MARTHA RUSSO
Born January 2, 1962, Milford, CT, U.S.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
caesura, Galleries of Contemporary Art, Ent Center for the Arts, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2017
circumvolo, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
2016
coalescere, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
2013
cavities and clumps, Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM
2012
nomos (cube), Saratoga Art Center, Schuylerville, CO
Swell, collaboration with Katie Caron, Spark Gallery, Denver, CO
Oxytocin, collaboration with Katie Caron, Ice Cube Gallery, Denver, CO
2009
nomos, Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
ana<>lineament<>muse, Philip J. Steele Gallery, RMCAD, Lakewood, CO
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Cultivating Peace, Kigali Genocide Museum, Kigali, Rwanda
Thus Far, UV Arts, Derry Londonderry
Platform Arts Belfast , Belfast, Ireland
Full Circle, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
2023
The Red Viburnum, Ukraine Solar Panel Project, Idea Forge, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
Faculty Exhibition, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
NWSE, Anderson Ranch Gallery Snowmass, CO
Common Nature 2, Chorrera Amazonas, La Chorrera, Colombia
Artificio Gallery, Villaviciencio, Colombia
Alcadia Galeria de Arte, Villaviciencio, Colombia
Comunidad Uitoto Manuca de la Chorrera Amazonas, La Chorrera, Colombia
Maloca of Uitoto Tribe, Amazon Rainforest
Without Borders, Oriel CARN, Caernarfon, England
2022
(In)Divisible, University Gallery, Dar al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine
Virga (Rough Gems), Union Gallery, Denver, CO
Without Borders, Art and Mind Center, Nagoya, Japan
2021
Uncanny Times, Artnauts 25th Anniversary Exhibition,Seidel City, Boulder, CO
My City: Life During the Corona Virus, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, Denver, CO
Legacy, Saratoga Clay Art Center, Saratoga Art Center, Schuylerville, NY
2020
Phase Change, The Curtis Center, Greenwood Village, CO
The Walls Between Us, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Pink Progression: Collaborations, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
Globalocation II, A.D Gallery University of North Carolina Pembroke, Pembroke NC
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
The Wall (Arnauts), Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Pink Progression: Collaborations, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
Connections, Artificum Gallery, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia Guayupe Gallery, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
National University of Colombia, Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
House of Culture, Arauca, Colombia
My Country, Dreams and/or Reality, Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
The Sarajevo Winter Festival 2020, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Gallery of the Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, The Academy of Fine Arts Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia
Brodac Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia
2019
Connections, Universidad de Los Llanos, Biblioteca Jorge Boshell Manrique, Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
Dis(Content), Library of the Universidad de Los Llanos in Villaviciencio, Colombia
WorkFlow 002, performance lead artist Trey Duvall, Black Cube Headquarters, Englewood, CO
Turning Points, Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Colorado Abstract + 10: A Survey, Arvada Center, Arvada, CO
Unseen Nature, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Generative Object, Harvey Preston Gallery, Aspen, CO
Invictus, Global Livingston Institute, Entusi, Uganda
Makerere University GAlllery, Kampala, Uganda
2018
Wounds, Dar al-Kalima University College of Art/Culture, Bethlehem, Palestine
Connections, European House in Zagreb, Croatia,
Hegira& Other Passages, Gradska Galerija, Bihac, Bosnia
Limnal Space, DMZ Museum, South Korea
America Art/Artnauts Art & Place
Artificio Galeria, Villavicienco, Meta, Colombia
Salón Departamental de Arte, Acacias, Meta, Colombia
Casa de la Cultura, Mitu, Vaupes, Colo,mbia2
Universidad Nacional de Colombia,Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia
Pink Progression, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Pink Progression, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
After Birth, The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, St. Catherine’s University, St. Paul, MN
Aesthetics of Persuasion, Kleinart/James Center for the Arts, Woodstock, NY
ICON, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
InSITu, Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, CO
2017
Globalocation II, Rosemary Duffy Gallery, Broward College, Davie, FL
Meta Journey, International Festival Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina
Globalocation, J Willard Marriot Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Globalocation, Nettie Benson Archive Library, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
ICON, Showpace Gallery, Boulder, CO
Cabinet Project, David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO
2016
Artnauts 20th Anniversary Exhibition, RedLine Contemporary Art Space, Denver, CO
Colorado Women in Abstraction, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Zeitgeist: Social, Political, Cultural, Greatmore Studios & Khayelitsha, The Harare Academy, Cape Town, South Africa
Art & Resistance, Dar Al-Kalima University, Bethlehem, Palestine
Soul Drift: Visualizations of a Cultural Phenomenon, International Festival Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia- Herzegovina
Summer Mixer, Goodwin Fine Arts, Denver, CO
2015
Jokes of Nature, Redline Contemporary Art Space, Denver, Colorado
Engendered, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Diaspora of Being, International Center of Bethlehem, Bethlehem, Palestine
Identity, Place, and Memory, Bogota Arte Contemporaneo Gallery in Bogota, Colombia
Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Academy of Fine Arts, Sarajevo & Galerija ALU Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
2014
Miami Project, Claudia Stone Gallery, Miami, FL
Pritzlaff Exhibition, Material World NCECA, Milwaukee, WI
Object, Structure, Subject, Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
Colorado Clay, Foothills Art Center, Golden, CO
Art and Poetics, Mahmoud Darwish Museum, Ramallah, Palestine
Moving Beyond Capitalism, Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
Identity, University of the Andes, Bogota, Colombia
Summer Show, Goodwin Fine Art, Denver, CO
SELECTED MEDIA
Artdaily.org. “Martha Russo’s first solo museum exhibition opens at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.” artdaily.org, 29 March 2016.
Clark, Garth. “Exhibition: Tendrils of Martha Russo Works Invite and Push Away at BMoCA.”cfile.daily, 9 June 2016.
Dodson, Leslie. “Martha Russo: Arts District.” Rocky Mountain PBS, 2 March 2016.
Domandi, Mary Charlotte. Interview with Martha Russo. Santa Fe Radio Cafe, June 2013. Radio.
Isaac, Eric and Keen, Michael. Interview with Katie Caron and Martha Russo. Untitled Art Show.
Episode 163, March 2012. http://www.digitalpodcast.com/items/17605108.
Jacobs, Karen. “Apoptosis.” Art and Perception 95, 2014, p. 22-25.
Kuspit, Donald. “Abstraction Without Boundaries.” Artnet Magazine, March 2009.
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/frank- stella11-3-
Landi, Ann. “Martha Russo.” Vasari 21, 1 May 2016. http://vasari21.com/martha-russo/
__. “cavities and clumps.” ARTnews, January 2014.
Paglia, Michael. “Martha Russo’s Spectacular Solo Show at Boulder Museum of Contemporary
Art.” Westward, 25 May 2016.
Rinaldi, Ray Mark. “Martha Russo’s amazing ceramics: life, death and things in between.”
Denver Post, 5 May 2016.
Singleton, Billy. “Exhibition Chronicles the Career of Boulder Artist Martha Russo.” Boulder Weekly,
26 April 2016.
WEDU Arts Plus, PBS, Episode 605, 2 March 2017 (https://www.pbs.org/video/wedu-arts-plus-605-
martha-russo/)
Wolf, Stephanie. “Crushed Olympic Dreams Motivate Colorado Sculptor Martha Russo.”
Colorado Public Radio, 4 April 2016. http://www.cpr.org/news/story/crushed-olympicdreams-motivate-colo-sculptor-martha-russo.
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2020
Galleries of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Grant, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
2014
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Exhibition Grant, Boulder, CO
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Faculty Grant Award, Lakewood, CO
2010
Denver Art Museum, Exhibition Grant, Denver, CO
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Faculty Grant Award, Lakewood, CO
EDUCATION
1995 Master of Fine Arts, Ceramics/Sculpture, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1985 Bachelor of Arts, Developmental Psychology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
1983 Italian Studies Program, Drake University, Florence, Italy
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2014- Lecturer, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
1996- 2012 Professor, Fine Arts, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO
1991-1992 Assistant Ceramics Instructor, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
1991-1992 Ceramics Instructor, Art Association, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1988- 1991 Assistant Ceramics Instructor, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
VISITING ARTIST
2024
Dance Class, Wattles + More Wattles, University of Colorado Colorado Springs
2023
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Panel Discussion Toshiko Takaezu, Boston, MA
Pod Cast North Boulder Arts District with Becca Saulsberry
University of Colorado Colorado Springs Visiting Artists and Critics Series
2021
Visiting Artist Series, Michigan State University, MI
2019
Ideas Salon, Watchill, RI
Chapman University, Orange County, CA
Colorado State University, Fort Collins CO
Aurora Community College, Aurora, CO
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO
2018
Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
Boulder Art Alliance, Eldorado Springs, CO
2017
Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Western Carolina State University, Cullowhee, NC
Broward College, Davie, FL
2014 Western Colorado Center for the Arts, Grand Junction, CO
Metropolitan State University, Denver, CO
PUBLIC TALKS
2019
Boulder Start-up Week, Rembrandt Yard, Boulder CO
2018
Top Profs, University of Colorado Boulder, CO
Gather and Grapple, Boulder County Arts, Eldorado Springs Art Center, Eldorado Springs, CO
RESIDENCIES
2024
University of Montana, Missoula, MT
2023
University of Colorado Colorado Springs, CO
2022
Curaumilla Art Center, Valparaiso, Chile
2019
Red Lodge Clay Center, Red Lodge MT
2013
Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, CO
2012
Richard Estes/ Chris Jones Maine Foundation
CURATOR
2021
Uncanny Times, co-curator with Cecily Cullen, Seidel City, Boulder, CO
2020
The Walls Between Us, Center for Visual Art, Denver, CO
Globalocation II, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, CA
A.D. Gallery University of North Carolina Pembroke, Pembroke NC
2017
Globalocation II, Rosemary Duffy Art Gallery, Davie, FL
Globalocation, J Willard Marriot Gallery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Nettie Benson Archive Library, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
2016
Globalocation, Redline Contemporary Art Space, Denver, CO
JUROR
2019
Colorado Congressional Art Competition, Loveland, CO
2016
Boulder Public Arts Commissions, Boulder, CO
2017
Western Carolina State University, Cullowhee, NC
2007
Lakewood Artists, Lakewood Cultural Center, Lakewood, CO
MEMBERSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS
Artnauts, President of the Board, 27-year-member
Swoon-BMoCA International Artist Residency, Board Member, Boulder, CO
Scintilla Foundation, Board Member, Boulder, CO
University of Colorado, Coordinator Artnauts Collective, Boulder, CO
Jamestown Art Council, Jamestown, CO
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Colorado State University, Translational Medicine Institute, Fort Collins, CO
University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX
Castle Rock Adventist Health Campus, Castlerock, CO
Humboldt State University, Arcata CA
Henan University, Henan Province, Peoples Republic of China
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Lakewood, CO