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    TODD PAVLISKO

     

    b. 1974, Cincinnati, OH.

    Based in New York, NY and Boston, MA.

     

    2002    MFA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA in New Genre

    1997    BFA, Miami University, Oxford, OH in Sculpture, Painting and Printmaking

     

     

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    SELECTED WORKS

     

     

    SELECTED WORKS

    BIOGRAPHY

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    EXHIBITIONS

    Untitled (Table Sculpture #3)
    Untitled (Table Sculpture #3)
    2015
    Two violins: spruce, mahogany, maple, chemically-altered violin bow, horse hair; Orange Crush™ two-liter soda bottle; official ABA basketball; empty ammonia hydroxide jug bottle; bronze cast gold-plated Rayban™ sunglasses; table
    Approximately 36 x 48 x 36 inches (91.4 x 121.9 x 91.4 centimeters)
    Untitled (Sean Bidic, MD autograph on Lew Alcindor aka Kareem Abdul Jabbar rookie card)
    2015
    Permanent ink on sport collector card
    4 ½ x 2 ½ inches (11.4 x 6.3 centimeters)
    Untitled (Suicide Note #4)
    Untitled (Suicide Note #4)
    2015
    Pencil and gold leaf serigraphy on paper
    17 x 20 inches (43.2 x 50.8 centimeters)
    Untitled (Table Sculpture #1)
    Untitled (Table Sculpture #1)
    2015
    Violin: spruce, mahogany, maple, chemically-altered violin bow, horse hair; five Sports Illustrated magazines; Orange Crush™ 20-fluid ounce soda bottle; bronze cast gold-plated Rayban™ sunglasses; table
    Approximately 36 x 48 x 36 inches (91.4 x 121.9 x 91.4 centimeters)
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    BIOGRAPHY

     

    Todd Pavlisko received his MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2002. He was included in the 2013 Armory Focus: USA Centennial, curated by Eric Shiner, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum, and has had solo and group exhibitions at numerous institutions, including MoMA PS1; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; Bass Museum; and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati and New Orleans; among others. His work is represented in both private and public collections, including the City of Naples; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Museum of Art and Design, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; the Dutch Consulate, and others. Todd Pavlisko was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and is based in New York City and Boston, where he is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Brandeis University.

    2010 - present

    2010 - present

     
    RECENT PRESS

     

    SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

    Rosenberg, Martha. 'Is This Art Too Risky or Offensive to Display?' Huffington Post, Apr 28, 2014.

     

    Seda-reeder, Maria. 'Full Circle: Todd Pavlisko's Crown presents a historical art journey through time and space.' Citybeat, Mar 5, 2014.

     

    'Interview: Todd Pavlisko', Time Out Boston, 2011.

     
     

    Solo, Collaborative and Two-Person Exhibitions

    2015

     

     

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    2003

    I Love You, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

    The Viola Quintet, Samsøñ, Boston, MA

     

    Crown, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)

    Re: Collection, curated by David McFadden, Museum of Art and Design
    ZONA MACO México Arte Contemporaneo, with Samsøn, Mexico City, MX
     

    Solo booth with Samsøn, The Armory Show Art Fair: FOCUS, American Artists, curated by Eric Shiner, Director of the Andy Warhol Museum. Piers 92 & 94, New York, NY.

     

    All of Nothing, Samsøn, Boston, MA

     

    VOLTA NY with Samsøn, New York City, NY

     

    Two-person show with Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY

     

    Sleep, Changing Role - Move Over Gallery, Naples, Italy (catalogue)

    Tuesday’s Dream, Habres + Partner, Vienna, Austria

     

    on and on, Monique Meloche Gallery; Chicago, IL
    Feria México Arte Contemporáneo; Mexico City, Mexico

     

    The Classic Manner of Inclusion, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL

     

    Transmogriaesthetics, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

    Group Exhibitions

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    1997

    Six Features, Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY

    Gold, Bass Museum, curated by José Carlos Diaz, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, FL
    Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? Painting, Parody, & Disguise, curated by Michael Stillion, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, OH

     

    Seat's Taken, Burlington City Arts Center, Burlington, VT
    group show, Samsøn, Boston, MA

     

    Anthony Greaney X DAN GRAHAM X Samsøn, Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

     

    Baseball, George Krevsky Gallery, San Francisco, CA

     

    Sleep; Leo Koenig Gallery; Born in the Morning, Dead by Night; Curated by Tony Matelli
    Mutual: On Collaboration, curated with Kate McNamara, Sleep, Samson Projects, Boston, MA

     

    Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Roseville Arts at the Blue Line Gallery, Roseville, CA

     

    Red Badge of Courage, curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Newark Arts Center, Newark, NJ
    I Died For Beauty, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY, NY
    Second City, First, Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI
    Fantasy and Illusion, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

     

    Bearable Lightness…Likeness, curated by Franklin Sirmans, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, catalogue
    Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
    PULSE NY with Monique Meloche Gallery, NY, NY

     

    PULSE Miami, with Monique Meloche Gallery, Miami, FL
    Darker Than You, Preview Berlin, Berlin, Germany, catalogue
    Liste with Monique Meloche Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
    Pan/Sonic, Northern Illinois University Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue

     

    Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Arts Center, Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati, OH
    Nothing Compared to This (ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in recent art), Contemporary Arts Center, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati, OH, catalogue
    Site Unsee, Newsense Enterprise, Cleveland, OH
    Sub: Cultrual, Textual, Liminal; SPACE, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA
    International Invitational, Art Chicago at Navy Pier with Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL, catalogue
    Drift Shift, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

     

    Stage Fright III: Somewhere Better Than This Place, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Collaborative performance partner with Patty Chang, catalogue
    Version ’03; Chicago Cultural Center in conjunction with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, catalogue

     

    48 Hours, BK Smith Gallery, Lake Erie College, Cleveland, OH, catalogue
    happenstance, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    MOBB interchange : nyc, Bomb Magazine, No. 79, NY, NY, Collaborative Venture. catalogue

     

    Contemporary Photographers in Pittsburgh, Foreland Street Studios, Pittsburgh, PA
    Street Basketball with Milk Crate Hoop, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
    developing new realities interchange : simultaneity in action, Het West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam, Holland, performance, catalogue

     

    Systems, Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA, performance & sound installation
    Delivering Time, Performative Arts Symposium, Penn State University, State College, PA, catalogue
    Listing Stacked, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Weston Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, catalogue
    None the Less, All the More, Pittsburgh Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, performance & installation, catalogue
    Wrestling Culture Wars: Let’s Get Physical, MOCA, Cleveland, OH, performance, catalogue
    I Have Nothing To Say, Chicago, IL., Pittsburgh, PA., New York, NY, performance & social action

     

    Secrets, Solstice Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, performance
    You Know My Name, You Know My Style, Spaces, Cleveland, OH

     

    out fit, Appropriationists Internationale, CMC, Cleveland, OH
    Circus Midway, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, performance

     

    Re-Opening Teplitzky, Dileia Contemporary CMC, Cincinnati, OH, performance
    Nova Blue, Streets of Chicago, IL. Performance / Social Action
    Mr. Machine (Cattle): Bordering on Conflict, gallerygreen CMC, Oxford, OH
    Six Months with Stewart and What’s Her Face: Redundant Redundant, Dileia Contemporary CMC, Cincinnati, OH
    gallerygreen inaugural show, gallerygreen CMC, Oxford, OH

    Public Collections

    Andy Warhol Museum and Foundation, Pittsburgh

    Carl Solway, Cincinnati

    Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
    Center for Performance Research

    Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
    Dutch Consulate: Office of Cultural Affairs, Dutch Embassy, Den Haag, Netherlands
    Franklin Furnace, New York
    The Frederick R. Weisman Foundation

    John Adams Institute, Amsterdam, Holland
    Museum of Art & Design, New York

    Museum of Fine Art, Boston

    Performance Studies International

    Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh

    Rockefeller Foundation, New York
    City of Naples, Italy
    Progressive Collection, OH
    Robert J. Schiffler Foundation, Dayton
    University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers, Pittsburgh