Travis Leroy Southworth

Travis LeRoy Southworth (b. 1979, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a visual artist living and working in the greater NYC area. His artwork explores fluctuations between cosmology and cosmetology, tying together elements of daily concerns with those of the outer universe.

EDUCATION

2007
MFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2004
BFA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2016
Queens Museum Jerome Fellowship Finalist

2014
DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA

2013
Artist in Residence, Switzerland through Galapagos Art Space & iaab.

2012
Newark Arts Council Grant (BroLab Collective)
Public Art Commission, Sponsored by Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning in parnership with the
NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art Program. (BroLab Collective)

2011
Vermont Studio Center

2010
Fellowship in Photography from the New York Foundation for the Arts
Pierogi 2000 Flat Files

2009
BRIC Media Arts Fellowship

2008
Artist in the Marketplace 29, Bronx Museum of Art
Drawing Center Viewing Program

2007
Odyssey Travel Grant

2006
Nippon Steel Presidential Award
Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Grant

2005
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Grant

2004
Freestyle Crystal Apple Award

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015
Guerber, Megan, “Travis LeRoy Southworth’s ‘Detouched’ Series.” www.artandtranslation.com, Dec 9.
Lipson, Karin. “Islip Exhibition Explores How Science Influences Art.” NY Times, Oct 22.

2014
Tapper, Dan. “A...

SOLO PROJECTS & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2013
A Fancy Machine is the Perfect Centerpiece, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY
Traces from iaab, Dock, Basel, Switzerland

2010
Where I End and You Begin # 3, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York, NY

2009
Aggregates, Absurd Infinities, and Absent Mindedness, AHN/VHS Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2008
The Bulletin Board, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY (curated by Milena Hoegsberg)



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019
Making Time, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
Contemporary and Digital Art Fair, New York, NY

2018
What Is A Drawing?, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
Made in Transit, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

2016
Small Works, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015
Satellite Art Fair, Miami, FL
Sluice Art Fair, London, UK
Compendium, The Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Getting to Infinity, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

2014
DNA Residency Exhibition, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Distant Images, Local Positions, EFA Project Space, New York, NY (curated by Wafaa Bilal)

2013
Superposition: Observing Realities, Trinity Church Museum, New York, NY (curated by Darren Jones) Show, iaab Projekt...