, October 2007 Toscana Americana, Cortona, Italy,  May 2007 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts,  June 2007 Jackson Hole Art Association,  Jackson Hole, Wyoming,  March 2007 Toscana Americana, Cortona, Italy, October 2006 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine,  July 2004 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Deer Isle, Maine,  Fall 2003 Hollander’s School of Book and Paper Arts, various times 1995-2005 University of Michigan Cancer Center, Art Therapy Program, Workshop instructor Ann Arbor Art Center, Various times 1990-1995 COLLECTIONS  and COMMISSIONS Yale-New Haven Hospitals, New Haven, CT Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY US Embassy, Sarajevo ‘Arts in Embassies Program’ Peter Sparling Dance Company/University Musical Society, Set designer Orfeo ed Euridice Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN US Embassy, Nairobi, Kenya Royal Carribean Cruiselines Rand McNally, Chicago, IL Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA Bell-Atlantic Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA Fairfax Hospital, Fairfax, VA General Motors, Detroit, MI University of Michigan School of Business, Ann Arbor, MI University of Michigan Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI Meijer Corporation Headquarters, Grand Rapids, MI Wheels, Inc, Des Plaines, IL Chrysler Corporation, Detroit, MI US Comptroller of the Currency, Chicago, IL Alberto Culver Corporation, St. Louis, MO Delta Airlines, Pittsburgh, PA, Salt Lake City, UT and Orlando, FL St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI Sprint Corporation, St. Louis, MO J. Walter Thompson, New York, NY Numerous private commission