MERCEDES TEIXIDO
Los Angeles
New York Catskills
EDUCATION
M.F.A. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 1988
B.A. Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 1983 Cum Laude
TEACHING POSITIONS
1995 – present Associate Professor of Studio Art Pomona College, Claremont, Ca.
2009- present Claremont Graduate University teaching appointment
1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Studio, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
THE REDOMESTICATION OF ART PROJECT 2002-present
An ongoing project which engages the domestic environment, creating site-specific work in response to individuals and their homes. Work ranges from performative interventions to site specific objects.
Paper Tower Santa Rosa, California
Drawing Machine for Piano Pasadena, California
Seven Hidden Artworks Brooklyn, New York
Listen to This Manhattan, New York
Geodesic Dome, Ucross, Wyoming
Sampler, Brooklyn, NY
Dressing the Band, Los Angeles, Austin Texas
The Bear and Other Tales, Catskills, NY
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Looped Video Curation: Performance Art For the Camera, Parsons Hall Project Space Holyoke MA, December 2013.
Meadow Physics, Drawing performance, Notes for a Library, Delhi NY, August 2013
Evening of Various Wonder, Drawing performance, Notes for a Library, Bloomville NY, July 2013
Das Wird, Cleveland, Ohio, Arts Collinwood April 2013
Das Wird, Sheffield England, October 2012
Kamikaze, The “L” Word, Solo Exhibition, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, 2011
Get the Ball Rolling, Los Angeles, 2011
Withdrawn, International contemporary drawing exhibition, Budapest 2010
Domestic Partner, Workspace, Los Angeles 2009
Faculty Exhibition, Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont CA 2008
Frequency, curated by Elonda Billery, Millersville University, Millersville Pa. 2007
Fair Exchange, curated by Irene Tsatsos LA County Fair, Millard Sheets Art Gallery 2006
Draw a Line, LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions June 2006
In the Nursery, Armory Northwest, Pasadena, California curator Jay Belloli 2003
Components, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon. 2003
By Hand: Pattern Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, curator Mary Kay Lombino. 2001
The MacGyver Show, Crazy Space, curator Mary Leigh Cherry, Santa Monica CA. 2001
5 Person Exhibition Glendale Community College Glendale Ca. 2001
5 Person Exhibition Aero and Co. Curated by Leonardo Bravo, Los Angeles.
Terra Firma, The Guard Shack at Bergamot Station, Curator Jen Katel, Santa Monica, CA 2000
Small Facts and Fictions, Solo Exhibition, Cherry Gallery, Venice, CA. 2000
Solo Series of Four Solo Exhibitions, Angels Gate Cultural Center, San Pedro Ca. 2000
Ink and Clay 26 University Art Gallery California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Ca. Juried by Richard Heller. 2000
On Site at the Gate 99 Angels Gate Cultural Center. California juried exhibition. Juried by Matthew Thomas. Awarded one of four prizes. San Pedro, California. 2000
Instalacion Solo Exhibition, La Manzana de la Rivera, Asuncion, Paraguay. 1999
Lover Letters, Solo Exhibition Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York, NY. 1998
Scale: Relatively Speaking, Art in General, New York, NY. 1998
Two Person Exhibition, Braunstein Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA. 1998
Common Ground, Korean Cultural Center, curator Joan Hugo, Los Angeles, CA.1998
The Burden of Big, Solo Exhibition Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. 1997
The Everything and the Nothing, Solo Exhibition ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL. 1996
The Everything and the Nothing, Solo Exhibition Gomez Gallery Baltimore, MD. 1996
Installation, My Place or Yours, Artscape, Baltimore Festival of the Arts, Maryland
Institute College of Art, curator Allyn Massey. 1996
Catholic Girls Installation. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland. Curated by Jack Rasmussen 1994
Diverse Parallels, Four WomenSculptors Arlington Arts Center Arlington, Virginia curator Tim Close. 1994
Ruinations Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston?Salem, North Carolina. Curated by Victor Faccinto. 1994
Legend, The Emerson Gallery at the McLean project for the Arts, McLean, Virginia curator J.W. Mahoney. 1993
For All the Wrong Reasons Installation. Solo Exhibition, Halcyon Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland. 1993
The Edge Invitational Edge Gallery, Denver, Colorado. 1993
A Meeting of Hands, Five collaborations between visual artists and ceramicists. Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, curator Charlotte Cohen. 1993
For Lack of Words, SPACES Cleveland, Ohio. 1993
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
The Alpert Award Residency Prize, with stipend 2004
On Site at the Gate 99. Awarded solo show in January 2000
L.A. Art Association Juried Exhibition. Juried by Peter Frank. 2nd Place 1996
Maryland State Arts Council, Individual Artists Grant. 1995
Mayor’s Advisory Council on Art and Culture, Artscape Baltimore honorarium. 1994
Baltimore City Arts Grant 1991Mayor’s Advisory Council on Art and Culture, Awarded billboard space for one year, 1989
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Visiting Artist Ventura College 2009
Studio Visit and talk, University of California Riverside 2008
Claremont Courier Feature Article July 2007
Pomona College Faculty Lecture Series, September 2007
Artist Talk, Millard Sheets Art Gallery, LA County Fairgrounds, Fair Exchange, September 2006
Fair Exchange Catalog Edited by Irene Tsatsos 2006
Featured Lecturer Invitation by the Rembrandt Club, Pomona College 2006
Artist Lecture L.A.C.E. in conjunction with exhibition project Civic Matters,June 2005
LA WEEKLY, Peter Frank, Gallery Picks of the Week April 21 27, 2000.
ULTIMA HORA, Javier Rodriguez Alcala, July 11 12 1998. Asuncion, Paraguay. ABC REVISTA (Magazine) June 21, 1998. Asuncion, Paraguay.
ABC Arte y Espectaculos, June 23, 1998. Asuncion, Paraguay.
CRITICAL REVIEW, John Engstrom and Jay Grimm, February 18, 1998.
SCALE Art in General NYC.
LA WEEKLY, Peter Frank, October 31, 1997. Art Picks of the Week, Gallery 825.
CHICAGO READER, Fred Camper, December 13, 1996.