Tim Clorius: Painter - Aerosol Artist

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EDUCATION:

2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts/with Honors, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
1998-2000 School of Visual Arts, New York, N.Y.
   

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2011 "Conversation Pieces", Aucocisco Gallery, Portland, Maine
2009 "More than Meets the Eye", Galerie P13, Heidelberg, Germany
  "Paintings", McCoy Gallery at the Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimac College, North Andover, MA
2008 “Whisstlejacket II”, Whitney Artworks at the Walker Terrace, Portland, Maine
2007 Sanctuary, “Vicious Cycles”, Portland, Maine
2006 Sanctuary, “Subscript”, Portland, Maine
2005 Portland City Hall, “New Paintings”, Portland, Maine
2004 University of New England, Biddeford, Maine
2003 Gallery73, “Sublime Urban Beauty”, Portland, Maine
   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011 IBUg 2011, Urban Street Art Exhibition, Meerane, Germany. Featuring 50 international street artists from 8 countries - Pending August 2011
2011 International Painting Annual - INPA, An Exhibition in Print, international juried exhibition, Published by Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
2010 Contemporary Realism Biennial, National Jurried Exhibition, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, Catalog Available
2010 "Visual Narrative", national juried exhibition, 180 Gallery at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, curated by Chuck Gniech, pending June 2010
2009 "Gatorade Artist Collaboration", with seven nationally recognized urban artists, shown in various locations
  Susan Maasch Fine Art, "Sticky Situations", Portland, Maine
  Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, "Magnitude Seven" international juried exhibition, Cincinnati, Ohio
  Whitney Artworks, "Considerable Thinking", With Adrienne Herman and Melinda Barnes, Portland, Maine
2008 Wichita Center for the Arts, "National Small Oil Painting Exhibition" national juried exhibition, Wichita, Kansas
  Filament Gallery, Portland, Maine
  Saco Museum, “Exactly Different”, Saco, Maine
  Space Gallery, “Stew’n Crew” Mural, Portland, Maine
2007 Whitney Artworks, “Tiny”, curator Bruce Brown, Portland, Maine
  31St Annual MECA Art Auction, Featured item in the live auction, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
  Center for Maine Contemporary Arts, “Body Parts”, June Fiztpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
2006 Invitational Graffiti Show, Red Bull “Writersblock”, Birmingham, Alabama
2005 Sanctuary, “Hired Gun for the Hanging Judge; new paintings by Tim Clorius and Justin Richel"
  Space Gallery, "Twenty/20, Graffiti Writers of the North East", Portland, Maine
  Institute of Contemporary Art, included in the “Fly Project”, “The Sportsmen’s Redux”, Portland, Maine
2003 Hay Gallery, “New Talent”, Portland, Maine
  Hay Gallery, “The Urban Show”, Portland, Maine
  Space Gallery, “Plow”, Portland, Maine
  Space Gallery, “Mixed Greens”, Portland, Maine
   

AWARDS/ GRANTS:

2008/09 Nominated for Portland’s Best Graffiti/Street/Performance Artist by The Portland Phoenix, Portland, Maine
2006 Principal Artist for the “Artists in Maine Communities Grant” from the Maine Arts Commission, though the National Endowment for the Arts The project was titled: S.U.B.O.N.E: An Urban Mural Project.
2003 Voted one of the most influential people under 35 in Portland as a graffiti Artist and Painter, the Portland Phoenix, Maine
   

VISITING ARTIST (selection):

2011 Lecturer at YCCC, Visiting Artist Series, York County Community College, Maine
2010 Lecturer at Beata Niedzialkowska's class on modernism, Art History Department, Maine College of Art
2009/10 Artist in Residence, Maine College of Art, Sculpture Department, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
2009 Visiting Artist at Merrimack College, for "Foundations of the visual Arts", North Andover, MA
  Speaker at Merrimack College, Rogers Center for the Arts, North Andover, MA
2008-10 Visual arts instructor for the Regional Fine Arts Program, working with the talented and gifted from 6 Southern Maine High schools.
2007 Speaker at the national conference of the Society for Literature, Science and Art (SLSA), discussing the SUBONE Urban Mural Project and its relation to the codes of international graffiti culture
  George Stevens Academy, Artist in Residence, Blue Hill, Maine
  City of Portland, Juror for the “National Arts Program”, Portland, Maine
  Exhibition of “Free Form Flow” at the invitation of the Twin Cities Arts Counsel at the North Dam Mill, Biddeford, ME
2006 “e2e with Tim Clorius”, sponsored by the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA, Portland, Maine
  Visiting Artist at Service for Peace and Washington Aids International Teens (W.A.I.T)
  Red Bull, Tampa, Florida
  “S.U.B.O.N.E.-Field Drawing” with Prof. Jan Piribeck and her students, facilitated by USM/GIS a division of the department of Anthropology and Geography
  Visiting Artist, Maine College of Art, Class on Public Art /Prof. Christina Beckstein
  Visiting Artist, University of Southern Maine, Class on Community and Public Art/ Prof. Jan Piribeck
2005 Visiting Artist, Bates College, Class on Mural Art/ Prof. Felicia Fahey
2004 Panelist at “First Thursday” Panel discussion on Art and Crime, Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine
   

NEWS/ MEDIA:

2011 Down East Magazine "Maine Art in Season, Presenting 8 Southern Maine Venues to See Contemporary Art at its Best" by Edgar Allen Beem, page 73
2010 Heidelberg Aktuell, Jan.1rst, page 19
2009/10 Meyer Metropol Region, Dec./Jan.
2009 Bodin Orient, Portland graffiti artist gives Ladd basement a Polar Makeover, by Hannah Hoyt, Nov.4th
  Rhein-Neckar Zeitung, Dec 5/6th, Vertraut mit der Kunstgeschichte, review by critic Heide Seele
  "Gatorade Artist Collaboration", Juxtapz.com
  Format Magazine.com
  Rojo Daily Magazine.com
  RSN TV, The Buzz
  The Portland Phoenix, "Story Telling", April 16th
  The Portland Daily Sun - Weekend edition, "Graffiti Whoa's", April 6th
  "Hip Hop provides backdrop to graffiti art, basketball", South Coast Today, July 19th
2008 “Graffiti Galore”, MaineToday.com
  “Street Style”, The Maine Switch
2007 “Big, Yet Tiny”, Portland Press Herald, Maine Sunday Telegram, Dec.9th
  “King belongs to all of us”, Portland Press Herald, Jan. 15th
2006 “GPS Guides the Creation of Giant Art”, Contemporary Street Art
  “Subone Speaks Out”, the Bollard, Portland, Maine
  “GPS guides the Creation of Giant Art”, Portland Press Herald, Aug.5th
  “No Name Art”, the Portland Phoenix
  “Painting the Walls; Graffiti Activist speaks on Youth and Art" the Portland Phoenix, 7/7/06
  “Accepting Rejection”-Life-, the Portland Phoenix, Oct.1st
  “Taking it to the Street”, The Maine Sunday Telegram, 7/9/06
  vol.4/14, the Forecaster
  “Mending Fences”, the Munjoy Hill Observer
  Weekly Interview, the Gorham Westbrook Gazette, 2/10/06
  “Industrial Art”, Subone and Aser, video documentary, Red Bull
2005 Red Bull, “Writers of the North East”, Skeleton Video Productions
  “Aerossault”, Documentary on Graffiti Art
  “Tank Farm Art”, Portland Press Herald, I-Herald, Nov. 21
  “The Evolution Underground”, Portland Phoenix, Nov.18-24
  “Young Artists Get Their Day in the Sun”, Portland Press Herald
  “Awaken”, Evolve2AdvanceCataloge, Evolve2Advance.com
  “Fresh Air and Spray Paint”, the Forecaster, Aug.17th
  “Fence Art”, The Munjoy Hill Observer, vol.125/#2
2004 “Graffiti Mixes with Politics on Downtown Building”, the Forecaster
2003 “Guerilla Artists” Portland Magazine, issue#18
  “Trading Spaces”, Portland Phoenix, Nov.14th
  “Urban Landscript” Tim Clorius at Gallery 73, Portland Phoenix, Jan.17th
2002 “Graffiti on Tap at Gallery 73”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Dec.29th
  “Community Canvas”, Maine Sunday Telegram, Oct.20th
  “American Graffiti”, Port City Life Magazine
   

PUBLICATIONS:

2010 "Visual Narrative",180 Gallery, Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago - Cataloge
2009 Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center, Cincinnati, Ohio/Catalogue of "Magnitude Seven"
2006 Words and Images, featured interview, published by the University of Southern Maine
  E2E with Tim Clorius, created by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, Maine (on view in their archives)
  “The Visual Language of Art” in “Rhetorik Eine Interdisziplinaere Einfuerung in die Rhetorische Praxis, C.F.Mueller Verlagsgruppe Huethic Jehle Rehm GmbH, Heidelberg, Munich, Landsberg, Berlin
  Thos. Moser Catalogue
  “S.U.B.O.N.E.”; The Art of Tim Clorius, The Site TV, Los Angeles, CA
2004 “The Visual Language of Art” in Der Macht die Worte, VRS Rolf Schmitt Verlag, Germany

 

 

 

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