MICHAEL RAY CHARLES

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2005 – present Professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX 2000 – 2005 Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX 1994 – 1999 Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 Galerie Cimaise d’ Or, Luxemburg , Germany Cotthem Gallery, Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2006 Cotthem Gallery, Gallery, Brussels, Belgium 2005 Cotthem Gallery, Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Cotthem Gallery, , , 2004 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC 2003 Universite Libre De Bruxells , Bruxells , Belgium Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Hans Myer Galleri, Berlin, Germany DeBerman Gallery, Austin, Texas, " The Property of..." 2002 Cotthem Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain ,"Shiny Figures" John Michael Kohl Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI 2001 Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Galerie Enrico Navarra Gallery, , France 2000 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York 1999 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium 1998 Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany 1997 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York Blaffer Gallery, , Texas, "Michael Ray Charles 1989-1997," Traveling Exhibit: (Where there is an asterisk the show traveled there) Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas* The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio* Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York, "Recent Acquisitions" Galerie Lucien-Durand, Paris, France Cotthem Gallery, Knokke, Belgium 1996 Dishman Gallery, Beaumont, Texas Galerie 56th, Budapest, Hungary Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1995 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1994 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas 1993 Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas 1991 Barnes Blackman Gallery, Houston, Texas SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Houston Collects: African American Art, MFA Houston ,TX. Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now, MOMA, Austin, TX Points of Convergence: Masters of Fine Arts, Arlington, TX Atelier 2008, Blanton Museum, Austin, TX 2007 San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX. “Taking Aim: From the Elliot L.Perry Collection, Rhodes College, Memphis ,TN 2006 The PPMK, Musee D’Art Moderne, Ostende, Belgium 2005 "Soul", Bruges, Belgium Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, The University of Alabama, "ULTERIOR MOTIFS", Buddy Holly Center, Lubbock TX , 2004 Art from the Permanent Collection , ASU Museum Tempe, AZ , Fall 2004 "Democracy In America" ASU Museum Tempe, AZ , Fall 2004 "Splat Boom Pow!" The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary, Heni Onstad Kunstsenter , , June 2004 Flatbed Press " Texas Grit," William Campbell Contemporary Art African American Art from the Permanent Collection MFA Houston, Spring 2004 Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for A New Generation, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Nov. 2003 Comic Release! Negotiating Identity ..., Western Gallery, Western Washington University, May 2004 Comic Release! Negotiating Identity ..., Armory Center for the Arts, August 2004 Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for A New Generation, Art House, September 2004 "Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, 1970 – 2000," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Jan.31- Apr.30, 2004 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain Art Brussels, Brussels Belgium FIAC, Paris, France Arts Festival, Miami, FL 2003 "Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, 1970 – 2000,” Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA, Sept. 17, 2003- Jan.4, 2004 PORTRAIT OF THE ART WORLD, A Century of ARTnews Photographs, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM, Sept. 19, 2003–Jan. 4, 2004 Beyond The Academy, Galveston Arts Center, May 17-Jun. 22, Galveston, TX PORTRAIT OF THE ART WORLD, A Century of ARTnews Photographs, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, Illinois, May 2, 2003–Jul. 29, 2003 "WINDSTIL" Cotthem Gallery, Belgium, Apr 4-March 30,2003 "Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art, 1970 - 2000" Contemporary Museum of Arts, Houston, TX, Traveling Exhibition PORTRAIT OF THE ART WORLD, A Century of ARTnews Photographs, International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC, Feb. 7, 2003–Apr. 6, 2003 Beyond The Academy, Art House, Austin TX, Jan. 18-Mar. 9 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium FIAC, Paris, France Miami Arts Festival, Miami, FL 2002 PORTRAIT OF THE ART WORLD, A Century of ARTnews Photographs, New York Historical Society, , Sept. 27, 2002–Jan. 5, 2003, Traveling Exhibition, Catalogue Color of the Advent Gard, The Landmark Gallery, Lubbock, TX, Oct.18-Dec.2 MCSARNOK, Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungry, Black-White, Fekete-FehÈr Walker Art Center, "Continued Reflections: Walker Art Center Celebrates Black History Month," Jan-Jun 2002, Minneapolis, MN Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, "Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation," Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA "Not Just February," Steve Turner Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA Creative Research Lab, "Faculty Show," Austin, TX 2002 Korea, "80 Artists around the Mundial,” Traveling Exhibit Japan, "80 Artists around the Mundial,” Traveling Exhibit Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium FIAC, Paris, France Chicago Art Fair, Chicago, Ill Miami Arts Festival, Miami , FL. 2001 Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, Austin, Texas, "Our New Day Begun: African American Artists entering the Millennium" Feb-May, Traveling Exhibit Marta Herford "Schwartz Weiss," November 18, 2001 - Feb 3, 2002, Germany Traveling Exhibit, Catalogue Brazil, "80 Artists around the Mundial,," Traveling Exhibit Cotthem Gallery, "Talking Heads," Madrid, Spain Brooklyn Museum of Art, "Digital Printmaking Now," June-Sept. 2001 "Looking Forward Looking Black," University of Denver, School of Art and Art History, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, Denver, CO, Sept. 14- Nov. 2, 2001 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium FIAC, Paris, France 2000 Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, "Strength and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists," April-May Flatbed Press, Austin, TX, "Flatbed at Eleven," University of Texas, Austin, TX, "62nd Annual Faculty Art Exhibit," Nov-Dec Gazomettre, Oberhausen, Germany, "80 Artists around the Mundial," catalogue May-Oct University Museum, Texas Southern University, Houston, Texas, "Our new Day Begun: African American Artists entering the Millennium" (Traveling Exhibit) Nov-Feb 2001, Extended African American Museum, Dallas, Texas "Our new Day Begun: African American Artists entering the Millennium," June-Aug, Traveling Exhibit LBJ Presidential Library and Museum, Austin, Texas, "Our New Day Begun: African American Artists entering the Millennium," Feb-May, Traveling Exhibit Illinois State University, "Clowns," University Galleries, Normal, Illinois, June-Sept Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center, Boston, Massachusetts, "Looking Forward, Looking Black," Oct.-Dec., Traveling Exhibit Georgia State University School of Art and Design Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia "Looking Forward, Looking Black," July-Sept Traveling Exhibit Umlauf Sculpture Garden, Austin, TX, "The Garden Party," May The Yager Museum, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, "Looking Forward, Looking Black,” March-June, Traveling Exhibit AZ/NY Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona Dallas Visual Art Center, Dallas, Texas "Austin at Dallas,” March-June Basel Art Fair, Basel, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Switzerland, June Arco Art Fair, Cotthem Gallery, Spain Art Brussels, Cotthem Gallery, Belgium FIAC, Paris, France Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "Post Pop," April – June 1999 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, "Looking Forward Looking Black," Dec-Mar 2000, Traveling Exhibit University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, "Faculty Exhibit," Nov1999 Arizona State University, (2 person show) "Face Off: Michael Ray Charles/Jean-Michel Basquiat," Dec 99-April 2000 University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina, "Looking Forward, Looking Black," Aug-Oct, Traveling Exhibit Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, Michael Ray Charles/Joyce Scott Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland Arco Art Fair, Madrid, Spain, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium, FIAC, Paris, France Katonah Museum of Art, New York, "Re/Righting History: Counter narratives by Contemporary African-American Artists," March-May Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, France, "80 Artistes Autour du Mondail," Traveling Exhibit through 2002 Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, Tx, "Art of the African Diaspora," Aug-Oct 1998 The Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA, "Same Difference" Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, N.Y., "Looking Forward, Looking Black: Re-Encountering the Sexualized Black Female Body" Lineart Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, December 1997 Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, "Fresh Ink," Print Show Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas Lineart Art Fair, Ghent, Belgium, 1996 Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas, “Texas Modern and Post Modern,” Moody Gallery, Houston, Texas University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 58th Annual Faculty Exhibition Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Paris, France, FICA Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, "Bucking the Texas Myth" Irving Arts Center, Irving , Texas, "Breaking into the Mainstream" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "New Work III" 1995 Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Civil Disobedience" Kristy Stubbs Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "First Anniversary Exhibition" Cologne Arts Fair, Cologne, Germany Basel Arts Fair, Basel, Switzerland San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, "The State of the Art" Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, N.Y., "Now is the Time" Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "10 Year Anniversary Exhibit" Galerie Hans Mayer, Miami Arts Festival, Miami, FL. Lyon Matrix Gallery, Austin, Texas, 1994 Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, Texas, "Drawings" Huntington Gallery , Austin, Texas, "56th Annual Faculty Exhibit" Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, "New Works" Galerie Hans Mayer, Paris, France, FIAC1994 Horwitch Lewallew Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico, "Sharing the Dream Movement 1963-1993" Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas, "Speaking of Artist: Words And Works from Houston" 1993 Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, "Outside/In: Outsider and Contemporary Artists in Texas" Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas, "Souvenirs" Barnes Blackman Galleries, Houston, Tx, "Black and Whites Together" University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, "55th Faculty Exhibition" Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, Texas, "Texas Contemporary: Acquisitions of the 90's" Phoenix Museum of Art, Phoenix, Arizona, "The Phoenix Triennial" Lanning Gallery, Houston, Texas, "The Garden of Eden" Blaffer Gallery, Houston, Texas, "The MFA Show" Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas, "The Escape II" Barnes Blackman Galleries, Houston, Texas, "The Language of Drawing" "Fresh Visions/New Voices: Emerging African American Artist in Texas," Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX and Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX 1992 Barnes Blackman Galleries, Houston, Texas, "Group Exhibit" Small Project Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Politics as Usual" ARA Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Graduate Group Exhibit" Glassell School of Art, Houston, Texas, "Fresh Visions/New Voices: Emerging African American Artist in Texas" Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas, "Counter Colonial Ialismo" , Houston, Texas, "Student Exhibit" The Houston International Festival in conjunction with Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas, "The Case For Art" Small Project Gallery, Houston, Texas, "Small Works Exhibit" Dishman Gallery, Beaumont, Texas, "Forerunner and Newcomers Revisited" North Harris Community College, Houston, Texas, "Diversity in African American Art" University of Houston, Houston, Texas, "Student Exhibition" Barnes Blackman Galleries, Houston, Texas, "Group Exhibition"

RELATED EXPERIENCE 2010 2nd Annual Pro Arts Tea, SteeringCommittee Member, Austin ,Tx 2008 Chris Rock Live at Madison Square Garden, used imges in performance 2007 Chris Rock Live at Madison Square Garden, used images in performance 2005 Jazz Festival, Poster Design University of Texas Press, Advisory Board member “The Mammy Project” by Michelle Matlock used work in performance Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UT, Austin, TX 2004 University of Texas Press, Advisory Board member Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, UT, Austin, TX Chris Rock Live at Madison Square Garden, used work in performance IDEA GROUP, University of Texas Design division, Lecture and discussion on the Stereotypes, Icons, Typologies. TICA Teachers Institute in Contemporary Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2002 Hint Mint Inc., Cover Illustration 2000 University of Texas at Austin, UT117 Symposium, "Celebration of Faculty: A New Generation of Scholarship," Panelist, Illustrations for a children's book 1999 Music Means Inc. Logo Design, Salem, NC St. Phillips Episcopal Church, Brooklyn, New York, Stain Glass Window, 1998- 1999 Art consultant for Bamboozled film directed by Graf+Gustavsen, New York, New York, (Design and Concept Co.) Hired to do concepts for a Line of Clothing Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., W.E.B. Dubois Research Fellowship 1998 The Ensemble Theater, Houston, Texas, Poster Design for "The Colored Museum" 1997 Coquet, MN, 1997 Biennial Conference of the American Institute of Graphical Arts, Featured in catalogue "Directions in African American Art," Symposium, Atlanta, GA

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

MUSEUMS Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Arizona State University Art Museum, AZ Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, Panelist Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, Panelist Helm Fine Arts Center, Austin, TX, Panelist Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX, Panelist (CAC) Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA

UNIVERSITIES 2010 Alabama State University, Montgomery, AL University of Nortre Dame, South Bend, IN 2008 Baylor University, Waco, TX University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 2007 Eastern Michigan University 2005 Baylor University, Waco, TX Grambling State University, Grambling, LA 2004 University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC Brown University, Providence, RI (RISD) Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 2003 Universite Libre De Bruxells, Belgium San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX University of Colorado at Boulder, CO University of Maryland at College Park, MD Spellman College, Atlanta, GA 2002 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 2001 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2000 Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY Arizona State University, AZ 1999 Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 1998 Barcelona University, Barcelona, Spain Xavier University, New Orleans, LA Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Panelist, “Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Panelist, “Black Like Who?” 1997 McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA Barnes & Noble Book Store, Austin, TX

JURIED EXHIBITIONS

National Endowment for the Arts ,Panelist “GOD/DOG,” Exchange Print Portfolio, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA Invited Curator for the “BIG SHOW,” Houston, TX “The Wild West Show,” Exchange Print Portfolio, Baylor University, Waco, TX Co-Curator, Texas Fine Arts Association, “Transcending Limits: Moving Beyond Mainstream and Margin,” TFAA’s Art On Tour program exhibited at various sites statewide through December 2000

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GRANTS

2003 The Walter and Gina DeCloux Fine Arts Faculty Fellowship Endowment 2002 University of Texas, Austin - Dean's Faculty Research Award University of Texas, Austin - African and African American Studies, Faculty Summer Research Grant 1999 Robert W. Hamilton Author Awards (Fine Arts) University Coop. 1997 URI Faculty Summer Research Grant 1994 Dallas Museum of Art, Kimbrough Grant Recipient, Art Matters 1995 Mid-American Arts Alliance

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

2005 Nominated for the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Friar Society, University of Texas, Austin TX 2004 Nominated for the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, Friar Society, University of Texas, Austin TX 2003 Acknowledge as one of the leading young African-American Scholars under forty by Black Issues In Higher Education Magazine

COLLECTIONS Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum University of Louisiana at Lafayette University of Mary Hardin Baylor, Belton, TX Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX , New York, NY Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX