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Accomplishments
Solo Exhibitions
Pen and Brush Club,
New York, NY, 1953
Stony Brook Lodge, Stony Brook, NY, 1957
The Three Village
Art Shop, Setauket, NY, 1957
Xaverian High School,
New York, NY, 1957
Brooklyn Museum,
Brooklyn,
NY, 1966
Panoras Gallery,
New York, NY, 1970
Suffolk Museum,
NY, 1974
The Gallery Machias, Machias, ME, 1976
The Gallery, ME, 1977
Grist Mill Gallery, Chester, VT, 1977
Jeanne Taylor
Gallery, New York, NY,
1979
Miriam Perlman Gallery,
Chicago, IL, 1980
American Society of Contemporary Artists,
New York, NY,
1980
Birdsnest Gallery, Bar Harbor, ME, 1981, 1996
Belanthi Gallery “Landscapes: Poetry and Power”,
Brooklyn,
NY, 1982
Little Gallery,
Hotel Barbizon, New York, NY (year unknown)
Brookhaven Gallery at Bald Hill Park “A Splash of Nature”, Farmingville, NY,
1991
North Shore
Public Library, Shoreham, NY, 1992-3, 2001
Carlyle Furniture Gallery,
New York, NY 1994
Combined Exhibitions
Washington Square Park Annual Spring Exhibition,
New York, NY,
1952—late 90’s
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club,
New York,
NY, 1955, 1957, 1973-4, 1981
Brooklyn Society of Artists (later to be renamed American Society of
Contemporary Artists, traveling exhibit),
Centary
College, Austin State
College, Northwest Missouri State College, 1956
Westhampton Beach
Annual Outdoor Art Show, NY, 1959
American Society of Contemporary Artists, 1960, 1968, 1985
Westchester Outdoor Art Exhibition,
Scarsdale,
NY, 1962
National Association of Women Artists,
New York,
NY, 1965, 1968, 1973-4, 1977,
1980, 1982
American Watercolor Society,
New York,
NY, 1962
Allied Artists of America, New York, NY,
1967, 1977
National Arts Club, New York, NY, 1968
Brooklyn Society of Artists at the
Brooklyn
Museum, 1976
“Nude and Owl” exhibition at Jeanne Taylor Gallery, New York, NY,
1977
Finlandia Foundation, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, Dix Hills, NY,
1977
The Nature Center,
Crestport, CT, 1980
Warner Communications, Inc.,
New York,
NY, 1983
Contemporary Artists Guild, New York, NY, 1984-5
Independent Art Society,
Hicksville, NY, 1992
“Irene Aunio and Gustav Rosenlof: Watercolors”,
Finland Center, New York, NY, 1998
FinFest USA at University of Southern Maine,
1998
Salmagundi Club, co-exhibit, Aunio and
Rosenlof,
New York, NY, 2008
Prizes and Awards
National Association of Women Artists
Goldie Paley Watercolor Prize, 1952
Grumbacker Award, 1958
Jane C. Staley Memorial Prize, 1958
NAWA
Windsor
Newton
Prize, 1960
NAWA
Leonebel Jacobs Prize, 1967, 1974
Allied Artists of
America
Honorable Mention, 1952
Jury
of Selection in Watercolor, 1953
Pen and Brush Club
Award
of Solo Exhibition, 1953
Second
Prize, 1957
National Academy of Design, Henry Ranger Fund Purchase Prize,
1953
Art Students League of New York, winner of Robert Ward Johnson Merit
Scholarship Competition, 1954
Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Gold
Medal for Watercolor, 1955
Second
Place Deslemme’s Award, 1957
Rosenthal’s Award, 1958
Honorable Mention, 1961
Gold
Medal for Landscape, 1962
Seton
Hall
University, Michael Engel
Award, 1958
New Rochelle Exhibition, First Prize for Best
Watercolor, 1962
Broadcast Music, Inc., Art Award, 1962
American Watercolor Society, Merit Award, 1962
Third Jamaica
Festival, First Prize, 1969
North Bellmore Arts Council, First Prize, 1969
Marshall-Vogency Exhibit, First Prize, 1970
Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit
Third
Prize in Watercolor, 1972
Honorable Mention, 1974-7
Honorable Mention, 1981
Barbara Vassilief Memorial Award (year unknown)
American Society of Contemporary Artists
Distinctive Merit Award, 1975
Dorothy L. Feigin Award for Oil Painting, 1979
Brookhaven Arts Council, Best in Show (year unknown)
National League of American Pen Women (Suffolk County Branch), Award of
Excellence (year unknown)
Independent Art Society Fall Exhibition, Award of Excellence,
Hicksville
Public Library, 1992
Member Organizations
Full member of the American Watercolor Society
(AWS)
National League of American Pen Women
The Pen and Brush Club
Allied Artists of
America
National Association of Women Artists
American Society of Contemporary Artists, Inc.
American Artists Professional League
Catherine Lorillard Art Club
The Art Students League (lifetime member)
Collections
Art Students League of
New York, NY
National Academy of Design,
NY
Evansville
Museum of Fine Arts,
IN
Reading Museum of Fine Art,
PA
Norfolk
Museum
of Fine Art (now the
Chrysler
Museum), VA
Virginia
State
College, VA
Seton Hall University,
NY
The National Bank of
Detroit, Rockford, IL
Standard Federal Savings,
Detroit, MI
Detroit
Edison,
IL
Macky Bell, Detroit,
MI
St. Joseph
Mercy Hospital,
Detroit,
MI
Dag Hammarskjold Plaza,
New York, NY
Public Service Electric and Gas, NJ
Katz Communications of N.Y., NY
American Hospital Supply Corp.,
Chicago,
IL
Oakland
Community
Hospital, Chicago, IL
Quaker Oats Company, IL
Workshops and Classes
New Utrecht High School, after-school Adult
Education, NY, 1958
Seth Low Jr. High School, after-school Adult Education, NY, 1958
New York Board of Education Adult Education
Project, NY, 1957
Valenti’s Art and Camera Shop, NY, 1964
Self-Directed Irene Aunio Watercolor Workshop, seasonally
between1995-2004 in NH, NY and ME
Pilgrim Pines Elderhostel, Swansey, NH, 2002-5
Demonstrations
National Academy Galleries for the American
Society of Contemporary Art, 1957, 1966
Stony Brook Lodge, 1957
Gimbles Art Festival, 1963
Brookhaven Art League, 1969
National Association of Women Artists, 1977
Saddlebrook Art Association, 1979
National Art Club, 1980
Syosset-Woodbury
Recreation
Center, 1986
Wet Paints Studio Group, 1991
National League of American Pen Women, 1994
Biographies
Listed in Marquis:
“Who’s Who of American Women”
“Who’s Who in American Art”
“Who’s Who in the East”
“Who’s Who in the World of Women”
“Who’s Who in the
United States”
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