TAYO HEUSER
American, born Washington, DC
Working in Brussels, Belgium and Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Education
MFA Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
Post-Graduate study, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
BFA Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Solo Shows
2009-2010 Pulse, Phillips Collection Art Museum, Washington D.C.
2009 The Big Blue, Exhibition Space, School of Architecture, Art and Historical Preservation, Roger Williams University, Bristol, R.I.
2008 Tayo Heuser, Reeves Contemporary, New York, N.Y.
2008 Circle and Line, CCNOA Project Room, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Tayo Heuser, Ink Release, H29, Brussels, Belgium
2002 Works on Paper, Newport Art Museum, Newport, RI
1998 Tayo Heuser Sculpture, Wood Gallery, Montpelier, VT
1997 Tayo Heuser Sculpture, Suzanne Kamin Paintings,Wheeler Gallery, Providence, RI
1991 Women’s Work, Sarah Doyle Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
1989 Discourses in Bronze, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York, NY
Selected group shows since 2000
2010 Monumental, Cade Tompkins Editions Projects, Providence, RI2010 Pink is the New Black, Cade Tompkins Editions.Projects, Providence, RI
2008 Tayo Heuser and Disnarda Pinella, Reeves Contemporary, New York, N.Y.
2008 Circularities Singularities, Spheris gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire
2007 Trace Elements, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Drawing Matters, Chazan Gallery, Providence, RI
2007 NE NOW, Paper New England, Harford, CT
2006 Webs, Loops and Skeins, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
2005 Minimalist Art Now, Mayer Gallery, Elvehejem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2004 Abstraction, Pure and Impure, Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Westerly, RI
Paintings and Drawings 1, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Microwave 4, Cristinerose/Josee Bienvenue Gallery, New York, NY
Wall Projects, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Obsessive Patterns, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
2002 Making a Mark: Artists from the Boston Drawing Project, Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Multiples, Roger Williams University Gallery, Bristol, RI
Compulsion, Court House Center for the Arts, West Kingston, RI
2001 By Hand: Precision, and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Boston Drawing Project Inaugural Exhibition, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Art Faculty Exhibition 3, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
2000-01 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Pole Art, Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
1999 Faculty Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Summer Faculty Show, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Reflections ‘99, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Selected Public and corporate Collection
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Fidelity Investments, Smithfield, Rhode Island
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Werner Kramarsky Collection, New York, NY
Lerner Collection, Washington DC Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio Taiyo, Inc. New York, NY
Sanyo Corporation, New York, NY
The Hunt Collection, Pittsburgh, PA
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Providence, RI
Grants
2009 Professional Development Travel Grant from Roger Williams University to study paper in Japan
2002 Rhode Island Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Project grant recipient
Curatorials and Lectures
2010 Phillips Collection, Washington DC, guest lecturer
2009 Roger Williams University, guest lecturer
2008 Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, Fall Semester Visiting Artist
2006 Rhode Island School of Design Museum, guest lecturer
2005 Cooper Union, NYC, visiting critic
2004 University of Rhode Island, guest lecturer
2003 Chester College, New Hampshire, guest lecturer
Selected Bibliography
Amy Cavanaugh “Best of 2010, Washington DC” Express Magazine, Washington DC March 2010
Amy Cavanaugh "Conversation Piece: Intersections",Express Magazine, Washington DC December 31, 2009
Bill Rodriguez, “Web,Loops and Skeins”, The Phoenix, Providence, R.I., March 14, 2006
“Minimalist Art Now”, Elvehejem Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 2005, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Cate McQuaid, “Four Artists’ painstaking processes also fit the pattern”, Boston Globe, Weekend Arts and Performance, April 23, 2004
Jamie Dalglish, “Two Poems by Jamie Dalglish on the work of Tayo Heuser and Helmut Federle”, NY Arts Berliner Kunst, International Edition “November-December 2003, Vol.8, pg.98 “Goings on About Town”, The New Yorker, October 13th, 2003
“Rhode Island’s Most Influential: Visual Arts”, Phoenix, Arts, October 10, 2003
Bill Rodriguez, “Lines of Lines”, Phoenix, June 27, 2003
Bill Van Siclen, “Playing Around with Patterns”, Providence Journal, Providence, RI, June 19, 2003
“Newport Art Museum/Newport, Tayo Heuser: Works on Paper”, Art New England, Volume 23/Issue 5, August–September 2002
Cate McQuaid, “Nervous Energy”, Boston Globe, Art Review, August 30th, 2002
Mary Sherman, “Toale Gallery exhibit draws on Trends”, Boston Herald, Visual Arts, Arts and Culture, Sunday, December 9, 2001
Holly Myers, “By Hand, Embraces Inconvenience”, Los Angeles Times, Art Review, September 19, 2001
Scarlett Cheng, “Look Ma, No Computers”, Los Angeles Times, Sunday, August 26, 2001
“By Hand :Pattern, Precision and Repetition in Contemporary Drawing”, University Art Museum exhibition catalogue, 2001, California State University, Long Beach, CA
“Art on Paper 2000”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery exhibition catalogue, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, cover page
Bill Van Siclen, “Art Wrap Up”, Providence Journal, Providence, RI, January, 1997