Address: Courtenay, BC, Canada

Website: www.uliostermann.com

E-mail: info@uliostermann.com

1955 Born in W-Germany.
1983 Received M.A. in Educational Sciences, University of Muenster, Germany.

During the study period also visiting galleries and museums in Berlin, Seebuehl (Emil Nolde House), Cologne, Frankfurt, Salzburg, Paris, Amsterdam, London, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The visit to the DOCUMENTA'82 in Kassel becomes an essential influence and initiates a new take on art. Starts to build the first larger canvas and sells water color series regularly to an art dealer in order to finance partly her academical training.

1984 Marriage and new plans
1985-1988 Birth of Deborah, Miriam and Leoni. During this time: private and two public commissions. The first six shows.
Later attends workshops to study water color, figure drawing, and lithographic print. However, working in acrylics turns out to be the preferred medium. Sells, including two larger works to Frankfurt.

1993 Membership, Association of Professional Artists- Plastic Arts (BBK), Germany.

1995 Ending a 6 years 'weekend-marriage" - due to the Fall of the Wall and his work on the Eastern part of Germany - by joining husband and moving to Dresden.

1997 After preparations of seven years, finally immigration to Canada.

1999 Building the studio.

2002 After a time of orientation and new decisions but always working in the studio, participation in exhibitions again and commission work. Between 2003 and 2008, large sales to private collectors in Berlin, Jacksonville/Florida, Calgary and New York.

2005 First Solo Show in Calgary gallery.

2005 Second Solo Show in Calgary gallery.

2007 Website launched.

2007 Membership, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA. Accepted for juried group show in 2008, and first exhibition in the USA.

2007 Moving to Vancouver Island.

2008 The painting "Bodyguard" is used as a book jacket for Maureen Seaton's new book "Sex talks to Girls".

2009 Membership, Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) and FCA chapter group: Comox Valley.

Various commissions in Germany, The Netherlands, USA and Canada.

"My themes are predominately about inner processes in the human psyche, especially how we react to changes in life. As Communication is very important, the motives behind response and non-response and their effects on human interaction is another intriguing and demanding subject for me, because it creates 'wars and peace'. I love the spontaneous creative process for painting as well as I sometimes start with a completed composition after I have focused on transforming complex ideas into simple forms of expressions."

2006 Twenty-Two, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada

2005 Delineate Transformation, Ruberto Ostberg Gallery, Calgary, Canada

1991 'New Paintings', Unternehmenszentrum Dresden, Germany

1991 Muenster, Germany (self-organized)

1988 HO-Galerie, Muenster, Germany

1987 Business Opening, Werl, Germany

1986 Business Opening, Hamm, Germany

1986 Jazz Club, Bonn, Germany

1985 Business Opening, Selm, Germany

2010 Capturing the Canadian Spirit 2010, juried group, Jan 26th - Feb 28th, 2010. Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada.

2009 Pearl Ellis Gallery, group show, Nov 29th - Dec 19th, 2009. Comox, Canada.

2009 Muir Gallery November Show, juried group show, Nov 6th - 27th, 2009. Courtenay, Canada.

2009 Art Visions 2009, juried group show, Oct 9th - Oct 23rd, 2009. Rotary Center of the Arts (gallery), Kelowna, Canada.

2009 7th Annual Peinting on the Edge Exhibition - open international juried exhibition, Aug 18th - Sept 6th, 2009. Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada.

2009 Palm Art Award, (invitation and juried group). Presentation Exhibition from January 30th - April 4th, 2009, Art Domain Gallery, Leipzig, Germany

2009 Group Exhibition by invitations, Feb 10th - 28th, 2009, Gallery Gora, Montreal, Canada

2008 60 Jahre BBK, Nov 30th - Dec 21th 2008, Stapelhaus/Frankenwerft 35, Cologne, Germany

2008 Victims and Armed Conflict, Red Cross and Artenade (juried group) Summer Exhibition 2008, The Hague, The Netherland

2008 Aufkreuzen in Telgte, Exhibitions and Projects, Exhibition 3, Museum Heimathaus, Telgte, Germany

2008 Annual Members' Show, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2007 Simultaneous - Signs of Time - The Back Side of the Moon, Stadtmuseum, Hattingen, Germany

2007 Coordinates - Wesphalian Art in Dialogue, Landeshaus des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen Lippe, Muenster, Germany

2004 BBK - 50 Years, Reflection - Reaction, Museum of History and Art, Dortmund, Germany

2003 Conception of Man: Visible - Tangible, Center of Technology, Bochum, Germany

2002 Conception of Man: Visible - Tangible, City Hall, Dortmund, Germany

1994 Space and Waves, Unternehmenszentrum, Dresden, Germany

1993 Soil and Stone - Canvas and Paint, Muenster, Germany

1993 Time - Questions - Opinions, Lydia Gemeindezentrum, Muenster, Germany

1986 UNICEF Exhibition, Hamm, Germany

2009 Opus Bronze Award, Kelowna, BC, Canada

2009 Award of Excellence, FCA chapter Group, BC, Canada

Thirteen artists in juried exhibit at Courtenay's Muir Gallery, Arts&Entertainment, Nov. 4, 2009, Comox Valley Record

Art Avenue (magazine), Jan/Feb 2010, Vancouver, Canada

Catalogue: 7th annual Painting on the Edge, open international juried exhibition, Aug. 18 - Sept. 6, 2009. FCA, 1241 Cartwright Street, Vancouver.

Book cover image for Maureen Seaton's book: Sex Talks to Girls, a memoir, by Maureen Seaton, University of Wisconsin Press, 2008. ISBN -13:978-0-299-22880-4

Sinndeutende Annaeherungen, Ueber bildende Kunst und Literatur in Reden, Rezensionen und Essays, Roland Altmann, Verlag der Humboldt-Gesellschaft fuer Wissenschaft, Kunst und Bildung e.V., Mannheim, 1996

Menschenbilder, Sichtbar - Greifbar, Berufsverband Bildender Kuenstler Westfalen e.V., vom 6. - 27. September 2002. Buergerhaus des Rathauses der Stadt Dortmund und vom 1. Juni - 7. Juli 2003, Technologiezentrum Eco Textil im Holland Park, Bochum. ISBN 3-936641-02-1

50 JA Reflexionen - Reaktionen, BBK Westfalen Lippe, Museum fuer Kunst und Kunstgeschichte Dortmund, 16. Nov. 2003 - 4.Jan. 2004. ISBN 3-936641-04-8

Koordinaten - Westfaelische Kunst im Dialog, BBK Westfalen Lippe, im Landeshaus des Landschaftsverbandes Westfalen Lippe, 25.April - 24.Mai 2007. Erdnuss Druck, Sendenhorst

Die Rueckseite des Mondes, Malerei, Skulptur, Fotografie, Installation, vom 14. Oktober - 25. November 2007 im Stadtmuseum Hattingen, ISBN 978-3-8196-0689-2

Federation of Canadian Artists (FCA) Chapter Group: Comox Valley, Canada

Federation of Canadian Artists

BBK (Association of Professional Artists - Plastic Arts)

Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL