CYDNEY M. PAYTON

2009–present Independent Curator & Writer San Francisco,

2001–2008 Director & Chief Curator Museum of Contemporary Art ,

1992–2000 Director & Chief Curator Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado

1984–1992 Founder & Director Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, Colorado Payton Rule Gallery, Denver, Colorado

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2013 Unbuilt San Francisco: The View from Futures Past (co-curator Benjamin Grant) featuring architects: John Bolles, Ernest Born, Mario Ciampi, Vernon DeMars, Lawrence Halprin, Legorreta & Legorreta, Daniel Libeskind, William Merchant, Willis Polk, Kenzo Tange, and Cathy Simon. California Historical Society and SPUR, San Francisco

2012 Temporary Structures (co-curator Glen Helfand) featuring Pawel Althamer, Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt, David Gissen, Amy H. Ho, David Ireland, Paul Kos, Roy McMakin, Christian Nagler & Azin Seraj, Ben Peterson, Michael Robinson, Jonathan Runico, Mungo Thomson, Together We Can Defeat Capitalism. San Francisco Institute of Arts (SFAI), San Francisco

2011 On Apology (co-curator) featuring Erick Beltran, Mark Boulos, Keren Cytter, Omer Fast, Shaun Gladwell, Ragnar Kjartansson, Amalia Pica, Slavs and Tatars, Dawn Weleski, Artur Zmijewski. Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts (CCA), San Francisco

The Thing Is To See: Selected Photo-Souvenirs of Daniel Buren 1968-1975, online at thethingistosee.com, Steven Leiber Archives, San Francisco

Piggly Wiggly: Self-Serving Stores All Over the World, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco

2010 Yu-Cheng Chou: Because 64 Crayons Made in the USA. Superfrog Gallery, New People, San Francisco

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2009 Heather & Eric Chan Schatz. The Family of Natasha Congdon Large Works Gallery, MCA DENVER

Rex Ray. The Kent & Vicky Logan Promenade Space, MCA DENVER

Anthony Goicolea: Related. Laura & David Merage Foundation Photography Gallery, MCA DENVER

The Legend of Bud Shark and his Indelible Ink featuring John Buck, Enrique Chagoya, Bernard Cohen, Red Grooms, Don Ed Hardy, Jane Hammond, Robert Kushner, Hung Lui, Hollis Sigler, and Betty Woodman. The Joseph Cresenti Family Paper Works Gallery, MCA DENVER

Yang Fudong: City Light. Lu & Chris Law New Media Gallery, MCA DENVER

2008 Adam Helms. The Joseph Cresenti Family Paper Works Gallery, MCA DENVER Jane Hammond: New Photographs. Laura & David Merage Foundation Photography Gallery, MCA DENVER

Jonas Burgert. The Kent & Vicky Logan Promenade Space, MCA DENVER Damien Hirst: St. Sebastian. The Family of Natasha Congdon Large Works Gallery, MCA DENVER

Yu-Cheng Chou. Lu & Chris Law New Media Gallery, MCA DENVER Jasper de Beijer. The Joseph Cresenti Family Paper Works Gallery, MCA DENVER

David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings. Co-Organizer: Whitechapel Gallery, London. MCA DENVER. Traveled to Studio Museum Harlem and Artspace, San Antonio

Trevor Appleson: Mexico City Photographs. Laura & David Merage Foundation Photography Gallery, MCA DENVER

Susanne Kühn: Recent . The Family of Natasha Congdon Large Works Gallery, MCA DENVER

Brad Kahlhamer: Rapid City. The Kent & Vicky Logan Promenade Space, MCA DENVER

Omer Fast. Lu & Chris Law New Media Gallery, MCA DENVER

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2007 Star Power: Museum as Body Electric featuring David Altmejd, Carlos Amorales, Candice Breitz, Rangi Kipa, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, and Collier Schorr. MCA DENVER

Erwin Redl: FADE, Denver. MCA DENVER (temporary |contemporary) Creative Acts That Matter (Part III): The Peace Project by Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt/R&R Studios. MCA DENVER (temporary |contemporary)

Decades of Influence: Extended Remix featuring Rokko Aoyama, Lawrence Argent, Carolyn Braaksma, Robert Brinker, Don Coen, Suchil Coffman-Guerra, John DeAndrea, Kim Dickey, Mary Ehrin, Atomic Elroy, Paul Gillis, Jim Green, Patti Hallock, Ana María Hernando, Homare Ikeda, Matthew Larson, Chris Lavery, R. Edward Lowe, Paola Ochoa, Jason Patz, Bruce Price, Steven Read, Carl Reed, Clark Richert, Barbara Shark, Stacey Steers, Carley Warren, Ivan Wilson, and Leafe Zales. MCA DENVER

2006 Decades of Influence: Colorado Art 1985 to Present featuring Robert Adams, Mark Amerika, Lawrence Argent, Jack Balas & Wes Hempel, James Balog, Stephen Batura, Roland Bernier, Stan Brakhage, Carolyn Braaksma, Phil Bender, Scott Chamberlin, Dale Chisman, Albert Chong, Joseph Clower, Martha Daniels, John DeAndrea, Kim Dickey, Rebecca DiDomenico, Richard Devore, Tracey Felix, Sushe Felix, Chuck Forsman, Carlos Frésquez, John Fudge, Linda Girvin, Nick Havholm, John Hallin, CharlesHayes, Linda Herritt, Homare Ikeda, Pamela Joseph, Jim Johnson, Wesley Kennedy, Rodger Lang, Terry Maker, Robert Mangold, John McEnroe, Heidi McFall, James & Nan McKinnell, Myron Melnick, Susan Meyer, Kay Miller, Kevin O’Connell, Paola Ochoa, Eric Paddock, Burt Payne 3, Bruce Price, Jeanne Quinn, Clark Richert, Carl Reed, Daneil & Maruca Salazar, Frank Sampson, Mark Sink, Phil Solomon, Jeffrey Starr, Stacey Steers, James Surls, Gary Sweeney, Barbara Takenaga, Ruth Thorne-Thomsen, Rebecca Vaughan, Carley Warren, Susan Wick, Betty Woodman, Francesca Woodman, George Woodman, and David Zimmer. MCA DENVER

Truss Thrust: the Artifice of Space featuring Peter Weltz in a collaboration with William Forsythe, Pipolotti Rist, Sergio Prego, The Blue Noses, and Michelle Ellsworth. Live performance by Locust Dance/Music/Video Company. MCA DENVER

See Into Liquid featuring Chiho Aoshima, Whitney Bedford, Tony Capellán, Vija Celmins, Rebecca DiDomenico, Ellen Gallagher, Amy Globus, Don Ed Hardy, Roni Horn, Robert Longo, Richard Misrach, Jacco Olivier, Catherine Opie, and Massimo Vitali. MCA DENVER

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2005 PILLish: Harsh Realities and Gorgeous Destinations featuring Barton Lidice Benes, Richard Billingham, Glenn Brown, Albert Chong, Larry Clark, David Critchley & Dr. Liz Lee, Elisabeth Diller & Ricardo Scofidio, Barnaby Furnas, Tom Fruin, Nan Goldin Damien Hirst, Carsten Höller, Mr., Takashi Murakami, Roxy Paine, Thomas Ruff, and Fred Tomaselli. MCA DENVER

Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art featuring Slater Bradley, Larry Clark, Greg Fiering and Matt Luem, Lilah Freedland, Tim Gardner, Luis Gispert, Anthony Goicolea, Janine Gordon, Ryan Humphrey, Nikki S. Lee, Julia Loktev, Maria Marshall, Ryan McGinness, Chloe Piene, Jeff Reed, Tom Sachs, Dean Sameshima, Collier Schorr, and Type A (Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin). Nationally traveled exhibition organized by ICI. Guest curator: Shamim M. Momin. MCA DENVER

2004 Over One Billion Served: Conceptual Photography from the People’s Republic of China featuring Zhao Bandi, Zhang Dali, Zhu Fadong, Liu Jin, Wang Jinsong, Sheng Qi, Wang Qingsong, Liu Wei, Wu Xiaojun, Wu Xiaojun, Bai Yiluo, and Liang Yue. Co-Curator: Julie Seagraves. MCA DENVER

Paola Ochoa: True Love. MCA DENVER

2003 POPjack: Warhol to Murakami featuring Matthew Abbott, , Keith Haring, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Hideaki Kawashima, Masahiko Kuwahara, Roy Lichtenstein, Mr., Vik Muniz, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Tam Ochiai, Tom Sachs, Aya Takano, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselman, and Brenda Zlamany. MCA DENVER

The Work of Robert Crumb, MCA DENVER

Elegy: Contemporary Ruins featuring Shimon Attie, Robert Dawson Christopher James, Richard Misrach, Patrick Nagatani, Catherine Opie, and Ron Pollard. Co- Curator: Katharine Smith Warren. MCA DENVER

Blood: Lines & Connections featuring Adel Abdessemed, Sama Alshaibi and Joe Farbrook, Art for Humanity (various artists), Heman Chong, David D’Agostino, Boryana Dragoeva, Zhang Huan, Lea and Pekka Kantonen, Oleg Mavromati, Zhu Ming, Sabah Naim, Marcos Ramirez, Tarja Pitkanën-Walter, and Victor Sydorenko. MCA DENVER

2002 Archipelago: an Intimate Immensity featuring Suzanne Anker, Lillian Ball, John Bowman, Chuck Cave, Kim Dickey, Rebecca DiDomenico, Jim Dingilian, Drew Dominick, Ellen Driscoll, Mary Ehrin, Madeleine Hatz, Linda Herritt, Elana Herzog, Lisa Hoke, Stacy Levy, Terry Maker, Howard McCalebb, Burt Payne 3,

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Kate Petley, PLOT, Elizabeth Olbert, Helen O’Leary, Katie Holten, Julie Poitras Santos, Bruce Price, Chandler Romeo, Ann Shostrom, Peter Soriano, Sarah Schwartz, Yuken Teruya, Kim Turos, John Torreano, Sarah Vanderlip, and Jaeha Yoo. Co-Curator: Ann Shostrom. MCA DENVER

5 Abstract featuring Dale Chimsan, Robert Mangold, Clark Richert, Beverly Rosen, and Al Wynne, MCA DENVER

2001 The Sensational Line featuring Franz Ackerman, Jeremy Blake, Nina Bovasso, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Michelle Fierro, Chris Finely, Elliott Green, John Hogan, Monica & Daniel Lorenzi, Jason Jagel, Chris Johanson, Martin Kensels, Manuel Ocampo, Monique Prieto, Stephanie Pryor, and Jacqueline Tough. MCA DENVER

Ten Shades of Green, Co-organized by the Architectural League of , co- Curator: Peter Buchanan featuring Andrew Lee for Hackland & Dore; Fernau & Hartman, Foster & Partners, Herzog & De Meuron, Michael Hopkins, Jourda & Perraudin, Rick Joy, Brain McKay-Lyons, Lake/Flato, Neutelings Riedijk, Renzo Pain Building Workshop, Webler & Geisler. MCA DENVER

2000 The Living End featuring Fiona Banner, Luca Buvoli, Liz Cazabon, Diana Cooper, Nancy Davidson, Rochelle Feinstein, Dianna Frid, Linda Herritt, Kimowan McClain, The Murthy Sisters, Michelle Segre, Arlene Shechet, and Alyson Shotz. Co-Curator: Ingrid Schaffner. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMOCA), Colorado

Elbows & Tea Leaves: Front Range Women in the Visual Arts featuring Michelle Amota, Linda Herritt, Virginia Maitland, Sally Elliot, Maggie Gilboy, Betty Woodman, Barbara Shark, Carol Brown, Marilyn Duke, Celeste Rehm, June Julian, and Vidie Lange. BMOCA. Traveled to Durango Art Center, Colorado

Muscle: The Power of the View (co-curator Mark Addison) featuring Tina Barney, Uta Barth, Jennifer Bartlett, Linda Bessemer, Joan Brown, Mary Carlson, Petah Coyne, Angela De La Cruz, Anges Denes, Lesley Dill, Jeanne Dunning, Ann Hamilton, Hawley, Jac Liernier, Bodil Manz, Shirin Neshat, Cornelia Parker, Judy Pfaff, Rona Pondick, Katherine Porter, Orit Raff, Jean Roller, Annabeth Rosen, Meridel Rubenstein, Michelle Segre, Sandy Skoglund, Jana Sterbak, Marilee Stiles Stern, Sarah Sze, Tomoko Takahashi, Leslie Wayne, Carrie Mae Weems, Nurit Wolf, Francesca Woodman. BMOCA

Matt Mullican: A World View. BMOCA

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1999 Sans Titre: Works from the Collection of Peggy Scott & David Teplitzy featuring Jean- Michel Basquiat, Chuck Close, Jean Claude & Christo, Rene Cox, Japser Johns, Willem de Kooning, Rachel Lachowitz, Mike and Doug Starn, and Andy Warhol. BMOCA

Vanguard Art in Colorado: 1940-1970. (co-curator Dr. John Woodward) Herbert Bayer, Charles Bunnell, Edgar Britton, George Cecil Carter, Mary Chenoweth, Vance Kirkland, Robert Mangold, and Al Wynne. BMOCA

1998 A Retrospective: Sensuality in a World of Reason, George Woodman. BMOCA

Multi-Nationals featuring Mónica Castillo, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Betsabeé Romero, Teresa Serrano, Melanie Smith, Eugenia Vargas. Co-Curator: Linda Herritt. BMOCA

Fertile Waste featuring Brad Evans, Tim Jag, Gary Parkins, Christian Spruell. BMOCA

1997 Art & Provocation: Image from Rebels featuring Sue Coe, Enrique Chagoya, Pamela Joseph, Joe Clower, R. Crumb, Mary Fleener, Jaime Hernandez, Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman, and Thomas Woodruff. Co-curator with Barbara Shark. BMOCA

1996 Larry Bell: Sumer. BMOCA. Traveled to The Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico

The Counterfeit Subject featuring Yishai Jusidman and Francis Alys. BMOCA

1995 Lynda Benglis: Chimera. BMOCA. Traveled to Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, The Harwood Museum, Taos, and University Gallery of Northern New Mexico, Raton

Pure featuring Rande Barke, Eric Blum, Carol Haerer, Homare Ikeda, Virginia Maitland, Mary Lovelace O'Neal, Mario Reis, Arlene Shechet, Ann Shostrom, and Wendy Sussman. BMOCA

1990 Clark Richert: Non/Euclidean Walks, Payton Rule, Denver

1988 The Nature of Things featuring Ellen Driscoll, Fischli & Weiss, David Humphreys, Alan Saret, Alan Scaritt, Sandy Skoglund. Cydney Payton Gallery, Denver, Colorado

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SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS, INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS

2008 “Manifest Hope,” Democratic National Convention, juror, with Spike Lee, Denver.

“Democracy,” The State of Things. Site-specific installation of Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese (Ligorano/Reese), Democratic National Convention, Denver.

“Solider,” Susan Opton’s billboard project. Democratic National Convention, Denver. Ongoing.

2007 “Fusion,” summer arts program in collaboration with Rhode Island School of Design featuring students from seven countries directed by Bill Moggridge, Designing Interactions, and Seth Goldenberg.

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, “Toxic Schizophrenia (Hyper Version),” permanent for the MCA DENVER.

Kim Dickey, “Museum as Theater as Garden,” permanent sculpture installation for the MCA DENVER.

Clark Richert, “Riemennian Tangencies,” permanent installation for the MCA DENVER.

Karla Dakin, “Sky Trapezium,” permanent garden space for the MCA DENVER.

“Creative Acts That Matter (Part III): The Peace Project” an exhibition and on- line global project with poetry readings, dance and parties featuring work by Roberto Behar & Rosario Marquardt/R&R Studios.

RX Art Ball. Curator/Juror. Benefit Auction. New York, New York. November 2, 2006.

2006 “Dead. Horse. Dead Coral. Dead Glacier.” inaugural installation for The Canary Project. Bus ads through-out Denver metropolitan area. MCA DENVER.

“Creative Acts That Matter (Part II): The Environment” performance The River with Eiko & Koma (NY) in the Platte River, Denver, CO and photography exhibition “NorthSouthEastWest: A 360 View of Climate Change” in the Platte River area & The Gates Sculpture Park, Denver, CO, a partnership with Judith Hussie Taylor, Magnum Photographers Inc., the British Council/Zero Carbon City and the Climate Change Group (UK).

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2005 “Waterways,” site-specific event with Renee Vara, curator, Venice Biennial, Italy.

“ Project,” two performances with Zhu Ming (China) during Miami Basel, Miami Beach, .

“Creative Acts That Matter (Part I): Population,” billboards & video projects in Durban, Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South Africa with Kara Walker (NY). Collaboration with Art for Humanity, South Africa.

2004 “Architects on View: MCA’s Six Finalists” February 9, 2004: Snohetta (Norway), February 16, 2004: David Adjaye (UK), February 23, 2004, Gluckman Mayner (New York), March 1, 2004, Enrique Norten (Mexico), March 8, 2004, Predock_Frane (California), March 15, 2004, Rick Joy (Arizona) presented at the Temple Buell Events Center and the Denver Botanical Gardens, Denver, CO.

2002 “I Will Smile for a Year,” Off Site Projects featuring Burt Payne 3 on the 16th Mall, Denver, Colorado. MCA DENVER.

1999 “Housed,” site specific projects featuring Craig Coleman, Terry Maker & Chris Rodgers, Sherry Wiggins & Jim Logan, Jack Collom, developed for the City of Boulder’s Planning Department (Division of Housing), BMOCA.

1998 “Mural at BMoCA,” commissioned projects with Mike Berg.

1996 Harry Bertoia (the largest work of the late artist) installation and restoration, BMOCA. Sold to the Bertoia Foundation in 1998 to create endowment for Museum.

“Boulder Outdoor Cinema,” founded the second outdoor cinema in the US. Still active.

1986–1996 “Art in the Streets,” weeklong public art event focused on graffiti and live art in various location with 25 to 50 artists participating each year.

1992 “A Day Without Art” Visual AIDS, New York. Collaborated on first public screening of image archives and exhibition in the US in Boulder, Colorado.

Built Continental Divide Theater in collaboration with New York actor and director Kevin Causey.

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EDUCATION

2012 MA Curatorial Practice, Concentration History & Theory of Architecture, California College of the Arts, San Francisco 1982–1985 University of Colorado Denver

References and a comprehensive listing of awards, boards, lectures, press, publications, and graphics available upon request.

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