This is a short Bio...
Photorealist painter, Bruce
Burkholder-Hays, Ks. has received numerous cash and purchase awards through juried state, regional, national and World Wide
Web competitions.
Selected as a well known Kansas Artist with an article
featured in the
Kansas Magazine! 2008 Summer Issue titled "Kansas
Artists Trails"
January 2007, selected as one of the Best of Kansas Artists, his painting "Down
The Road In Western Kansas" was exhibited at Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius Inaugural
The Main Street Art Gallery...
featuring the best
of Kansas Artists - Topeka, Kansas.
The painting is featured in the book
"Not By Bread Alone", billed as "a sampling of Kansas food, art and culture", compiled by Janet Majure,
of Lawrence. The commemorative book created as part of the 2007 Kansas Inaugural to help celebrate the best of Kansas.
Spring 2006 Selected Award Winner on the ART Fix "The Phases of EVE"-
Cleveland, Ohio
Winter 2005 Award Winner on the Creative Catalyst First Annual
Winter ART SHOW-Oregon
Fall 2005 A Featured artist on the ART Fix Cleveland, Ohio
Summer 2005 "Bel Art Project Award for Art Excellence"--Portugal
Summer 2003 special guest artist on the Italian website ImagoBox.com
Summer
2003 "World Web Award of Excellence", from ArtSpace2000.com--Manitoba Canada
World
Wide Arts Resources, Columbus, Ohio selected as a absolutearts.com Summer 2002 featured artist
February-2000
Digital Color Artist of the Month for Digital Consciousness-California
The Kansas
Artists' Postcard series, a project of the Community Art Agencies of Kansas has featured his work several times and it has
been published by the Kansas Department of Commerce in "The Best of Kansas Arts Catalog".
His
work appears in public and private collections throughout the United States and has received international recognition with
Art Communications International's juried art on CD's one, two, and three, 1996- Chicago, Ill.
Also
international recognition has been earned with his biography listed in Barons Who's Who in Interior Design 1992-1993 International
Edition
Laguna Beach, Ca.