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Born 1975 Cleveland, OH
Lives and works in Cleveland Heights, OH.
EDUCATION
2006 MFA Kent State University, Kent, OH
1997 BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
RESIDENCIES
2022 NIDO (organized by Michelle Grabner) International Center for the Arts, Montecastello di Vibio, Italy 2017 Chateau Orqueveax, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2014 TJ IN CHINA Project Space, Tijuana, Mexico
2011 Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, Grafikwerkstatt, Dresden, Germany
EXHIBITIONS
Solo & Two Person
2020 Endangered, Massillon Museum, Massillon, OH (solo)
2018 Artifice & Persuasion, Gallery W, Westlake, OH
2017 I can’t explain it. It happened slowly, the transition. Shaheen Modern and Contemporary, Cleveland, OH (solo)
2016 Making Money the Harder Way; Just the Facts, The Transformer Station, Jul 19 performance during the Republican National Committee in Cleveland, OH
2015 Gaps, Voids & Borders (some imagined, all arbitrary), Soltesz Fine Art, Portland, OR (solo)
A desert of magnificence… (a glittering waste of laborious idleness.) Shaheen, Cleveland, OH (solo) Take I-80W until the light changes, Peoria Art Guild, Peoria, IL (solo)
2013 Making Money the Harder Way,The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH with Elizabeth Emery
2010 Work Party 118, SpaceLAB, SPACES, Cleveland, OH (solo)
2008 Pulled Passed, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Group
2022 Worlds Allied, World Premiere “Feast; a ballet” performance, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OH Mar 25 7:30pm A Painter’s Table, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
INVOLVED, Texture Printmaking Studio, Taipei, Tawian
NIDO, ICA Italy, Monte Castello di Vibio, Italy
Figurative/Abstract, Heights Arts, Cleveland Heights, OH
2021 BOUNTY, Rhombus Space, Brooklyn, NY
2020 FEAST: a ballet, Premiere of film adaptation, Cleveland, OH Nov 27-30
2019 National Juried Exhibition, The Morgan Paper Conservancy, Cleveland, OH
2018 Screenprint Biennial 2018, Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY
CAN Triennial, 78th Street Studios, Cleveland, OH
2017 Heavy Metal, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH,
Works on Paper, Long Beach Island Foundation, Long Beach Island, NJ
Premio Marchionni, Fondazione Estetica & Progresso, Sardinia, Italy
2016 Curator’s Choice, Sandusky Cultural Center, Sandusky, OH,
2015 The People’s Revisionist Natural Itstory Museum, SPACES, Cleveland, OH
Revision Glocal Review Beijing-Tijuana, Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico
2014 95th Toledo Area Artists Exhibition, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Behind the Platen, La Roche College, Pittsburgh, PA and The University of Akron Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH URBA N S C A P E FROM A BIZARRE PRESENT, TJ in China Project Space, Tijuana, Mexico In Print, Cleveland Clinic Glickman Tower, Cleveland, OH
Vacancy, No Vacancy, Waterloo Arts, Cleveland, OH
2013 Ctrl+Alt+Del, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
Parsons Alumni Exhibition, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries at Parsons School of Design, New York, NY Curb Appeal, Rooms to Let/Temporary Art Space, Columbus, OH
2012 8501 to 11400 (On Moving), Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
72nd Midwestern Biennial, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL
Time and Place, Urban Art Space at The Ohio State University Gallery, Columbus, OH
Foreign Affairs, Galerie Standenhaus, Dresden, Germany
Paperworks, Heights Arts Gallery, Cleveland Heights, OH
2011 Colorado, Galerie Module Drei, Dresden, Germany
Moving On, Kent State University School of Art Downtown Gallery, Kent, OH
2006 Street Repairs (curated by Don Harvey), SPACES Gallery, Cleveland, OH
AWARDS
2021 Cleveland Arts Prize Mid-Career Award, The Cleveland Arts Prize, Cleveland, OH
2019 SPACES Satellite Fund Award, The Andy Warhol Foundation, Pittsburgh, PA
Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2D Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
2014 Nesnadny and Schwartz Visiting Critic Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH 2012 The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY
2011 Individual Excellence Award, Ohio Arts Council, 2D Visual Arts, Columbus, OH
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Case Western Reserve Univerity Putnam Collection, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, OH
Metro Health Systems of Cleveland, OH
Progressive Insurance Art Collection, Beachwood, OH
Ohio Arts Council Archives, Columbus, OH
Westin Hotel, Cleveland, OH
University Hospitals of Cleveland, OH
Univeristy of Illinois Champaign, IL
Zygote Press Archive, Cleveland, OH
PRESS
Brittany M. Hudak: “Makers,”CAN Journal, March 2017.
Pat Johnson: LBIF: “Works on Paper” National Competition, The Sandpaper, Long Beach Island, NJ, July 13, 2016 Halona Norton-Westbrook: Slawson at Shaheen, Before and After, Art Hopper.org, June 29, 2016
Morgan Meis: 28 Days in Cleveland, Art Hopper.org, July 9, 2015
Jill Holslin: Aesthetic Dislocations: TJ in China Project Space remakes Tijuana’s Image, Art at the Edges, San Diego, CA, May 23, 2014
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2019 Breakthroughs in Chemical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University , Putnam Collection, Cleveland, OH
2018 Campus Meander, Case Western Reserve University Putnam Collection, Cleveland, OH
2016 Columbus Metropolitan Library, Driving Park Branch, Columbus, OH
2013 Warehouse Distict Anthology Historical Markers, LAND Studio & Warehouse District CDC, Cleveland, OH
TEACHING & CURATORIAL WORK
Adjunct Faculty, Kent State University School of Art, Painting & Drawing Department, 2017–present Adjunct Faculty, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Printmaking Department, 2013–present
Co-curator, SPACES to SPACES, SPACES, Cleveland, OH, January 14–19, 2017
Visiting Artist, Kent Blossom, Kent State University School of Art, Kent, OH, Jun 2016
Panelist, Printshop As Watering Hole, College Arts Association, New York, NY, Feb 2015 Curator, They Came. They Saw. They Printed!, Zygote Press Archive Exhibition, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH, 2015 Grants Director & Archivist, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH, 2011-2017
Grants Director, The Sculture Center, Cleveland, OH, 2013-2016
Exhibition Development Specialist , The Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage, Beachwood, OH, 2004–2008 Exhibition Development Specialist, The International SPY Museum, Washington DC, 2001–2002
