Russell Horton

1329 High Street

Baldwin City, KS 66006

802-558-5398

 

Education

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MFA, Painting Clemson University

BFA, Painting and Sculpture Rhode Island College

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Teaching Experience

2016-present  Associate Professor of Art, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS

                    Manager, Holt Russell Gallery and Baker University Art Collection

2015-2016     Adjunct Professor, Painting and Drawing, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS

                    Manager, Holt Russell Gallery and Baker University Art Collection

2014-2015     Adjunct Professor, 2-D Design and Drawing,

                    Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

2013-2014     Guest Critic, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

2010             Presenter, New England Museum Association College and University Museums

                    PAG Workshop “Getting Your Show on the Road”

1993             Teaching Assistant, Life Drawing, Clemson University Clemson, SC

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Museum and Gallery Experience

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2012-2014      Chief Preparator/ Exhibition Designer, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO

1999- 2012     Exhibitions Manager, Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge, MA

                   *Acting Registrar February 2003- January 2005

1997-1999     Art Handler, Tufts University Art Galleries, Medford, MA

1994-1999     Art Handler, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1996-1998     Art Handler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Museum, Cambridge, MA

1994-1995     Art Handler, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art Providence, RI

1992-1993     Graduate Assistant to Gallery Director, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery,

                    Clemson University, Clemson, SC

 

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

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2024    Lincoln Arts Center, Lincoln, KS

2023    Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX

2020    Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO

           Lumberyard Arts Center, Baldwin City, KS 

2018    815 Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2017    Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO 

2016    Driskill Art Gallery, Southwest Baptist University, Bolivar, MO

           Holt Russell Gallery, Baker University, Baldwin City, KS

2008    Stockbridge Public Library, Stockbridge, MA

2002    Wallace-Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater State University

           Bridgewater, Massachusetts

1995    AS 220, Providence, Rhode Island

1993    M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, 

           Clemson, South Carolina

1990    The Custom House Providence Rhode Island
 

Group Exhibitions

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2024    55th Annual Smoky Hill Art Exhibition, Hay Arts Center, Hays, KS

           Mountain Plains Biennial, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS

           This Land, Art Fluent online, Boston, MA

2023    Urban, Art Fluent online, Boston,MA

2021    State of Contemporary Drawing, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO

           Art Comes Alive 2021, ADC Gallery West, Cincinnati, OH 

           State of the Arts 2021, Prarie Village Arts Council, Prairie Village, KS

2019    Contemporary Scape, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2018    Landscape: Real and Imagined, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

           Wichita Arts Council Annual Juried Exhibition, CityArts, Wichita, KS

           Soul and the City, Hilliard Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2017    ArtProv Gallery, Providence, RI 

2016    Landscape: A Sense of Place, Annette Rose-Shapiro, Juror, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY

           Made Realities/Real Situations: Recent Paintings by Neil Callander, Russell Horton and Mark Roder,

           Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2015    The Art of Painting 2015 National Juried Show William Bailey, Juror

            Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2014     Annual Faculty Exhibition, Emporia State University, Emporia, KS

            Juror’s Choice, UFORGE Gallery, Boston, MA

            Landscapes, Light, Space and Time Online Gallery, Jupiter, Florida

2013     Luminous Language, Foundry Art Center, St. Charles, Missouri

            Spring Juried Art Exhibition, Emerald Art Center, Springfield, Oregon

            Melancholy: At the Bottom of Everything, Projekt30 online exhibit

2012     Inside/Out, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri

2006     William W. Parker Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2005     William W. Parker Gallery, Washington, D.C.

            Seductive Landscape, William W. Parker Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1999     Clarke Whitney Gallery, Lenox, MA

1996     Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Arts Center and Galleries, New Caanan, Connecticut

1995     Clemson Alumni Show”, Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, Clemson University, 

            Clemson, South Carolina

1993     Anderson County Arts Council Juried Show, Anderson Art Center, Anderson, SC  

1992     Springs Industries Juried Traveling Exhibition, Traveling exhibition that toured galleries and

            museums throughout the southeastern U.S.    

            South Carolina M.F.A. Candidates, Vista Studio-Gallery Columbia, South Carolina          

1990     Rhode Island/ Sergipe, Brazil Visual Arts Exchange II, Providence Art Club- Dodge House Gallery,

            Providence, Rhode Island

1989     Rhode Island/ Sergipe, Brazil Visual Arts Exchange I, Museum of Art,

            Sao Cristavo, Sergipe, Brazil               

1988     B.F.A. Exit Exhibition, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, 

            Providence, Rhode Island

1987     The Rhode Island College Nine, Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, 

             Providence, Rhode Island

            Rhode Island Emerging Artists, Dattorro-Weiss Gallery    Providence, Rhode Island

 

Works in Art Collections

 

Clemson University-Rudolph E. Lee Gallery

Baker University Art Collection

Glenn Kaplan, Bridgewater, CT

Tom & Cathy Wornom, New York, NY

Thomas Donavan, Biloxi, MS

Michael Murray, New York, NY

Aaron and Andrea Phillips, Bentonville, AR

Mary Herman, Seattle, WA

Private Art Collections in, Kansas City, MO, Boston, MA, New Britain, CT, Washington D.C.,

White River Jct., VT, Mystic, CT

 

Honors and Awards

 

2021    Landscape Artist of the Year Award, Art Comes Alive2021, ADC Gallery West, Cincinnati, OH

2020    Distinguished Scholarship Award Baker University    

2015    Recipient of Special Exhibition Award The Art of Painting 2015 National Juried Show,

           William Bailey, Juror Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2014    Honorable Mention, Painting Category Landscapes, Light, Space and Time Gallery, Jupiter, FL

1993     Merit Award  Anderson County Arts Council Juried Show, Anderson Art Center, Anderson, SC

1988     Antonio Cirino Memorial Art Education Fellowship, The Rhode Island Foundation,   Providence, RI

 

Publications-Reviews

2023    Midland Reporter-Telegram

2017    The Pitch, Kansas City, Front cover

2016    Studio Visit Magazine Volume 34, juror Michael Lash 

2015    Republican-American, Waterbury, CT