Clayton F. Merrell
128 Braddock Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15221
Home & Studio: (412) 247-0928
Office: (412) 268-6049
e-mail: cmerrell@andrew.cmu.edu
website: http://artscool.cfa.cmu.edu/~merrell

Education

1995 Yale School of Art, New Haven CT M.F.A., painting and printmaking
Studied with: Frances Barth, Lois Conner, Richard Ryan, Steve Sheehan, Pat Adams, William Bailey, Mel Bochner, Natalie Charkow, Rochelle Feinstein, Andrew Forge, Richard Lytle, Sam Messer, Sylvia Mangold, David Pease, John Walker

1993 Brigham Young University, Provo UT: B.F.A., painting, Magna Cum Laude

1988 Chatauqua School of Art, Chatauqua NY
Studied with: Deborah Rosenthal and Don Kimes

1987 Parson's School of Design/New School for Social Research,
Paris & Sireuil, France

1986 Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, Williamstown PA

Grants and Residencies

2007 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY
mini-residency
2007 Carnegie-Mellon University Berkman Fund Grant
project funding
2006-07 Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA
Independent Project Artist

2006 Center for the Arts in Society, Pittsburgh PA
Funding for travel and photogrpahic project in Oaxaca Mexico

2004-05 Roswell Artist-In Residence Foundation, Roswell NM
12 month fellowship/grant

2004 Pro-Arts Artist Opportunity Grant
Funding to support travel, shipping and exhibition expenses

2003 Anderson Center, Red Wing MN
Residency and fellowship/grant

2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson VT Residency and full fellowship/grant

2002 Carnegie-Mellon University Berkman Fund Grant
support for travel and research in China

2000 Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY
Residency

1999 Buffalo National River, Buffalo National River AK
Artist-In-Residence

1998 The Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz NY
Residency

1995-96 Fulbright / García Robles Grant, Oaxaca, Mexico
Creative work and research on semiotics of pre-Columbian cartography

1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan ME
Residency. Worked with: Mel Chin, Jean Cohen, Mary Heilmann, Alex Katz, Pat Oleszko, Tom Otterness, Mira Schor, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson

Selected Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2007 Pieces of Light, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George NY
2006 Shatter, New Arts Pogram, NAP Gallery, Kutztown, PA
2005 Artist of the Year Exhibition, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts Pittsburgh PA
2005 Pieces of the Desert, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM
2004 Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2004 Lincoln Center Art Gallery, Fort Collins CO
2003 once/again Gallery 1071, Chico CA
2003 The Dome of the Earth and the Surface of the Sky, Fairmont State College, Fairmont WV
2002 Pieces of the Earth and Sky, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia PA
2002 Fragments of the Earth, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver CO
2001 Landscapes, Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon PA
2001 Some Things in Which I Found my Eyes, AAP Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2000 Clayton Merrell & Stephen Pentak, Concept Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2000 The Sky and the Earth, Whole and in Parts, Haas Gallery, Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA
1999 Gallery 225, Raleigh NC
1999 Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase NY
1998 Sky Paintings, Truman State University, Kirksville MO
1996 Paisajes Oaxaqueños, Ex-convento de San Pablo, Oaxaca, Mexico
1995 MFA Thesis Show, New Haven CT
1993 The Venezuela Series, Wilkinson Gallery, Provo UT

2008 Works on Paper, Cuchifritos Gallery, New York NY
2008 Work Book, Special Collections Library, UW Madison WI
2008 You Are Here, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2008 Deliciously Disposable Earth, TRAF Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2007 Seed, Winkelman Gallery, New York, NY
2007 AIR: 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell NM (upcoming)
2006-07 Belmopán, American Embassy, Belmopán Belize
2006 2006 Projects Exhibition, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2006 Displaced, Castelliotissa Gallery, Nicosia Cyprus
2006 Art of the State, Museum of the Commonwealth, Harrisburg, PA
2005 Photography Plus, Curator: Robert Raczca, Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville PA
2005 Lessedra International Print Show, National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2005 Inkjet, Artist Image Resource Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2004 Roswell Artist-in Residence Exhibition, SFCC Visual Arts Gallery, Santa Fe NM
2004 Overlay, Collaborative project exhibited at online project gallery 202c.com
2004 War Room, Artist Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA
2004 Three Rivers Arts Festival Annual Show, Curator: Katherine Talcott, TRAF Gallery, Pittsburgh PA (best of show award)
2003 Annual Show, Anderson Center Art Galleries, Red Wing MN
2003 Supervalitragilisticexelluminaceous, Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
2003 Wall Drug, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Denver CO
2003 Throwing the Switch on Salvo, Gallery in the Square, Pittsburgh PA
2003 Rethinking Landscape, Curator: Kristy Krivitsky, Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster PA
2003 Nicosia, The U.S. Consulate in Cyprus, Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus
2003 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
2002 Currents, Curator: James Schaub, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Tucson AZ
2002 Toxic Landscapes, Curator: Tim Blunk, main gallery of the Bibliotéca Nacional José Martí (the José Martí National Library) in Havana, Cuba
2002 Young Painters 2002, Hiestand Galleries, Miami University, Oxford OH
2002 Utah Alternative 2002, Curator: Lenka Konopasek, Wells Fargo Bldg. SLC, UT
2001 Art Educates the World, exhibition and auction at Southeby’s New York, NY
curated by: Dan Cameron, Laura Hoptman, and Klaus Kertess
2001 Toxic Landscapes, Puffin Cultural Forum, Teaneck NJ
Curator: Tim Blunk. (additional venues: Johannesburg, South Africa; Pittsburgh PA; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Havana, Cuba)
2001 Painting: Inside Outside & Beyond, Denison Univ. Art Gallery, Granville OH
2001 Skowhegan Alumni Show and Auction, Knoedler Gallery, New York NY
2001 Photographs By Artists, Artists Image Resource, Pittsburgh PA
2000 Science and Art, Yorkarts, York PA
2000 From Where We Stand: An Exhibition of Environments, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
2000 8-Hour Drawings, Bowman Gallery, Allegheny College, Meadville PA
2000 Retablos, The Print Center, Philadelphia PA
2000 15xxx, Curator: Robert Raczca, University of Akron, Akron OH
2000 Pittsburgh Biennial, Curators: Vicky Clark and Robert Raczka, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA
2000 Auto/Visual/Indi/Visible, Miller Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University,
Pittsburgh PA
2000 Off the Walls, Curator: Vicky Clark, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,
Pittsburgh PA
2000 A Community, Cordell Taylor Gallery, Salt Lake City UT
2000 All Media Show 2000, Curator: Jane Farver, Arlington Art Center, Arlington VA
1999 Ma(r)king, Curator: Elaine King, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson AZ
1999 Summer Show, Curator: Emily Eddins, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City MO
1999 CMU Faculty Show, Foreland Street Studio, Pittsburgh PA
1999 Elizabethtown 9th Annual, Elizabethtown PA
1998 A Skowhegan Decade, David Beitzel Gallery, New York NY
1998 Associated Artists of Pittsburgh 88th Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA (Juror’s Award and Purchase Prize)
1997 Gráficas Magníficas de Oaxaca, Curator: Curlee Holton, Lafayette College Gallery, Easton PA
1997 Greater Midwest International, CMSU, Warrensburg MO
1996 Emerging Artists of the Year, ACA Exhibition Space, New York NY
1995 Connecticut Annual, Stamford Museum, Stamford CT
1993&94 Yale Graduate Student Show, New Haven CT
1993 Ellis, Merrell & Slaugh, Atrium Gallery, Salt Lake City UT
1993 Utah '93, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT

Bibliography/Publications

Allard, Jean-Guy. “Toxic Landscapes Exhibition” Granma Internacional, (Havana, Cuba) June 21, 2002
Art Educates the World. Digital catalog of exhibition and auction at Sotheby’s, NY
Art in America May 1995, p. 74 (image only)
ArtNow Philadelphia/Mid-Atlantic Feb. 2001 p. 14 (image)
Art World Digest. The “Seed Project” Issue, Spring 2007
Aurand, Martin, with illustrations by Clayton Merrell. The Spectator and the Topographical City. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2006
Bauer, Dan and Holton, Curlee. Graficas Magnificas de Oaxaca. Exhibition Catalog, 1997
Carnegie Mellon Magazine Volume 19 #1, fall 2000, p.1
Clayton Merrell. Exhibition Catalog published by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA 2005
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting: Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism. Critical Forum Series Volume 6, Jonathan Harris editor, Liverpool University Press + Tate Liverpool, Liverpool UK, 2003
DiFonzo, Carla. “Rethinking Landscape.” Lancaster Intelligencer Journal August 29th 2003, p.8-10
Donohoe, Victoria. The Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Sept. 8, 2002
Hilgeman, Melissa. “Roswell Artist-In-Residence” Roswell Daily Record May 15, 2005, p. C1-2
Jones, Simone. Art Papers Magazine May/June 2001, p. 46-47
Miller, Donald. “Artfully Associated.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Weekend Magazine 25 Sept. 1998, p.14-15
Monteleone, Michaelangelo. In Pittsburgh Apr. 19, 2000, p.34
New American Paintings Vol. 17, August 1998
New American Paintings Vol. 39, April 2002
New American Paintings Vol. 75, April 2008
Nicosia. Catalog published by the ART in Embassies Program, U.S. Dept. of State, Washington D.C., February 2004
Notebook, Book published by Creative Capitalism, Baltimore, MD 2006
O’Sullivan, Michael. “On Exhibit.” The Washington Post Feb. 4, 2000
Paisajes Tóxicos:Artistas Examinen el Ambiente. Catalog of exhibition at the Bibliotéca Nacional José Martí, Havana, Cuba
Pittsburgh Biennial. Exhibition Catalog, published by the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh PA, 2000
Shaw, Kurt. “Concept Exhibition Goes Way Beyond Landscape Painting.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Sep. 26, 2004
Shaw, Kurt. “Pair of Shows Comment on Environmental Issues.” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Nov. 16, 2001
Shearing, Graham. “Thoughts on Landscape.” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Apr. 28, 2000
Thomas, Mary. “Art Review:” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Oct. 14, 2000
Thomas, Mary. “High Marks.” Pittsburgh Tribune Review Mar. 20, 1999
Thomas, Mary. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 12, 2001
Venkatasubban, Sharmila. “Defined by Struggle.” In Pittsburgh Vol. 17 #9, Oct. 4, 2000, p. 24
Venkatasubban, Sharmila. “Sidelong Glances.” In Pittsburgh April 2001
Wolf, Frances. “Border Territory.” catalog essay in Science And Art, York PA, 2000
Yale Literary Magazine Spring 1995, Vol. VII, No. 1
Yale Literary Magazine Fall 1994, Vol. VI

Media

Bayer Arts Magazine, WQED FM, Sat. Sep 10, 2005
New Arts Program, 45 minute interview broadcast on BCTV Reading PA, DUTV Philadelphia, Neighborhood Network (Channel 57) Manhattan, Sep 13, 2005
KSFR Public Television, Santa Fe NM, October 14, 2004 (40 minute interview)

Selected Honors and Awards

2007 Berkman Grant – Carnegie Mellon University
2005 Nominated for Tiffany Foundation Grant
2005 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Artist of the Year
2004-05 Roswell Artist-in-Residence Fellowship
2002 Full Fellowship Grant from Vermont Studio Center
2002 Berkman Grant – Carnegie Mellon University
2001 Nominated for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust / Howard Heinz Foundation / Laurel Foundation Creative Achievement Award
2000 Basil H Alkazzi Award Finalist
1995-96 Fulbright/Garcia-Robles Grant
1995 Selected for residency at Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center (declined)
1995 Yale / Skowhegan Matching Fellowship
1995 Binney & Smith Emerging Artist of the Year Award
1993&94 Liquitex Grants

Current Gallery Representation

Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh PA
Plus Gallery, Denver CO
Printed Matter, New York NY

Commissions

Freemarkets On-Line, Brussels, Belgium: cycle of six paintings, 1999
Marriott Hotel, Pittsburgh, PA: series of eight paintings, 2004

Collections

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Bayer corporate collection of contemporaty art, North America
Binney and Smith Inc., Easton PA
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake NY
Durr Associates, Pittsburgh PA
Euro R.S.C.G. Magnet, Pittsburgh PA
FreeMarkets Inc., Pittsburgh PA and Brussels, Belgium
Juniata College Museum of Art, Huntingdon PA
Truman State University, Kirksville MO
Marriott Corporation, North America
United States Embassy, Belmopan Belize
U. S. Department of the Interior
More than 200 private collections worldwide

Appointments

2007 The Chautauqua Institute School of Art, Chautauqua NY
Teaching: advanced painting seminar, Summer 2008

1998-07 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA
Associate Professor of Art, courses taught include: Graduate Integrative Seminar, Senior Projects, Painting, Drawing, Paint/Draw, Concept Studio – Time & Space, Systems & Processes, Advanced Painting Materials & Techniques, Visual Systems

1996-98 Truman State University, Kirksville MO
Visiting Artist / Assistant Professor of Art, courses taught include:
Advanced Painting, Advanced Drawing, Design, Survey of Contemporary Art

1997 Joseph Baldwin Academy, Kirksville MO
Taught: Studio Art Intensive Course

1994 Norfolk Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk CT
Teaching Assistant to Emily Cheng and David Humphreys, painting

1994 Yale School of Art, New Haven CT
Teaching Assistant to Rochelle Feinstein, lithography

Visiting Artist Lectures/Presentations at Academic Conferences

2007 The Chautauqua Institute, Chautauqua NY – panel discussion: The Visual Arts:
Where Are We Now?
2006 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2006 Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
2006 West Virginia University, Morgantown WV
2005 New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA
2005 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM
2004 National Science Foundation Workshop in Chemistry and Art, Millersville University, Millersville PA Workshop Participant
2003 SECAC Conference, Raleigh, NC
paper presented: Two Perspectives on Some Shifting Scopic Regimes (written and presented in collaboration with Lance Winn)
2003 Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA
2003 Kent State University, Kent, OH
2003 Fairmont State University, Fairmont, WV
2002 Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
2002 Association of Art Historians Conference: Culture/Capital/Colony. The University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK. paper presented: Dissembling Narratives and Self-Devouring Facts
2002 The University of Akron, Akron, OH
2001 San Bernardino State University, San Bernardino CA
2001 Northern Illinois University, De Kalb IL
2000 Carnegie International/Artists on Art Series, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh PA
2000 Allegheny College, Meadville PA
2000 Bloomsburg University, Bloomsburg PA
1999 University of Buffalo, Buffalo NY
1999 Manhattanville College, Purchase NY
1998 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
1998 Maine College of Art, Portland ME
1997 University of Iowa, Graduate Painting Program, Iowa City IA
1997 NAHE Annual Conference, paper presented: “Pre-Columbian Cartography: Of Minds, Maps and Mirrors”


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