philip@philiprostek.com
born: 1949
412-441-9205

609 Ivy Street
Pittsburgh, PA
15232

EDUCATION
1973 Master of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
1971 Bachelor of Fine Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
1970 Zoller Award, most promising student, junior year.
1970 National Collegiate Drawing Competition, Knoxville, Tennessee.

TEACHING
2000-08 Seton Hill University, Greensburg, Pa., Associate Professor, drawing and painting.
1999 Carnegie Mellon University, adjunct faculty, Concept Studio 1, “Self and Human Being.”
1972-73 Carnegie Mellon, Pre College Program, graduate teaching instructor.
1972 Carnegie Mellon, faculty, drawing instructor, spring semester.
1971-73 Carnegie Mellon graduate teaching assistant to three professors: Painting, Arts of this Century, Art for Non-Art Majors.

PUBLIC LECTURES
2008 Forward, The Alumni Magazine of Seton Hill University, Cover.
2008 Pittsburgh Now, Space, Pittsburgh.
2008 Making Hope Happen, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh.
2008 The Society of Utopian Studies, 32nd Annual Mtg., Toronto Marriott Yorkville Hotel.
2001 Unbearables, poetry reading, Cooper Union, New York City.
1998 Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure University, New York.
1996 The Memorare, Seton Hill Parlors, Greensburg, PA.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1998 Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, St. Bonaventure, New York.
1996 The Memorare, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA.
1988 Paradigm Changes, Mellon Galleries, Carlow College, Pittsburgh.
1984 Pittsburgh Plan for Art.
1982 The Art Doctor’s Polaroids, Wiebe Bonwell Gallery, Pittsburgh.
1982 Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Juried Biennial, Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, PA.
2008 Pittsburgh Now, Space, Pittsburgh.
2008 Making Hope Happen, American Jewish Museum, Pittsburgh.
2008 Seton Hill University, Harlan Gallery, Greensburg, PA.
2008 Moby Dick and Todd, Science Hall, Westmoreland Community College with collaborating artist Todd Murray, Youngwood, PA.
2007 Boxes, Group A, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
2007  Switchback, First Night, Gallery Crawl, Artists Upstairs, Pittsburgh.
2007 Heavy Water, (21 additional artists) FusionArts Museum NYC.
2006 Parallel Lives, Science Hall, Westmoreland Community College, Youngwood, PA.
2006 Heavy Water, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2006 Crossing Lines, seven – o – seven contemporary, Santa Fe, NM.
2006 Jabberwocky vs Dada, Artists Upstairs, Pittsburgh.
2006 100% Centennial, Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, CMU, Pittsburgh
2006 Secrets, Group A, Gallery 10, Washington, D.C.
2006 Light My Ire Redux, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2006 Light My Ire, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2005 Secrets, Group A, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
2005 Equipoise, Artists Upstairs, First Night, Gallery Crawl, Pittsburgh.
2005 Leaving Home at 72, Don and Dana Mangus, iUniverse, 45 book illustrations.
2005 Let There Be Light, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2005 Art Up on 9, Bitz Building, Pittsburgh.
2005 What A Relief, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2004 Sub: Cultural, Textual, Liminal, SPACE, Pittsburgh.
2004 Louange a’ I’Immortalite’ de Jesus, Harris Theatre, Pittsburgh.
2004 Then and Now, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2004 Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland.
2004 Infusion, FusionArts Museum, NYC
2004 Transfusion Two, FusionArts Museum, NYC.
2002 The Andy Warhol Museum, Essay, by Robert Lepper and Phil Rostek 16’ photo mural, Robert Lepper, Artist and Teacher Exhibition.
2000 Exquisite Surfaces, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh.
2000 The Andy Warhol Museum, Warhol gravesite from Essay, by Robert Lepper and Phil Rostek, Museum without walls. www.artmuseum.net.
2000 Jesus 2000 Exhibition, Belleville, Illinois.
2000 Spirituality at the Millennium, Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA.
1996 The Mind Island of Daxonia, Ars Electronica, Austria, Digital Art Exchange, (DAX).
1996 Past Time, The Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh.
1996 Harlan Gallery, Seton Hill College, Greensburg, PA.
1995 The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1994 The First Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
1993 Arts on Thirty, Howard Heinz and Vira L. Heinz Endowments, Pittsburgh.
1993 Le Jongleur de Dieu, Pittsburgh x7, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
1991 Reflux, XXI Bienal do Sao Paulo, Brazil, telematic performance organized by Artur Matuk.
1991 The Labyrinth, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, collaborative exhibition co-organized with Matt Wrbican, funded by GPIA, The Painted Bride, Philadelphia.
1990 Dakar d’Accord, collaborative slowscan tv exchange, CMU, Pittsburgh/Senegal (DAX).
1990 Earth Day Impromptu, Telefax and Slowscan TV Exchange linking 12 cities (DAX).
1989 Toxic Paradise, performance and installation, Fusion Arts, Diagonale Galerie, Paris.
1987 Il Serpente di Pietra, performance organized by Plexus, Sa Itria, Sardinia, Italy.
1986 Network Planetario/Laboratorio Ubique, La Biennale de Venezia, Sstv, fax, and text exchange, International Pavilion of Art and Science, Venice, Italy. (DAX).
1985 The Order of St. Francis, video installation, Now Gallery, New York City.
1983 La Plissure du Texte, Electra ’83, telematic text exchange on ARTEX, organized by Roy Ascot. La Musee d’Art de la Ville de Paris. (DAX).
1983 Cityscapes, University of Pittsburgh Gallery, curated by Duane Michals.