Steven Careau

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Biography:

Steven Careau holds an MFA in Sculpture from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts of Bard College. He is a Professor of Fine Arts at Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York (SUNY), where he has taught since 1991, and is a recipient of SUNY’s Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He is the author of Invention and Understanding: A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions

 

Résumé:

EDUCATION

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Master of Fine Arts

Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, Bachelor of Arts

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Coordinator, Fine Arts Program, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (2015–present, 1995–2003)

Professor of Fine Arts, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1995–present)

Director, Fine Arts Lecture Series, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1997–present)

Director, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College of the State University of New York, Hudson, NY (1995–2000)

 

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

Invention and Understanding: A Pedagogical Guide to Three Dimensions. Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2013.

 

ESSAYS

“A Pedagogy for Understanding the Visual Arts.” Editor’s Choice essay. Community College Enterprise 14, no. 2 (Fall 2008): 7–21.

“Toward the Unnamed: Creative Strategies in a Fine Arts Seminar.” Michigan Community College Journal: Research and Practice 7, no. 2 (Fall 2001): 61–68.

 

CONFERENCES AND LECTURES

“Inventive Acts, Intuitive Roots.” Lecture presented at Vassar College, January 26, 2005.

“Towards the Unnamed.” Lecture presented at the 35th Annual Conference of the National Collegiate Honors Council, Washington, DC, October 21, 2000.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016   Icons and Instruments, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

2015   Incident No. 78: Material and Immaterial, Incident Report Viewing Station, Hudson, NY

2013   Pedagogical Devices and Strategies, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2004   Ici et là, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2003   Façons, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

1991   Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

1990   Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec

1989   McQuade Library Art Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

1988   Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec

1982   Pièces de marquetterie, Les Folies Verchères, Verchères, Québec

 

 

TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2009   Faculty Exhibition: Columbia-Greene Community College, SUNY Art Exhibition Series, Central Administration Building, Albany, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017   Incident Report: Reports, September Gallery, Hudson, NY

2016  Here-and-Now, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

2015   To Each Their Own, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

2014   Friend of a Friend, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, NY

2014   A Gathering of Artists, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2010   Benefit of Friends, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2009   Local Talent, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2006   Bright Ideas, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2005   OBJECTs, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA

2002   Artists Respond, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

2000   Sculpture Plus, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

1994   Random Systems in Art and Science, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

1993   Fieldwork, ART/OMI, Ghent, NY

1993   Riverworks 2, Hoosic River Watershed Association, Williams College, Williamstown, MA

1992   Dimensions of Sculpture, Foundation Gallery, Columbia-Greene Community College, Hudson, NY

1989   Entrée libre à l’art contemporain, Cité de l’Image, Montréal, Québec

1989   Drawing and Sculpture, Woodstock Artists Association,        Woodstock, NY

1989   Sculpture 89, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec

1988   Entrée libre à l’art contemporain, Galerie d’art Lavalin, Montréal, Québec

1988   88 degrés, Galerie Cultart, Montréal, Québec

1988   Sculpture 88, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec

1987   La ruée vers l’art, Galerie Daniel, Montréal, Québec

1987   L’art à la rue, Montréal, Québec

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, State University of New York (1999)

Special Opportunity Stipend, New York Foundation for the Arts and Rensselaer County Council for the Arts (1993, 1992)

Grant, Columbia County Council for the Arts (1992)

Fellowship, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts (1990, 1989)

Lucette Ruellan Award for Sculpture, Woodstock Artists Association, Woodstock, NY (1989)

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Day, Meredith Fife. Review of OBJECTs, McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA. Art New England 27, no. 3 (April–May 2006): 36.

“Graceful Strokes, Elegant Movements.” Chronicle Review, Chronicle of Higher Education 50, no. 12 (November 14, 2003): B19.

Raymond, David, and Lydia Davis. Steven Careau: Façons. 2003. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name, shown at the McCoy Gallery, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA.

“Last.” Wordsmith, Spring 1994, 42.

“Fieldwork.” Chatham (NY) Paper, August 1993, 18.

“C-GCC Opens Major Sculpture Exhibit.” Hillsdale (NY) Independent, September 14, 1992, 14.

“Art Notes.” Woodstock (NY) Times, August 31, 1989.

Gauthier, Ninon. “Coup d’oeil du côté de la relève.” Finance (Montréal), April 11, 1988, 10.

Gravel, Claire. “Place à la photo et à la sculpture.” Le Devoir (Montréal), February 20, 1988, C9.