Corrie Slawson: It’s hard to explain, but it happened slowly, the transition

Born 1975 Cleveland, OH 

Lives and works in Cleveland Heights, OH. 

2006 MFA Kent State University, Kent, OH 

1997 BFA Parsons School of Design, New York, NY  

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 

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 

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 

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 

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

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 

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 

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