Curriculum Vitae
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Charles Woodman Associate Professor of Fine Art University of Cincinnati School of Art 509 Riddle Rd, Cincinnati, OH, 45220 (513) 290-7191 charles.woodman@uc.edu www.videosavant.org |
| Education | |
| MFA BFA |
Design Film/Video, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 1982. Art/Communications, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1979. |
| Exhibitions | |
| 2010 | viDEO sAVant w/Discerning Crane, CS13, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. PI Squared, Collide-o-scope, Roulette, New York, NY Screening. Beyond Balanchine, College Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati OH, video w/ dance. American Diorama, Romance of the Road, The Light Factory, Charlotte , NC, Installation. Playing with Light w/Anthony Luensman and Concert Nova, cnGarden, Cincinnati, OH, video screening w/ live music. |
| 2009 | viDEO sAVant w/ Adam Tendler, piano. Living Arts Festival, Tulsa, OK, Performance. The Desire Line w/ Deborah Slater Dance Company, Joyce Theatre, New York, NY, Performance. American Diorama, St John’s Medical Center, San Diego CA, Installation. Springs’ Mix, Sansouci Festival of Dance/Cinema, Boulder, CO, Installation. |
| 2008 | viDEO sAVant, Sonic Explorations, SUNY Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Three Speed, Sitwells Nightclub, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. |
| 2007 | Burner, Palimpsest, The Woodman Family Show, Progetti Arte Biagiotti, Florence, Italy. Inner Cities XIII, w/ Kathleen Supove, piano, The Stone, New York, NY, Performance. Horse Farm Mixer, Terra Incognita, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, Installation. American Diorama, A Muse Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Installation. The Desire Line w/ Deborah Slater Dance Company, Dance Mission Theatre, San Francisco, CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant and Friends, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant and Friends, 21 Grand, Oakland, CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ DJ Odd Nosdam, Anticon Records Showcase, Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA, Performance. |
| 2006 | Springs Mix, American Diorama, Shirley Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH, Installation. Springs’ Mix, American Diorama, Gallery Two Ton, Providence, RI, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ WHY, Slims Nightclub, San Francisco CA, Performance. viDEO sAVant and Friends, Live Cinema Nights, SF Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA Performance. Betty Woodman: Thinking Out Loud, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. |
| 2005 | Nightingale Floor, New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference, Vancouver, BC, Performance. Nightingale Floor, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, Performance. Wall Drawings, Ideas into Objects, Weston Art Galley, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Nightingale Floor, International Design Media Arts Assn. Conference, Orlando, FL, Performance. Horse Farm Mixer, Cal Arts Festival of New Media, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, Installation. |
| 2004 | Nightingale Floor, Sino-Nordic Art Space, Beijing, China, Performance. American Diorama, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ Nicholas Economos, InterMedia Series IV, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Nightingale Floor, International Computer Music Assn. Conference, Miami, FL, Performance. viDEO SAVant w/ Steven Severyd and players, New Music Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, Performance. |
| 2003 | Horse Farm Mixer, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell IA, Installation. Plumb Job, Jarson Kaplan Theater, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH Performance. Candle Dancer, Ohio River Grasses, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Candle Dancer, Autumn Media, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. |
| 2002 | Palimpsest, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ. Palimpsest, Dancing for the Camera, American Dance Festival, Raleigh, NC. Palimpsest, NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, NY, NY. I MORTI, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH, Installation. Personal Jesus, Museo del Louvre, Rome, Italy, Installation. |
| 2001 | Landscape/Book, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, Installation. Making Believe, w/ Tony Pellegrino and Company, SOMAR Theatre, San Francisco CA, Performance. Palimpsest, Choreographers without Companies, Jarson Kaplan Theatre, Cincinnati OH, Performance. |
| 2000 | Baltimore Overpass, Artist’s Television Access, San Francisco, CA. Installation. Under The Bridge, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati OH. Installation. viDEO sAVant, w/ Reaching Quiet, V.O.L.K, Cincinnati, OH, Performance. Gothic Faces, Focus 2000, Read Gallery of Art, Univ. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH. Gothic Faces, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH. |
| 1999 | Gothic Faces, Art Resource Transfer Gallery, New York, NY. Quique, Honorable Mention, Thomas Edison Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ, and traveling program. Quique, Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX. Quique, Thaw Festival of Digital Media, Iowa City, Iowa. |
| 1998 | I MORTI, Art Resource Transfer Gallery, New York, NY. Installation. Personal Jesus, New Genres Festival, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK. Installation. Under the Bridge, Independent Artists Of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. Installation. Bake Sale, with Kenn Watt & Fifth Floor Theatre Company, SOMAR Theatre, San Francisco, CA, Performance. Video Jazz Enviro, with viDEO sAVant &Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Living Arts of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, Performance. |
| 1997 | Baltimore Overpass, Janus Exhibition, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA, Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ Slurr, Innovators Series, Gunston Hall, Arlington, VA, Performance. Cowboy Romance, Blender Bender and drift, Art Resource Transfer, New York, NY. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Musee d’Arte Contemporaine, Dunkerque, France. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Golbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. |
| 1996 | Station, Plunder Squad and Cowboy Romance, Twenty Years of Experimental Television, Art in General, NY, NY. Personal Jesus, Video Collections, Gallery 4C, New York, NY. Installation. Inaugural Ball w/ viDEO sAVant and the B52’s, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Performance. Self Organizing System, Central Armature Gallery, Washington DC. Performance. Plunder Squad, New Arts Program Video Festival travelling program: Kutztown, PA, TZ’Art, New York, NY and the Center for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Plunder Squad, Hostile Witness, Central Armature Gallery, Washington, DC. Installation. Plunder Squad, Faculty Exhibition, Hemicycle Gallery, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC. Installation. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. |
| 1995 | Cowboy Romance, Monologue/Dialogue, Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada. Selected Work, Teatro II Parter, Florence, Italy. Cowboy Romance, Northwest Film Study Center, Portland, OR. Blender Bender, Nude Descending, The Density Show, Greater Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA. Installation. viDEO sAVant with the Martinis, The Black Cat Nightclub, Washington, DC. Performance. ReImagining the Reel, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Performance. Nude Descending, Cowboy Romance, Glamour Stretcher Time, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY. Selected Work, Mr. Dynamite Comes to Edge City, Reston Art Center, Reston, VA. The Digital Image, Montgomery College, Rockville, MD. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Union Centrale des Artes Decoratifs, Palais Du Louvre, Paris, France. |
| 1994 | Baltimore Overpass, Art Sites Six, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC. Installation. The Window Project, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC. Installation. drift, The Ecstatic Garden of Sublime Delirium, ArtScape ‘94, Baltimore, MD. Installation. Mixed Fish w/ Clouds, Video Space x 3, Millersville State University, Millersville, PA. Installation. Third Rock, viDEO sAVant with Slurr, The Innovators Series, Arlington Planetarium, Arlington, VA. Performance. WHFS Festival, viDEO sAVant with Hole, Primus, Henry Rollins Band & others, RFK Stadium, Washington DC. Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Slurr, Art in the Parks, Lubber Run Amphitheater, Arlington, VA. Performance. viDEO sAVant Spotlight on the Arts Festival, Old Town Hall, Fairfax, VA. Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Excelsior Percussion Ensemble, Frederick Community College, Frederick, MD. Performance. Seis Amigas, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC. True Phallacies, The Myth of Male Power, Clark and Co. Washington, DC. University of Maryland Baltimore County, Catonsville, MD. Frostburg State College, Frostburg, MD. |
| 1993 | Cowboy Romance, Between Word and Image, Museum of Modem Art, New York, NY.drift, Re Visions, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. Installation. Cowboy Romance, The September Show, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA. drift, Water Ways, Boulder Public Library, Boulder, CO. Installation. Personal Jesus, Family Values, In Time Art Salon, Washington, DC. Installation. viDEO sAVant with Rest Area, Walk the Goddess Walk, District of Columbia Arts Center, Washington, DC. Performance. viDEO sAVant, Blagden Alley Art/Science Warehouse, Washington, DC. Performance. viDEO sAVant w/ Alberto Gaitan, The Pajama Party, Arlington Cable Television, Arlington, VA. Performance. University of Maryland, College Park, MD. Cowboy Romance, Photography and New Genres, Arlington Art Center, Arlington, VA. |
| 1992 | drift Exhibition Space Gallery, New York, NY. Installation. viDEO sAVant w/ DJ Slow, Cabaret Re/Voltaire, Washington Project For the Arts, Washington, DC. Performance. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT. Betty Woodman Thinking Out Loud, Center for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1991 | Station, San Mateo Drive, Florence Film Festival, Florence, Italy. Under the Bridge, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM. Installation. viDEO sAVant with DJ Mitch Parker, Fifth Column Nightclub, Washington, DC. Performance. |
| 1990 | Nude Descending, 911 Contemporary Arts, Seattle, WA. Installation. viDEO sAVant with DJ Mohawk Adam, 15 Minutes Nightclub, Washington, DC. Performance. Cowboy Romance, Through The Lens, WYBE TV PBS, Philadelphia, PA. Virtual Space, Festival of Independents, International House, Philadelphia, PA. Installation. Station, DC Space, Washington, DC. |
| 1989 | Virtual Space, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK. Installation. Lotta’ Burger, San Mateo Drive, Station, Neighborhood Film Project, Philadelphia, PA. Lotta’ Burger, New American Makers, San Francisco, CA. Lotta’ Burger, San Mateo Drive, Salso Film and Video Festival, Salso Maggiore, Italy. |
| 1988 | Pixim 88, La Villette, Paris, France. Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY. Festival di Video Arte, Locamo, Switzerland, Festa Nazionale del’Unita, Florence, Italy. Selected Work, New Mexico Film & Video Makers Forum, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM. Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh, PA. Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1987 | Coyote Tracks, Directors Choice, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ. Station, Independent Acquisition Fund Purchase, WHYY-TV, Philadelphia, PA. Selected Work, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA. |
| 1986 | Coyote Tracks, Jean Cocteau Cinema, Santa Fe, NM. Game Show, Partida, National Association of Artists Associations, Houston, TX. Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH. |
| 1985 | Game Show, Tokyo Video Festival, Tokyo, Japan. Los Alamos Public Access Television, Los Alamos, NM. Remnants, A Sound Film, Six Childhood Memories, S.F. Cinematheque, S.F., CA. Six Childhood Memories, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Game Show, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX. |
| 1984 | Six Childhood Memories, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY. Selected Work, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. Game Show, Magnetic Image Festival, Atlanta, GA. Game Show, Texpo Video Festival, Houston TX. |
| Grants and Fellowships | |
| Artist’s Residency Fellowship, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY, 2006, 2002, 2001, 1997, 1994, 1993, 1991, 1990,1989, 1987 Artist in Residence, Sino-Nordic Art Space, Beijing, China, 2004 Individual Artist’s Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council, Columbus, OH, 2003 Faculty Research Grants, University of Cincinnati, 2009, 2002, 2001,1999 Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, University of Cincinnati, 2002 Faculty Research Grants, University of Oklahoma, 1998, 1997 NEA New Forms Regional Grant Program, Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 1994 Grant for Individual Artists, D.C. Arts Commission, Washington, DC, 1993 NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, PA, 1991 Media Arts Production Award, Intermedia Arts Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1990 Media Arts Production Grant, New Mexico Arts Division, Santa Fe, NM, 1988, 1985, 1984 Artists Subsidy Grant, Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1987 NEA Regional Media Arts Fellowship, Southwest Alternate Media Project, Houston, TX, 1982 |
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| Distribution | |
| Selected titles available from: Shirley/Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs OH Roundtree Visuals, Oakland, CA Galleria Biagiotti, Florence Italy AMuse Gallery, San Francisco , CA Art Resource Transfer, NY, NY Filmmakers Cooperative, NY, NY Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY American Crafts Museum, NY, NY Distributed Art Press, NY, NY ETV Network, Burbank, CA RockAmerica, NY, NY Telegenics Music Video Network, NY, NY |
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