American, born 1974, lives Chicago

Education
Carnegie Mellon University (MFA, 2002)
Miami University; Oxford, OH (BFA, 1997)

Solo Exhibitions
2007 on and on, moniquemeloche, Chicago
2005 Classic Manner of Inclusion moniquemeloche, Chicago
2003 Transmogriaesthetics, Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
I died for beauty, Newman Popiashvili Gallery, NY curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud
Changing Cities curated by Paul Klein, Museum of New Art, Detroit MI
The Eclectic Eye: Selections of Fantasy and Illusion from the Frederick R. Weisman
Art Foundation, Contemporary Art Center New Orleans
2006
Bearable Lightness...Likeness, PS1, New York, NY curated by Franklin Sirmans (June)
2005
Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation,
Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
pan/sonic, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago curated by Heather Weber
2004
Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Arts Center, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for
Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati, OH
Nothing Compared to This (ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in recent art),
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Site Unseen, Newsense Enterprise Gallery, Cleveland, OH
Art Chicago International Invitational, moniquemeloche gallery, Chicago, IL
Drift Shift; Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2003
Version ’03; Chicago Cultural Center in conjunction with Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago
2002
48 Hours, BK Smith Gallery; Lake Erie College, Cleveland, OH
happenstance, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Contemporary Photographers in Pittsburgh, Foreland Street Studios, Pittsburgh
2000
“Art in America: Fax Machine Discourse” Stacked, Aranoff Center for the Arts,
Cincinnati, OH
1999
You Know My Name, You Know My Style, Spaces, Cleveland, OH. Installation
1998
out fit; Appropriationists Internationale CMC, Cleveland, OH
1997
“Mr. Machine (Cattle)” Bordering on Conflict, gallerygreen CMC, Oxford, OH
1996
gallerygreen inaugural show, gallerygreen CMC, Oxford, OH

Selected Performances
2003
Stage Fright III: Somewhere Better Than This Place, Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati, OH, Collaborative performance with Patty Chang
2001
Street Basketball with Milk Crate Hoop, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA,
Performance / Social Action
“developing new realities” interchange: simultaneity in action, Het West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam, Holland
2000
Systems, Brew House, Pittsburgh, PA. Performance / Sound Installation
“Delivering Time” Performative Arts Symposium, Penn State University, State College, PA,
Performance / Installation
None the Less, All the More, Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA,
Performance / Installation
Wrestling Culture Wars, Let’s Get Physical; MOCA, Cleveland, OH
1999
“Secrets” Solstice Celebration; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1998
“Secrets” Solstice Celebration; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Circus Midway; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
1997
Re-Opening Tuplitzky; Dileia Contemporary CMC, Cincinnati, OH
Nova Blue, Streets of Chicago, IL. Performance / Social Action

Selected Bibliography
2006
“Bearable Lightness…Likeness.” This Week In New York. http://twi-ny.com/twiny.07.19.06.html
2005
Mojica, Jason. “Pan/Sonic” Timeout Chicago, December 15-29. 2005, p. 74.
Weber, Heather. “Pan/Sonic”, Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lessane, Patricia Williams. “Todd Pavlisko: The Classic Manner of Inclusion” Time Out
Chicago, June 30-July 7, p. 54.
Artner, Alan. “Trophy artist hopes you will buy into his work” Chicago Tribune, June 24,
C Section 7, p. 27.
2004
Desmarais, Charles. ‘’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
2003
Recht, Stacey. “Museum in an exhibit: artist turns the mundane & miniscule into art,”
http://www.citybeat.com Vol 9, Issue 45 September 17-23, 2003
2002
“MOBB” interchange: nyc Bomb Magazine Spring 2002, No.79, NY
2001
“Public art self-portrait” Paper Doll Series; INPGH: In Pittsburgh Weekly Vol. 17, No. 44.

Lectures
2006
Time Arts Faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2004
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,
Panel Discussion with curator Charles Desmarais
Drift Shift; Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2003
Version ’03: Aesthetic Futures for Biomedical Applications; Museum of Contemporary Art;
Chicago, IL. Performance and panel discussion.
2002
Graduate Seminar in Performance Art; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Digital Media, Cleveland Institute of Art; Cleveland, OH
Artist Lecture Series, Edinboro University, Edinboro, PA
Thesis Lecture Series, Purnell Center for the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Art in Context, Senior Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
interchange : simultaneity in action, Het West-Indisch Huis, Amsterdam, Holland
2000
Artist Lecture Series, Biennial, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Artist Lecture Series, Carlow College, Pittsburgh, PA
1999
Artist Lecture Series, Baret College, Chicago, IL

Selected Collections
Progressive Corporation, Ohio
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, California

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