CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
1999 M.F.A. Studio Art, Ohio University
1997 B.F.A. Painting, University of Akron (cum laude)
SELECTED SOLO PERFORMANCES and EXHIBITIONS
2020 The Unique Title of this Museum Exhibition Differentiates It from Other Exhibitions Produced by the Artist While It Simultaneously Hints at the Substance of the Artwork It Contains, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ
2019 Intertexting, Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, FL
2017 The Verisimilitude Platitudes, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2015 Gary Setzer: Work, MOCA Tucson, Tucson, AZ
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Tippets Gallery, Utah State University, Logan, UT
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Hyde Art Gallery, Grossmont College, San Diego, CA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, School of Art, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, MO
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Kenilworth Square, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, The Eve Marie Saint Theater, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, George and Ellen Rieveschl Digitorium, Highland Heights, KY
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Kipp Gallery, Indiana State University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Arts Cottage, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Commons Art Gallery, Arcadia University, Philadelphia, PA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Ruth Marder Studio Theater, Towson University, Towson, MD
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Studio 115 Black Box Theater, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
2014 The Black Tongue Lexicon, Black Box Theater, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL
2013 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
2011 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Las Cruces Museum of Art, Las Cruces, NM
2011 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
2011 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Martine Chaisson Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2011 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Co-Lab Project Space, Austin, TX
2011 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Flight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, The Tank, New York, NY
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Fountain Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Plus Gallery, Denver, CO
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Mess Hall, Chicago, IL
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Future Tenant, Pittsburgh, PA
2010 Supralingual/Sublingual: The Tongue is the Terrain, Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH
2008 Simultaneous Repellents, (Repressed Sentient, Oppressed Séance), The Slade Research Center, London, UK
2008 The Shift From Green and the Quietude of the Swallowing Ground, Davis Gallery, Pocatello, ID
2006 Gary Setzer: Sound & Vision—Selected Single Channel Video Works, Ohio University Southern Gallery, Ironton, OH
2006 Slow Measured Crawl 2, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Methodological Remover / Orange Haunter, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Keypunch Operator (Field Interpreter), site-specific work, Bowling Green, OH
2005 Indexical Scale, Clarion University, Clarion PA
2005 Slow Measured Crawl, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2005 1:1 Floor Plan Drawing #2, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2004 1:1 Floor Plan Drawing #1, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Bowling Green, OH
2003 Gary Setzer: The Recorder Suite, A.R.C. Gallery, Chicago, IL
2000 The Landscape Divided Infinitely and Refused to Entertain the Questions, The Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH
1999 Knowing Field, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH
1999 Recent Work by Gary Setzer, The Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH
1997 Essence System: Recent Work by Gary Setzer, The Millworks Gallery, Akron, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture 2021, Giardini Central Pavilion, Venice, Italy
2021 The 7th International Exhibition on New Media Art, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2021 Contemporary Venice 2021, The Room Contemporary Art Space & Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2021 The Body Language 2021, The Room Contemporary Art Space & Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, Venice, Italy
2020 Third Coast Biennial, Kspace, Corpus Christi, TX
2019 LACDA 15th Anniversary Members Exhibit, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Open Source, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Japan Media Arts Festival, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
2018 The 21st Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Winning Works, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan
2018 21st Japan Media Arts Festival: Award Winning Works, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2018 Camera Japan, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2018 Sendai Short Film Festival, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan
2018 Festivāls Ūdensgabali ’18, NOASS, Riga, Latvia
2018 El Festival, Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico
2018 Arizona Biennial 2018, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2018 The Body Language, The Room Contemporary Art Space, Venice, Italy
2018 Futility, Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Electron Salon 2018, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Liquid Rooms, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice, Italy
2018 LACDA Member Artists Exhibit, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Art as Information, The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, DE
2017 FIVA 07: Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Centro Cultural San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 Art Nova 100, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2017 The Art Laguna Prize Finalists Exhibition, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
2017 Body Language: Figuration in Modern and Contemporary Art, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2017 Contemporary Venice, Palazzo Flangini, Venice, Italy
2017 Alchemic Body, Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogotá, Columbia
2017 BODYSPACES: Humans + Hybrids, WorldHotel Ripa Roma, Rome Italy
2017 Electron Salon 2017, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Video Art & Experimental Film Festival 2016, Tribeca Film Center, New York, NY
2016 Artist Statement, CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2016 Oxygen - Fragmented Cities + Identities, Jorge Jurado Gallery, Bogotá, Columbia
2016 Future Landscapes, Venice Art Hours Gallery & Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice, Italy
2016 Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
2016 The Labyrinth—Experimental Art, Architecture, and Design Festival, Bahcesehir University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2016 Electron Salon 2016, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Between Two Points, (SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI
2016 Re: Formation, Gallery Project at Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2016 Re: Formation, Gallery Project at One Lake Erie Center, Toledo, OH
2016 Avant-Arizona: Experimental Media From Tucson, Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
2015 Feelers, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2015 TIAF London 2015, The Rag Factory, London, UK
2015 Electron Salon 2015, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Wish List, Gallery Project at Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
2015 Wish List, Gallery Project, Toledo, OH
2014 Incite Insight, The Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2014 Performance Video And Colored Gloves: Gary Setzer & Tommy Becker, Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
2014 Eraserhood Forever, PhilaMOCA, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Avant-Arizona: Experimental Media From Tucson, Exploded View, Tucson, AZ
2013 Electron Salon 2013, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Arizona Biennial 2013, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2013 Guised, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
2012 Approach, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY
2012 Grammar of the Elite, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2012 Times, Interludes and Actions, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Falls, IA
2012 Post Apocalypse, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Arizona Biennial 2011, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2011 Unhooked From Time, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2011 Times, Interludes, and Action, ARTspace Media Lounge, New York, NY
2010 Nowhere: Archives of the Hand Drawn Map Association, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Fashion Show: The Spring 2010 Collection, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2009 Capturing Motion, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2009 Fragile Bodies, Northern Kentucky University Main Gallery, Highland Heights, KY
2007 State of the Union, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2007 Autumedia, Cincinnati Public Art Event, Cincinnati, OH
2006 Ohio Made, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2006 Minimal Maximum, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2006 Do Not Fold, Bend, Spindle or Mutilate, Washington Pavilion of Arts and Science, Sioux Falls, SD
2005 Post-Postcard, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2005 The Postcard Show, The Lab, San Francisco,CA
2005 Integrated, Zygote Press Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2005 Collaborator : 2, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI
2005 AutuMedia, The Mockbee, Cincinnati, OH
2004 Intermedia IV, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
2004 Inaugural Mudd, The Mudd Gallery, Appleton, WI
2004 AutuMedia, Media Bridges Center, Cincinnati, OH
2004 Majestic Gallery Invitational, Majestic Gallery, Nelsonville, OH
2003 Information Man, Future Tenant Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2002 Artists Talk On Art: Curator’s Choice, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Looped (Video Environments), Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 Digital Visions, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
2002 The Seventh Annual Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2002 The Toy Show: Art About Toys & Toys As Art, Thirteenhundred Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2002 Towering, Thirteenhundred Gallery, Cleveland OH
2002 Ohio Filmmakers Selections, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH
2001 The Sixth Annual Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2001 Ohio Filmmakers Selections, Cox Fine Arts Center, Columbus, OH
1998 Surface Ecstasy, Esther Allan Greer Museum, Rio Grande, OH
1997 Creative Communities: Art from Akron’s Neighborhoods, Akron Art Museum, OH
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES
2021 University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO
2018 International Design Liaison Center, Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Del Mar College, Corpus Christi, TX
2013 Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
2012 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown State University, Youngstown, OH
2011 Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2009 Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
2008 The Slade School of Art, London, England
2008 Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID
2006 Ohio University Southern, Ironton, OH
2005 Lawrence University, Appleton, WI
2005 Clarion University, Clarion, PA
2001 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
EMPLOYMENT
2020-present Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2013-2020 Associate Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2007-2013 Assistant Professor of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2001-2007 Full-time Instructor, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
2000-2001 Adjunct Instructor, University of Akron, Akron, OH
2000-2001 Curatorial Assistant, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
1998-1999 Instructor of Record, Ohio University, Athens, OH