- EDUCATION
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1990 Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC, BFA
- 1983-86 Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
Concentration in Twentieth Century European History
- TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- 2010 Associate Professor, Art and Art History Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland,
St. Mary's City, Maryland
- 2003-10 Assistant Professor, Art and Art History Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland,
St. Mary's City, Maryland
- 2002-03 Visiting Instructor, Art and Art History Department, St. Mary's College of Maryland,
St. Mary's City, Maryland
- 2000-02 Adjunct Faculty in both the Photography and Fine Art Departments.Corcoran College of
Art and Design. Second year coordinator for the Core program in Photo.
- 1999-02 Adjunct Faculty in Photography and Fine Arts,Corcoran College of Art and Design. Third year coordinator in Photo.
- 1998 Adjunct Faculty in Open Program at the Corcoran College of Art and Design.
- SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2010 rounds, Goodyear Gallery, Dickinson College, PA
- 2007 small game, Hemphill, Washington, DC
- 2004 stilled, Sweetbriar College, Sweetbriar, VA
- 2003 still life, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 2002 songs, Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1999 Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1996 Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1993 Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1992-93 Emilo Navarro Gallery, Madrid, Spain
- 1989 The Collector, Washington, DC
- 1988-89 Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
- SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2010 “Catalyst – 35 years of the Washington Project for the Arts”, Katzen Center, Washington, DC
- 2010 “The Heaviest Flower”, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MI
- 2010 “PORTRAY”, Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2010 “The Economy of Scale”, HEMPHILL, Washington DC
- 2008 “HOME”, Allen Sheppard Gallery, NYC, NY
- 2008 “Pattern Recognition”, Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
- 2007 “Supple”, The Warehouse, Washington, DC
- 2006 “Street Scenes”, Public Art work, Washington, DC
- 2006 “Vanishing Boundaries”, Nailya Alexander Gallery, NYC, NY
- 2006 “New Work by SMCM Art Faculty”, Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s City, MD.
- 2005 “decelerate,” Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO
“48th Corcoran Biennial,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 2004 “Opening on 14th,” Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
“Room Full of Mirrors,” The Art Gallery, University of Maryland
- 2003 “Situation Room,” St. Mary’s College of Maryland
“Art on the Digital Edge,” Academy Art Museum, Easton, MD
- 2000 “Objects of Desire” David Adamson Gallery, Washington, DC
“Signal | Signal,” Troyer Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1999 “The Landscape at the End of the Century,” Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1998 “Faculty Collaborations,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Brain Fetish,” Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
- 1997 “Picture/Portrait: The Rules of the Game,” Emerson Gallery, McLean, VA,
juried by Mary Panzer.
- 1996 “Figures,” Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1996 “Reimagining the Real,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- 1996 “Recent Acquisitions,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 1995/96 “Timeless Style: The Ageless Photographs of Fashion,” Hemphill Fine Arts,
Washington, DC
- 1995 “Four Extraordinary Objects,” Hemphill Fine Arts, Washington, DC
- 1995 “Colby Caldwell and Joseph Mills,” St. Mary’s College, St. Mary’s County, MD
- 1994 “Art Sites 6,” The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA
- 1992 “Twenty Years of Washington Photography,” Washington Center for Photography
- 1991 “Recollecting the Landscape,” Jones, Troyer, Fitzpatrick Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1991 “Summer Selections,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1991 “Portraits,” Basel, Switzerland
- 1990 “New Artists,” Sheppard College Gallery, Sheppard, WV
- 1990 “Still Life in Photography,” Kathleen Ewing Gallery, Washington, DC
- 1989-90 “Three Artists, Three Mediums,” FDIC Gallery, Washington, DC
- CITATIONS / PUBLICATIONS
- 2011 “100 Washington DC Artists”, published by Schiffer
- 2010 “rounds”, exhibition catalogue, published by Goodyear Gallery
- 2009 “The Heaviest Flower”, catalogue, published by Tin Roof Press
- 2008 “Visions of Paradise”, published by National Geographic
- 2008 “Poetry in Errors”, article by Emily Lyons in Washington Spaces
- 2007 “small game”, review by Nord Wennerstrom in Art Forum, March
- 2005 “decelerate,” Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
- 2005 “Closer to Home, Corcoran 2005 Biennial,” Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- 2003 “Landscape: Photographs of Time & Place,” Protzman, Ferdinand, published by National Geographic
- 2003 [ still life ] book and audio CD, fieldhouse recordings
“Caldwell Takes Time Out in Still Life,” O’Sullivan, Michael, The Washington Post
“At Hemphill, Caldwell’s Volatile Still Life,” Richard, Paul, The Washington Post
- 2002 songs/colby caldwell, illustrated catalogue
“Land of the Brave,” Jacobson, Lou, Washington City Paper
“Time Exposure,” Franke-Ruta, Garance, Washington City Paper
- 2001 “Global Art: Colby Caldwell,” Turner, Grady T., Flash Art
- 2000 Signal|Signal
, 2000, illustrated catalogue
“Sending Strong Signals”, Protzman, Ferdinand, The Washington Post
- 1999 “Welcome Development”, Protzman, Ferdinand, The Washington Post
“100 People to Watch,” Means, Howard, Washingtonian Magazine
“Career Scrimmage,” Dawson, Jessica, Washington City Paper
- 1997 “Colby Caldwell,” Crothers, Beck, Washington Review
- 1996 “Colby Caldwell’s Photo Synthesis,” Protzman, Ferdinand, The Washington Post
- 1995 PhotoReview, Mark Power, ed., Winter 1995
“Faces, Work by Contemporary Photographers,” Grafitto Press, Baltimore, MD
- 1990 “Still Life at Kathleen Ewing,” Welzenbach, Michael, The Washington Post
- 1989 “Colby Caldwell at the Collector,”Welzenbach, Michael, The Washington Post
- AWARDS
- 1990 Excellence in Photography Award, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
- 1989-90 Eugene Weiss Scholarship, Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC
- COLLECTIONS
- AT&T Wireless Communications, Los Angeles, CA
- Fannie Mae, Washington, DC
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
- National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
- Pew Initiative, Washington, DC
- Ruesch International, Chicago, IL
- Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS
- United States Embassy, Cambodia
- The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- The Washington Post Corporation, Washington, DC
- PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
- 2006 Curator, Made History: A selection of Soviet WWII photographs, Boyden Gallery, SMCM
- 2001 Curator, Practice Makes Perfect: Works by Emerging Artists in Washington, DC
District of Columbia Art Center, Washington, DC
- 1998-2002 Faculty Member, Corcoran College of Art and Design
- 1996 Invited Participant at Interfoto, an international conference on photography and Russia held in Moscow, Russia.
- 1996 Curated Report, an exhibition of photographs by Lucian Perkins of The Washington Post, Stephen Crowley of The New York Times, and White House Press Photographer Barbara Kinney which was presented at the Washington Center for Photography.
- 1995-98 Board Member, Washington Center for Photography, Washington, DC
- 1990-96 Assistant Press Photographer to Lisa Berg
- 1991-92 Painting Studio Assistant to William Dunlap
- 1989-90 Darkroom Assistant to Joyce Tenneson
- GUEST LECTURER
- Corcoran College of Art and Design, 2008
- George Washington University, 2005
- University of Missouri at Kansas City, 2005
- Tyler College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. 2004, 2005
- George Mason University, Washington, DC, 2000
- Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, 2000
- Hampshire College, Massachusetts, 1997
- Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, 1996
- Georgetown University, Washington, DC, 1995 and 1996
- Greater Washington Council of Camera Clubs, Washington, DC, 1997
- St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, 1995
- FILM EXPERIENCE
- 1999 Collaboration with Bernard Welt on Ordinary Eternal Machinery, a video piece
- 1997 Producer, Talking Heads, a short film by Sam Serafy
- 1996 Director and Camera Operator, Russian Chronicles, a documentary video on contemporary Russian photography
- 1996 Still Photographer, The Gentleman, a short film by Sam Serafy and Jonathan Spottiswoode
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March 23 – May 5, 2012
Opening Reception: Friday, March 23, 7-9pm
Colby Caldwell’s spent series is new photographic work based on shotgun shell casings of varying ages and in varying states of decay found throughout the rural farm where he lives in St. Mary’s County, Maryland. Through scanning these shells at high resolution and presenting them on stark white backgrounds, the artist has imported what might be called “refuse” into the domain of photography, presenting the material almost as billboards touting memory and the passage of time.