Clayton Merrell 


 

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,
William Bailey, Mel Bochner, Natalie Charkow, Rochelle Feinstein, Andrew Forge, Richard Lytle,
Sam Messer, Sylvia Mangold, David Pease, John Walker

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,
Pat Oleszko, Tom Otterness, Mira Schor, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson
 

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
(the José Martí National Library) in
Havana, Cuba. 

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
(Juror’s Award and Purchase Prize)

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
Venkatasubban, Sharmila.  “Sidelong Glances”  In Pittsburgh April 2001

The William and Mary Review
Spring 2006 (forthcoming)

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
 

 
Media

 

Bayer Arts Magazine, WQED FM, Pittsburgh PA Sat. Sep 10, 2005 (20 minute interview)

New Arts Program,  45 minute interview broadcast on BCTV Reading PA, DUTV Philadelphia,
Neighborhood Network (Channel 57) Manhattan,  Sep 13, 2005

KSFR Public Television, Santa Fe NM, October 14, 2004 (40 minute interview)

 

Selected Honors and Awards

 

2005        Nominated for Tiffany Foundation Grant

2005          Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Artist of the Year

2004-05   Roswell Artist-in-Residence Fellowship

2002        Full Fellowship Grant from Vermont Studio Center

2002        Berkman Grant – Carnegie Mellon University

2001        Nominated for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / Howard Heinz Foundation / Laurel Foundation
Creative Achievement Award

2000         Basil H Alkazzi Award Finalist

1995-96    Fulbright/Garcia-Robles Grant

1995         Selected for residency at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (declined)

1995         Yale / Skowhegan Annual Matching Fellowship

1995         Binney & Smith Emerging Artist of the Year Award

1993&94    Liquitex  Grants

 

Current Gallery Representation     

                

Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA

Plus Gallery, Denver CO

Printed Matter, New York NY

 

 

Commissions

 

Freemarkets On-Line, Brussels, Belgium: cycle of six paintings, 1999

Marriott Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA: series of eight paintings, 2004


Collections 

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell NM

The Bayer Corporate Collection of Contemporary Art, North America

Binney and Smith Inc., Easton PA

Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY

Durr Associates, Pittsburgh PA

Freemarkets On-Line, Pittsburgh PA and Brussels, Belgium

Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon PA

Truman State University, Kirksville MO

Marriott Corporation

U. S. Department of the Interior

United States Embassy, Belmopán Belize

& over 200 private collections worldwide

 

Appointments

 

1998-05     Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA

                 Associate Professor of Art, courses taught include: Graduate Integrative Seminar, Senior Projects, Painting, Drawing,  Paint/Draw, Concept Studio – Time & Space, Systems & Processes, Advanced Painting Materials & Techniques, Visual Systems,  Art & Chemistry of Color

1996-98     Truman State University, Kirksville MO

                 Visiting Artist / Assistant Professor of Art, courses taught include:

                 Advanced Painting, Advanced Drawing, Design, Survey of Contemporary Art

1997         Joseph Baldwin Academy, Kirksville MO

                 Taught: Studio Art Intensive Course

1994         Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk CT

                 Teaching Assistant to Emily Cheng and David Humphreys, painting

1994         Yale School of Art, New Haven CT

                 Teaching Assistant to Rochelle Feinstein, lithography
 

 

Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations at Academic Conferences 

2006         Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA    
2006         West Virginia University, Morgantown WV
2006         New Arts Program, Kutztown PA
2005         Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM
2004         National Science Foundation Workshop in Chemistry and Art, Millersville University, Millersville PA-
                Workshop Participant
2003         SECAC Conference, Raleigh NC  paper presented: Two Perspectives on Some Shifting Scopic Regimes
                (written and presented in collaboration with Lance Winn)
2003         Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster PA
2003            Kent State University, Kent OH
2003            Fairmont State University, Fairmont WV
2002
         Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia PA
2002         Brigham Young University, Provo UT
2002            Association of Art Historians Conference: Culture/Capital/ColonyThe University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
                paper presented:
Dissembling Narratives and Self-Devouring Facts
2002            The University of Akron, Akron OH
2001         San Bernardino State University, San Bernardino CA
2001         Northern Illinois University, De Kalb IL
2000         Carnegie International/Artists on Art Series, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2000         Allegheny College, Meadville PA
2000         Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA
1999            University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY
1999         Manhattanville College, Purchase NY
1998         School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
1998         Maine College of Art, Portland ME
1997         University of Iowa, Graduate Painting Program, Iowa City IA
1997            NAHE Annual Conference, paper presented: “Pre-Columbian Cartography: Of Minds, Maps and Mirrors”

 

Advisory Boards, etc.

2006         Roswell Artist-in-Residence Foundation, Roswell, NM.  Selection Committee Member

2003         Blue Mountain Center, NY, NY.  member of Artist Advisory Board/Selections Committee.

 

 

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