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EDUCATION
2005
M.F.A, Photography, Syracuse University
2004
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1998
B.S., Studio Art, Skidmore College, (Honors, Cum Laude)
1997
Spring and Summer Semesters, Department of Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art
EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2014
TBD, Artspace, New Haven, CT. (solo show)
2013
Always a Disappointment, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX. (solo show)
VIDEO_DUMBO, Eyebeam, New York, NY.
Archetype Drift, Filter Photo Festival at Johalla Projects, Chicago, IL.
Only a Signal Shown, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA.
Disturbance of Distance, Box 13, Houston, TX.
2012
When You’re Out There, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX. (solo show)
Restless, The Art Salon, New Orleans, LA. (solo show, part of “the One Series”)
Prospectors, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. (3 person show)
Photo Forum, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX.
Paysages Occupes, Saison Video, Espace Criose Contemporary Art Center, Lille Cedex, France. (screening)
2011
Syracuse International Film Festival, Various Venues, Syracuse, NY.
Nowhere Near Here: New Photo Work by Texas Artists, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX.
Curated by Michelle White and Toby Kamps of the Menil Collection
Voxulvision, 1.0, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA.
2010
Peripheral Vision, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ (solo show)
video_dumbo, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY (screening)
Troika, Asterisk Gallery, Cleveland, OH (3 person show)
Lumen Video Festival, Atlantic Salt (sponsored by COAHSI), Staten Island, NY
Other People’s Projections, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Cristi, TX
Sole Mates, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
Saison Video 2009, Espace Criose Contemporary Art Center, Lille Cedex, France
ImageOHIO 10, Fort Hayes Metropolitan Education Center, Columbus, OH
Rehearse, Rewind, Repeat, Seigfred Gallery, Ohio University, Athens, OH
2009
Awkward, Association for Visual Arts, Chattanooga, TN
Brooklyn Artillery (With Eyelevel BQE Gallery), Brooklyn, NY
Third Coast National, K Space Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
Baltimore vs. the World, Current Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Sprawl, Victory Park Super Screens (in conjunction with SPE conference), Dallas, TX (screening)
2008
Hanging Baggage, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (solo exhibition)
David Politzer, Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM (solo exhibition)
Freeze Frame, Rush Arts Gallery (in conjunction with Miami Basel), Miami, FL
Considering the Monuments, Urban Culture Projects, Kansas City, MO (screening)
Binational 2008, El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte, Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
2007
Host, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (Curator: Elizabeth M. Grady)
Artists in the Marketplace 26, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Flesh, The 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
Travel, Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Does Gender Still Matter?, Purdue University Galleries, West Lafayette, IN
Video Fireball, Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco, CA (screening)
R.A.i.R. Works 40, 516 Arts, Albuquerque, NM
Maine International Film Festival, Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, ME (screening)
Here and Elsewhere, Boots, St. Louis, MO (screening)
Selections from the 60 Second Southern Video Festival Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland and
Mantua Projects, Co. Roscommon, Ireland (screening)
The 60 Second Southern Video Festival, Harmony Landing, Pegram, TN (screening)
2006
After, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA (Curator: Laura Donaldson)
Hi/Lo Film Festival, Parkway Theater, Oakland, CA, (screening, included in touring exhibition)
Signal and Noise, Video in Studios, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (screening)
Geld Spielt Keine Rolle, Bauhaus Universität, Weimar, Germany, and
Limehouse Town Hall, London, UK, (screening)
2005
Beyond Stills, Gallery Korea, New York, NY (screening)
Parakeet Film Salon, Metropolitan Building, Queens, NY (screening)
ADD Videos, Wizard Electronics, Brooklyn, NY (screening)
2005 Chungdam Video Art Screening, Gallery The Space, Seoul, South Korea, (screening)
Everything I’d Ever Discovered, Vox Populi, Phliadelphia, PA and
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, (screening, Curator: Daniel J. Fuller)
Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
International Shorts, California State University, Chico, Chico, CA (screening)
Man and Beast, Emily Davis Gallery, University of Akron, Akron OH
Hi/Lo Film Festival, the Red Vic, San Francisco, CA (screening, included in touring exhibition)
Breaking the Ice (traveling exhibition), Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, and Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
2004
Homes, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY (solo exhibition)
The Persistence of Becoming, The Nave Gallery, Boston, MA
Notes From the Underground Vol. 2, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (screening)
2004 Everson Biennial, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Video Now, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY (screening)
Photowork ‘04, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2003
Bienal De Video Y Nuevos Medios de Santiago, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile (screening)
Scene:Unseen ‘03, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM
Photowork ‘03, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Reunion Art Show, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
AWARDS, HONORS AND RESIDENCIES
2013
Residency, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA
2012
Carol Crow Fellowship, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
Review Santa Fe, Center, Santa Fe, NM
2011
Lawndale Artist Studio Program, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX. (2011 - 2012)
2010
Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Program selection, MOCA Cleveland (Ian Berry, Visiting Curator)
Juror’s Award, ImageOHIO 10, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH.
2009
Residency, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Nesnadny + Schwartz Visiting Curator Program selection, MOCA Cleveland (Raphaela Platow, Visiting Curator)
2007
Residency, Roswell Artists In Residence, Roswell, NM
Residency, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
2006
Artists In the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2004
Summer Fellowship, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Creative Opportunities Grant, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Shaffer Fellowship Award, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2003-05
Full Assistantship for Graduate Study, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2002
Residency and Scholarship, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2000
Fellowship Award, Kala Institute, Berkeley, CA
1999
Juror’s Award, “the Camera vs. the Computer,” Heywood Gallery, Worcester, MA
1998
Honors in Art, Senior Art Exhibition, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Juror’s Award, Annual Student Art Show, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, AZ
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art, Roswell, NM
Pavel Zoubok, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, NY
Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY/PUBLICATIONS
2012
Rauschenberg, Christopher, “Spotlight”, Spot, Fall.
Zalman, Sandra, “David Politzer at the Houston Center for Photography and Lawndale Art Center”, Glasstire, May, 25.
Bram, David, Dubrowski, Bevin and Rauschenberg, Christopher, “Collaborations: HCP”, Fraction Magazine, May.
Koskinen, Anssi, “Beautiful Nature”, (interview), PhotoArtTalk.com, July.
Smith, Geoff, “Review: Prospectors at Lawndale Art Center”, Houston Arts and Culture, May, 31.
Klassmeyer, Kelly, “Lawndale’s Stellar Studio Show”, Houston Press, May 30.
2011
Oko, Dan, “Nowhere Special”, Houston Modern Luxury, March.
Engle, Eric, “Aesthetic Expansion”, Flagstaff Live!, Jan 13-19, Vol 17, Issue 2.
Hooper, Rachel, “Nowhere Near Here,” …Might Be Good, April 15, Issue #167, www.fluentcollab.org/mbg/
2010
Trowbridge, Adam and Westbrook, Jessica, Eds. “Dynamic Coupling”, Journal of the New Media Caucus, Fall.
Reese, Elizabeth B., “Other People’s Projections”, Art Lies, Summer 2010.
Traugott, Joseph, Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art, Santa Fe, NM, Museum of New Mexico Press. (Catalog)
Pallas, Amy, “Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art”, Cowboys and Indians, the Premier Magazine of the West, July.
Johnson, Martin, L. “Place Evaders”. Baltimore City Paper, Sept 29.
Yates, Christopher A., “Photos, Videos Offer Unprocessed Look”, the Columbus Dispatch, January 31, 2010.
2008
Schwendener, Martha, Self Deprecation 101, Hartford, CT, Real Art Ways. (Catalog)
Eagan, Matt, “The Jury’s Favorites,” The Hartford Courant, July 17, 2008.
Tucker, Joyce, “The Works of David Politzer at the RMAC,” Vision Magazine, April 2008.
Fleming, Stephen, David Politzer, Roswell: Roswell Museum and Art Center. (Catalog)
2007
Schwendener, Martha, “Creative and Commercial: the Starving Artist as to Eat,”
The New York Times, May 3.
Klefstad, Ann, “Host at the Soap Factory,” ww.minnesotaartists.org, September 10.
Riley-Lopez, Erin. Here and Elsewhere, AIM 27, Bronx: Bronx Museum of the Arts. (Catalog)
2006
McQuaid, Cate. “Among the Missing,” Boston Globe, March 2, 2006.
Orchard, Chris. “After at the BCA,” South End News, February 9, 2006.
Donaldson, Laura and Raine, Adra, After, Boston: Boston Center for the Arts. (Catalog)
Stovall, Luane, “After at the Mills Gallery,” www.bigredandshiny.com, February, 20.
2000
Cohn, Terri, “‘Layerings: New Work by Four Kala Fellows’ at Kala Art Institute,” Artweek, November.