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ROMAN DE SALVO

BIOGRAPHY 1965 Born, San Francisco 1990 B.F.A., California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA 1995 M.F.A., University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2001-02 Adjunct Professor, MFA thesis committees, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1999-01 Visiting Artist, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1999-02 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Beginning and Intermediate Sculpture 1999 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Beginning Sculpture. 1998 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Intermediate Sculpture. 1997 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Beginning Drawing. 1996 Lecturer, University of California, San Diego, Intermediate Drawing.

Designed and taught "Conceptual Object Making," a 16-hour adult course at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA

1993-95 Teaching Assistant, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA AWARDS AND HONORS 2007 San Diego Art Prize 2004 Historic Harborfront Design Competition, San Diego Unified District, winning design team member (in collaboration with Sasaki Associates and Rob Wellington Quigley, FAIA) 2002 City of El Cajon International Friendship Festival juror 1995 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship 1994 University of California, San Diego, Inter Arts Consortium Grant 1993 Russell Foundation Grant University of California Research Grant SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 LIGHTENING, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA 2009 SPLIT, SPLICE, SPLAY, DISPLAY, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2008 GROUP SHOW, Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA 2005 HIGH WIRE ACTS, Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT

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7547 Girard Avenue • LA JOLLA • CALIFORNIA • 92037 • P 858-454-3409 • F 858-454-3421 • www.quintgallery.com

MAIN STREET SCULPTURE PROJECT, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT

2004 POWER MAZE 3, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV RECENT WORK WITH ELECTRICAL CONDUIT, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2001 WOODS, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2000 HEARTH FURNISHINGS, Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College, Incline, NV 1999 RECENT SCULPTURE, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 1998 GARDEN GUARDIANS, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA 1997 CACTUS ARCADE, Founder's Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA 1996 SIT AND ROOMINATE, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA 1995 FURNISHINGS, Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA 1993 TOUR OF SCULPTURES IN PACIFIC BEACH, Visual Arts Facility Gallery, University of

California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, and Pacific Beach, San Diego, CA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 EUREKA!, New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA RAINMAKER, San Diego Central Public Library, San Diego, CA 2009 IN BED TOGETHER, curated by Jane Glassman, Royal/T Art Space, Culver City, CA ANIMAL ART, The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, CA QUINT: THREE DECADES OF CONTEMPORARY ART, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA HOMING IN: AN EXHIBITION OF 50 SAN DIEGO ARTISTS, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 2008 SHOW DOWN, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA CHILDSPLAY, New Children’s Museum, San Diego. CA RESEARCH: FEATURING WORKS BY SAN DIEGO ART PRIZE WINNERS ROMAN DE SALVO AND LEAL CORBIN, L Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA 2007 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL, Klemens Grasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York, NY SANCTA, Steve Turner Contemporary, Beverly Hills, CA 2005 MAKING IT: 10 YEARS OF ARTIST COMMISSIONS AT CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE

ARTS, ESCONDIDO, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA 2004 SCULPTURE ON THE FLOOR, WALL AND CEILING, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla,

CA 2003 AMERICAN IDYLL, Public Art Fund, New York, NY (catalogue) BAJA TO VANCOUVER: THE WEST COAST IN CONTEMPORARY ART, Seattle Art

Museum, Seattle, WA Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver, Canada; and the California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (catalogue)

2002 2002 CALIFORNIA BIENNIAL, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)

I-5 RESURFACING: FOUR DECADES OF CALIFORNIA CONTEMPORARY ART, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA

ADJECTIVE NOUN VERB, Acuna-Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2001 THE LOST FRONTIER, The Gallery at the Contemporary Art Collective, Las Vegas,

NV LATERAL THINKING: ART OF THE 1990’S, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA. Traveled. (catalogue) RELIEF: SCULPTURE NEGOTIATING THE WALL, Flux, San Diego, CA CONSTELLATIONS, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 2001 SUITCASE I: METROPOLY, The Hatch, Los Angeles, CA

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CHAIN REACTION: RUBE GOLDBERG AND CONTEMPORARY ART, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA. Traveled. (catalogue)

DOUBLE VISION: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE STRAUSS COLLECTION, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA Traveled. (catalogue)

2000 inSITE 2000, Tijuana, Mexico (catalogue) GIVERNY GARDEN PROJECTS, Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France 2000 BIENNIAL EXHIBITION, The Whitney American Museum of Art, New York, NY

(catalogue) OFF BROADWAY, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA 1999 DRIP, BLOW, BURN: FORCES OF NATURE IN CONTEMPORARY ART, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (catalogue) 1997 POP GOES THE MUSEUM, Children's Museum/Museo de los Niños, San Diego, CA PRESENCE: EIGHTEEN AREA SCULPTORS, University Art Gallery, University of

California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 1996 INSIDE THE WORK OF ST. CLAIR CEMIN, JOEL OTTERSON AND OTHERS, California

Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA (catalogue) 96 CONTAINERS--ART ACROSS OCEANS, Copenhagen, Denmark (Catalogue) 1995 COMMON GROUND, A REGIONAL EXHIBITION, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA 1994 inSITE '94, San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA

(catalogue) 1993 THE COASTAL PROJECT, 1988 - 1993: A RETROSPECTIVE, College of Creative

Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, Goleta, CA HALF MOON BAY EXPERIMENT: SITE SPECIFIC WORKS BY SIX SAN DIEGO ARTISTS,

Meier Company Office, Half Moon Bay, CA 1990 CHAIN REACTION 6, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2014 Chute, James, “La Jolla Historical Society plans unique commission,” The San

Diego Union–Tribune, Nov. 11. <www.utsandiego.com/news/2014/nov/11/la-jolla-historical-society-what-was-is/>

2012 Morlan, Kinsee, “Roman de Salvo's gateway to the bay,” San Diego City Beat, Feb 22. <www.sdcitybeat.com/sandiego/article-10229-roman-de-salvos-gateway-to-the-bay.html>

2007 Hiss, Mark, “Playing with Wire… and Whatever Else Strikes His Fancy,” San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles, June, pp. 34-36.

2006 Pincus, Robert, “Instant Landmark,” The San Diego Union–Tribune, April 2 <www.utsandiego.com/uniontrib/20060402/news_1a02desalvo.html>

2004 Ichiro Irie. “Transcending Transfiguration: Miguel Calderon, Sandra Mann, Roman de Salvo,” Rim, No. 6, Autumn 2004, pg. 22-29.

2002 Black, Noel. "Artbreak: With the Emphasis on Thinking," Colorado Springs Independent, October pg. 3-9.

Schoenkopf, Rebecca. “Conceptualists’ Stories: OCMA shows you how to live in a poisoned world,” OC Weekly, July 12, pg. 29. Pincus, Robert L. “Ordinary Strangeness: Biennial artists set about to disorient us

from the mundane”, The San Diego Union–Tribune, June 20, Night & Day, pp. 38 – 39.

Pagel, David. "California Biennial Is on the Right Track," Los Angeles Times, July 17, pp. F1, F6.

Walsh, Daniella. "The Orange County Museum of Art's Biennial celebrates the

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New," Riviera, May/June, pp. 198-199. Frank, Peter. "Art Pick of the Week," LA Weekly, August 30-September 5, pg. 136. Walsh, Daniella. "Exhibit Two Years Young," The Orange County Register, June 2,

pp. 20-21. Chang, Richard. "Hot Summer Art," The Orange County Register, May 19, pg. 35. 2002 …"This Art Thing is a Gas," The Orange County Register, Friday, May 17. …"Adjective Noun Verb," Artscenecal.com, February. 2000 Pincus, Robert L. "Two for the show: Local artists shine in New York”, The San Diego

Union–Tribune, April 2, pp. E-1, E-11. 1999 Kendricks, Neil. “Roman de Salvo at Quint Contemporary Art,” ArtWeek, Vol. 32,

No. 9, pg.23. Pincus, Robert. “Burnt Wood,” The San Diego Union–Tribune, July 26, pp. 38-39. Pincus, Robert L. "Contraptions and Canvases: Roman de Salvo revels in fractured

wit; Doris Bittar cloaks her history in patterns," The San Diego Union–Tribune, February 11, Night & Day, pg. 53.

1997 Pincus, Robert L. "Witty Inventiveness Spawns a 'Presence' of Mind", The San Diego Union–Tribune, July 10, Night & Day, pg.15.

Pincus, Robert L. "Pop of Ages: Exhibition Looks at Art Through Eyes of a Child", The San Diego Union–Tribune, May 4, pp. E-1, E-4-5. 1996 Kylander, Pontus. "World Art in Cargo Containers" (in Swedish), Sydvenskan, May

29, pg. A5. 1995 Pincus, Robert L. "Show is grounds for looking at locals", The San Diego

Union–Tribune, November 12, pg. E-6. APPEARANCES AND PRESENTATIONS 2004 “The Lounge” radio program, KPBS, San Diego, CA 2003 Lecture, College of Creative Studies, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa

Barbara, CA 2002 “Dialogue: Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art,” with

anthropology professor Joylin Namie, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2001 Lecture, inSITE2000, The Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, CA 2000 “Public Art in San Diego,” panel discussion, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA

Slide presentation in conjunction with Hearth Furnishings, Sierra Nevada College, Incline, NV

1999 "Art of the Nineties", Panel discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA

1998 Lecture, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA 1997 Lecture Series in conjunction with Cactus Arcade, University of San Diego, San

Diego, CA

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES 2003 Garcia, Miki. Now Entering Brooklyn, Public Art Fund, New York. 2000 Yard, Sally. Roman de Salvo: Fun Follows Function, Quint Contemporary Art, La

Jolla, CA Anderson, Maxwell L., et.al. 2000 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American

Art, pp. 86-87. 1999 Sanchez, Osvalo and Cecilia Garza, editors, Fugitive Sites: New Contemporary Art

Projects for San Diego-Tijuana, Installation Gallery, San Diego, pp. 82, 150- 153.

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Armstrong, Elizabeth and Irene Hofmann, 2002 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, pp.18-21.

Berry, Ian. Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum of Art, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, pp. 19, 40, 44-53.

Kamps, Toby, et al. Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, pp. 19, 46-47.

1996 Murphy, Patrick T. “Light Misbehavior,” Container 96—Art Across Oceans, Catalogue, pp. 63, 72.

1995 Yard, Sally. “Tagged Turf in the Public Sphere,” inSITE’94, a Bi-national Exhibition of Installation and Site-Specific Art, Catalogue, pp. 42, 44, 135, 169. PUBLIC COMMISSIONS 2012 Nexus Eucalyptus, Ruocco Park, San Diego, CA 2010 Seven for Seven Trees, South San Jose, CA 2006 Nexus Eucalyptus, California Department of Transportation District 1

Headquarters, San Diego, CA 2005 Alvarado Riddle, San Diego Trolley Alvarado Medical Center Station,

Metropolitan Transit Development Board, San Diego, CA Mission Beach Castles, South Mission Beach Lifeguard Station, City of San Diego (completed in 2007) 2003 Crab Carillon, at the 25th Street overpass at Highway 94, City of San Diego, CA (music composed by John Waters) 2001 Liquid Ballistic, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Downtown, CA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA

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