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Education

MFA, University of Colorado, 1978

BFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1973 

 

Professional Experience

Coordinator/Instructor of Photography, Arapahoe Community College, 1979-2003

Chair, Art Department, Arapahoe Community College, 1998-2001

Member, Art Advisory Committee, Colorado Gallery of the Arts, 1993-2003

Member, Art Advisory Committee, Koelbel Public Library, Arapahoe Library District, Colorado, 1993-96

Chair, Steering Committee, Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, Colorado, 1980-82

Instructor of Photography, Community College of Denver, Colorado, 1979

Artist-in-Residence, Colorado Council on the Arts and Humanities, Denver, Colorado, 1978-79

Director, Fine Arts Center, University Memorial Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1977-78

Instructor of Photography, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1976-77

Coordinator of Exhibts, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California, 1974-75

Assistant Manager, San Francisco Art Institute Art Supply Store, 1973-74

 

Awards (Selected)

An origional work commissioned through the City and County of Denver Public Art Program, Denver Convention Center Hotel, Denver, Colorado, 2006

Colorado Educator of the Year (Awarded to the Arapahoe Community College Art Department Faculty), Colorado Art Education Association, 1997

 

Group Exhibitions (Selected)
"3 in 1", (three person exhibition), Steamplant Art Center,  Salida, Colorado, 2015
"Regional Outdoor Sculpture", Strawn Grether Sculpture Garden, Steamplant Art Center, Salida, CO,  2010/2011
 "Shooting the West- Colorado Photographers", Arvada Center, Colorado, 2009
"Contested Lands: Photographs Along the Picket Wire", El Pueblo History Museum, Pueblo, Colorado, 2009-10

"Contested Lands: Photographs along the Picket Wire", Colorado History Museum, Denver, 2007-09

"Impressions of Provence", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Colorado, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2000, 1998

Galeria De Arte Fotograico Melton Rodriguez, Medellin, Columbia, 2002

Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Institute, Lake Forest College, Illinois, 2001

"Fresh Eyes", Aravada Center for the Arts, Colorado, 2000

Colorado History Museum, Denver, Colorado, 1999-2000

From The Collection, Denver Art Museum, 1999

Colorado Photographic Art Center, Denver, 1999

" The Real West", The Denver Art Museum,1996

"The Real West: A Contemporary Photographic Overview", Center For The Visual Arts, Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado, 1995

"Professors of Photography", 2/C Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1994

"Real Vision-Photographs of the Southwest", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, Colorado, 1994

"Centennial Birthday Card Exhibition", Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1993

"Personal Portraits- Intimate Photographs", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, Colorado, 1992

"Spark Select Show", Spark Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1992

"The Professors Show", Ginny Williams Show, Denver, Colorado, 1990

"20th Century GAIA: Contemporary Landscape Photography", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, Colorado, 1990

"The Landscape-Changing Perspectives", The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Colorado Springs, 1988

"New Photographics/87" Sarah Spurgen Gallery, Central University Gallery, Ellensburg, WA, 1987-88

"Selections", Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 1987

"Not Strictly Visual", Emmanuel Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado, 1984

"Arts 84", Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, Colorado, 1984

"Colorado Photographers Exhibition", Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1984

"Recent Exposures", Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, Colorado, 1982

"American Photography Today", Emmanual Gallery, Auraria Campus, Denver, Colorado, 1982

"1982 Northlight Southwest Group Exhibition", Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, 1982

"Language and Image", Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, 1982

 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
"Photographs by Scott Engel", Salida Community Center, Salida, Colorado, 2014
"Riff/2012, Rhythm in Time", O'sullivan Art Gallery, Regis University, Denver, CO, 2013
"Perceive", Highland City Club Gallery, Boulder, CO, 2011
 "The Thing Itself", Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center Gallery, Salida, CO, 2011
 "Impulse-Synapse-Id" (Two Person Exhibition), Paquette Gallery at the Steamplant Arts Center, Salida, CO, 2011
 "Colorado and The West", Paquette Gallery at the Steam Plant Arts Center, Salida, CO, 2007

"Considering the Sublime", Ironton Studios Gallery (Two person Exhibition), Denver, CO, 2006

"Insight of Vision", O'Sullivan Arts Complex, Regis University, Denver, Colorado, 1994

"A Portrait of Littleton", Littleton Historical Museum, Littleton, Colorado, 1991

"New Work", University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1988

"New Work", New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, 1984

"What Makes Me Think I Dominate The Landscape",UMC Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1979

"Where There Are People", Fine Arts Gallery, Mount Senario College, Ladysmith College, Wisconsin, 1978

 

Publications (Selected)

"Orion Magazine", Winter, 1999

"Doubletake Magazine", March 1998

"Portfolio", University of Colorado, Boulder, 1983

"Artweek", San Francisco, CA, 1979, 1974

Self Portrait, published by Friends of Photography, Carmel, CA, 1979

"20 Colorado Artists", Exhibition Catalog, Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 1977

 

Exhibitions Curated (Selected)

"Real Vision: Photographs from the Southwest", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, CO, 1994

"Personal Portraits: Intimate Photographs", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, CO, 1992

"20th Century GAIA: Contemporary Landscape Photography", Colorado Gallery of the Arts, Littleton, CO, 1990

 

Public and Corporate Collections
Steamplant Arts Center, Salida, Colorado
Sonnenschein Gallery, Durand Institute, Lake Forest College, Illinois

Photo Americas, Portland, Oregon,

Special Collections, Norlin Library, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Colorado History Museum, Denver, Colorado

Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado

Regis University, Denver, Colorado

Littleton Historical Museum, Littleton, Colorado

University of Texas, Austin, Texas

University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado

Amoco Corporation

David Rettenburg Collection

Bellevue Art Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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