Clayton Colvin

BIOGRAPHY

Clayton Colvin Biography

Education

2006
University of Alabama, MFA, Tuscaloosa, AL

2004
University of Alabama, MA in Education, Birmingham, AL

1999
New York University, BA, New York, NY 

Solo Exhibitions

2014
Put Down Your Stars, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
PULSE art fair, beta pictoris gallery, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Slow Your Instrument, Launch F18 gallery, New York, NY
And Beyond, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Al

2013

All magic is dangerous, material, Memphis, TN
Sewing up the sea, raumZwei, Birmingham, AL

2012
Space Mountain, Memphis TN

2011
Space Mountain, beta pictoris, Birmingham, AL

2010
Fiction, Eichold Gallery, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
Fiction, Caseworks, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN

2009
Fiction, Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL

2008
Pier and Ocean and Main St., Amanda Schedler Fine Art
Birmingham, AL 2008! Pier and Ocean and Main St., Material, Memphis TN

2007
Satellite Gone, The Upper Room, Birmingham, AL

2005
Space Cadet, Material, Memphis, TN

Group Exhibitions

2014

BAUHAUSBUCHER, Rochester Museum of Fine Art, Rochester, NH
Front and Center, Mobile, Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2013
(Untitled) Formalisms, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, CA
From Black & White to a World of Color, Alabama Power Archives Museum, Birmingham, AL

2012
A Dialogue in Abstraction, Curating Contemporary, Curated by Brian Edmonds
Pulp2, beta pictoris, Birmingham, AL
Today’s Visual Language: Southern Abstraction, a Fresh Look, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

2011
Summer Selections, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL
Pulp, beta pictoris, Birmingham, AL
is that a painting, raumZwei, Birmingham, AL
Drawing on Alabama 2011, juror Carter Foster, Curator, and Curator of Drawings Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Masterpieces Center Stage: Artistic Expressions Celebrating 25 years of Shakespeare in         Montgomery Alabama, Berman Museum, Anniston, AL
Mobile, Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
Littlehouse Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL
Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL
ARTPAPERS: 11th annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta, GA

2010

Gulf Arts Now, Space 301 Off Centre, Mobile, AL
TKAM 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird-Awakening America's Conscience, organized by Alabama Humanities Foundation,Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery, AL
The Price Is Right, David Lusk gallery, Memphis TN

2009
Drawing on Alabama 2009, Biggins Hall, Auburn, Al, Space 301, Mobile, AL juror Maura Lynch, curatorial assistant, Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Sketchbook Project Volume 3, Art House Gallery, Atlanta , GA
Museum of Contemporary Art DC
Washington DC, Chris' Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA
Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA
AntenaGallery, Chicago, IL
Soulard Art Market, ST Louis MO
3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), Atlanta, GA

2008

ARTPAPERS: 9th annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta, GA

2007

le papier (part) deux: group exhibition of works on paper, Geschiedle, Chicago, IL
FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE, (curated by AnatEbgi and Jen DeNike), McMurdo Station, Antractica, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
SuckaFreeJams, the Remainder Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Dia de los Muertos, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, AL
Popular Digest, Clayton V. Colvin and Pat Snow, Barehands,Birmingham, AL

2006
Wonder Twin Powers, Activate, Gescheidle Chicago, IL
IRAQ, Gulfspace, Fairhope, AL
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE, (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
Made in Birmingham, Space 301, Mobile, AL
Unselfconscious Alabama, A Farmhouse Gallery, Seale, AL
Politics, Politics: Questions for the New South Series, Space-One-Eleven, Bham, AL
Contour, Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham, AL

2005
Birmingham’s Best Young Arists, Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham, AL
Night 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, Frisbee, Miami Beach, FL
Queen’s Nail Annex, San Francisco, CA
UAB Faculty Show, Soon-Bok Lee Sellers Art Gallery, Hoover, AL
Postcards from the Gulf, Gulf Art Space, Fairhope, AL

2004
5 from 4, Birmingham Art Association, Birmingham, AL
Reoccurring Exchange, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Dirty South!, Worm-hole Laboratory, Miami, FL

2003
Fear and Consumption, ASL Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
Chaos, Turncoats, New Orleans, LA
Magic City Art Connection, Lynn Park, Birmingham, AL

2002

G.O.R.A. Inmotus, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, AL

2000

No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Curatorial Projects

2013

Tune In, Paint Out, Curating Contemporary

2010
Werk, UAB Visual Arts Gallery

2009

Poems and Paintings from Memphis, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts
Alvin C. Sella, recent paintings, Space 301, Mobile, AL

2008

Registering the Invisible, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile, AL
Southern Gothic Now, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile, AL
Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile, AL
A Time for War or Peace: Art that confronts the realities of the present, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile, AL
Life is But Dream: Contemporary figurative photography, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile, AL

2007

Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy, Space 301 off-centre, Mobile,AL
..and you must make a friend of horror, The Upper Room, Birmingham, AL
Art and Place 1: Place as Muse, Space 301, Mobile, AL

2006

Information in Formation, UAB Visual Art Gallery, Birmingham, AL (co-curated with Brett Levine)

Public Programs and Presentations

2014

Studio visits and lecture in conjunction with exhibition “And Beyond”, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL

2013

Studio visit and lecture for UAB B.A. Capstone: Contemporary Art Practices 2010! Juror, Student Exhibition, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA

2010

Gallery Talk, Faculty Exhibition, Gadsden Community College, Gadsden, AL
Gallery Talk, Spring Hill College

2008

Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN
Re-imagining Architecture, a discussion with guest Sarah Urist Green, guest curator of the Space 301 exhibition, Amongst the Ruins
Visiting Artist Lecture, “Field Recordings”,Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL
Registering the Invisible, an event featuring Univ. of Alabama at Birmingham Art Historian Dr. Jessica Dallow and artists Ashley Oates, Brian Evans, and Rich Curtis Southern Gothic Now, a gallery talk featuring artists from the exhibition
Alvin C. Sella’s Recent Paintings Considered, a gallery talk discussing Sella’s paintings and legacy as an artist and educator
Life is But a Dream: The Ethics of Photojournalism, a roundtable discussion with Mobile Press-Register staff photographers Life is But a Dream: the Poetic nature of Photography, a discussion with University of South Alabama’s Rita Skiadas

2007

GreenSpace, Space 301, a roundtable discussion with Dr David Nelson(Univ. of  South Alabama Biologist), Harry DeLorme (Telfair Museum Curator of  Education), and Cassi Calloway (of the Mobile Bay Keapers) Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy, a roundtable discussion featuring Univ. of  South Alabama’s Dr. Elizabeth Richards, and exhibiting artists Pinky Bass, Matt  Posey, and Alex Podesta

2006
Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the living Arts), a roundtable with Dr. Jessica Dallow, Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, and Chris Lawson
WHIL 91.3 FM (NPR) Spring Hill College, discussion of Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts)