Clayton V. Colvin Email: [email protected] Education 2005: MFA (Painting), University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 2003: MAEd (Art Education), University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 1999: BA (Art History) New York University, New York, NY Exhibition Record 2010 solo exhibition: Fiction, Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL Fiction, Caseworks, University of Memphis Art Museum, Memphis, TN group shows: Gulf Arts Now, Space 301 Off Centre, Mobile, Alabama "TKAM 2010: To Kill a Mockingbird-Awakening America's Conscience," organized by Alabama Humanities Foundation, Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, and Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery The Price Is Right, David Lusk gallery, Memphis TN 2009: Fiction, solo exhibition, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham, AL Drawing on Alabama 2009, Biggins Hall, Auburn, Al ---- Space 301, Mobile, AL The Sketchbook Project Volume 3, Art House Gallery, Atlanta , GA ---- Museum of Contempory Art DC, Washington DC ---- Chris' Jazz Café, Philadelphia, PA ---- Laconia Gallery, Boston, MA ---- Antena Gallery, Chicago, IL ---- Soulard Art Market, ST Loius MO ---- 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn, NY ---- Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA), Atlanta 2008: solo exhibtion Pier and Ocean and Main St., Amanda Schedler Fine Arts, Birmingham solo exhibtion Pier and Ocean and Main St., Material, Memphis, TN ARTPAPERS: 9th annual art auction, juried benefit for ARTPAPERS magazine, Atlanta 2007: le papier (part) deux: group exhibition of works on paper, Geschiedle, Chicago, IL FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), Circus of Books, Los Angeles FRISBEE is NOWHERE and EVERYWHERE (curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike), McMurdo Station, Antartica SuckaFreeJams: the Remainder Gallery, Birmingham, AL Dia de los Muertos: Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, AL Satellite Gone: solo show, The Upper Room, Birmingham, AL Popular Digest: Clayton V. Colvin and Pat Snow, Barehands, Birmingham, AL 2006 Wonder Twin Powers, Activate! (curated by Anat Ebgi,, and Jose Carlos Diaz),, Gescheidle Chicago, IL IRAQ (curated by Lynn Longe), 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 (curated by Brett Levine), 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, (curated by Jon Cofffelt) for Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham, AL 2005 Space Cadet, solo show , Material, Memphis, TN Birmingham’s Best Young Arists, Schedler Minchin FA, Birmingham,A Night 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, NY, NY Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @ Frisbee, Miami Beach Worm-Hole Laboratory’s Art-Official X-mas, @Queen’s Nail Annex, San Francisco 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, Alabama Reoccurring Exchange, Florida International University, Miami, Florida Dirty South!, Worm-hole Laboratory, Miami, Florida, Curator : Jose-Carlos Diaz 2003 Fear and Consumption, ASL Gallery, University of Alabama Chaos, Turncoats, New Orleans, Louisiana Magic City Art Connection, Lynn Park, Birmingham, Alabama 2002 G.O.R.A. Inmotus, Eyedrum, Atlanta Georgia G.O.R.A. Inmotus, Barehands Gallery, Birmingham, Alabama 2001 Superheroes, Three Ring Circus, New Orleans, Louisiana 2000 No Dead Artists, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana Selected Curated Exhibitions Werk, UAB Visual Arts Gallery, May 2010 Poems and Paintings from Memphis, November 2009, Amanda Schedler Fine Arts Registering the Invisible, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Mobile and Baldwin Co. schools, Ashley Oates, Richard Curtis, and University of South Alabama Photography students Alvin C. Sella, recent paintings, Space 301 (Sept 6th –November 12th) featureing work by Alvin Sella, and then work by former Sella students: Pat Snow, Katherine B., Dominic, Nick Davis, Jerry Roland, and Ty Smith. Southern Gothic Now, Space 301 off-centre (May 9 – July 6, 2008), featuring works from Chris Jancke , Doug Baulos, Merrilee Challiss, Greg Hopins, Amy Pleasant, Maysay Craddock, Julie Puttgen, TM Sisters, and others. Art and Place 2: Material at Hand, Space 301 off-centre (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Buzz Spector, Francis Alys, William Christenberry, Lance Winn, Christopher McNulty, Greg Hopkins, Buffy Rinehart, and others A Time for War or Peace: Art that confronts the realities of the present, Space 301 off-centre, featuring work from Steve Mumford, Multi-national Force-Iraq,, Beth Edwards, Erika Somogyi, among others (Co-curated By David McCann and Clayton Colvin, essay by Clayton Colvin) Life is But Dream: Contemporary figurative photography, Space 301 off-centre, featuring works from Ryan McGinley, Julie Moos, Demetrius Oliver, Aaron Young, among others. Contexture: fabric, fashion, fantasy, Space 301 off-centre, featuring works from Pinky Bass, Alabama Chanin, Knittaplease.com, Hiroshi Tanabe, Xiang yang, among others. ..and you must make a friend of horror, The Upper Room, Birmingham, Al, featuring Heather Blackwell, Natalie Benedetti, Samuel Nyholm, and Pat Snow Art and Place 1: Place as Muse, Space 301 (Mobile’s Centre for the Living Arts), featuring works from Jen DeNike, Johannes Nyholm, Paul Slocum, Jeremy Earhart, Tom Moody, BEIGE, and Bryce Speed, among others. November: a selection of works from UAB undergraduates, Stealtharts, featuring: Suzy Moorer, Jill Ivins, Gene Ferreiro, and Michael James Lukacovic Information in Formation, UAB Visual Art Gallery, featuring the work of Billy Apple, John Baldessari, John Simon Jr., Brian Bishop, and others. (Co-curated by Clayton Colvin and Brett Levine) Selected Public programs and Presentations 2011 Visiting Artist lecture and critiques, Florida State University 2010 Fiction, 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 Field Recordings, a visiting artist lecture to the art department at 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 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) 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 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) Professional References: Douglas Baulos MFA Assistant Prof of Foundations, University of Alabama at Birmingham [email protected] (205)566-9672 Fax: 205.975.2836 Brett Levine MA Director, Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama at Birmingham [email protected] (205)934-0815 Fax: 205.975.2836 Dr. Jessica Dallow M.A., Ph.D. Assoc.Chair, Asst. Professor of Contemporary Art History, UAB [email protected] (205) 222-6451 Professional Experience 2010 Adjunct Instructor, University of Alabama ART 210 (Drawing II) 2002 – 2010 Adjunct Instructor, University of Alabama at Birmingham Courses taught as of Dec 2008: ARS 300, 400, 500 (Advanced Drawing Seminar) ARS 302 (Figure Drawing) ARS 100 (Introduction to Drawing) ARS 101 (Introduction to 2D Design) 2007-2008 Curator of Education / Artistic Director, Space 301, Mobile, Al Worked with the President of the Centre for the Living Arts and the CLA’s Board of Directors to manage fiscal budget, establish a strategic plan, and continue the mission of Space 301, a non-profit in Mobile, Alabama Under the President of the Centre for the Living Arts, directed the education and exhibition programs of a non-profit contemporary art space Worked with the Space 301 Arts Advisory Committee to establish Committee Bylaws Planned Space 301’s return to use of its 8500 square foot gallery and education facility Wrote grants and received funding for education and exhibition programs Designed and organized major exhibitions for Space 301’s 2500 square foot exhibition space Standardized Space 301’s guest curator program Activated a marketing campaign involving Television, radio, and internet Designed multiple disciplinary tour and outreach program, including project using GPS devices to create drawings with over 700 Mobile area students from grade 3 to University level 2005 – 2007 Director, stealtharts, an independent space in Birmingham, AL Organized and coordinated 10 exhibitions a year Managed property Web design