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EXHIBITION HISTORY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 in the name of love, Gallatin Galleries at NYU, New York, NY, February 5 – March 1, 2019 the color of remembering, Gallery 221@HCC, Tampa, FL, January 22 – March 7, 2019

2018 #killers, Yours, Mine and Ours Gallery, New York, September 7-October 20, 2018 Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, , MA, curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, June 26 2018-January 21, 2019. Love Letter to a Library, Boston Public Library: Main and neighborhood branches, Boston, MA July 9- November 1, 2018.

2017 Family Pictures (Red), P.S. Satellites a project of Prospect. 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, in the Backyard at 2527 Ursulines Avenue, New Orleans, LA, November 18, 2017 - February 25, 2018

2016 The School of Love, Samsøñ, Boston, MA, October 21-November 26 Family Pictures, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, October 21-November 26

2015 that last time we touched the water, Hudson Opera House, Hudson, NY, April 4-May 10

2014 Dlectricity, Midtown Detroit's Biennial Light Festival, September 26-27, 2014. there is no one left to blame, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, May 16—July 27, 2014

2013 there is no one left to blame, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Jul 31 – Oct 27, 2013, curated by Helen Molesworth

2012 companions, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brasil, June 24-August 4 you don't deserve me, Samsøn, Boston, MA, May 11-July 21

2009 Rapture/New Work, Samsøn, Boston, MA, December 11 - January 30, 2010 the boy with the thorn in his side, The VOLTA Show / VOLTA 5, Booth C3, Markthalle Street: Viadukstrasse 10 Basel, Switzerland

2008 Rapture, Hall Street Gallery Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, curated by Erin Dziedzic

2007 No Ego: New Paintings by Steve Locke, Schlosberg Alumni Gallery Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA Leonie Bradbury, Curator mo(u)rning, Lillian Immig Gallery at Emmanuel College, Boston, MA curated by Kathleen Bitetti

2006 Youshi Li + Steve Locke RHYS Gallery, Boston, MA

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2005 circumference Mills Project Space-Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, curated by Laura Donaldson when you’re a boy… Artists Foundation Main Gallery, Boston, MA, curated by Kathleen Bitetti New Paintings/New Drawings Mazmanian Gallery at Framingham State College, Framingham, MA

2001 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019 SOMEBODY TOLD ME YOU PEOPLE WERE CRAZY, Curated by Craig Drennen, Hathaway Gallery, Atlanta, GA, May 18 - July 13, 2019 Kim - Locke - Rich: Works by Byron Kim, Steve Locke & Matt Rich, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA, April 26 - May 28th, 2019 Dreamhouse Vs. Punk House (plus Cat house), Organized by Kristin Calabrese, Joshua Aster, and Torie Zalben, Serious Topics, Inglewood, CA, March 23 – September 29, 2019

2018 Nine Moments for Now, Cooper Gallery at the Hutchins Center, , October 2018 Under a Dismal Boston Skyline, Stone Gallery, Boston University, September 14-October 20, 2018 Cosmic Traffic Jam, Zevitas/Marcus, Los Angeles, CA, July 7 – August 25, 2018 USPS, Visual Art, Architecture & Design School (VA{A}DS), Free University of Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia, June 30-July 7, 2018, curated by Dana Frankfort and Vera Iliatova Legacy of the Cool: A Tribute to Barkley L. Hendricks, Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, January 17-March 3, 2018, curated by Darci Hanna

2017 First I Was Afraid, Dorsky Curatorial Projects, New York, September 17-November 19 2017 Speak, Object, Gallery, November 16-January 16, 2018 People Watching: Then and Now, Fitchburg Art Museum, September 24, 2017 - January 14, 2018 Black and Brown People|White Problems, Samsøñ, June 9 – August 19, 2017, curated by Camilo Alvarez Political Discourse, University Hall Gallery, UMass Boston, Boston, MA, February 21-April 15, 2017 I Dread to Think..., Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, January 13–March 19, 2017

2016 Selections ’16, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Boston, MA Mentors, CFHILL Art Space, Stockholm, Sweeden, December 8 — January 5, 2017

2015 This is Boston, not L.A. Zevitas Marcus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, September 13 – October 31, 2015 The Abstract Body, New Hampshire Institute of Art, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH

2014 Come Like Shadows: Palimpsests, Traces, Specters of The Silver Screen, Nightlife, Veils, The Absent Present Zürcher Studio, New York, NY The Gay Show, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx Council of the Arts, New York, NY

2013 White Boys, Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher, deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Curated by Evan Garza and Dina Deitsch

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2012 Hung Jury Friend Street, Boston, MA Shame/Less FPAC Gallery Inc. Boston, MA

2011 One more kiss then we're history, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA I Am Who I Am: The Portrait Reconsidered, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA Anthony Greaney X Dan Graham X Samsøn, Cottage Home Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2010 Traversing Gender, The McIninch Art Gallery, Southern New Hampshire University Man Up! Jesse Burke, El C. Leonardo, Steve Locke, Rune Olsen, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

2009 Intersexions, Cushing-Martin Gallery at Stonehill College, Easton, MA Reaganography, No Globe Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Casual Males, Sherman Gallery at Boston University, Boston, MA Still Painting, RHYS MENDES Gallery, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil

2008 Group Exhibition #3, Gallery PeoPeo, Beijing, China ambivalent figuration; people, Samsøn, Boston, MA Selections ’08, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Boston, MA

2007 Visual Dialogues, Schiltkamp Gallery at Clark University, Traina Center for the Arts, Worcester MA

2004 superSalon, Samsøn, Boston, MA Boston High Tea, AramonaStudio, New York City, NY, Curator: Peter Wayne Lewis The 18th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts – Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

2002 Making a Mark, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA

2001 Selections from the Boston Drawing Project, Bernard Toale Gallery Drawing the New Millennium: The Challenge of Media and Idea to the Nature of Drawing, Maine Artists Space, Danforth Gallery, Portland, ME His and Hers: New Drawings (with Candice Smith Corby), Patricia Doran Gallery, Boston, MA Members Show, Copley Society, Boston, MA Red, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA

PRESS Maggie Penman, "A History to be Reckoned With," WGBH, August 8, 2018. Editorial, "Faneuil Hall's Slave Legacy," Boston GLOBE, July 30, 2018. Renée Graham, "Another way to atone for past sins at Faneuil Hall," Boston GLOBE, July 21, 2018. Zoë Mitchell, Meghna Chakrabarti, "How Should Boston Reckon With The Complicated History Of Faneuil Hall?", WBUR RadioBoston, July 19, 2018 Christopher Gavin, "A memorial for victims of the slave trade is being proposed at Faneuil Hall," Boston.com, July 19, 2018. Steve Dubb, "Memorial at Boston’s “Cradle of Liberty” Would Acknowledge City’s Slavery Wealth," NonProfit Quarterly, July 17, 2018.

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Amanda McGowan, "Proposed Memorial At Faneuil Hall Would Recognize The Victims Of The Slave Trade," WGBH, July 13, 2018. Maria Garcia, "Outside the Gardner, A Place to Mourn Freddie Gray Through Color" The Artery/WBUR June 28, 2018. (audio) Graham Ambrose, "Installation at the Gardner honors the ‘unfinished business’ of Freddie Gray" Boston Globe, June 28, 2018 Jules Struck, "Boston Artist Honors Freddie Gray with New Abstract Piece" Boston Magazine, June 25, 2018 Colette Greenstein, "Steve Locke honors Freddie Gray with public art installation" Bay State Banner, June 22, 2018 Cate McQuaid, "Celebrating Barkley L. Hendricks at MassArt" Boston Globe, January 18, 2018. Video interview with Artscope Magazine during People Watching at Fitchburg Art Museum, September 25, 2017. Greer Muldowney, STEVE LOCKE: THE STATES PROJECT: MASSACHUSETTS, Lenscratch April 25, 2017. Robert Moeller, "School of Love: Interview with Steve Locke" November 2, 2016 Cate McQuaid, "Where Rage and Love Meet: an artist’s vision of where racial violence meets the American dream of home" Boston Globe, October 31, 2016 Celina Colby, "Artist Steve Locke’s dual exhibit confronts racial, romantic history" Bay State Banner, October 28, 2016, Gregory Eltringham, "Steve Locke: Family Pictures" ARTPULSE Magazine, October 23, 2016. Susannah Darrow and Carl Rojas, "A Not-So-Brief Chat with Painter Steve Locke, BURNAWAY, February 14, 2014. "Goings on About Town" Review of Come Like Shadows at Zürcher Studio, New York, The New Yorker, January 20, 2014. William Kaizen, Review of there is no one left to blame at ICA/Boston, ARTFORUM, November 2013, Vol. 52, No. 23. Greg Cook, "Boston Painter Steve Locke 'It's My Job To Bear Witness To My Time'", WBURArtery, July 30, 2013. Colette Greenstein, "Artist Steve Locke gets first major exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston," Bay State Banner, July 25, 2013. Anthony Brooks, "Steve Locke At The ICA: ‘There Is No One Left To Blame", RADIOBOSTON, Broadcast August 5, 2013. Cate McQuaid, "Images speaking of desire and fear at the ICA", Boston Globe, July 25, 2013. Lori Cole, Review of Paint Things: Beyond the Stretcher at deCordova Museum, ARTFORUM, March 25, 2013, Francine Miller, Review, Art in America, Fall 2012. Cate McQuaid, "Love and its Comical Wounds," Boston Globe, June 16, 2012. Cate McQuaid, "Ten to See Now," Boston Globe, June 12, 2012. Drew Katz, "Steve Locke, You Don't Deserve Me at Samsøn," New American Paintings Blog, May 17, 2012. Andrea Shea, "ICA Turns One" Morning Edition/WBUR, December 6, 2007 Cate McQuaid, “A Painter who Changed with the Times” Boston Globe, September 6, 2007. Cate McQuaid, "Gallery Pick" , Calendar, October 19, 2006. J. Aram Mouradian, "Locke's forbidden world revealed" , October 11, 2006. David Wildman and Justin Becker, "Fall Arts Preview" Weekly Dig, Volume 8 Issue 39, September 27, 2006. Cate McQuaid, "10 Artists to Watch," The Boston Globe Magazine, March 19, 2006. Shawn Hill, “Steve Locke: Circumference,” artsMEDIA “Gallery Gallery” November/December 2005. Randi Hopkins, “Only Human ‘Standing on One Foot” and ‘Steve Locke’ at the Mills Gallery; ‘Quantum Grids’ at the Sert Gallery,” The Boston Phoenix, October 7-13, 2005. Constantine von Hoffman, “Not Your Average Joe” CMO Magazine, November 2004 David Wildman and Nicole Klosteman, “Upstarts: The New Guard in Galleries” Weekly Dig, Volume 6, Issue 43, 10/27/04 – 11/03/04. Edgar Allen Beam, “Danforth Gallery Draws to a Close,” Maine Times, November 4, 2001.

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Chris Thompson, “Cogito Vertigo Sum: Danforth Gallery’s Drawing the New Millennium,” Portland Phoenix, November 2, 2001.

Visiting Critic Boston University - April 2019 Maine College of Art MFA Program - February 2015 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center - February 2015 Yale University - April 2014 Fire Island Artists Residency - 2013 Vermont Studio Center – June 2009, July 2011 Stonehill College - 2010 Art Institute of Boston – MFA Program – 2007-2009 Savannah College of Art and Design BFA/MFA Program – 2008 Massachusetts College of Art BFA Program/MFA Program – 2003-2006 College of the Holy Cross – 2004, 2005 Montserrat College of Art – 2007-2011

Select Public Talks and Lectures

A Talk to Teachers, National Art Education Association Annual Conference, Boston, MA March 15, 2019. Public Art and Political Change: All Things That Rise Must Converge. Panel discussion with Greg Shelnutt, Brian Bishop, A.D. Carson, M. Jessica Rowe, Harriet F. Senie, and Steve Locke. Professional Practices Committee, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 14, 2019. Uncommon Monument: A King Memorial for Boston (video link). Panel Discussion with Max Page, Scheri Fultaneer (ASLA), Steve Locke, Ian Taberner (AIA), Meejin Yun (AIA), Renee Loth: Moderator. Boston Society of Architects, November 14, 2018. Tyrone Maurice Adderley Lecture Series/For Freedoms Town Hall: Freedom of Speech and Public Art, Panel discussion with Kate Gilbert, Sneha Shrestha, Stephen Hamilton, and Sabrina Dorsanvil. Steve Locke: Moderator. Massachusetts College of Art and Design, October 16, 2018. Public Conversation: Public Art, Civic Space, and Activism. Panel discussion with artists Liz Glynn, Lina Maria Giraldo and Steve Locke, moderated by David Leonard, President of the Boston Public Library. BPL Monday, October 15, 2018 The Publics of Art. Conversation with Dell Hamilton, Artist, and Steve Locke. HubWEEK Conference, Boston, MA, October 13, 2018. Memorialization and the Built Form, Lecture for the Boston Study Group, Harvard Club, Boston, MA, October 10, 2018. Artist Talk on Three Deliberate Gray for Freddie. Living Room, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, September 13, 2018 Object of Dread/HARD: Subversive Representation. Panel discussion with Janet Loren Hill, Steve Locke, and Creighton Baxter. University Hall Gallery, University of Massachusetts Boston, April 19, 2018. Black Portraitures IV: Fear in Transition. Panel discussion with Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Steve Locke, Helina Metaferia, Enzo Silon Surin, Dr. Nikki Greene, Moderator. Hiphop Archive and Research Institute, Hutchins Center at Harvard University, March 23, 2018. Artist talk for exhibition: Family Pictures. Community Book Store, New Orleans, Louisiana. Part of Prospect IV New Orleans, January 20, 2018. Artist talk for exhibition: People Watching: Then and Now, Fitchburg Art Museum, November 5, 2017. For Freedoms: Artifice of Drawn Borders. Panel discussion with Layla Bermeo, Eric Gottesman, Steve Locke, Sunny Pai, and Annie Weatherwax. Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, November 1, 2017. The Artist’s Voice, Steve Locke with Evan Garza, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, as part of the solo exhibition, there is no one left to blame, September 2013. Looking at Kerry James Marshall in context, Harvard University Art Museums, October 2013.

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Imaging Lazarus – The Undead in Contemporary Painting as part of “Painting in the Collapsed Field,” Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC), with Craig Drennen (Moderator), David Humphreys, Katherine Smith, and Wendy White, November 11, 2011. Studio-Based Research as Master’s Thesis in Art Education, Presentation at National Art Education Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, with Dr. Daniel Serig and Professor Jennifer Hall, April 16, 2010. Art Matters NOW, Lecture panel for the Art Matters Foundation, New York, NY, with Clifford Owens, Ernesto Pujol, Dawit Petros, and Fawn Krieger, October 17, 2009. On Painting as Thinking, Visiting Artist Lecture, Savannah College of Art and Design, January 2008. 4 Lectures on Visual Language, Studio Foundation Lectures, Massachusetts College of Art, September- October 2007. Domestic Bliss to Domestic Violence, with Leika Akiyama, Leonie Bradbury, Michela Griffo, and Andy Mowbray, Women’s Caucus for Art, National Conference, Moderator: Kathleen Bitetti, February 19, 2006. Based Here, Art Institute of Boston, with Shelbourne Thurber, Moderator, Bill Arning, MIT List Center, January 12, 2006 Where I’m Coming From at the conference, Educating Artists for a Multicultural World, ProArts Consortium, Boston, Massachusetts, Ted Lansdmark, Boston Architectural Center, Moderator.February 8, 9, 2001.

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Education 2001 Master of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College Art and Design (Michael Doherty Fellowship) 1997 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (with honors and distinction) 1984 Bachelor of Science, Boston University, School of Management

Residencies 2018 City of Boston Artist-in-Residence 2016 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 2014 MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH 2002 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine

Awards 2014 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant 2014 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant 2009 LEF Foundation Contemporary Work Fund Grant 2007 Art Matters Foundation Award

Websites www.stevelocke.com

Teaching Experience 1999 – Present Massachusetts College of Art and Design Boston, MA Tenured Professor - Art Education (September 2006 to Present) Coordinator of Graduate Programs in Art Education (Current and September 2008 to September 2011) • Undergraduate Courses o Interdisciplinary Portfolio 1 and 2 (Majors Studio) o Interdisciplinary Portfolio 3: Capstone Projects (Majors Studio) o Seminar I: Materials and Ideas of Traditional Media o Seminar VI: Exhibitions o Representations of Race (co-taught with Noel Ignatiev, PhD) • Graduate Courses o Concepts and Processes for Classrooms o Graduate Seminar o Graduate Seminar in Low Residency MFA Programs in Provincetown and Boston o Problems in Aesthetics o Artist/Teacher Thesis Projects o Issues in Contemporary Art • Adjunct Faculty – Art Education Department (2005 – 2006) o Portfolio 2 o Concepts and Processes in the Classroom • Adjunct Faculty - Studio Foundation Department (2000 – 2003) o Foundation Drawing 1 • Visiting Lecturer – Fine Arts 2D (2001, 2003, 2006) o Introduction to Painting o Drawing for Printmakers o Drawing for Painters • Graduate Teaching Assistant (1999 – 2001) o Introduction to Lithography o Monotype

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o Introduction to Painting (Teacher of Record)

• Professional Service to the College o Current member of the Adderley Lecture Committee o Current member of the Art Education Studio Curriculum Committee o Current member of the Faculty of Color Committee since 2006 o Faculty search committee for the Studio for Interrelated Media (2012) o Faculty search committee for Art Education (2013) o Member of the All-College Committee 2007-2010 o Member of the Graduate Council 2008-2011 serving on the Low Residency MFA and the Master of Design Strategy Development Committees o Member of the search committee for a Director of Alumni Relations (2010) o Chair of the Academic Policies Committee for the 2006-2007 academic year – created report on college-wide grading policies o Redesigned and implemented Master of Science in Art Education summer coursework, thesis presentation and exhibition program o Worked with the Graduate Dean and the Assistant Graduate Dean in the creation of the Graduate View Book, and with marketing of the graduate programs in education inside and outside of the College o Wrote curriculum plans and maps for Undergraduate and Graduate Programs in education and fine art

Fall 2014 Yale University New Haven, CT Visiting Core Critic in Painting • Graduate Courses o MFA Critique Seminar

Fall 2010 Stonehill College Easton, MA Visiting Artist in Gender Studies • Undergraduate Courses o Race, Gender and the Digital Image

Summer 2004 to 2009 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture Skowhegan, ME Dean • Responsibilities include: o Managing the daily interaction, accommodation, studio needs, and programming for participants and staff of one of the country’s oldest artist residency programs o Provided critiques on a group and individual basis. o Liaison for resident and visiting faculty, staff, and participants. Fostering communication among all of the residents and staff o Providing support for resident and visiting faculty and staff with studio materials, lectures, and meetings and transportation o Assisting the Program Director with studio assignments and management, shop orientations, master classes, events, and Trustees and Governors of the school o Assisting the Program Associate with staffing, event planning, maintenance, permitting, and library coordination o Facilitated resources on and off campus for performances, actions, art events and exhibitions for participants o Supported and aided the development of organic discussion groups around topics in art and philosophy across disciplines

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o Creating and fostering a sense of artistic community through problem solving, conflict resolution, counseling, formal and informal instruction o Reported formally and informally to Boards of Governors and Trustees

Winter Quarter 2008 Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA Visiting Artist-in-Residence • Undergraduate Courses o Visiting Artist Seminar in Painting o Master Print Seminar (no credit) • Graduate Courses o Graduate Visiting Artist Seminar

September 2002 to 2008 Emmanuel College Boston, MA Lecturer • Undergraduate Courses o Basic Drawing 1 and 2 o Painting I o Design and Compostion o Color and Design

September 2004 to June 2005 College of the Holy Cross Worcester, MA Lecturer • Undergraduate Courses o Two-dimensional Fundamentals o Painting I o Painting II (Topics in Painting-Observational/Experiential)

September 2000 – August 2001 Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA Co-Director of Multicultural Student Development • Responsibilities included: o Maintained and encouraged discussion and affirmation of diversity issues on a campus of 2,500+ students. o Reported to the Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs and the Officer of Civil Rights, Diversity and Compliance. o Created and managed mentoring program for students matriculating from Boston Public Schools. o Investigated and reported on diversity programs at other colleges. Networked with other diversity coordinators for discussion and information sharing. o Reviewed college curricula and policies with the Compliance officer for diversity issues. Integral member of the Student Development Department; met and advised the Dean of Students on diversity issues. o Presented findings monthly in joint meetings with faculty from Studio Foundation, administrators from Student Development and Coordinator of Service Learning.

February 1998 – December 2003 Towers Perrin Boston, MA Senior Administrative Coordinator/Executive Administrative Assistant • Responsibilities included:

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o Provide administrative support to the Location Administrator, Human Resources/ Benefits supervisor, Managing Principal, key Principals and Consultants for an office of 250+ employees. o Manage the training, goal setting and compensation reviews for a group of 5-8 administrative assistants.

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