T. R. Ericsson

Born Cleveland, OH 1972

Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Concord Township, OH

EDUCATION

1991-1995     The Art Students League of New York, NY

                      The National Academy of Design, New York, NY

1990-1991     The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

SOLO EXHIBTIIONS

2010   Etant Donnes, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

2008   Narcissus, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

          Thanksgiving, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH

          Nicotine Dream, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

2007   As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

           And all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well when the tongues of flame are in-folded into

           the crowned knot of fire and the fire and the rose are one, Progressive Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA

2006   The Year of the Motorcycle, documentary film screening, Cleveland International Film Festival,

           Cleveland, OH

2005   The Year of the Motorcycle, Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH

2003   Angst, Cleveland Public Art, Cleveland, OH

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010   Eyelevel Reshelving Initiative Four, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia

2009   My Gay Uncle, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY

           Works on Paper, William Shearburn Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2008   A Photographic Perspective, Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, NY

2007   Andy Warhol: Factory Now, Kasia Key Art Projects, Chicago, IL

2004   Pedestrian, Nowhere to go and no money to get there, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH

Pfizer Corporate Collection, New York, NY

JP Morgan Chase Collection, New York, NY

The Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

Thirst magazine resides in the permanent collections of:

The Rockefeller Library, Serials Department, Providence, RI

The Joan Flash Artist Book Collection, Chicago, IL

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Washington D.C.

Joseph Curtis Sloane Art Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

SELECTED PRESS

Through The Woods, by Douglas Max Utter, Cleveland Scene, December 2008

On The Performativity of Absence, Connections Interdisciplinary Conference, Reflections on Materiality and Time; by Natasha Lushetich, Bristol, Avon, UK

Review of As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers; by Victoria Hofmo, Norway Times, November 13, 2007

Review of As if life isn't hard enough they have to tear out your flowers; by Holland Cotter, New York Times, October 26, 2007

Corporate Power; by Barbara Pollack, Art and Auction, December 2005

Downtown Cleveland, a documentary, WVIZ/PBS producer David C. Barnett, 2004

Applause, WVIZ ideastream, an interview with Dee Perry, 2002

Hold that pose; House Beautiful Magazine, September 2001

AWARDS

Anna Lee Stacey Foundation Grant, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1997

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1997

Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1995

Edward G. McDowell Travel Grant, New York, NY, 1995

Lloyd Sherwood Grant, New York, NY, 1994-95

National Arts Club, Award of Distinction, New York, NY, 1993

Albert Halgarten Travel Grant, New York, NY, 1993

Mark Fox

Born 1963 in Cincinnati, Ohio

Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION

1988    Stanford University, MFA

1985    Washington University, St. Louis, BFA

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009    If therefore, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

            Whitney Museum of American Art, Art Party Featured Artist, New York, NY

2008    Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX

            Dust, Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, TX

            Paper Bulls, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2007    The Peacock Flesh, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

            Dust, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2006    Cricket's Song, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005    Fascia, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

            Inchmeal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA

            Prints and Drawings, Clay St. Press, Cincinnati, OH

            New Works on Paper, SHAHEEN modern and contemporary art, Cleveland, OH

2004    Dust, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL

2003    Dust, Drawing installations and video projections, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH 

2001    Downburst, Multi-media installation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2000    Six Degrees Of..., Mixed media sculpture, Artworks Sculpture Project, Federal Plaza, Cincinnati, OH

1998    Fallen Stages: Drawings, pages and chapters from Account Me Puppet, The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

            Recent Paintings, Hiestand Gallery,  Miami University, Oxford, OH

Articles of Faith, Drawings and Performance Ephemera, Southern Ohio Museum of Art, Portsmouth, OH

1996    Images from Wurlitzer Voice, Teplitzky and Scott Fine Arts, Cincinnati, OH

1995    Verses and Tongues, Puppets and Performance Ephemera, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1991    New Paintings, C.A.G.E. Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1989    Recent Works, Patricia Herrmann Gallery, Covington, KY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010    Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (forthcoming)

2009    Unmistakable, HERE Arts Center, New York, NY

            Paper Trail, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

Just What Are They Saying... (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody), Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, LA 

2008    Long Time No See, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

            I Won't Grow Up, Cheim and Read, New York, NY

            Stable Scrawl, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

2007   Contemporary Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art,, Philadelphia, PA

2006    Analog Animation: Selections Spring 2006, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2005    Portraits on Paper, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY

            Underage, Clifford Chance E US LLP/Dinaburg Arts LLC, New York, NY

            4, Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA

            WOVEN, Gallery W52, New York, NY

            Drawn Out, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

2004    Itsy Bitsy Spider, Feature Inc., New York, NY

2003    Welcome, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH 

2002    Walk to Zet & Spiders from Zet, Drawing Installations and Video Projections, Jeleni Gallery, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague

            Summer Vacation, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2001    Surface Active, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

            Journal of Being, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

            Accumulations, Kent State University, Akron, OH

            Working Space, Drawing and Film Installation, NeuRathaus Gallery, Munich, Germany

            Unit 2, What?, UNIT 2, Cincinnati, OH

1998    Stacked, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

            Small Works, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

1996    sortasorid, Dileia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH

            Evicted, High Street Gallery, Oxford, OH

PERFORMANCE/SAW THEATER

Mark Fox was the Creative Director of Saw Theater. Co-founded in 1993 with Anthony Luensman, Saw Theater was a non-profit contemporary puppet theater that conceived and produced original multi-media performances often in collaboration with artists and writers.

2001    and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm.., Intermedia Festival,The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

1999    Account Me Puppet

               Theater for the New City, New York, NY

               Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Philadelphia, PA

               The Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta, GA

               Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

  Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

The Kiss, Webcast in collaboration in conjunction with Franklin Furnace and Pseudo Programs, New York, NY

             The Temper Ris'n

               The Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

               Intermedia Festival, The Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH

            Faust, Creation and performance of two large-scale puppets for Charles Gounod's Faust, directed by Nicholas Muni, The Cincinnati Opera, Cincinnati, OH

1998    and the movement of hearts came at me like a storm.., The Festival of International Puppet Theater, P.S. 122, New York, NY

            A Criminal's Story, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1997    Stain

               Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

               The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

               Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

               Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

            The Ascension, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH

1996    Wulitzer Voice, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1995    Verses and Tongues, (Created and performed in conjunction with solo exhibit), Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

1994    Ruins, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

            A Great Storm, Saw Theater Performance Space, Cincinnati, OH

1993    puppetstory, in situ, Cincinnati, OH

            Zorro, Shadow puppetry sequences commissioned in conjunction with The Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati Production.

 FILM/VIDEO

1999    Toy, Super 8 Film; 20 minutes, Super Super 8 Film Festival, Toured the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan

Oyster Project, Super 8 Film created in conjunction with a live performance by the rock band Oyster, The Contemporary Dance Theater, Cincinnati, OH

1998    Built, Film Loop Mechanism, Crash, Rike Center, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

Carousel Traces, Film Loop Mechanism (in collaboration with Andrea Sparks, 840 Gallery, College of Design, Architecture and Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

1996    Filmworks, Screening of selected short animated films, Kaldis, Cincinnati, OH

FELLOWSHIPS/GRANTS/AWARDS/RESIDENCIES

2002    Artist Residency, Foundation and Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic

            The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

2001    Artist Residency, Working Space, Awarded by Kultureferat, Munich, Germany

            Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

2000    The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

            Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

1999    Artist Residency, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

            Otto M. Budig Foundation Grant

            The Fine Arts Fund of Cincinnati Fund

            Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

            Cinergy Foundation Grant

            Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

            Ohio Arts Council Operation Support Grant

1998    Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

            The Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant

            Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

            Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship

1997    Puffin Foundation Grant

            Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

            Artist Residency, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1995    Greater Cincinnati Foundation Award

1994    Cincinnati Arts Allocation Grant

1993    Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship

RECENT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009    "artisti a New York", Corriere della Sera Io Donna, (January 2008)

2008    Kahn, Eve. "Extreme Art," ART + AUCTION  (September 2008)

            Schultze, Troy. "Rice Gallery Hosts Outrageous Window Installation Dust," HOUSTON PRESS  (August 7, 2008)

            Crawford, Lynn. "Mark Fox, Paper Bulls," The Brooklyn Rail (July 2008)

 Johnson, Ken. "Some Shows for Escape, Some for Introspection," The New York Times (July 4, 2008)

2007    "Mark Fox," The New Yorker  (November 12, 2007)