Artist Resume
Michael J. Zachary
** ******** **., ******* *****, MA 02130 617-***-****(cell) abo3l7@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION:
MFA 2008 Painting and Drawing Massachusetts College of Art and Design
BA 2002 Visual Arts Bowdoin College (Cum Laude)
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville, VA
2011 Create the First Kickstarter Strange Loop! (A Conceptual Artwork),
www.kickstarter.com
(http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/38900119/create -the-first-kickstarter-
strange-loop)
President s Office, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA (with Laisa
Bellomo-Johnson)
2010 Fountain, New York, NY, (with S. Billie Mandle)
2008 MFA Thesis Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2005 Space, Portland, ME, (with Cassie Jones)
2004 Local 188, Portland, ME, (Solo)
2002 Thesis Exhibition, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME (Solo)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2012 Fountain, New York, NY
2011 Chain Letter, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
Inaugural Exhibition for President Dawn Barrett, President s Office, Massachusetts
College of
Art and Design, Boston, MA
2010 Faculty Exhibition, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA
One Time Works, Fountain, New York, NY. Curator: Troy Hagenbart
2009 Beg Borrow Steal, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA. Curator: Aaron Seigal
What Reason?!, New York, NY. Curator: Troy Hagrnbart
2008 Boston Young Contemporaries, Boston University, Boston, MA. Jurors: Roger White,
Jackie
Gendel, Tom McGrath
Mash Up (Mass College of Art and School of the Museum of Fine Arts), Massachusetts
College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Twofold (Mass College of Art at Tyler School of Art), Tyler University, Elkins Park, PA
2007 MFA Midway Exhibition, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
2006 Bowdoin Alumni Print Exhibition, ICON Gallery, Brunswick, ME. Curator: Anna Hepler
Incoming MFA Candidate Show, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. Jurors:
Jennifer Gross, John Walker, Andrew Witkin
2004 Closer In, Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA. Curators: Ven Voisey and
Heather Philips (Catalog)
Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME. Jurors:
Sam Cady, Sharon Corwin, Waqas Wajahat
2003 Hubbub, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2002 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME, Jurors:
John Stomberg, Christine Vincent, Mark Wethli
2001 The 17th Drawing Show, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, Curator: Bill Arning
(Catalog)
The Next Generation II, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
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Artist Resume
Michael J. Zachary
51 Cranston St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 617-***-****(cell) abo3l7@r.postjobfree.com
SELECTED AWARDS, GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2011 Kickstarter Best Moments of 2011, Kickstarter Blog
2010 New England Art Award Nominee, Painting Category, The New E ngland Journal of
Aesthetic Research
2007 - 2008O Brien Grant for Graduate Study, awarded by Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
2006Artist s Residency and Partial Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
(De
clined)
2004Artist s Residency and Partial Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2002 Richard Martel Jr. Prize, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME. Senior Art Award.
2001 Surdna Foundation Research Fellowship in Painting, Surdna Foundation, New York,
NY, and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
SELECTED TEACHING AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2008 - PresentSenior Lecturer, Northeastern University and Northeastern University
Foundation
Year Program, Boston, MA.
2008 - PresentInstructor, University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Lowell, MA.
2007 - 2008Instructor of Record, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA.
2006 - 2008Teaching Assistant, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA,
SELECTED PRESS:
2011 2001: The Moments most meta project ever sucessfully ends unsucessfully.
http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/2011-the-moments?ref=email, (January 2012)
2010 Artcat Michael Zachary and S. Billie Mandle www.artcat.com/exhibits/11799, (August
2010)
2009 McQuaid, Cate. Feeling the Pop, In any Guise Boston Globe: (August 26, 2009)
2008 McQuaid, Cate. Novel Works by Artists-in-Training Boston Globe: (July 23, 2008)
Glahn, Philip. Painting, State of the Arts www.twofoldexhibition.com: (February 2008)
2006 Keyes, Bob. Center for Maine Contempora ry Art Biennial: It s All in There Maine
Sunday
Telegram: (April 23, 2006): Pages E1 - E2
2005 Badger, Jeff. Tasting the Rainbow www.thebollard.com: (December 18, 2005)
Keyes, Bob. College Friends Reunite with Space Show. Maine Sunday Telegram: (December
18, 2005): Pages E1 - E2
2004 Behnke, Karyn. CAC September 2004 (Catalog). North Adams (MA); Contemporary Artists
Center, 2004
Gold, Donna. Spotlight Review of CMCA Biennial. Art New England, Volume 25 Number
6 (Oct./Nov. 2004): 24
2002 Temin, Christine. Drawing Atention The Boston Globe (January 18, 2002)
Millis, Christopher. What s in a Name? The BCA Drawingshow plus Process on Paper
and Tracy Miller The Boston Pheonix (January 11, 2002) : Page 14
Silver, Joanne. Drawing Attention: BCA exhibit celebrates age-old and modern traditions
of
sketching Boston Herald (January 4, 2002): Page S
2001 Giuliano, Charles. Bill Arning Curates the Drawing Show Maverick Arts Issue Number
45,
www.eastboston.com (December 16, 2001)
Arning, Bill and Trasker, Rebecca. The 17th Drawing Show (Catalog). Boston Center for the
Arts, 2001
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