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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
"American Primatives," Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, May, 2014
"American Primatives," Canzani Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, Sept, 2012
“Protected Comforts:The Sculpture of Todd Slaughter,” Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, April, 2002
“Galaxy Clusters: Things We Gather” Cleveland Center For Contemporary Art, Cleveland, February, 1999, OH
“Comfort Zones: Domestic Galaxies,” Art Museum of The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, November, 1998
Magda Bellotti Galeria, Algeciras, Spain, 1997
“Models of Galaxy Clusters: Domestic Comforts,” Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, September, 1996
“8:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m., August 7, 1993, Asilah, Morocco,” 1993
“Landscapehats,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, 1993
”Magda Bellotti Galeria, Algeciras, Spain, 1993
“Going There and Being There,55 Mercer Gallery, New York City, NY, 1992
Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, OH, November, 1989
55 Mercer Gallery, New York City, NY, 1989
Anton Gallery, Washington DC, 1988
Special Project, P.S. 1-Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY, Feb.- May, 1986
Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1986
Ohio State University, Lancaster, OH, 1985
Anton Gallery, Washington DC, 1985
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI, 1983
Anton Gallery, Washington DC,1982
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
“Transference, ”Urban Art Space, Columbus, Oh. Dept of Art faculty exhibition, Oct-Nov, 2019.
“Emanate,” Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, Oh, Sept-Oct 2019
Kent State University, CVA Gallery, May, 2019
2018 SculptureX Exhibition, Igniting Change;, 2018, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green State University
“Positive /Negative,”, curator Anja Foerschner ,Getty Museum; Slocumb Galleries, East TN State University, 2017
"In League," an installation in collaboration with Matt Flegle, They Are Us, Urban Art Space, Columbus, 2013
“Inosculation,” The Department of Art Faculty and Alumni, Urban Arts Space, The Ohio State University, Columbus
"Gesture" exhibition. Hopkins Gallery, Feb 2010
"Water Under Siege: The Politics, Pollution, and Commodification of Water" Film Festival, November, 2009, Des Moines, Iowa
"Ways of Knowing Water," Urban Arts Space, Columbus, Oh, 2008
"New Horizons:Rewards of Time and Place," Southern Ohio Museum , Portsmouth, and Riffe Ohio Arts Council Gallery, Columbus, 2007.
“Terrestrial Forces,” Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, October, 2004
“Twenty@20”, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Mempis, TN, June-September, 2002
“2001 Biennal Exhibition of Public Art”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, May- November, 2001
“{Defining Structures},” Plaza Gallery, Charlotte, NC, February-September, 1998
Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Virginia, 1997
“Salt, Paprika, Carbon, Sulfur Archives,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, exhibition loan, 1997 to present
“Food for Thought,” John Kohler Gallery, Sheboygan, WI, 1996
William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH, January, 1996
Cleveland State University Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1996
“Hands,” Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH, 1995
“The Language of Place,” The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, and the Riffe Center, Columbus, OH, 1994
Artists Space, New York, NY, September, 1994
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 1993
“American Pluralism,” Amsterdam, London, Glasgow, Budapest, Dresden, 1992-93
“Hospice,” for GCAC Fellowship Exhibition, Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH, 1991
Toni Birckhead Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, January, 1991
“Mostra Internacional D’art Contemporani,” Centre D’Art La Rectoria, Barcelona, Spain, 1990
“Ohio Selection,” Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH, 1989
Toni Birckhead Gallery, 1989
“Rock Islands” for “New Works/ Biennial II,” The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1988; Riffe Gallery, Columbus, OH,1989; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 1989
“Structures on the Wall,” N.A.M.E., Chicago, ILL, 1987
“Abstractions”Toni Birckhead Gallery, 1986
“Contemporary Visions-1985,” Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, ILL, 1985
“State of Ohio Sculpture,” The Sculpture Center, New York, NY; Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 1985
Chicago Sculpture International, Navy Pier, Frumkin/Struve Gallery, 1984
“Sculpture,Works by Seven Ohio Sculptors”, curate by Lance Kinz for Nationwide Gallery, 1984
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 1983
J.C. Riedel Gallery, New York, NY, 1982
COMMISSION AND COLLECTIONS
“Mortarboard”, a permanent installation, Franklin University, Columbus, OH, completion date is November, 2002, $250,000.
“The Body of Lake Michigan”, a permanent sited installation, Midway Airport, Chicago, IL., $180,000.
“Watch House,” a permanent, sited installation, Dublin, OH, 1998, $175,000.
“Hand and Ball, El Cabrito Ridge,” Tarifa/Algeciras, Spain,1994-97, permanent, sited installation overlooking Strait of Gibraltar, $300,000.
“Models of Galaxy Clusters: Domestic Comforts,” commission for temporary installation, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, 1996
“Blue Glass Serpent Canopy for Broad Street Bridge,”commission for preliminary and second stage design and engineering proposal, Greater Columbus Art Council, City of Columbus, 1995-96, $33,000 structural design.
“Comfort Zone,” sculpture commission, Akron Art Museum, 1993
“Landscapehats,” sculpture installation commission, Wexner Center for the Arts, 1993
“Vanitas,” Carnegie Metropolitan Library, permanent installation, OH, 1992, 150,000.
Prudential, collection, Newark, NJ, 1986
Central Trust Company, collection, Cincinnati, OH, 1986
Cuyahoga County Airport, collection, Cleveland, OH, 1984
W.R.C., Inc., collection, Scarsdale, NY, 1984
“Memoria,” Riverside Hospital, commission for permanent installation, Columbus, OH, 1983
“Wingspan,” commission for permanent sculpture installation, City of Columbus Water works, OH, 1983
Ronald Abramson, collection, Washington DC, 1982
ITT Headquarters, collection, Washington DC, 1982
“Blue Perch,” BancOhio Headquarters, commission for permanent sculpture installation, Columbus, OH, 1980
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 2015American Primitives," Arts and Humanities Grant, Ohio State University, $7000, 2012.
"Two Projects: 'Walden Pond and Cowboys' and 'Night Lights: Allegories and Historical Moments'. Arts and Humanities Grant, Ohio State University, $7800, 2006.
"Dimensional Imaging Research Lab (DIRL)", Arts and Humanities Grants for Innovati 2004-05; Professors Ken Rinaldo (PI), Steve Thurston, and myself received funding to acquire the first equipment, a 3D Printer, for a newly formed Digital In:3D Output laboratory.
“Digitally Developed Sculpture,” Arts and Humanities Grant, Ohio State University, $8000, 2004
Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 2002, 1999, 1997, 1991, 1988
“Architecture of Fear: Video Projections,”College of the Arts Research Grant, Level I, 1998
“Video Projections within Sculptural Installations,”Faculty Innovator Grant which provided the Department of Art a video projector, OSU, 1998
“Mano y Bola,” OSU Overseas Travel Grant, 1997
“Models of Galaxy Clusters: Domestic Comforts,” O.A.C. Individual Artists, Project Grant, 1995-96
“Catalog Documentation of “Landscapehats” installation, Wexner Center, on the occasion of Its being reconfigured and exhibited at Artists Space,NYC,” COTA Research Grant,1994
“Travel to Great Britain and Spain,” OSU Overseas Travel Grant, 1992
“Hat Landscape,” COTA Research Grant Level II, 1991
NEA Individual Artist Fellowship/Arts Midwest, 1991
Greater Columbus Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship, 1990
“A Cross-Cultural Program of Two International Visiting Artists for 1990,” funded by Ohio Arts Council, Greater Columbus Art Council, OSU, Center for International Studies, Dept. of International Affairs, Dept.of Art, College of the Arts, 1989. This program brought sculptor, Eva Lootz of Madrid, Spain, and Francesc Torres of New York as visiting artists to OSU
Tinker Research/Travel Grant for Madrid, Barcelona, Spain, 1988
Grant for “New Works/Biennial II,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1988
FUNDED RESIDENCIES
Headlands Center for the Arts, residency, Sausalito, CA, 2000
“Architecture,Fear, and Democracy,” Museum of The University of Memphis, a residency and an exhibition collaboration with University of Memphis students,1998
16th Asilah Cultural Moussen (Festival/Symposia), Visiting Artist, Asilah, Morocco, August, 1993
Delfina Studios, Artist-in-Residence, London, England, May-April, 1992
“An Investigation of the History of Salt at Mata and Cabo de Gata,” Artist-in-Residence, Casa Manilva, Manilva, Spain, June-July, 1992
Centre D’art La Rectoria, Artist-in-Residence, Barcelona,Spain, 1990
VISITING ARTIST/ LECTURES/ CURATION/ JURIES
Kent State University, May, 2019
Visiting Artist, Critic, Juror at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, for KU's "Nebraska National exhibition, SeptemberI was the juror for the Ohio Art League Spring Exhibition, May, 2011, Columbus.
Revision of "Launching the Imagination," Mary Stewart: I am both a featured artist and a reader for this widely used college level art and design textbook; 2003, 2007.
Dennison Universtiy, Grandville, Oh. I was a visiting artist critic and I also made a presentation of my work; November, 2007
Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN, visiting artist, April 1, 2003
Mid America College Art Association, panelist,”Matter & Meaning: Food as Contemporary Art Material From Furturists to Fluxus,” Lincoln, Nebraska, October, 2002
Chicago Cultural Center, lecture, April, 2002
College Art Association, panelist, “Extreme Shopping in the Production of Contemporary Art: Journey in Search of
Basic Elements and Information,” Chicago, March, 2001.
Rhode Island Council on the Arts, juror, Three Dimension Art Selection Panel for Artist Fellowship, 2000
Northern Kentucky University and the Art Academy of Cincinnati, Lecture Series on the Visual Arts, February, 2000
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, lecture, March, 1999
Cleveland Institute of Art, lecture, February, 1999
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, panelist, “Contemporary Surrealism,” August, 1998
University of Connecticut, lecture, February, 1998
Cincinnati Academy of Art, lecture, 1995
Ohio Arts Council Annual Conference, Dayton, OH, lecture, 1993
Leicester Polytechnic, School of Arts, Leicester, England, lecture, 1992
Sheffield City Polytechnic, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield, England, lecture, 1992
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland, lecture, 1992
Cumbria College of Art and Design, Carlisle, Cumbria, England, 1992
Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Faculdad de Bellas Artes, Cuenca, Spain, lecture, 1992 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, sculpture curator of “Ohio Selection ” exhibition, 1990
Kent State University, Kent, OH, lecture, 1989
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, lecture, 1989
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, lecture, 1987
N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, ILL, lecture, 1987
Mid-America College Art Association, Indianapolis, IN, lecture, 1985
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, lecture, 1985
SELECTED ARTICLES
"Todd Slaughter: American Primitives, Weston Art Gallery," Aeqai, e-journal, August 5, 2014
"Artist Todd Slaughter Fits Daunting Ideas into 'American Primitives, '"City Beat, <http://citybeat.com/cincinnati/article-30836->artist_todd_slaughter_fits_daunting_ideas_into_american_primitives.html
"Todd Slaughter's "American Primitives:" Art and Argument, Starr, Oct 28, 2012
"Search for links between Isolationism and Nature," The Columbus Dispatch, Set 30, 2012
“Launching the Imagination,” a book by Mary Stewart, McGraw-Hill, 2002, 2004, 2006
“Todd Slaughter:Chicago Cultural Center,” Sculpture Magazine, November, 2002
“Slaughter retrospective creates high anxiety,” Alan Arter, Chicago Tribune, April 25, 2002
“Illusions of Permanence’, Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, May 10, 2002
“Showing their feelings”, Margaret Hawkins, Chicago Sun Times, May 4, 2002
“Space Odyssey,” Frank Green, Cleveland Free Times, March 16, 1999
“Todd Slaughter, Watch House,” Sculpture Magazine, Jan/Feb, 1999
“Public Exposure: The City and Its Art,” Curtis Schieber, Dialogue, March/April, 1999
“Mirror of Human Fears,” Glenna Park, The Commercial Appeal, November 14, 1998, Memphis
“’Food for Thought’ exhibit tantalizes taste buds,” The Virginian-Pilot,May , 21, 1997
“Todd Slaughter, La Mano y La Bola,” Sculpture Magazine, October,1997
“ ‘La Mano y La Bola,’ en el Estrecho,”Area, May 23, 1997, Campo de Gibraltar, Spain
“ ‘La Mano y La Bola’, Presiden Ya La Entrada del Estrecho de Gibraltar,” E. Rodriguez, La Bahia, May 24, 1997, Algeciras, Spain
“El Alcance de La Mano,” Margo Molino, El Pais, June 3,1997, Spain
“La escultura ‘Mano y Bola’de Slaughter resume las relaciones de Africa y Europa,” Margot Molina, El Pais, May 8, 1997, Spain
“La Obra de Todd Slaughter Tiende Su Mano Hacia el Estrecho,” Carmen Gonzalez, Europa Sur, May 2, 1997, Algeciras, Spain
“El Mundo Galactico de Todd Slaughter,” Margo Molina, El Pais, April 19, 1997, Spain
“Domestic Comforts and Galaxy Clusters,” Patrick Browne, dialogue, Nov., 1996
“Weston Gallery Darkened for Trip to Deep Space,” Owen Findsen, Cincinnati Enquirer, Aug., 1996
“A Universe and a Life Suspended,” Owen Findsen, Cincinnati Enquirer, Sept.22, 1996
“Installation Gazes In, Up, Out,” J.Stein, The Cincinnati Post, Sept.18, 1996
“Smorgasbord for the Eye,” review of “Food for Thought exhibition, Journal-Sentinel, July, 1996, Milwaukee, WI
Akron Art Museum, Douglas Utter, New Art Examiner, Sept., 1993
“Salt Flavored Post modern Art,” Akron Beacon Journal, April, 1993
“Todd Slaughter, Wexner Center for the Arts,” The New Art Examiner, 1993
“La Vulnerabilidad Del Ser Humano o La Tragedia De La Existencia,” Anselmo F. Caballero, Europa Sur, Algeciras, Spain, April, 1993
“New Yorkers Visit Columbus, Find Intelligent Art,” Columbus Monthly, July, 1989
“Free Rein Turns Loose,” The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH, June, 1989
“State of the Art: New Work by Ten Artists in Ohio,” by Jayne Merkel for WGUC’s ” Fresh Air,” Thursday, September 15, 1988, Cincinnati, OH
“Structures on the Wall,” dialogue, Nov., 1987
A video documentary of my work prepared for PBS by Harold Scotter, interviewer, Sarah Rogers, curator, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, 1987
“Sculpture Spotlighted on Fourth Street,” The Cincinnati Post, Sept., 1987
Geraldine Wojno Kiefer, dialogue, Sept., 1985
“Todd Slaughter: Sculpture & Drawings,” Fred Kalister, dialogue, Jan., 1985
“Anton Gallery’s New Look,” JoAnn Lewis, The Washington Post, Oct., 1985
SELECTED CATALOGS and BOOKS
“terrestial forces”, catalog, Florida State University, 2004
“Launching the Imagination,” a book by Mary Stewart, McGraw-Hill, 2002, 2007
“Comfort Zones:Domestic Galaxies, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, October,1998-January,1999
Defining Structures}, Plaza Gallery, Charlotte, NC, 1998
Models of Galaxy Clusters: Domestic Comforts, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, 1996
The Language of Place, The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan, 1995
Todd Slaughter: Landscapehats, 1995
Five Sculptors, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 1993
American Pluralism, Ohio State University, 1993
1991 Arts Midwest/NEA Individual Artist Fellowship Recipients
Retrospective/Introspection, Gund Gallery of the Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, 1989
New Work/Biennial II, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, 1989
Baker/Nakashima/Slaughter, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH, 1976
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
Professor, Department of Art, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, autumn of 1984 present
Visiting Professor, Academie Voor Beeldene Vorming, Hogeschool Katholieke Leergangen, Tilburg, The Netherlands, Spring, 1996
Associate Professor, Fine Arts Department, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, 1978-1984
EDUCATION
Pratt Institute (M.I.D.), New York, New York
University of Texas (B.F.A.), Austin, Texas