JOHNODONNELLprojects
__________________________________________________________________________ Curriculum Vitae
John H. O’Donnell
Current Academic Appointment
2020 Associate Professor of Printmaking, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Education
2007 M.F.A. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2003 B.A. Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Timescapes, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2023 Red Eye to Rome, Neon Heater, Findlay, OH
2022 Red Eye to Rome, Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield, CT
Ruin in Process, Starr Library Gallery, Rhinebeck, NY
2021 Coliseum in the Attic, virtual exhibition at North Willows, Montclair, NJ
2020 Ruin in Process, The Living Room, New Haven, CT
2019 Yard Dreams, Flower Box Projects, Miami, FL
Turtles All the Way Up, New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
2018 DIY-VR, Wassaic Project, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
Inflatable Cities, Park Fest, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2017 Hollow Earth: Prints from the Underground, NHFPL Ives Gallery, New Haven, CT
Pineapple Portal, Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, CT
2016 Winners are Losers, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Hollow Earth: Documents, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hollow Earth: Drawings, Glass Wall Gallery, The School of the MFA, Boston, MA
2015 Prints and Drawings, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
2014 STILLLIFE, Schumacher Gallery, Middlebury, CT
Psychedelic Pantry, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
2013 Ponzi Structures, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2012 Navel Gazing, Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT
2010 Monkey Shines, Seton Gallery, University of New Haven, West Haven, CT
PG-13, Art Space, New Haven, CT
F*CKY*AH, Takeout Gallery, New London, CT
2009 Salad Days, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Selectibition: An Exhibition of Selected Prints, Dubs INC. Seattle WA,
Group Exhibitions
2024
(UU)ater, Peoples Center for The Arts, Eureka CA
Imagination and Collage, Artist Replete Gallery, CAA, Chicago, IL
Old Type, New Ways: Work from the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum,
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
Mythical Arcadia: Toy Temples and Astral Tombs, Gallery, Edison College, Piqua, OH
The Wrong Biennale, UID (Unique Identifier: Utopian Inspirational Daemon), Toffia, IT
UMD: Utopia Manifestation Daemon, Vinegar, Birmingham, AL
URC: Utopian Recruitment Center, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
2023
Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition, Japanese Paper Museum, Tokushima, Japan
VI International Mini Print Cantabria, Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Cantabria, Spain
14th Biennial International Print Exhibition 2023, Contemporary Center for Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
To Be Cool, Fearless: Dialogos e Interpretations 2023, Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia
Cloud Illusions, Art at the Cave, Vancouver, WA
In Light of Color, Elizabethtown College, Elizabethtown, PA
Miniprint Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
42nd Mini Print International of Cadaques, Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
New Impressions 2023, Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum, Two Rivers, WI
Mini Print International Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Pontevedra, Spain
Blue Chip, Emerson Dorsch, Miami, FL
Utopian Manifesto Daemon, Vinegar Projects, Birmingham, AL
2022
One Hour Only: Philip Guston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Hello Neighbor, Lotta, New Haven, CT
Osten Biennial of Drawing, Osten Art, Skopje, The Republic of North Macedonia
Re-Imagining Rural: ChaNorth Alumni Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Humor, AIR Gallery, Manchester, England
Contemporary Printmaking, Berkeley Art Works, Martinsburg, WV
Artist-Run Spaces, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Microwave Coven Presents: Animation Screening, AV Expression Warehouse,
San Antonio, TX
Tie That Binds, Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
2021
Meditation on Place, Gonzaga University Urban Arts Center, Spokane, WA
Subtropical Affair III, goodtoknow.fyi & Exile Books, Coral, Gables, FL
55th Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
2020
NSnail 24, curated music and performance series, Zoom
Miniprint Kazanlak, Art Gallery Kazanlak, Kazanlak, Bulgaria
Five Dollar Video, Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Lubbock, TX
Sound, Spectacle, and Situation, UMF Gallery, University of Maine, Farmington, MA
CICA Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Wassaic Project Winter Benefit, Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY
Do the Hustle, Artspace Gala, New Haven, CT
53rd Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
RE: Claimed, Sulfur Studios, Savanah, GA
Sympoiesis: Printmaking in the Expanded Field, Clara Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
2019
Money Palace, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
Class Work, Exile Books, Miami, FL
Prints from Campus: Selections from Faculty Teaching in New England, Danforth Art Museum. Framingham, MA
2018
John the Revelator, Neon Heater at River House Arts, Toledo, OH
International Mini Print Biennial, Seacourt Print Workshop, Bangor, Ireland
52nd Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
2018 Summer Exhibition: Change of State, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Lunch Money Print Exhibition, Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT
51st Studio Art Faculty Exhibition, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Summer Benefit Auction, Maxon Mills, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
2017
Further On, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
Broad Stripes and Bright Stars, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
PLUSH, Arts and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL
Monster Drawing Rally, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Experimental Film and Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
1000 Prints, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
Vagabond Time Killers, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
APEX, Hygienic Gallery, New London, CT
Laughing Skulls Motorcycle Club, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Gala Exhibition: Paris, Texas, Art Space, New Haven, CT
PRINTS THAT WORK: printmaking in the service, Housatonic Art, Museum, Bridgeport, CT
50th Faculty Exhibition, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
2016
To Be the Void: Sublimity and Contemporaneity, International Cultural Center, Krakow, Poland
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Everything Nice, The Ives Gallery, New Haven, CT
1000 Prints, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
Psychedelic Pantry Party, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Dank Memes: Stories of Cultural Viruses, Non-Fiction Gallery, Savannah, GA
Control Center, Kitchen Table Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Indie Music Video Exhibition, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Putting it All Together, Blue Door Gallery, Yonkers, NY
Concept: the International Exhibition on Conceptual Art, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Back to the Future, Gala Silent Auction, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Conversation II, No Pop Gallery, New Haven, CT
Embodied Narratives, Art Space Windham Gallery, Willimantic, CT
Edditional Tools, Project Space Gallery, SUNY Oneonta, Oneonta, NY
Print Sale, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2015
Dwell, City Wide Open Studios, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Everyday Icon, The Gallery at Constitution Plaza, Hartford, CT
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: Visualized, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT
Heads Will Roll: Political Satire in Portraiture and Landscape, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2014
New Prints Autumn Benefit Exhibition and Auction, IPCNY, International Print Center in New York, NY
Park(ing) Day, Greater Hartford Art Council, Hartford, CT
The Quickening: Tales of Transformation, Hygienic Art Gallery, New London, CT
Animal Heart, The Slater Museum, Norwich, CT
2013
New Prints 2013/Autumn, IPCNY, International Print Center in New York, NY
Habitat, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
Hartford DADA, Pumphouse Gallery, Hartford, CT
Park(ing) Day, Greater Hartford Art Council, Hartford, CT
2nd Annual Connecticut Printmakers Invitational, Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Norwalk, CT
Mixtape, Gala Silent Auction, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Pounds Of Pressure: Contemporary Prints in Large Format, Baton Rouge Arts Council, Baton Rouge, LA
2012
Rendered Extraordinary, Broad Street Gallery, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Lined Up: Drawings & Texts, Library Institute, New Haven, CT
NOW ON, ATOM Space, Hartford, CT
Screen Test, Gala Auction, Art Space, New Haven, CT
Ripple Effect, Project Storefronts, New Haven, CT
2011
Double Time: Visual Arts Faculty Exhibition, Akus Gallery, Willimantic, CT
Horsing Around, transitory/SPACES, Boulder Avenue Arts Center, Helena, MT
INSIDE OUT: an investigation of gender identities through constructed spaces, Visual Arts Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Weird+Wonderful, Artifact Gallery, Wilton, CT
SCRAWL-TV, a part of SCRAWL, Art Space New Haven, CT
2010
Interpreting Space, Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts, Storrs, CT
New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
KAT CULCHUR, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA,
Collage: Putting it all Together, Climate/Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2009
Making Funny, Under Minerva Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Serial Fictions, Golden Street Gallery, New London, CT
(Nu)erotic, Visions Art Gallery, Medway, MA
Altered Egos, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
83rd Annual International Competition: Printmaking, The Print Center, Philadelphia; PA
Lizzie Borden: A Tale of Two Cities, Gallery X, New Bedford, MA
The FEAST, Pittsburg State University Gallery, Pittsburg, KS, San Francisco, CA
Coast-to-Coast, Dakashina Chitra Gallery, Chennai, India
2008
New Prints 2007/08: A Benefit Exhibition and Silent Auction, International Print Center, New York, NY
Coast-to-Coast, Ruchika’s Art Gallery, Panjima, Goa, India
Paperworks 2008, B.J. Spoke Gallery, Huntington, NY
Dirty Fingernails Say A Lot II: A Celebration of Printmaking, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, MO, J
Perfect with Pixel, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
OUTDATED: Polaroids, Country Club Gallery, Chicago, IL
New Prints 2008, New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY
New Prints 2008, IPCNY, International Print Center, New York, NY, juror Jane Hammond
Fifty-Fifty, Artspace Windham, Willimantic, CT
2007
Art in the Age of the Internet, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Yummy: A show About Food, NEXUS/foundation, Philadelphia, PA
Fifty-Fifty, Artwell Gallery, Torrington, CT
2007 Sofia Print Triennial, Sofia, Bulgaria
Bulgarian-American Cultural Identity Exhibition, Sofia, Bulgaria
6th Lessedra World Art Print Annual – Mini Print, Sofia, Bulgaria
Collection of Similar Houses, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
When a Verb Becomes a Noun, Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA
Bulgarian and American Cultural Identity Exhibition, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery of Art, Avery Point, CT
Collection of Similar Houses, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
64th Annual Connecticut Artist Exhibition, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Regional MFA Exhibition, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
The Fifth Arches Student Print Show, Gallery 808, Boston, MA
Looped Life, 1078 Gallery, Chico, CA
2006
5th Lessedra World Art Print Annual: Mini Print, Sofia, Bulgaria
The Human Pixel Project, Three Columns Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Snap to Grid, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Human Pixel Project, Brickbottom Galleries, Somerville, MA
63rd Annual Connecticut Artist Exhibition, The Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
Small Works, Soho20, New York, NY
Performances
2024
Utopian Recruitment Center, QiPO Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico
Collage Mirage, Imagination and Collage Exhibition, Artist Replete Gallery, Chicago, IL
2023
Vitamin P, PerForMIA 23, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
Mussolini’s Tentacles, Neon Heater Gallery, Findlay, OH
Electric Picnic, Jorgenson Center for Performing Arts, Storrs, CT
Red Picnic, World Performance Forum, Chicago, IL
The King & The Cyclops, Diverse Universe Performance Festival, Pärnu, Estonia
Triangle Eyes, Clio Art Fair, New York, NY
2022
Envy Envy, Edge Zones, Miami, FL
PG Allin, Flowerbox, Miami, FL
Skull Tower 4E: Nosferatu, Chashama, Anita’s Way, New York, NY
2021
Dave & Busters, Flower Box Projects, Miami, FL
Please Touch the Hamburgers, Zoom hosted by Sandwich Club Summit, Fayetteville, AR
Oily Metal, Twitch hosted by EmoFest, Chicago, IL
2020
Unboxing Performance, Zoom hosted by UCONN Art & Art History Club, Storrs, CT
Black Metal Pac-Man, Instagram Live hosted by The Living Room, New Haven, CT
2019
Winner Winner Chicken Sinner, Flower Box Projects, Miami, FL
Swamp of Love, New Bedford Museum of Art, New Bedford, MA
2018
Rad Dudes, Neon Heater at River House Arts, Toledo, OH
Post Brunch, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
Rad Dudes, Dusk Lit Festival, Sugar Loaf, NY
Rad Dudes, The Webster Court Project, Newton Center, MA
Arriving Monday, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
Language is Magic, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Rad Dudes, Flower Box Projects, Miami, FL
Strongest Dude, Flower Box Projects, Miami, FL
2017
Ghost of a Wall, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
Ghost of a Wall, UConn Winter Puppet Slam, Studio Theater, Storrs, CT
Neo-American Pre-Teen Day-Dream, commissioned by Artspace, New Haven, CT
Blue Blooded American, commissioned by Artspace, New Haven, CT
Red Blooded American, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2016
A Dude Descending Staircase, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
Temple of Pizza, Art Space Windham Gallery, Willimantic, CT
Rising Crust, No Pop Gallery, New Haven, CT
Candle in My Carrot, UConn Winter Puppet Slam, Studio Theater, Storrs, CT
2015 Pizza Hulk, City Wide Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Kitchen Island: Celeste Pizza, City Wide Open Studios, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Cereal Cave: The Performance, Glass Box Gallery, Seattle, WA
2014
Balanced Breakfast, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
Kitchen After Dark, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Surreal Picnic, Park(ing) Day, Greater Hartford Art Council, Hartford, CT
2013
#goplayintheyard, Park(ing) Day, Greater Hartford Art Council, Hartford, CT
2012
Slime, Broad Street Gallery Hartford, CT
Iron John 2.0, NOW ON, ATOM Space, Hartford, CT
2011
Playing on the Stairs, City Wide Open Studios, New Haven, CT
Doppelganger Banger, Artspace Alternative Spaces, New Haven, CT
The Works of Jeremy Milk Toast, Artspace Alternative Spaces, New Haven, CT
2010
Blueberry, New Media, Sex, and Culture in the 21st Century, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
The Making of John O’Donnell’s Front Yard Monster Movie Magic Show, Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
Receptionist, SERA (Social Experiments Relational Acts), Artspace Alternative Spaces, New Haven, CT
Radical Dinosaur Maniac Time Machine Gun Shark, Jorgensen Center for Performing Arts, Storrs, CT
2009
Domestic Ignorance/Domestic Bliss, Soho20 Gallery, New York, NY
TNPDPSSF (The North Philadelphia Puberty Survivors Support Forum), Flux Space, Philadelphia, PA
Film Festivals
2022
Microwave Coven Presents: Animation Screening, AV Expression Warehouse, San Antonio, TX
2009
30 Second Film Festival, organized by Art House Co-Op, Atlanta, GA
2008
Movica 2008: New Vision, Hot Light and Fluid Pictures, Saint Louis, MO
LE:60 Lumen Eclipse, One Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA
2007
Vertical Hold Film Festival, Ellensburg, WA
1,2,3 Seconds, curated by strikingmechanism.com, online
Laugh, Cry, Be Poetic, Get Crazy, Venturous Vanguard Video Festival 2007, Mission College, Cal State Northridge University, Northridge, CA; Echo Park Film Center, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA; Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, MN, curated by Shoshanna Brand
2006
OUTVIDEO 2006, Film festival shown around Russia. Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Volgograd, Voronezh,
Irkutsk, Kaliningrad, Krasnodar, Perm, Rostov-on-Don, Riazan’, Samara, Sochi, Ufa, Yaroslavl’,
Yekaterinburg and Surgut, Russia
Traveling Group Exhibitions/Trade Portfolios
2023
42th Mini Print International of Cadaques
Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
Wingfield Barns Gallery, Wingfield, United Kingdom
Fundació Tharrats d’Art Gràfic, Pineda De Mar, Spain
Step by Step, 12th Annual Bad Acid Print Portfolio Exchange
Balsamo Warehouse, Columbia, MO
Columbia Art League Gallery, Columbia, MO
2022
Tie That Binds, Print Portfolio Exchange
Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland Institute of Art, OH
One Hour Only: Philip Guston
OHO Dixwell, New Haven, CT
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
The College of Southern Nevada, Henderson, NV
Mid-American Print Conference, Kent, OH
Terhune Gallery, Owens Community College, Perrysburg, OH
2021
Tie That Binds, Print Portfolio Exchange
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
Cut it Out, 10th Annual Bad Acid Print Portfolio Exchange
Balsamo Warehouse, Columbia, MO
Columbia Art League Gallery, Columbia, MO
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
Stockton University, NJ
2020
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
Misericordia University, PA,
Western Illinois University, IL
2019
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
Rock Island Arsenal Museum, Rock Island County, IL
Fort Meigs, Perryburg, OH
Flatiron Building, New York, NY
Emporia Arts Center, Emporia, KS
Artist Archives of Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
Manhattan College, New York, NY
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
2018
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
Wolfe Gallery, Maumee Valley Country Day School, Toledo, OH
Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museum, Fremont, OH
American Frame, Maumee, OH
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Washington Center, VET Initiative Networking Reception, Washington DC
Ronald Reagan National Airport, Chantilly, VA
Army Transportation Museum, Fort Eustis, VA
38th Mini Print International of Cadaques
Taller Galleria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
Wingfield Barns Gallery, Wingfield, United Kingdom
Fundació Tharrats d’Art Gràfic, Pineda De Mar, Spain
2017
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations
Stephanie Tubbs Jones Gallery, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Cleveland, OH
Diane Kidd Gallery, Tiffin University, Tiffin, OH
2016 Dialogos y Interpretaciones IV, International Portfolio Exchange
Ann Peppers Hall, Redlands University, Redlands CA
Mission Grafica, San Francisco, CA,
University Libraries Gallery University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
2015
Dialogos y Interpretaciones IV, International Portfolio Exchange
CAS Gallery, Miami University, Miami, FL
Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA
Universidad de Caldas, Palacio de Belles Artes, Manizales, Colombia
Locklear Hall, UNC- Pembroke, Pembroke, NC
2009
83rd Annual International Competition: Printmaking.
Jurors: Shelly Bancroft and Peter Nesbett, co-publishers of Art on Paper magazine
The Print Center, Philadelphia; PA
LBI Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
The Sketchbook Project 3, curated by Art House Coop, Atlanta, GA
Art House Coop, Atlanta, GA
Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC
Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL
3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Soulard Art Market, St Louis, MO
Museum of Design Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
2008 IPCNY New Prints 2008, Juror: Jane Hammond
New York School of Interior Design, New York, NY
IPCNY, International Print Center, New York, NY
Master Printer invitations
2024 University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Commence Print, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2023 University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Commence Print, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2022 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Monothon, Norwalk, CT
2021 University of Connecticut School of Fine Arts Commence Print, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2019 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Monothon, Norwalk, CT
Counter Proof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2018 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Monothon, Norwalk, CT
Counter Proof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2017 Open Studios, Oxbow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Counter Proof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2016 Announcements for Shakespeare First Folio, Benton Museum, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
2015 Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Monothon, Norwalk, CT
Visiting Artist Invitations
2023 Artist Talk, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Artist Talk, Staples School, Westport, CT
2022 Lecturer, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Artist Talk, Starr Library, Rhinebeck, NY
Artist Talk, UCONN Art & Art History Club, Storrs, CT
2020 Artist Talk, The Living Room, New Haven, CT
2019 Lecturer, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
Critic, UMass Dartmouth College of Visual and Performing Arts, New Bedford, MA
Exhibition Juror, Alexander A. Goldfarb Juried Student Art Exhibition, Hartford Art School, West Hartford, CT
2018 Lecturer and Critic, Department of Art & Design University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Exhibition Juror, Foster Gallery, 61st Annual Student Art Show, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI
Artist Talk, Oxbow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Lecturer, School of Art, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH
Lecturer, Connecticut Arts Day, Department of Economic and Community Development, Hartford, CT
Visiting Critic, Department of Art, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT
2017 Lecturer and Critic, Visual Arts Graduate Program, School of Art and Design at SUNY Purchase, NY
Artist Talk , Oxbow School of Art & Artist Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Panelist, PRINTS THAT WORK Exhibition Panel Discussion. Housatonic Art Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Speed Networking Participant, Linking Artists Opportunities, Artspace, New Haven, CT
Participant, Monster Drawing Rally, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2016 Lecturer and Critic, Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Lecturer, Printmaking Department, School of the Museum of Fine Arts-Tufts, Boston, MA
Lecturer, Artist talk via Skype to advanced printmaking students, Kent State, Kent, OH
2015 Lecturer, Sculpture Department, Wright State, Dayton, OH
2011 Lecturer, Studio Arts Program, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
Exhibition Juror, Three Rivers Community College, Norwich, CT
Lecturer, Quinebaug Valley Community College, Danielson, CT
2010 Lecturer, Columbia University, New York, NY
Panelist, The Ivory Tower, panel organized by Sharon Butler, Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Juror, I-Park Visual Arts Residency, East Haddam, CT
Collections
Anne Coffin, Founder of International Print Center New York, NY
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
EVAC Project: Experiencing Veterans and Artist Collaborations, Perrysburg, OH
Osten Museum of Drawing, Skopje, North Macedonia
Starr Library, Reinbeck, NY
Faro Cabo Mayor Art Center, Cantabria, Spain
Collection of Taller Experimental de Obra Múltiple Contemporánea, Pontevedra, Spain
Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
Mid America Print Council, Kansas City, MO
Department of Special Collections and Archive, Kent State University, Kent, OH
Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA
LMN Architects, Seattle, WA
Polish Fulbright Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
Akademia Sztuk Pieknych, Krakow, Poland
London College of Communications, London, England
Info Graphics Lab, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Southern Graphics Council, SCG Collection, Athens, GA
Gonzaga University Print Collection, Spokane, WA
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
Kohler Library Collection, Madison, WI
Jundt Art Museum Print Collection, Spokane, WA
Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art, Great Falls, MT
Counter Proof Press, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Fundació Tharrats d’Art Gràfic, Pineda De Mar, Spain
Universidad de Caldas, Palacio de Belles Artes, Manizales, Colombia
LBI Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ
Oxbow School of Art & Artist Residency Print Shop Collection, Saugatuck, MI
CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
Art House Coop, Atlanta, GA
Eric Ben-Kiki, EBK Gallery, Hartford, CT
Exhibitions Curated
2024 ÆMPIRE, Artspace Gallery, Hartford, CT
Weird Music Night, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2018 Conversation Versions, Co-Curated with Breanne Trammell, Blue House Gallery, Dayton, OH
2016 Multiple Impression, Group Exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2014 Smart Painting, Group Exhibition, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2013 Systematic Relation, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Scalene Evidence, Group Exhibition, Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester, CT
Fierce! William Villalongo, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2012 Diagram, Group Exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Making Tracks, Laurie Frick, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
VTurn James Holland & Alycia Bright Holland: Low Lives, 4, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Such is Your Luck, Steffani Jemison, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Ego Loser, Johannes DeYoung, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Half Off, Phil Lique and Laura Marsh, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
What Manner of Men?, Brad Guarino, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Closed Circle, Ronnie Rysz, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Skull Couch, Blake Shirley, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Night Hunter, Stacey Steers, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Love You More Than Life, Susan Classen-Sullivan, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Exhibitions Organized
2012 CRIME, Alix Lambert, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Skin in the Game, Dave Sinaguglia, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
An Unnamed Flowing, Nowhere, Samuel Rowlett, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
ENCORE, Ken Morgan, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Capitalism Works For Me! True/False, Steve Lambert, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2011 Tinsae, Eric Gottesman, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Guts and Glory, Jarret Min Davis, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Senseless Utility: Constructions, Michael Donovan, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Light in Sound: Concealed, Amy Theiss Giese, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Space as Inventory, space as invention. Asuka Goto, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
In and Out, Nicole Ratos Emerson, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Other Stories/Historias Bravas, Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
RUNawayHOME, Aricoco, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Street Alchemy 2.0, Poster Boy Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Amy Jean Porter & Matthea Harvey, Making of ‘Lamb’, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2010 CHANGE: Juried Exhibition of Visual Art created by Artists with Disabilities, Group Exhibition,
Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT
From Stone House to Glass House: Preserving Connecticut History, Group Exhibition, Group Exhibition,
Commission on Culture and Tourism Gallery, Hartford, CT
2009 Portrait of America, Group Exhibition, CTT Gallery, Hartford, CT
Living Modern in New Canaan, Group Exhibition, CTT Gallery, Hartford, CT
2008 Touring Connecticut, Group Exhibition, CTT Gallery, Hartford, CT
One Thing, Group Exhibition, CTT Gallery, Hartford, CT
Articles and Reviews
Wilkinson, Don. “'Turtles All The Way Up' Comes Out Of Its Shell” South Coast Today (14 Feb. 2019) https://www.southcoasttoday.com/entertainmentlife/20190214/turtles-all-way-up-comes-out-of-its-shell.
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