TODD BARTEL
toddbartel62@gmail.com
toddbartel.com
b. 1962 Manitowoc, Wisconsin
EDUCATION
1993 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, MFA, Painting
1985 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA, Painting
SELECTED AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES
2017 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2016 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2012 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2010 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2008 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2007 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
Faculty Retention Grant, Cambridge School of Weston
2004 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2000 Connecticut Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant, Hartford, CT
1990 Jacob K. Javits Fellow, tuition grant with stipend in support of MFA degree, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
Liquitex Art Materials Award, Easton, PA
1984-85 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy (Sept. to May)
SELECTED ONE & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 On the Edge: Nature and Culture in a Time of Crisis, Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg State University
2024 AS IS, Sala 1, Rome, Italy, two-person exhibition with Salvatore Meo (Philadelphia 1914–Rome 2004), catalog
Landscape Vernacular, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA, catalog
2022 Real Landscapes, Sharp Hands Gallery, online exhibition
2020 L(and), Room 83, Watertown, MA
2019 Hera Gallery, working PAPER…, two-person show with Jack Massey
2003 Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase NY, Unfoldingobject-Implications of Glue: Todd Bartel Collage Based work 1983 - 2003
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, Tag-Recent Work By Todd Bartel and Michael Oatman
2002 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, Mythology of Stasis: New and Recent Work by Todd Bartel
2001 Gallery 221, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence RI, Todd Henry Bartel: Gardens, Landviews, Salvages
1991 Hewlett Gallery, College of Fine Arts, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, Todd Bartel: Master of Fine Arts, Thesis Exhibition
1990 Reynolds Gallery, Todd Bartel Recent Work, Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Juliani Gallery, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA, Todd Bartel Selected Work
1985 Cantina, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy, Thesis Exhibition, RISD, European Honors Program
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Raccolta di Racconti VIII, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Brotherhood of Thieves, Corner Gallery, Jaffrey, NH
Collage/Uncollage, Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, VT, curated by David Powell
Los Raros Las Raras, Valladolid, Spain
2023 Altered Logistics — Contemporary Collage and Appropriation Art, Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, Presented by The
Weird Show, Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi and Máximo Tuja
Artists in the Archives—Unseen Neighbors, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Souvenir, Albany International Airport, Concourse A Gallery, curated by Kathy Greenwood and Andrea Burgay
2023 Artists in the Archives—Unseen Neighbors, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Layer / Build—Collage Explored, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, Curated by Nicholas Rigger
Unconnected Yet, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India, curated by Todd Bartel, Daniela Esponda, Teri Henderson, and Talin Megherian
2022 Real Landscapes, Sharp Hands Gallery, online exhibition
Waste Management—Reuse, Reimagine, Repurse, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT, curated by Martha Willette Lewis and Rashmi Talpade
Artists in the Archives, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour
The Works, curated by Chris Kerr, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Exquisite Corpse Invitational, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Complex Muses, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, curated by Todd Bartel
2021 Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA, Remembrances of Things Paper, curated by Chris Kerr
Red Fox Contemporary, Pound Ridge, NY, LandX, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, VT, Neuroanatomy, curated by David Powell
Stand4, Brooklyn, NY, Landviews of Commonplaces, curated by Jeannine Bardo, catalog
2020 Distance Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Breakdown, curated by Andrea Burgay, catalog
Glorious Mutualism, Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, VT, curated by Erika Lawler Schmidt
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland, Schwitters’ Army, Curated by Ric Kasini-Kadour
2019 Boston Cyclorama, Boston, MA, Boston International Fine Art Show, Emerge, Presented by Art New England, invitation only
Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA, Fragments—Collaging the Material World, curated by Boriana Kantcheva
College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, VT, Gender Riot, curated by Shiela Pepe
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, Foodie Fever, curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
and D. Dominick Lombardi
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Wet
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, unfoldingobject—The Art of Collage, Curated by Todd Bartel
University Gallery, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA, Area Synthetica—Surveying New Nature, curated by Markus Haala, Todd Bartel, Mark Dion, Ingrid
Hess, Patrick Jacobs, Mathias Kessler, Mark Mannheimer, Michael Oatman, Craig Stockwell
2018 Morean Arts Center, Petersburg, FL, Water Over the Bridge—The Art of the Contemporary Seascape, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Revolutionary Paths—Critical Issues in Collage (Kolaj Fest Contributors Show), New Orleans, LA, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour
2017 Bennington Museum, Time for the Holidays, benefit art auction, invitational, Bennington, Vermont
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Inspired Views, Art Educator Show,
2016 Licthundfire, New York, NY, Raid Envy, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Montserrat College of Art Art Educator Show, Beverly, MA, Inspired Views
2014 Proof Gallery, Boston, MA, Boston Does Boston 7, curated by Julia Hechtman, Invited by Chris Faust
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, RISD EHP Retrospective, invitational
2013 Art & Culture Program , Albany International Airport, Some Assembly Required, curated by Sharon Bates & Kathy Greenwood
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, American Collage
Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY, An Armory Show (commissioned soundtrack for a dance performance —Happy Idea (Object Lessons After Raymond Roussel), and, Readymade & Retinalmade)
2012 Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT, Hey Joe, curated by David Powell
The Ontological Museum, Pagosa Springs, CO, Collage Centennial
2010 Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY, Chemical Reactions, curated by Maddy Rosenberg
2008 5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 8 Artists 8 Books, curated by Robin Ross
2007 Iona College, Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Breaking New Ground: The Power and Variety of Landscapes, curated by Ellyn Murphy
2006 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, Unless
2004 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, curated By Lucinda Bliss
and Cynthia Atwood
2003 ZieherSmith, New York, NY, Objects By Joseph Cornell and 13 Other Emerging Artists, (honoring the Centennial of Joseph Cornell’s birth)
2002 Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Cabinets of Wonder/Redux, curated by Signe Mayfield
2000 The Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI, Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT, Fellowship Artist Exhibition, 3
Hermen Goode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Tontine
Visions Gallery, Troy, NY, Saints and Martyrs: Holy Fools and Perfect Rejects
1999 Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Annville, PA, Memory Boxes
1995 Gallery In The Square, Pittsburgh, PA, Water, Earth, Clay, two-person exhibition
1994 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Exquisite Drawing: Lines of Correspondence
1991 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Art Beyond
1986 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, Emerging Artists
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2024 National Collage Society 4oth Anniversary Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland School Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
2022 Corporeal Gestures, School of Architecture at Portland State University, Portland Oregon, Curated by Clive Knights
2021 Mending (Art on the Trails), Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, curated by Sarah Montross, Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park, and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2020 Rising Up (Art on the Trails), Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, curated by Hilary Zelson
2019 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, WET!
College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, Gender Riot, curated by Sheila Pepe
2016 Main & Station, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Nonesuch Art On Paper Awards
2014 (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI, {___+____}, {____+____}, {____+____}: A Collage Show @ (SCENE), curated by Michelle Word
2000 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, New Directions 2K, Juried by Lisa Messinger, Curator, Dept. of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1999 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Art of the Northeast 50th Annual Exhibition, Juried by Alan Stone, Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Katonah Museum, Katonah Village Library Gallery, Katonah, NY, 1999 Members Juried Exhibition, Juried by Harry
Philbrick, Director, and Richard Klein, Assistant Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1995 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, All Of A Piece/All In Pieces, Juried by Robert Storr, Curator,
Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, Common Roots, Diverse Objectives, RISD Alumni in Boston, Juried, Peter Baldaia, Curator
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 Fitchburg State University, MAE Collage
2022-23 Mass Art, MFA in Visual Arts Program, artist-mentor
2020-22 Lesley University, MFA in Visual Arts Program, Lesley Art + Design, artist-mentor
2014-20 New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA, Manchester, NY, artist-teacher
2002-P The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, art history, conceptual drawing, installation art
2003-06 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Artist-Teacher, MFA Low Residency Program
2001-02 Brown University, Providence, RI, Visiting Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, advance drawing and foundation
2001-02 Unfoldingobject, Port Chester, NY, Founder/Director of art program, drawing, painting and mixed media, APP courses
for high school students, graduate and post-graduate critique groups, offering visual perception and critical theory courses
2001-02 Manhattanville College, Manhattanville, NY, Adjunct Professor, drawing, two-dimensional design, and sculpture
1999-P Vermont College MFA in Visual Art Program, Montpelier, VT, Artist-Teacher
1992-00 Mead School, Stamford, CT, drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, print-making, sculpture, set design
1986-89 The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, drawing, painting, print-making, art theory/history
1986 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Teaching Assistant (drawing), artist lecture
SELECTED LECTURES & CRITICISM
2024 Artist Lecture, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT
2023 The History of Landscape & Collage are the Same Story, Northwest Collage Society
2022 Landscape and Community—From Archive to Hyperfolio, Henry Sheldon Museum, Waterbury, VT
Mass Art, MFA, Thesis Review, Visiting Critic
Uncollage at Ogden Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LO, guest lecturer
Apropos Glues, Collage Artists of America, guest lecturer
2021 Uncollage in Currents, Knoxville Museum of Art, world premiere exhibition and gallery tours of "uncollage" concept
2020 Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Collage-based Operations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2018 Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Operations, Keynote Presentation, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, LO
2015 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Graduation Speaker, Masters of Art in Art Education Program
2014-P New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA, Manchester, NY, visiting critic, winter & summer Residencies
2013 Montclair State University, Todd Bartel: The Histories of Landscape and Collage Are the Same Story, artist lecture
Art & Culture Program , Albany International Airport, The History of Finding and Binding, Powerpoint presentation examining collage history
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, guest critic for final critique in a freshman drawing course
2012 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The History of Collage—Pre and Post Picasso & Braque, two-part lecture
2011 Alfred University, Alfred, NY, The Histories of Landscape and Collage Are the Same Story, artist lecture
2010 Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center, When Einstein Meets Picasso, Symposium presenter
2001 Brown University, Providence, RI, Gardens, Landviews, Salvages, artist's lecture in connection with a solo exhibition
1999-13 Vermont College MFA in Visual Art Program, Montpelier, VT, Artist-Teacher, Visiting Critic, winter & summer Residencies
1995-02 University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, Adjunct Professor, Master's of Education Degree Program courses: Drawing,
Self Expression In Art and the Elementary Student, Designing The Art Class Environment: The Boundary Between Teaching Students & Honoring
Student Self-expression
1995 Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, lecturer, Twentieth Century Art Zeitgeist: Diversity Invites Unity
1993 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, artist lecture, Sources of Imagery V, artist lecture
1990 Reynolds Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Fallen Frescoes at San Vincenzo al Volturno, Italy, freshman art history lecture
Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Site-Specific Field Drawing at the Cambridge School of Weston, Art in Context Lecture Series
1991 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
1987 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, artist lecture and visiting critic
SELECTED CURATORIAL & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Unconnected Yet, Lorn Community Connect, Lorne, Australia, lead curator, project co-founder
Unconnected Yet, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India, lead curator, project co-founder
2022 Complex Muses, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, an invitational project to select artists to create new work in response to the Museum's
50th Anniversary Exhibition of never-before-exhibited museum objects
2019 unfoldingobject, 1st collage exhibition in the gallery’s century-long history, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, invited curator, Concord, MA
Playing with a Full Deck V, invited co-juror with Clive Knights, Vogt Gallery, Portland, OR
8 Visions, invited juror, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Cut Me Up magazine, 1st invited curator, create a call and jury a call for collages made using the magazine.
2018 ARTDEX Inaugural Art Competition, invited juror, Troy, NY
2018-19 Evelyn Davis-Walker—House + Wife Revisited (Circulus Retro II/III)
2016 Blanche Ames National Juried Art Exhibition, Friends of Borderland, Easton, MA, Juror
2014-15 Kiss the Ground [honoring the 100-year remembrance of the Armenian Genocide] 6-part exhibition series in 2 venues, 7 published catalogs
2012-13 Strange Glue: Collage at 100, three-part, year-long exhibition, four published catalogs
2009-10 Contemporary Painting After A Century of Abstract Art, a three-part, year-long exhibition
2007-08 Sublime Climate, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, curator, three-part, a year-long exhibition of 45 artists examining climate change
2007- Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, Founder, Gallery Director, and curator of the school’s first public gallery
2002- The Cambridge School of Weston, Director of Visiting Artist and Artist in Residency Programs,
2001-02 Loftarts, Port Chester, NY, Co-Founder, art organization/network of artists, curators, galleries, and educators
2003 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY "unfoldingobject: critical selections.1," curator
2002-06 Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, Director of Artist in Residency Program, Director of Visiting Artist Program and Special Exhibitions,
Designed Three-Gallery System for a new Green Science/Art Building (Student Exhibitions Gallery/Professional Gallery/Installation Gallery)
2002 Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, "Spring Show," invited Curator for a juried group exhibition
2002 Manager (Curator, Exhibition Coordinator, Director of Acquisitions: Varujan Boghosian, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Conner, Thomas Chimes, Joseph
Cornell, Alfred DeCredico, Gill Franklin, Gregory Gillespie, Neysa Grassi, Stephen Hannock, Brian Haverlock, Mark Innerst, Bo Joseph, Alison
Moritsugu, Joan Nelson, Michael Oatman, Edward Ruscha, James Scott, Hiro Yokose)
Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, "unfoldingobject; pre-college review.1," curator
2001 Manhattanville College Library, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, "The Art of Illuminated Manuscript:
Medieval to Modern," co-curated by Patricia Miranda and Todd Bartel
2001-02 Loftarts, Port Chester, NY, co-founder, art organization/network of artists, curators, galleries, and educators
2001 Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, "Looking Back Looking Forward: Art Confronting Issues of Identification and Identity," Invited Curator for Juried,
group exhibition with an accompanying essay
1998-02 TBF Collectables LDC, Larchmont, NY, and Integrated Capital Associates, New York, NY, Art Consultant, Collections'
1992 Greater Pittsburgh Commission for Women, Gloria Fitzgibbons Award, Pittsburgh, PA, Juror
1990 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, Boston, MA, Juror, State level
1989 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, Lowell, MA, Juror, Regional level and Awards Ceremony Speaker
1985 Abbey of San Vincenzo Al Volturno, San Vincenzo, Italy, Restoration, reconstruction, documentation and scale drawing of fallen, 8th
century frescoes, Jonathan Mitchell, Curator
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & ESSAYS
2024 Collage/Uncollage, exhibition essay, Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, VT
Mutable as Glue, exhibition essay for Los Raros Las Raras, Valladolid, Spain, catalog
AS IS, Sala 1, Rome, Italy, two-person exhibition with Salvatore Meo (Philadelphia 1914–Rome 2004), catalog
Landscape Vernacular, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA, catalog
2023 Unconnected Yet, exhibition catalog
2022 Uncollage Premiers at the KMA, Kolaj Magazine, #35, essay on the world-premiere exhibition of uncollage, pictured
2021 The Third Thing Is Immaterial, Kolaj Magazine, #34, uncollage & the readymade, pictured
Collage is Transformation, essay, found in Collage Care—Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, by Laurie Kanyer
Landviews of Commonplaces, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, exhibition catalog, essays by Jeannine Bardo, Michael Bardo
2020 Upon a Threshold—The Liminal Pixel Paintings of Fran Forman, monograph essay, found in The Rest Between Two Notes—Selected Works
by Fran Forman, Unicorn Publishing Group LLP
Uncollage—Collection is Cohesion, Kolaj Magazine #27, part 4/4, pp. 18-23, pictured article
Uncollage in Photography & Filmography, Kolaj Magazine #27, part 3/4, pp. 8-13, pictured article
Uncollage: Before It’s An Uncollage, Kolaj Magazine #26, part 2/4, pp. 18-23, pictured article
Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Collage-Based Operations, Kolaj Magazine #25, part 1/4, pp. 29-35, pictured article
Upon a Threshold—The Liminal Pixel Paintings of Fran Forman, monograph essay, found in The Rest Between Two Notes—Selected Works by
Fran Forman, Unicorn Publishing Group LLP
2019 Unfoldingobject, Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord MA exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com
Evelyn Davis-Walker—House + Wife Revisited, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, (in progress)
2018 Nathan Stromberg—Back To Go Forward, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, (in progress)
NAWA—With Eyes Open, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
2017 Cynthia Atwood—Alphabet of Weapons, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 120 pages
Brown Students Address 911 on September 12, 2001, teacher’s reflection, Here, Vol. 2 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, pp. 8-10
Jack Massey—Light & Dark, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 190 pages
Charlie Nevad—Light & Dark, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
2015 Raúl Gonzalez III—Nowhere Everywhere, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 180 pages
China Marks—Nowhere Everywhere, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 182 pages
Lucine Kasbarian—Perspectives from Exile, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 110 pages
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia III/III, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 172 pages
John Avakian—If I Begin to Cry, Thompson Gallery catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 188 pages
Talin Megherian—Kiss the Ground, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia I/III & II/III, Thompson Gallery and Armenian Museum of America, exhibition catalog, with introductions and
essays, Lulu.com, 162 pages
2014 Elliot Baker—The Past Is Not Past, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 90 pages
Gagik Aroutounian—Kiss the Ground, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 154 pages
Milton Rogovin—Social Optometry, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 144 pages
Les Mastenbrook—Multiple Angles at Once, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 100 pages
2013 Harold Edgerton—Flash Revelations, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 82 pages
Michael Oatman—Another Fine Mess, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 312 pages
Strange Glue—Collage & Installation, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 132 pages
2012 Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage) Collage at 100—Virtual Annex, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and
essay, Lulu.com, 92 pages
2012 Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-garde Collage), Collage at 100 I/III, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay,
Lulu.com, 204 pages
Todd Bartel—Select Collages 1983-1989, with artist’s introduction, published to accompany the Hey Joe exhibition curated by David Powell,
June 13-July 29, 2012
2008 Linda Bond: Pause, introduction, artist published catalog coinciding with Thompson Gallery exhibition
2007 Reconstructing Home, catalog essay, found in Reconstructing Home—Collaborative Works by Debra Edgerton and Marc Siegner, Nau Museum,
Flagstaff, AZ, catalog
1991 A Musical Palette, Alfred DeCredico in Vienna, letter to Alfred DeCredico published, Munich Found: An English Monthly Magazine, Munich,
Germany
SELECTED REVIEWS & ARTICLES
2024 As Is (Part II)—Todd Bartel's Exhibition at Sala 1, Rome, Italy (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
As Is (Part I)—Todd Bartel’s Artist Residency at The Fondazione Salvatore Meo (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
Contemporary Collage Magazine, Artist Feature
Reflections On Nature (Part II)—Todd Bartel's Artist Residency at Weir Farm (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
Reflections On Nature (Part I)—Todd Bartel's Artist Residency at Weir Farm (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
2023 One Minute with Todd Bartel, The Weird Show, 1-minute Audio Biography
2022 Landscape & Collage, on Peptalks for Artists (Episode 18), interviewed by Amy Talluto
Caucus of Collage, on Peptalks for Artists (Episode 16), interviewed by Amy Talluto
2021 Todd Bartel: An Omni-coupler, Art Spiel, Interview by Etty Yaniv
The State of Landscapes, The Culture Review.com, Dominick Lombardi
2020 Todd Bartel Finds New Ideas Where Landscape and Collage Meet, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, gallery review, pictured
Discussing Collage, Uncollage, and Everything That Happened After the Big Bang with Todd Bartel (Part 2), The Weird Show interview
Discussing Collage, Uncollage, and Everything That Happened After the Big Bang with Todd Bartel (Part 1), The Weird Show interview
2019 Working Paper: Todd Bartel and Jack Massey at Hera Gallery, Art Scope Magazine, online edition, J. Fatima Martins, pictured
Todd Bartel and Jack Massey Working Paper, Art New England, Sept/Oct, Emily Avery-Miller
Unfoldingobject at Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Artscope Magazine (online), J. Fatima Martins, pictured
Unfoldingobject, Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord MA exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com
Provocative Exhibit Asks What ‘Nature’ Really Means, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, April 4, 2019
Area Synthetica—Surveying New Nature, Capsule Preview, Artscope Magazine, Boston, MA, March/April, p.77
2018 Life & Art with Todd Bartel, online interview, pictured, http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/art-life-todd-bartel/, Boston Voyager
Drawn, Quartered, Remembered, (A Contemporary Exquisite Corpse), By Tontine: Todd Bartel, Bo Joseph, Michael Oatman, James Scott, GIF by
Todd Bartel, dadabloge.com, Saturday, June 30, 2018
Retinalmade and Readymade, sound file, dadabloge.com, Friday, June 29, 2018
Happy Idea (Object Lessons After Raymond Roussel), sound file, dadabloge.com, Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Grandma Moses—American Modern, (“uncollage,” neologism and definition quoted), Jamie Franklin, found in Moses, MoMA, and the Modernist
Narrative, Skira Rizzoli, New York, p. 24
2016 Promise and Threat—Inquiry In Landscape Vernacular, cover art, an Art section with artist essay, Saranac Review #12, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY
2014 Kolaj, The Exquisite Corpse Drawn, Quartered, Remembered, by David Powell, issue 7, January 2014, pp. 20-27
2013 Art New England, cover story, Monumental Exhibition for Collage, January/February, p. 16
Gerald Peters Gallery, American Collage, catalog
2012 Artscope, cover story, Collage at 100—Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-garde Collage), November/December, pp.10-11
Numéro Cinq, online journal, The Box Does Not Need To Be Square: An Interview with Todd Bartel — Nance Van Winckel,
numerocinqmagazine.com, October
Hey Joe, exhibition catalog, BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT,
Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice, Big Joe (Hey Joe: An Homage to Joseph Cornell, BigTown Gallery), Art Review, Amy Rahn
2008 The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, New Gallery Tackles A Hot Topic, Denise Taylor, pictured, February 28
2007 Hunger Mountain #11, Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Montpelier, VT, front and back covers, artist’s essay, September
2004 Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, exhibition catalog, Mills Gallery, Essays by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Rev. Bill
Bliss, pictured, September
2004 Hunger Mountain #5, Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Montpelier, VT, artist’s essay and color reproductions, September
2002 The New York Times, A 'Landview' Focus, Arts & Entertainment, Roberta Hershenson, pictured, WE, p. 8, May 12
2001 The Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, Dark Remedy, Trent Stephens & Rock Brynner, pictured, p.45, Spring
ARTnews, New York, NY, Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, Part II, Bill Van Siclen, pictured, p. 164, February
2000 The Providence Journal, Providence, RI, Locals try harder at Lynch Retrospective, Channing Gray, pictured, December 7
Gallery & Studio, New York, NY, Tontine in Dumbo, New York Notebooks, Ed McCormack, September/October
Tontine, essay by Roger Dell, exhibition catalog, Hermen Goode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May
The Advocate, Stamford, CT, Artist Earns Grant To Continue His Series Of Drawings, Agnes Diggs, pictured, February 27
1995 Greenwich Time, Greenwich, CT, Discarded Drawings Basis for Exhibit at the Mead School, pictured, November 13
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, Water Earth Clay Seeks Spirituality, Graham Shearing, pictured, October 12
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA, Symbolism at the Heart of Artist-Couple's Works, Janet McCall, September 24
1991 Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh, PA, Luxe, Harry Schwab, June
1986 The Providence Journal-Bulletin, Providence, RI, The 'Emerging' Work of Five Young Artists, pictured, July 11
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2024 Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
2023 Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Mohool, Artist In Residency Program, Bankura, India
2020 MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland, The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art
2019 Kanyer Collection, Yakama, WA
2012 Ontological Museum, Pagosa Springs, CO
2006 Wellington Management Company LLP, Boston, MA, Corporate Collection
2000 Pfizer, Rye Brook, NY, Permanent Corporate Collection
1999 Chelsea Clinton, Private Collection
Jennifer Vorbach, Private Collection
Integrated Capital Associates, New York, NY, Corporate Collection
1998 TBF Collectables LDC, Larchmont, NY, London, GB, Private Collection
1992 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Permanent Collection
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Special and Rare Books Collection
1987 New Haven Paint and Clay Club, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, Permanent Collection
Hampton Partners, New York, NY, Corporate Collection
Pathways Affiliates, Portsmouth, NH, Corporate Collection
toddbartel62@gmail.com
toddbartel.com
b. 1962 Manitowoc, Wisconsin
EDUCATION
1993 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, MFA, Painting
1985 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, BFA, Painting
SELECTED AWARDS / HONORS / RESIDENCIES
2024 National Collage Society 4oth Anniversary Exhibition, Cash Award
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Fondazione Salvatore Meo, Rome, Italy, Nov.-Dec.
Artist-In-Residence, Weir Farm National Historic Site, July
2023 Artist-In-Residence, Fondazione Salvatore Meo, Rome, Italy, Nov.-Dec.
Artist-In-Residence, Weir Farm National Historic Site, July
Artist In Residence, Mohool, Bankura, India, January
2019 Art and Design Educator Award, Inaugural Recipient, Rhode Island School of Design2017 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2016 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2012 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2010 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2008 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2007 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
Faculty Retention Grant, Cambridge School of Weston
2004 Teacher Recognition, National Scholastic Art Awards
2000 Connecticut Council on the Arts Fellowship Grant, Hartford, CT
1990 Jacob K. Javits Fellow, tuition grant with stipend in support of MFA degree, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
Liquitex Art Materials Award, Easton, PA
1984-85 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy (Sept. to May)
SELECTED ONE & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2025 On the Edge: Nature and Culture in a Time of Crisis, Hammond Gallery, Fitchburg State University
2024 AS IS, Sala 1, Rome, Italy, two-person exhibition with Salvatore Meo (Philadelphia 1914–Rome 2004), catalog
Landscape Vernacular, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA, catalog
2022 Real Landscapes, Sharp Hands Gallery, online exhibition
2020 L(and), Room 83, Watertown, MA
2019 Hera Gallery, working PAPER…, two-person show with Jack Massey
2003 Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Purchase NY, Unfoldingobject-Implications of Glue: Todd Bartel Collage Based work 1983 - 2003
Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, Tag-Recent Work By Todd Bartel and Michael Oatman
2002 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, Mythology of Stasis: New and Recent Work by Todd Bartel
2001 Gallery 221, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence RI, Todd Henry Bartel: Gardens, Landviews, Salvages
1991 Hewlett Gallery, College of Fine Arts, CMU, Pittsburgh, PA, Todd Bartel: Master of Fine Arts, Thesis Exhibition
1990 Reynolds Gallery, Todd Bartel Recent Work, Pittsburgh, PA
1989 Juliani Gallery, Massachusetts Bay Community College, Wellesley, MA, Todd Bartel Selected Work
1985 Cantina, Palazzo Cenci, Rome, Italy, Thesis Exhibition, RISD, European Honors Program
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Raccolta di Racconti VIII, Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Brotherhood of Thieves, Corner Gallery, Jaffrey, NH
Collage/Uncollage, Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, VT, curated by David Powell
Los Raros Las Raras, Valladolid, Spain
2023 Altered Logistics — Contemporary Collage and Appropriation Art, Dowd Fine Arts Center, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY, Presented by The
Weird Show, Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi and Máximo Tuja
Artists in the Archives—Unseen Neighbors, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Souvenir, Albany International Airport, Concourse A Gallery, curated by Kathy Greenwood and Andrea Burgay
2023 Artists in the Archives—Unseen Neighbors, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Layer / Build—Collage Explored, MCLA Gallery 51, North Adams, MA, Curated by Nicholas Rigger
Unconnected Yet, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India, curated by Todd Bartel, Daniela Esponda, Teri Henderson, and Talin Megherian
2022 Real Landscapes, Sharp Hands Gallery, online exhibition
Waste Management—Reuse, Reimagine, Repurse, The Institute Library, New Haven, CT, curated by Martha Willette Lewis and Rashmi Talpade
Artists in the Archives, Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour
The Works, curated by Chris Kerr, Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA
Exquisite Corpse Invitational, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA
Complex Muses, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, curated by Todd Bartel
2021 Round Weather Gallery, Oakland, CA, Remembrances of Things Paper, curated by Chris Kerr
Red Fox Contemporary, Pound Ridge, NY, LandX, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, VT, Neuroanatomy, curated by David Powell
Stand4, Brooklyn, NY, Landviews of Commonplaces, curated by Jeannine Bardo, catalog
2020 Distance Gallery, Denver, Colorado, Breakdown, curated by Andrea Burgay, catalog
Glorious Mutualism, Stone Valley Arts, Poultney, VT, curated by Erika Lawler Schmidt
MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland, Schwitters’ Army, Curated by Ric Kasini-Kadour
2019 Boston Cyclorama, Boston, MA, Boston International Fine Art Show, Emerge, Presented by Art New England, invitation only
Chandler Gallery, Maud Morgan Arts, Cambridge, MA, Fragments—Collaging the Material World, curated by Boriana Kantcheva
College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Art, Montpelier, VT, Gender Riot, curated by Shiela Pepe
Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, NY, Foodie Fever, curated by Dr. Thalia Vrachopoulos
and D. Dominick Lombardi
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, Wet
Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Concord, MA, unfoldingobject—The Art of Collage, Curated by Todd Bartel
University Gallery, UMass Lowell, Lowell, MA, Area Synthetica—Surveying New Nature, curated by Markus Haala, Todd Bartel, Mark Dion, Ingrid
Hess, Patrick Jacobs, Mathias Kessler, Mark Mannheimer, Michael Oatman, Craig Stockwell
2018 Morean Arts Center, Petersburg, FL, Water Over the Bridge—The Art of the Contemporary Seascape, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Revolutionary Paths—Critical Issues in Collage (Kolaj Fest Contributors Show), New Orleans, LA, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour
2017 Bennington Museum, Time for the Holidays, benefit art auction, invitational, Bennington, Vermont
Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA, Inspired Views, Art Educator Show,
2016 Licthundfire, New York, NY, Raid Envy, curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
Montserrat College of Art Art Educator Show, Beverly, MA, Inspired Views
2014 Proof Gallery, Boston, MA, Boston Does Boston 7, curated by Julia Hechtman, Invited by Chris Faust
Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, RISD EHP Retrospective, invitational
2013 Art & Culture Program , Albany International Airport, Some Assembly Required, curated by Sharon Bates & Kathy Greenwood
Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY, American Collage
Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY, An Armory Show (commissioned soundtrack for a dance performance —Happy Idea (Object Lessons After Raymond Roussel), and, Readymade & Retinalmade)
2012 Big Town Gallery, Rochester, VT, Hey Joe, curated by David Powell
The Ontological Museum, Pagosa Springs, CO, Collage Centennial
2010 Central Booking, Brooklyn, NY, Chemical Reactions, curated by Maddy Rosenberg
2008 5 + 5 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 8 Artists 8 Books, curated by Robin Ross
2007 Iona College, Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery, Breaking New Ground: The Power and Variety of Landscapes, curated by Ellyn Murphy
2006 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, Unless
2004 Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, curated By Lucinda Bliss
and Cynthia Atwood
2003 ZieherSmith, New York, NY, Objects By Joseph Cornell and 13 Other Emerging Artists, (honoring the Centennial of Joseph Cornell’s birth)
2002 Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA, Cabinets of Wonder/Redux, curated by Signe Mayfield
2000 The Rhode Island Foundation, Providence, RI, Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT, Fellowship Artist Exhibition, 3
Hermen Goode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Tontine
Visions Gallery, Troy, NY, Saints and Martyrs: Holy Fools and Perfect Rejects
1999 Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery, Annville, PA, Memory Boxes
1995 Gallery In The Square, Pittsburgh, PA, Water, Earth, Clay, two-person exhibition
1994 Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, Exquisite Drawing: Lines of Correspondence
1991 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Art Beyond
1986 Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI, Emerging Artists
SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS
2024 National Collage Society 4oth Anniversary Exhibition, Meyerhoff Gallery, Maryland School Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD
2022 Corporeal Gestures, School of Architecture at Portland State University, Portland Oregon, Curated by Clive Knights
2021 Mending (Art on the Trails), Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, curated by Sarah Montross, Curator, deCordova Sculpture Park, and Museum, Lincoln, MA
2020 Rising Up (Art on the Trails), Beals Preserve, Southborough, MA, curated by Hilary Zelson
2019 Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, WET!
College Hall Gallery, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, Gender Riot, curated by Sheila Pepe
2016 Main & Station, Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Nonesuch Art On Paper Awards
2014 (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI, {___+____}, {____+____}, {____+____}: A Collage Show @ (SCENE), curated by Michelle Word
2000 Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, New Directions 2K, Juried by Lisa Messinger, Curator, Dept. of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
1999 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Art of the Northeast 50th Annual Exhibition, Juried by Alan Stone, Alan Stone Gallery, New York
Katonah Museum, Katonah Village Library Gallery, Katonah, NY, 1999 Members Juried Exhibition, Juried by Harry
Philbrick, Director, and Richard Klein, Assistant Director of the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1995 Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, All Of A Piece/All In Pieces, Juried by Robert Storr, Curator,
Brockton Art Museum, Brockton, MA, Common Roots, Diverse Objectives, RISD Alumni in Boston, Juried, Peter Baldaia, Curator
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023 Fitchburg State University, MAE Collage
2022-23 Mass Art, MFA in Visual Arts Program, artist-mentor
2020-22 Lesley University, MFA in Visual Arts Program, Lesley Art + Design, artist-mentor
2014-20 New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA, Manchester, NY, artist-teacher
2002-P The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, drawing, painting, collage, assemblage, art history, conceptual drawing, installation art
2003-06 San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, Artist-Teacher, MFA Low Residency Program
2001-02 Brown University, Providence, RI, Visiting Lecturer/Adjunct Professor, advance drawing and foundation
2001-02 Unfoldingobject, Port Chester, NY, Founder/Director of art program, drawing, painting and mixed media, APP courses
for high school students, graduate and post-graduate critique groups, offering visual perception and critical theory courses
2001-02 Manhattanville College, Manhattanville, NY, Adjunct Professor, drawing, two-dimensional design, and sculpture
1999-P Vermont College MFA in Visual Art Program, Montpelier, VT, Artist-Teacher
1992-00 Mead School, Stamford, CT, drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, print-making, sculpture, set design
1986-89 The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, drawing, painting, print-making, art theory/history
1986 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Teaching Assistant (drawing), artist lecture
SELECTED LECTURES & CRITICISM
2024 Artist Lecture, University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT
2023 The History of Landscape & Collage are the Same Story, Northwest Collage Society
2022 Landscape and Community—From Archive to Hyperfolio, Henry Sheldon Museum, Waterbury, VT
Mass Art, MFA, Thesis Review, Visiting Critic
Uncollage at Ogden Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LO, guest lecturer
Apropos Glues, Collage Artists of America, guest lecturer
2021 Uncollage in Currents, Knoxville Museum of Art, world premiere exhibition and gallery tours of "uncollage" concept
2020 Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Collage-based Operations, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2018 Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Operations, Keynote Presentation, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, LO
2015 New Hampshire Institute of Art, Graduation Speaker, Masters of Art in Art Education Program
2014-P New Hampshire Institute of Art MFA, Manchester, NY, visiting critic, winter & summer Residencies
2013 Montclair State University, Todd Bartel: The Histories of Landscape and Collage Are the Same Story, artist lecture
Art & Culture Program , Albany International Airport, The History of Finding and Binding, Powerpoint presentation examining collage history
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, guest critic for final critique in a freshman drawing course
2012 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, The History of Collage—Pre and Post Picasso & Braque, two-part lecture
2011 Alfred University, Alfred, NY, The Histories of Landscape and Collage Are the Same Story, artist lecture
2010 Brandeis University, Women's Studies Research Center, When Einstein Meets Picasso, Symposium presenter
2001 Brown University, Providence, RI, Gardens, Landviews, Salvages, artist's lecture in connection with a solo exhibition
1999-13 Vermont College MFA in Visual Art Program, Montpelier, VT, Artist-Teacher, Visiting Critic, winter & summer Residencies
1995-02 University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT, Adjunct Professor, Master's of Education Degree Program courses: Drawing,
Self Expression In Art and the Elementary Student, Designing The Art Class Environment: The Boundary Between Teaching Students & Honoring
Student Self-expression
1995 Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT, lecturer, Twentieth Century Art Zeitgeist: Diversity Invites Unity
1993 Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, artist lecture, Sources of Imagery V, artist lecture
1990 Reynolds Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Fallen Frescoes at San Vincenzo al Volturno, Italy, freshman art history lecture
Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Site-Specific Field Drawing at the Cambridge School of Weston, Art in Context Lecture Series
1991 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, artist lecture
1987 Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, artist lecture and visiting critic
SELECTED CURATORIAL & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2023 Unconnected Yet, Lorn Community Connect, Lorne, Australia, lead curator, project co-founder
Unconnected Yet, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, India, lead curator, project co-founder
2022 Complex Muses, Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA, an invitational project to select artists to create new work in response to the Museum's
50th Anniversary Exhibition of never-before-exhibited museum objects
2019 unfoldingobject, 1st collage exhibition in the gallery’s century-long history, Concord Center for the Visual Arts, invited curator, Concord, MA
Playing with a Full Deck V, invited co-juror with Clive Knights, Vogt Gallery, Portland, OR
8 Visions, invited juror, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
Cut Me Up magazine, 1st invited curator, create a call and jury a call for collages made using the magazine.
2018 ARTDEX Inaugural Art Competition, invited juror, Troy, NY
2018-19 Evelyn Davis-Walker—House + Wife Revisited (Circulus Retro II/III)
2016 Blanche Ames National Juried Art Exhibition, Friends of Borderland, Easton, MA, Juror
2014-15 Kiss the Ground [honoring the 100-year remembrance of the Armenian Genocide] 6-part exhibition series in 2 venues, 7 published catalogs
2012-13 Strange Glue: Collage at 100, three-part, year-long exhibition, four published catalogs
2009-10 Contemporary Painting After A Century of Abstract Art, a three-part, year-long exhibition
2007-08 Sublime Climate, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, curator, three-part, a year-long exhibition of 45 artists examining climate change
2007- Thompson Gallery, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, Founder, Gallery Director, and curator of the school’s first public gallery
2002- The Cambridge School of Weston, Director of Visiting Artist and Artist in Residency Programs,
2001-02 Loftarts, Port Chester, NY, Co-Founder, art organization/network of artists, curators, galleries, and educators
2003 Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY "unfoldingobject: critical selections.1," curator
2002-06 Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA, Director of Artist in Residency Program, Director of Visiting Artist Program and Special Exhibitions,
Designed Three-Gallery System for a new Green Science/Art Building (Student Exhibitions Gallery/Professional Gallery/Installation Gallery)
2002 Essex Art Association, Essex, CT, "Spring Show," invited Curator for a juried group exhibition
2002 Manager (Curator, Exhibition Coordinator, Director of Acquisitions: Varujan Boghosian, Louise Bourgeois, Bruce Conner, Thomas Chimes, Joseph
Cornell, Alfred DeCredico, Gill Franklin, Gregory Gillespie, Neysa Grassi, Stephen Hannock, Brian Haverlock, Mark Innerst, Bo Joseph, Alison
Moritsugu, Joan Nelson, Michael Oatman, Edward Ruscha, James Scott, Hiro Yokose)
Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY, "unfoldingobject; pre-college review.1," curator
2001 Manhattanville College Library, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, "The Art of Illuminated Manuscript:
Medieval to Modern," co-curated by Patricia Miranda and Todd Bartel
2001-02 Loftarts, Port Chester, NY, co-founder, art organization/network of artists, curators, galleries, and educators
2001 Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT, "Looking Back Looking Forward: Art Confronting Issues of Identification and Identity," Invited Curator for Juried,
group exhibition with an accompanying essay
1998-02 TBF Collectables LDC, Larchmont, NY, and Integrated Capital Associates, New York, NY, Art Consultant, Collections'
1992 Greater Pittsburgh Commission for Women, Gloria Fitzgibbons Award, Pittsburgh, PA, Juror
1990 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, Boston, MA, Juror, State level
1989 Boston Globe Scholastic Art Awards, Lowell, MA, Juror, Regional level and Awards Ceremony Speaker
1985 Abbey of San Vincenzo Al Volturno, San Vincenzo, Italy, Restoration, reconstruction, documentation and scale drawing of fallen, 8th
century frescoes, Jonathan Mitchell, Curator
SELECT PUBLICATIONS & ESSAYS
2024 Collage/Uncollage, exhibition essay, Phoenix Gallery, Waterbury, VT
Mutable as Glue, exhibition essay for Los Raros Las Raras, Valladolid, Spain, catalog
AS IS, Sala 1, Rome, Italy, two-person exhibition with Salvatore Meo (Philadelphia 1914–Rome 2004), catalog
Landscape Vernacular, Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA, catalog
2023 Unconnected Yet, exhibition catalog
2022 Uncollage Premiers at the KMA, Kolaj Magazine, #35, essay on the world-premiere exhibition of uncollage, pictured
2021 The Third Thing Is Immaterial, Kolaj Magazine, #34, uncollage & the readymade, pictured
Collage is Transformation, essay, found in Collage Care—Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, by Laurie Kanyer
Landviews of Commonplaces, Stand4 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, exhibition catalog, essays by Jeannine Bardo, Michael Bardo
2020 Upon a Threshold—The Liminal Pixel Paintings of Fran Forman, monograph essay, found in The Rest Between Two Notes—Selected Works
by Fran Forman, Unicorn Publishing Group LLP
Uncollage—Collection is Cohesion, Kolaj Magazine #27, part 4/4, pp. 18-23, pictured article
Uncollage in Photography & Filmography, Kolaj Magazine #27, part 3/4, pp. 8-13, pictured article
Uncollage: Before It’s An Uncollage, Kolaj Magazine #26, part 2/4, pp. 18-23, pictured article
Uncollage: A New Word for a Particular Set of Collage-Based Operations, Kolaj Magazine #25, part 1/4, pp. 29-35, pictured article
Upon a Threshold—The Liminal Pixel Paintings of Fran Forman, monograph essay, found in The Rest Between Two Notes—Selected Works by
Fran Forman, Unicorn Publishing Group LLP
2019 Unfoldingobject, Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord MA exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com
Evelyn Davis-Walker—House + Wife Revisited, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, (in progress)
2018 Nathan Stromberg—Back To Go Forward, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, (in progress)
NAWA—With Eyes Open, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
2017 Cynthia Atwood—Alphabet of Weapons, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 120 pages
Brown Students Address 911 on September 12, 2001, teacher’s reflection, Here, Vol. 2 Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT, pp. 8-10
Jack Massey—Light & Dark, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 190 pages
Charlie Nevad—Light & Dark, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
2015 Raúl Gonzalez III—Nowhere Everywhere, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 180 pages
China Marks—Nowhere Everywhere, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 182 pages
Lucine Kasbarian—Perspectives from Exile, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 110 pages
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia III/III, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 172 pages
John Avakian—If I Begin to Cry, Thompson Gallery catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 188 pages
Talin Megherian—Kiss the Ground, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 122 pages
Kiss the Ground—A New Armenia I/III & II/III, Thompson Gallery and Armenian Museum of America, exhibition catalog, with introductions and
essays, Lulu.com, 162 pages
2014 Elliot Baker—The Past Is Not Past, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 90 pages
Gagik Aroutounian—Kiss the Ground, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 154 pages
Milton Rogovin—Social Optometry, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 144 pages
Les Mastenbrook—Multiple Angles at Once, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 100 pages
2013 Harold Edgerton—Flash Revelations, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 82 pages
Michael Oatman—Another Fine Mess, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 312 pages
Strange Glue—Collage & Installation, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com, 132 pages
2012 Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-Garde Collage) Collage at 100—Virtual Annex, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and
essay, Lulu.com, 92 pages
2012 Strange Glue (Traditional and Avant-garde Collage), Collage at 100 I/III, Thompson Gallery exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay,
Lulu.com, 204 pages
Todd Bartel—Select Collages 1983-1989, with artist’s introduction, published to accompany the Hey Joe exhibition curated by David Powell,
June 13-July 29, 2012
2008 Linda Bond: Pause, introduction, artist published catalog coinciding with Thompson Gallery exhibition
2007 Reconstructing Home, catalog essay, found in Reconstructing Home—Collaborative Works by Debra Edgerton and Marc Siegner, Nau Museum,
Flagstaff, AZ, catalog
1991 A Musical Palette, Alfred DeCredico in Vienna, letter to Alfred DeCredico published, Munich Found: An English Monthly Magazine, Munich,
Germany
SELECTED REVIEWS & ARTICLES
2024 As Is (Part II)—Todd Bartel's Exhibition at Sala 1, Rome, Italy (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
As Is (Part I)—Todd Bartel’s Artist Residency at The Fondazione Salvatore Meo (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
Contemporary Collage Magazine, Artist Feature
Reflections On Nature (Part II)—Todd Bartel's Artist Residency at Weir Farm (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
Reflections On Nature (Part I)—Todd Bartel's Artist Residency at Weir Farm (Interview by Andrea Burgay)
2023 One Minute with Todd Bartel, The Weird Show, 1-minute Audio Biography
2022 Landscape & Collage, on Peptalks for Artists (Episode 18), interviewed by Amy Talluto
Caucus of Collage, on Peptalks for Artists (Episode 16), interviewed by Amy Talluto
2021 Todd Bartel: An Omni-coupler, Art Spiel, Interview by Etty Yaniv
The State of Landscapes, The Culture Review.com, Dominick Lombardi
2020 Todd Bartel Finds New Ideas Where Landscape and Collage Meet, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, gallery review, pictured
Discussing Collage, Uncollage, and Everything That Happened After the Big Bang with Todd Bartel (Part 2), The Weird Show interview
Discussing Collage, Uncollage, and Everything That Happened After the Big Bang with Todd Bartel (Part 1), The Weird Show interview
2019 Working Paper: Todd Bartel and Jack Massey at Hera Gallery, Art Scope Magazine, online edition, J. Fatima Martins, pictured
Todd Bartel and Jack Massey Working Paper, Art New England, Sept/Oct, Emily Avery-Miller
Unfoldingobject at Concord Center for the Visual Arts, Artscope Magazine (online), J. Fatima Martins, pictured
Unfoldingobject, Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord MA exhibition catalog, with introduction and essay, Lulu.com
Provocative Exhibit Asks What ‘Nature’ Really Means, Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid, April 4, 2019
Area Synthetica—Surveying New Nature, Capsule Preview, Artscope Magazine, Boston, MA, March/April, p.77
2018 Life & Art with Todd Bartel, online interview, pictured, http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/art-life-todd-bartel/, Boston Voyager
Drawn, Quartered, Remembered, (A Contemporary Exquisite Corpse), By Tontine: Todd Bartel, Bo Joseph, Michael Oatman, James Scott, GIF by
Todd Bartel, dadabloge.com, Saturday, June 30, 2018
Retinalmade and Readymade, sound file, dadabloge.com, Friday, June 29, 2018
Happy Idea (Object Lessons After Raymond Roussel), sound file, dadabloge.com, Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Grandma Moses—American Modern, (“uncollage,” neologism and definition quoted), Jamie Franklin, found in Moses, MoMA, and the Modernist
Narrative, Skira Rizzoli, New York, p. 24
2016 Promise and Threat—Inquiry In Landscape Vernacular, cover art, an Art section with artist essay, Saranac Review #12, SUNY Plattsburgh, NY
2014 Kolaj, The Exquisite Corpse Drawn, Quartered, Remembered, by David Powell, issue 7, January 2014, pp. 20-27
2013 Art New England, cover story, Monumental Exhibition for Collage, January/February, p. 16
Gerald Peters Gallery, American Collage, catalog
2012 Artscope, cover story, Collage at 100—Strange Glue (Traditional & Avant-garde Collage), November/December, pp.10-11
Numéro Cinq, online journal, The Box Does Not Need To Be Square: An Interview with Todd Bartel — Nance Van Winckel,
numerocinqmagazine.com, October
Hey Joe, exhibition catalog, BigTown Gallery, Rochester, VT,
Seven Days: Vermont's Independent Voice, Big Joe (Hey Joe: An Homage to Joseph Cornell, BigTown Gallery), Art Review, Amy Rahn
2008 The Boston Globe, Boston, MA, New Gallery Tackles A Hot Topic, Denise Taylor, pictured, February 28
2007 Hunger Mountain #11, Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Montpelier, VT, front and back covers, artist’s essay, September
2004 Exposing Scarlet: A Visual Response to the Scarlet Letter, exhibition catalog, Mills Gallery, Essays by Alison Hawthorne Deming and Rev. Bill
Bliss, pictured, September
2004 Hunger Mountain #5, Vermont College Journal of Arts & Letters, Montpelier, VT, artist’s essay and color reproductions, September
2002 The New York Times, A 'Landview' Focus, Arts & Entertainment, Roberta Hershenson, pictured, WE, p. 8, May 12
2001 The Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, Dark Remedy, Trent Stephens & Rock Brynner, pictured, p.45, Spring
ARTnews, New York, NY, Virginia Lynch: A Curatorial Retrospective, Part II, Bill Van Siclen, pictured, p. 164, February
2000 The Providence Journal, Providence, RI, Locals try harder at Lynch Retrospective, Channing Gray, pictured, December 7
Gallery & Studio, New York, NY, Tontine in Dumbo, New York Notebooks, Ed McCormack, September/October
Tontine, essay by Roger Dell, exhibition catalog, Hermen Goode Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, May
The Advocate, Stamford, CT, Artist Earns Grant To Continue His Series Of Drawings, Agnes Diggs, pictured, February 27
1995 Greenwich Time, Greenwich, CT, Discarded Drawings Basis for Exhibit at the Mead School, pictured, November 13
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Pittsburgh, PA, Water Earth Clay Seeks Spirituality, Graham Shearing, pictured, October 12
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh, PA, Symbolism at the Heart of Artist-Couple's Works, Janet McCall, September 24
1991 Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh, PA, Luxe, Harry Schwab, June
1986 The Providence Journal-Bulletin, Providence, RI, The 'Emerging' Work of Five Young Artists, pictured, July 11
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
2024 Sala 1, Rome, Italy
Anna Maria College, Paxton, MA
2023 Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, VT
Mohool, Artist In Residency Program, Bankura, India
2020 MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland, The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art
2019 Kanyer Collection, Yakama, WA
2012 Ontological Museum, Pagosa Springs, CO
2006 Wellington Management Company LLP, Boston, MA, Corporate Collection
2000 Pfizer, Rye Brook, NY, Permanent Corporate Collection
1999 Chelsea Clinton, Private Collection
Jennifer Vorbach, Private Collection
Integrated Capital Associates, New York, NY, Corporate Collection
1998 TBF Collectables LDC, Larchmont, NY, London, GB, Private Collection
1992 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Permanent Collection
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, Special and Rare Books Collection
1987 New Haven Paint and Clay Club, John Slade Ely House, New Haven, CT, Permanent Collection
Hampton Partners, New York, NY, Corporate Collection
Pathways Affiliates, Portsmouth, NH, Corporate Collection