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Education
1995 Yale School of Art, New Haven CT M.F.A., painting and printmaking
Studied with: Frances Barth, Lois
Conner, Richard Ryan, Steve Sheehan, Pat Adams, 1993 Brigham Young University, Provo UT B.F.A., painting, Magna Cum Laude 1988 Chatauqua School of Art, Chatauqua NY Studied with: Deborah Rosenthal and Don Kimes 1987 Parson's School of Design/New School for Social Research, Paris & Sireuil, France 1986 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Williamstown PA
Grants and Residencies
2006-07 Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA Independent Project Artist 2006 Center for Arts in Society, Pittsburgh PA Funding to support travel and photographic project in Oaxaca, Mexico 2004-05 Roswell Artist-In Residence Foundation, Roswell NM Twelve month fellowship/grant 2004 Pro-Arts Artist Opportunity Grant Funding to support travel, shipping and exhibition expenses 2003 Anderson Center, Red Wing MN One month residency and fellowship/grant 2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT One month residency and full fellowship/grant 2002 Carnegie-Mellon University Berkman Fund Grant Funding for travel and research in China 2000 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY One month residency 1999 Buffalo National River, Buffalo National River AK Artist-In-Residence for one month 1998 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz NY One month residency 1995-96 Fulbright / García Robles Grant, Oaxaca, Mexico Twelve month funding for creative work and research on semiotics of pre-Columbian cartography 1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
Residency/fellowship. Worked with:
Mel Chin, Jean Cohen, Mary Heilmann, Alex Katz, Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions 2007 Courthouse Gallery, Lake George NY (upcoming) 2006 Plus Gallery, Denver CO (upcoming) 2006 Shatter, New Arts Program, Kutztown PA 2005 Artist of the Year Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pgh. PA 2005 Pieces of the Desert, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM 2005 After, Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins CO 2004 Clayton Merrell & Stephen Pentak, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2003 Once/Again Gallery 1071, Chico CA 2003 The Dome of the Earth and the Surface of the Sky, Fairmont State College, Fairmont WV 2002 Pieces of the Earth and Sky, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA 2002 Fragments of the Earth, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver CO 2001 Landscapes, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon PA 2001 Some Things in Which I Found my Eyes, AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2000 Clayton Merrell & Stephen Pentak, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2000 The Sky and the Earth, Whole and in Parts, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA 1999 The Cenote Series, Gallery 225, Raleigh NC 1999 Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase NY 1998 Sky Paintings, Truman State University, Kirksville MO 1996 Paisajes Oaxaqueños, Ex-convento de San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico 1995 MFA Thesis Show, New Haven CT 1993 The Venezuela Drawings Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City UT 1993 The Venezuela Paintings, Wilkinson Gallery, Provo UT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 AIR: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM (upcoming) 2006 Notebook, Current Gallery and Artist Cooperative, Baltimore MD 2006 Displaced, Castelliotissa Gallery, Nicosia Cyprus 2006 Art of the State, State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA 2005 Photography Plus, Curator: Robert Raczca, Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville PA 2005 Lessedra International Print Show, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria 2005 Inkjet, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2004 Roswell Artist-in Residence Exhibition, SFCC Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe NM 2004 Overlay, Collaborative project exhibited at online project gallery 202c.com 2004 War Room, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA 2004 Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Show, TRAF Gallery, Pittsburgh PA (best of show award) 2004 Picante, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens GA 2004 Supervalitragilisticexelluminaceous, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh PA 2003 Rethinking Landscape, Curator: Kristy Krivitsky, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster PA 2003 Wall Drug, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver CO 2003 Nicosia, The U.S. Consulate in Cyprus, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus 2003 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY 2003 Annual Show, Anderson Center Art Galleries, Red Wing, MN 2002 Currents, Curator: James Schaub, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson AZ
2002 Toxic Landscapes,
Curator: Tim Blunk, main gallery of the
Bibliotéca Nacional José Martí 2002 Young Painters 2002, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford OH 2002 Utah Alternative 2002, Curator: Lenka Konopasek, Wells Fargo Bldg. SLC UT 2001 Art Educates the World, exhibition and auction at Southeby’s New York NY curated by: Dan Cameron, Laura Hoptman, and Klaus Kertess 2001 Toxic Landscapes, Puffin Cultural Forum, Curator: Tim Blunk, Teaneck NJ 2001 Painting: Inside Outside & Beyond, Denison Univ. Art Gallery, Granville OH 2001 Skowhegan Alumni Show and Auction, Knoedler Gallery, New York NY 2001 Photographs By Artists, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA 2000 Science and Art, Yorkarts, York PA 2000 From Where We Stand: An Exhibition of Environments, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 2000 8-Hour Drawings, Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville PA 2000 Retablos, The Print Center, Philadelphia PA 2000 15xxx, Curator: Robert Raczca, University of Akron, Akron OH 2000 Pittsburgh Biennial, Curators: Vicky Clark and Robert Raczka, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA 2000 Auto/Visual/Indi/Visible, Miller Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA 2000 Off the Walls, Curator: Vicky Clark, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA 2000 A Community, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Salt Lake City UT 2000 All Media Show 2000, Curator: Jane Farver, Arlington Art Center, Arlington VA 1999 Ma(r)king, Curator: Elaine King, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ 1999 Summer Show, Curator: Emily Eddins, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City MO 1999 CMU Faculty Show, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh PA 1999 Elizabethtown 9th Annual, Elizabethtown PA 1998 A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York NY
1998 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
88th Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
1997 Gráficas Magníficas de Oaxaca, Curator: Curlee Holton, Lafayette College Gallery, Easton PA 1997 Greater Midwest International, CMSU, Warrensburg MO 1996 Emerging Artists of the Year, ACA Exhibition Space, New York NY 1995 Connecticut Annual, Stamford Museum, Stamford CT 1993&94 Yale Graduate Student Show, New Haven CT 1993 Ellis, Merrell & Slaugh, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City UT 1993 Utah '93, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT
Bibliography/Publications
Allard, Jean-Guy. “Toxic Landscapes Exhibition” Granma Internacional, (Havana, Cuba) June 21, 2002 Art Educates the World. Digital catalog of exhibition and auction at Sotheby’s, NY Art in America May 1995, p. 74 (image only) ArtNow Philadelphia/Mid-Atlantic Feb. 2001 p. 14 (image) Art World Digest. The “Seed Project” Issue, Fall 2006 Aurand, Martin, with illustrations by Clayton Merrell. Pittsburgh Right Before Our Eyes: The Spectator and the Topographical City. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2006 Bauer, Dan and Holton, Curlee. Graficas Magnificas de Oaxaca. Exhibition Catalog, 1997 Carnegie Mellon Magazine Volume 19 #1, fall 2000, p.1 Clayton Merrell. Exhibition Catalog published by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2005 Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism. Critical Forum Series Volume 6, Jonathan Harris editor, Liverpool University Press + Tate Liverpool, Liverpool UK, 2003 DiFonzo, Carla. “Rethinking Landscape” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal August 29th 2003 Donohoe, Victoria. The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Sept. 8, 2002 Hilgeman, Melissa. “Roswell Artist-In-Residence” Roswell Daily Record May 15, 2005 Jones, Simone. Art Papers Magazine May/June 2001, p. 46-47 Miller, Donald. “Artfully Associated” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Weekend Magazine 25 Sept. 1998, p.14-15 Monteleone, Michaelangelo. In Pittsburgh Apr. 19, 2000, p.34 New American Paintings Vol. 17, August 1998 New American Paintings Vol. 39, April 2002 Nicosia. Catalog published by the ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Dept. of State, Washington D.C., February 2004 Notebook. Book project produced and published by Creative Capitalism, Baltimore MD 2006 O’Sullivan, Michael. “On Exhibit” The Washington Post Feb. 4, 2000 Paisajes Tóxicos:Artistas Examinen el Ambiente. Catalog of exhibition at the Bibliotéca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba Pittsburgh Biennial. Exhibition Catalog, published by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA, 2000 Shaw, Kurt. “Concept Exhibition Goes Way Beyond Landscape Painting.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Sep. 26, 2004 Shaw, Kurt. “Earth and Sky: Artist of the Year Re-envisions Landscape.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Oct. 23, 2005 Shaw, Kurt. “Pair of Shows Comment on Environmental Issues” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Nov. 16, 2001 Shearing, Graham. “Thoughts on Landscape” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr. 28, 2000 Thomas, Mary. “Artist of Year’s Works Sublime.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct. 26, 2005 Thomas, Mary. “Art Review.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct. 14, 2000 Thomas, Mary. “High Marks.” Pittsburgh Tribune Review Mar. 20, 1999 Thomas, Mary. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 12, 2001
Venkatasubban, Sharmila. “Defined by Struggle” In
Pittsburgh Vol. 17 #9, Oct. 4, 2000, p. 24 Wolf, Frances. “Border Territory.” catalog essay in Science And Art, York PA, 2000 Yale Literary Magazine Spring 1995, Vol. VII, No. 1
Yale Literary Magazine
Fall 1994, Vol. VI
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