Marcelo Novo

RESUME

EDUCATION

1998 MA Art Studio. University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

1989 National Professor of Fine Arts. Area of concentration: Printmaking. National School of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

RESIDENCIES AND PUBLIC ART

2013 Visiting Artist Summer Program, Torpedo Factory Art Center. Alexandria, VA.

2010-2012 Albemarle Park and Ride, CATS Art-in-Transit Program (mosaic mural). Charlotte, North Carolina.

2009 Carolinas Healthcare Artist-in-residency, created 7x15’ mural for Charlotte’s new Mercy Hospital. McColl Center for Visual Arts. Charlotte, NC.

2008 Wilson College Summer Artist-in-residency Program. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

2007 Mural at Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorder, Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina.

2005 Artist-in-residence, mural project with Sumter School District students in conjunction with Accessibility 2005. Sponsored by Time Warner Cable and the Sumter Cultural Commission. Sumter, SC.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2011 “Parallel Worlds”, Solo exhibition curated by: Alfredo Ratinoff. Embassy of Argentina, Washington, DC.

2010 “South Carolina Artists 2010: A 2D Fine Arts Exhibition. Juror: Barbara Anderson Hill, Spartanburg Art Museum, Spartanburg, SC.

2009 “Cultural Crossroads”. Juror: Rosie Gordon-Wallace, founder/director/curator of Miami’s Gordon-Wallace, founder/director/curator of Miami’s Diaspora Vibe Gallery. Associated Artists Gallery, Winston Salem, NC.

2008 “MARCELO NOVO Buenos Aires/Columbia, SC 1985-1994”. If ART Gallery, Columbia, SC.

2007/8 “The Connection”, a juried traveling exhibition showcasing the connection between South Carolina and the island of Barbados. Organized by The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor, show will travel in 2007-2008 through South Carolina and Barbados, West Indies.

2007 “FOOTLONG” National Juried Exhibition, Juror: Stephen Fleming, Director Roswell Artist in Residence Program. Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, NM.

2006 “Accessibility Columbia: Making History on Main Street” (installation art project), Curator: Mary Gilkerson, Professor of Art, Columbia College. Main Street, Downtown Columbia, SC.

2006 “The Unlikely Target”, Juror: Brad Thomas, Director and Curator for Van Every/Smith Galleries at Davidson College. Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC.

2006 “Discovering Contemporary Art in the Carolinas”, Juror: Mark Sloan, Director of the Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. Fayetteville Museum Of Art, Fayetteville, NC.

2004 “ART at WAR/The Artist’s Voice”. Aldo Castillo Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2004 7th Street Windows Project, competition organized by McColl Center for Visual Art. Transamerica Building, Charlotte, NC.

2003 “Diez Años/Ten Years, 1992-2002” (retrospective show). Sumter Gallery of Art, Sumter, SC.

2002 “Narrative as Art” (an invitational exhibit). DeLand Museum of Art, DeLand, FL.

2002 “What’s New” An exhibition of art by Carolina artists. McColl Center for Visual Art’s Spirit Square Galleries, Charlotte, NC.

2001 “Latin American Graphics” (invitational/showcase & auction). The Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA.

1999 “Artist in the City” The Legacy of the Faculty Resource Network. Cinque Gallery,
New York, NY.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

1998-Present Full-time Visual Artist. Alexandria, VA.

1995-98 Full-time Art Instructor. Benedict College, Columbia, SC.

AWARDS AND HONORS

2007 Best in Show award, “The Connection”, South Carolina and the island of Barbados. Organized by The South Carolina National Heritage Corridor

2000 Semi Finalist for the ArtLink@Sotheby’s International Young Art 2001 Program.

2000/98/94 Multicultural Grant Award. South Carolina Arts Commission which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Columbia, SC.

1998/97/95 Scholar-in residence, Faculty Resource Network Summer Program, New York University, New York City, NY.

MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS

2005-2006 “Catharsis” (ballet’s idea/plot, costume & stage design), collaboration with Brazilian choreographer Miriam Barbosa, USC Dance Company. Koger Center for the Arts, Columbia, SC.

OTHER PROJECTS

2005 Curator of Accessibility 2005, “Transplanted: Latino Artists in the USA” (site-specific installation exhibition). Sponsored by the Sumter Cultural Commission. Sumter, SC.