ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Clayton F. Merrell grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, and Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. He studied painting and printmaking at Brigham Young University, and the Yale School of Art, where he received an MFA in 1995.  He received a Fulbright Grant to Oaxaca, Mexico in 1996-97.  His work is exhibited widely, with recent solo exhibitions at: The Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM; Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA; and the Lincoln Center for the Arts, Fort Collins, CO.  He was the 2005 “Artist-of the Year” at The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA. He has received awards and grants from the Pro-Arts Foundation, Skowhegan, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Blue Mountain Center, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Center for the Arts in Society.  During 2004-05 he was a fellow at the Roswell Artist-in Residence Foundation.  He is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Carnegie Mellon University.