Selected One and Two Person Exhibitions 

2013 
Beneath the Eroding Surface, Gwendolyn Plunkett and William Ruller, Austin Art Co, Austin, TX
2011

Wax, Paper, Ink - Gwendolyn Plunkett,  Pearl Fincher Art Museum, Spring, TX 
Curator- Rosemary Hickman     

Body Language: Gwendolyn Plunkett, The Encaustic Center, Richardson, TX
2010   

Locating Beauty/Skin Deep; Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX       

Ink/Paper/Wax; San Jacinto College-Central, Pasadena, TX 
2009    

WAX WORKS Gwendolyn Plunkett, Sharon Kyle-Kuhn, at Darke Gallery, Houston,TX
2006

Re/Mark; De Zeta Gallery, Houston, TX
2005     

Gwen Plunkett/Encaustic Monotypes; Bosque Gallery, Houston, TX     

1999
Inside/Outside, Non-Narrative Narratives; Buchannan Gallery, Galveston, TX   

1997
Without Words/Without Silence; Center Gallery, USF Tampa, FL
1995
Foolish Attitudes, Center Gallery, USF Tampa, FL
1990
Gwendolyn Plunkett, Niceville, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions

2014
Pulp, Curtis Gannon, Rix Jennings, Jon Lee, Gwendolyn Plunkett, Delaney Smith; Hunter Gather Project, Houston, TX
Surface Tension, Lydia Bodner-Balahutrak, Jon Lee, Gwendolyn Plunkett; Hunter Gather Project, Houston, TX
Equilibrium: Art for the Changing World, WCA, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
Jurors: Beate Minkovski and Mary Stoppert
Five x Seven, AMOA, Austin, TX

2013
Avis Frank Gallery, Co-Op Artist members of Burning Bones Press, Small selection of works by Co-Op members in conjunction with artist Helen Gerritzen.
Five x Seven, AMOA, Austin, TX 
2012
Driven to Abstraction , Austin Art Connections, Austin, TX
3rd Coast National, K Space Gallery, Corpus Christie, TX  Juror: Christina Rees
Reclaimed Existance: The Artist's Life as a Chair, Art Cube Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA   
2012 Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Live Oak Art Center, Columbus , TX 

The Goldilocks Show, Lytle Pressley Contemporary, Austin, TX 
7th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ 
Five x Seven, AMOA, Austin, TX 

2011

Wax, Oil, Wood! Four artists - Gwendolyn Plunkett, Julia Koivumaa, Charyl Weissbach, and Seth Hudson, Buchanan Gallery, Galveston, TX
Lone Star College-Cy Fair Faculty Exhibition, University of Houston Clear Lake,
Melted Color, TexasWAX Artists, Julie C. Butridge Gallery at Dougherty Arts Center, Austin, TX

Hot! Hot! Hot! TexasWAX/Houston Artists, Bosque Gallery at Lone Star College-CyFair; Cypress, TX

Consequential Fusion: Messages in Wax, Arts Center Morro Bay, Morro Bay, CA 

Pulp Fiction, Encaustic Institute, Taos, NM

Playing With Fire, Tubac Center for Art, Tubac, AZ

6th Annual Encaustic Invitational, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2011, Williams Tower Gallery, 2800 Post Oak Blvd, Houston, TX

2010 

Make It Red, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

HIVE,  Cole Art Center, SFA School of Art, Nacogdoches, TX (A HoustonWAX art project)

Circularspace, A Snail mail Group Exhibition,  St. Augustine, FL

10 x 10 August Lights in Amarillo; Sunset Center, Amarillo, TX 

Best Foot Forward; Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

Wax Libris II, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA - Joanne Mattera-Curator 

5th Annual Encaustic Invitational; Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tucson, AZ

2009

A Book About Death;

Houston City Hall Annex Art on Loan Project's 2009 Exhibition   

Degrees; Group Exhibition of TexasWAX/Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio artists at M Squared Gallery, Houston Heights, TX
Fuse Encaustic Works by TexasWAXHouston Artists, 
Encaustic Exhibition; Bosque Gallery, Lonestar College-CyFair, Cypress, TX
2008
Some Like It Hot; Combined texasWAX/dallas & texasWAX/houston Artists,Texas Artists Museum, Port Arthur, TX
IMP(LIE)D L(I)NE; Bosque Gallery, Cy-Fair College, Houston, TX
New Texas Talent; Craighead-Green, Dallas, TX
Red,White, and Blues; Group Exhibition, Darke Gallery, Houston, TX
The Hunting Prize Finalist Exhibition; Houston Design Center, Houston, TX
TexasWAX/Houston-Dallas, Collaborating Artists Media Project. Inc.; Dallas, TX
Perfecting Process; Annex Gallery, Stafford, TX
2007
Hot Stuff; Beverly, MA
Encaustic Show; Bosque Gallery, Cypress, TX
South By Southwest; Annex Gallery, Stafford, TX
South by Southwest, South Texas College Gallery, McAllen, TX
2006
Dia Los Muertos; De Zeta Gallery, Houston
The Big Show; Lawndale Annex, Houston, TX
2004
Mentors Show; Annex Gallery, Stafford, TX
Way Cool; Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
Group Show; Art Venture Gallery, Houston, TX
2000
Assistance League of Houston Celebrates Texas Art 2000; Williams Tower Gallery, Houston
1999
The Big Show; Lawndale Annex, Houston
Above Construction, HWCA at O’Kane Gallery, Houston, TX
Is this a joke or what? O’Kane Gallery, Houston
1998
Invitational; Gallery on Azeel , Tampa, FL
Blossom Street Gallery Group Show; Blossom Street Gallery, Houston, TX
Ya Ya Rebout Interactive Art Exhibition on-line; Houston Womens’ Caucus for Art
The Opening; Oculus Gallery, Baton Rouge, LA
50PEN The Art League of Houston; Houston, TX Juror: Bert Long
Northern National Art Competition; Rhinelander, Wisconsin; Juror: Betye Saar
LaGrange National Biennial; Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA, 1997
1997
Personals: SFWG; Center Gallery, Tampa, F
INVITATIONAL; Center for Emerging Art, Inc., Miami, FL
FIFTEENTH ANNUAL JURIED EXHIBITION; Artists Alliance, Inc., Tampa, Florida
May Show; Arts on the Park, Lakeland, FL, Juror; Theo Wujcik
1996
The New Re-Contexturalist: Subverting the Found; Center Gallery, Tampa, FL
Container 3+1=Four; Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, FL
Crossing the White Line: Women of the Ninties, Trammel Crow Building, Dallas, TX
Jurors: Susan kae Grant and Celia Alvarez Munoz
1994
Cinco Banderas Exhibition; Pensacola Junior College Gallery, Pensacola, FL

Awards: 
Finalist for Hunting Prize, Houston, TX 2008
Merit Award, La Grange National Biennale, Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, Lagrange, GA 1998
Honorable Mention 50Open, The Art League of Houston, Houston, TX 1998
Juror's Choice Award, May Show, Arts on the Park,  Lakeland, FL 1997


Public Collections: 
Cinco Banderas Collection, Pensacola, FL (catalog)

Curatorial Activities: 

Curator, Revisited; Huong Huynh, Robin Akkerman, John Schiro. Annex Gallery, Houston Community College SW, Stafford, TX  2005

Co-curator: ABOVE CONSTRUCTION, O’Kane Gallery, Houston    1999

Professional Activities

Encaustic Workshop for Texas Fiber Artists Conference - 2009

Encaustic Demo at San Jacinto College-Central in conjunction with TexasWAX/Houston exhibition, Pasadena, TX  - 2009

Encaustic Painting Demo in conjunction with Some Like it Hot Exhibition, Texas Artists  Museum, Port Arthur, TX  -  2008
Encaustics-Then and Now: Presentation adn Demonstration as part of the Livining with art Fall Series at HCCS-SW, Stafford, TX  - 2007

Encaustics Monoprint Demonstrations in conjunction with solo exhibition at LoneStar College, CyFair campus, Cypress, TX 2007

Designer of Above Construction poster and postcard announcement  - 1999

Presentation: (RE)Building the Modern Man, The 3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Symposium, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 1995

Performance: Gynesis, Performed by Untitled II Group for Semiotics Symposium, University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL -  1994

Performance: Gynesis, Performed by Untitled II Group for Breaking the Boundaries Juried Exhibition at ART on the Tracks, Pensacola, FL.

Education 
MFA Painting: University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 1997
BFA Painting: University of Houston, Houston, TX 1983
AA Painting: Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge, VA