GERALD
MEAD - NEXT ARTIST |
Born 1962
Lives and works in Buffalo, NY EDUCATION
2008 University at Buffalo, MFA Visual Studies 1986 Buffalo State College, BS Design 1985 Buffalo State College, BA Psychology SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Gerald Mead: Constructed Elements, Exhibit A, Corning NY 2011 20-Year Timeline: Collages by Gerald Mead, Carnegie Art Center North Tonawanda, NY 2010 Gerald Mead: Assembled Meanings, Exhibit A, Corning, NY Microcosmic Archive: A History of Nichols by Gerald Mead, Nichols School Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2008 Gerald Mead: New Assemblages, Studio Hart, Buffalo, NY Continuum: The MacKrell Collage Archive Project, UB Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY, (also traveled to Fredonia State College, Fredonia, NY and the Springville Center for the Arts, Springville, NY) 2006 Small, smaller & smallest: Recent Work by Gerald Mead, Insite Gallery, Buffalo, NY 2004 30 Square Inches, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY Gerald Mead (inch by inch): A 15-year Survey, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY 2002 micro-illuminations: New Work by Gerald Mead, Daemen College, Amherst, NY 2001 Assemblages, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY Gerald Mead: Works from the Charles Rand Penney Collection, Olean Public Gallery, Olean, NY (also traveled to the Kenan Center, Lockport, NY) 1999 Epic Minutiae, Niagara County Community College, Sanborn, NY 1997 Gerald Mead: Travellages, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Models of Exactness, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY 1996 Obsessive Collage, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY SELECTED TWO and THREE PERSON 2006 Gerald Mead & Emily Watson, Houghton Gallery at 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY 2003 Trilogies XI: The Work of Three Artists, Art Dialogue Gallery, Buffalo, NY (three-person) 1993 Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY (three-person) 1992 Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk NY, Mixed Metaphors (three-person) GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 ECHO Art Fair, presented by Exhibit A, Buffalo NY Forward, Exhibit A, Corning NY 2012 Western NY Members of the National Collage Society, Meibohm Fine Arts, E. Aurora, NY The Dream, Houghton Gallery at 171 Cedar Arts Center, Corning, NY Visual AIDS: Postcards from the Edge, Cheim and Read, New York, NY 2011 Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Exhibit A, Corning, NY Buffalo on the Bowery, Charles Banks Gallery, New York, NY (curated) 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY (invitational) Aperture: Photography from the Permanent Collection, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Lewiston, NY (curated) ECHO: Art Fair, Central Terminal, Buffalo, NY (juried) 2010 Buffalo Artist Exchange Exhibition, Ural State Academy Of Architecture And Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia (curated) Connections: Art Committee Invitational, Kenan Center, Lockport, NY Curiousier and Curiousier, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY (curated) New Works Celebrating Niagara, Niagara Arts & Cultural Center, Niagara Falls, NY (invitational) 2009 Buffalo Artist Exchange Exhibition, University of Moscow, Sterlitamak, Russia (curated) Re-Use/Re-Order, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IN (invitational) Visual Aids: Postcards From The Edge, Metro Pictures, New York, NY 2008 International Small Works Show, Limestone Art Gallery, Fayetteville, NY, 20/20 (juried) On The Walls: From Buffalo, Gallery 435, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (invitational) 6 X 6 X 2008, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY, Group Show 1, Designosaurus Gallery, Kenmore, NY (invitational) 2007 Visual Aids: Postcards From The Edge, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, Miniature Art Exhibit, School of The Arts, Lewiston, NY In Focus: Highlights From The Castellani’s Photography Collection, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY (curated) Addressing Iraq,University Of Florida Art Gallery, Gainesville, Fl Converge II, Rochester Institute Of Technology, Rochester, NY (invitational) Rebooted: Life After E-Junk, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI The Fate Of The Art: The Hand Printed Book In The 21st Century University Of California, Berkeley, CA (symposium) 2006 Visual Aids: Postcards From The Edge, Sikkema Jenkins Gallery, New York, NY, Night Of 1,000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY, University At Buffalo Exchange Exhibition, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center, Fredonia State College, Fredonia, NY Area Artist Collection: Curator’s Choice, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY,(curated) The Thing Itself: Artists, Objects And Ideas, Wyoming County Arts Council Gallery, Perry, NY (curated) Upstate Invitational, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY, Buffalo Artists, Mark Palmer Gallery, Paducah, KY (curated) 2005 Summer Views, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY, (curated) Go Figure, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, (invitational) 2003 The Luminous Image VI, Collaborative Concepts Gallery, Beacon, NY (invitational) 2002 Monroe County and Vicinity Biennial, Brockport State College, Brockport, NY (invitational) 2001 Buffalo Sister City Exchange Exhibition, Galeria Fotografii Miastra Rzeszowa, Rzeszow, Poland Upstate Invitational, Oswego State University, Oswego, NY 2000 Regional 2000, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY (juried) Three Rivers Arts Festival, Carnegie Art Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (curated) 1998 Altars, El Museo Fransico Oller Y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY (invitational) Toast, Here, New York, NY (invitational) 1997 Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts, Chautauqua Institution, NY, The 40th Chautauqua National Exhibition of American Art (juried) World in a Match Box ’97, Liverpool Visionfeor, Liverpool, England (also traveled to Grand Central Art, Melbourne, Australia) 1995 Miniature Exhibition, Deep Space, New York, NY (invitational) 72nd Annual Spring Show, Erie Art Museum, Erie PA (juried) 1994 Rochester Finger Lakes Exhibition, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester NY (juried) SELECTED HONORS, GRANTS AND AWARDS 2010 Silver Addy Award from Advertising Club of Buffalo Listed in Who’s Who in America 2007 Fine Arts Merit Award from Creative Quarterly Competition Received Community Leader Award in Arts from The National Federation for Just Communities of Western New York Dean’s Fellowship, University at Buffalo (also 2006) 2006 Third Place Award from National Collage Exhibition, Impact Gallery 2005 Listed in National Register’s Who’s Who in Executives and Professionals Pathfinder Award from Business First and Buffalo Alliance for Education 2004 Appointed to Buffalo Arts Commission 2002 Received Alumni Awards from Buffalo State College and Erie Community College 2001 Listed in Who’s Who in American Art Visiting Artist, SUNY College at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY Selected for Leadership Buffalo (Class of 2001) 2000 New York Foundation for the Arts, Special Opportunity Stipend 1997 Gold Medal Award from Buffalo Society of Artists Annual Juried Exhibition New York State Council on the Arts, Decentralization/County Initiative Program Grant 1993 First Place Award from Annual Carnegie Art Center National Exhibition SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Buffalo State College Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo NY Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Niagara Falls NY Charles Rand Penney Collection, Lockport NY City of Buffalo Dowd Fine Art Gallery at SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY Federal Bureau of Investigation (Buffalo Division), Buffalo, NY George Eastman House/International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester NY Kenan Center, Lockport, NY International Museum of Collage, Assemblage and Construction, Fort Worth, TX Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY University at Buffalo ARTWORK PUBLISHED IN BOOKS AND PERIODICALS 2010 Yellow Edenwald Field, Issue 6, Buffalo: Buffalo Ochre Papers 2009 Color Work Book, Third Edition, Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall 2008 Photographic Possibilities, Third Edition, Boston: Focal Press 2007 Creative Quarterly: The Journal of Arts & Design, Issue 10, New York: 3x3 Magazine 2001 Photographic Possibilities, Second Edition, Boston: Focal Press 2000 Herd About Buffalo, Buffalo: Roswell Park Alliance Foundation Exploring Color Photography, Third Edition, Boston: McGraw Hill |