Curriculum Vitae

"I create mosaic-based paintings that treat memory like a built environment—where identity forms through layering, fragmentation, and change over time." – Roy Cacek

EXHIBITION RECORD

Solo Exhibitions
Analog Art — Witter Gallery, Storm Lake, IA
Color and the Grid — Quad City Art Center, Moline, IL
Light, Color, Form — Gallery at the Memorial Union, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
Spectroscopy — Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA
Painted Pixels — Quad City Art Center, Moline, IL
Retrospective — University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Two-Person Exhibitions
Assertion & Denial: Variations on the Grid (Cacek & Tinder) — Quad City Art Center, Moline, IL
Order/Disorder (Cacek & Kaven) — Schopf Gallery, Chicago, IL

Select Group Exhibitions 
78^th Midwestern Biennial — Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
In-Security — Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Electron Salon — Los Angeles Center for Digital Arts, Los Angeles, CA
16th Annual Figurative Art Exhibition — Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA
National Juried Painting Exhibition — University of Southern MS, Hattiesburg, MS
United by Art — Idaherma Museum of Art, Princeton, NJ
Blackout – Art on 30th Gallery, San Diego, CA
The Face of Time — Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ
Go Figure: Art of the Human Form — O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
Faculty Exhibit — Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Reinventing the Landscape — Deerpath Gallery, Lake Forest, IL
Colorful Symphony — Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI
October National — Madden Arts Center, Anne Lloyd Gallery, Decatur, IL
Where the Spirit Meets the Bone: Grief and Healing — Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA

AWARDS & HONORS

3rd Place — Colorful Symphony, Rhode Island Watercolor Society
3rd Place — Human Form, Blue Koi Gallery
Honorable Mention — RepreSENSATIONAL, Heartland Art Center
Honorable Mention — Cityscapes, Ten Moir Gallery
Studio Visit: A Juried Selection of International Visual Arts
        — Volumes 25, 36, 54

COLLECTIONS

Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield — Des Moines, IA
Abbott Northwestern Hospital — Minneapolis, MN
Concordance Healthcare Solutions — Minneapolis, MN
Great Western Bank — Sioux Falls, SD
US Cellular and T-Mobile — Urbandale, IA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Kansas City Arts Coalition
Paintpushers Artist Collective
East Village Art Coalition
College Art Association
Des Moines Art Center

PUBLICATION & PRESS

Publications
Monochromica: The Journal of Monochrome Art, Issue 004
DSM Magazine (Cover Art)
City Performance Report (Cover Art)
Novum Artis, Issue 010 (Back Cover)
Blackout: 5th National Art Exhibition Catalog
Gardenia Annual Juried Exhibition Catalog
Studio Visit: A Juried Selection of International Visual Art

Press
Chicago Tribune
Peekskill Herald
Des Moines Register
City View Magazine
Juice Magazine
AroundDesMoines.com
Datebook
The Storm Lake Times
The Interplay of Time, Memory, and Perception
Memory, Conflict, and Representation (LinkedIn article)

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts 
Painting, Drawing and Art History — Drake University, Des Moines, IA

Bachelor of Arts 
Visual Arts and Philosophy — Grand View University, Des Moines, IA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Associate Professor of Art
Grand View University — Des Moines, IA

Adjunct Art Instructor 
Des Moines Art Center — Des Moines, IA
Illinois Institute of Art — Schaumburg, IL
Robert Morris College — Naperville, IL