Todd Watts was born in 1949 on the island of Manhattan. He maintained a studio in New York from 1971 until 2000. For the last eighteen years, Watts and sculptor Jemma Gascoigne have lived in Maine.
Watts has created wide-ranging, often large-scale, color photographs using both traditional and digital technologies. During the last forty years, these works have been shown in over twenty-five one-person shows and in many more group exhibitions throughout the U.S., Canada, and in Europe. His work is represented in major museum collections – including the Art Institute of Chicago, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Brooklyn Museum (New York), Fogg Museum (Cambridge, MA), Yale Art Gallery (New Haven, CT), Portland Museum of Art (Portland, ME), UMMA Museum of Fine Art (Bangor, ME), Albertina (Vienna, Austria) and Musee St. Pierre (Lyon, France), Bibliotheque National (Paris, France) – and in significant private collections. (For details of Watt’s artistic accomplishments see www.toddwatts.com)
Todd Watts July 2020 e-catalogue from Caldbeck solo show.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1976-79 Photography Instructor, Hunter College, New York, NY
1972-79 Photography Instructor, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
EXHIBITIONS
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 Remember Peonies?, Caldbeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2017 Blanchard Weather Report, PhoPa Gallery, Portland, ME
2016
CaldBeck Gallery, Rockland, ME
2012
Are We Not Men, Addison Wooley, Portland, ME
CMCA 60th Anniversary Honors Exhibition, CMCA, Rockport, ME
2010
String Too Short to Use, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME (Curated by George Kinghorn)
2005
Caterpillar’s Conundrum, Tampa Gallery of Photographic Arts, Tampa, FL
1997
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1996
Barry Fellman Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
1995
Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
1994
New Lamps for Old, The Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY (10-year survey exhibition with catalog, curated by Thomas W. Sokolowski)
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993
Particles, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1990
Are We Not Men, P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1987
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Molotov Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Gaston/Nelson, Lyon, France
1979
Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Todd Watts Portfolio (Traveling exhibition organized by the Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
The New Gallery, Cleveland, OH
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1978
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Prints on Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Bruce Brown Collection, Center for Maine Contemporary Art / Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland, ME
Portraits of the Artist, Art Gallery of the University of New England, Portland, ME
Bruce Brown Collection, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Highways and Byways, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2012
Mythologies, Rose Contemporary, Portland, ME
Light, Motion, Sound 2012, Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME
Awakening the Night, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Around the House, Lewis Gallery, Portland, ME
2011
The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The Magic of Objects, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria (With catalog, curated by Fritz Simak)
2010
The Unseen Eye, Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL
New York New York: Photographs from the Museum Collection, Bangor Museum of Art, Bangor, ME
Photographing Maine: Ten Years Later, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
212: A Portrait of a City, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
CMCA Biennial, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Objects, The Royals Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2009
Lust and Desire – Sticky and Sweet, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2008
Divergence, Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME
2007
Flowers Reveled, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
Urban Landscapes, Susan Maasch Fine Art, Portland, ME
2005
The Collection Dancing Bear, Meetings of Photography, Arles, France
2000
Particle Accelerators: at the Intersection of Photography, Science and Technology, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA
1999
Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (With catalog, curated by Robert Sobieszek)
Phenomena: The Poetics of Science, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA
1997
Scientia Artifex, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Oceans and Galaxies, Karen McCready Fine Arts, New York, NY
1996
Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Delirium, Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by W.M. Hunt)
Natural Spectacles, David Winston Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Champions of Modernism: Art of Tomorrow / Art of Today, Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, NY (Traveling exhibition with catalog, organized by D. Dominick Lombardi and Steven P. Lowy)
1995
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, The MAC, Dallas, TX
Bloom, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Allez les Filles Gallery, Columbus, OH
1993
Mirror / Mirror, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
1992
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Point of View: Landscapes from the Addison Collection, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1991
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (Organized by David Ruttenberg)
1990
Assembled, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Some Great Prints, Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1989
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
Abstraction in Photography, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980’s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN (Traveling exhibition with catalog, organized by Joshua P. Smith and Merry A. Foresta)
The Dark Sublime: Art at the End of Our Century, Scott Alan Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Suzaan Boetteger)
Departures: Photography 1924-1989, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition in 1990)
1988
Altered States, Kent Fine Art, Inc., New York, NY (Organized by Rosetta Brooks)
New York Now, traveling to Gallerie Oslo, Norrköping Konstmuseum, Göteborgs Konsthall, Sundsvalls Museum, and Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden
Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX (Traveling exhibition)
Black and White, Lintas, New York, NY (Organized by Margaret Matthews-Berenson)
1987
Beyond the Image, First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO
Portrayals, International Center of Photography, New York, NY (Traveling exhibition)
Poetic Imagery: The Surreal Legacy in Contemporary Photography, Alternative Museum, New York, NY (With catalog)
Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN (Traveling exhibition)
Small Wonders, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
1986
New Acquisitions, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, France
50th Anniversary Exhibition, Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
1985
New Acquisitions, Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France (With catalog)
Parasol Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
New Acquisitions, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Situations, Willard Gallery, New York, NY
New Acquisitions, The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Real Surreal, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
1984
New Images in Photography, The Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY (Organized by Diane Waldman)
The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1983
P.P.O.W Gallery, New York, NY
Willard Gallery, New York, NY
Issues and Trends in Modern Art, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (Organized by Mianni Johnson)
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
1979
American Portraits of the ‘60s and ‘70s, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO (With catalog)
1977
Gallery Ariadne, New York, NY
1971
112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Richard VanBuren)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Bibliothèque National, Paris, France
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
The Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
Graphic Collection, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Musée St. Pierre, Lyon, France
The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
The Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
The New School for Social Research, New York, NY
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
The Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
UMMA Museum of Fine Art, Bangor, ME
Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
University of Lethbridge, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA
Museum of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
Beem, Ed, Feature Article with Jemma Gascoine, Creative Nest, Down East Magazine (April)
2012
Beem, Ed, Exhibition review, CMCA 60th Honors Five Maine Artists. Yankee Magazine (6 June). YankeeMagazine.com
Keyes, Bob. Sexy 60: Maine art museum celebrates big birthday. Maine Sunday Telegram (27 May).
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2011
Simak, Fritz and Andra Spallart, ed. The Magic of the Object. Exhibition catalog. Vienna: Christian Brandstätter Verlag.
2010
Little, Carl. Exhibition review, Todd Watts: String Too Short to Use at Bangor Museum of Art, ME. Art New England (September/October). ArtNewEngland.com
Maasch, Jacqueline. Pea Field–Todd Watts. Blurb.com
2005
Milani, Joanne. Photography as Art, the Work of Todd Watts. Tampa Bay Magazine (March/April): 201-203.
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1999
Sobieszek, Robert A. Ghost in the Shell: Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000. Exhibition catalog. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and MIT Press.
1997
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1996
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1994
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1990
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1989
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1988
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1987
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1986
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1984
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1981
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1979
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