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LoCurto
1978 M.F.A. Sculpture, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
1975 Accademia di Belle Arti, Sculpture & Drawing, Rome, Italy
1973 B.F.A. Sculpture, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Outcault
1978 M.F.A. Sculpture - Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, Illinois
1976 B.F.A. Sculpture and Metalsmithing - Mankato State University, Mankato, Minnesota
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2019 Much Madness is Divinest Sense, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2016 the wilfull marionette, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
2009 markingtime, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
2007 Joseph Gross Gallery, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
2006 [un] moving pictures, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
2004 Thinskinned, Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN
2002 selfportrait.map, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, Illinois, traveled to Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA & University Art Museum, California State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
2001 Frederieke Taylor gallery, New York, NY
selfportrait.map, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, traveled to Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut
2000 selfportrait.map, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, traveled to
Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
1997 Cossos Exquisits, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
1995 Skin Deep, TZ'Art & Company, New York, NY
1994 Titillatiae, TZ'Art & Company, New York, NY
Sharp Appetites & Mandala, Harvard University, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA
1993 New California Art, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1979 Forms That Float, Indiana State University-Evansville, Evansville, Indiana
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Real-fake.org.2.0, Bronx Art Space, Bronx, NY
2015 Objects to be Contemplated, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL
2013 Peekskill Projects V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2012 Reading Objects 2011, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Platz, NY
Seeing Ourselves, Center of Photography and the Moving Image (MUSEcpmi), NY, NY
2010 Odd Bodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Weatherspoon Art Mus., Greensboro, NC
TRAIT, Archer Gallery, Clark College, Vancouver, WA
2009 The Body Navigation, Loft Project “Etazhi”, St. Petersburg, Russia
Visions in New York City, Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University, NY, NY
2008 Digital Is, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
2007 Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL
2006 Human Nature, SOFA Gallery, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN traveled to Indiana University Kokomo Art Gallery, Kokomo, IN
New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg AG, Traun, Austria
2005 Face Value:Plastic Surgery and Transformation Art, New York Academy of Sciences, NY, NY
Figuratively Speaking, Ross Art Museum, Delaware, Ohio
2004 Creativity: Beyond the Norm, Richard M. Ross Museum, Delaware, Ohio
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Divining Fragments: Reconciling the Body, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY
2002 Situated Realities, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, traveled to Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, MN
2001 The Reality Effect: Contemporary American Photography, Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2000 Plugged-In: Art with an Electrical Connection, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Florida
1999The Schick Art Gallery, Two Person Show, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Body as Commodity, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
1996 Contemporaneou.s.,Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK and travelled to City Library & Arts Centre, Sunderland, UK
1995 Face Forward: Contemporary Self Portraiture, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Gender Myth and Exploration, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
A Vital Matrix, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
1993-94 About Place, LAX: T. Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Self Portrait:Stained Glass, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
NATURALUNNATURAL, TZ'Art & Company, New York, NY
1992-93 Corporal Politics, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
GRANTS/RESIDENCIES/SYMPOSIA/PUBLISHED PAPERS:
2021 The Stone of Madness Meets AI, 21st International Conference on Computational Creativity, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Cualimalpa, México D. F.
2017 The Willful Marionette: Exploring Responses to Embodied Interaction, Proceedings of the Association for Computing Machinery, Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction, Conference on Creativity and Cognition, pages 15-17
2016 The Willful Marionette: Modeling Social Cognition Using Gesture-Gesture Interaction Dialogue, International Conference on Augmented Cognition, Foundations of Augmented Cognition: Neuroergonomics and Operational Neuroscience, pp 402-413
2015 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany
2014 Charlotte Research Institute grant for motion capture and gesture research
2013-14 University of North Carolina Charlotte, Colleges of Computing and Informatics and Art and Architecture, artist in residence
2013 University of North Carolina Research Grant
2013 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
2012 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems, Tübingen, Germany
2010 Wexner Center for the Arts, Art and Technology residency, Columbus, Ohio, ACCAD (Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design), Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
2005 Richard M. Ross Museum, Ohio Wesleyan University, residency, Delaware, Ohio
2003 Wexner Center for the Arts, Art and Technology residency, Columbus, Ohio
2002 Yale University, School of Architecture, New Haven, CT, Cartography in the Age of Digital Media, symposium
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art and Johns Hopkins University, Center for Imaging Science, Baltimore, Maryland, one year residency
Association of American Geographers Conference, NYC, presenter and panelist
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, visiting artist
1997 Council for the Arts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, development grant
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut, development grant
1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, visiting artist
1992 Art Matters Inc., New York, NY, development grant
1979 Indiana Arts Commission Grant, Special Projects/Multi-Arts
ARTIST PRESENTATIONS:
2021 much of a muchness, blurring the lines, virtual exhibition organized for the 21st Conference on Computational Creativity, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana Cualimalpa, México D. F.
2019 International Conference on Computational Creativity, UNCCharlotte, NC, June
2016 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, July
2016 LISA, Leaders in Software and Art, New York, NY January
2016 Podcast, Leonardo Creative Disturbance, January
2015 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems, Tubingen, Germany, September
2015 NY LASER, Leonardo Education and Art Forum, New York, NY, March
2013 University of North Carolina Charlotte, College of Art and Architecture, November
2013 Center for Design Innovation, Winston-Salem, NC, October
2012 Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems, Tubingen, Germany, December
2007 Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, December
2004 Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April
2002 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, November
2002 California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, August
2001 Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, October
2001 Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, January
2000 Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL, March
2000 MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, April
1996 Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK, December
1994 Harvard University, Carpenter Center, Cambridge, MA, May
PUBLICATIONS:
2019 Much Madness is Divinest Sense, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2016 the willful marionette, Smithsonian American Art Museum, YouTube, July 14
2011 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, Reading Objects 2011, SUNY Press
2010 Denis Wood, Rethinking the Power of Maps, The Guilford Press, New York, Page 227
2009 Maurizio Pellegrin, Visions in New York City, The Myers Foundations, Columbia University, Pages 94-5.
2009 Katharine Harmon, The Map As Art, Princeton Architectural Press, NY, Pages 127-8.
2008 Robin Kelsey and Blake Stimson, Editors, The Meaning of Photography, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Pages 191-3.
Frances K. Pohl, Framing America, Thames and Hudson, NY, NY, pages 10, 559-61
2007 Denis Wood, Visual Fields, Cartographic Perspectives, #56, Winter 2007, pages 81-88
Jean Robertson, Betsy Stirratt, Human Nature, School of Fine Arts Gallery, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, IN
2006 Patricia C. Phillips, [un] moving pictures, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
Helaine Posner, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault: Self-Portraits for a New Millennium, Art Journal, vol. 65, no. 1, spring 2006, pages 40-53.
Margaret Matthews-Berenson, New Art. New York: Reflections on the Human Condition, Trierenberg AG, Traun, Austria
2004 OpenHouse: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Mapping In The Age of Digital Media, Edited by M. Silver and D. Balmori, Yale School of
Architecture Symposium, Wiley Academy Publisher, London, June, pages 26-34.
2001 Simon Taylor,The Reality Effect:Contemporary American Photography, Guild Hall, E.Hampton,NY
Marilyn S. Kushner, Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Patricia C. Phillips, LoCurto/Outcault, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO
2000 Posner, Helaine & Gelernter, David, selfportrait.map, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London
1997 Barenblit, Ferran, Cossos Exquisits, Fundaciò Joan Mirò, Barcelona, Spain
1996 Ash, Emily, Contemporaneou.s., New Work from New York, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK
1995 Hart, Jane & Crockett, Tobey, A Vital Matrix, domestic setting, Los Angeles, CA
1994 Leffingwell, Edward, About Place, LAX: T. Los Angeles Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993 Belloli, Jay & Nowlin, Steven, Objects-16 L.A. Sculptors, Armory Center for the Arts &
Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Guenther, Bruce, New California Art, LoCurto/Outcault, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1992 Hall, Donald; Laquer, Thomas; Posner, Helaine, Corporal Politics, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2019 Art Daily, Machine Intelligence and the Social Role of the human body, March 27th
2016 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Some Strings Attached: the willful marionette, July 15th
2008 Tom Koch, The Body In The World, Canadian Medical Association Journal, January 15th
2004 Jory Farr, Creativity: Beyond the Norm, The Columbus Dispatch, Columbus, Ohio, October 31
Baysa, Koan-Jeff, Divining Fragments: Reconciling the Body, NY Arts Magazine, July 13
2001 Fabianich, Eric, LoCurto/Outcault: selfportrait.map, NY Arts, April, vol.6, No. 4, pg. 60
Smith, Roberta, LoCurto/Outcault, The New York Times, March 16
2000 Duehr, Gary, Lilla LoCurto and Bill Outcault, Art on Paper, July-August, vol. 4, No. 6, pg.63-4
Temin, Christine, Disquiet, Please, The Boston Globe, February 11, pg. CO1
Dewis,John, Longitudinal: LoCurto & Outcault Imagine Themselves in Mercator, Feb 25, 2000
1999 Madoff, Steven Henry, Out of the Ether, a New Continent of Art, The New York Times, Art/Architecture, February 14, pg. 37,40
1997 Giralt-Miracle, Daniel, Penumbra y enfermedad del ser, ABC Cultural (BAR-S), January 31,pg. 57.
Molina, Ángela, Anatomía del corazón, ABC Cataluña (BCN), February 10, 1997, pg.11.
Parcerisas, Pilar, Anatomies de l’ànima, Avui, (sup-1), February 20, pg. 16.
Whitney, Kathleen, The Body is Exhausted, Sculpture, October, vol.16, no.8, pg. 30-34
1994 Geer, Suvan, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Visions Art Quarterly, Summer, pg. 36
Schaffner, Ingrid, Lilla LoCurto and William Outcault, Artforum, November 1994, pg. 86-87
1993 Crockett, Tobey, A Mirror on the Human Condition, L.A. Reader, Nov. 5, vol. 16, no. 4, pg.16
Hess, Elizabeth, Indecent Exposure, The Village Voice, January 12, pg. 83-84
Knaff, Devorah L., AIDS' Ability to Captivate, The Press Enterprise, November 14, B2
Littlefield, Kinney, 2 New Exhibits Show Everyone's Vulnerable to the AIDS Epidemic,
The Orange County Register, CA, Octorber 8, pg. 77
Stapen, Nancy, Corporal Politics, Artnews, March, vol. 92, no. 3, pg. 118
1992 Temin, Christine, List's Bold Show On the Body Politic, The Boston Globe, Dec. 11