Ruthann Godollei

Ruthann Godollei is the Wallace Professor of Art and former Dean of the Fine Arts Division. She has exhibited internationally, incorporating political and social commentary in her text based artworks. 2 of her prints will be in the SGCI Juried Members’ Exhibit, TX, Feb. 2026. She has work published in Vol. 3 of The Siren News, an NYC satiric political magazine Sept., 2025. Her prints are part of Our River, a benefit auction at FOK Gallery St. Paul, Dec. 2025, to support Friends of the Mississippi River.  She was part of a group show, Los Pasos Prohibidos at the NE Sculpture Gallery Factory in Mpls. Sept. 2025. She had work in Press On, a juried national exhibit of letterpress art, Pyramid Atlantic art center, Hyattsville, MD, June 2025 and is featured in Deacon Warner’s documentary, Every Day is a Parade, premiered at the 2025 MSP Film Festival. She was awarded a McKnight Visual Artist’s Fellowship 2022-’23. She had work in Dada Ruht Nicht at the Brandenburgische Landesmuseum für moderne Kunst, Cottbus, Germany in 2024.

Her work is in collections such as the National Museum of Art, Poznañ, Poland, Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, Rutgers University, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the National University Library in Rijek, Croatia, KUMU National Art Museum of Estonia, the Centre for Fine Print Research, Bristol, UK, the Minnesota Museum of American Art and many more. She teaches Printmaking (intaglio, relief, lithography, screenprint, handset type, digital/photo prints), Word. and the Senior Studio Art Seminar. She has taught Dissent, Nature & Power (a team taught FYC with History and Biology), 2-D Design, Women in Art (cross-listed with WGSS), Political Art (cross-listed with Political Science), Images in Consumer Society (cross-listed with Sociology), and Performance and Installation Art. She is the author of a book on DIY printmaking from Voyageurs Press 2013, How to Create Your Own… and co-author with Eric Dregni, of “Road Show: Art Cars & the Museum of the Streets,” from Speck Press.

BFA: Indiana University
MFA: University of Minnesota

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Wallace Professor of Art Ruthann Godollei had work published in The Siren, Vol. 2, a NYC satiric political magazine launched by Coco Fusco, May 1, 2025. She team taught a First Year Course, Nature & Power with Biology Professor Sarah Boyer and History Professor Ernie Capello in 2021. Her solo interactive exhibit, Wish Machine, was held at SNAP Gallery in Edmonton, AB, Canada, July 2021 after its earlier incarnation at MCBA in Mpls. in Jan., 2021.  Her work was included in Stand Up Prints 2020, a juried exhibit at Highpoint Center for Printmaking Mpls., reviewed in Hyperallergic.  She was an invited guest artist for the Instituto Gráfico de Chicago festival Grabadolandia, held online in 2020. She was awarded a 2019 Fulbright Research Chair at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. She had work in Dada Ist Ein Hundert, an international exhibit of Dada-influenced typographic art, which toured Europe. She is the Owner/Operator of Printland Press LLC.