EDUCATION

M.F.A., Printmaking and Drawing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 1976.

B.A., Printmaking and Painting, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, 1974.

Computer Science, University of Nebraska/Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, 1982-86.

EXPERIENCE

Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.

Director, UNO Print Workshop, 1982-2015;

A university press and research facility established to publish and print works by visiting artists

Visiting Artist, Chateau d’Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France, 2024.

Visiting Artist, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, 2016.

Visiting Artist, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy, 2006.

Visiting Artist, Western Galilee College, Acre, Israel, 2005.

Visiting Artist, Karel de Grote-Hogeschool, Antwerpen, Belgium, 2002.

Visiting Artist, La Rectoria Contemporary Art Center, Barcelona, Spain, 1993.

Visiting Artist, Frans Masareel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium, 1992.

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2024

Visual Remedy, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

2023

Naples Invitational, Naples Art Institute, Naples, Florida.

UAC Summer Art Exhibit, Rookery Bay Environmental Center, Naples, Florida. 

2021

Briar Cliff Review Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa.

Twenty Years of Marais Press, Hilliard Art MuseumUniversity of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana.

 Artists in Bloom, Naples Botanical Garden, Naples, Florida.

2020

Kinetic, Marco Island Center for the Arts, Marco Island, Florida.

2018

Cool Abstraction, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

2017

Gary Day and Michael Tiegland, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

2015

Larry Bradshaw and Gary Day Retrospectives, UNO Art Gallery, University of Nebraska Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.

Briar Cliff Review Exhibition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa.

Printmaking: A Juried Exhibition, Alliance for Arts, Fort Meyers, Florida.

Between the Lines, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

2014

All In (Mo’ Print), Walker Fine Art, Denver, Colorado.

2014 Mid America Print Council Exhibition, South Bend Art Museum, South Bend, Indiana.

Cool Abstraction 2, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

2013

From Here to There: Parallel Trajectories, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey.

Cool Abstraction, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

75 + 75, The Luggage Gallery, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, California.

528, The Invisible Museum, Redline, Denver, Colorado.

Contemporary Influences in Nebraska Printmaking, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska.

East Meets West: National Printmakers Portfolio;

University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

The Chase Fine Arts Center, Utah State University, Logan, Utah.

Sykes Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, Pennsylvania.

2012

Titanic 100: International Graphics Exhibition;

The Etching Guild, Riga, Latvia.

Meno Galeria, Klaipeda, Lithuania.

East Meets West: National Printmakers Portfolio;

Rueff Galleries, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

Visual Arts Gallery, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming.

The Baron and Ellin Gordon Galleries, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia.

Stand Up Prints, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Collector’s Choice, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska.

From the Matrix, Hotshops Art Center, Omaha, Nebraska.

2011

East Meets West: National Printmakers Portfolio;

CCSU Art Gallery, Central Connecticut University, New Britain, Connecticut.

University Gallery, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

CUAM Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder Colorado.

University Gallery, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Ameen Art Gallery, Nichols State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Regional Art Competition, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska.

Wish List, Modern Arts Midtown, Omaha, Nebraska

Summer Show, Modern Arts Midwest, Lincoln, Nebraska

Picture Picture, NewBLK Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska.

2010

Two Person Exhibit, Highland Community College, Highland, Kansas.

Octaedro People’s Award International Short Film Festival, Fundacion Octaedro, Quito, Ecuador.

20/20 Vision, Third Edition-The Art of Contemporary University Printmaking, Firehouse Gallery. Louisville, Georgia.

New Prints, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska.

2009

Academia, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska.

International Juried Print Exhibition, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottowa School of Art, Ottowa, Canada.

MAPC Juried Exhibition, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, Indiana.

Adornment, Lied Art Gallery, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

2008

20th Century Nebraska Printmakers, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska.

4th Biennial National Print Exhibition, Northern Arizona University Art Museum, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Artspace National Juried Photography and Printmaking 2008, artspace, Richmond, Virginia.

 Print Invitational, Hillmer Gallery, St. Mary’s College, Omaha, Nebraska, 2008.

2007

2007 China Sanbao International Printmaking Exhibition, Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Institute, Yaoli, Peoples Republic of China.

No Place in Time, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska.

2006

Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha

Art on the Edge, Joslyn Museum of Art, Omaha, Nebraska

New Prints 2000-2006, International Print Center New York, New York.

Book of Light and Dark, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska.

Mentors, Hillmer Gallery, College of Saint Mary, Omaha, Nebraska.

2005

Artifices, Two Person Exhibit, Hillmer Gallery, College of Saint Mary, Omaha, Nebraska.

Cool and Collected, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska.

2005 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University.

2004

Outside the Frame: Installation Works, Mid America Print Council Conference, University of Nebraska, Lincoln Nebraska.

New Prints 2004, International Print Center New York, New York, New York.

Two Person Exhibition, Frogman’s Press and Gallery, Beresford, South Dakota.

60 Square Inches, Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

2003

Rules of Engagement, Llantarnam Grange Canolfan y Celfyddydan-Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Wales.

Pulse, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska.

2002

One Person Exhibit, Karel de Grote Hogenschool, Antwerpen, Belgium.

20/20, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, Nebraska.

2001

Portfolio 00-01, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Summer Show, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

Paint Paper II, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska

1999

Siggraph 99, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California.

1998

Color and Form, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas.

Points of the Compass, Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Two Views of Self, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.

1997

The Digital Salon, The School of Visual Arts, New York City, New York.

Digital Art,  The Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

The Modern Print,  Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska.

Small Treasures, The Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

The House of Thoughts,  CD and website, http://cid.unomaha.edu/~gday

1996

Navigations, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Digital Images, Metro Arts Council, Omaha, Nebraska.

1995

Drake Print Symposium, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Der Amerikanische Holzschnitt, Galerie im Hollental, Buchenbach, Germany 

E-mail II, House of Technology, Bratislava, Slovakia.

Hypergarden, http://www.unomaha.edu/~gday/

1994

One Person Exhibit, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska.

Alternative Prints, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.

Computer Prints, Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, Michigan.

Boxes, University of Nebraka/Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1993

LA Printmaking 93, In Conjunction; Contemporary Prints, Mount St. Mary’s College, Los Angeles, California.

The First International Print Biennial, Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Mid America Print Council Exhibition, Purdue University, South Bend, Indiana.

Invitational Centennial Alumni Exhibition, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.

1992

Summer Show, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.

Prarie Lights 1992, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska.

1991 

One Person Exhibit, Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, Missouri.

Fifteenth Annual National Invitational Drawing Exhibition, Emporia State University, Emporia, Kansas.

Images of Nebraska, Metropolitan Arts Council Traveling Exhibit, Omaha, Nebraska.

1990

Midlands Invitational 1990, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

Area Drawings, Art Department Gallery, University of Nebraska/ Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Perceptions, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska.

Exchange Exhibit, Ghangzhou Art Academy, Ghangzhou, Peoples Republic of China.

1989

One Person Exhibit, Wayne State College, Wayne, Nebraska.

48th Annual Juried Competition, Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City, Iowa.

Recent Work, The Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Summer Show, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska.

1988

One Person Exhibit, William Jewell College, Kansas City, Missouri.

Two Person Exhibit, Bellevue College, Bellevue, Nebraska.

1987

One Person Exhibit, Buena Vista College, Storm Lake, Iowa.

Printmakers Invitational, Cameron University, Lawton, Oklahoma.

Prints and Pottery Invitational, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

National Drawing ’87, Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey.

Art From the Computer, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California.

1986

Two Person Exhibit, UNO Gallery, University of Nebraska/Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.

Tarkio Invitational, Tarkio College, Tarkio, Missouri.

Drawing Invitational, Bellvue College, Bellvue, Nebraska.

Alumni Exhibition, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

62nd Annual International Competition, The Print Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Portfolio, R.G. Dickenson Company, Omaha, Nebraska.

1985

Two Person Exhibit, Peru State College, Peru, Nebraska.

Two Person Exhibit, Mark 4 Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

New Woodcuts, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

Printmaking Invitational, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Selected Prints, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

Gallery Artists, The Candy Factory, Lincoln, Nebraska.

1984

One Person Exhibit, Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

Two Person Exhibit, Tarble Art Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois.

1983

Two Person Exhibit, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

Made in Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum,  Toured by the Mid-America Art Association.

1982

Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago,Illinois.

Art and Artists of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska.

11th National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Minot State College, Minot, North Dakota.

Central States Exhibition ’82, Pratt Community College, Pratt, Kansas.

17th Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

ANAC Competitive, Stuhr Museum, Grand Island, Nebraska.

1981

Two Person Exhibit, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

American Art, The Challange of the Land, The Pillsbury Company, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Rockford International ’81, Rockford College, Rockford, Illinois.

1980

Young American Printmakers, University of Maine at Orono, Orono, Maine.

(no space) Exhibition, Four Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

Central States Expositon ’80, Pratt Community College, Pratt, Kansas.

Potsdam Prints ’80, State University College, Potsdam, New York.

Small Works, Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, New York, New York.

Using Paper, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, Montana.

14th Annual National Drawing and Small Sculpture Show, Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, Texas.

16th Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

1979

6 From 75+1, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska.

Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina.

17th Annual Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.

22nd North Dakota Print and Drawing Annual, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota.

’79 National Print Exhibition in Texas, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.

Vermillion ’79, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota.

Waukesha Print and Drawing Show, University of Wisconsin at Waukesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin.

Midwestern Print and Drawing Competition, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1978

Two Person Exhibit, Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska.

A Century of Master Drawings, Drawings Since 1960, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska.

Second Visual Arts Center of Alaska National Print Invitational, Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska.

American Drawings II and the Smithsonian Traveling Exhibit of American Drawings II, Portsmouth Community Arts Center, Portsmouth, Virginia.

National Paper and Clay Show, Memphis State University, Memphis, Tennessee.

National Print Competition and Exhibition, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia.

Stockton National: Contemporary Trends in Printmaking and Drawing, Pioneer Museum, Stockton, California.

8th National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Minot State College, Minot, North Dakota.

15th Joslyn Biennial, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

1977

One Person Exhibit, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia.

Twenty Printmakers, C.G. Rein Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Third National Invitational Print Exhibition, Habatat Galleries, Dearborn, Michigan.

16th Bradley National Print and Drawing Exhibition, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois.

Intent/Drawing/1977, Edinboro State College, Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

KSC Drawing and Sculpture Exhibition, Kutztown State College, Kutztown, Pennsylvania.

First National Package Exhibition, University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, Stevens Point, Wisconsin.

1976

One Person Exhibit, Washington Federal Association, Miami, Florida.

Thirty Years of American Printmaking and the 20th National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York.

Graduate Show, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.

Colorprint USA, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

In Their Image, Southern Connecticut State College, New Haven, Connecticut.

Potsdam Prints ’76, State University College, Potsdam, New York.

Village Center National Print Competition and Exhibition, Florida Central University, Orlando, Florida.

1975

42nd Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Semi-Annual, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Sixth Annual Auburn Union National Drawing and Print Competition, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama.

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania

Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina

Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama

Block Museum, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois

C.G. Rein Gallery, Saint Paul, Minnesota

Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa.

Frans Masereel Center, Kasterlee, Belgium

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

Gallery 72, Omaha, Nebraska

Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

Jingdezhen Sanbao Ceramic Institute, Yaoli, Peoples Republic of China.

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska

Llantarnam Grange Canolfan y Celfyddydan-Arts Centre, Cwmbran, Wales

Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska 

Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana

Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney, Nebraska

Naples Art Institute, Naples, Florida.

Nichols State University, Thibodaux, Louisiana.

Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana at Layfayette, Lafayette, Louisiana.

Sheldon Memorial Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Special Collections Department & Rare Books Room, the University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado.

Trenton State College, Trenton, New Jersey

Museum of Texas Tech University, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska.

University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.

University of Nebraska/Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska

University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, North Dakota

University of South Dakota, Vermillion, South Dakota

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

The Briar Cliff Review, Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, Iowa, 2015.

A Decade of New Prints: A Book of Postcards, International Print Center New York, 2013.

CGI: The Art of the 3D Computer-Generated Image, Peter Weisher, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2004.

“Gary Day”, Nebraska Artist with Joseph Piper, MetroTVision, Metropolitan Community College, Omaha, Nebraska, 2005.

Electronic Art and Animation Catalog, Computer Graphics Annual Conference Series, ACM SIGGRAPH, New York, 1999.

Gallery Artworks, Leonardo, Journal of international Society for the Arts, Science and Technology, MIT Press Journals, Cambridge, MA, Volume 30, November 1997.

Multiethnic Education: Theory and Practice, Second Edition, James A. Banks,

Cover illustration, Simon & Shuster, Newton, Massachusetts, 1987.

“The Picture Show”, NETV documentory about twelve artists in the Sheldon Memorial Gallery permanent collection, 1985.

Colleagues: An Inter-Media Anthology of Contemporary Artists, Pittore Euforico, New York, 1979.

Thirty Years of American Printmaking, Gene Baro, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1976.

 

 

PORTFOLIOS

East Meets West, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, 2011.

Portfolio 00-01, Karel di Grote-Hogenschool, Antwerpen, Belgium.

Navigations, National Print Portfolio, Southern Graphics Council, 1996.

Fall Equinox International Postcard Print Exchange, St. Marie Institute, Antwerp, Belgium and the University of Nebraska, 1995.

The Second American Printmakers Portfolio, University of Nebraska/Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, 1982.

An American Printmakers Portfolio, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 1981.

Another Normal Conception, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois, 1980.

 

 

AWARDS

Governors Arts Award Art Commission, Nebraska Arts Council, 2010.

Summer Research Fellowship, University Committee on Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2007.

Clark Diamond Alumni Endowed Chair, University of Nebraska Omaha, 2007.

1% for Art Commission, University of Nebraska Lincoln, 2004.

College of Fine Arts Outstanding Research Award, 2003.

1% for Art Commission, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2001.

Summer Research Fellowship, University Committee on Research, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2000.

Grant in Aid, University Committee on Research, University of Nebraska/Omaha, 1992.

Visual Artists Fellowship Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1987-88.

Trenton State College National Drawing Exhibition, Purchase Award, 1987.

Summer Research Fellowship, University of Nebraska/Omaha, 1985.

16th Joslyn Biennial, Purchase, 1980.

Appalachian National Drawing Competition, Purchase Award, 1979.

Sixth Annual National Drawing and Print Competition, Purchase Award, 1975.

42nd Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Semi-Annual, Purchase Award, 1975.