Logan Grider
Assistant Professor of Studio Art
Office: Beardsley 306
Phone: 610-328-8416
Email: lgrider1@swarthmore.edu
Education:
M.F.A., Yale University
B.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Special:
Painting
Courses:
STUA001 Foundation Drawing
STUA008 Oil Painting
STUA001B First Year Seminar: Making Art
STUA030 Senior Workshop I
STUA040 Senior Workshop II
Biographical Statement:
Logan Grider received an MFA from Yale University in 2007; studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006; received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago in 2003; and studied at the International School of Art in Umbria, Italy, in 2001.
Selected exhibitions include Fist City, Fowler Arts, NY; Strategic Abstraction, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA; Night Fishing, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY; Polymict, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas; Clamor, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY; Strange Folks, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Mass; First Look II, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York; CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY; School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY; and Summer Group Show, Baumgartner Gallery, New York.
Selected awards and honors include the Skowhegan Fellowship, Yale University; The Robert Schoelkopf Fellowship, Yale University, and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation nomination.
Logan’s work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Brooklyn Rail, The Boston Globe, and the The New York Times. Logan has been an Assistant Professor of Studio Art at Swarthmore since Fall 2009. Previously he was Critic of Painting and Printmaking at Yale University and an Assistant Professor of Painting at the University of Kentucky.
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