Solo Exhibitions |
2023 | “Randomly Accessed Memories”, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA |
2022 | “Electronic Drift”, Waldemar A Schmidt Gallery, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA |
| “No. 28”, Pulp Gallery, Holyoke, MA (with Roger Brouard) |
2021 | “Footprints”, STNDRD Gallery, St. Louis, MO |
2018 | “Circuit Floorplan”, Times Club Gallery, Iowa City, IA |
2017 | “Uncertainty: Locations and Velocities”, The Gallery at Elings-Wood Center for Art&Design, Grand View University, Des Moines, IA |
| “PCB Drawings”, Little Woods Gallery, Ames, IA |
2016 | “A Convenient Workout”, Preus Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA |
| “Nanogeography”, Constance Gallery, Graceland University, Lemoni, IA |
| “Bounding Lines”, Memorial Union, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
2015 | “Scientific Writing”, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA |
| “Open Circuits”, James Wegner Art Gallery, Riverland Community College, Austin, MN |
| “Illuminated Writings”, Iowa Art Council’s “Art at the Café” series, Café Barrata, State Historical Museum, Des Moines, IA |
2014 | “Digital Impressions”, Gallery in the Round, Ames, IA |
2012 | “eCartacacoethes”, 40AU Gallery, Nashville, TN |
2011 | “Digital to Dust: Digital Obsolete Objects in Transition”, Blackbird Gallery, Nashville, TN |
2009 | “Changes”, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
Awards and Grants |
2022 | Iowa Arts Council – Artist Project Grant |
2021 | America Rescue Plan Arts Grant |
| Iowa Arts Council – Resilience Grant |
2020 | Iowa Arts Council Fellowship |
2019 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant |
2018 | Iowa Arts Council – Artist Project Grant |
2017 | Iowa Arts Council – Artist Project Grant |
2015 | Iowa Arts Council – Artist Project Grant |
Selected Group Exhibitions |
2022 | “Contemporary Abstraction”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| “Contemporary Fiber Art”, Clear Lake Art Center, Clear Lake, IA |
2021 | “DuMA Biennial 2021”, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA |
| “Iowa Crafts: 45”, Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, Mason City, IA |
| “Summer Group Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
2020 | “Art of Our Time”, Olson-Larsen Gallery, West Des Moines, IA |
2019 | “International TECHstyle Art Biennial”, Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA |
| “Into the Blue”, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA |
| “Inter/National Contemporaries”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| “Index to a Place”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
2018 | “Pushing the Pull”, The FATVillage Projects Space, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
| “Winter Group Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| “Personal Geographies”, The Little Gallery, Omaha, NE |
| “Introductions”, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
2017 | “Winter Group Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| “Just under 100”, International Print Center New York, New York, NY |
2016 | “The Print Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| “XXX Books Books Books XXX”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (juror and organizer) |
| “Intertwine”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
2015 | “Ripples II”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (curator and organizer) |
| “5th Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial”, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA |
| “Bits, Pixels and Practice – Oh, My!”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| “cARTography: personal metaphors and mindful maps”, Ryan James Fine Arts, Seattle, WA |
| “47th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Metal, Wood Exhibition”, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA |
2014 | “Ames Is 150”, Gallery in the Round, Ames, IA (organizer) |
| “Ripples”, HATCH Art Gallery, Detroit, MI (curator and organizer) |
| “Platetone: Past, Present and Future”, Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN |
| “DISCO Vending Stand”, Art Vacancy Festival, Ames, IA (installation) |
| “Interface”, Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
2013 | “Black”, Martha Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA |
| “Mimetia”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| “International Biennale For Miniature Graphics”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt |
| “34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition”, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL |
| “Text and Image”, Gallery Temenos, http://www.adrianelittle.com/temenos/current.html. |
| “45th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Metal, Wood Exhibition”, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA |
| “Mid-America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition”, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH |
| “Stellar”, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
| “New Year/New Work”, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
2012 | “SOMATOTOPIA”, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA |
| “New Work 2012”, Fein Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “Low Fidelity”, Tower Gallery, The College at Brockport SUNY, Brockport, NY |
| “Works-in-Progress Festival”, Iowa City, IA (installation & panel discussion) |
| “Fresh Impressions”, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
| “RSVP’12”, New Wilmington Arts Association, Wilmington, DE |
| “Tributaries”, Gallery 121, Belmont University, Nashville, TN |
| “A Sense of Place”, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA |
| “Numerical Notations”, Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC |
| “KY.7 Biennial”, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY |
| “ReRoot”, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
| “Upcycle”, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA |
2011 | “Nourishment”, Renaissance Art Center, Dickson, TN |
| “Mapable”, SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis, IN |
| “HOME”, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, TN |
| “The Artistic Process as Exorcism”, Modernformations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “Encoded Structures: Interpreting the Story”, Brownlee O. Currey Gallery, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN |
| “Nashville Internationals V”, Centenial Arts Center, Nashville, TN |
| “Stacks on Decks”, Blackbird Tattoo and Gallery, Nashville, TN |
| “Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic”, Hyperallergic HQ, New York, NY |
| “More Is More”, Lexington Arts League, Lexington, KY |
2010 | “Interplay”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “New Juried Art Exhibition”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “The Art of Technology”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “Eco-prints”, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Geek Arts/Green Innovators Festival, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “2010 Annual DATA Awards and Exhibition”, 15 Minutes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
2009 | “Symbolon”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “My Window”, Little Gallery, Harper College, Palatine, IL |
| “Semana de Arte”, Casa de Cultura Oswaldo Goeldi, Taubaté, Brazil |
2008 | “Altered States”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
| “Grabados por la Paz”, IMNRC Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico |
| “Mixtape”, Tom’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
2007 | “Artist Made Books”, Tom’s Museum, Pittsburgh, PA |
Residencies |
2019 | New York Mills Arts Retreat, New York Mills, MN |
2017 | Area 515, Des Moines, IA |
2016 | Grin City Collective, Grinnell, IA |
Bibliography |
Sophia Ahmad, “Intersection”, Des Moines Magazine, March-April 2019 (images and review) |
“Spotlight: Tiberiu Chelcea”, SciArt Magazine, February 2018 (images and review) |
“Quick View: Tiberiu Chelcea”, SciArt in America, December 2015 (images) |
Anthony Capps, “Bringing art and technology together”, Ames Tribune, Feb. 2015 (interview and images) |
Melissa Erickson, “Art exhibit showcases current, past Ames art”, Ames Tribune, Dec. 2014 (interview) |
Gioia Laura Iannilli, “Planimetrie (per) formative: tra John Dewey e Nelson Goodman”, History of Art Masters Thesis, University of Bologna, April 2013 (images and review, in Italian) |
“Apocalypse”, Hesa Inprint (Finland), Issue #23, Jan. 2013 (images) |
“Atlas of Design”, published by the North American Cartographic Information Society, Volume 1, Oct. 2012 (images) |
Karen Chambers, “Exhibit Explores Place’s Role in Self-Identity”, Cincinnati Enquirer, July 2012 |
Joe Nolan, “Map Reading”, ArtNowNashville.com, http://artnownashville.com/visual-arts-in-nashville/map-reading/, March 2012 (image) |
Joe Nolan, “March’s First Saturday brings the year’s best crawl so far”, Nashville Scene, March 2012 (image) |
Alec Berry, “The Black Forest Offers Tight Focus as an Anthology”, Spandexless.com, http://www.spandexless.com/2012/01/the-black-forest-offers-tight-focus-as-an-anthology/, January 2012 |
Joe Nolan, “Untitled’s Winter Show: Anti-Freeze”, Critic’s Picks, Nashville Scene, December 2011 |
“The Black Forrest”, published by Unicorn Mountain, October 2011 (images) |
Joe Nolan, “Untitled Summer Show: Retrospective”, Critic’s Picks, Nashville Scene, July 2011 (image) |
Laura Hutson, “ArtScene: Platetone Printshop Open Studio and Member Exhibition on Saturday”, Pith in the Wind Blog, Nashville Scene, http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2011/06/17/artscene-platetone-printshop-open-studio-and-member-exhibition-on-saturday, June 2011 (images) |
Hrag Vartanian, “Mail Art Bulletin: Some Staff Picks”, Hyperallergic Blog, http://hyperallergic.com/25973/mail-art-bulletin-some-staff-picks/, June 2011 (images and review) |
Chuck Lanigan, “Variety keeps the Associated Artists show Interplay interesting”, Pittsburgh City Paper, August 2010 |
Mary Thomas, “Art, Art Everywhere – Festival Spreads Out Its Exhibits”, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 2010 |
Kurt Shaw, “Traditional Printmaking Pushed to Extremes”, Pittsburgh Tribune, December 2008 |
Collections |
The University of Kentucky Museum of Art, Lexington, Kentucky |
Private Collections |
Education |
2004 | Columbia University, PhD, Computer Science |
1996 | Politehnica University of Bucharest, Msc, Electrical Engineering |
1995 | Politehnica University of Bucharest, Bsc, Electrical Engineering |
Other Professional Activities |
Curator, “Subject to Change”, Untitled Nashville, April 2011 |
Board member, Untitled Nashville (2011-2012) |
Board member, Ames C.art (2012- ) |
Holder of 5 national and international patents in electronic design |