Bio:
Prusa was born and raised on the south side of Chicago, received her B.S. in Biocommunication Arts from the University of Illinois Medical Campus at Champaign-Urbana. She went on to study painting and was awarded an M.F.A. in painting and drawing from Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. She taught art as an assistant professor at Iowa State University before moving to Boca Raton, Florida where she currently teaches painting as an Associate Professor of Art at Florida Atlantic University. She was awarded a 2002 and 2008 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists and a 2002 and 2008 State of Florida Artist Grant. Her work is in the permanent collection at the Fort Lauderdale Art Museum, the Arkansas Arts Center, the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art collection and the Telfair Art Museum. Her work traveled in the Triennial Exhibition of German and American Artists curated by the American Museum of Arts and Design, NYC, exhibited at the Museum for Angewandte Kunst - Frankfurt and at the Museum of Arts and Design. Fall, 2003, she exhibited her work at the South Florida Art Center in Miami Beach and Spring 2004 she had a one-person exhibition at J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville. Fall 2004 she was awarded the Southeast College Art Fellowship resulting in a one person exhibition at the Arkansas Arts Center, 2005. She is represented by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami. She was awarded an Art In State Buildings commission and produced the art for the new College of Nursing building at Florida Atlantic University the Nanotechnology building at the University of Florida. She recently received the Howard Foundation Fellowship from Brown University to produce a new body of work. The Sun-Sentinel said of her work: "Carol Prusa has turned to the Renaissance technique of silverpoint to create work that is daring and fresh...(her) silverpoints are works of compelling originality, possessing a quiet, magnetic strength." Her work was recently in a one-person exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville and Bernice Steinbaum Gallery in Miami. She is currently in shows at the Frist Center for the Arts in Nashville, the DeCordova Museum just outside Boston, the Boca Raton Art Museum and the Ft. Lauderdale Art Museum (summer 2008).
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