- EDUCATION
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M.F.A. Sculpture and New Media, Maryland Institute College of Art, 2008
- B.A. Philosophy, Art Minor, St. Mary's College of Maryland, 2000
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
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2011
- O,Miami Festival. Miami, FL: Walking as Drawing. Collaboration with KC Culver
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2010
- Free Space: MLK Library, Washington, DC: Collaboration with Mike Iacovone
- - Interactive Photomap of Washington DC with 6-channel video installation
- Drawing in the Expanded Field, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University
- - Single-Channel Video with Digital Print
- Driving Without Destination, Walsh Gallery at Seton Hall University
- Regarding Place, St. Louis Artists' Guild. St. Louis, MO.
- - Juried Group Show: Winner of Harriet F. Reinhardt Memorial Prize
- Conflux Festival, New York, NY. Interactive New Media Project in Public Space
- Valade Family Gallery: College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
- - Collaborative 5-Channel Video Installation with Bruce Feldman
- Chalarma Depot Gallery: Collaborative Video Exhibit. Sarajevo, Bosnia
- Synergy, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
- Confluence, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
- Chestnut Art Space, Baltimore, MD
- Art Obsessive, University of Maryland, MD.
- 2009
- Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC.
- - Interactive live video projection in gallery window with Mike Iacovone
- Art in Odd Places, Public Art Project, 14th Street, New York, NY
- - Sand tracings of shadows placed along 14th street in Manhattan
- Construct: Space Transformed, Storefront Public Art Project, Washington, DC
- - Collaborative video presented on twelve televisions in empty office buildings
- Local Motion, One Person Show, H Street Playhouse, Washington, DC
- - Interactive installation created drawings based on viewers' movements
- Maryland Art Place, Convergence 09: Recent MFA Graduates, Baltimore, MD.
- - Collaborative video documenting four walks in Baltimore, MD.
- Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, DC. April-May
- - Four walks circumambulating the gallery Washington, DC with Mike Iacovone
- Open Concept Gallery Smart Multimedia Arts Festival, Grand Rapids, MI
- - Video camera installed in helium balloons floating above central plaza
- RFD Gallery, Unauthorized, Swainsboro, GA
- - Video of sculptural interventions in New York, NY
- 2008
- MFA Thesis Show, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
- The Numbers Behind, Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC with Mike Iacovone
- 2007
- Community Mural Project, Piedras Gordas, Panama
- In-Process Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
- 2006
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Site:Maryland, Baltimore, MD
- - Kinetic sculpture installed with outdoor video
- Intrusion or Intimacy, Rockaway Arts Center, New York, NY
- Art on the Trail, Gwynn Falls State Park, Baltimore, MD
- RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE
- 2009-Present, Assistant Professor of Digital Media
St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland
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2009-Present, Assistant Director of MFA-Summer Term Program
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
Mentoring Graduate Students, Manage Visiting Artist Program,
Teaching Graduate Courses in New Media
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2008-2009, Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture, (Sabbatical Replacement)
St. Mary's College of Maryland, St. Mary's City, Maryland
Courses: Sculpture Studio, Introduction to Sculpture, Installation and New Media,
Public Art, Introduction to Drawing, Foundations (Introduction to Visual Thinking)
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GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
- 2010
Creative Communities Fund
Sponsored by the Cultural Development Corporation and Flashpoint Gallery
- 2009 Young Artist Program Grant
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
- 2008 Small Projects Grant
District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
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2008 Teaching in Excellence Award, Options Public Charter School
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2008 Surdna Foundation Scholarship
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June 10 - July 23, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, June 10, 7-9pm
For his first solo exhibition at Civilian, artist Billy Friebele presents three inter-related video projects that explore the spatial experience of contemporary culture.