Professor
Art and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences
Blodgett Hall 105
516.237.8638
csaucedo@adelphi.edu
http://saucedostudio.com
Postgrad Study, Queens University, Belfast, N. Ireland (1990)
AM computer aided design, University of Michigan (1989)
resident, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1989)
MFA sculpture, University of Michigan (1988)
BFA , The School of Visual Arts (1986)
Academic History:
2011-present Adelphi University, Associate Professor or Art and Art History
2009-2011 The University of New Orleans, Chair and University Research Professor
2004-2009 The University of New Orleans , Professor of Fine Arts
1998-2004 The University of New Orleans, Associate Professor of Fine Arts
1992-1998 The University of New Orleans, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
1990-1992 Michigan State University, East Lansing , Assistant Professor of Fine Arts
1989 The University of Ulster, Belfast, N. Ireland, Visiting Lecturer
1988 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Research Asst. Electronic Imaging
1987 The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Teaching Assistant in Art History
1986 The School of Visual Arts, NYC, Sculpture Studio Technician
I am delighted to join the visual art department faculty at Adelphi University, bringing me back to my native New York to continue doing what I love, making sculpture and helping young artists do the same. I encourage current and prospective art students to contact me with any questions and to come and visit the Klapper Arts Center at Adelphi in person.
S/T: Chimera-Sculpting Hybrid Creatures
Introductory Art Seminar
S/T: Building Impossible Chairs; Furniture As Art
Senior Thesis Project I Between Memory And Reality
Three Dimensional Design
Specializations include: sculpture, public sculpture, drawing and mixed media visual art studio production.
Vessels of Mercy, Vessels of Wrath
May 2018
Group exhibition currated by Srdjan Loncar
Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleana, LA
Outcome
March 2018
One Person Exhibition
Good Children Gallery,
New Orleans, LA
Louisiana Contemporary
August 2017
group exhibition with catalogue
The Helis Foundation, serrated by Shantrelle P. Lewis.
Ogden Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
Flood Brothers
October 2017
One Person Exhibition with catalogue
Fort Tilden, National Parks Services
Queens, NY
Neapolitan (Comic Book Diplomacy, Go Cups and Water Bottle Buoys)
May 2017
One Person Exhibition
Arthur Roger Gallery,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Change!
2017
Outdoor Public Exhibition, L’ Aquila, Italy
Partnering w/ ArtBridge, a non-profit based in NYC, Change! is a long term project that transforms the scaffolding of the city’s earthquake damaged historical center into an enormous en plein air art gallery. My small works on paper are enlarged - monumentally.
State of Fear
March 2017
Group Exhibition, curated by Dan Tague
Barrister’s Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
Dog Show
curated by Carol Leak
group exhibtion with catalogue,
December 2016
Studio Inferno
New Orleans, Louisiana
Water Bottle Buoys (new sculpture that floats)
December 2016
One Person Exhibition
Good Children Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://arte-walk.blogspot.com/2016_12_01_archive.html
RE:TELL
currated by Ashley Teamer
October 2016
Group Exhibition
Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
Atlanta, Georgia
https://atlantacontemporary.org/exhibitions/good-children-gallery
60 Americans Part II, curated by Terrance Sanders
October 2016
group exhibition
Make Shift Museum
Los Angeles, California
Rendering the Unthinkable
2016- 2018
group museum exhibition
National September 11th Museum
New York, NYC, NY
A Building With A View: Experiments in Anarchitecture
Group Exhibition
August 2016
curated by Andrea Andersson, Ph.D., The Helis Foundation Chief Curator of Visual Arts
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
http://cacno.org/exhibitions/abuildingwithaview
Summer
June 2016
group exhibition
New York Arbor Gallery
Rockaway, NYC
Dystopia
May 2016
Group Exhibition curated by Dan Tague,
Barrister’s Gallery,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Pints, Quarts and Gallons
October 2015
One Person Exhibition
LeMieux Galleries,
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_1ff9ead7-e4b5-5f2c-ba49-7aa7bccfb319.html
Ten Years Gone
currated by Russell Lord
August 2015
group museum exhibition
The New Orleans Museum of Art,
New Orleans, Lousiana
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/arts/design/ten-years-after-katrina-new-orleans-museums-reckon-with-recovery.html?_r=0
September 11, 2001(please stop saying 9/11)
September 2015
One Person Exhibition
Charles P. Sifton Gallery,
Brooklyn, New York
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/articles/2015/9/10/federal-courthouse-gallery-features-tribute-sept-11-and-fallen-firefighter
Reverb, Past Present and Future
Group Exhibition curratdd by Isolde Brielmaier
August 2015
Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Material
Group Exhibition
july 2015
Duplex 100m2
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
http://www.duplex100m2.com
String Along, Contemporary Fiber Art
Group Exhibition
May 2015
Antenna Gallery,
New Orleans, Lousiana
Delta Dawn
March 2015
Group Exhibition
Flight Gallery
San Antonio, Texas
Pulp Fictions
March 2015
Group Exhibition
Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Deep Cuts & Red Cross Blankets
January 2015
one-person exhibition
Barrister's Gallery
New Orleans, LA
http://www.barristersgallery.com/saucedojan2015.html
Pulp Fictions
January 2015
group exhibition
Dieu Donne Paper Atelier
New York, NY
http://www.dieudonne.org/main.cfm?inc=press-detail&ID=93
Comic Book Diplomacy
November 2014
one-person exhibition
The Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts
Birmingham, Alabama
http://www.uab.edu/news/experiencing-the-arts/item/5327?+reporter
Cervasee 22: Surge
Fall 2014
a three-month outdoor sculpture group exhibition
CANO Prospect 3+
Poydras, Louisiana
http://cano-la.org/crevasse-22-site-installations/
http://www.nola.com/arts/index.ssf/2014/12/crevasse_22_sculpture_installa.html
Crowning Glory
Fall 2015
Prospect 3+ Satellite Group Exhibition, with catalogue
Good Children Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.goodchildrengallery.com/2014_past.html
The World Trade Center as a Cloud
September 2014
One-Person Exhibition with Visiting Artist Lecture
Hiestand Galleries,
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
This exhibition was a series of 20 new works,
half were 40 x 60 inch monumental works of hand-made paper
and half were 24 x 36 inch branded portraits.
Comic Book Diplomacy
August 2014
one-person exhibition
Good Children Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/review-comic-book-diplomacy-and-the-lies-we-believe/Content?oid=2488468
Water Water Everywhere
Summer 2014
a group exhibition
LeMieux Gallery
New Orleans, Louisiana
http://www.lemieuxgalleries.com/web/groups.asp?id=WaterWaterEverywhere.txt&WorksId=gocupvenndiagrambychristophersaucedo
Toward a New Paradigm
June 2014
group exhibition
126 Gallery
Gallway, Ireland
http://126.ie/general-news/2014/06/toward-a-new-paradigm/
http://www.artslant.com/ew/events/show/342653-toward-a-new-paradigm
Waterworks curated by Saucedo
group exhibition
May 2014
Protius Gowanus Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
May 2014.
Features 16 artists as part of a yearlong thematic focus on the subject of water.
http://proteusgowanus.org/2014/05/water-works-opening-reception/.
"Take Over". group exhibition. Secret Robot Project, Brooklyn, NY,. April 2014.
"FaceTime". Group exhibition, FaceTime, celebrates artists that explore portraiture. Artist from throughout the nation were selected to interpret the broad definition of portraiture. See more at: http://www.acadianacenterforthearts.org/facetime#sthash.RtNLtdZv.dpuf. ACA, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. March 2014.
"Place of Residence". a group exhibition. Treo Gallery, New Orleans, Lousiana. February 2014.
"Oyster Shell Kingdoms". Solo exhibition of sculptural installation titled; " New Orleans", made of bronze, glass, oak and one-ton of oyster shells, surrounded by a series of collaged navigational charts. Each map of a coastal community is violently branded, with the image of a six-pack, and combined with images of the NASA lunar landing. ACA, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA. January 2014.
"Red Cross Blankets". One person exhibition. Cochenour Gallery, Georgtown College, Georgtown, KY, November. November 2013.
"Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Year 1". Industry City. October 2013.
"Containers". group exhinbition. Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. September 2013.
"Crescent City Connection". group exhibition, Portraits in Exact Weight and Volume series featured. Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont Texas, October. September 2013.
"Das Glas Halb Leer, Das Glas Halb Voll ( the glass half empty / the glass half full)". One Person Exhibition. Sternstudio Gallery, Vienna, Austria. July 2013.
"Cardak Ni Na Nebu Ni Na Zemlji (A Castle Neither in the Sky nor on Earth: an old Serbian fairy tale)”". group exhibition. Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans LA. April 2013.
"The End of Optimism". One Person Exhibition. Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 2013.
"Sculpture Biennial". two year outdoor group sculpture exhibition. http://www.adelphi.edu/artmuseum/sculpture_biennial/. Adelphi University Campus, Garden City, NY. September 2012.
"Please Stop Saying 9/11 (2012 variant)". One Person Exhibition weblink: http://gatewoodgallery.com/index_saucedo.html. Gatewood Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greenboro, NC, september. September 2012.
"St. Claude on Julia". group exhibition. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans LA. August 2012.
"Landfill". group print exhibition. Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana. March 2012.
"Spaces, (Good Children, Antenna and The Front)". 'Three Kings', sculptural installation and 'Game Table (one slice removed)', interactive installation. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. February 2012.
"Postcards from LongIsland". exhibition of Adelphi Department of Art faculty, Curated by Christopher Saucedo, http://www.barristersgallery.com/postcardsFLI1.html. Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans. February 2012.
"Hit Refresh". A two part three month group exhibition curated by Cameron Shaw and Nick Stillman with catalogue of same name. Hit Refresh Part 1 & 2, Shaw and Stillman ISBN - 978 -0-615- 55225-5. The Good Children Gallery, New Orleans , LA. October 2011.
"Swagger for a Lost Magnificence". sculptural installations: 'New Orleans'. Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2011.
"No Comment". Occupy Wall Street Visual and Performance Art Group Exhibition http://www.flickr.com/photos/saucedostudio/. J.P. Morgan Bank, Wall Street, NYC. October 2011.
"September 11, 2011 (please stop saying 9/11)". One person exhibition. The Good Children Gallery, New Orleans , LA. September 2011.
"Catalyst". Group Exhibition of visual artist response to the 2011 Gulf of Mexico BP oil spill. Space 301, Contemporary Arts Center, Mobile Alabama. August 2011.
Cameron Shaw, Nick Stillman (2011). Christopher Saucedo. Good Children Gallery, Hit Refresh Part 1 & 2. (pp. 44 - 48). Proflic Group.
Rachel Wolff (2013), When Storm is Collaborator. Art News.
Bill Sasser (2012), Swagger for a Lost Magnificence. Art Voices, 52.
D. Eric Bookhardt (2012), NOLA NOW. Gambit Weekly.
Nick Stillman (2012), Please Stop Saying 9/11. Bomb Magazine, 14.
Christopher Saucedo (2013, November). visiting artist lecture " Measuring the Oceans, in Pints, Quarts and Gallons". Georgetown College, Department of Art, Georgetown, KY.
christopher Saucedo (2012, September). visiting artist lecture: A sculptor's Non-Monumental Response to a Monumental Event". University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.
Christopher Saucedo (2012, January). Visiting Artist Lecture. San Fransisco Art Institute - New Orleans Field Research Course.
Christopher Saucedo (2011, October). Visiting Artist Lecture. Tulane University, New Orleans.
Recent Professional Grants (received):
2014 Pollack-Krasner Foundation (individual visual artist) Grant
2013 Joan Mitchell Foundation (individual visual artist) Grant
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant (NYFA) for individual visual artist
2013 St. Claude Arts District & Parkette Program, New Orleans, LA
ArtPlace Grant to complete public sculpture “You Must Be This Tall”
2012 Arts Council of New Orleans grant
Prior (2007) public sculpture “Flood Marker” was commissioned, as a two-year project but will be modified into a permanent outdoor sculpture with original wooden elements replaced with masonry.
Adelphi Faculty Awards:
Fall 2011, Adelphi University, Research release for scholarship, "You Must Be This Tall, Public Sculpture Production"
Fall 2012, Adelphi University, Faculty Development Grant for "Lost Architecture”, visual art exhibition project
Spring 2014, Adelphi University, Research release for scholarship, "Monumental Sculpture - digitally fabricated"
Fall 2015, Adelphi University, Faculty Development Grant for "CNC Fabricated Stone Sculpture ”, visual art exhibition project
Over the past 25 years Christopher Saucedo’s sculpture and works on paper have been presented in over 100 solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad with one-person exhibitions at The Pensacola Art Museum, Florida; The Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland The Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; The University of North Carolina at Greensboro; SternStudio Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans and the Leedy-Voulkos Gallery, Kansas City.
Group exhibitions include recent shows at The Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey; Chateau La Napoule, La Napoule, France and The New Orleans Museum of Art with upcoming shows at The Dishman Art Museum, Beaumont, Texas; The National September 11th Memorial & Museum, The Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. and the New Orleans Museum of Art.
Saucedo is the recipient of numerous awards including recent grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (2013), The Joan Mitchell Foundation (2013) and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He also recently completed three works of public sculpture in New Orleans. “Flood Marker”, at the Milne Boys Home, “Equal Slices” on the campus of the University of New Orleans and ‘Boettner Park, You Are Here” is in the Lower Garden District. A new monumental steel sculpture, titled; “You Must be This Tall” is under construction for the St Claude Art District also in New Orleans.
Saucedo has presented lectures and workshops at universities and other institutions throughout the United States. He has also curated many exhibitions, mostly in New Orleans at The Good Children Gallery, of which he is a founding member. His artwork has been reviewed and featured in publications such as Art News, Bomb Magazine, Art Papers, Sculpture and The New York Times.
He was born (1964) in Brooklyn, New York where he grew up. Saucedo received his BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1986, and his MFA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1988. After attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, he did post-graduate work at the Queens University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. Saucedo retired as Research Professor and Chair of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of New Orleans where he ran the sculpture program for 20 years. Currently he is a member of the faculty at Adelphi University in Garden City, New York.
Rockaway Artist Alliance,
Queens, NY
Board Member
2018-present
Curatorial Projects: Exhibitions designed and directed by Christopher Saucedo of other's Artwork (proposed, selected and produced by Saucedo):
2018 Social Studies, exhibition of Jeffrey Forsythe's sculptures and paintings, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, LA March (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2017 Swing Shift, New Work by Mariam Stephan & Nikki Blair,
Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, January
(Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2015 Tephra Garden, LoVid video installation, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans November (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2015 Inconceviable (four Austrian artists), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2014 Water, a group exhibition, Proteus Gowanus, Gallery, Brooklyn New York, April (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2014 “Painting and Drawings”, New Work by Jennifer Maloney,Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, January (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2013 “Apollo Remembered”, photographs by Steve Pyke, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2013 “PostCards From Long Island”, Adelphi University Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Adelphi University Manhattan Center (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2013 “King Cake Baby’s Day Out”, Paintings by Brooks Frederick, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, January (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2013 “Vocabulary”, Corbin Colver, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, January (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2012 “Harvest Reprise”, Collages by Holger Lang, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2012 “PostCards From Long Island”, Adelphi University Art Department Faculty Exhibition, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA, February
Curated by Christopher Saucedo, A group exhibition of Adelphi University Art Department Faculty presenting themselves as aesthetic ambassadors for Long Island.
2011 “Dark Lights Continued”, Sculpture by James Hayes, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. LA, February (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2011 “Classified”, Aaron McNamee and Nina Schwanse, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA, March (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2010 “Postcards From New Orleans”, Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck, Austria, July (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2010 “Postcards From New Orleans”, The Front, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2010 “Do What I Mean, Not What I Say”, Group Exhibition, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2009 “Thank You Sir, May I have Another,” New Work by Holis Hannan, Jason Derouin and Matthew Grant, Barristers Gallery, New Orleans, LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2009 “Two Eyes, a Nose and a Mouth”, A Portrait Exhibition, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2009 “Lost Ground”, Katherine Wolkoff and Stephen Hilger’s photography, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA, December (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2009 “You Killed My Pretty Things”, Paul Villinski, Christy Rupp, Rico Gaston, Dan Tague, Sarah Emerson and Daphne Looney, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2009 “New Paintings” by Keli Thompson, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. LA, November (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2008 “Payoff”, Group Exhibition, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2008 “Recent Works on Paper” by Dan Rule, Good Children Gallery, New Orleans. LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2007 “The Engine Room”, Drawings by Malcolm Mc Clay, UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2007 “My War,” Dan Tague, UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2007 “ Study Buddy”. Doug Kaigler and G.A.S. (Matt Vis and Tony Campbel) , UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, October (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2005 “Coffee / Milk”, Shawne Major, UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, January (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2005 “Genetic Incarnaion”, Chickory Miles, UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, February (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2005 “Red Hot and Dutch”. Ralph Darburshire, UNO Lakefront Gallery, New Orleans, LA, August (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
2004 “New Orleans Art Now”, Group Exhibition, The Zone Gallery - Kansas City, MO, February (Curated by Christopher Saucedo)
'Postcards from Long Island' visual art exhibition, January 2012
Curated by Christopher Saucedo
at Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA
A group exhibition of Adelphi University Art Department Faculty presenting themselves as aesthetic ambassadors for Long Island.
'How Are Things?' exhibition of visual artwork of Corbin Colver and Brooks Frederick, January 2013
Curated by Christopher Saucedo
at Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA
http://www.barristersgallery.com
'How Are Things?' exhibition of recent artwork of Jen Maloney, January 2014
Curated by Christopher Saucedo
at Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA
http://www.barristersgallery.com/maloney.html
"Water Works", visual arts group exhibition, May 2014
Curated by Christopher Saucedo
at Proteus Gowanus Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
http://proteusgowanus.org/water/