Howard Spector

Howard Spector has exhibited his work both nationally and internationally and his work is included in numerous public and private collections. He has been awarded artist residencies at Acadia National Park in Maine 2007, at the UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming 2015, and at Willipa Bay, Washington in 2016. His first book of digital images, Dialog Box, a collaboration with poet Jay Brecker, was published in 2012 by Thistle & Weed Press.

He has been involved in the arts and arts education as an artist and administrator for over 40 years. He has extensive experience in the public and private sectors, serving arts organizations as an executive director, CEO, curator, grant maker, manager, and consultant. A trained visual artist, his professional experience ranges from the local to the national levels, providing him with an in-depth understanding of and appreciation for the arts in their many diverse applications and contexts.

He has been a consultant and grant panelist to several organizations and cultural agencies around the country.

BSCE University of Connecticut
MFA (Photography, Visual Studies) State University of New York @Buffalo (Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester NY).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Art Lab Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2023 Art/Science, “Photography and Memory”, Galerie Pluto, Bonn Germany
2019 Art Lab Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, “Rainfall of Reality”
2018 LAVA projects Gallery, Alhambra CA, “Human/Nature”
2014 29 Palms Gallery, 29 Palms CA, “Joshua Tree Exhibition”
2013 IDA Gallery, Culver City, CA, Spring Exhibition, “ColorScapes”
2013 SoPas Gallery, South Pasadena CA, “ColorScapes”
2012 Burke-Triolo Studio, South Pasadena CA, “Dialog Box”
2007 Glenview Mansion Art Gallery, Rockville, MD, “Overlay: Three Artists”
2007 Lee Arts Center, Arlington, VA, Mini Gallery
2006 McLean Project for the Arts, McLean VA, “ColorScapes
1993 Downtown Artists Exhibition, DADA, Los Angeles, CA. “Downtown Lives”
[Wall Markings]
1991 Colorado Boulevard Art Galleries Fair, Los Angeles, CA, “Color Dynamics”
1985 Los Angeles Art Photographers Gallery, Venice, CA, "Found Images"
1985 Art Store Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "LACPS at the Art Store"
1984 Metro Rail, Los Angeles, CA, "Downtown Photographic Artists"
1984 University of California, Los Angeles, CA, "Gridation Photographs"
1984 American Cultural Center, Madrid, Spain, "New American Graphics"
1983 American Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain, "New Am...