| Solo Exhibitions |
| 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 |
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“PCB Drawings”, Little Woods Gallery, Ames, IA |
| 2016 |
“A Convenient Workout”, Preus Gallery, Luther College, Decorah, IA |
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“Nanogeography”, Constance Gallery, Graceland University, Lemoni, IA |
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“Bounding Lines”, Memorial Union, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| 2015 |
“Scientific Writing”, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA |
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“Open Circuits”, James Wegner Art Gallery, Riverland Community College, Austin, MN |
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““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 |
| 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 |
| 2019 |
“International TECHstyle Art Biennial”, Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA |
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“Into the Blue”, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA |
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“Inter/National Contemporaries”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
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“Index to a Place”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
| 2018 |
“Pushing the Pull”, The FATVillage Projects Space, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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“Winter Group Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
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“Personal Geographies”, The Little Gallery, Omaha, NE |
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“Introductions”, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2017 |
“Winter Group Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
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“Just under 100”, International Print Center New York, New York, NY |
| 2016 |
“The Print Show”, Moberg Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
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“XXX Books Books Books XXX”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA (juror and organizer) |
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“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) |
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“5th Dubuque Museum of Art Biennial”, Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA |
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“Bits, Pixels and Practice – Oh, My!”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
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“cARTography: personal metaphors and mindful maps”, Ryan James Fine Arts, Seattle, WA |
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“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) |
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“Ripples”, HATCH Art Gallery, Detroit, MI (curator and organizer) |
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“Platetone: Past, Present and Future”, Harpeth Hall, Nashville, TN |
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“DISCO Vending Stand”, Art Vacancy Festival, Ames, IA (installation) |
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“Interface”, Viaduct Gallery, Des Moines, IA |
| 2013 |
“Black”, Martha Gault Gallery, Slippery Rock University, Slippery Rock, PA |
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“Mimetia”, Design on Main Gallery, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
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“International Biennale For Miniature Graphics”, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt |
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“34th Bradley International Print and Drawing Exhibition”, Heuser Art Center, Bradley University, Peoria, IL |
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“Text and Image”, Gallery Temenos, http://www.adrianelittle.com/temenos/current.html. |
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“45th Annual Clay, Fiber, Paper, Metal, Wood Exhibition”, Octagon Center for the Arts, Ames, IA |
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“Mid-America Print Council Juried Members Exhibition”, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH |
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“Stellar”, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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“New Year/New Work”, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2012 |
“SOMATOTOPIA”, Public Space One, Iowa City, IA |
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“New Work 2012”, Fein Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“Low Fidelity”, Tower Gallery, The College at Brockport SUNY, Brockport, NY |
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“Works-in-Progress Festival”, Iowa City, IA (installation & panel discussion) |
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“Fresh Impressions”, Projects Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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“RSVP’12”, New Wilmington Arts Association, Wilmington, DE |
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“Tributaries”, Gallery 121, Belmont University, Nashville, TN |
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“A Sense of Place”, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, Augusta, GA |
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“Numerical Notations”, Sechrest Art Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC |
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“KY.7 Biennial”, Lexington Art League, Lexington, KY |
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“ReRoot”, Clifton Cultural Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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“Upcycle”, Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Athens, GA |
| 2011 |
“Nourishment”, Renaissance Art Center, Dickson, TN |
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“Mapable”, SpaceCamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis, IN |
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“HOME”, Marnie Sheridan Gallery, Nashville, TN |
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“The Artistic Process as Exorcism”, Modernformations Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“Encoded Structures: Interpreting the Story”, Brownlee O. Currey Gallery, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film, Nashville, TN |
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“Nashville Internationals V”, Centenial Arts Center, Nashville, TN |
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“Stacks on Decks”, Blackbird Tattoo and Gallery, Nashville, TN |
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“Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic”, Hyperallergic HQ, New York, NY |
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“More Is More”, Lexington Arts League, Lexington, KY |
| 2010 |
“Interplay”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“New Juried Art Exhibition”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“The Art of Technology”, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“Eco-prints”, Most Wanted Fine Art, Pittsburgh, PA |
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Geek Arts/Green Innovators Festival, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“2010 Annual DATA Awards and Exhibition”, 15 Minutes Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2009 |
“Symbolon”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“My Window”, Little Gallery, Harper College, Palatine, IL |
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“Semana de Arte”, Casa de Cultura Oswaldo Goeldi, Taubaté, Brazil |
| 2008 |
“Altered States”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
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“Grabados por la Paz”, IMNRC Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico |
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“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 |